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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

I WILL NOT be flying my American flag today like I’ve done on past Presidents Days because we do not have a President!

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Greg's avatar

Haven't flown mine since 1/20/25.

In case anyone is interested in why, I'll give you MY rationale for why I don't fly our Flag right now. Everyone in our free (at least for now) Republic has a right to choose, of course.

I view our flag as the representation of our Democratic Republic and our Constitution. I enlisted in the military to protect and defend that Flag, our Constitution, and our Republic.

Right now, there is a Fascist regime in place and I consider it a disgrace to the Flag to fly it's beautiful colors under this regime, especially in light of all who have given so much to defend our Flag and the principles upon which this Country was founded.

When these Fascists are thrown out of power and our Democratic Republic is restored, I will once again -- proudly -- fly our beautiful Flag.

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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

I stopped the day after the election!

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Not me. Other presidents made mistakes also. Bad mistakes. Like DEI.

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Lynn's avatar

Mistakes are different than deliberate cruelty and harm.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Yes and other presidents also deliberately hurt people and were cruel. Like mandatory vaccines and gender surgery on children and teens.

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Sharlene Stephens's avatar

It’s not our choice what parents and children to decide what their life will be. Between them and their spiritual beliefs. I am a woman who decides what is best for my body, not the gov’t. You don’t want gov’t to control your business or life. But it is ok to push beliefs on people you don’t even know.

My life was good under President Biden. Total chaos the 4 years previous. I have health issues because of this Orange monster.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

What health issues did Trump cause you?

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Sharlene Stephens's avatar

Look Kelly I am almost 65, I have lived a blessed life! I have 6 grandchildren, 4 are biracial. I grew up in 60’s and 70’s

I know how cruel and evil people are if you are not like them! White, skinny perfect hair and makeup etc l. My Mom was overweight. In the grocery store several times my Mom was told she was a pig!, by people she didn’t even know. She would look at me and tell me don’t listen to them, it will be ok.

So as I see it from listening and watching to Trump, all that comes back. You don’t fit in his box, it’s ok to ridicule out loud hurt people etc. YOU DONT BELONG! I will fight for equal rights til the day I die, my grandchildren should not have to deal with they are not perfect because they don’t fit in societies BOX.

I have acid reflux taking more meds and still an issue so I guess he has made my medical issue worse. Not caused it.

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pete's avatar

That is exactly what you quasi liberal assoles do...so stop the fucking bitching. You people belong to that exclusive truth teller club, and you are so fucking dogmatic that you think anybody who does not see eye to eye with you...is a Trump supporter, The irony is that Trump stole the entire base of the Democratic Party, and portrayed himself as some biblical savior. Do not come crying to me...89 million voters sat on their ass during the election did not vote....so you made your bed.. sleep in it. The most stress you MeidasTouch infants have is worrying about the chicken defrosting for dinner, and if the new couch arrives before the weekend,

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Sharlene Stephens's avatar

I do not expect you to see eye to eye! I do object to an as….., telling me how I need to be as a person and my thinking. I will not fit in the box of the next 4 years! If you think for one second I am going to let my grandchildren be demonized by trumpsters, you got another thing coming buddy. I am not crying the blues! I want equal treatment for all! Compromising is out of reach for the MAGA, there way or no way! F… that! He didn’t steal he in my opinion did not win! I would love to see a recount. They called Missouri’s outcome way earlier than normal and in a lot of other states. Especially the purple states. IMO. I can’t make people vote! I voted and encouraged everyone to vote. Do I think the Democratic Party needs change? Yes! Do I think another party should begin WE THE PEOPLE! ? YES!

IMO. Do I think elected officials need to be accountable ? To much on both sides is working for the money on being re elected. I will give you the money if you pass this for me. As far as you’re worrying about the chicken defrosting, you’re wrong! I live paycheck to paycheck. My doing!

I find money repulsive, yes you need it to live, but it will not control my life!

I do things to help people, time, not money.

Have a good day Pete!

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Carl Metcalf's avatar

Tiny trump is the worst sinner ever to walk the earth. Tell it to GOD ASShole

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chev_chelios's avatar

well, I guess sound like a tRUMP supporter ?....how's it going for ya so far ?

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Linda's avatar

If you don’t think that this Dictator isn’t affecting a majority of people mental anguish…look around you…

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chev_chelios's avatar

what health issues did trump cause ?....lets start with the hundreds of thousands of deaths he caused due to his total non response to the pandemic as President.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

No there should be trans surgery on kids until they are adults and they make their own choice. Not their parents.

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Sharlene Stephens's avatar

I do not know much about transgenders. But they are human and have feelings, are they telling you, you have to be like them???? Are you in fear of them? COEXIST!

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Nope. Just living by the Bible.

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Pam Edgeworth's avatar

The bible says to love your neighbor. Doesn't sound like you do too well at that.

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Lynn's avatar

Please stop believing lies then.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

A book written by men and men decided what went in it and what was left out.

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chev_chelios's avatar

ok....now we see what your real problem is....thanks for sharing.

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Helen Daniel's avatar

Living by which part of the Bible?

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Robert Palmer's avatar

Matthew 6:5-6.

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Pam Edgeworth's avatar

Where are you getting your information?!?!? Kids don't have "trans surgery." They are allowed to take hormones, just like many kids who need them for other medical problems.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

She's a MAGA. Why is she on here?

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Peg's avatar

A bible thumping troll.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

Kelly you sound as if you drank the MAGA kool-aide. No one is doing trans surgery on children. Its illegal. They have to be consenting adults before any trans surgery. I guess you believe that a child went to school as a boy and came back as a girl.

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Anna B's avatar

SPAM -- Only the NAME has changed

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Kathy McLain's avatar

Mandatory vaccines saved lives and kept away major epidemics like the measles disaster going on in Texas and could spread quickly across the nation. There is nothing worse than watch a child suffer and possibly die unnecessarily.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

Obviously it’s pointless to try to reach the conspiracy nuts who spout pseudoscience BS about the efficacy of vaccines. No matter in reality that many diseases had been mostly eradicated in my lifetime due to science and vaccine technology. I vaguely remember the public panic during the poliovirus outbreak in the 50’s with pictures of people in iron lung machines to stay alive. NO WAY would I ever want to return to those days again because of the stupidity emerging today from the anti vaccine protests. Are all vaccines without some risk from allergic or adverse reactions? Of course not . Vaccines as well as over- the counter as well as prescribed meds have some side effects, but the benefit outweighs the harm when it comes to public health. People who do not get vaccinated for communicable diseases do not have the right to inflict their diseased self on me or my family.

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pete's avatar

Actually the only thing that offers hope for turning around this Trump madness is to have children start dying, in huge numbers, from diseases that easily could have been prevented with vaccines. That might get somebody's attention. The unravelling of Democracy sure as fuck is not disturbing to enough people. I could care less about the medical deaths and turmoil in MAGA lives It is irresponsible, and unlawful, and criminal Not getting vaccinated jeopardizes others, and that is homicide... It is no different than offering somebody a cocktail that has Covid virus in it, fucking when you have clap or throwing AIDS tainted blood on somebody

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Measels epidemic in Tejas.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

The COVID vaccines have killed and injured many. Not to mention the terrible increase in cancer cases..just read the obits..there are plenty of info sites here on Substack about the dangerous vaccines.

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Linda's avatar

Looks like you’re an anti vaxer…sad because there were many deaths historically under Trump because he’s a mister know it all until he got it and lo and behold he pushed vaccines…I personally know a friend who contracted Covid and continues to have seizures till this very day…My Brother learned the hard way and after getting Covid, he now gets vaccinated…

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247kath's avatar

It’s all bullshit

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Lol yea right. Do some investigating.

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Pam Edgeworth's avatar

That's what I do for a living. You should try getting out of your box for a while.

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pete's avatar

You are nuts

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Pam Edgeworth's avatar

Mandatory vaccines SAVE LIVES!!!! Ask my mom about polio. There are no gender surgeries on children or teens. If they want it, they must wait until they reach 18. Sheesh, quit fear mongering.

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James G. Hermsen's avatar

You are absolutely a LIAR and a MAGA maggot. No child was given any deliberate mandatory gender surgery. What a MAGA maggot you are. I hope you come a begging for help and others will just laugh at you in your distress. No other president in history (except for #45) was as evil, full of hatred, and such a biggot....but then again, it is the same NAZI dictator is it not?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

I think you are what we politely call a plant. What an embarrassment; parroting the blather and vomit of a felon and rapist. This is not the way to protect your country. Is this even your country?

Asking for a friend.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

Trump in his last term locked children up in cages, denying them water and basic hygiene supplies. It took a court order for him to stop this outrageous act of cruelty. It is wrong to lock children up in cages. They had no choice in the matter.

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Barbara Moore's avatar

A mandatory vaccine has never harmed an individual.

And the surgery is only, and ever performed on people old enough to vote!

Don't believe the conspiracy propaganda you have read. They are lies.

I wonder, how is America better off now, with trump in office?

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Terazel's avatar

Really???? You must think you are untouchable!

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SA's avatar

Kelly, you should educate yourself before you run your mouth (or fingers across the keyboard). The problem is that T______p has weaponized the term DEI. Turning it into something evil. He has brainwashed people like you to hate it. Believing that it is awarding opportunities for people who don't deserve it.

He has come in like a bulldozer, eviscerating anything that has DEI in it. No attempt to have a discussion nor modify bureaucratic involvement. Just destroy. All to curry favor with a small group of people like yourself who adore him. The irony is that Musk (who is championing this move) has benefited from his own form of DEI. Tesla was subsidized by more than $10 billion by the government. Yet he wants to deny others the opportunity to get their foot in the door with similar subsidy programs, which is what DEI is about. He is a hypocritical, piece of____!

Let me let you in on something. DEI was a term coined in the 1960's as part of the civil rights movement. The goal was to give Black people a chance to have economic opportunity. I know it's hard for "racial inequity deniers" like you to believe that Black people have suffered but you should google your history. You can argue about the bureaucracy that has arisen from it but do not deny its importance.

So read and think. THEN come to the table to discuss.

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Wayne Masters's avatar

I invented the 4D Political Analysis Monitor concept/prototype and Kelly is just a 2D linear thinker.

Canada, the Ukraine and the EU don't think 2D.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Please educate yourself. Before you pass judgement.

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Linda's avatar

Isn’t that what you are doing?

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Wayne Masters's avatar

What's your real name, Kelly?

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Kelley Snider's avatar

Oh, look, a troll.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

I certainly am not. Stop being ugly just because you don't agree with me. Perhaps you are a troll.

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

If it posts like a troll, writes like a troll, parrots idiocy like a troll?

It's a troll.

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Cindy Schneider's avatar

So, people not like you should not be allowed to work, but you don't want taxes to feed and house them. Where do you get your "ideals?" Church? Or the loudmouth at the bar at closing?

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

You have your opinion and I have mine. But don't accuse me of hating and fear. I am not like that in any way.

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Pam Edgeworth's avatar

But you hate trans folks. So yes, you are exactly like that.

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Barbara Moore's avatar

Prove it! Your statement about vaccines and trans surgeries on children sure sound scared and isolating to me!

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

It will all be ok. Everything will work out..

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Helen Daniel's avatar

That's what he said. And look where it has (mis)led us to, so far: A disabled, non-functioning government that makes us vulnerable to anything.

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Tim's avatar

no big deal. trump is russia's DEI man in country.

so many other viable candidates but let's put this

one in charge.🖕

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

No Trump is not for DEI. In case you haven't noticed he stopped that mess right away. However I didn't vote for Trump and don't really care what he does..of we can stand 4 yrs of Biden we can stand 4 yrs of Trump. Time will move on and we will get someone else in 4 yrs..so there are things to look forward to.

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Linda's avatar

Tell that to the people less fortunate who depend on the government to help with their needs of shelter and food and that includes many Seniors, so if you are ignoring the cost of food nowadays, you’re in denial or blatantly don’t care…So much about claiming you follow the Bible..

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Barbara Moore's avatar

At the rate trump is moving, there may not be a Constitutional America in four years

Even now, magas are working in Congress to legalize a third term of 4 years so trump can continue to reap the benefits along with his filthy rich buddies like musk.

This time may not pass so easily. A few days ago trump/ musk emptied a NYC back vault of every penny. Over 80 million was taken by DOGE and it left the account holders broke. Just like the depression except the money is in Musk's hands. Do you trust him when he comes to our banks for our money?

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Barbara Moore's avatar

What do you believe DEI did and why do you see it as a mistake so bad that you don't fly the Nation's flag,

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Ortiz's avatar

So did I. 👍🏼😕

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JA's avatar

Stop! You are abusing the space on this site.

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Kelley Snider's avatar

HI, you liked my Comment to Kelly Sexton, @alabamalover, stating, "Oh look, a troll." Her name and Comments were all over the place on this thread, too. So, she blocked me! But, I got an email in which she apparently stated on here, "I certainly am not [a troll]. Stop being ugly just because you don't agree with me. Perhaps you are a troll." So, I cannot see the many troll-like Comments she made on here now, but one thing in clear, right wing trolls have the thinnest of skin.

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247kath's avatar

Reported. So annoying

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

So someone gets reported for not agreeing on everything you believe they should? Petty.

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Tim's avatar

imagine the ones who are liking it...😵

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Yes

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Wayne Masters's avatar

Gina, get back to us with a full name when you find out who who your dad was and if he got a refund for the broken condom from the hooker.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Gosh Wayne what a nasty mouth you have. Grow up.

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

👍👌💯

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Greg's avatar

Wow, you really know how to hurt a guy calling him Republican, Valerie! :-))

In case you're interested, I'll give you my rationale for why I don't fly our Flag right now. I view our flag as the representation of our Democratic Republic and our Constitution. I enlisted in the military to protect and defend that Flag, our Constitution, and our Republic.

Right now, there is a Fascist regime in place and I consider it a disgrace to the Flag to fly it's beautiful colors under this regime, especially in light of all who have given so much for the principles upon which this Country was founded.

When these Fascists are thrown out of power and our Democratic Republic is restored, I will one again -- proudly -- fly our beautiful Flag.

I hope that addresses your concern, Valerie.

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Greg's avatar

?? Not sure what you mean, Valerie.

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JerseyHeather's avatar

I Refuse to fly min at all now! Trump has ruined the meaning of the flag.. I feel embarrassed someone may think we are trumpers if we put our flags out. Also is SUPER windy here in the east coast today so flags aren't really an option anyway

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Nothing ruins the meaning of our flag. Simply your opinion.

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Barbara Moore's avatar

According to the world opinion, not including Russia and China, the United States are now a laughing stock to the world. No one respects us and no one wants to live here anymore.

We are not GREAT anymore. Trump did this, not Biden

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Me either 👍

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

But we are still the United States of America! Every day my flag flies high! For the people that fought to give us this wonderful country. One person won't ruin it for me. This too shall pass.

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Steve's avatar

Consider flying it upside down.

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

Nope would not disrespect my country or flag like that.

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Steve's avatar

It's a sign of distress, not disrespect.

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Tim's avatar

how 'bout that time when trump

was humping the flag on stage.

JD was in the green room doing the sofa.🤷‍♂️

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

I never said I support Trump.

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Barbara Moore's avatar

But, you do believe that vaccines and adult gender decisions are BAD, right?

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Steve's avatar

It's a sign of distress, not disrespect.

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Sharlene Stephens's avatar

My Dad was a Marine and worked for DOE. Very much a public servant! He would be appalled at what is happening! He fought for EVERYONE, not just the elite

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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

My father was in the USMC for 30 years. One tour in Korea, two in Vietnam. If he were alive he’d be appalled that a 5 time draft dodger is trying to destroy the democracy he fought for!

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Kelly Sexton's avatar

My father also is retired from the Army..he would be appalled at military men in bras and underwear..

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Barbara Moore's avatar

WHAT??? I watched men in bras and underwear in the movie MASH. make sense, please?

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Harriet Romero's avatar

Yes, we must also remember those who have come before us, especially those who fought in our wars.

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Steve's avatar

Fly it upside down.

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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

I did have it upside down. Really pissed off my MAGAat neighbors! Now I’m flying my California black flag! They can’t figure out what that symbolizes! 😂

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Susan Raquel's avatar

I had never heard of a CA black flag. I couldn't find anything about it. I did find the American flag in black. Very interesting in that its meaning can be interpreted in several different ways.

https://www.usamm.com/blogs/news/black-american-flag-meaning

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Maryann Zdralek's avatar

A percentage of this flag that I purchased goes to help with wildfire relief in Los Angeles.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Do you have a link for it. I wouldn't mind getting one.

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Tricia Deckert's avatar

I took mine down this past weekend.

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Tricia Deckert's avatar

I took it down because I don’t want to mistakenly be identified as a magat by my neighbors.

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Pamela J Koch's avatar

🤬🤬🤬100%

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Howling Wolf's avatar

It doesn't surprise me at all that you Communist's won't be flying the American flag, as you supported & promoted the Biden/Harris/Obama/Soros regime. You hate America, as you supported & promoted the destruction of America via open borders where upon millions & millions of illegal alien poured into our country bringing in terrorists, murders, rapists & disease all for the sole purpose of attempting to turn our beautiful country into a third world sh*** hole & illegal democrat votes. Murdering babies up until birth, sex trafficking of children & young women, rampant drugs, men in women sports, mutilation of children's bodies & the list of your supported atrocities goes on & on. Please don't fly the American flag as you all are hypocrites & you don't possess any of true patriotic characteristics that the American Flag truly stands for. Evil is rampant on your side of the isle!!!!!!

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