We have a chain restaurant that advertises with intimidatingly large flags
I don’t have any flags flying from my house, which makes me an exceptional American. OK, maybe not too exceptional — most houses don’t have flagpoles and aren’t waving their patriotism in everyone’s faces, but having been to Europe and Australia and Asia, I know that in comparison we tend to be a flag-happy nation. But really, the only places, other than official places like the county courthouse and schools, that display a flag also tend to be draped with MAGA nonsense, with pickup trucks covered in ugly political bumper stickers parked in front of them.
That’s fine, I appreciate seeing another visible signifier. But then, I was sent this tweet from Eric Daugherty, a Florida Republican nobody, who has somehow earned the approval of Twitter to send out mass notifications. He is shocked, shocked, shocked that some Americans might see no problem with other country’s flags.
🚨 WTF? A liberal white woman has been spotted handing out several MEXICAN flags outside the ICE facility near Chicago. pic.twitter.com/lr9KL2LBa8
Someone is paying for all of this.
Several of the agitators also had shields and other items CONFISCATED.
Who's buying their…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 28, 2025
How strange and peculiarly American. Mexico is an ally, and Mexicans are our friends, so she is showing support for an allied nation. We are not enemies, although MAGA seems to think so. It does not diminish us to exhibit solidarity with Mexicans and residents of Mexican descent, especially when an American regime is in power and trying to oppress them.
As for the cost, you can buy a pack of 25 small Mexican flags for less than $20 on Amazon. You don’t need to be George Soros to afford that. Also, people voluntarily attend these kinds of protests without demanding payment — I was at a couple of them earlier this summer. If I ever get out to another protest, maybe I’ll sink some pocket change into getting a few flags-onna-stick to hand out.
If I want to be daring, maybe I should get a bunch of Canadian flags, too.
Anything to counter this weird “patriotic” obsession with the American flag. Did all those years in school pledging allegiance to a stupid flag poison our brains?
I am liberal and occasionally fly an American flag, such as July 4th. We need to reclaim the national symbols.
@tedw
Nah, too late for that. The symbol has been poisoned
The American flag habits are spreading here in Australia among the nationalist crowd
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Denmark is the most flag-happy country of western Europe, I think. And has shown a nasty streak of xenophobia recently, although it’s far from unique in Europe in that respect. In the UK, the situation is complicated by the existence, in addition to the Union Flag, of the national flags of England, Scotland and Wales (northern Ireland doesn’t have an official one, for reasons you can probably imagine). There are culture wars for ideological “possession” of specific flags (does either the Union Flag, the St. George Cross flag of England, or both, belong to the far right?), and disputes about what should fly where (outside the Scottish Parliament are the Union Flag, the Scottish Saltire, and the flag of the EU).
Matthew 5, “Make no religious oaths”. A command of Jesus. “37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. “Putting God in the pledge makes it a forbidden religious oath. But who really reads the Bible today?
I’m curious what the excuse for the confiscation was. (I know, I know, contempt of cop/ICE) A shield is kind of the reverse of a weapon, and “other items” isn’t terribly enlightening.
I used to put up my American flag on Memorial Day (May 30th) and take it down on Veterans Day (Nove11th), but when I bought my motion detection video camera/flood light for the front door the flag kept setting it off, so I took it down. Was annoyed at first, kept trying to think of ways around the problem, but had limit places and decided it had to remain down. Kind of glad now, wouldn’t want to be mistaken for a MAGAt.
“A shield is kind of the reverse of a weapon”
Captain America has entered the chat. ;)
In Germany, neo-Nazis fly the Confederate battle flag because the swastika is banned. That tells me all I need to know about that flag.
Decades ago when I was a school. Kid and Lizzie 2 was still alive we used to start the school day with a morning flag raising at which we would recite these words: I honour my God, I serve my Queen and I salute the flag. Back then I was an agnostic Republican so by the time we got to the bit about the flag I would change the words to “I shoot the flag”. Probably a good idea when you see the number of faketriots that wrap themselves in it.
I used to fly RevWar flags: 1st/2nd. Massachusetts, Ethan Allen, Betsy Ross, Cowpens, etc.. Gave it up as the MAGAts usurped their meaning. Now I fly anything but; Eire, Brittany, Vanuatu, Aruba, and the like, instead.
Had a couple walk by admiring My Beloved and Darling Wife’s flowers who mentioned enjoying the flags as well – and googling the images to figure out just which one was up today.
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James 2:24
I have 2 large Canadian flags I keep in my dresser drawer. I had one of them hanged up on the wall of my apartment house for awhile. Then I took it down. I placed both of them in my dresser drawer in my bedroom where I keep them to this day.
I have a Leeds United 1991-92 Champions pennant hanging on a bedpost.
It’s not just flags of other nations that are despised by the “Real Americans” but also some US state flags, at least in parts of Minnesota anyway:
https://www.startribune.com/not-a-greater-minnesota-flag-detroit-lakes-latest-city-to-refuse-flying-state-flag/601375238
I still have my pirate flag up from last weekend. I think with the situation here in war ravage Portland it just it just may stay up.
For the first time in a long time, I flew the flag on Canada Day (and thereabouts) this year, and I think a fair number of other houses did who normally don’t. Because of you-know-who farting about annexation. Had to look up the protocol for hanging a flag vertically (no flag pole; I used the arbour).
@Rob Grigjanis #13:
I have a Leeds United scarf my mum knitted for me just in time for the 1970 FA Cup final. It still has the sympathetic bruises.
We have a US flag and an Air Force flag. We had the same problem as Stuffin with our motion detector.
We’ve both come to the conclusion that this is a good thing.
My husband, a proud AF veteran, says that he doesn’t feel very proud of our country or the Air Force lately.
The minute a Democratic president is inaugurated,the flags will go back up.
Let’s not forgot our (largely unsingable) national anthem, either. Actually, it’s impossible to forget given the oversaturation. It’s one thing to play a national anthem for a sporting event involving a national team; it’s another entirely for a high-school basketball game with most of the players (and attendees!) anything but descendants of pre-1789 white Northwest European immigrants.
This was always painful for me due to the “unsingable” part, thanks to perfect pitch; Roseanne Barr had nothing on the average drunk rendition in the stands at a high-school football game (with mandatory attendance).
Nothing screams ‘Murica! louder than a federal police officer being beaten with the staff of an American flag while a fascist mob chants “U-S-A! U-S-A!”
And here’s another American sickness:
Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and North Carolina bar
Mass shootings are getting so common that multiple events must now be corralled into a single article.
Mate, every Monday at assembly we not only had to pledge to honour the the flag, but to serve the Queen.
Which sounds a bit raunchy, but totally wasn’t. X-D
I’m a Brit living in Spain. People often hang flags out along the route of religious pilgrimages: the Spanish national flag, the autonomous region flag, the island’s flag or the municipality’s. It’s also common to decorate balconies with a traditional rug, flower and fruit. This year we hung out a pirate flag, since I’m an amputee. Very few people said anything, but the ones that did enjoyed the joke.
Unfortunately, right wingnuts are currently bedecking lamp posts throughout England with Union flags and St George crosses, as well as painting red crosses on any white surface, notably mini-roundabouts.
They claim to be doing this to protest about the violence to women and girls being wrought by illegal immigrants, but statistically the only way their campaign is protecting women from violence is because the perpetrators are out hanging flags and painting roundabouts.
Last No Kings day, I waved an upside-down flag. Doing so felt very patriotic. That flag is now in my window, still upside-down.
I’ve got the new Minnesota flag. Maybe I ought to put it up outside my house.
The recent Caribbean murder spree has convinced me we should redesign the US flag by replacing the stars with skulls-and-crossbones; surely Venezuelan boaters already see it that way.
These two are frequently seen together in these parts…
Our HOA only allows ‘patriot murikan’ and ‘warfighter’ flags, but, they can’t ban me flying a Hopi tribal flag. The link below shows the original anti-fascist flag we’d like to fly in addition to a Hopi flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows
PZ, you could fly one of these with your new Minnesota flag. Most of the knuckle-dragging rtwing xtian terrorists would be baffled by it.
There have been two more today.
.3. South Texas, seven were shot – two of whom were killed – in a shooting at a casino
.4. New Orleans, one woman killed and three people were wounded in a shooting on Bourbon Street, early on Sunday.
We’ve had 4 mass shootings on Sunday today and it is only 10:30 AM here on the West coast.
I’ve never had an American flag in my yard, on my car, or my person.
If and when Donald Trump dies, I’ll plant a flagpole in my front yard, so I can fly the American flag at full-mast for a month.
I live in the Netherlands and on a typical day cycling to work I see more Ukrainian and Palestinian flags than Dutch ones. The Dutch flag is only flown during special occasions (liberation day, the King’s birthday, football tournaments…)
I’ve never flown my country’s flag much (the USA in my case), but for the majority of my life I viewed flying flags as a benign, even friendly activity and couldn’t understand why anyone would be bothered by it. Then the MAGA movement came around and started flying and waving the USA flag everywhere as part of their insistence that they, and they alone, were “real Americans”. Now when I see someone flying the US flag at a private residence or on a vehicle, especially if they are flying multiple copies, my first reaction is to assume that they are probably MAGA supporters and therefore not someone I would ever want to bring up politics with. So, thanks to MAGA, the US flag has turned for me from a benign symbol to a potential warning sign.
Speaking of ‘an american sickness’, are there brainworms in all these magat cult members?
https://digbysblog.net/2025/09/28/crazy-time/
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Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false “medbed” conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. https://yahoo.com/news/qanon-conspiracy-involves-magical-bed-084947430.html
8:16 PM · Sep 27, 2025
Trump put up a fake video saying that he was creating a whole new, free medical system featuring these medbeds. Why?
An increasingly popular conspiracy theory falsely centers around the existence of “med beds,” a fabled medical instrument that does everything from reversing aging to regrowing missing limbs. The theory has grown in popularity among followers of far-right movements like QAnon, some of whom claim to be urgently awaiting a med bed to treat severe health conditions.
In a popular QAnon chat group, a woman named Julie was selling hope and a $22,000 cancer treatment. . . For “those interested in medbeds,” she wrote in a 36,000-member QAnon group on the chat platform Telegram, “FYI My husband uses a #medbed generator and 4 tesla biohealers for his stage 3 inoperable and aggressive salivary gland tumor. THIS technology is very supportive!”
“Medbeds?” I bet they saw them in “Elysium.”
You can tell that these medbeds are fake.
The proper term is “autodoc” and in the near future everyone will have one. To extend your lifespan indefinitely, you need to take booster spice, derived from the Tree-of-life of the Paks.
IYKYK.
When was the event? September 16 is Mexican Independence Day and the start of Hispanic Heritage month. Not at all unusual to hand out Mexican flags this month. Seems particularly appropriate to do so at an ICE protest. No Kings Day coming up — what would be an appropriate flag?
You never got your Sorosbux for demonstrating? You just need to register with your local Antifa office.
“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!”
You think the way the U.S. treats Mexico is the behavior of a friend, much less an ally? With friends like these, who needs enemies?