'Disturbing' to see 'dozens of American flags' on trucks in Long Island
By: Brandon Gillespie
It great to see far left progressives offended by the American flag. I enjoy their pain. The solution is to fly more of them and get in their grills with them. It is so enraging to see people living in this most exceptional and great nation attacking and belittling its symbols. Their complaints about opposition posters, stickers, and flags and the expression of free speech falls on deaf ears here as well. If people want a pro Trump or anti Biden expression on their vehicle or in their front yard, so be it. It’s our right. Let em whine. We don’t care.
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MSNBC contributor Mara Gay said Tuesday that she was "disturbed" to see "dozens of American flags" flown by Donald Trump supporters during a weekend trip to Long Island, New York.
The left-wing editorial board member for The New York Times was also distressed by what she called expletives on the trucks against President Biden , describing the flag-flying Trump supporters as sending a clear message: "This is my country … not your country. I own this."
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"The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population — I don’t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others," Gay said in response to MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski calling for an investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot .
"I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with Whiteness, this is going to continue," Gay said, turning to race and adding that "Americanness" and "Whiteness" needed to be separated.
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"I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing … Essentially the message was clear. This is my country. This is not your country. I own this," Gay said.
She claimed Americans would continue to see things like that until the country was ready to have the conversation about "Whiteness," adding her concern that "a large percentage of Americans" don't understand the threat that it is.
"That is the real concern. Because, you know, the Trump voters who are not going to get onboard with democracy, they’re a minority. You can marginalize them, long-term. But if we don’t take the threat seriously, then I think we’re all in really bad shape," she said.
Gay received no pushback from the MSNBC hosts or her fellow panelists after making the comments. The Times and MSNBC did not respond to requests for comment.
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Trump Traitors think they own the American flag. What a world.
I fly my flag everyday unless it's really windy. (I lost one once when it apparently blew away so on windy days I keep it in now.) I don't know why fox news thinks Democrats don't like the flag. Most people who wrap themselves in the flag trying to be patriotic are actually disrespecting the flag according to the US Flag code. The guy flying the flag from his truck bed is disrespecting the flag. It should be flown from the left fender when flying a flag on a vehicle. Also your paper plates with flags on them are a violation, wearing the flag as a cape, and when Trump was autographing flags for his adoring fans. These are all examples of disrespecting the flag.
That's all you can say to Steve? He just pointed a laundry list of things your kind are doing to disrespect the flag and you give him a total non-answer.
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And then you come along with something more inane. Doesn't address the points that Steve made. All you did was deflect
Have the last word...I'm going off to have a meltdown now because bugsy was mean to me
Certainly wouldn't be the first time.
I guess if by "mean" you meant successfully countering your accusations, then you would be correct.
Was/Still am an Eagle scout. Live by a code.
Who is stopping you from flying it proudly.....or at all?
Nope, sure don't.
Where do your balls hang from?
Darn...I missed this one.
I bet it was a doozy s/
Even the most hard core rednecks are ashamed to wear those anymore.
I would venture that the quotation meant that such people who flew Trump flags and smeared Biden were not paying respect to the Stars and Stripes by flying them - that their meaning in that case was not respectful, or that those flying them were doing so to boast that only THEY were "REAL" Americans. But of course almost any quotation can be twisted to mean something other than intended,
And, I believe you'll notice, that goes quite a ways here.
She is an idiot that thinks loving an inanimate object means patriotism.
Usually the ones boasting and wrapping themselves in the flag are the least patriotic.
So her issue wasn't that she saw American flags flying, it was who was flying them that inspired her disgust.
Personaly, I understand how she feels. When i see something like this I'm also disgusted:
We know that many (if not virtually all) KKK and other white supremacists support Donald Trump. They believe America is a white Christian nation and they want it to remain such. They fight for white power and Trump power. They also disgustingly fly the American flag which they obviously know nothing about and are just trying to use as a symbol to say, as Mara Gay pointed out, "This is my country … not your country. I own this".
The white supremacists and other right wing extremists that attacked the capital on January 6th were flying American flags along side Trump flags and confederate flags which is repugnant in my view, it's no different than shitting on the American flag to fly those together. I respect the American flag and believe it should never be flown along side such vile hate inspired symbols as the confederate flag, the swastika or a Trump flag.
Many rightly see no difference between Trump supporters flying the American flag and the above picture of KKK doing the same, likely because they are almost certainly one and the same, just today Trump gave them cover to take off their hoods.
Just how often have you actually seen "something like this"? Not a picture, but actually witnessed it.
Boogey man.......those KKK'ers are EVERYWHERE
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She saw Klansmen driving around in NY? Where did she say that?
"tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others" "I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with Whiteness, this is going to continue," Gay said, turning to race and adding that "Americanness" and "Whiteness" needed to be separated."
And like I said, "Many rightly see no difference between Trump supporters flying the American flag and the above picture of KKK doing the same, likely because they are almost certainly one and the same, just today Trump gave them cover to take off their hoods."
Are you sure? How do we know they're just not wearing their hoods that day? Like I said, there are many who rightly associate Trump supporters with white supremacy and the KKK since Trumps base welcomed them and they stood side by side those white supremacists to cast their vote for Trump in the last two Presidential elections.
" Mr Duke is a renowned neo-Nazi antisemite and white supremacist who founded a Ku Klux Klan chapter in the early 1970s; since then, he has unsuccessfully run for office several times and endorsed various extremist figures and causes. In a series of tweets late on Wednesday night, he wrote that “Trump & Tucker is the only way to stop the commie Bolsheviks! It is the only path to beat them! #TrumpTucker2020”
" A Ku Klux Klan newspaper has declared support for Donald Trump’s Republican run for U.S. president, saying America became great because it was a white, Christian republic."
" The Crusader, one of the white supremacist group’s most prominent publications, published a lengthy endorsement and defense of Trump’s message on the front page of its current issue under the headline: “Make America Great Again.”
It's obvious from Mara Gay's comments that was what she was expressing, the distress at seeing what she considered white supremacist Trump supporters flying the flag as if to say "This is my country … not your country. I own this".