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It's spontaneous. I have no control over it. I see a flag or banner emblazoned with "TRUMP" and *whoop*! Up goes my finger.
Does this happen to you too?
niyad
(120,693 posts)snowybirdie
(5,689 posts)When our cruise ship passed his house in Mar Lago
dweller
(25,254 posts)Theres 2 on the roadside on the way to my daughters house , both homemade 4x8 but with a professional looking printed sign on it .
Get the 🖕🏻 both ways 🖕🏻there and back
✌🏻
Bettie
(17,390 posts)Ok, yes.
There is also a muttered "fuck you".
SammyWinstonJack
(44,169 posts)yorkster
(2,523 posts)haele
(13,648 posts)Can't help it. Must be the arthritis.
PittBlue
(4,388 posts)I keep telling myself that I will stop but it's now an involuntary reaction.
sinkingfeeling
(53,263 posts)niyad
(120,693 posts)it every tirme I see it.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,817 posts)I scrunch up my face and try to drill, with said finger/s, a hole in my window glass.
Fuck you, you fuckers!
badhair77
(4,665 posts)carpal tunnel symptoms.
soldierant
(8,013 posts)magicarpet
(16,992 posts).... I generally issue a double bird flash - while mumbling obscenities.
Timewas
(2,321 posts)Every day
barbtries
(29,955 posts)i may not flip it off. usually i yell fuck you at it. but i do. there is definitely a visceral reaction.
i hate republicans for that, too.
MacKasey
(1,242 posts)Norbert
(6,617 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(233 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,784 posts)Hope22
(3,112 posts)And my state legislator lives a mile down the road and every time we go past it the birds go up! Its sad but reality!
S/V Loner
(9,138 posts)That an asshole lives there and nothing gives them greater pleasure than getting that kind of reaction. Now I just contemplate putting signs in their yard stating Here Lives a Nazi.
Blue Full Moon
(1,327 posts)dchill
(40,779 posts)And I used to be nice, too.
Evolve Dammit
(19,101 posts)alison_in_nc
(3 posts)SunSeeker
(54,070 posts)Every fucking time.
MissouriDem47
(53 posts)still has her Trump sign out. Every time we go past it she gets the one finger salute and a comment which includes a 4 letter word that starts with a C and end with a T which my wife hates.
bluescribbler
(2,267 posts)GF doesn't like it, but I ain''t gonna stop.
dreamland
(981 posts)I can't stop calling them arseh* every time I pass by those Thrump signs.
AllaN01Bear
(23,344 posts)La Coliniere
(1,072 posts)Its often accompanied with a fuck you, rot in hell, depending on who is riding with me.
MsLeopard
(1,285 posts)ShazzieB
(18,927 posts)To be honest, it's been a long time since I saw a Trump flag. But I definitely flipped off a few Trump/Vance signs last fall.
rurallib
(63,293 posts)and evangelical churches!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,998 posts)a kennedy
(32,330 posts)hurple
(1,329 posts)But if I see someone out in the yard I roll down my window and yell either, "traitor!" Or "nazi!" Depending on my mood.
MuseRider
(34,409 posts)I live in the country in a very small community. Sadly my road is filling up but still people with farms. The last house to go up was across the road from us with longhorn cattle. I have still not even met them but......the last remaining thing he put up with all the little thingies that are in the yard was an Amercan flag and a Trump flag. I almost cried on the way up to my house. When I got to my place where I am now I looked out and lo and behold there is a big cedar that covers the entire Trump flag even in a hard wind. Now I am just waiting to see what he ends up doing with it. I doubt he will be able to keep it up under President Musk.
mommymarine2003
(298 posts)When we were headed for Thanksgiving Day dinner at our older son's house last month, we saw a man waving a giant American flag next to the highway. I told my husband to calm down because what nitwit would spend his Thanksgiving all alone on the highway waving a flag. Sure enough, it was a Magat. Our younger son was in his car driving behind us. We had all been in good moods, and then this horrible man almost ruined our day.
WestMichRad
(1,891 posts)I cant stop it, its like a nervous twitch.
FUTSF!
Figarosmom
(3,310 posts)spanone
(137,664 posts)Rebl2
(14,960 posts)seen dumps flags around here, but if I did, I likely would do the same. I saw next to no political signs during the election season for that matter.
2 Meow Momma
(6,782 posts)Trueblue Texan
(3,021 posts)...the Tr*mp salute.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,841 posts)Example:
My dog took a giant trump right in the middle of the parking lot this morning. That piece of trump almost didn't fit in the doodie bag!
KitFox
(79 posts)at the cultish mindset. I live in a blue state but my home is in a rural red county. Any direction I drive I pass huge outlays of Trump crap. One place has 12 huge Trump flags stretched out on the fences. Several other places have made these enormous wooden American flags but bastardized it with Trump and Take our country back on the stripes. One place made a giant wooden Trump Won sign and erected it right at a busy crossroads intersection. All of the other state and local political signs I typically see were removed shortly after election but these Trumpers leave everything up year round. Its pretty pathetic.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,841 posts)That's why they do it. Useless pieces of shit.
2naSalit
(93,529 posts)Just happens automatically.
DET
(1,733 posts)Fortunately, we dont generally have Trump flags or other offensive displays of Trump crap around here. So the finger stays put when Im driving. The only exception was on election day when a pickup truck sporting four huge Trump flags in the bed and multiple Trump stickers drove into the shopping center that I was in. My jaw dropped.
Having said that, the middle finger gets quite a workout at home on the rare occasions when I still watch the news. Its reflexive at this point.
Wiz Imp
(2,471 posts)Not just Trump flags - anything Trump. Finger is triggered immediately every single time!!!
MIButterfly
(10 posts)I thought I was the only one who did that! I don't do it so much anymore; I kind of feel like what's the point? I just shake my head now. I do wish they'd take them down already so I don't have to be reminded of him every time I go anywhere.
ailsagirl
(23,870 posts)and we don't see a lot of those signs
Picaro
(1,847 posts)It is virtually uncontrollable.
Blue_Tires
(56,760 posts)Diamond_Dog
(35,188 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,645 posts)Devilsun
(285 posts)ChazInAz
(2,806 posts)Repeatedly, driving to and from St. Joseph MO. On the way back, I popped into a place just south of St. Joe called The Flea Market. Along with the usual discarded crap and detritus one expects in such a place, a whole corner is dedicated to Trump Trash: garish flags, in-your-face hostile bumper stickers, signs, etc. I noted all the security cameras and refrained from doing what I wanted to do. Flipped the Double Bird and left, mentioning to the owner that I would never buy anything from a place that carried that stuff.
Susan Calvin
(2,153 posts)To my unfortunate across the street neighbors. They're also rumored to be crackheads, and appear to be financially unstable. Therefore I have bought a gun. Didn't particularly want to, but I did. I've already taken a couple of lessons, and my licensing class is Sunday.
BidenRocks
(959 posts)There are not any signs I see to flip off. I would in a hot second though.
We save our flippers for stupid drivers.
Trueblue Texan
(3,021 posts)And when it's a TR--P sign that's in the yard of an obviously impoverished person, I have to scream, "Stupid motherf*cker! How f*cking poor do you want to be?" It's mildly satisfying for now. Less satisfying will be watching the stupid mofos get even poorer under the coming administration. But if ever we required proof we have it now...you can't fix stupid!
Emile
(30,825 posts)DiverDave
(5,028 posts)Fuck em with a rusty chainsaw.
cannabis_flower
(3,855 posts)I slow down and point and laugh!
drmeow
(5,332 posts)Katcat
(379 posts)Found my peeps for sure 😂😂
maspaha
(403 posts)So happy to know there are others with this same reflex syndrome!
Bluethroughu
(6,017 posts)rainy
(6,234 posts)JMCKUSICK
(614 posts)GoodRaisin
(9,638 posts)COL Mustard
(6,993 posts)But when I do it, Im really really enthusiastic in my head!!!!
NNadir
(34,843 posts)tavernier
(13,284 posts)and I know the houses in our neighborhood with T flags (about 6 amongst several hundred homes). I walk on the side of the street of the unflagged homes but i cut a huge arc to avoid any contact with the T flag property, as if it was highly poisonous and make a I smell putrid rotting flesh face.
enigmania
(233 posts)middle finger because the area I live in... sheeesh.
rambler_american
(853 posts)feckijng time.
Goonch
(3,829 posts)UpInArms
(51,911 posts)Every time
JohnnyRingo
(19,428 posts)It's an eyesore in many ways. I didn't spend four years with a Biden banner draped across my porch.
I'm not going to fly a Fuck Trump flag either, because I'm not in junior high school.
Martin68
(24,738 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,841 posts)Yard sign, hat, shirt, bumper sticker....
They all get the finger and/or "fuck you nazi" yelled at them.
MontanaMama
(24,087 posts)Any tRmp sign, bumper sticker or flag is getting double middle fingers from me. Got caught flipping off a bumper sticker at Costco last weekend gave the MAGAt who owned the car a mad over it and it made my day.
Ladythatvotesblue
(223 posts)OverBurn
(1,107 posts)Cha
(305,863 posts)I never see any in my neck of the woods Thankfully.
mucholderthandirt
(1,207 posts)I've noticed that houses that didn't have Trump signs before have them now. Got bold, by Juniper!
Though one business down the road from me took all theirs off the fence. Likely lost some business, because there are loads of places around here to get propane and those big tanks. The local nursery stopped putting political signs up after Bush's second win. I know for sure they lost a huge amount of business. Serves them all right.
republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)stillcool
(32,812 posts)I got to do it, but question my sanity at the same time. So glad to have such good company in my choices.