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CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 05:50 PM Dec 8

I spiffed up my garage with resistance messages!



These were my yard signs from election season. We're on a busy corner & every day I put two different signs out by my pine tree. I put all of them out on election day & a few of my faves got stolen. But the bastards won't get me down!!

Know your parasites is kind of hard to read. It's deer tic, dog tic, & luna tic.
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kimbutgar

(23,624 posts)
2. That reminds me of my Father
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 07:13 PM
Dec 8

He never put political signs in the windows but he hung them in our garage!

ShazzieB

(18,927 posts)
3. I can't begin tell you how much I love this!!!
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 07:58 PM
Dec 8

Just looking at it is bringing joy to my heart. 😄😁😊

CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
10. Last week I told my husband, I really miss putting the signs out every morning.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:43 AM
Dec 9

He said, "I miss the joy & hope they symbolized."

The response was amazing, though! I had people come to my door & tell me how much they liked the signs. A lot of people wanted to know where I got them & they asked the most about the NOPE sign. People left notes on my door, notes of appreciation. Someone left a bottle of wine on my porch & another left $20 with a note.

I miss the joy & hope, too. I've been in such a funk & piled all the signs together to throw away & thought, I just can't do it.

orleans

(35,275 posts)
8. i did something similar to that years ago
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 08:57 PM
Dec 8

in the bush era there was a website where you could put text on a stupid yellow ribbon and print the picture. (remember everyone had those yellow ribbons on their cars?)

so i had made probably near 100 of these fuckers (out of my anger and hatred for bush, his wars, the lies of that chimp/cheney/rumsfuck, etc)

i had them plastered on the back of my office door (in my home) -- i left them there for YEARS AND YEARS

(remember this video? "stick magnetic ribbons on your suv " )



CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
9. I had never seen that! That was absolutely fantastic!!
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:33 AM
Dec 9

Awesome group name, too!!

Don't know how I missed that! Now I'll have that song in my head the rest of the day! Thanks for posting!

orleans

(35,275 posts)
12. you're welcome. i loved that song/video.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 10:17 AM
Dec 9

my mom, who always liked "tie a yellow ribbon," also loved this song/version.

i'd turn it up LOUD on my computer speakers -- one of the speakers went around the corner of my office and sat on a buffet in the dining room -- and she could hear it loud and clear in the living room.

i had that speaker in the dining room so she could listen to randi rhodes when i was at work and we'd listen to mike malloy together in the evenings.

good times with my mom.

CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
13. Nice that your mom was a dem!
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 11:27 AM
Dec 9

Mine was a right winger but she loved Tony Orlando & Dawn. They were on some variety show & she danced around the kitchen while they performed "Knock Three Times."

orleans

(35,275 posts)
15. it was wonderful that my mom and i were on the same page w/politics
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 12:01 PM
Dec 9

i'd come home from work and she'd say:
"you have to listen to randi's show today"
(i could download it and play it after it aired)

and she'd say "you have to watch keith tonight"
--she'd watch countdown w/olbermann that aired at 7pm (i think) and then it reaired at 11pm
she'd fill me in a bit as to what i missed.

and she absolutely HATED chimp bush.
he'd show up on the tv and if she had the clicker she'd either turn the channel or turn off the tv -- she couldn't stand the sight of him or the sound of his voice

my mom liked tony orlando & dawn too. yes, they had their own variety show -- i remember my parents watched it. so i could either watch it or go hang out in my room
adults were easily amused back then with entertainment/tv. a little song & dance and they were good with it. (sonny & cher, carol burnett, laugh in, smothers brothers -- every week in our house)

that's a cute memory of your mom dancing around in the kitchen. my mom used to do that too (kitchen and living room)

dreamland

(981 posts)
11. I'm in lov
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 10:02 AM
Dec 9

What a great space! I still haven't removed my Harris bumper stickers from my fridge.

CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
14. It will make yard work more fun, next spring.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 11:36 AM
Dec 9

Okay, not really. But I couldn't throw them out.

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