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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have decided
that I am not going to celebrate the 4th of July this year. I just cant do it this is not the America I know, tRump is destroying everything America stands for.
Celtic
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)since 2016. And I feel you on the Independence Day thing. Hope all those Fed Prosecutors get a nice long weekend though. Working so hard. They should go golfing and maybe shoot up to Marthas Vineyard for some 'sail time'.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)upside down
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I'm sorry. But your "protest" will mean absolutely nothing.
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CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)I have been contacting my congressmen and bitching up a blue streak, this I do for myself.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)but enough of us do just what Celtic is saying, IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I let my neighbours know exactly why I won't fly this flag of shame, a couple will join me and they, like I, have sent truth to the powerful cowards in D.C. and locally. WETHEPEOPLE are the true power only if we exercise our perogative to "protest" loudly and consistently.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)but that holiday, the 4th of July, HAS NEVER been intended for POC. And that has been proven over and over again by white ameriKKKan citizens and police authority. I damn sure won't have a flag out for the 4th EVER again. Flag DAY, no. Just veteran remembrance and observance days. Yet the old red, white and blue is being covered with blood from all the unarmed and usually innocent POC executed/murdered recently by the policing authority of the USA and now being made irrelevant by the pain and misery being caused by this monster called potus to innocent children at our concentration/detainee camps
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas, ... Wikipedia
Significance: Emancipation of the last remaining enslaved people in the United States
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)will be supporting Trump. Thats what I think when I see one out now, for no other reason than to make a statement. I know which neighbors to avoid like the plague if they also fly the snake dont tread on me flag.
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)the flag that day, and he will do so in honor of his brother, our son, my brothers and cousins, all of whom served this nation in 3 wars. We don't allow ANYONE to tell us that we don't have as much right to fly it as they do. And don't think we don't despise tRump - I had a heart attack 3 days after the "election" because I couldn't stop crying. Please don't just ass*u*me everyone is flying it to support baby Hitler - we're shoving it in the face of his asshole supporters! It's OUR flag too.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)All Im saying is that its what Ill think when I see one on this 4th. It will be what pops into my mind, which I actually blame Trump for. Im not insulting you or family. I have family whove fought AND given their lives too. So save your anger for those who desecrate it.
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)latest evil from these monsters, yet trying to zen out from time to time. I saw he was humping the flag today - ewww!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I only hope I can look at the flag in the future without having that come to mind!
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)So, I've never celebrated the 4th. I have on occasion celebrated Juneteenth Day, which is today.
However today, I choose to be still and celebrate nothing.
I'm meditating.
This country, thanks to cruel, racist, rotten-ass tRump, his puppet-master putin, beauguard, Miller & Kirstjen Nielsen & most thuglicans have this country/world enveloped in pure turmoil & HELL.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Columbus Day is another one Native Americans dont have any reason to celebrate! I dont celebrate that either.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)...can be a real tonic.
But putting out my flag? Not this year.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)the fascists are all gone.