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‘JUST DISTURBING’ NYT Writer Says She Was Triggered By American Flags in New York
Todd Starnes ^ | 6/9/21

Posted on 06/08/2021 1:55:38 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

There’s no doubt that the drive-by media considers Trump supporters to be a bunch of gun-toting, Bible-clinging, flag-waving deplorables. They despise us. They despise our God. They despise American greatness.

The media propagandists are the disciples of former President Barack Hussein Obama, the man who promised to fundamentally transform America.

So it’s not much of a surprise that MSNBC contributor Mara Gay announced on national television that she was offended and triggered by the presence of an American flag.

Ms. Gay, who is also a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, said she was “disturbed” to see “dozens of American flags flown by supporters of President Trump during a weekend trip to Long Island, New York.

She also said she saw pickup trucks adorned with profane message about President Joe Biden and accused Trump supporters of using Old Glory to send a message to people like her: “This is my country … not your country. I own this.

“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. “I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with Whiteness, this is going to continue.”

I do not personally know Ms. Gay so it’s unfair for me to call her a racist or a supremacist. However, she clearly holds bigoted viewpoints. Consider how she described folks on Long Island.

“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.

I say better to be a flag-waving deplorable who wants to make America great than a godless socialist bigot who wants to turn our nation into a third-world hell hole.


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Tweet and video at link. This is not from the Babylon Bee, gang! Now that we're in the midst of queer month if I get triggered by fag flags, I be labelled as homo/trans/gender fluid/whatever phobic. Therefore I call Mara Gay Americaphobic. Damn! And I thought the Bush derangement syndrome was bad.
1 posted on 06/08/2021 1:55:38 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

What country does she think she’s in ?


2 posted on 06/08/2021 2:02:06 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Impala64ssa

This is why the Americans despise the liberals.


3 posted on 06/08/2021 2:04:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Can anyone post photo of this reporter?


4 posted on 06/08/2021 2:04:44 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Impala64ssa

I’ll repeat the words William F. Buckley uttered directly to me as a 17 year old. “Who the Hell are you…”


5 posted on 06/08/2021 2:06:33 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: Impala64ssa
NYT, MSNBC's Mara Gay: 'Disturbing' to see 'dozens of American flags' on trucks in Long Island

NYT's Mara Gay: Seeing American Flags on D-Day Anniversary Was 'Disturbing'

6 posted on 06/08/2021 2:09:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Impala64ssa

Mara Gay: GTF OUT OF MY COUNTRY!


7 posted on 06/08/2021 2:10:58 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: butlerweave

8 posted on 06/08/2021 2:14:35 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.…)
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To: Impala64ssa

I find it disturbing that she’s out running around in public.


9 posted on 06/08/2021 2:16:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: butlerweave

Right we have to change to accommodate people like her. Not the other way around.

If we went to Iran, Syria, China or Pakistan and told them: take out your flags and the leader’s pictures, and I want to have Easter and Christmas off with pay and put up a crucifix, a cross or a mezzuzah. How about it? Good luck.

I remember a school somewhere in the US where the school district gave up and removed the American flags from classrooms because “they made the immigrants nervous.”


10 posted on 06/08/2021 2:18:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Impala64ssa

“who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others”

It’s not really a “nation” if we have to “share it” with others, is it?

For example, when will Mara take a short drive through Beijing and then chastise the Chinese for not tolerating millions of non-Chinese among them?

Mara be free to leave anytime. We all have to wonder...why does she stay?

Lagos should be a paradise, populated as it is by her compatriots. No reason she can’t book a flight tomorrow!


11 posted on 06/08/2021 2:19:11 PM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: metmom
Try again.


12 posted on 06/08/2021 2:19:17 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.…)
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To: Impala64ssa
VJ DAY must have driven her nuts...all those flags and Patriotic folks.

I'm 77. Too many have lost the Patriotism AND Christian principals of my youth. The result of that loss is chaos in every arena...sports, schools, homes, towns, police, churches.

President Trump got us 10 steps forward...Biden has taken us 20 back.

13 posted on 06/08/2021 2:19:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: unixfox

Agree.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 2:21:18 PM PDT by Lumper20 (If one never sn erved in war-He/she should never be a Gov. Department head.)
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To: butlerweave

Why is she still here?

They don’t fly American flags in most of Africa and muslim toilets like Gaza and Iran.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 2:22:51 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
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To: Impala64ssa

What flag is tattooed on her butt ?


16 posted on 06/08/2021 2:23:01 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Impala64ssa

Are you allowed to say you’re triggered by rainbow flags?
Prolly not.


17 posted on 06/08/2021 2:27:09 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Idiot.


18 posted on 06/08/2021 2:27:23 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Sacajaweau

I’m 72 myself...I really don’t care what anyone says, I believe those of us that are our age have lived the best years of this great country...From our childhood up until our 40’s....


19 posted on 06/08/2021 2:27:28 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: BenLurkin

If the NYT had any character at all, employees who felt this way about the flag and the USA would be fired on the spot.

Their freedom of speech would not be impaired in any way as they would still be free to write a letter to the editor.

But they would no longer be employees using their position with the company to damage America.


20 posted on 06/08/2021 2:27:33 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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