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Vanity: people need to stop complying with flag half staff requests every time a politician dies

Posted on 12/29/2021 8:24:31 AM PST by MNDude

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21 posted on 12/29/2021 8:42:17 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: elpadre
He will, no doubt, be honored in the rotunda at the Congress. However, he is one who does not deserve to be so honored.

The "treadmill" that beat the crap out of him does, though.

22 posted on 12/29/2021 8:44:02 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: MNDude

There was a comic strip where a small child was confused by a flag at full staff and his dad said, “It used to always be like that before Biden, son.”


23 posted on 12/29/2021 8:44:23 AM PST by Rastus
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To: MNDude

If anyone asks me, my flag is at half staff for John Madden


24 posted on 12/29/2021 8:45:15 AM PST by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: MNDude

I think some around me have just gone to half staff full time.


25 posted on 12/29/2021 8:47:34 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: MNDude

Everytime a poltician dies, an angel gets its’ wings.


26 posted on 12/29/2021 8:50:15 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right

The 13 young soldiers that biden killed are probably worthy of half staff. Can’t think of any other recent events/deaths. Technically, the flag should maybe be flown upside down these days.


27 posted on 12/29/2021 8:51:06 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: MNDude

The problem with this is that it ‘rewards’ mostly politicians. .Gov shouldn’t be praised. The sacrifice of veterans are already earned with esprit de corps, community respect and the knowledge of sacrifice.


28 posted on 12/29/2021 8:55:28 AM PST by Theoria
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To: MNDude

Mine is for John Madden....


29 posted on 12/29/2021 8:55:56 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: MNDude

I am with you 100% on this.

Leftist Politicians have abused this mark of respect (lowering the flag) to the point at any given time, I can drive around and see flags somewhere that are at half-mast. (I’m Navy, so I call it “half-mast”. Some will shoot me for that. Don’t care...:)

I despise it. I feel that it puts our country in a constant state of victimhood and mourning. I think it is weak and stupid.


30 posted on 12/29/2021 8:58:31 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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These days they lower the flag every time somebody gets a hangnail. I am sick of it. School shooting, dead negro, enough is enough. Raise the flag!


31 posted on 12/29/2021 8:59:35 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Theoria; MNDude

We had a thousand men KIA on Tarawa in three days, and almost 7000 dead in Iwo Jima in thirty days, and we didn’t fly the flag at half-mast for them.

If anyone deserved it, they didn’t. I would say do it for Presidents only, and even then, I have reservations for Presidents like Obama and Biden. Carter, while inept and petty, did love his country (I think) so he would be okay.


32 posted on 12/29/2021 9:03:31 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: MNDude

It’s great if I catch a chick wearing a American flag bikini during a mourning period and let her know that her bottoms need to be at half mast.


33 posted on 12/29/2021 9:09:29 AM PST by PatriotarchyQ
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To: MNDude

For some of them, using a longer pole is sensible. Sparklers might help with the mood.


34 posted on 12/29/2021 9:12:34 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MNDude

Only if I feel they are worthy..... very few have been.


35 posted on 12/29/2021 9:12:36 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: PatriotarchyQ

Hehehe, I ALWAYS give a break to nice looking women who wear skimpy bathing suits festooned with the American Flag!

THAT is American Exceptionalism!


36 posted on 12/29/2021 9:13:14 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: MNDude

Amen

They now lower the flag for anything...


37 posted on 12/29/2021 9:14:43 AM PST by wardaddy (Do we really think a culture vested in transgenderism can defeat 6000 years of mankind so easily...)
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To: MNDude

I simply lower my trousers to half-mast instead.


38 posted on 12/29/2021 9:24:43 AM PST by bigbob
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To: MNDude

Agree


39 posted on 12/29/2021 9:25:41 AM PST by deks
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Guaranteed when Trump passes away (it won’t matter how far into the future that will be, it could be 100 years from now), there will be a vigorous debate in the media about why politicians deserve any public honors. Then, when a liberal icon dies, the calls for a state holiday will immediately be trumpeted without irony.


40 posted on 12/29/2021 9:26:12 AM PST by jz638
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