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Russian flags being handed out for Trump's speech.
Twitter ^ | 2-24-17 | James O'Keefe

Posted on 02/24/2017 10:00:48 AM PST by proust



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cpac; trump
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To: poinq

The red, white and blue flag was the pre-revolutionary Russian flag. The red flag with the hammer and sickle was the flag of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the flag reverted to the old Russian one.


61 posted on 02/24/2017 11:07:27 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: LucyT

People like free things, lol.


62 posted on 02/24/2017 11:07:47 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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To: proust

This is a terrible action. I saw this posted as news on the MSN home page. Now all the idiots out there will think that Republican conservatives are joining together with Russia to stage a coup, or something. Lord, bind the hands of these evil people who are plotting this disinformation campaign.


63 posted on 02/24/2017 11:11:30 AM PST by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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To: Timpanagos1

I didn’t know what the Russian flag looks like.

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64 posted on 02/24/2017 11:14:13 AM PST by Mears
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To: Timpanagos1
The people waving the Russian flags at CPAC were not real conservatives but Democratic plants.

Probably some, but if they all were plants, there would have been no need to pass out the flags INSIDE the CPAC floor, they would have just brought 'em in in their pockets.

It would have been much better for Prog optics and narrative about Trump supporters.

65 posted on 02/24/2017 11:15:12 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: proust

I saw that. I thought it was the LGBTQ flag.


66 posted on 02/24/2017 11:40:10 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: Mears
You do now. Here is a short history of the flag.

In 1697, Tsar Peter I visited the Netherlands to learn about the most advanced techniques in shipbuilding. He was impressed by the simple design of Dutch flag and modeled Russian flag after the Dutch flag by having the stripes arranged white-blue-red. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 (October revolution), the Communists adopted a Red Flag that contained a gold hammer, sickle, and gold-bordered red star in the upper hoist corner as the official flag of the newly created USSR (Soviet Union). As the Communist regime started falling apart, the original white-blue-red Russian national flag was restored on August 21, 1991. Soon, non-Russian territories of the Soviet Union became independent as the Soviet Union collapsed. The rest of the country, now called Russian Federation, continued using the white-blue-red Russian national flag

67 posted on 02/24/2017 11:41:36 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Thanks——very interesting-—and surprising. I didn’t realize that their flag went back that far.

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68 posted on 02/24/2017 11:45:45 AM PST by Mears
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I’m not encouraged that so many people attending CPAC do not know the Russian flag when they see it.


69 posted on 02/24/2017 12:02:50 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mears

It is also the antithesis of the the flag of the USSR. In many ways it represents a very anti communist theme. It is in part the legacy of Ronald Reagan.


70 posted on 02/24/2017 12:06:58 PM PST by xp38
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To: proust

Why was Creamer let into a CPAC conference??


71 posted on 02/24/2017 12:08:21 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Oh it was red white and blue and had a large ‘TRUMP’ printed on it. My guess is most of the people thought it was a TRUMP flag being passed out by CPAC folks. Who knew CPAC let these Marxist clowns in?


72 posted on 02/24/2017 12:13:04 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Those could have been political operatives.


73 posted on 02/24/2017 12:13:17 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: proust

This was done by a leftist Huffpo activist.


74 posted on 02/24/2017 12:23:41 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Uncle Sam 911
Someone should hand out nazi flags at the DNC meeting in Atlanta this weekend to salute their storm troopers burning and rioting across the country.


75 posted on 02/24/2017 12:27:20 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: proust

I’m going to think about how we can peaceably eject these jackasses who are salting the news and kook sites.


76 posted on 02/24/2017 12:28:50 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: reg45

Oops! The Russian flag is white, blue, and red. Netherlands and Luxembourg are red, white, and blue - they differ in shape and the shade of blue.


77 posted on 02/24/2017 12:30:12 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Timpanagos1
I think everybody with an education above the 4th grade knows what the Russian flag looks like.

I didn't......The last Russian flag I'm familiar with is the hammer and sickle.

With that being said, I certainly would have questioned it if it was handed to me and definitely wouldn't have waved it........

78 posted on 02/24/2017 1:12:24 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

They are NOT Russian flags—they have TRUMP on them—no Two headed eagle. They are red white and blue! It was a stupid trick. Now they will be collectors items worth a lot of money. See, Trump wants peace with Putin’s Russia—not War and destruction.


79 posted on 02/24/2017 1:13:36 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Timpanagos1
"I think everybody with an education above the 4th grade knows what the Russian flag looks like."

Not me. I could maybe identify the Canadian, Brazilian, French, Italian, British, New Zealand, Israeli, Swiss, Swedish, Japanese, and Philippine flags - and probably a few others - but I have no idea what the Russian flag looks like.
80 posted on 02/24/2017 1:23:45 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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