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Ask Dave: My Neighbor Put Up a Trump Sign. How Should I Respond? Should I Respond At All?
Esquire ^ | Dave Holmes Mon, September 28, 2020

Posted on 09/29/2020 6:05:13 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Dear Dave,

My neighbor across the street just put a giant Trump/Pence flag in their front yard. A week later―the day after the Breonna Taylor grand jury came back—he added a Blue Lives Matter flag to the pole. These people are very kind, perhaps the kindest and most generous people on our suburban block. And yet ... they're Trump supporters? They reject the idea of Black Lives Matter?

I don't know what to do about it. It's like a big middle finger, whether they know it or not. I'd like to put up a Biden sign, or a "Hate Has No Home Here" sign, to at least show the other neighbors, the people who drive by, and the delivery people that we don't share our neighbor's politics. But is that just an escalation? A middle finger to his middle finger? By putting up my own sign, and then seeking affirmation for that sign from strangers on social media, am I adding to the division in this country because it might fray my relationship with my neighbor? Should I instead knock on their door and begin a dialogue?

Am I coward? Am I overthinking this? Please, help!

xoxo Liberal Neighbor

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To: 11th_VA

Just...gag.


101 posted on 09/29/2020 7:10:57 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Yo-Yo

Or, the offended neighbor could just mind his own business.


102 posted on 09/29/2020 7:12:35 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Bell Bouy II

Bravo!


103 posted on 09/29/2020 7:13:56 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: 11th_VA

The guys who answered his question is gay, and his gayness is what defines all of his political opinions.


104 posted on 09/29/2020 7:15:29 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Bell Bouy II

Copied and saved...


105 posted on 09/29/2020 7:16:27 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 11th_VA

“These people are very kind, perhaps the kindest and most generous people on our suburban block. And yet ... they’re Trump supporters? They reject the idea of Black Lives Matter?”

This is the point where a person with a functioning brain would ask themselves: “Am I the bad guy?”


106 posted on 09/29/2020 7:20:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: relictele; 11th_VA
"Esquire --- the magazine written and read by gays"

Yep

107 posted on 09/29/2020 7:22:03 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: 11th_VA

Like ALL liberals, they want to dialogue and hear all opinions then are shocked to learn people have opinions different from theirs.


108 posted on 09/29/2020 7:23:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: 11th_VA

“These people are very kind, perhaps the kindest and most generous people on our suburban block...”
Don’t you love it when liberals paint themselves into a logical corner?


109 posted on 09/29/2020 7:25:31 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Eagles6
"Him and his co-sodomist didn't eat out for 9 weeks and saved $48,000?"

$762 per day?! Not just a sodomist, lustful and gluttonous too!

110 posted on 09/29/2020 7:26:27 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Flick Lives
Yes, we know what "Should I instead knock on their door and begin a dialogue?" means.

They're going to lecture, poorly disguised as a "dialogue."

111 posted on 09/29/2020 7:31:25 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: 11th_VA

Some people near us hung a huge Black Lives Matter Banner on the deck of their $2 million view home. Of course they are virtue signalling obese white people. We go by this monstrosity every day. Sorry this clown can’t handle a Trump and blue lives matter sign. He/she needs to suck it up.


112 posted on 09/29/2020 7:35:25 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: 11th_VA

There’s so much here to unpack ...
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My first thought was that this was humor! Not!


113 posted on 09/29/2020 7:41:02 AM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: rbg81

He would have no reflection


114 posted on 09/29/2020 7:52:51 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: 11th_VA

Dear Liberal Neighbor,

Your wife said it’s time for you to both see other guys.

P.S. Dave’s not here.


115 posted on 09/29/2020 7:54:58 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I have a trail camera and many guns. I have 2 Trump flags and an American flag proudly flying facing the highway that goes by my house. One of my farmer friends has a cotton trailer with a huger banner reading “Puro Pinche Trump”. Most people where I live speak spanish, or the Mexican version. I also have many guns.
Oh, along the highway to my house there are dozens of Trump flags - and one tiny Biden sign. There are several billboards supporting Trump along the highway to Corpus Christi and in Corpus Christi. Trump and American flags are hanging from cranes along refinery row.
Suck on it, liberals


116 posted on 09/29/2020 7:57:15 AM PDT by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: 11th_VA

Dear lib,
You can take the sign down, in which case you’ll be twitching for a few seconds, and then completely still.

You can get a brain and put up one of your own.


117 posted on 09/29/2020 8:01:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Watch debate. Alpha Male vs sleepy joe. Tuesday 9 PM Eastern.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Dave’s “advice” was even worse snowflakery angst than the original question, and it dragged on at least four times longer.


118 posted on 09/29/2020 8:14:04 AM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: 11th_VA

It’s a free country. Put up whatever sign you want and respect your neighbors rights.

Liberty is a beautiful thing.


119 posted on 09/29/2020 8:42:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 11th_VA

“the kindest and most generous people on our suburban block. And yet ... they’re Trump supporters”

And it never occurs to him that there is something going on that contradicts the worldview fed to him by the legacy media.


120 posted on 09/29/2020 9:17:42 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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