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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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These people are very kind, perhaps the kindest and most generous people on our suburban block. And yet ... they're Trump supporters? ... 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.
How about a t-shirt with an arrow pointing toward your own face, with the caption, "I'm With Stupid".

121 posted on 09/29/2020 9:19:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ought-six

Maybe he has a Safe Space in his basement.


122 posted on 09/29/2020 9:41:36 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's like a big middle finger

There you go!


123 posted on 09/29/2020 9:42:50 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: 11th_VA

My neighbor liked my trump sign so much he asked me to get him one. Another neighbor has a Biden flag.

Newsflash. He’s wrongheaded and as a firearms user voting against his own interests but he’s still a friend.


124 posted on 09/29/2020 9:44:47 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: 11th_VA
There are homes in my neighborhood with competing signs... it's American as Apple pie.

What's NOT "American" is people being afraid to put up a political sign because they're afraid Antifa thugs or BLM thugs will damage their homes.

The snowflake liberal is more a fantasy than a reality.It's who white liberal 'elites' think they are... it's NOT who the democrat base is.... Most of Biden's base is made up of uneducated thugs, criminals and people with chips on their shoulders.

125 posted on 09/29/2020 11:14:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (If the first debate question is about Hunter Biden it means Democrats have the questions.)
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To: EEGator

Haven’t spent that much in the last decade!


126 posted on 09/29/2020 11:45:31 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: outofsalt

I agree.


127 posted on 09/29/2020 11:46:53 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: 1Old Pro

I am not that nice lol


128 posted on 09/29/2020 1:13:50 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: originalbuckeye

“I would never put a sign up or display a bumper sticker.......I value my house and car.”

Or answer a pollster. That’s why the polls are all wrong.


129 posted on 09/29/2020 1:46:00 PM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: 11th_VA

He’s a democrat.

But says his Republican neighbors are the “kindest” on the block?

Nothing says “kind” like a democrat’s desire to dismember a baby piece by piece inside the womb.

At this point, I consider ALL democrats as mentally unstable, if not deranged.


130 posted on 09/29/2020 3:04:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: dfwgator

Hmmm, four units, kept separate? Hehe.


131 posted on 09/29/2020 9:49:48 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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To: Bethaneidh

After all Army has a lot of papers to push.


132 posted on 09/29/2020 9:51:10 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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