Uh Oh. Local Garden center made a big mistake erecting a big Trump sign

[KentuckyWoman]

No pics unfortunately.

Yesterday evening, local nursery, garden and landscape center -- the biggest one in the region -- decided to erect a 10 foot by 25 foot Trump 2020 sign in one of their corner fields across the street from one of the most well used township parks. Today the cheese has hit the fan.

I just drove by their offices and retail plant center and there must be 100 people out front with Biden, anti Trump and the business name with the "not" symbol, picket signs walking back and forth along the street - more or less blocking their entrance. The police aren't stopping them. Out of curiousity I went over by the park and sure enough, another bunch of folks pacing the sidewalk on that corner. Everyone in the area knows that field belongs to the nursery.

Beautiful day ... just the right weather to go buy the fall plants and get them in the ground. I wonder how many will pass and go elsewhere.

Serves them right.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good...if we dont prevail, very very bad days are ahead immediately...hell, the virus

and climate change alone is bad enough, but we will NOT KNOW what hit us when putin and traitors MM and DT get the green light to totally decimate the country and take EVERY PENNY

SS and Medicare GONE

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. ...

[TheBlackAdder]

54. Fuck with the patrons the same way RW groups do: Take pictures of the drivers and license plates.

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Even if it's pretend, it will mess with their minds.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. And even though I'd be somewhat pleased if you'd

reported they'd put up a huge Biden sign, local businesses should know better than to do any such thing.

[BComplex]

4. Republicans just aren't very smart.

They have an extra dose of arrogance and self-righteous entitlement where their smarts aught to be.

[KentuckyWoman]

8. So far my fav is the pontoon boat owner that grounded himself

He had 2 big Trump flags and got too close to the beach at lake in the region showing off his Trumpism. He got sucked up into the beach. My nephew was kind enough to pull him out with his boat instead of the guy having to pay the DNR to fish him out.

[BComplex]

10. Your nephew is nicer than I would have been.

I would have let him sit there, stuck, looking like a fool.

I've quit being nice about those folks. They need to be seen for what they are.

[Proud liberal 80]

14. A lot of businesses where I am at are proudly putting up Trump signs

Unfortunately, it’s a conservative area (Schertz, Texas....near San Antonio)

[BComplex]

16. I'm originally from Texas. I hope it starts to turn back blue.

It was blue way before the Bush family decided to screw it up.

[minidriver]

22. too damn many of them

and I have a drumphie right across the street. At least my neighbor (who has never put up any kind of sign in their yard for the 22 years we have lived here) is proudly sporting a Biden/Harris sign as well.

[minidriver]

24. reactive

I noticed the drumpf signs popped up along 3009 a day or two after the Biden/Harris signs showed up.

[Proud liberal 80]

28. There all over FM78 too

[oldsoftie]

36. I'm in Ga & I havent seen many signs for either candidate. Odd this far in.

Even the most hardcore trumpers i know dont have signs in their yard.

[louis-t]

59. I would have sat on my boat, eating a sandwich

and shouting out suggestions to him about how he could get unstuck. "Have you checked to see if you're out of gas? Maybe your wife can get out and push. I heard that if you all stand on one side of the boat and jump up and down......."

[BComplex]

64. Love it!

[USALiberal]

3. I don't agree with the blocking customers. nt

[KentuckyWoman]

6. Cars are still getting in and out. Just not easily

They have to sit and wait 10 seconds or so for the flow of people to decide to stop to let them in or out.

[USALiberal]

9. OK, that is great! I hope the business learns a lesson. nt

[pandr32]

35. +1

[demosincebirth]

47. I guess you never manned a union picket line.

[GoneOffShore]

68. This about a thousand times.

[Sherman A1]

72. Precisely

[True Blue American]

73. :)

No, but I have refused to cross them! Stopped and made sure I supported hotel workers in LV. Some looked at me like, what?

I have a Union sticker in the window of my Buick and still voluntarily pay Union dues? Why not? They helped make my life easy and my late husband walked in those picket lines to get health care!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. HA! Around here things are pretty even, so hardly any of the businesses have any political...

signs.

Bad for business.

Locals know which farmers, lawyers and other business types have run for office or support their committees and just don't care as long as they don't get obnoxious about it.

[sfstaxprep]

7. They Figured Nobody Would Be The Wiser

Since it wasn't by their actual store, they figured it would just be another sign in a field. Glad that people were obviously right on top of it.

[CaptYossarian]

11. Are they just advertising a special on fertilizer?

[niyad]

12. Snort!

[AllaN01Bear]

13. when a sis was with the screen actors guild and a stuntwomans union,

she said that there were several things , one, stay on sidewalk. do not block driveways . do not interfere with other peoples comings and going. otherise ok. sounds like the demonstrators are doing the right thing. and one more thing, keep moving.

[BainsBane]

78. Strikes are stricter

because unions know how bad the consequences can be for their members. There is a ugly history of labor suppression in this country.

[George II]

15. What state is this?

Years ago when Linda McMahon ran for Senator against Chris Murphy, some nutbag in town put up five or six huge (5X12) McMahon signs near a bend in a main east/west state road in town.

They were close to the right-of-way and large, so I called the DOT. Within hours they came and removed them - on state property and blocking drivers' view.

They never went back up further from the road, so I assume the clown didn't bother going to pick them up.

[Blue_true]

50. "KentuckyWoman" was not a clue?

[George II]

52. Duh! Sometimes I just read the message, don't notice the poster's screen name! My stupidity.

[Blue_true]

55. I have done similar. It is just being human. nt

[KentuckyWoman]

56. Actually, I'm north of Cincinnati now.

Moved to be closer to family.

[Blue_true]

57. So George was right to ask what state. nt

[True Blue American]

74. Hi neighbor!

Southwestern Ohio!

[niyad]

17. Ohhh myyyyyyyy. Oooops! There is a junk store (owner's word) in the area that, briefly, sported

a very large drumpf sign in one window. This is a blue area of a red/purple county. Sign came down after about a week.

[Illumination]

26. Maybe there was no business...

[leftieNanner]

18. Really stupid for any business

To be so political. I went to an appliance parts store a few years ago, and when I saw the vile anti Hillary crap on his wall, I told him I wouldn't buy anything from him and walked out. For good.

[Illumination]

20. Agree & good for you! We need to use our dollars wisely...

[Loge23]

19. About that sign...

They're all over the place down here in FL.
Along a section of US 1, the signs, similar to your description, pop up every couple of miles.
I heard from a DEM activist that the signs have been brought by a wealthy donor - they're all the same: white background with the two names of the criminals in red and blue. It's a large plywood sign anchored by 4x4 posts.
Some have already been defaced. More to follow.

[StarryNite]

21. The response by the people...

makes my heart sing!

[XanaDUer2]

23. I never get companies that risk

Alienating potential customers

[jb5150]

25. Just want to point out ...

that in many cases, it's the a-hole owners of the business that put up those signs, the actual employees have no say in the matter.

[dchill]

27. It has always seemed to me that racists think...

...that everyone secretly agrees with them.

[onetexan]

29. this is in Kentucky? Bravo!!!

[LymphocyteLover]

30. this is Kentucky?

good sign if so!

[bucolic_frolic]

31. You really have to have myopia to mix politics with your business

You risk alienating almost half the people on a good day! Tone deaf owners.

[Ligyron]

32. Why bother to have secret ballots if everybody knows how you're gonna vote anyway?

What purpose do those sign serve exactly?

Is there one person in the US, hell, in the world who doesn't know who's running?

But once one goes up, then we're off to the races because any candidate wants to be seen as being supported by the majority of people. Peer pressure to vote a certain way and be "winners" like the rest of us I suppose.

Now local candidates for office legitimately need them for name recognition.

[Demovictory9]

33. My local store..truck parked out front regularly has huge trump flag flapping

I wonder if truck belongs to owner or employee.

Truck is shrine to trump with flags and stickers

[Upthevibe]

34. KentuckyWoman...

Thank you for this post. I hope that A LOT of people find another place to buy their garden supplies..

[Botany]

38. Lots of wonderful other nurseries, garden centers, and landscapers out there.

Betya this one sold burning bush, pear trees, privet, purple leaf winter creeper, along
with other non native invasive plants too. I will not mention them by name we also have
some really good mail order nurseries too.

[Roy Rolling]

39. Fight Back!!

Now is the time to make your voice heard. Boycott, whatever, just show the public there are dozens of Biden supporters who refuse to shop at a business that is looking to attract Trump supporters.

I avoid them like the plague, which is as much literal as virtual.

[nuxvomica]

40. Ironically, I just now got back from getting lawn signs at a nursery

For Democrats, though. Nice place that specializes in bonsai. It was set up so you could just drive through and pick up signs. They were all out of Biden-Harris signs when I got there which may be a good "sign" in this red district.

[PatSeg]

41. Really bad business

When will these people learn? Keep you politics and/or religion out of your business. It is really bad business, as you undoubtedly are going to offend someone. Who can afford to lose customers during these difficult times? Guess this owner will learn the hard way, like so many others before him.

[BigDemVoter]

42. That is just STUPID business practice.

If I had a store or anyting along those lines, I wouldn't put anything political on it, as I wouldnt want to lose business. I certainly wouldn't refrain from doing so on my car or at my house or online, but at a friggnig BUSINESS, it's quite dumb.

[Cha]

43. What a beautiful sight you describe, KW.

I hope who all was responsible for that stupid trumpence sign gets the message.

A lot of people don't agree with a Murderous Treasonous asshole as "president" & not everyone watches fox propaganda.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

44. Maybe hoping for a GoFundMe bailout from the cultists?

[dsharp88]

45. No offense, but how do we know this is true?

It could be real, of course, but we really shouldn't so quickly recommend this or any such open-ended post like this. There's no link, no pics, no attribution, no sourcing, no verification...

I'm not trying to throw water on the OP, but this could just be propaganda from someone unfriendly who will re-post later how dishonest we are for sharing this. This is a time to be extra-cautious.

[niyad]

58. Because we know the OP.

You are very close to violating a DU rule about insulting other posters. I think an apology to KentuckyWoman is in order.

[dsharp88]

62. I did say I meant no offense

I was just being cautious. I don't trust the other side, but I'm glad to learn the OP is reputable. I apologize for not knowing that before.

[niyad]

63. Like I said, you owe KentuckyWoman an apology. Since, as you say, you did not know the poster,

you had no foundation for assuming she was lying.

"I meant no offense", and yet, you posted something offensive.

[dsharp88]

67. I did the opposite of assuming. I questioned.

Are you telling me we can't ask questions? Discussion is the foundation of a free and open democracy, is it not? Look again I was respectfully questioning. I didn't assume. I said nothing offensive. When you pointed out the reputation of the OP, I was grateful to learn of her plausibility, and apologized for not knowing first. I look forward to your pointing out any errors I have made because I am willing to accept my falibility. Are you willing to accept that perhaps your initial inference of my comment was less than correct, too? So let's move forward working together because we have a lot of convincing of others far less intelligent than us we need to bring important truths to, namely the awful President we need to defeat in November. Fair enough? Good, and thanks because it's good to know that our side has concern for others. It's another great difference between us and them.

[KentuckyWoman]

66. I have trouble trusting

posters with low post count, joining right at presidential election time and tends to go dormant in between. Seems fishy as all hell to me...

But what do I know?

[Doreen]

46. I would NEVER put a political sign in front of or in my business.

I would want to stay in business and alienating some of my customers would not be part of the success of my business. Yeah, it would suck having some people who are idiots as customers but they would be customers.

There are businesses who lost me as a customer because they were stupid enough to advertise the shitholes they support.

[catbyte]

48. Ugh. In my area of Michigan, I've only seen 2 trump signs to about 50 Biden/Harris.

Lots for Elissa Slotkin, none for Paul Junge; many for Gary Peters, one for John James. Quite a few homemade signs saying, "Thank you, Governor Whitmer!" I love living in Lansing.

[Rebl2]

51. I have

seen no trump signs. Only Biden Harris. I am in a suburb of KCMO.

[greymattermom]

75. Which suburb?

I lived in Leawood for 30 years and kept quiet about politics until my next door neighbor put up an Obama sign.

[Rebl2]

79. Raytown

I don’t get out much these days due to the virus, but so far no trump signs, only Biden Harris.

[SCantiGOP]

49. Years ago there was a protest against a local meat market for a homophobic sign

This was in Columbia, SC. It was reported on the news that dozens of people were coming in and ordering special cuts of expensive meats, and then when they got to the counter they would look out the window and point at the sign and say, "Oh, never mind, I changed my mind." The owner refused to talk on camera, but they said they were now requiring people to pay in advance.

The chat room on the local TV station had dozens of people saying, "let's patronize this brave, Christian store," but two days later the sign was gone and............about two months later the store was closed.

BTW, the sign was the Old Testament verse about putting to death 'a man who lays with another man," so I felt that justified the guerilla shopping attacks.

[Captaindad]

53. Watch this and send it to every Republican

You're an American?

https://m.

[niyad]

60. Welcome to DU

[Duppers]

70. That was a great rant! But...

It'd only make repubs angry. The hopeless morons wouldn't ck the facts.

[efhmc]

76. Yikes. That is amazing.

Thanks and welcome.

[marble falls]

61. I do not spend my money with those who use the profits against my interests. I'm funny that way.

[SunSeeker]

65. They will soon learn freedom of speech does not mean freedom from disgust with your speech.

Really stupid business move too.

[samplegirl]

69. We have a jackass just like this in our town

He did it in 2016 with two huge bucket trucks backed into his greasy spoon dinner!

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[louzke9]

71. I SUSPECT,,,,

That sign is going to be a lot more costly than the initial fee they paid!

[BainsBane]

77. Stupid thing for a business to do

As you say, they deserve what they get.