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UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:01 PM Sep 2020

Four signs were "gone"

On my drive back home tonight.

Three weeks ago, when driving down a particular stretch of highway, I saw large trump signs in several places. Many are just put in huge fields of corn or soybeans with no house visible. Others were in front of people’s homes.

I took note of each location, as this road and the properties are quite familiar to me.

This afternoon, I looked for the signs (as I generally salute them when I drive past).

There were fewer trump signs ... the most notable ones being those placed in front of people’s homes. My son queried me, making certain my memory was not wrong. I explained why I knew each of the missing signs had been there before. I am fairly observant of tractors, horses, recent building additions ... and who puts up those gawdawful signs.

There were many Biden/Harris signs along the way.

It made me feel rather optimistic ... I live in a very red area.

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Four signs were "gone" (Original Post) UpInArms Sep 2020 OP
Thanks for the welcome news!❤ Karadeniz Sep 2020 #1
On a drive today I noticed happybird Sep 2020 #2
I've been collecting them.... SergeStorms Sep 2020 #3
You should use them to decorate the inside of HuskyOffset Sep 2020 #5
Port-o-Trump. SergeStorms Sep 2020 #10
Observations in the Nashville area Ahpook Sep 2020 #4
May I presume that's a one-finger salute? Totally Tunsie Sep 2020 #6
good news Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #7
"as I generally salute them when I drive past" Maeve Sep 2020 #8
Whoooo baby. MontanaMama Sep 2020 #9
A person with a MAGA hat on their head? SergeStorms Sep 2020 #11
Okay. I admit it. MontanaMama Sep 2020 #12
Nowdays Squidly Sep 2020 #16
It is almost a visceral response for me UpInArms Sep 2020 #13
Progress is progress, I guess, but Warpy Sep 2020 #14
I think that ... maybe ... just maybe ... UpInArms Sep 2020 #15
My nextdoor neighbor has six Trump signs. LeftInTX Sep 2020 #17
I also live in a traditionally Republican district Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #18

happybird

(4,604 posts)
2. On a drive today I noticed
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:24 PM
Sep 2020

almost all the trump signs I saw were in small groups at turn-offs to side roads or on seldom used side entrances to farms/fields. There were in spots where those annoying junk hauler and real estate signs tend spring up overnight, like someone just slapped them up without permission in spots where it might take a few days for them to be noticed and removed by the county or property owners. Smelled kinda desperate, lol!

It was the same route I drove last week, and there were even more Biden/Harris signs up this time! Someone even had a large banner across their top porch. Nice! I also overheard someone in the group next to us at the game say, “Well, I used to be a republican.” Made my day.

SergeStorms

(19,193 posts)
3. I've been collecting them....
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:37 PM
Sep 2020

in my personal "Beautify America" initiative. Then I tried to recycle them, but the collection center said they didn't accept toxic waste.

Ahpook

(2,749 posts)
4. Observations in the Nashville area
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:41 PM
Sep 2020

and the Knoxville area as I am back and forth.

I see quite a few Biden signs and bumper stickers in both neighborhoods. Tennessee is probably a lost cause, though.

Maeve

(42,279 posts)
8. "as I generally salute them when I drive past"
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 11:10 PM
Sep 2020

I have noted an almost unconscious upraising of my middle digit as I go by sign that praise the orange turd.

MontanaMama

(23,307 posts)
9. Whoooo baby.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 11:47 PM
Sep 2020

Ya’ll are my people. I’ve used my middle finger more in the last 6 months than I have my whole 55 years on the planet....always at MF45 signs...never a person. Yet.

SergeStorms

(19,193 posts)
11. A person with a MAGA hat on their head?
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 11:54 PM
Sep 2020

I do it, but not in a way they'd notice. At 70 years old my pugilistic days are over, but I can't allow such an affront to go unpunished.

MontanaMama

(23,307 posts)
12. Okay. I admit it.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
Sep 2020

I’ve done it too...But like you...I’m not looking to get clocked. Those people are freaking crazy.

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
13. It is almost a visceral response for me
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:25 AM
Sep 2020

Thank goodness for electric windows ... I might need a shoulder replacement if I still had to crank my window down

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
14. Progress is progress, I guess, but
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:55 AM
Sep 2020

I'd be terribly afraid those signs were being pulled up because of Putin's bots spreading horseshit about the violent threat from Antifa that is breaking out all over the country, funded, of course, by George Soros. People, especially those on the far right, tend to believe anything they read on Facebook but not a word from people who use fact checkers.

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
15. I think that ... maybe ... just maybe ...
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 06:05 AM
Sep 2020

The insult to the losers and suckers in the military finally left a mark ...

We are so rural that the fear of antifa never registers here ... these peeps are all deeply entrenched in their god, gays and guns ...

But, almost every family has an active military or a veteran ....

Rhiannon12866

(205,183 posts)
18. I also live in a traditionally Republican district
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 06:16 AM
Sep 2020

And when my friend went to the site where they were giving out Democratic signs this past weekend, they had run out of Biden signs before he even got there. And the only Trump sign that I've seen was a sticker in the window of a pickup truck in the supermarket parking lot - next to a sticker of a skull and crossbones...

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