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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what "patriotism" looks like in wingnutland:
A Fourth of July parade float that depicted a figure standing outside an outhouse labeled the Obama Presidential Library has created a stir on social media and is also receiving criticism in Norfolk, Nebraska.
The float, in Norfolks annual Independence Day parade, was on a flatbed trailer being pulled by a blue pickup truck. The figure was dressed in overalls and standing next to a walker outside of the outhouse. The hands and head of the figure were greenish and appeared to be zombielike; the hands were pressed against the sides of the figures head. Miniature American flags were atop the float and on the truck.
Neither the float nor the pickup identified a sponsor; a sign in the windshield said it was entry No. 29.
Liz Guthrie of Pierce, Nebraska, took a photo of the float that has been widely circulated on social media and shared about 1,000 times on Facebook.
From where she watched the parade, Guthrie said she could hear the crowd laughing and clapping as the float passed by.
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This is what "patriotism" looks like in wingnutland: (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2014
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Typical Americans, almost half of this country would be OK with this...
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)4. Yep, about half this country lives in Idiocracy! n/t
Faux pas
(14,668 posts)2. The inmates HAVE
taken over the asylum.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)3. I'm so glad I live in "post-racial" america.
We are so fucked. There is going to be a truly hideous crack up.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)5. I think this country has some extremely troubled times ahead, far too many
are too stupid, too uneducated, ignorant and extremely hateful.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)6. Maybe they should secede.