In SW Florida this week, I saw many, many boats go by proudly flying Trump flags.

[riversedge]

Yes, The Repug Party IS a CULT--a dangerous cult!

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In SW Florida this week, I saw many, many boats go by proudly flying Trump flags. However you feel about the guy in the White House, have we ever had a time in history where private citizens displayed FLAGS of our elected leader? This seems seriously weird.

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[Aristus]

1. Doesn't surprise me.

For me, 'Florida' is a metonym for everything sleazy, squalid, low-rent, and unsavory. I'm glad there's a continent between me and that state...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Well then we don't really want you, either.

:/

[obamanut2012]

43. yup

[DonCoquixote]

21. some of us are here fighting the good fight

dont toss all of us in a bin

[snowybirdie]

27. Thank you

Why do supposedly good Democrats generalize and hate everything attached to it? Florida is beautiful and a place where many want to be when the winds of winter blow. I thought only Republicans were that way.

[doc03]

34. California is also a beautiful state and

the Republicons hate everything California because it's a blue state.

[dustyscamp]

49. I wish you guys living in Red States all the best of luck in 2020

The Magats and Conjobs there probably make your lives hard and miserable 24/7. Hopefully a blue wave there will wash them away and force them to be more humble

[babylonsister]

33. Well that was certainly

lousy of you. Lots of good people live there, including me. Don't generalize; it's not healthy or accurate.

[A HERETIC I AM]

35. Except for me.

I'm a horrible person with no redeeming qualities, just holding down the fort here on the West side of Jax

[obamanut2012]

42. You have no idea what you are talking about

[Volaris]

50. What's the quote; 'florida is a sunny place for shady people.'?

[Cartoonist]

2. I can't afford a yacht.

And I vote!

[guillaumeb]

3. A rising tide lifts all boats.

And that rising tide is a catastrophe for those who have no boat.

[JHB]

47. That's because that metaphore is ass-backwards

Tides don't rise from the top down.

[guillaumeb]

48. Very true.

I never considered that part.

[tavernier]

4. I live on the water in the Keys

and I’ve never seen any.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. You must live in a classier area.

[Mc Mike]

6. Armada meets Storm:

"...
The intention would have been to keep to the west of the coast of Scotland and Ireland in the relative safety of the open sea. There being no way of accurately measuring longitude, the Spanish were not aware that the Gulf Stream was carrying them north and east as they tried to move west and they eventually turned south much closer to the coast than they thought. Off Scotland and Ireland, the fleet ran into a series of powerful westerly winds which drove many of the damaged ships further toward the lee shore. Because so many anchors had been abandoned during the escape from the English fire-ships off Calais, many of the ships were incapable of securing shelter as the fleet reached the coast of Ireland and were driven onto the rocks and local inhabitants looted the ships. The late 16th century and especially 1588 was marked by unusually strong North Atlantic storms, perhaps associated with a high accumulation of polar ice off the coast of Greenland, a characteristic phenomenon of the "Little Ice Age".[52] More ships and sailors were lost to cold and stormy weather than in direct combat.

...

In England, a medal was struck with the inscription "Flavit Jehovah et Dissipati Sunt", which translates as "Jehovah blew with His winds, and they were scattered".


Armada Medal, bearing the inscription Flavit Jehovah et Dissipati SuntThe wind that scattered the Armada has been called the Protestant Wind,[57] a phrase also used for later navy attacks favorable to the Protestant cause that were helped by the wind. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada

[TeamPooka]

7. We have a few boats in the Ventura Harbor marina that fly that flag too.

Everyone thinks they are idiots.

[packman]

8. SW Florida IS Trump cultland

Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, nice semi-tropical climate, and the reddest, redneck idiots (Matt Gaetz district) in the U.S. Many Democrats don't even bother to vote because they are so outnumbered they feel it's fruitless.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Perhaps when it comes to their Congressional District

they have a point, but as everybody should know, Florida is a swing state, so Presidential votes count big time there. Our job is to get that message out to progressive voters in that part of Florida.

I'm sure there were a lot of GOP voters in 2016 in blue states who said, "Why bother voting for Trump, Hillary Clinton is going to win my state's electoral votes, anyway?" Trump will be only too happy to remind them that he needs their votes, too, because this time he wants a popular vote victory as well as an EC triumph.

Fox News will do everything it can to rally Trump humpers in CA, NY, etc.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. good message! GOTV ...

Nearly 8 of 10 people in my area vote Red. I still vote. There will come a day when they fail to turn up, or more than 2 in 10 will awaken and vote blue. I want to be in on it.

[treestar]

15. I just can't imagine it

I vote in every statehouse election though the district is dark red (middle class, so incomprehensible, they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, I suppose). It lets them know what percentage don't agree. In 2018 they ran a Democrat, for once, and she got 47% of the vote, so that showed them it may be getting competitive. They won't know that if they win by a landslide when no one votes.

When they had not run a Dem, 17% at least voted for a Green candidate who ventured in.

When there was only the Republican on the ballot, I did a write-in.

[3Hotdogs]

10. The message is simple: "I got mine, so fuck you."

[Cha]

24. ".. fuck the whole Planet.."

[3Hotdogs]

25. Yeah, Republicans are ok with that, too.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Caused by swimming in red tide water, I've heard.

Results in slow loss of mental function, talking gibberish and displaying odd associations.....

Cured by drinking lots of blue Kool-Aid.......

[Demovictory9]

12. saw a guy in dark Blue Southern California with a brand new car - license plate referred to trump

can't remember it exactly.. something with "45" in it. This was only about a month ago

[Demovictory9]

13. Never saw an Obama Flag or Obama shirt.. at most people had those pins

during the election period. no one covered themselves from head to toe in Obama and waved Obama flags

[Dirty Socialist]

14. Of course they do

They can write off their boat purchases on their taxes. We pay for them. Sounds Socialist to me.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Trump has a special flag

Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

[smirkymonkey]

18. It's a sickness.

What is wrong with these people that they need to worship such a failure of a human being like Trump?

[rusty fender]

19. Isn't a Trumpass flag

the equivalent of a yard sign

Trumpism is definitely a cult, but the display of a candidate’s campaign paraphernalia is not unusual or new.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Flags are different though.

Typically they’re a symbol of a entire group, not of a single person.

Even medieval coats of arms were symbolic of an entire lineage or family.

[FloridaBlues]

23. SW Florida land of the red hats. No denying.

[dewsgirl]

26. Russian Nationals. 🇷🇺

[riversedge]

41. oink

[Azathoth]

28. Can confirm. LOTS of boat-owners are flying Trump flags

Including in states where Trump isn't popular.

Not sure how owning a boat = being as asshole Trumper, but there is definitely a correlation.

[LaurenOlimina]

38. Poor people don't own many boats...

...at least not the kind that go flying flags.

[coti]

52. It's what poor decision-makers do. nt

[EveHammond13]

29. this is meant to intimidate and terrorize

[madamesilverspurs]

30. Trump flags made in China, no doubt.

And the money goes into his pocket.

Not to suggest that he's profiting off the presidency . . .


.

[Eyeball_Kid]

31. Unrestrained capitalism is always a stone's throw away from fascism.

It's logical and inevitable. That yacht owners parade Trumpy flags is no surprise. They're cocksure that Trumpy butters their bread. But that's no guarantee that he's not lying to them.

Come to think of it, Trumpy is DEFINITELY lying to them because lying is Trumpy's bread and butter. Lying is the only tool in his toolbox.

[lunasun]

32. They are just displaying their economic anxiety . Have some sympathy and try to understand where

they are coming from even if you can’t relate to their 2020 choice

[doc03]

36. I saw a river barge on the Ohio flying

a huuuge Trump 2020 flag last week. Was at the mall today I saw at least 20 MAGA hats. The t shirt shop has about 10 different Trump shirts on display.

[Vogon_Glory]

37. A rising tide lifts all yachts

Bass-boaters, canoeists, and inner-tubers are left in shoal water.

[Volaris]

51. That's because they cant afford deckhands to pull up either anchors OR bootstraps.

We need to start soaking our rich, as an example to the rest of the world.

[Vogon_Glory]

53. BRAVO! You caught the metaphor and understood the point I was making

I was worried that too many readers missed it.

Good for you!

[empedocles]

39. Tribal thing also

[hauweg]

40. Ocean City is a hotspot

Apparently it's patriotic to fly Trump flags on boats.
https://www.wmdt.com/2018/08/one-local-mans-efforts-to-spread-patriotism-garners-response-from-us-president/

[appalachiablue]

54. Ocean City, Maryland- that's too bad. Great place and area.

[DFW]

44. Maybe by boat owners who think they can only afford their boats due to Trump?

If so, I hope they all hit a reef.

[Rrj45]

45. College student

It always trips me out when I walk around campus and see people proudly repping trump... yikes. That’s a red flag for me haha

[gopiscrap]

55. welcome to DU

[Greybnk48]

46. I played the video and saw exactly ONE Trump flag.

Nothing there to make me think there were "many, many."

But I agree it's a cult. The racists, bigots, homophobes, pedophiles, and misogynists have found their champion at last!