Local billboards feature GOP with Soviet hammer and sickle

[left-of-center2012]

Anne Landman, the liberal blogger and local author, decided to make a public statement about President Donald Trump and his recent meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin.

The sign some motorists probably have already seen shows the GOP on an all-red background with the "O" replaced with a Soviet-era hammer and sickle.

"I bought the billboard myself for a week purely out of my own level of outrage and frustration over Trump's secret meeting with Putin in Helsinki," Landman said. "The things he did and said, trusting Putin over the conclusions of all of our own country's intelligence agencies, blaming Americans for Russian cyber attacks on our election, making secret agreements, offering to consider handing Americans over to Putin's intelligence agents to be interrogated, it was just unbelievable."

Landman said she has since received numerous donations from others around town to expand the billboards for a few more weeks.

https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/local-billboards-feature-gop-with-soviet-hammer-and-sickle/article_7cff00a6-9224-11e8-820f-10604b9ffe60.html

[Achilleaze]

1. There you have it. These should go up around the country.

[Chipper Chat]

3. And in campaign ads.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Everywhere

[peggysue2]

25. They are going up around the country

In a variety of districts, thanks to the Mad Dog Pac. Which funds its resistance/protest efforts through donations and merchandise sales online.

This week they started selling 3ft+ Baby Trump inflatables, a smaller version of the UK's balloon. They've driven flatbed billboards in DC in endless loops every week and were scheduled this weekend for a giant plane banner--IMPEACH NOW--to fly over Atlantic City and shore points. They've also buzzed Jim Jordan's district with an appropriate RESIGN banner.

And the billboards keep going up. Good one on them!

[roamer65]

2. I love it.

[Bayard]

4. AWESOME!

This should be plastered everywhere. Brand them for what they are!

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Everywhere

[empedocles]

7. For openers, here it is suggested trump be addressed. in various ways,

as 'trump the traitor', traitor trump, key word being 'TRAITOR', etc, here at DU, and wherever possible. In the same repetitive way that trump uses crooked Hillary, fake news, etc. etc.

Pound the repetitive 'traitor' image home, incessantly! Just like the above local billboards.

[Achilleaze]

13. Traitor Trump has the resonance of truth

[ailsagirl]

17. The alliteration NAILS it!!

[certainot]

19. talking about repetition, limbaugh averaged one "trump" every 52 seconds in

8 1/2 hours of various samples

and its all good - great 'branding' from 600 radio stations 15 hrs /day

- limbaugh really should be billing trump, or putin. maybe he is.....

someone needs to put that symbol in rush's name too

[MagickMuffin]

8. We can do this ala guerrilla fashion

Print on adhesive paper and plaster them everywhere.

UPS has great blank labels for things like this. They are approx. 8.5 x 5.5

[magicarpet]

9. Not like your GrandMother's GOP....

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. This popped up yesterday..just in case you missed it....for $20

You get a baby t rump balloon and in so doing, maddogpac is setting up billboards....too



https://maddogpac.com/collections/all-swag

[Ponietz]

11. Got my t-shirt

[peggysue2]

26. Me, too!

Nice RESIST tee. Good quality as well.

[CozyMystery]

24. Where I live, I'd probably get shot at or run off the road if I had any of that stuff displayed.

I am not kidding. There is already a lot of gunfire out here in the country, and I don't want it aimed at me, my family, my dog, or my house and/or car.

And yes, it feels really awful to live in a place like this. All White, All Right.

My Bernie bumper sticker couldn't go on the car because of that. Instead, it is on my fridge.

I am considering getting the coffee mug, though. I wish they'd offer some other dog t-shirts, too.

[hedda_foil]

28. How about a nice GOP Treason Pack?

?v=1525707296

Just $40 for the whole shebang!

[tblue37]

12. How many Americans today even recognize the hammer and sickle or know

what that symbol represents? Unfortunately, our side continually overestimates what the voting public knows and understands.

[FakeNoose]

18. The hammer & sickle represent communism - that's the old USSR

Today the Russians have no communist laws or philosophy. They're actually closer to the Nazis now, as in fascism.
I really wish they hadn't resurrected this old symbol, they should have used a swastika instead.

Just sayin'

[oberliner]

20. The USSR had no communist laws or philosophy either and was a totalitarian country

It was basically State Capitalism.

[erronis]

14. And as an earlier thread poster noted, the symbol in the middle should be the swastika.

Perhaps emblazoned with crossed AK15s and russias current flag colors.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. Every act of resistance is helpful, but this is not that effective on modern age deplorables

If this was done in the 50's or 60's even, after a Republican President and others in that party were caught colluding with Russia/USSR, it would be devastating. Today, millennial GOP supporters have no memories of Communist USSR. They only see another white power, LGBTQ hating, misogynist, racist, regime to ally with.

[mr_lebowski]

27. Hell, I'd bet less that 30% of citizens even know GOP means 'Republicans' ...

[ailsagirl]

16. BEAUTIFUL!!

[triron]

21. Hey send some to our mayor in Albuquerque.

[Blue_true]

22. She should take out a copyright on that design.

That would be one nice bumper sticker or car window decal.

[Persondem]

23. Wonderful seeing this. Thank you K & R nt

[lindysalsagal]

29. And here it is. It's a beauty!

[left-of-center2012]

31. It's in the opening post

[Scurrilous]

30. K&R