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It's spontaneous. I have no control over it. I see a flag or banner emblazoned with "TRUMP" and *whoop*! Up goes my finger.
Does this happen to you too?
niyad
(120,591 posts)snowybirdie
(5,680 posts)When our cruise ship passed his house in Mar Lago
dweller
(25,209 posts)Theres 2 on the roadside on the way to my daughters house , both homemade 4x8 but with a professional looking printed sign on it .
Get the 🖕🏻 both ways 🖕🏻there and back
✌🏻
Bettie
(17,381 posts)Ok, yes.
There is also a muttered "fuck you".
SammyWinstonJack
(44,169 posts)yorkster
(2,506 posts)haele
(13,633 posts)Can't help it. Must be the arthritis.
PittBlue
(4,387 posts)I keep telling myself that I will stop but it's now an involuntary reaction.
sinkingfeeling
(53,201 posts)niyad
(120,591 posts)it every tirme I see it.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,816 posts)I scrunch up my face and try to drill, with said finger/s, a hole in my window glass.
Fuck you, you fuckers!
badhair77
(4,659 posts)carpal tunnel symptoms.
soldierant
(7,965 posts)magicarpet
(16,888 posts).... I generally issue a double bird flash - while mumbling obscenities.
Timewas
(2,315 posts)Every day
barbtries
(29,939 posts)i may not flip it off. usually i yell fuck you at it. but i do. there is definitely a visceral reaction.
i hate republicans for that, too.
MacKasey
(1,227 posts)Norbert
(6,597 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(219 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,777 posts)Hope22
(3,082 posts)And my state legislator lives a mile down the road and every time we go past it the birds go up! Its sad but reality!
S/V Loner
(9,137 posts)That an asshole lives there and nothing gives them greater pleasure than getting that kind of reaction. Now I just contemplate putting signs in their yard stating Here Lives a Nazi.
Blue Full Moon
(1,301 posts)dchill
(40,746 posts)And I used to be nice, too.
Evolve Dammit
(19,023 posts)alison_in_nc
(3 posts)SunSeeker
(54,007 posts)Every fucking time.
MissouriDem47
(52 posts)still has her Trump sign out. Every time we go past it she gets the one finger salute and a comment which includes a 4 letter word that starts with a C and end with a T which my wife hates.
bluescribbler
(2,266 posts)GF doesn't like it, but I ain''t gonna stop.
dreamland
(981 posts)I can't stop calling them arseh* every time I pass by those Thrump signs.
AllaN01Bear
(23,275 posts)La Coliniere
(1,048 posts)Its often accompanied with a fuck you, rot in hell, depending on who is riding with me.
MsLeopard
(1,285 posts)ShazzieB
(18,910 posts)To be honest, it's been a long time since I saw a Trump flag. But I definitely flipped off a few Trump/Vance signs last fall.
rurallib
(63,278 posts)and evangelical churches!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,984 posts)a kennedy
(32,287 posts)hurple
(1,328 posts)But if I see someone out in the yard I roll down my window and yell either, "traitor!" Or "nazi!" Depending on my mood.
MuseRider
(34,400 posts)I live in the country in a very small community. Sadly my road is filling up but still people with farms. The last house to go up was across the road from us with longhorn cattle. I have still not even met them but......the last remaining thing he put up with all the little thingies that are in the yard was an Amercan flag and a Trump flag. I almost cried on the way up to my house. When I got to my place where I am now I looked out and lo and behold there is a big cedar that covers the entire Trump flag even in a hard wind. Now I am just waiting to see what he ends up doing with it. I doubt he will be able to keep it up under President Musk.
mommymarine2003
(298 posts)When we were headed for Thanksgiving Day dinner at our older son's house last month, we saw a man waving a giant American flag next to the highway. I told my husband to calm down because what nitwit would spend his Thanksgiving all alone on the highway waving a flag. Sure enough, it was a Magat. Our younger son was in his car driving behind us. We had all been in good moods, and then this horrible man almost ruined our day.
WestMichRad
(1,871 posts)I cant stop it, its like a nervous twitch.
FUTSF!
Figarosmom
(3,250 posts)spanone
(137,655 posts)Rebl2
(14,920 posts)seen dumps flags around here, but if I did, I likely would do the same. I saw next to no political signs during the election season for that matter.
2 Meow Momma
(6,781 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,986 posts)...the Tr*mp salute.
KitFox
(74 posts)at the cultish mindset. I live in a blue state but my home is in a rural red county. Any direction I drive I pass huge outlays of Trump crap. One place has 12 huge Trump flags stretched out on the fences. Several other places have made these enormous wooden American flags but bastardized it with Trump and Take our country back on the stripes. One place made a giant wooden Trump Won sign and erected it right at a busy crossroads intersection. All of the other state and local political signs I typically see were removed shortly after election but these Trumpers leave everything up year round. Its pretty pathetic.
2naSalit
(93,293 posts)Just happens automatically.
DET
(1,729 posts)Fortunately, we dont generally have Trump flags or other offensive displays of Trump crap around here. So the finger stays put when Im driving. The only exception was on election day when a pickup truck sporting four huge Trump flags in the bed and multiple Trump stickers drove into the shopping center that I was in. My jaw dropped.
Having said that, the middle finger gets quite a workout at home on the rare occasions when I still watch the news. Its reflexive at this point.
Wiz Imp
(2,330 posts)Not just Trump flags - anything Trump. Finger is triggered immediately every single time!!!
MIButterfly
(9 posts)I thought I was the only one who did that! I don't do it so much anymore; I kind of feel like what's the point? I just shake my head now. I do wish they'd take them down already so I don't have to be reminded of him every time I go anywhere.
ailsagirl
(23,860 posts)and we don't see a lot of those signs
Picaro
(1,841 posts)It is virtually uncontrollable.
Blue_Tires
(56,553 posts)Diamond_Dog
(35,102 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,635 posts)Devilsun
(281 posts)ChazInAz
(2,802 posts)Repeatedly, driving to and from St. Joseph MO. On the way back, I popped into a place just south of St. Joe called The Flea Market. Along with the usual discarded crap and detritus one expects in such a place, a whole corner is dedicated to Trump Trash: garish flags, in-your-face hostile bumper stickers, signs, etc. I noted all the security cameras and refrained from doing what I wanted to do. Flipped the Double Bird and left, mentioning to the owner that I would never buy anything from a place that carried that stuff.
Susan Calvin
(2,147 posts)To my unfortunate across the street neighbors. They're also rumored to be crackheads, and appear to be financially unstable. Therefore I have bought a gun. Didn't particularly want to, but I did. I've already taken a couple of lessons, and my licensing class is Sunday.
BidenRocks
(947 posts)There are not any signs I see to flip off. I would in a hot second though.
We save our flippers for stupid drivers.
Trueblue Texan
(2,986 posts)And when it's a TR--P sign that's in the yard of an obviously impoverished person, I have to scream, "Stupid motherf*cker! How f*cking poor do you want to be?" It's mildly satisfying for now. Less satisfying will be watching the stupid mofos get even poorer under the coming administration. But if ever we required proof we have it now...you can't fix stupid!
Emile
(30,669 posts)DiverDave
(5,019 posts)Fuck em with a rusty chainsaw.
cannabis_flower
(3,853 posts)I slow down and point and laugh!
drmeow
(5,330 posts)Katcat
(375 posts)Found my peeps for sure 😂😂
maspaha
(398 posts)So happy to know there are others with this same reflex syndrome!
Bluethroughu
(5,941 posts)rainy
(6,231 posts)JMCKUSICK
(568 posts)GoodRaisin
(9,624 posts)COL Mustard
(6,964 posts)But when I do it, Im really really enthusiastic in my head!!!!
NNadir
(34,812 posts)tavernier
(13,277 posts)and I know the houses in our neighborhood with T flags (about 6 amongst several hundred homes). I walk on the side of the street of the unflagged homes but i cut a huge arc to avoid any contact with the T flag property, as if it was highly poisonous and make a I smell putrid rotting flesh face.
enigmania
(232 posts)middle finger because the area I live in... sheeesh.
rambler_american
(853 posts)feckijng time.
Goonch
(3,825 posts)UpInArms
(51,894 posts)Every time
JohnnyRingo
(19,392 posts)It's an eyesore in many ways. I didn't spend four years with a Biden banner draped across my porch.
I'm not going to fly a Fuck Trump flag either, because I'm not in junior high school.