• pezhore
    100·
    6 months ago

    He should have respected the flag, like making it black and white except one of the strips is blue. Or by putting it on an article of clothing like underwear so the flag can literally go up your butt. You know, “respect”.

    /s

    • Brujones@lemmy.world
      401·
      6 months ago

      Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won’t care because you’re a ‘patriot’.

      Also /s, of course.

    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
      7·
      6 months ago

      My MAGA relative has an American flag bath towel. Nothing says “patriotism” like doing the butt-floss with Ol’ Glory!

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      like making it black and white except one of the strips is blue

      My favorite sticker is that “thin blue balls” flag but the blue stripe is peeling off to reveal the Nazi flag underneath. I wish I had the balls to put it on my car but I absolutely do not.

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
    74·
    6 months ago

    This is well-established law. A decision made by SCOTUS.

    Texas v. Johnson

    Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.

    So this is absolutely pathetic of the Trump administration. These charges have no chance of sticking. It’s just authoritarian bullying.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    Within the last day or so -

    Burning the flag, renaming DOD to Dept. of War, trying again to deport Kilmar Abrego, signaling they’re going to ban the COVID-19 vaccine, and attempting to sue California to prevent their redistricting while allowing Texas’ to proceed.

    Is this more of the gish-gallop that Bannon described that they’re pulling to overwhelm the news cycle so that a few of the bullshit things they’re pulling don’t get overturned, or are they specifically looking to push out some stories, like Trump’s obvious failing health, Epstein-related stories (inclusive of the latest on Gislaine), or possibly the redistricting one above.

    Ugh. They’re up to more bullshit than usual, but the signal to noise ratio makes it hard to discern what.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
    262·
    6 months ago

    Isn’t proper flag code to burn an American flag to retire it after it’s become tattered enough not to be a symbol of the US anymore?

    • Laser@feddit.org
      13·
      6 months ago

      The whole thing is super dumb, as you said, burning the flag is the proper way to get rid of one no longer for for display (imagine the flag hanging out of a bin or something).

      You know what’s also against the flag code? Plastering it everywhere that’s not a flag, like towels or whatever. But the flag code is only binding for government bodies if I’m not mistaken.

      But yeah, the whole thing is just stupid.

  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    6 months ago

    Didn’t we already have a supreme court case about this? Oh, right, we did. The arrogance of an executive order imposing intent of speech is just one more line of idiocy in the annals of this period.

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I’m pretty sure that happened around the same time that the supreme Court agreed that abortion was a human right as well.

      It would be crazy if they were to later contradict themselves.

      It would be even crazier if we didn’t all arm ourselves, practice and prepare for the worst knowing damn well that we could easily outsmart people that are dumb enough to support fascism on a battlefield that is inevitably coming our way.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    91·
    6 months ago

    We should all be joining him… They going arrest millions of us? We neee to treat this like the No Kings Day. This shit is beyond unconstitutional. I wonder if Trump is trying to get that overturned? Womder what his SCOTUS will do with this one?