Young Man In A Clunker Flying 3x5 Foot Confederate Flag

[TheMastersNemesis]

Was in Westminster, Colorado today helping with political canvass and a young man in his early 20's. drove by on a main drag driving a Jeep style clunker with a 3x5 foot Confederate flag mounted to it. I would imagine that he believes minorities and unions are the reason he has little money. Too bad he does not understand that the GOP is not on his side. The Confederacy had nothing to offer the country.

[napi21]

1. They used to do that in SC when I lived there.

The darn flags were almost bigger than their car! I moved from there in 1992, but it wouldn't surprise me if they still do that, and very proudly!

[GoCubsGo]

22. They still do that in SC.

There's some clown that regularly drives around my town with an old clunker pick-up truck that has three flag poles mounted in the bed. On them are the Confederate flag, another flag of the Confederacy, and the American flag (talk about not quite getting it.) Most people, however, just have bumper stickers or a front license plate with the Loser flag on it. (We only have a rear license tag here.)

[Jamastiene]

25. They do it here in NC as well.

It is truly obnoxious.

[VanillaRhapsody]

36. You should see one of their "Neck" Parades on Christmas day!

Its disgusting...

[Wounded Bear]

2. Well, they did take second place....

[Eleanors38]

3. And it MUST be a clunker; an oil-burner to be specific.

[Warpy]

4. I have to appreciate him for giving adequate warning

that a raving, screaming asshole is driving that vehicle.

I mean, really, I do appreciate the ones who tell you up front they're worthless.

[liberal_at_heart]

7. don't forget about the guns they have visibly swinging from their hips or on their backs.

They want everybody to know they have big guns, big trucks, and small penises.

[Warpy]

11. .....and no brains..

[Jamastiene]

26. Don't forget the gun racks in the back windows of the pickup trucks.

Almost all of them have those here in NC.

[xfundy]

5. My hateful, racist asshole KKK member uncle

once found himself lost. He recounted how a "black" man (he actually used the other word) helped him get back on track and towards his destination. Yet he still used the words when retelling the story, even though the guy helped him.

My uncle was an asshole. A big time, racist asshole. My father got mad at me when I refused to go to the asshole's funeral.

And yes, the uncle was once a Klansman. Fuck him. I wish there was a hell for assholes like him to burn in.

[xfundy]

6. I sometimes wonder if kids are doing this kind of shit out of rebellion.

Like, cuz they know it's bad and evil and are just trying to tweak the PTB.

I was the same way, wanted to piss of the folks by any means possible.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Notice to All South Bashers:

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Please note location of Colorado on a map. Thank-you.

[Bandit]

12. Notice the type flag he was flying.

Where was the Confederacy located?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. NOTICE THIS: QUIT BASHING THE GEOGRAPHCIAL SOUTH FOR POLITICAL CRAP THAT GOES ON

THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

AND

HAVE A NICE DAY.

[Fawke Em]

15. Yeah. What you said!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. SAY IT LOUD AND SAY IT PROUD !! ---

SO SICK OF THE SOUTH BASHING. REDNECKS AND DUMBASSES ARE AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. NO ONE ESCAPES THIS CRAP.

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. It's just that most states don't put the rednecks and dumbasses in charge.

It's not unique to the south, but it is perfectly clear in which states the rednecks and dumbasses are in power and in which they are simply embarrassing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. not for nothing but, congress and our political system as a whole is embarrassing. it takes two

to play the game. and if you don't think the general public is being played for a fool ...

[Egalitarian Thug]

23. It takes the appearance of two, and I think the vast majority of the public

are fools. I don't blame the ambitious for using that foolishness, they are ambitious, after all.

Look at it this way, where could an ignorant, illiterate, asshole like Perry (pick whichever IIA office older you like) be elected governor? Which states did you come up with? Solid red and/or solidly stupid, but not all southern.

What's the difference? How many plains states are lining up behind Kansas? Do you see Iowa or Illinois trying to emulate Wisconsin? Are the people of Washington or Oregon praising the Godliness of Idaho?

This is what is unique about the American South. They keep clinging to a false notion of a nation within the nation that is fostered and fed by the ambitious parasites shouting about "The War of Northern Aggression" they started and lost a century and a half ago. And the foolish Americans of the former confederate states buy it and love it over and over and over.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. dude, whatever. NOT ARGUING WITH YOU. A LOT OF THE SOUTHERN STATES were very close

in the past two elections. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE DIVIDE or not? IT WAS VERY CLOSE. as it was in a lot of STATES through out the country

we are on DU to support Democrats and that means ALL OVER THE NATION.

[Egalitarian Thug]

30. Sorry. That might be why you're here, but many of us are here to discuss.

DU is a place where Democratic political junkies and policy wonks come to talk about things, to share and argue various positions, ideas, and strategies, and to learn about the things we never hear or see from the TV/Soma machine.

I understand the divide, apparently better than you do. Of course I've had the advantage of living all over the country and finding commonality everywhere I've gone. You seem to be blind to the fact that the divide is created and sustained by people that are typically born and raised in the south and lack the will to learn about people in other places and from other cultures.

It doesn't matter what color jersey you wear, if you're a backward, fantasy based, fool, you shouldn't be allowed any power over others, period. If you really need to have the reasons why science and religion are not comparable or compatible explained to you, you have no business deciding anything for anyone else and your opinions are not equal to those formed through fact and understanding.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. Who are you talking to? all this YOU stuff? are you talking to and about the politicians?

because I know you are NOT talking DOWN to me like that. You have no idea where I have been and what I have done.

You do not know me like that.

[Egalitarian Thug]

40. Uh huh, right. Care to answer any of the actual points, or are you content

to misread/misinterpret one word and pretend that constitutes an argument?

Now, you be sure to let us all know when one of those "horribly maligned" states turns all liberal and stops dragging the nation further and further into idiocracy, ya hear?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

44. I answered all the pertinent points that I care to address in this thread. Have a nice day.

[Egalitarian Thug]

56. No, in typical fashion you didn't address any points, but spent your 13 replies whining

about how unfair it is for people to notice what a huge pain in the ass the southern states are and have been. The moron in Colorado just jumped on the bandwagon of evil that The South built.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

57. I made one post and, then you come in with your argumentative crap and eivdently you are now

mad that I won't argue with you. Sorry, but I am not arguing with you.

But, really - Thanks for counting. Good to know you can count to thirteen.

Now truly I am done with this thread.

Good bye.

[Egalitarian Thug]

58. I'm not angry at all, I'm just delivering what you were looking for with your first reply.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

59. I was not looking for anything at all. You assume way too much. and Yes, you give the appearance

of being let down, disgruntled and other wise a tad upset that I am not engaging you. Now then, reply one more time and you can have the last word because you also seem to be that kind of person, too. I could be wrong about that. Time will tell.

[cordelia]

28. Your final paragraph? Full. Of. Shit.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. AMEN

[Egalitarian Thug]

34. Nice of you to say so, but you forgot to make any argument to support your statement.

Care to explain why the former confederate states became a solid block for the Democratic Party after the American Civil War, a solid block for a century until Democrats forced a measure of equality and justice on them? Perhaps you can further explain why they are now a solid block for the republican party and have been such since that time?

[Nevernose]

29. Yep

You'd never find someone like Daryl Issa, Duncan Hunter, Arnold Scwarzenegger, or Ronald Reagan getting elected or having political power outside of the South!

[Egalitarian Thug]

35. Yeah, 'cause California is just like the south.

[Nevernose]

42. Granted, you couldn't pay me to live in Florida or Texas

I'm just saying that other states have their fair share of assholes. It's not my fault that California won't ever live down Reagan.

[Egalitarian Thug]

43. That was exactly my point. They're everywhere, but it is only in certain places where they

are always in charge, and of those places, it is in only one region that there is a consistent, solid conformity.

[Bandit]

18. Who in this thread bashed the South. I am a basher of the Confereracy and Proud of it

If that means the South to you then so be it....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. Did I say anyone in this thread was bashing the south? NO, I did not. Thank you and

Have a Nice Day.

[VanillaRhapsody]

38. Notice...when the South stops some of their shit....maybe that will happen

have a nice day...

By the way...THAT flag is the Confederate Battle flag. It's not supposed to be flown anymore unless of course you are still expecting "te South to rise again"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. I WAS NOT THE ONE FLYING IT and the war has been OVER except for people like you

want to continue hashing it out. NOT ME. By the way, take your condescending attitude and YOU have a nice day.

[VanillaRhapsody]

47. I lived most of my life in the South...my parents...one from the north and one from the south...

I happen to know a good deal about what i am talking about here...so you take YOUR attitude and put it where the sun don't shine....bless your heart!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

48. bless it.

it thinks it knows something.

[VanillaRhapsody]

49. It? She does....

[intaglio]

9. Bet it wasn't the actual flag

Most of these types fly the Southern Cross flag of the Army of Tennessee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

[Hoyt]

10. Those flying anything close to a confederate or nazi flag, are inbred, racist Aholes.

Even that damn yellow "don't tread on me" tparty flag qualifies.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. Hoyt, you and I are in total agreement on this issue although I would not have stated in those terms

[Hoyt]

24. Hey, we like the same music too. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. Yeah, we do.

[B Calm]

17. We have one of those fools up here in Indiana. He has an old pickup

and sits on the side of the road selling sweet corn. He flies that stupid loser flag out of his pickup bed up north here in Indiana and thinks it shouldn't upset anyone. I wouldn't buy sweet corn off him even if it was priced at a dollar a dozen!

[Blue_Tires]

31. The funny part is that guy didn't get the memo

the Gadsen flag is the newer, hipper version of the Confederate Navy Jack...Same meaning, but without the regional links or cultural baggage...

[polichick]

37. Saw the same thing in Va Beach recently - rickety truck, big ass flag!

[Go Vols]

39. Some do offer votes for Democrats,so there is that

[Heywood J]

50. Confederates for the black man?

Seriously? I mean, I don't doubt you, but... seriously?

[Go Vols]

54. Its real

http://obamaredneck.com/

[Prism]

41. I saw this in Chicago this summer

Now, I'm not one to argue Chicago doesn't have its massive issues due to the self-segregation of White Flight. But, I flew back in July to visit family in a southwest suburb where I grew up, and as I turned onto the street I grew up on, there was a pick-up with a giant Confederate Flag flying in the wind.

I won't say there isn't racism in Chicago's drawn and sorted suburbs of infinite whiteness, but that one took me aback. I'd never seen anything so overt there in my entire 30+ year life. Usually racism in Chicago's suburbs involves muttered slurs, social isolation, and light police harassment. But many working class and union people will at least declare social liberalism, Democratism, and tolerance. But the Confederate Flag?!

To pile injury on insult, I saw it as I was driving my boyfriend to my parents' home for the first time. Being a born and raised Berkeleyite, he's heard plenty about Middle America. And while I warned him against the general racism he might encounter, I was at a total loss to explain the Dukes of Hazard.

It was a very WTF moment. I still think about it and wonder. Was it a lone bigot, or had something shifted in the low-ordered racism duringg five years I've gone?

[Niceguy1]

46. I like to ignore them

And not give them the attention they seek.

[randr]

52. Losers flying their "born to lose" flags

Glad they identify themselves as such

[99th_Monkey]

53. I wanta picture! nt

[mike_c]

55. don't conflate the confederacy and the GOP....

The GOP was the anti-slavery party that kept the union together during the war of secession. Lincoln was the first republican president. It wasn't the same party then, but still. The Republican party had nothing to do with the confederacy. That would be the pro-slavery Democratic Party.

Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?

[madinmaryland]

60. No one is saying the political party of Lincoln is the same as today's party of David Duke.

And the pro-slavery Democratic party is now today's pro-Jim Crow Republican party. Funny how all that works.