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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 07:52 PM Jun 2017

Does anyone ever flip the bird at a car with a Hillary for Prison sticker?

I wanted to so bad today - but could never catch up along side.

So ironic - Hillary for Prison - poetic justice that their candidate is so much closer to prison than anyone else.

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Does anyone ever flip the bird at a car with a Hillary for Prison sticker? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 OP
Sure! Turbineguy Jun 2017 #1
No, but I mutter obscenities under my breath. Arkansas Granny Jun 2017 #2
That's about all I do here, too. NM is bristling with guns Warpy Jun 2017 #7
I have to be careful here in the bible belt. My boss knows I'm a liberal, Arkansas Granny Jun 2017 #20
Every single time blur256 Jun 2017 #3
That's where I am from - but living in TX now. Last summer we saw a Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #8
Yep that is where i saw them blur256 Jun 2017 #21
Would love to see a US map - with preponderance of Trump signs. Can't the Hubble be reassigned. Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #41
Funny story blur256 Jun 2017 #49
I point & laugh.... Boxerfan Jun 2017 #4
You are so right - I always do that when I do something wrong and another driver is cussing me Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #10
I love that! Dulcinea Jun 2017 #16
Nope. For my own safety. Laffy Kat Jun 2017 #5
Yep. ghostsinthemachine Jun 2017 #6
where did that happen? Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #11
On highway 49, in CA ghostsinthemachine Jun 2017 #31
nope nope nope renate Jun 2017 #9
where do you live? Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #12
in a blue city in a blue state renate Jun 2017 #35
I want to, but I don't. Too afraid of some kind of altercation or violent incident. LesterKasai Jun 2017 #13
I don't feel like taking my life in my hands. Crunchy Frog Jun 2017 #14
Don't do that. People go to gunplay at the drop of a hat. Blue_true Jun 2017 #15
I do it all the time......even at tRump signs. a kennedy Jun 2017 #17
No. Dulcinea Jun 2017 #18
Tempted, but too many crazies and guns! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2017 #19
Happened today. Behind the Aegis Jun 2017 #22
A car was abandoned in our work parking lot oswaldactedalone Jun 2017 #23
Nope. cwydro Jun 2017 #24
Never saw one here in very red (but very genteel), senior heaven, but marybourg Jun 2017 #25
Maybe, if they look about 90. jalan48 Jun 2017 #26
I saw a "Fuck Trump" one yesterday. Gave the guy a thumbs up. Hope he saw it. Squinch Jun 2017 #27
Nope ProudLib72 Jun 2017 #28
It always makes me laugh when I see a sticker about taxes being too high DefenseLawyer Jun 2017 #29
No, but a guy in our neighborhood had one up during the election. Cattledog Jun 2017 #30
Only Where it won't be seen, for... 3catwoman3 Jun 2017 #32
Is it just those who flip off repukes or do the Doreen Jun 2017 #34
Good question. 3catwoman3 Jun 2017 #36
If I ran the risk of getting fined for flipping someone off GulfCoast66 Jun 2017 #37
Here in NJ... Books_Tea_Alone Jun 2017 #33
There are 100 million guns in this country and the guy with that sticker is telling you grantcart Jun 2017 #38
A hundred million guns?? What? Surely, that is factoring in like 5 for each of the "gun toters" ? Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #43
Estimates between 200 and 300 million grantcart Jun 2017 #47
Not here in Florida... Sancho Jun 2017 #39
My friend did - KT2000 Jun 2017 #40
No, but I can't pass one the local Southern Baptist churches that is sinkingfeeling Jun 2017 #42
Amen to that. It's amazing to me - all these analyst types who talk about Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #45
I try to use my energies interacting with people I might persuade struggle4progress Jun 2017 #44
Surprisingly, I haven't seen any. GoCubsGo Jun 2017 #46
No. I figure they might be prone to violence. nt Hekate Jun 2017 #48
I don't flip off anyone on the road anymore. Nothing good comes of it. VOX Jun 2017 #50
wow - how Zen of you. I never think that deeply - it's an instant guttural reaction :) Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2017 #52
Here in York PA the house next to a local public Elementary School has a sign that says "Hillary.... JoeOtterbein Jun 2017 #51
My Clinton-Kaine sticker on my rear window drives ALL wingnuts nuts!1 UTUSN Jun 2017 #53
Live in TX so not a safe option JCMach1 Jun 2017 #54
No, because the correct thing to do is... joeybee12 Jun 2017 #55
Here in Florida that could get you shot HAB911 Jun 2017 #56

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
7. That's about all I do here, too. NM is bristling with guns
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:06 PM
Jun 2017

and tempers are short this time of year in triple digit heat. I'm getting very Western, "Muevete, motherfucker!" has been known to pass my lips when the windows are closed.

I have been known to holler "SHUT UP AND DRIVE" to idiots weaving all over the road because they're on the phone.

Arkansas Granny

(31,484 posts)
20. I have to be careful here in the bible belt. My boss knows I'm a liberal,
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:27 PM
Jun 2017

but he's really suspicious of me since he learned that I accept evolution as fact.

We don't discuss politics or religion at work by unspoken, mutual consent.

blur256

(979 posts)
3. Every single time
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:01 PM
Jun 2017

Also at every Trump sign I still see in yards. Lucky for me I live in Connecticut and my new job doesn't take me past them anymore. But on the off chance I see one...

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
8. That's where I am from - but living in TX now. Last summer we saw a
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:07 PM
Jun 2017

bunch in the more rural areas between Hartford/Manchester and the shore.

blur256

(979 posts)
21. Yep that is where i saw them
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:29 PM
Jun 2017

But now I just have to travel to Litchfield from Torrington. Haven't seen one on that route.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
41. Would love to see a US map - with preponderance of Trump signs. Can't the Hubble be reassigned.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:18 PM
Jun 2017

Yikes - now that would be the perfect measure of intelligence pockets

Boxerfan

(2,531 posts)
4. I point & laugh....
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:02 PM
Jun 2017

Best approach but there will be the angrified & armed types...Oh well have to live my life & I find those idiots FUNNY.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
10. You are so right - I always do that when I do something wrong and another driver is cussing me
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:09 PM
Jun 2017

out - I act like it was funny and it infuriates them.

they used to have a bunch of flip cards for cars - that might be a good idea for Trump. Cards we can hold up like "guess who's going to prison now" !!

Laffy Kat

(16,356 posts)
5. Nope. For my own safety.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:02 PM
Jun 2017

I figure anyone with an anti-Democratic or pro-repub. bumper sticker has the potential to be dangerous.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
6. Yep.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:05 PM
Jun 2017

After I was chased for 20 miles because of my own anti Bush stickers, I watch that kind of shit. I flip em off, but not where they can see it.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
31. On highway 49, in CA
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:42 PM
Jun 2017

From Grass valley to Interstate 80.
My license plate frame said " my next license plate will be made by Bush and Cheney". Some guy, in a monster truck flipped me off, passed me, cut me off repeatedly, fell back and pretended to try to ram me, etc the entire way. We both got on the freeway, he continued, but then I pulled over abruptly, right in front of a CHP station. He continued down the road. I was scored, even as a big guy, driving a big truck.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. Don't do that. People go to gunplay at the drop of a hat.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:11 PM
Jun 2017

You may flip a bird, but end up shot at. Not worth the risk.

a kennedy

(29,467 posts)
17. I do it all the time......even at tRump signs.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:14 PM
Jun 2017

but it's always under the dashboard of my car if I'm in my car.

Dulcinea

(6,510 posts)
18. No.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:15 PM
Jun 2017

I live in Georgia, where there are a LOT of guns.

But I always look at the drivers of cars festooned with anti-Dem, anti-Hillary, and/or anti-abortion stickers. Overwhelmingly, the driver is an angry-looking, middle-aged white guy who looks like he last got lucky during the Bush administration.

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
22. Happened today.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:32 PM
Jun 2017

I was behind them as they pulled out onto the street from their driveway and I saw that sticker, and the NRA one, and the INFOWARS one,

oswaldactedalone

(3,489 posts)
23. A car was abandoned in our work parking lot
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:32 PM
Jun 2017

Taking up 2 spaces and it had one of those horrid bumper stickers on it. Sat there for three weeks before the property owner removed it.

There were 3 occasions where I worked late and was the last person to leave. I made it a point to spit on it each time.

marybourg

(12,540 posts)
25. Never saw one here in very red (but very genteel), senior heaven, but
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:35 PM
Jun 2017

outside on the main road today I did see an "I'm with Gabby" sticker!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
28. Nope
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:41 PM
Jun 2017

I don't feel like getting shot and killed over 20 cents worth of colored plastic with adhesive on one side.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
29. It always makes me laugh when I see a sticker about taxes being too high
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:41 PM
Jun 2017

On a rusted out $200 pickup truck. I just assume it's an eccentric millionaire.

Cattledog

(5,897 posts)
30. No, but a guy in our neighborhood had one up during the election.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:41 PM
Jun 2017

The guy across from him has since put up a "Black lives matter" sign which is still there today. The Hillary sign is long gone. But this guy has to look at the MLM sign every day which is Karma!

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
32. Only Where it won't be seen, for...
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:42 PM
Jun 2017

...2 reasons - my personal safety in a very red county (you never know who is carrying heat in their cars) and there is a $1000 fine if the cops catch you doing it.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
34. Is it just those who flip off repukes or do the
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:04 PM
Jun 2017

repukes get into trouble for flipping off Democrats also?

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
37. If I ran the risk of getting fined for flipping someone off
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:13 PM
Jun 2017

I would do it in front of a cop and hope they cite me for the offense.

Then I would sue them for so blatantly violating my 1st amendment rights and buy a retirement home.

Of course as a middle aged white guy with a good job and resources I do not have to worry about being shot or hauled off to jail and killed.

Books_Tea_Alone

(253 posts)
33. Here in NJ...
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:01 PM
Jun 2017

I have reported aggressive drivers or people on their cell phones by dialing #77 - of course I only report those I see with a T.rump or anti- Hillary car decal...

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
38. There are 100 million guns in this country and the guy with that sticker is telling you
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:15 PM
Jun 2017

"I have a loaded gun in my car and looking for somebody to shoot at"

And I don't care what state you are in. Its not a "I am a proud Republican" sticker, its "I am nuts and I am looking for a fight".
 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
43. A hundred million guns?? What? Surely, that is factoring in like 5 for each of the "gun toters" ?
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:21 PM
Jun 2017

right? I never in my life saw a gun or a knife - ever - until I moved from CT to TX

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
47. Estimates between 200 and 300 million
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:45 PM
Jun 2017

I have been in a house where there were more than 100 assault weapons in the living room

He came up with a new mount unit and bought the other parts (stock, trigger mount, barrel) and assembled them and sold them.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/04/a-minority-of-americans-own-guns-but-just-how-many-is-unclear/

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
40. My friend did -
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:17 PM
Jun 2017

she is actually not a citizen but her husband and son are American. She was driving and her husband was in the passenger seat enjoying the view - she kind of went semi-road rage and followed the guy until she could get next to him so she could flip him off. Her husband didn't know what was going on. It is that particular sticker that sets her off.

sinkingfeeling

(51,281 posts)
42. No, but I can't pass one the local Southern Baptist churches that is
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:20 PM
Jun 2017

extremely anti-refugee and anti-LGBT without giving them the bird.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
45. Amen to that. It's amazing to me - all these analyst types who talk about
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:33 PM
Jun 2017

all that BS - how both sides should listen to each and compromise.

That only works in a world where things are the way things used to be. They neglect to mention that to compromise you have to have a common goal.

In the past, Republicans wanted the same thing. It was a given. It was just in the details. Under Eisenhower - everyone wanted to help the poor, for instance. It was just a matter of how much and in what way. Our crisis today is that they don't even WANT to help the poor. In other words - we don't have the same ultimate goals. The biggest elephant in the room is that they are allowed to get away with ACTING like they want good healthcare for all. Bottom line, what is pissing them off is making sure that we don't help less fortunate people.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
44. I try to use my energies interacting with people I might persuade
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:29 PM
Jun 2017

When folk belong to some lunatic fringe, they're not open to rational conversation or adult disagreement

And waving my middle finger at them just won't change that fact

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
46. Surprisingly, I haven't seen any.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 09:35 PM
Jun 2017

I live in Joe Wilson's district. Even though Trump won here by a wide margin, I have actually seen more Hillary bumper stickers--not that I have seen many of either.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
50. I don't flip off anyone on the road anymore. Nothing good comes of it.
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 10:55 PM
Jun 2017

Not saying I don't feel anger on the road for various reasons, but...does it make the situation better, or worse? Does make me feel better? Is escalating rage healthy for anyone? Should I let some bozo spoil my day completely? Could it lead to physical altercation and/or injury? Is my anger, no matter how "in the right" it may be, endangering the safety of others?

I'm not some softie, I'm 6'5", cagey, and in good shape. But do I want to take a chance that the other driver isn't packing? Oversized pick-ups plastered with lunatic bumper stickers aren't exactly indicators of mental health or stability. If I see one, I just take satisfaction in knowing his guiding light (#45) will soon have his Waterloo.

JoeOtterbein

(7,698 posts)
51. Here in York PA the house next to a local public Elementary School has a sign that says "Hillary....
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 11:00 PM
Jun 2017

...for Prison" that looks like it was carefully hand-built to stand forever. Sick!

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
53. My Clinton-Kaine sticker on my rear window drives ALL wingnuts nuts!1
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 01:20 AM
Jun 2017

It's next to my Vietnam vet sticker, so they don't *dare* do anything.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
55. No, because the correct thing to do is...
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 07:11 AM
Jun 2017

Beep your horn and then flip them the bird...make sure the shitgibbons see your finger.

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