Where Have the Flags Gone? — An Interesting Question
I happen to know the author of the piece at left from my business days.
Here are two related answers to his question:
1) The American flag has taken on a new meaning since the formation of the MAGA bunch, in particular, since the storming of the Capitol and the subsequent president pardoning of the hundreds of insurrectionists convicted in the attack.
Formerly, the flag meant pride in our nation generally, i.e., “Hooray for the United States, for the freedom it offers for its citizens and the good it does for all people around the world.” Now it often means, “Hooray for Trump and the modern Republican party, and screw the “radical Democrat left.”
Insofar as the flag itself can’t speak as to what its owner is trying to communicate, many people simply (and wisely) avoid the issue entirely and refuse to display the flag altogether.
2) Anyone who is unabashedly proud of what America has become under Trump has serious moral and/or intellectual defects. If you’re OK with broadspread racism, criminality, the rejection of science, cruelty, and the demolition of our relationships with former allies, you’re not a good person.
The words at left are a sickening reminder that there are still many millions of American idiots who believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of the U.S. medical establishment lied to them about COVID-19. After 50 years of faithful service to the American people, they think he made a U-turn and embarked on a mission to destroy the U.S. economy. Makes sense, right?
Some nations care about their future, and others simply don’t. That’s the only message that can possibly be taken away from what Denmark does to educate its young people.
This photoshop of Mount Rushmore depicts some of our nation’s fathers in a kind of embarrassed disbelief as to what’s happened to our country. Of course there’s no way to know exactly how they would react to this criminal insanity, but I would suggest they would be goddamned mad. 
There is a distinct irony about celebrating the Fourth of July right now, insofar as the United States came into existence purely as a rejection of a king with absolute power over the people.
I had to laugh at the ad here, as it speaks to our nation’s division between those who support and oppose the president.
The meme here speaks to many Americans’ thinking and behavior with respect to climate change mitigation. We simply tend not to embrace the needs of other human beings.
These people advertise: Energy from wind, generated right where you need it – that’s our SkyWind NG. The first independently tested micro wind turbine is efficient, quiet and Made in Germany.
While there’s no clear answer here, the preponderance of scientific minds through the ages have been and continue to be pessimistic, for the precise reason that Newton asserted at left.
I’ve noticed this all my life: mean people tend to have physical issues that make them appear older that their actual ages. It’s as if their meanness exerts a contorting force on their bodies, faces, hairlines, etc.
