What kind of person sports a "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker?

[Stinky The Clown]

I think it is exactly the same person who would wear an "I'm fucking stupid" sign around their neck.

On the way home today there was such a car. A ratted out Celica from who knows when with a white guy older and uglier than me in it.












The orange mambo was a wanker. Ledo's was the giveaway.

[Denninmi]

1. Ummm, scary ones.

The ones I see with far right wing propaganda on their vehicles usually look like they are not the kind of people you would want to meet up with in a dark alley.

[movonne]

11. The ones that write moran on their posters....

[Turbineguy]

2. A few blocks away

somebody flies the big yellow "Don't thread on me" flag on their house.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. I'm not sure but I appreciate the warning.

[Tom Ripley]

4. Herpetologists?

[drm604]

5. I drive past a "Don't Tread on Me" banner every day on the way to work.

I drive past a bunch of big estates on the Mainline in the Philly suburbs. (For those who don't know, the "Mainline" area is very wealthy.) One of them has that stupid banner, snake and all.

Yea, he's really being tread on. If he considers himself tread on, I'll gladly trade places with him.

[notGaryOldman]

12. Good point.

Same with the excreble "I want my country back!"

[Autumn]

6. Seems I remember under Bush a lot of Democrats liked

the Gadsden flag. Maybe it's come full circle.

[Warren Stupidity]

60. I don't seem to recall that at all. Perhaps some pictures would help.

[blm]

64. Dems flew Gadsden and actually UNDERSTOOD its meaning. "Fuck You, King George!"

If the Teabaggers understood the Gadsden they would have been hoisting it after Bush invaded Iraq. Don't Tread on Me represented the US as being a nation that would never strike another nation first, but, would strike BACK with fatal precision (like a rattlesnake).

The flag is anti-EMPIRE, not anti-government.

[Autumn]

68. Sorry for your bad memory.

Like I said, I remember DUers posting it here a lot under Bush. I even printed one up and put it on my car.

[Shagbark Hickory]

7. Must be nice to live in a blue state where a teabagger sticker is such a rarity that it prompts you

to post about it on DU.

I'm kinda envious. I must admit.

[Hoyt]

21. Me too. I'm surrounded by yellow flags and a house with the damn confederate flag on a main street.

One of these days, that confederate flag is going to mysteriously come down and burn.

It's disgusting.

[lumpy]

48. We were just commenting today how lucky we are to be "living

in this state". I'm afraid I'd do something to regret if I saw flags like that in my neighborhood.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Until recently, I would not have been ashamed of it.

I kinda like the saying----I feel like it could apply to me. I will stay reclusive and not bother anyone unless they piss me off.

Too bad that some wingnuts have ruined that saying for me.

[bayareamike]

9. It seems a bit hasty

to assume that anyone with the Gadsden Flag is a right wing nut...it is, after all, an important flag in American history. Perhaps that old man you saw was a retired Marine. I know a couple of retired Marines personally who are far from right wing nuts that own this flag.

[lumpy]

51. Unfortunately it has become as unpopular as the Nazi flag

since the Tbaggers have used it as their standard.

[hobbit709]

59. all the old Marines I know fly their Marine Corps flag not the Gadsden one.

[Warren Stupidity]

61. no sorry it is not hasty - that flag is the banner of teabagnuts.

[CAG]

10. I've got one at my workplace that's parked in a handicap zone... the irony,

of course, is that according to repukes that ol' federal guverment imposed the american disabilities act on those poor states and corporations treading all over their rights, but I guess that that particular trampling on of rights was quite alright to do according to this handicapped person.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Well here's President GHW Bush on signing the ADA:

"I want to reassure you right now that my administration and the United States Congress have carefully crafted this Act. We've all been determined to ensure that it gives flexibility, particularly in terms of the timetable of implementation; and we've been committed to containing the costs that may be incurred.... Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down."
Irony all around.....

[msanthrope]

One who feels that the snake makes up for a certain part of their anatomy. nt

[RebelOne]

14. I see nothing wrong with the flag.

It originated with the U.S. Army and Marine corps.

www.gadsden.info/history.html

[Eddie Haskell]

24. A navy man.

The First Navy Jack is the current U.S. jack authorized by the United States Navy.

[TorchTheWitch]

15. maybe someone who knows a lot more about the Gadsden flag

than you apparently do.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. I know the flag's significance.

I also know what the word "coopt" means.

Have a swell swim. :hi:

[TorchTheWitch]

34. so because the tea party co-opted it we should just assume

anyone that sports the flag or the saying from it after over 200 years of history must be a tea party asshole???

FUCK that. The fact that they co-opted it along with the whole absurd "tea party" reference is bad enough, the fact that after 200+ years of history on it's meaning should be flushed down the toilet and believing we should think of it now only in THEIR terms and that anyone that doesn't must be a tea party asshole is FAR worse. That's exactly what they want, and here you are helping them along.

[Stinky The Clown]

37. Sorry. That's a non starter and you know it.

No one sported that flag in recent times until the tea party did it. You can huff and puff, but that's the fact.










The orange mambo was the wanker. Ledo's was the giveaway.

[blm]

69. Not true, Stinky...a number of us here used it and encouraged other Dems to use it MANY times.

Do a search on Gadsden flag in the archives. Bartcoppers and DUers were pushing Dems to use Gadsden before Iraq invasion and, especially for its "Fuck You King George!" value.

[lumpy]

54. 200 years of history that 95 % of Americans dont' even know

shit about. The Tbaggers have flushed the flag down the toilet. It has lost it's original meaning.

[blm]

65. exactly...Gadsden = Fuck You, King George. Its anti-empire, not anti-government.

We would NEVER be a nation that strikes first...we would be a nation that only strikes BACK.

Anyone not flying the Gadsden when Bush invaded Iraq has no clue what the Gadsden means.

[DontTreadOnMe]

16. I created my username BEFORE the Tea party was invented

I wish I could change it now...

[BNJMN]

50. Suuuuuuure you did.

(narrows eyes, looks you up and down suspiciously)

[DontTreadOnMe]

70. Yeah, I'm a Hendrix Teabagger

all Purple Hazed on the current state of affairs

[nevergiveup]

17. Who said you were "old and ugly"?

I heard you were hot :)

[Rex]

18. Normally it means insecurity and a handgun.

[n2doc]

20. It's because he can't put a KKK sticker on his car

I always want to yell as these bastards "Hey, I see the Bush years were great for ya!" Because they always have some old, ratty pickup or sedan, and clearly don't have 2c to their name.

[livetohike]

22. An insecure and frightened person, who if you stopped

to ask him, knows little about the Constitution.

[CakeGrrl]

23. Someone who will vote for the same party who's keeping him from

being able to get a better car than the jalopy he drives.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

25. Ha, what's wrong with Ledo's?

I have fond memories from the late 70s/early 80s; then again, I was a clueless teen. Are they Teabaggers?

[proverbialwisdom]

26. Baloney. eg. Check out the Canary Party.

http://canaryparty.org/

Read about Mark Blaxill here: http://www.ageofautism.com
Read about Ginger Taylor here: http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/

Check out this: http://www.robynobrien.com/

http://inspirationgreen.com/ted-robyn-obrien-2011.html
Robyn O'Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a "Real Food" activist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a "typical" breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring.

More ...but computer issues. Gotta go.

[proverbialwisdom]

56. Previously, 19 doses before age 18, now 72. Who's healthier now?

Here's the post on the flag bya person I admire GREATLY:

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/06/american-moms.html
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Google site search popped this up,too.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/10/thank-you-mr-gadsden.html

“I want to sell drugs to everyone. I want to sell drugs to healthy people. I want drugs to sell like chewing gum.”
With those words former Merck CEO Henry Gadsden established the aim of the entire pharmaceutical industry more than 30 years ago.

- Diary of a Legal Drug Dealer ( http://diaryofalegaldrugdealer.com/preying-on-our-children/ )


Do you get that they don't care if our kids are over vaccinated? Do you get that?
Posted by Ginger Taylor at Monday, October 11, 2010

The issue is mandates.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/08/governor-rick-perrys-.html
Governor Rick Perry's Gardasil ‘Mistake’ Cost Girls their Lives

Reneging on Gardasil mandate in the Lone-Star State is an admission of guilt and should not be forgiven or forgotten.

By Leslie Carol Botha

RLog (Press Release) – Aug 22, 2011 – According to VAERS analyst and SANE Vax team member Janny Stokvis, Governor Rick Perry should have been aware and taken action on the mounting injuries from Gardasil in Texas before an attempt to mandate the vaccine.

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[KT2000]

27. What kind of neighbor flies

a "Don't Tread on Me" flag?? My neighbor for one and his beliefs are in keeping with the flag.
Once he told me that on Halloween, black children were bussed into his neighborhood when he lived in California. He said they got all the candy and the white kids hardly got any!!
I asked him where you would get buses for something like that.
He got all flustered and repeated that the white kids missed out on the candy.

He was a school superintendent before he retired. :crazy:

[pintobean]

28. Here's your sign

[ZombieHorde]

29. Republicans seem to like those stickers. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

30. someone whose walls are built with cannonballs. nt

[Proles]

31. People who think they're so individualistic, and could survive

on their own -- yet they don't realize how many services and other people they rely on.

Basically the opposite of the people who put those "Coexist" stickers (which I think are ugly in my opinion, but carry a superior message).

[Papagoose]

32. The Gasden flag is all over the place in my neck of the woods

The teabaggers seem drawn to it...but I doubt they understand the meaning behind it.

[Historic NY]

33. I know a state engineer with one on his truck.

[spanone]

35. asshole.

[BNJMN]

36. See them all the time here in Central Texas.

Actual flags in front of those ranches.
The kind where you see a few miles of fence, then a 10 thousand dollar gate
with a huge, expensive flagpole and a bright yellow flag 'Don't tread on me!'

Also, 'Keep the change, I'll keep my taxes'
at one of the VERY few state park parking lots, and etc etc.

Can't wait to leave this hellhole.


I was born here.

[Monk06]

38. What kind of person? A completely powerless lumpen proletarian who has been stepped on

all his life but is too stupid too understand that he
is a slave and the powerful people he admires are his
masters.

No greater a love hath the slave than the love he has
for his master.

[MilesColtrane]

39. The Gadsden flag was one of the United State's first.

Fuck the Tea Party. They have no right to appropriate our common heritage for their twisted, racist ideals.

[lumpy]

55. But they have appropriated the Gadsden flag and are using

it for their party symbol. So it's lost it's traditional meaning.

[Vanje]

40. God Damn! Well, I declare!

"Goddamn, well I declare! Have you seen the like?
Their wall are built of cannonballs, their motto is "Don't tread on me".

[Joe Fields]

41. I call bullshit. I have been thinking about placing one of those

on my vehicle.

But hey stinky, think whatever the hell you like. Have a quality day.

[Book Lover]

53. +1

[proverbialwisdom]

67. +2.

[TwilightGardener]

42. A complete tool. Invariably.

[Mendocino]

43. The same ones with

truck balls.

I saw a house the other day with a lawn jockey, (face still black) and a Gadsen Flag.

[Whats_Happening]

44. This is why Democrats lose these days --

Complaining about a "don't tread on me" bumper sticker? Totally understandable -- the Teabaggers are highly annoying in their brain-dead way -- so when I clicked on your OP, I was totally on your side --

But then when you lay into your invective against them, what do you say?

"A ratted out Celica from who knows when with a white guy older and uglier than me in it" --

As Steve Martin used to say, "exCUUUUUse me!" --- :eyes:

Let me apologize that most of us in this great country of ours have to drive around in low-rent vehicles like Celicas -- "ratted out" even -- how tacky! -- yeah, although we live in the best facsimile of the Depression after 80 damn years, still, we should all have more class, and drive new, well-maintained, "respectable" vehicles.

And let me also apologize about the fact that a lot of us may be white, and a lot of us may be old, and a lot of us may be ugly.

Can you say "liberal elitist?" I know you can!

This is why Democrats lose these days. The average person doesn't see the Democrats as the champions of the common man (as they should) but rather as a bunch of iPad-owning, arugula-eating, neo-snobby douchebags.

I'm Just Sayin'! :shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

45. We have no problem with shitty cars, old age or being white or fugly.

If you stick around, you'll see that.

[Whats_Happening]

47. I know a lot of you have no problem with it --

It's those who do (the same types who like to tell us that, where they live, "NO-one can SURVIVE on less than 100K a year") that grind my gears! I guess that's what caused me to comment!

[madmom]

63. I think you missed the point entirely...... the point I took away from this rant is....

he's driving a "ratted out" old Celica and still supporting the very ones who are making it harder for people to buy newer better anything, because they are oppressing the working class. The teabaggers are supporting the corporations/politicians that got us in this mess in the first place.
If you would bother to read the many many ops on this board, you would see that is the problem most dems have with the teabaggers. If being educated about politics and the real masters behind the right wing, is elitist, I guess we are pretty much guilty then.:shrug:

[DFW]

46. A guy who manufactures land mines? n/t

[BNJMN]

49. lool

[BNJMN]

52. Not sure they get out that often.

Even stupid wouldn't want to fuck 'em, I imagine.


OH! I'll be here all week.
Tip ya waitress.

[Codeine]

57. Damn. Hope you never see my ratted-out Corolla

with my ugly ass in it.

[court jester]

58. .

[proverbialwisdom]

66. Exactly! Great one.

[ThomWV]

62. Snake worshipers are the only people who come immediately to mind.