And The Last Trump Sign Quietly Vanished.

Robo said:
Of course all of the Hillary signs are still up there proud as peacocks and their owners are still contributing to Madam Secretary's 2020 run, right? Oh that's right! Those signs all went in the trash in shame the day after the 2016 election, huh?
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PoliTalker said:
I live in a mixed neighborhood. We have seen political signs supporting both parties.

During the 2016 election campaign season several properties displayed Trump signs.

And even after the election, proud of what they supported, several Trump signs remained.

For months, even as his approval plummeted and the disturbing news oozed out of the White House like automotive fluids from a bad wreck, a few of the signs remained.

Some even stayed up for years. The neighbors here are mostly nice. None of the signs were vandalized.

One by one, the signs disappeared, until only one remained.

That has ended.

As news of the impeachment inquiry has dominated politics, the last Trump sign quietly vanished.

Looks like people are beginning to be over it. The pride is gone.

At last!
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Who do most of the remaining signs support?
 
Bill said:
??What is that??
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It's how we pay for the public library located in Marquette. Each township votes on whether to collect a millage (amount per thousand of assessed property value) from its residents to go towards the library. If your township approves it, you pay a slight bit more in taxes and qualify for an annual library membership. But if your township is filled with knuckleheads like the ours with the Trump sign, then they vote against the millage and your annual library membership goes up to $175/year per family. Our neighbors (she is a retired teacher) put up a pro-library sign four times at the intersection of our road and the main hwy going into town. Someone kept taking it. Welcome to TrumpLand.
 
Bill said:
:laugh::laugh::laugh: They also voted for & vehemently defended both McCain & Romney as well:laugh::laugh:
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Conservative showed genuine passion and worship of George Dumbya, Palin, and Trumpf

I never felt like Mittens or McCain inspired worship and devotion like the three stooges did
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
It's how we pay for the public library located in Marquette. Each township votes on whether to collect a millage (amount per thousand of assessed property value) from its residents to go towards the library. If your township approves it, you pay a slight bit more in taxes and qualify for an annual library membership. But if your township is filled with knuckleheads like the ours with the Trump sign, then they vote against the millage and your annual library membership goes up to $175/year per family. Our neighbors (she is a retired teacher) put up a pro-library sign four times at the intersection of our road and the main hwy going into town. Someone kept taking it. Welcome to TrumpLand.
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$175???? WTF That is crazy...

I rarely go any more but I will be taking the grandkids there as they have lots of activities, events, plays etc..

Something we kinda just take for granted..

The first free library in our county was here in Elk Grove & I use to visit it often before everything was @ our finger tips...

What do you go there for??
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I guess ppl here aren't too much into bumper stickers and yard signs. We saw a few in 2016. The only Trump one left around here sits at the end of a driveway leading to a poorly-aging trailer. The sign looks new and just says "Trump" on it, nothing else. The same place had a VOTE NO LIBRARY MILLAGE sign last year when that came up for a vote. Go figure. lol
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Libraries, public art museums, and national parks are anathemas to Trump-supporters

But spending trillions on an unnecessary and premeditated war of aggression on Iraq? Yep, they couldn't leap out of their chairs fast enough to line up in support of that
 
Bill said:
$175???? WTF That is crazy...
I rarely go any more but I will be taking the grandkids there as they have lots of activities, events, plays etc..
Something we kinda just take for granted..
The first free library in our county was here in Elk Grove & I use to visit it often before everything was @ our finger tips...
What do you go there for??
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I have never been in it; costs too much to join plus I can use the library at the university for free. Mr. Owl goes there a lot and reads history books.

If we had kids at home we would definitely join it despite the cost. I took my kids once a week to get and return books. Plus they had activities for the younger ones, like you pointed out. Story Time and so on. For some reason pre-schoolers who do not want to sit on the couch while mom reads them a story are perfectly content to sit in a group and listen to a stranger read a story. lol
 
Cypress said:
Libraries, public art museums, and national parks are anathemas to Trump-supporters

But spending trillions on an unnecessary and premeditated war of aggression on Iraq? Yep, they couldn't leap out of their chairs fast enough to line up in support of that
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As long as, of course, it wasn't THEIR kids going.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I have never been in it; costs too much to join plus I can use the library at the university for free. Mr. Owl goes there a lot and reads history books.

If we had kids at home we would definitely join it despite the cost. I took my kids once a week to get and return books. Plus they had activities for the younger ones, like you pointed out. Story Time and so on. For some reason pre-schoolers who do not want to sit on the couch while mom reads them a story are perfectly content to sit in a group and listen to a stranger read a story. lol
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Does he like any particular type of history??

I have been reading most recently about Spain, particularly northern Spain/Portugal, Galatia & the traditional Celtic roots as well as their role in the Arab conquest-NOT & the expulsions etc that followed..
 
Bill said:
Does he like any particular type of history??

I have been reading most recently about Spain, particularly northern Spain/Portugal, Galatia & the traditional Celtic roots as well as their role in the Arab conquest-NOT & the expulsions etc that followed..
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How interesting! He likes local history, engineering history, Great Lakes industry history, war history.
 
Bill said:
$175???? WTF That is crazy...

I rarely go any more but I will be taking the grandkids there as they have lots of activities, events, plays etc..

Something we kinda just take for granted..

The first free library in our county was here in Elk Grove & I use to visit it often before everything was @ our finger tips...

What do you go there for??
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Well funded, free public libraries say a lot about the nature and values of a community or nation.

I use the socialist public library all the time. I still read real actual books, and our corporate overlords would be astounded and irate at how much money Barnes and Nobel et al. are losing because my book reading activity costs me nothing
 
Hello StoneByStone,

StoneByStone said:
I've also noticed that the pride is dying out. People are starting to realize Trump isn't an edgy badass playing 4D chess. He's just an angry idiot who fails at everything. And now people are embarrassed that they backed such a low IQ snowflake.

But the thing is, Trump never had much support. He always had a small very vocal minority. The reason he won the election is because lots of people who normally vote Democrat didn't vote, thanks to Hillary, and the electoral college benefits Republicans. These two factors seem like they're going to get Trump reelected. We still have the electoral college and most of the Democrats running are absolutely horrible. So yeah, there are less Trumpcucks now, and the ones going down with the ship are embarrassed, but that's not going to be enough.
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Another factor was the Hillary baggage. A lot of the mushy middle just voted for Trump to keep Hillary out. We are not going to have Hillary next time, although there is a concern that the same effect could happen with Biden. That mindset is being swayed to think Biden is really dirty and the 'deep state is preventing him from being investigated.'

Amazing all the power they assign to this fictitious 'deep state' but then that same power was unable to keep Trump out of office.

There is also a very common belief that Cohen handed Trump the presidency with his poorly timed announcement that Hillary was being investigated one week before the election. It is unlikely that 2020 would be a repeat of anything like that event.
 
Hello ThatOwlWoman,

ThatOwlWoman said:
It's how we pay for the public library located in Marquette. Each township votes on whether to collect a millage (amount per thousand of assessed property value) from its residents to go towards the library. If your township approves it, you pay a slight bit more in taxes and qualify for an annual library membership. But if your township is filled with knuckleheads like the ours with the Trump sign, then they vote against the millage and your annual library membership goes up to $175/year per family. Our neighbors (she is a retired teacher) put up a pro-library sign four times at the intersection of our road and the main hwy going into town. Someone kept taking it. Welcome to TrumpLand.
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Voting against supporting a library is like voting against knowledge.
 
Hello Cypress,

Cypress said:
Libraries, public art museums, and national parks are anathemas to Trump-supporters

But spending trillions on an unnecessary and premeditated war of aggression on Iraq? Yep, they couldn't leap out of their chairs fast enough to line up in support of that
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Part of the problem with libraries is that there is a lot of science knowledge there. If you don't believe in evolution (Trump base) then you have no use for the library. Everything you need to know is in the 'good' book.
 
Hello TOP,

TOP said:
Our libraries don't charge fees to residents...in Michigan they do?
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Interesting.

We can have free libraries but not free health care or free college.

If we have free K-12 education that's OK, but try to make it K-16 and all of a sudden it's not free.

I think the thing that people are overlooking is that Education Prevents Prison.

Smarter people are less likely to end up costing us tax money to incarcerate them

Which is a very good reason to have free college.

It's either pay for their education and benefit to society or pay for their imprisonment and detriment to society, take your choice.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello TOP,



Interesting.

We can have free libraries but not free health care or free college.

If we have free K-12 education that's OK, but try to make it K-16 and all of a sudden it's not free.

I think the thing that people are overlooking is that Education Prevents Prison.

Smarter people are less likely to end up costing us tax money to incarcerate them

Which is a very good reason to have free college.

It's either pay for their education and benefit to society or pay for their imprisonment and detriment to society, take your choice.
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Make it K-16 and voc-ed...Good idea....no problem...
I've had students in school until they're 22 more than once;)
No "free healthcare"....
 
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