Eric Allie for May 27, 2024

You’re an invented scandal.

From Wikipedia:The Pine Tree Flag (or the An Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution.

In the 2020s, the flag was appropriated by various far-right groups, Christian nationalists and Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign. It has been described as “a symbol of right-wing extremism” and a "banner of the far right.

We see you anti-democracy, un-American pro-facists.

Thunk. Did I miss something last week, I was on vacation for a good part of it?

We all see you and the rest of the maga waiving the 2020 American version of the fascist flag. You’re just angry that we point it out.

The leftists have seemed to have lost interest in saving Palestinians and Hamas, now they’ve morphed into Alito flag gate as their cause du jour.

Meanwhile, the economy and illegal immigration remain top voter concerns.

Eric Allie says libs are dreaming something up with no justification for doing so.

Was the Alito’s display of that flag simply innocent patriotism, or was it to send a direct message to a specific group?

‘What’s the Political Meaning of ‘Dog Whistle’? A message only some can hear. (Merriam-Webster)

The earliest, and still most common, meaning of dog whistle is the obvious one: it is a whistle for dogs. Dog ears can detect much higher frequencies than our puny human ears can, so a dog whistle is nothing more than an exceedingly high-pitched whistle that canines can hear, but that we cannot.

Yet there’s another dog whistle we’ve been hearing about lately: a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others.

Given that the term dog whistle has been around for over 200 years, it seems odd that it only developed a figurative sense recently. After all, it’s the perfect word to use to describe something that some people can hear, but others cannot. Yet it is only within the past 20 years or so that it has seen this figurative sense take hold. And it is primarily used to describe political speech.

If you want to cast him (Trump) as just a nativist, his slogan “Make America Great Again” can be read as a dog-whistle to some whiter and more Anglo-Saxon past.-Ross Douthat, NYT

Dog whistle appears to have taken on this political sense in the mid-1990s; the Oxford English Dictionary currently has a citation from a Canadian newspaper, The Ottawa Citizen, in October of 1995, as their earliest recorded figurative use: “It’s an all-purpose dog-whistle that those fed up with feminists, minorities, the undeserving poor hear loud and clear.”’

conservatives always need to invent some enemy they can shiver in fear from, and fear peddle to others.

Is that like waving woke to fascist far right maganuts. Notice I didn’t say republicans.

But waving the flag at the ignorant bull is so simple. And so reliable!

Allie believes invented scandals are bad?

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Does that include the claim that the FBI planned to assassinate Trump at Mar-a-Lago while he was in New York? And that assassination plan was written into the warrant recovering some of the highest classified documents that Allie’s Messiah had stolen?

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Or maybe the scandal about Hillary drinking children’s blood in the basement of a pizza restaurant built on a concrete slab?

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I repeat: MAGAts cannot comment on ANY issue without LYING. More proof in this cartoon.

Really? Sometimes you don’t even need a flag, all you have to say is "BENGHAZI!!! (plus any of a dozen red flags for the MAGA crowd).

Interesting how a man who has no say about how his wife flies a flag at their home can tell other women what to do with their bodies .

Allie … Dim-wit or Payne Stupid?

F—k you, Eric, you Nazi loser.

Invented scandal? The magats have the patton on those.

NPR has an article explaining how the pine tree flag got co-opted.

www . npr . org / 2024 / 05 / 23 / nx-s1-4977445 / the-long-history-of-the-flag-that-flew-outside-justice-alitos-beach-house

Allie fails to grasp the truth again.

Again AOC is right, progressives SHOULD be at war with the right wing extremism of today’s hyper-partisan Supreme Court. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Smith should be in charge of rewriting and enforcing new ethics guidelines.

In light of all this guess what I think is funny? The Maine state bicentennial flag. A state that is more liberal and progressive than California.

The Swastika was a Hindu symbol for good luck.Most people recognize it fir it’s appropriated purpose.

Symbols can change meanings.

I doubt that Alito was referring to it revolutionary War purpose.

How often was this flag flown over Alitio’s house BEFORE Jan 6th?

the invented scandal was trump’s dumbas claiming the FBI was sent to mara lago to kill him.

Careful where you leave that flag.

trump has been known to hump them like they were ivanka or something.

Invented. Yes, by Alito.

You want a scandal. I’ll give you a real scandal.Number of times Biden has posted about George Floyd – 34 times.Number of times he has posted about Laken Riley – 0.Why is that?

Bang your head against the wall all you want!

Invented scandals like Hunter Biden, drag queens molesting children, undocumented immigrants voting, Covid vaccines killing people and on and on?

What is the next outrage?

What about your hero Trump?

Hey Eric, your ‘man’ Trump is the master of invented scandals.