All posts tagged "American Flag"

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced his plan to hoist the U.S. Capitol's flag to full-staff for Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, defying a national period of mourning in place after the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

Johnson released the following statement on Tuesday:

"Today, Speaker Johnson announced that flags at the U.S. Capitol will fly at full-staff on January 20, 2025. The flags were ordered to be at half-staff for the 30 days following President Jimmy Carter’s passing....

WASHINGTON — Democrats are asking who’s the treasonous one now that pictures have surfaced of an upside American flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — the Somali-born congresswoman who some Republicans have called “treasonous” and accused of being “a foreign agent” — is in disbelief that the GOP is defending Alito after his wife allegedly disrespected the American flag.

The upside-down flag that flew at the Alitos’ home in Virginia in the days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a well-known symbol of Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. A separate “Appeal to Heaven” flag — a banner carried by some January 6 rioters — flew at the Alitos’ vacation home in New Jersey less than two weeks after the riot, the Associated Press reported....

I receive e-mails from Mike Huckabee's PAC or committee or whatever the hell it is you run in the stage between having failed to successfully run for President and failing to decide if you're going to do it again.  The e-mails generally contain a couple of anecdotes or response pieces which read like your repressed relative sending you e-mails about people they hate, but refusing to curse and seeming all the more bile-filled for it.

I appreciate the motivation (and skill on the part of the artist), but if you're going to get an American flag tattooed on your face, you probably want to get it tattooed the correct way.