The slow disappearance of "Trumpaltars"

It was on private property, so there’s that. I can’t pinpoint the date it all came down, but all that remain are three campaign signs supporting repuQ House and Senate candidates.

Everything's still up.
He's right on the busiest street in town 5 blocks east of downtown.
5 big flags. "Thank You Prsdnt T...", "Women for T", "T Won", and so on.
Then he's got at least 10 yard signs.
I know him personally. Typical smalltowner. He owns a tiny blacktopping company & thinks he's running Apple.
I guarantee he's never made with $80,000 of our retirement income, but thinks the "great businessman" had all the answers. Given how dumb he is, that he has an income at all should keel him satisfi with life.
But, no.

Good

I think too many of them are willing to brush off his criminality and immorality

I don't know why the altars are coming down, but somehow I doubt it's due to some revelation by GOPers that TFG is a grifter that dupes them.

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Here in East TN. There are also flags on trucks. There are fewer but they are not gone.

There is a large construction site ...looks like a big housing project..that has a Trump 2020 sign on their board where permits and such usually are. It is going very slowly. I hope there are serious problems. They have already rearranged the terrain dramatically. There will be flooding issues.

I'm in East TN too.

I agree we had a lot of Trumpaltars that may take awhile to melt away. I say melt because the wind and rain we are getting out here in the boondocks is enough to melt away and tear up any cheap materials. And Trump paraphernalia is nothing if not cheap.

But in my very sparsely occupied area there were 3 Trumpaltars. 1 came down right after TFG lost the election. Another came down about 3 months after TFG lost.

But the final guy up in the woods, which makes it hard to see, still has one. It use to be everything, flags, lawn signs, cutouts, banners and impeach Biden signs all over his front lawn. He's a pretty nasty guy so no one is surprised that he's holding on to his Hate God.

But now it's just one go Brandon sign. I suspect even that is gone now what with the heavy rains. I haven't checked because flooding is a problem with the bad roads around here. But I bet it has slid down his Round Up destroyed steep roadside. It costs to keep replacing those cheap signs.

we see ragged Trump crap and Confederate flags. Want to tell them they really do not respect those images, but really do not want to interact with them.

I am from GA, my great great great(?) grandfather was a Confederate soldier. Blount County was split during the war. I want to ask people with Confederate flags about which ancestor they are honoring....but again, do not want to speak to them.

I think Rogersville changed hands over 3 times and Franklin county, not a county anymore, didn't like the South and didn't like the North and seceded from the sucession. Then the Confederacy sent in troops to make them behave.

There's an old church up the way that has slave grave markers in the front of the cemetery. Most people in East TN were too poor to own slaves so I think they were buried there because they died on the underground railroad. It's not clear why they were so honored.

East Tennessee has always been rebellious.

I suspect he joined for the hope of food and clothing. Doubt he was even a landowner. He was my father's family. My mother's family owned land and had more money. My mother's brother made an effort to find an ancestor who did not buy his way out of joining the CSA, but he never found one. It was a source of entertainment to some of us. We are from Gwinnett County, GA.

Turned out my dad's family moved every year. Lived in a house owned by whoever they were picking for. And every year it was a different farm.

Telling and disturbing, turning a front yard into a sleeve on which to boast one’s idolatry.

A lot of time and effort went into that!

Clocked at 14,000 pilgrims per month.

https://archive.triblive.com/local/westmoreland/trump-shrine-in-youngstown-drew-more-than-14k-visitors-in-past-month/

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/5/7158371/lizard-people-conspiracy-theory-explainer

What do lizard people want?

World domination.
Where do lizard people come from?

Aside from people's paranoia, lizard people are thought to primarily come from the constellation Draco,

I suppose "disturbing" doesn't begin to describe it. Does it still look like that now and do people still come to visit?

Look at the people's shadows.They are different.
And where is the giant cutout's shadow on the house?
Not sure it gets as many visitors as it pretends to or that it actually looks like that.

Just that that photo was photoshopped.

In the video that giant cutout is on or near a concrete pad but there is no concrete pad in the picture. Also the video is shot on a cloudy day. The photo was supposedly a sunny day. I think the thing is real but that for some reason that picture was definitely photoshopped. Maybe someone wanted to make it look prettier. Maybe someone wanted to imply that there are crowds there during the summer.

Also that front porch is different in the video. It slightly wraps around the building in the video. In the photo it seems to not quit reach the corner of the building.

"hit the broadside of a barn"...

Hands still look tiny.

but these folks haven't gotten over the Civil War so I'm sure the trump signs will be up a hundred years or more.

(below from ~Feb13/14th - https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather-news/stories/super-sunday-snow-and-cold/2717538/)



I would think some of the earlier storms up that way may have buried the stuff.

increasingly harder to spot here in the northeast part of the lower peninsula (Michigan). All the rest are there, the Gadsden flag, Thin Blue Line flag, [email protected] Biden flags, speckled about with other Tea Party banners and such BUT… Trump is noticeably missing.

Unless they’re waiting for new ones to delivered?????

A bit more tattered I took that pic last spring just went by yesterday.

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are still a good many diehards with "Trump/Pence" placards on their lawns and businesses. However, I sense the hate and loathing for all things "librul" is still as strong.

in Broadway, VA. One house has a sign that says "If you're not for Trump you're Trespassing", along with a you-know-who-2024 (I try not to type his name or even say it if at all possible) and there's still one with that and a homemade "Let's Go Brandon", but for the most part they're gone. The egregious big homemade one next to the house of a Democrat (known, they had Biden plus all the local/state signs) that stood long past the election has finally been taken down. It was a real eyesore that I had to pass every time I went to the shelter.

has disappeared

Huge dump crap houses, I am sure they will NEVER come down. And a fews weeks ago I saw letsgob written in someone’s car in a pl.

That is good news but that's Connecticut. I would love to see this happening in Mississippi, Alabama etc

Come on down to the shore towns in southern New Jersey. There are five in my neighborhood, and in the summer there are no fewer than three erected on every beach day near the shoreline the beach where I go. To peoples credit, a lot of people walk by and shake their heads or make disparaging comments to each other, but it is extremely annoying to see the stuff and I don’t wanna tell you what I wish for these people while they’re swimming.

flag after TFG told them to get vaccinated.

And, for my own satisfaction, I flip them off every time I pass by.

Where a crazy MAGA is trying to unseat the incumbent republican (and one of the July 4th guests of Putin) senator up for re-election.

Thankfully!

As for Trumpaltars --- during the last election, there were two that I knew of (and saw).

There was the one on a very busy road that had a big homemade statue of TFG, dozens of signs, and even more flags, all put out at the end of his driveway as close to the road as he could get. They disappeared soon after the election.

The other one was in my neighborhood, but was "low key" for a Trumpaltar. It consisted of a giant TFG sign (professionally printed) and a very big American flag pinned to their fence that faces a busy road, and as many large and small flags as they could possibly fit on their property. However, someone STOLE the fence flag and that actually made me mad. He could put up as many TFG signs as he wanted, but nobody had the right to vandalize the display.

After every big storm here, fewer and fewer signs go back up. People underestimate the strength of bad weather. That's why global warming doesn't create a huge panic.

The flag-owner himself put up a sign saying something like "the person who took this flag doesn't deserve it, but you can keep it anyway."

Well that sucks.

Nice to hear from you.

I've never seen such an altar as you describe. I live in the Westville section of town which is pretty liberal and has a nice mix of folks, altho it isn't as integrated racially as we would like it to be. But we've been in our house for over 30 years and loved it as a place to live. My 3 grown kids live in very blue places, NYC, Boston area, Los Angeles.

Western Mass, the epicenter of the MAGA-variety of Massholes. As in your area, not that many Trump altars compared to other parts of the country, but the last one I knew about has been gone for about 4 or 5 months. They had a HUGE Trump banner on the side of their house, and had had other large banners flying over the years with slogans like, "Fuck your feelings, Snowflakes" and I don't even remember what all else. The last banner they had up was for Trump/Desantis 2024, but even that's come down down. (Maybe they realized Desantis is an idiot? Naaaah. That would have made them love him more.) Anyway, nothing new has gone up.

I also know some people who had pro-Trump altars lost business over them. The place where I've bought Christmas trees from since I was a little girl over 50 years ago, had a gigantic Trump flag flying when we went to get our tree in 2020. I would have left and gone elsewhere then and there except I had the grandkids with me and they were too excited to be there so I couldn't really turn around right then. But I made damn sure I didn't go back there this year. I did drive by and see the banner was down this year, but still - fuck those people. This is my own private war on Christmas.

Trump crap isn't going anywhere here. They revel in it no matter what! It's sickening. The local Republican party Facebook group's caption is literally "WWG1WGA"

It saddened me when my wife asked me the other day if we should not be registered as Democrats, because she is afraid of retribution.
Here in Ohio you must declare a political party and that is public information, to be able to vote in a party's primary.

She really fears that one day, the Fascist party will be making lists.

Here in Ohio the Trump cult is alive and well.

In a big way!