When Joe Biden recently awarded Liz Cheney the Presidential Award for Outstanding Citizenship, we previously said, “whoever is the architect behind this is digging deep into a very dark place for our nation. The one thing I am certain of, is that as a country we need to be prepared for some very unAmerican activity in the next year or more. The Marxist and Communist movements within our nation are going to counter the 2024 election result with every tool in their playbook.”
The intent of the outgoing administration is to purposefully antagonize President Trump. The announcement to keep the USA flags at half-mast for 30-days to recognize Jimmy Carter is simply one more dig.
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Asked about Trump’s post at the Friday briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House would not consider reversing or reevaluating the half-mast plans. [LINK] The professional political left love their optics.
I immediately thought the half mast was for the Death of the DIMs. It makes me quite happy. I will celebrate that every day they keep it up and more. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Meanwhile, my flag will stay upside down until President Trump, our one and only true Commander in Chief, is back where he belonged four years ago, in the White House and the Oval Office.
The fact that he is having to run his people through confirmation again is truly beyond the pale. STOLEN ELECTIONS must be reconciled!
I have maintained all along, that my Flag is NOT upside down, the rest of the World is upside down, and my flag is rightside up.
I maintain that is still the case, except right now the World is real wobbly, as it begins to turn rightside up, hopefully completing the manuever on Jan 20th.
Mine has been upside down since the day they stole the election.
My neighbor asked me if I would turn it back, now that President Trump won.
I replied, if he makes it to January 20.
I did fly my TRUMP flag for a week after he won though!
Maybe Bill Clinton will croak, and it will have to be down anyway.
The response is very simple. The RNC should distribute little hand-held American flags to everyone attending the inaurgural ceremonies, where permissible.
Everyone going should buy 5 on Amazon and bring them in case someone needs one.
“Let’s see how it plays out.” President Donald J. Trump January 3rd, 2025
Let them do it and heap more stain upon themselves.
So can Trump order the flags raised the pico second he is sworn in?
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That actually would be very cool symbolism!
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Short answer: YES!
Yes. Why not. Who has said it could not be done?
I hope so!
It’s only dig if you accept it. Frankly I think it is silly to even register it. I don’t doubt that Sundance is right about the globalists fighting MGA and Trump every step of the way.
For these little softballs we need to collectively embrace their insults. Every time they want to play these games we laugh in there face and stick our middle finger up at them. Trump should tell a joke about Carter and we should laugh hysterically.
MAGA is a revolution, not a prayer for the past.
Exactly, its like the awards to Hillary, Liz etc.
They are just showing how petty they are.
The focus on the flag is not because its a symbol they revere, but because they know we and PDJT revere it.
I like the way they went and harvested his vote while he was in a coma.
They sure have a strange idea of good optics.
Jimmy was in hospice for almost two years. Do you know anyone who was in hospice so long?
i wouldn’t put it past the dems that he died right after election day,and kept him on life support until after the 20th.just so they could have flags at half staff.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
Yes we should mock their every move. They hate that.
My snark is done now….but for this….Suddenly libs are concerned about Patriotic Tradition and flag code or law or whatever it is…?
Here is another deeper thought…a more righteous one, if you will….
An American leader has died and gone to meet his Maker, the Lord God of all of us…we must remind the libs of that, too…we are also taught by the Holy Spirit, to ‘counsel the sinner’…and pray for them….and for Carter’s immortal soul.
What better opportunity? We have remains here on earth….the important part has moved on to a better situation…
Am trying to keep it in perspective…the flag issue is a distraction. RIP Mr. Carter.
God Bless America….
I’ll let you lead in prayer on that one… I need the restroom.
There’s nothing my prayer or yours is going to do to change Carter’s destiny. He made the point to have his half-dead carcass video-recorded voting for Biden. Nuff said.
Exactly, the Libs love to spit on and burn the American flag.
Maybe the rainbow flag should be lowered.
Something about flags at half mast make me feel MORE patriotic.
I add 10,000 more half mast flags, if I was responsible for the inaguration decor.
Eff them.
Naah, immediately raise the flag and declare a new day in America right after being sworn in. Then watch heads explode. Win-win!
Keep them at half staff. Just stuff the pole up their backsides as they go out the door.
That’s what they want.
Better optics:
The flag is at half-mast prior to Trump’s inauguration. The second he is inaugurated, it is ordered to full staff.
A perfect metaphor for the transition from Biden to Trump.
We have the winner!
How about we all raise flags the minute he is inaugurated… All across America.. flags raised everywhere
I wish President Trump’s PR people would flip the script on these vindictive leftists, and create a way to celebrate the flag at half mast. Bring attention to it in such a way that still celebrates America, yet reveres the loss of a President (even if he was the 2nd worst).
By beating them to the punch, so to speak, it would take the wind out of their spiteful sails.
It might be hard for PDJT to manage it, but IMO it would extinguish any “power” the half mast flag would have during this celebratory time. Just get it out there, outsmart them and move on to the business of the people!
Close the border, pardon the J6ers and Tina Peters, and show the Obiden clingers the door. Good Riddance!
Then sweep the White House for potential booby traps, wiretaps and cameras. Let the arrests begin!
MAGA🇺🇸
I wouldn’t put it past them to recruit sick people to come in and lick all the doorknobs! Yeah, they’re that low.
Experienced street/bar fighters know the fight can be won, before the first blow is struck.
You insult your opponent, his wife or mother, saying the most vile things, in order to trigger your opponent emotionally to “loose it” instead of fighting intelligently, with proper blows and keeing their guard up, they swing wildly, and drop their guard entirely.
PDJT, having attended a boys military academy, knows all about bullying, and tactics like this.
He will not let it “get to him” and we shouldn’t either.
Don’t forget to fumigate the Whitehouse for flea infestation. The Whitehouse went to the dogs after the stolen election
Agreed. Recently, PDJT has flipped burgers and hauled garbage. His pr man can handle the optics for this.
Tina Peters cannot be pardoned by PDJT. She was not convicted of a federal crime.
I think Trump should make his first act as President be raise the American flag up high. The sorry part of all of this is that the tradition of leaving the flags at half mast for a deceased former President has always been two weeks. This is just more BS by the Biden handlers. Joe wouldn’t have a clue by now when old Jimmy died. These people are even more ridiculous than I thought.
Seeing the ceremony with the medals given by criminals to other criminals, including the Satanic She Destroyer of Libya, I thought, perhaps, something good will come out of this…
Mr. President, once you took your rightful place, NO QUARTER GIVEN!
The Bible declares that Christians who receive Crowns from Almighty God, will place them at the feet of Jesus Christ. I guess Hillary, Nancy, Soros, and other traitors who have been given The Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden, can place them before our King Jesus and see what happens. Maybe He will give them the task of polishing the tarnish off them for eternity. Just a thought.
So what?
Being at half mast for the passing of a president, even for carter, is a symbolic position of honor and respect.
Relevance being that the hate America crowd keeps their political cadavers breathing long enough to use as props til their last breath.
Trust God.
Fear not.
That symbolic position of honor and respect is supposed to last two weeks. That is the rub.
Almost as bad as when Obama was President. He would constantly have the flag at half mast. It was his way of signaling that the nation was in decline. I just stopped flying the flag in front of my house all together. Didn’t want to play their game any more. Maybe I will fly it on the 20th.
Good idea.
Join me in flying your flag at full mast on January 20. There is nothing the corruptocrats can do to stop us.
I’ve never given ANY deference to the state run media ref. any of this. (Or our official government stance) This old AF vet flies his U.S. Flag as he feels like and as he pleases. It’s our country. Come take my old ASS! (You wouldn’t want it, it ain’t no fresh anymore…)
President Donald J. Trump at the Inauguration podium: “Now, Ladies, Gentlemen and assembled Dignitaries,… before I address the American people on this blessed, auspicious occasion of my return as POTUS number 47,… I ask that the Flag Master now raise our glorious and beloved American Flag to it’s proper and respected full mast position,…. Thank You!…”
Followed by “It’s officially a new day in America!”
Yes, this!
Followed by THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE!
Hm, for 30 days eh? They’re so freaking arrogant and never think about “how it plays out”.
One second after being officially sworn in he will order them raised of course, and as outhouse counsel said, cool symbolism. For them to think they can bind anything Trump does when THEY’RE NO LONGER IN POWER!
Sometimes they make it easy. lol
Also a good lesson. They will continue to act like they’re still IN power. They must be brought low.
That will be Job #1 starting on day 1 for AG, Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.
Sic’em good, guys,… they deserve it so. Please start with Biden’s list of Freedom Metal awardees, they just luv the spot light, so give it to’em Bigly,.. just after your Grand Juries indict the lot.
Then indict the Lawfare Gangsters.
And start rigorously enforcing the Communist Control Act of 1954.
Actually, their behavior is a goid reminder to us that they ARE, in many areas “still in power” and just because PDJT won an election, in no way can we take a victory lap, abd head for the winners circle.
WE, as in MAGA do NOT control either House of Congress, the Uniparty does.
WE, MAGA do not control even ONE if the 50 State Legislatures, Gover orships, etc. We have a couple of AG’s offices, in Texas, Louisianna and Missouri,…
And this is all because WE, MAGA do not control even ONE of the 50 State Republican Party Executive Committees, where all of the political power actually resides.
You’re right … As Bannon says, “They won’t stop until they’re stopped, by us”. We WILL do what we can do, but if that is thwarted or set aside, then…
How about several loyal sniper vets with terminal cancer, who are beyond help because they couldn’t get treated at the VA on time, while these Congressional turds played around in Ukraine…
But those still-functional vets … With a stack of hi-powered rifles and some good scopes, plenty of ammo, outside the Capitol. And painkillers.
“Bringing them low”, one by one. Until they’ve learned their lesson. Start with Schumer & Nanzi, then No-Johnson and Hakeem. Then Elias, Eisen, Garland, & Weissman.
Just confiscate Traitor BiteMe’s house and ALL HIS SECRET BANK ACCOUNTS, & the Corvette, give the proceeds to the J6 prisoners, put him in a doghouse on the WH lawn with dog food, and let him live out his days there, like the animal he is.
The half mast flag should have been flying upside down in distress for the last 4 years, as BiteMe has brought our beloved country to near-cadaver state during his illegitimate reign.
She is flying at full staff at our house, and will remain so.
I hope that the moment his hand comes off his family bible, he orders her full aloft everywhere.
At the Inauguration speech, President Trump turns sideways, gives a look to Bidung, and says “Ladies and Gentlemen, My Fellow Citizens, the greatest threat that the Republic has ever faced sits to my left”.
It seems to me that his very public reaction has drawn far more attention to the half-staff than would otherwise have happened. Sometimes there’s an advantage in ignoring snippy insults.
All anyone from his group (and he) had to say if the subject came up was, “Well, that’s standard procedure according to the flag code.” And then stop talking. Broadcasting that the critic got under his skin gives them greater satisfaction. A sense of success.
Sometimes I just don’t get it….besides that, maybe all flags should have been at half staff for the last four years. And Jimmy Carter’s governance was almost as bad as Biden’s. I lived it.
I do agree with a suggestion upthread – – somebody should get to raising a couple thousand half-staff flags at the inauguration and then raise them full staff the minute POTUS has taken the oath: In other words, our long national nightmare is over. Let the celebration begin.
IMHO, half-staff is appropriate for the exit of the monstrously corrupt Biden regime, given the number of American lives needlessly lost to their despicable, kleptocratic governance of foreign policy, economics, law-and-order, et al. Each and every one of the top 2024 election issues entailed lethal consequences over the last four years.
The Beltway rats should be happy they got PDJT, with his vision for unity; I personally want DS skulls on pikes…figuratively speaking, of course.
“…half-staff is appropriate for the exit of the monstrously corrupt Biden regime,…”
Yes, it is.
More of a literal girl, myself.
It would not surprise me to discover that Carter actually died on the evening of November 5th, 2024
He died on the inside sometime in 1977.
Speaking of dead people, are Pelosi and Biden going to be at the Inauguration?
The Bidens claim they’re coming. I hope they do, so after Trump is sworn in, he can turn to Joe and give Joe “You lose” laugh.
I doubt it. Their handlers are tired of propping up the dead.
It’s not so hard to imagine that. After all, the Whitehouse Staff and Budungs aides and handlers, have been spending the last four years at Bernie’s
Take the party out of DC so they don’t get the money from the celebration.
That’s a wonderful idea!
Take the Capital out of DC.
Shut it down and send the money to North Carolina.
The intent of the outgoing administration is to purposefully antagonize President Trump.
To ignore childishness is a classic behaviour modification technique. It works. Don’t take the bait.
Childish behaviour was NOT tolerated in our family. If left unpunished, it just got worse
We can only hope and pray that DJT will take advantage of this “flag at half mast,” signifying a death to be mourned. Reversing the death of a notable person to mourning the attempted death threat to America, our country, and it’s citizens, by a incompetent and corrupt individual , Joe Biden and the whole democrat party. He must turn the nation from a continual four years of mourning to our future of Hope, where a democratic republic will be restored and what the difference is between the two. I also hope he especially emphasizes that America and it’s constitution is founded upon Judean/Christian principles. What the Democrat Administration meant for our harm will be turned into the good of all. And that we can thank Almighty God for blessing us with the MAGA movement.
I frankly don’t see what the fuss is about. It is customary to observe half-mast for 30 days when a President dies. It really doesn’t matter where the flag is on inauguration day, at least not to me.
We are both celebrating a new President, and remembering and honoring a past one.
We won. They lost. Carter has died. The flag at half mast has nothing to do with Trump.
The swamp has NO class. They behave as if they’re a bunch of brats and bullies!
Because they are brats, bullies, and evil rats!!
I did think about this issue and came to the belief that Trump will invite the American SPIRIT to flow through him, to get his message from a LOVING, POWERFUL, WISE GOD . Trump has had plenty of practice channeling the American Spirit at all those Wonderful Rallies!
Trust Trump to give the Message from the American SPIRIT that founded this Country.
Stay in Prayer and ask GOD to bless Trump and this Nation as MAGA restores America back on course..
President Trump should just raise them at 12:00 PM on January 20th. IMHO.
Such childish behavior!
Change it at 1pm on Inauguration Day.
via Ace:
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius:
“I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter’s death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the “Bad President, good man” line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to drop some truth bombs, propriety at time of death notwithstanding.
Yes, he hammered a few nails on some houses for poor people. But that alone does not make one a “good man,” when the rest of the track record is so awful.
After Carter lost in spectacular fashion in 1980, he did not do what every other President before him did and retire to a quiet, private life. He could have farmed peanuts in Plains with Rosalynn. Instead, he bitterly engaged in active and public efforts to undermine the policies of the elected Republicans who came after him. He INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016.
Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents. Carter’s hatred of Israel bordered on pathological, and reeked of a sort of cloaked antisemitism that has become quite fashionable today. Somehow Jimmy Carter convinced himself that he was such an important and historic figure that he stood outside and above the U.S. systems of election and governance, even though no one other than the Yassar Arafats and Hugo Chavezs of the world asked him to do so.
Jimmy Carter was a bitter, angry narcissist who cloaked his lifelong, seething rage at the indignity of being body-slammed by Ronald Reagan (someone he considered lesser than himself in every regard) with that genteel “Southern gentleman” accent, vague scripture references and the occasional hammered nail. He purposely and vengefully wreaked havoc on America’s official foreign policy for decades and he INVENTED the concept of a meddling ex-President poisoning American political discourse. (In that regard, Obama has been Carter v.2.0–we have Carter to thank for that.)
Literally every aspect of the man’s self-serving public life was harmful to America, he knew that, and he did it all anyway because narcissists always operate like that–they cannot help it, and they can never admit fault. Carter’s “good man” image was a carefully constructed and nurtured illusion, one that he gladly worked with the corrupt media to maintain.
So please consider these factors before pronouncing “Bad President, good man.” Sometimes truth needs to be said even when some find that truth untimely.” …….
Adolf Hitler (whose writings form the basis for the Muslim Brotherhood’s charter btw) had a spiritual son. His name was the Grand Mufti. In turn, the Grand Mufti also had a spiritual son. His name: Yasser Arafat.
Carter insisted on including Hitler’s grandson Arafat in the Camp David negotiations. So much so, that the statesmen Sadat and Begin had to go behind Carter’s back to secure the historic Peace Deal. The Accords happened in spite of Carter’s best efforts to sabotage Israel and cripple the peace.
Real President Reagan: “The President promised that he would not increase taxes for the low and middle-income people, the workers of America. Then he imposed on American families the largest single tax increase in our nation’s history. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re “only” in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions, words, relieve our suffering.
Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
—American Rhetoric: Ronald Reagan – Labor Day Speech at Liberty State Park
Let her fly, boys!
The flag will fly at half staff for a greater part of the Biden Presidency than of the Trump Presidency. And this will symbolize the mess Biden left the country in and the mess Trump inherited it in to fix.
So everything is proper.
Solution – as the new President completes his oath of office somewhere in the background has begun acting on the new Commander in Chief’s orders and those half-mast flags get raised. Nothing the old Administration can do about that.
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a great deal faster than it does.
Trump is gonna have a “Trump Size: Yuge” flag rolling behind him at full staff. Watch. It will be epic
This will end with a massive egg on the face of the Trump haters. It’s simple: the flag will be at half mass during the inauguration, then Trump’s first act will be to raise the flag to full mast, reversing Biden’s hateful act and symbolizing an end to the disastrous Biden regime and the beginning of a new golden age under Trump. Some things are just too easy…
So what? After President Trump is inaugurated STEAMROLL THE DEMOs.
the symbol of my country is my continued faith in God almighty..they can trample the American flag these vermin, but mine flies high and that is what counts.
wouldn’t it be nice if people will go to DC and parade around the White House with American Flags. To remind President Trump and the rest of the nation looking: We know how to celebrate our patriotism. the death of an idiot dead president isn’t going to change that. If anything it will be a record memory why it’s so important that we get elections right..and make sure they are not stolen.
it might also remind President Trump: there are some things you are doing that are not in keeping with the reasons why we put you in the White House.
God Bless America
Eff them. Order them raised.
Congress could change this, no?
If it’s traditional for the flag to be at 1/2 mast for 30 days then so be it.
Do we want to throw out our traditions because demoncraps think that they can hijack them?
My flag will be flying at full mast on January 20…
Pro-ayatollahole fool Jimmy Crater was the seventh worst president in our history, right behind racist corruptocrat Woodrow Wilson, commie corruptocrat Obozo, commie puppet corruptocrat Obiden, pro-slavery corruptocrat James Buchanan, socialist corruptocrat FDR, and war monger corruptocrat LBJ…
Crater doesn’t deserve a month of mourning; a few days is more than enough respect for such a lousy president.
President Donald Trump needs to find a way to appropriate the half mast symbolism as soon as he is inaugurated. He could prepare an Executive Order to be signed immediately, directing that American flags remain at half staff for an EXTRA 30 days, as an act of mourning and respect for the thousands of Americans that have lost their lives at the hands of criminal illegal aliens during the tenure of Joe Biden.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“…they love their optics”
In reality, it’s because that is the only thing they truly control. Everything else is ‘fire and forget’. Only 1 thing in the last 10 years has stuck, the steal. And that is because the whole swamp wanted it. I believe there is a tsunami awaiting DC and the outer realm of the swamp.
That SCOTUS ruling is going to be the anvil that Trump hammers the swamp out of existence.
POTUS IS THE Executive. And, Trump is POTUS.
It’s not revenge, it’s a reckoning.
Half Mast for the death of Obama and Fu&& Joe Biden’s policies.
Good call.
I could be wrong. but I thought that half-staff for 30 days is standard protocol for Presidents and ex-Presidents. *
If not, then I’m still fine with it because for me it symbolizes the demise of the anti-American Globalists.
*Eisenhower Proclamation, 1954 https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/halfstaff.pdf
Who cares? Half-mast or not. Who cares? I just want to keep moving forward. It’s only an insult if you take it that way.
Easy fix is to send someone over to the WH at 12:01 PM and raise it.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6572/washington-flags-half-mast-inauguration
Great.
PDJT can have them raise it to full-staff at 12:01, signifying the country has been freed from JoeBama.
That’s greater optics than it being at half-staff.