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'Nobody wants to see this!' Trump vents fury over flags being half-staff for inauguration
(www.rawstory.com)
Jimmy Carter with one last middle finger at Trump π«‘
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In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," he continued. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.
So, as usual, wrong about basically everything- It will be the second time: it was already flown at half mast during Nixon's 1973 inauguration due to Harry Truman's death in Dec., 1972
And Nixion didn't have a public tantrum about it because Nixon had more class and was a better person than Trump.
And I don't mean that in a good way.
A more competent sort of villain.
Nixon also literally created the EPA.
I can't imagine Trump creating anything that has any positive impact at all.
And "half-mast" is a term only used on ships (that is, things that have masts). On land, where we have flagstaffs (a.k.a. flagpoles), the correct term is "half-staff".
In America.
Edit: it looks like it's time to school some Americans on English, a particularly easy task.
Let's start with the definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, descendant of arguably the definitive American dictionary, certainly one of the first, created by Noah Webster.
- A slender vertical or nearly vertical structure (such as an upright post in various cranes).
Now, from the American Heritage dictionary.
- A vertical pole.
Going farther field, from the Cambridge dictionary.
A pole that holds a flag.
Note that both the Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries list half-mast as related phrases.
Using a dictionary to prove two words are similar is not relevant here. The American terminology is half-staff not half-mast.
If you had done even some basic research on American flag ceremony and the terminology we use, you wouldn't be so confidently incorrect on the subject.
Oh, the irony, it won't be long before the flags are half mast for this very idiot.
He's old, he's senile, he's obese and unhealthy, and he's also in a very stressful position.
Y'all heard it from him first: no half-staff when he dies
Pretty sure we're all just going to break out into "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" like in Munchkinland when he dies.
I was thinking more like the Ewoks when the second death star blew up π€·
Yub-yub, bitches!
How have I never heard that!?
Ah la loo! Ah hahaha!
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub
Ah toe mee toe pee chee keene
G'noop dock fling oh ah
it was removed in the re releases and replaced with a bigger celebration scene and music, which honestly sucks compared to the original banger.
I mean in the UK when Thatcher died that song hit the top of the music charts.
There isn't a staff tall enough for the flag I want to fly for when that fuck croaks.
Fuck you asshole (Trump). Make you a deal... if you just go ahead and fuck off and die then we'll raise the flags and celebrate.
It's like a child throwing a tantrum because it's his birthday and not everything is about him for the day.
He's justa blob of pure unadulterated cuntishness really.
And all those flags should stay up when he himself drops dead. Hopefully soon!
I agree with the sentiment, but the flag should always be at half mass when a president dies. I don't care if we elect a literal turkey to the presidency. When that turkey dies, we lower the flags to half mast. It's a shame that Donald Trump doesn't see and understand that. Honoring the dead is important.
Why honour the dishonourable?
Just because Donald Trump doesn't understand how to properly honor the dead doesn't mean that we don't honor him. That's part of us living in an honorable society.
In my eyes he's lost that privilege. When he dies I'll celebrate
I'll begin while I lower the flag to half mast.
Agreed.
What whiny little baby.
Almost makes me wish I flew a flag just so I could fly it upside down and half mast.
Heyoo with that quarter mast dick he should be honored to get twice the mast action as is appropriate.