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Mother Nature weighs in on the inauguration...Flags remained at half-staff (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 20 OP
Yes! gademocrat7 Jan 20 #1
Yes!! That's perfect. Biophilic Jan 20 #2
Ha ha ha on Johnson! NameAlreadyTaken Jan 20 #3
And Mump! Cha Jan 20 #46
Don't tempt me to believe in God! nolabear Jan 20 #4
Climate change gods. cbabe Jan 20 #7
Well at least believe in thinkingagain Jan 20 #16
Leave it to a woman, eh? nolabear Jan 20 #18
Loved it! WinstonSmith4740 Jan 20 #19
Mother Nature ALWAYS has the last word. calimary Jan 20 #36
Womp womp. MontanaMama Jan 20 #5
A sign of hope? Think. Again. Jan 20 #6
Thereby marking the death of U.S. Democracy BoRaGard Jan 20 #8
It's not dead yet, just under siege. ShazzieB Jan 20 #27
It has been corrupted. OldBaldy1701E Jan 20 #39
It's for Carter and the former USA. The Madcap Jan 20 #9
The Good Lord has once prevailed. GreenWave Jan 20 #10
TY, Mother Nature, for honoring a great President, Jimmy Carter! SheltieLover Jan 20 #11
Seriously, what SANE person would even think to complain about the flags being at half-staff? SheltieLover Jan 20 #12
A Dem President would call attention to it, with a public thank-you calimary Jan 20 #37
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jan 20 #38
A timely lightning strike would be a plus Marthe48 Jan 20 #13
I'll take the win! colorado_ufo Jan 20 #24
Even Mother Nature Jilly_in_VA Jan 20 #14
Excellent! bif Jan 20 #15
I posted this photo on my Bluesky page. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 20 #17
Mother Nature MLWR Jan 20 #20
May she provide a sink hole under his feet. wnylib Jan 20 #45
Ashamed to say DENVERPOPS Jan 20 #21
I share that emotion. colorado_ufo Jan 20 #25
Agreed ufo DENVERPOPS Jan 20 #44
Godsmacked orangecrush Jan 20 #22
Bwahahahahahaha! GB_RN Jan 20 #23
This brings a much needed smile to my face on an otherwise... 3catwoman3 Jan 20 #26
at least they SAID the cords were frozen orleans Jan 20 #28
They're national heroes - so what's Dump gonna do, sue them? Talitha Jan 20 #31
The right wing God Squad may have to question just whose side their deity is on...... n/t DFW Jan 20 #29
note how it's mother nature et tu Jan 20 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Jan 20 #32
Divine intervention from Jimmy Carter! ananda Jan 20 #33
So the Flag raisers found a BS excuse Mike Johnson believes? KS Toronado Jan 20 #34
The Universe speaks. Joinfortmill Jan 20 #35
Great! arkielib Jan 20 #40
Good. Blue Owl Jan 20 #41
They don't take the flags down at night? LeftInTX Jan 20 #42
Is it kept lit up? BeyondTheVeilJack Jan 21 #47
Knr - andall the technocrats couldn't put humpty dumpty together! UTUSN Jan 20 #43

thinkingagain

(1,222 posts)
16. Well at least believe in
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:07 PM
Jan 20

Mother Nature😊

( there use to be a commercial years ago that said it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature)

calimary

(85,137 posts)
36. Mother Nature ALWAYS has the last word.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:24 PM
Jan 20

And a word of warning to the donald: Mother Nature will ALWAYS be bigger AND more powerful than you could ever dream of being.

ShazzieB

(19,319 posts)
27. It's not dead yet, just under siege.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:30 PM
Jan 20

I really do believe that. Democracy is in a life and death struggle with the forces of evil, but it's not over till it's over.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,105 posts)
39. It has been corrupted.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:37 PM
Jan 20

It can be fixed. However, we have to want to do it, not just give lip service to wanting things to change. And, that includes everyone.

Democracy cannot work unless everyone is playing by those rules. The constant trying to corrupt the system in the name of personal greed is revolting, insulting, and (quite frankly) treasonous, and should be treated as such from now on. Don't let anyone 'imbalance' the Constitution anymore. It has been, but it can be corrected.

I mean, once we remove the greatest example of what I just said and his flying monkeys from power, it can be corrected.

SheltieLover

(62,108 posts)
12. Seriously, what SANE person would even think to complain about the flags being at half-staff?
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jan 20

Imagine if a repuke keeled over and flags were at half-staff during a Dem president's inauguration, and the Dem pres-elect and Dem governors were all offended and ordered flags at full staff...

calimary

(85,137 posts)
37. A Dem President would call attention to it, with a public thank-you
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:29 PM
Jan 20

to those in whose memory those half-staff flags were honoring.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,401 posts)
17. I posted this photo on my Bluesky page.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jan 20

The GOOD Lord works in mysterious ways.

I am sure to guess that tRump will rake MAGA Mike over the coals for this.

DENVERPOPS

(10,678 posts)
21. Ashamed to say
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:27 PM
Jan 20

our Dem Governor here in Colorado has ordered our government flags raised to full mast for today.

In my opinion, Governor Polis has always been a little too pro-corporate for me, and a little bit too anti-common citizens for me

colorado_ufo

(5,973 posts)
25. I share that emotion.
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:07 PM
Jan 20

Let us take great pride in our super-brave and patriotic Secretary of the State of Colorado, Jena Griswold.

DENVERPOPS

(10,678 posts)
44. Agreed ufo
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 07:48 PM
Jan 20

you just have to wonder how many other counties voting equipment was breached by the right wing across our entire nation.

I don't believe her gang was investigating the machines for past election tampering, but were trying to analyze the hard drives/program for a way to alter the machines votes across the nation in the future......for anyone using those same machines. Much like EIS did with the 2004 election, but they RepubliCONs didn't have to steal the programming to the EIS voting machines, because the owner of the company was gloating, IN PUBLIC, over the fact that "He was guaranteeing W will win this election".....

Polis has made several decisions that grossly awarded corporations, and also totally screwed up this last year's Property Tax's Astronomical Increase. He tried to pull a fast one, with reducing our property tax bill by crediting us with a refund that we were already receiving, and I don't think in the end that he every truly reduced it to anywhere near an amount that didn't give the Government an unbelievable windfall of tax revenue for this and future years.......In addition, he was sneaky, and changed the percentage of residential taxes vs the commercial taxes. The Residential Taxes went up, and the Commercial taxes were lowered.....

Just another DINO.........

et tu

(1,923 posts)
30. note how it's mother nature
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:33 PM
Jan 20

who is blamed for all the fossil fuel climate change.
eve, mother nature, lady liberty et al
please stop making the female gender
be the bad one- so obvious it's fossil fuel
doing all of this

but i am glad the flags are at half mast-

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