It's weird. I don't think you're reading too much into it.
I think there are a number of things at play here. They're figuratively fellating Trump, for sure. I think they may well believe they're "owning the libs" as well, the way some seem to wear Trump swag like "more of us wear this stuff to show our support for our guy than who wear stuff to show support for the other guy." They're also just broken toys.
All of these are for sure factors, and I do acknowledge them, but...I dunno. I feel like there's still a part of my brain that tries to hold onto a sliver of naivety, because the behavior objectively makes no sense. It's like, even though I know it'll likely never happen, I'm waiting for the GOP as a whole to have an epiphany and realize, "Hey, our leader is A) A Grade-A 🤬, B) literally hates democracy, and C) will throw us under the bus when we're no longer useful to him, and won't think twice on it." Nevermind the fact that they seem to
instinctively make excuses for Trump, which has to be so freaking exhausting at this point.
I almost wish I had a bull-horn to scream out to the GOP saying "Stop being bitches, stop allowing corruption to fester, grow a pair and do the right thing (or at least show something resembling individual thought)." I wish I had a similar horn for the "owning the libs" crowd so I could yell at them for being nothing but cringe and supporting people that are effectively attempting a coup, which will bite them in the ass later, if successful.
Again, I'm no fan of the GOP, because they ultimately promote ideals that tend to hurt me and the people I most care about, but I almost want to Bat-slap them to jump off this long-doomed ship.
I saw a house with, in order from left to
right normal,a Trump/Pence flag, the American flag, a "Don't Tread On Me" flag and a thin blue line flag. Sure, of note is those priorities, but the last two together made me mouth "what the ****."
I'm honestly not too surprised, and despite my previous rant have become somewhat desensitized to those specific instances. At the risk of reviving a long-dead, but still (imo) socially important horse, it reminds me a lot of the discussions both ont his forum and elsewhere in regards to BLM over the summer and fall. Primarily the fact that people (such as the owner(s) of the aforementioned property) don't seem to get that it's not hard for the "Thin Blue Line" to end up treading on them, with the victim having little-to-no recourse.
But, since it primarily happens to people they don't like, no lessons get learned, and they're willing to cheer on the people that hurt the "infidels" (for lack of a better term), in spite of the fact that the "infedels" tend to be other Americans with the same rights as them. And since they're also Americans the potential jump from hurting American minorities to hurting Americans in general is about as short as Craig Mack's music career.*
They were apparently also too patriotic to employ a level or measure when affixing the receivers to their house as the variation in heights stuck out like a sore thumb against the horizontal siding.
Something Something Owning the Libs by Hating Symmetry...?
*90's Rapper, accidentally jump-started Notorious B.I.G.'s career, music career basically stopped in 1997, dropped off the face of the planet from the early 2000's until news of his death came in 2018. Yes, that is legal name.
