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This Saturday, June 14, is Flag Day, the day Americans annually celebrate our national symbol of freedom. Flags aren’t like mere corporate logos; they are potent emblems of identity, allegiance, and shared purpose. A nation’s flag reflects the history, values, and aspirations of its people. It encapsulates a country’s story of struggle, triumph, and sacrifice. It is, or should be, an almost sacred anchor grounding us in our loyalty to a collective ideal greater than our individual selves.
Flags unite people under a common banner but can also divide us, because they are rallying points that help identify who is with us or against us. That is why they spark fervent devotion or fierce opposition – and that is as it should be.
Over the last week, what the media like to disingenuously refer to as “unrest” has broken out in the city of Los Angeles (soon to be nationwide) to protest and resist the enforcement of immigration law by ICE agents, whom Left-wing media and Democrat politicians are smearing as Nazis hunting down innocent migrant families. Flags have become a heated flashpoint in that conflict, as rioters display them prominently to signal their allegiance to foreign homelands and their defiance of U.S. law.
Indeed, a CNN article titled “The Mexican flag has become a defining symbol of the LA protests” notes that demonstrators amid the violence and destruction have proudly waved flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries to show their alliance with the cause of illegal aliens.
The CNN article made sure to highlight Republican disapproval. Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, for example, told CNN’s Dana Bash, “They were literally out there protesting, carrying a foreign flag. That is absolutely insane. They’re not just peaceful protesters. These are illegals.”
Similarly, Vice President JD Vance posted on X Saturday that “Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers.”
President Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller described the protesters on social media as “foreign nationals, waving foreign flags, rioting and obstructing federal law enforcement attempting to expel illegal foreign invaders.”
CNN’s tepid attempt at a rebuttal was to make the diversionary point that “Waving a foreign flag – or even destroying an American one – is legal.” No one has said it isn’t. The reality that CNN wants to gloss over is that the rioters – not “protesters” or “demonstrators” – are using foreign flags to declare their defiant contempt for American law, culture, and national sovereignty.
“The flags mean their families. The flags mean their communities. It’s not about having an international invasion,” claimed Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, associate professor of Chicana, Chicano and Central American Studies at UCLA (as an aside: any university program that ends in “Studies” is not an actual scholarly discipline but a training ground for cultural Marxism and political activism).
Antonio Rodriguez, an organizer with the Brown Berets, a far-Left pro-Chicano paramilitary movement, similarly told CNN, “I don’t necessarily think just because somebody has pride in their culture that they’re un-American. Waving a Mexican flag, for us, is showing pride in our culture and our family.”
This talking point is demonstrably false. Masked rioters trying to kill law enforcement officers with bricks, rocks, and Molotov cocktails are not expressing love of family and community, but waging violent revolution.
Nobody has an issue with showing pride in one’s culture and family. But if you are or want to be an assimilated citizen in this country, the Stars and Stripes is your flag. Waving a Mexican or other national flag in literally incendiary confrontations with law enforcement, in defense of people who are here illegally, including felons, gang members, drug and human traffickers, and repeat sex offenders is a provocative, clear statement that you reject American law and order, you reject American values, you reject American allegiance.
This is all part of the broader reality that the Stars and Stripes is the only flag Democrats and their millions of illegal minions do not proudly wave. That’s because unlike the MAGA movement, they believe the American flag represents a systemically racist, uniquely oppressive and exploitative force in history, an illegitimate nation built by white colonialists on land stolen from noble indigenous tribes, one which can only be redeemed by being burned to the ground and “fundamentally transformed” into a social justice utopia.
And thus the Left demonizes the Stars and Stripes. “How I Came to View the American Flag as a Threat,” reads the headline of a TIME opinion piece. “Weaponizing the American flag as a tool of hate,” CBS wrote in 2023. On the Fourth of July, 2021, Black Lives Matter Utah denounced the American flag as a “symbol of hatred.”
But other flags are just fine and dandy. Remember in 2024 when Democrats ecstatically waved little Ukrainian flags in Congress after voting for a $60 billion bill to line the pockets of fraudster Volodymyr “Please, Call Me Churchill” Zelensky? In your wildest imagination, can you picture those Democrat leaders ever waving little American flags with such gusto?
Remember when the George Floyd riots teemed with Black Lives Matter flags and banners? Remember the ubiquitous Palestinian flags in the pro-Hamas demonstrations across American campuses in the wake of the barbaric October 7 attacks in Israel? Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib even has a Palestinian flag hanging outside her Congressional office. How is that not treasonous?
And then, of course, there are the LGBTQ flags. All across the country, blue-haired, nose-ringed, non-binary activists posing as educators plaster their classroom walls with various permutations of “pride” rainbow flags, grooming children into the anti-family cult known as gender ideology.
Remember when Chasten Buttigieg, whose husband Pete, astonishingly, is the Democrats’ leading potential presidential candidate for 2028, led an LGBTQ youth group in a pledge of allegiance to a pride flag? He had the children repeat after him as they held right hands over their hearts, “I pledge my heart to the rainbow of the not-so-typical gay camp. One camp, full of pride, indivisible, with affirmation and equal rights for all.” He wasn’t just being cutesy; he was intentionally subverting the traditional pledge to the flag of the United States of America to indoctrinate children into his perverse gender cult.
During Joe Biden’s tenure as president, government buildings here and abroad flew pride and BLM flags alongside Old Glory – a clear indication of his administration’s priorities and loyalties. In the days following Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, the State Department rightly rejected this practice and issued a “One Flag Policy” barring government offices from flying any flag other than the Stars and Stripes, which represents our “principles of justice, liberty, and democracy… shared by all American citizens, past and present.”
Patriots, this Flag Day let’s reclaim taking our nation’s symbol seriously. And let the Democrats and the foreign invaders they so vigorously defend show, by contrast, just where their true allegiance lies.
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This is a tough one…
We stopped flying our American flag some years ago. Because this is NOT the America we grew up in and it’s not the America our Fathers and Uncles fought for…
For years now… on the holidays… We fly the Gadsden Flag and before the election we flew our Trump flag.
To put out our America Stars & Stripes… is gonna require some thought. I can’t even think of a good reason to do so.
America is turning into a satanic islamic country… while our leaders are heading up the process, funding, aiding and helping satanic islam expand here…
Ugh… this brings tears to my eyes…
I fly the Betsy Ross, as the circular 13 stars symbolizes the genius & moral founding.
The “God, Guns, and Trump” banner flies next to it. 🍻🇺🇲
“… this brings tears to my eyes…”
Really? So you’re saying that it doesn’t piss you off and make you mad as hell? I question if you’re a real American. Americans don’t cry. We put foot to ass and give those mofos the option of leaving our country on their own or be forcibly removed in an urn if necessary. Either way, they gotta get the hell up outta here.
I’m a “real” American, not some frightened feckless weenie. What’s going on in America right now pisses me the f**k off and makes me want to hurt somebody–bad. But then I’m an old school macho alpha male. The kind of men that limp wrist liberals and soft & squishy RINOs and conservatives wants to get rid of.
You don’t know jack squat !
You think this is all about Mexicans ??? Wake up you idiot !!!
I’ve been “mad” for quite some while…
America was founded on Freemasonry… which is tied into the Illuminati, the occult… and satanic islam…
Compare the Shriner’s to the islamic Fez Hat and Nazism… all tied together…
You say… “Americans don’t cry”? “You’re an alpha male” ??? <<< That makes me laugh… I'm sure you're divorced and lonely…
Meanwhile… after "No KIngs" Saturday… give us an update on how many "Mofos" you stuck in the ass…
I could use some more entertainment from you idiots…
Don't forget to take pics… of your manly escapade…
Chump…
Wow, you do the gay joke thing just like Sebastion does. Very mature. Seems to go well the beyond stupid satan meme you indulge yourself in daily. Empty minds seem to think alike, especially when they are enclosed in a three year old cranium.
Just a reminder: Legacy Media, Democrat Marxists and Muslims practice Taqiyya (Muslims according to the Koran allow them to lie to everyone who is not a Muslim and for the Democrats and the Legacy lie to everyone else).
President Trump was prayed for by Thousands of minister at the National Faith Advisory Board, Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn prophesied over him at this same event and he prayed every day with Paula White-Caine during his first administration and now his present one.
Notice that the Democrats and the Left never, ever, mention that poor and violent countries can become as peaceful and prosperous, maybe even more peaceful and prosperous, than the USA.
If a poor and violent country chose to they could become like modern Japan in the 80s was. Soaring like the phoenix up from ashes.
They never mention that the Venezuelans deserve the Venezuela they voted for and destroyed.
It’s hatred of the good for being the good. They don’t want poor and violent countries to succeed and become great, they want prosperous countries to fail, America the greatest of all countries most of all.
“They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they’re after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man.” – Atlas Shrugged
I’ve said over the past 2 decades that their are cabals in this world that want to return the world to a time before America existed.
A time when liberty and freedom was restricted to a small ruling class and the mandarin class that served them. A time when ordinary people were under the dominion of a benevolent or malevolent sovereign or the slaves of psychopathic tyrants and their servile sycophants.
Burn a UN or Antifa Flag and lets see the reaction from the Dem-O-Rats
Burning American flags while waving foreign ones during a riot is an insurrection. They should be treated as such.
Can you imagine the reaction if someone were to burn a Mexican flag, a gay pride flag, a BLM flag, etc.? The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) would not be talking about free speech.
Burning the flag of the country they claim to hate while waving the flag of the place they refuse to own makes no sense, except these protestors are fools playing a part written for them by nefarious reprobates.
Doesn’t raising a Flag on the battlefield show that they are Victorious and that land now belongs to them? Aka… Iwo Jima?
In the ’90s, a University of New Mexico Mexican student group took down the U.S. Flag and raised the Mexican flag. To them, it’s now their land, Atzlan, they won the battle. A former U.S. Soldier saw this, took down their flag, and torn it to pieces. GUESS WHO GOT IN TROUBLE? Every year there is a Welcome Back Days the first week of school with the Atzlan group demanding their land back.
Now, TheRedNation.org, who started the anti-Columbus crusade at UNM, now National with Indigenous People’s Day, is in Solidarity with them as well as protesting against Israel and their stolen land. Look up Red Nation, a real Communist group that admits it in the Mission Statement they took down.
Turning Point USA was also there with a chart “Would you move out of the USA if Trump Won?” 75% YES! I walked by and mentioned that Cuba would be perfect. “No Election hassles there. One man runs, one man gets 100% of the vote. Free Healthcare but you better join The Party to get the better healthcare. Everyone equal… equally poor… unless you’re in The Party. Join The Party. I know you all like Free stuff so I’m offering FREE INNER TUBES and bus tickets to Key West where you can be the First, you love Firsts too, to be the First to FLOAT TO CUBA! VIVA CHE!” (A member of the CPUSA/NM was offering free bus tickets to Canada if Bush won. He was then on campus offering tickets. I went up to him… “You first Paul. You first. Nope, he’s still here.)
THEY CAN BURN THE U.S. FLAG, which SCOTUS ruled as being Free Speech. What if I burned a Mexican flag? Hate Speech? Hate Crime? I know I’d be killed. “He deserved it!”
Excellent post.
Drama-queen leftists required retribution for the same thing they enthusiasticly practice.
For burning a pride flag, Adolfo Martinez got 15 years.
For attempting to burn down the O. Hatfield Courthouse with people barred inside, AntiFa goon, Joseph Ybarra got aquittal.
Remember, that it had become so ubiquitous for leftist pricks to surround & accost conservatives (Tomi Lauren, Sen. Cruz & Sen. Paul being most notable), that DNC operatives staged the “fake bombs” stunt in Oct 2018.
Liberals mailed fake pipe-bombs to themselves to take attention off all the attacks on MAGA supporters, and help Democrats in the midterm elections.
(The DNC apparently liked the results, so they planted two more fake bombs to aid the Jan 6th set-up.)
Democrats are ALL TRAITORS. THEY STAND AGAINST GOD, TAX PAYING CITIZENS and ALL HUMANITY. OPPOSING TAX PAYERS, THE PEOPLE PAYING YOU, YOUR BOSSES, IS TGE ULTIMATE ACT OF TREASON. OUR CONSTITUTION SPECIFICALLY SAYS “VIOLATORS of OATH and/or CONSTITUTION, MUST BE IMMEDIATELY REMOVED.” Not maybe, not sometimes, MANDATORY. REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT AND RINO NOW, at GUNPOINT IF NECESSARY. ITS THE LAW. SHUT THEIR MOUTHS. TREASON IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. THEY COULD NOT BE MORE GUILTY.
It is alarming that so many of Congress are on the side noncitizen, lawbreakers.
True, Mr. Chavez, it is not recommended that an American citizen retired in Mexico burn the Mexican flag and riot against Mexican police and military. There is a high probability it would not end well. Thus, it seems a significant percentage of our Congress actually favor illegals here from other, sometimes unfriendly nations over legal, voting, taxpaying, good citizens. It does not take brilliance to be a politician here. In fact, it would be easy to prove by example how so many in our House and Senate are rather dullards. But dullards in places of authority. The bottom line, in my little view, it they hasten the already too steep decline of this nation.
Until and unless voters finally wake up in sufficient numbers to force a change, probability says it will grow worse. We had a glimpse of the likely fate was presented by Biden’s Administration. It was not good by any metric.