On our poop walk we found one of our neighbors with two flags that we weren’t sure what they were saying. Flags are symbols. They can tell us when a seafarer needs help because they are in distress. They can identify vessels at sea.
In the 2020s, the flag was flown at events attended by various far-right groups including a Christian nationalist strand of Donald Trump‘s “Stop the Steal” movement.[20][21]
In May 2024, news outlets reported that the flag had been flown at the vacation home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2023. This drew media attention because of the flag’s use by “Stop the Steal” supporters.[20][22][23] The justice stated that his wife had displayed the flag, referred to the historic background of the symbol, and refused to recuse himself from ongoing cases involving the 2020 United States presidential election[24].[25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag
When the election was declared for Joe Biden that year, leaders in the NAR movement became the commanding generals of a mass spiritual warfare campaign for Trump’s fallacious reinstatement with the Appeal to Heaven flag as their rallying standard. Echoing the central theme of Stop the Steal while mixing in new prophecies, Sheets galvanized Christians to reject the results of the 2020 election. “It is God’s will for Trump to win this, not Biden,” Sheets told the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly watched his daily videos in late November 2020. “We have no choice but to continue to fight.” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/appeal-to-heaven-flag-nar-alito
The practice of using an inverted sign as a protest has subsequently been used to express dissent from both the right and the left. As protestors stormed the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, some carried inverted flags in support of Trump who believed that his reelection loss was due to fraud at the polls. In 2022, Progressives used an inverted sign to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a case that upheld a woman’s right to abortions. Later that year, supporters of Donald Trump used the flag to protest the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence that was related to classified documents he had taken when he left office. firstamendment.mtsu.edu
Now onto the important part of today. Getting Annabelle out on the boat. But first a sing-a-long with breakfast.
Wakey Bakey we were told to prepare for wakeboarding, but the biggest challenge of the day ended up reading the really lush greens at Clarion Oaks. Something about the slope of #13 with the pin placement made if feel a lot like mini-golf.
Hey driver, make sure you are slow on that throttle.
In reviewing this weekend, legs not forget our neighbors to the north who started the celebrations on July 1.
Did you know? Our Canadian Friends celebrated their own holiday this week?
Canada Day fka Dominion Day celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single dominion within the British Empire called Canada.[1][2]
Originally called Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), the holiday was renamed in 1982, the same year that the Canadian constitution was patriated by the Canada Act, 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[3] Canada Day celebrations take place throughout the country, as well as in various locations around the world attended by Canadians living abroad.[4].
The highlight of our evening was the fireworks display set off by our neighbors. Unless you are Phoebe or Crawford it was wonderful. The pups took to under the bed and in the bathroom to dodge the booms.
