Was my mom wrong to buy a ‘God Bless America’ balloon, or did that stranger cross a line?

[SolitarySolace]

My mom told me she got this balloon for the 4th name July. Some guy was starting her down as she went by to check out and kept calling her an imbecile and told her the “God Bless America” balloon was associated with President Trump. She told him it was patriotic and ignored him and got in line to pay but he followed her and kept at it until she turn and looked him dead in the eye and told him to stop. Then he laughed and walked off.

I think this says something bigger about how polarized people have become. “God Bless America” existed long before modern partisan politics and has been used by Americans across political, religious, and cultural backgrounds for generations.

Is patriotic imagery now automatically political, or did this guy cross a line by treating a generic patriotic balloon as a partisan statement?

Yes

No

[RavVid]

Clearly this guy considered it political messaging and further considered himself entitled to suppress a message he didn't like by stalking and harassing your mom. On any real measure that was grossly unreasonable behavior.

It is very typical of the Left world over, that they seek to suppress non-Left views which includes patriotic views with a great deal of vitriol. Our Left in Australia is exactly the same and seek to eliminate the holiday celebrating the arrival of the First Fleet. They have largely managed to remove celebratory products from the shelves.

Congrats to your mom for shutting him down. It is what we need to do to the Left - globally.

[Chazmatazz269]

Are your parents Michiganders?


Your mother did nothing wrong. She was even exceedingly tolerant of the offended idiot. I would like to think that i would be so gracious, but i might have ended up in a fistfight. Then again, that guy probably doesn’t provoke men. Cowards like that only try to push around women and children.

[SolitarySolace]

Yes, we are Michiganders

[Chazmatazz269]

Same

[CrystalPeak]

She was not wrong. Screw the TDS moron.

[exitseven]

Your mother is obvious proud to be an American. The idiot in the store hates this country but in reality he hates himself because he probably is shown every day that he cannot measure up to citizens that can take responsibility for their lives, work hard and prosper in the freest country on the planet.

[SolitarySolace]

She is a true patriot, that’s for damn sure. Though she holds herself back far too often and I think she could and should let herself off that leash occasionally especially these days. Though she does conceal carry and often works security at her church.

[exitseven]

Shooting the bastard would not be good.

[SolitarySolace]

Yeah, I know. But if it were me I’d have shown him I was packing and if he pissed me off I’d like to think I’d point it at his head and tell him to kindly fuck off in the name of Jesus

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

Please don't brandish. If it comes to that... use it.

[fishbone77]

This is how fucking stupid the left has become. All your mom needed to do was be raped by an immigrant then she would have been hailed as being a good American by the left.

[Just_Ken]

Same story in Britain. You can fly the flags of Palestine, Afghanistan, alqueda, the taliban, idis or whatever but fly the union Jack or St George's flag and leftists lose their mind and police treat it like a hate crime

[strateguy632]

first when he followed and harassed her about anything is a crime -even about trump. but yeh the balloon has nothing to do with republican. even democrats say the phrase that anger atheists!

[strateguy632]

"God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America" is a frequent closing statement used by Kamala Harris-d".

[Iron_Man]

She wasn’t wrong. I don’t like that guy making his comments. She should’ve complained to the security at the store for harassment

[Jeff51]

I like the balloon. She's fine. Screw those other people.

[Twalli]

The only correlation between the phrase "God Bless America" and Donald Trump is that Trump claims to believe in God. I actually think Trump believes he IS God, but he says he believes in God.

[DonaldDarko]

He's Bolshevic filth. Should have been arrested.

[Cidknee]

No!!