False Flags
The Atlantic considers historic American flags "far right".
As The Atlantic continues to post bizarre anti-Trump pieces, relying on little more than anonymous sources, let’s take a look back at their pathetic September 2024 issue.
The Atlantic, that globalist rag which encouraged my entire generation to die in the Middle East for Halliburton, published “A Field Guide to the Flags of the Far Right” in their September 2024 issue. It’s just as asinine as expected.
The Atlantic relies on the goodwill and reputation built up by generations of staff. Founded in Boston in 1857, it was a literary, cultural and political magazine. The Atlantic Monthly, as it was known then, published prominent writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Fast forward to 2010 and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is publishing pathetic little pieces like “Yes, Yes I Know I Started the Iraq War”. Yes, yes, the Iraq War that killed over 36,710 of my countrymen AND over half a million Iraqis. That one. The war which relied on total fabrications of WMDs. That one. Two Americans died daily in the Iraq War from 2003-2011. That one. The war that plunged the Middle East from relative stability into a huge power vacuum. That one. The war that created over 500 American amputees and hundreds if not thousands of PTSD victims, alcoholics and drug addicts out of servicemen coming home. No apology comes, but “Oh, I'm also looking forward to seeing Oliver Stone's Hugo Chavez hagiography” Goldberg concludes in his pithy piece. The Opinion Research Business poll conducted August 12–19 2007 estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths due to the Iraq War. A million souls dead, and Goldberg and his cronies David Frum et al laugh in print.
If that wasn’t shameful enough, now The Atlantic is describing the original American flag seamstress by Betsy Ross as “far right”. Strange, considering The Atlantic contributor Longfellow shared a neighborhood with Ross in the American Colonial Village of the Chicago World’s Fair. Breland writes:
The Atlantic’s Ali Breland goes on to say
parts of the American right are bringing back the upside-down flag, to protest the 2020 election and, more recently, Donald Trump’s felony conviction. Flying the flag upside down when not in distress is a violation of the United States flag code, though the code is not legally enforceable.
The upside-down American flag was carried through Tim Walz’s Minneapolis by BLM during the 2020 George Floyd riots:
So that was far-right then, right? The U.S. Capitol building, under President Biden, also flew the upside-down American flag in May 2023. Was Biden’s entire administration “far-right”? “Far-right” has no meaning.
You know what else is against American flag code? Flying the rainbow gay flag above or at equal height to the American flag, which is done throughout gay pride month at various veteran’s hospitals, among other federal sites.
The anti-American drivel goes on:
There isn’t much to say about the Trump Rambo flag, because the flag itself says it all. It was flown on January 6 by MAGA diehards, and is perhaps the most prominent flag in a genre that reimagines Trump as imposing, physically impressive, and often armed—including Trump as the Terminator and Trump as a character from the Japanese anime series Dragon Ball Z.
LOL. Right. “The flag itself says it all”. What exactly does it say, Ali Breland? That Rambo was a good movie? That it’s a cool looking flag? Lazy journalism 101: “There isn’t much to say about the Trump Rambo flag, because the flag itself says it all.”
As autumn arrives, The Atlantic does retain ONE use. Kindling.