A confusing sign

 I, unfortunately, live in a rather red part of Pennsylvania.  There’s a road that – depending on the circumstances – I either drive a couple times a week, or I go a couple of months not driving it.  But leading up to the 2024 Election, it became very depressing as I drove that road.  Months before the election, there were only a few Trump signs, but then in the last month, it seemed every other house had them.

One house, had a normal Trump flag, and they also had a large banner for, I think, Women for Trump.  I’m not completely sure what it was, because whenever I drove by it I either grimaced or flipped them off. 

Anyway, after the election I tried to ignore all these signs.  But, towards the end of the summer, I noticed something about this flag and banner: they were starting to fray.  Now I don’t know if it is because most people put a political yard sign up a month before the election, and then after the election they throw them away, so they’re not that tough to begin with.  I mean, who would have a political yard sign up for over a year?  Or, being Trump branded stuff, they’re probably made as cheaply as possible.  Either way, after eight or nine months, they were starting to show their age.  But the last time I went by – some fourteen months after the election – I only saw the corners of the banner still tied to some posts.  Two Pennsylvania winters had completely shredded it. 

Now normally, you’d expect the homeowner would take the signs down long before they got to this point.  If they were a normal person, they’d throw them away just to keep their yard nice.  Or if they wised up to the Trump shitshow they’d get rid of them too.  But you’d think if they were still drinking the Trump Kool-Aid, they’d replace them with whatever new crap he’s selling.  But none of that has happened.  There are still vehicles at this place, so I’d assume people still live there.  But they apparently don’t care to have some ragged sign in their front yard. 

Or maybe they’re just lazy.