They ubiquitous, they’re banal, they’re annoying…
Perhaps you’ve seen ’em.
If you live in the burbs – Brookside, Prairie Village, Mission Hills, Leawood, Platte City or Parkville -I think you know what I’m talking about.
Those ubiquitous, post George Floyd, post riots, post defund the police black yard signs that read as follows:
WE BELIEVE
BLACK LIVES MATTER
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
LOVE IS LOVE
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
SCIENCE IS REAL
There might be a Land Rover, Mercedes or Tesla in the upscale suburban driveway that home owners wouldn’t dare desecrate with a political bumper sticker, yet they’ve got these colorful, attention drawing signs smack in the middle of their front yard.
The bottom line?
“These are just mindless generalities,” says Mission Hills attorney Dwight Sutherland. “Water is life, love is love. How do you answer that? It’s just verbal flatulence – it doesn’t mean anything – who can argue with statements like that? But beneath the amorphous generalities there lurk very real,very ugly,very extreme policies that they are intended to conceal.”
“They sound profound, but they’re actually just platitudes and they’re so broad that they’re meaningless. Just like in the 1960s when you heard all these sayings like, ‘give peace a chance’ and ‘what if they gave a war and nobody came?’ Do you think if you lived in Russia, Cuba or Vietnam you could be a conscientious objector? They’d put you up against a wall.”
More to the point, why have these signs have become so effing popular?
“This is all anti-Donald Trump,” Sutherland says. “It’s a fad, because for the hip, pseudo-intellectuals, it’s the thing to do because they hate Trump. No wonder Orwell called left wing intellectuals ‘The Herd of Independent Minds’.”
Let’s break it down:
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL:
“That’s means open the borders,” Sutherland says. “As Jay Leno said, undocumented immigrants is code for unregistered Democrats. So anyone who is already here should get amnesty, citizenship and full voting rights. They want them to come here so they can vote and convert the nation to a one party state. Then the fun will really begin, a reign of terror against anyone who doesn’t bow down to-or take a knee to -the Gods of Political Correctness. Do we really want to enshrine a movement whose chief spokesman is Al Sharpton? ”
SCIENCE IS REAL:
“That’s climate change ,i.e. the Green New Deal,” Sutherland says. “But now it’s taken on another meaning, that we have to shut the country down until we get a coronavirus vaccine, which will be during the Joe Biden administration. Just like Trump got the blame for Covid. Never mind that 182 countries have suffered from the pandemic.”
LOVE IS LOVE:
“That’s LGBTQ, so transgender men can use women’s bathrooms and participate in women’s sports. We also need to get away from binary pronoun use. They also should have guarantied Women’s Reproductive Health Care,i.e. access to a tax payer funded abortion for people who don’t have a uterus and cannot conceive. Forget gay marriage, that’s yesterday’s news. Like Joe Biden says, transexual rights is the civil rights issue of our time.”
KINDNESS IS EVERYTHING:
“We do this because we love people and are compassionate. That’s why we burn down cities and throw bricks at cops. It may not look like it, but we’re doing it out of compassion – we care about Humanity with a capital H!”
FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYONE:
“That’s the same as women’s rights. It’s about abortion, including up to and after birth. Abortion is the sacrament of liberalism, a blood sacrifice 0n the twin altars of feminism and sexual liberation.”(Dr. Bollier,call your office!)
BE KIND TO ALL:
“It’s a concept of liberals, embracing love and humanity in the abstract, so you don’t have to relate or be respectful of individual people. It’s embraced by moronic suburban women who want to be seen as caring, nice people. In the case of males, it’s because they hate Trump and as an educated professional, they look down on The Great Unwashed,i.e. those who didn’t go to college to read ‘White Fragility’ and Ta Nehisi Coates. It”s a class signifier – like driving a Volvo with a BKS sticker and living in Brookside.”
BLACK LIVES MATTER
“That’s because black lives matter more than everyone else’s life – because of their unique victim status. (But only if they can be said to have been killed by the police using excessive force and thus provide a usable political moment for the Democratic Party and the racial grievance industry. Otherwise no 0ne on the Left cares. Look at all the black children killed in drive by shootings that are ignored by the liberal politicians and press.)
“Progressive politics is all about using your guilt for being racist,sexist,classist, genderist, et al.to make you turn over money and power to those attacking you in hope that they will spare you in the end. It’s like those dinner parties where white liberal women pay $2,500 to two women of color to come into their homes and lambast them for being implicitly racist. You can’t even cry when you admit your guilt because tears are a form of White Privilege. It’s those reports right after BLM started from puzzled African-Americans that they were getting money from white people they barely knew for no apparent reason. It’s called protection money from the cowardly. Maybe these yard signs are like the“Soul Brother” signs merchants put in their store windows during ghetto riots in the ‘60s, in the hopes that they would be spared.”
So will Sutherland put his yard signs where his mouth is with Trump / Blue Lives Matter?
“Effing yes,” he says. “I’m getting ready to put up a Trump banner with a spotlight on it and play country music at full volume – Toby Keith – on election night.”
Kidding?
“No, I’m not. Not after the investment banker across the street put up a black lives matter flag-I’m taking off the gloves.”
Finally someone explains what everyone already knows but has been vowed into not speaking about. When roving gangs of young adults mob older people screaming the f- bomb and assault older retirees walking on the sidewalk or taking alfresco diners’ drinks and chugging them and then continue to spew more hate and venom at them through megaphones, the “love is love” signs are more than meaningless. They are a badge of utter stupidity. Wake up, Mission Hills! They are coming for you next and a sign will not protect you, no matter how morally superior it makes you feel.
“It’s just verbal flatulence”
Truer words are seldom spoken.
You’re correct, there isn’t a better description of this blog post. I suppose it could have been titled, “Some nitwit’s first world problems” and been almost as accurate.
Then you have missed the total meaning of what I said. Or are you just using some verbal flatulence?
I’m not seeing the comments.
Still can’t see comments. Is it just me?
No Human is illegal..
Yeah,, see what happens when that idiot goes home and discovers someone sittin on his couch, eatin a sammich, watchin TV,, First thing that idiot is gonna do is call the COPS,,
But they want America to embrace a mass, anonymous, Breaking and Entry, the sidling up to the trough, being fed and cared for,, and since its not in their living room, they feel insulated from the societal and economic impact..
If someone actually believes no person is illegal, let them adopt an alien, provode housing, food and clothing, medical care,, and training,, get them a job,, get them on their feet,,,
And then keep screamng about how every job needs to pay well enough for an individual live without assistance.,
Morons,, they have no clue abou the jobs for high schoolers,, sacking groceries,,
Just having a place of business doent mean someone is wealthy,, All too often the people who are employing a few others are working tons of hours and just barely able to keep the doors open. American policy makes their lives hell..
I wonder how many have put signs in their yard to get along with the neighborhood social justice warrior and not have their kids picked on at school but when they go into the voting booth it will be a different story?
As a coda to the Trump yard sign controversy: “Still getting the details, but after several days of having his Trump signs destroyed and stolen Dwight Sutherland managed to confront the thief. He was assaulted, the thief drove off, returned and ran over him. He was taken to the hospital and put in intensive care. Prairie Village detectives came to the ICU after he had been without sleep for over 24 hours and grilled him for over 2 hours trying to find excuses to not charge his assailant. Prairie Village, JOCO’s home of hate, Portland on the Prairie.” – per John Altevogt
Prairie Village police know who did it, it’s aggravated battery and attempted vehicular homicide. It should go to the Johnson County District Attorney. And political partisanship by local police forces should not be tolerated, there should be concrete repercussions should they fail to take appropriate action based on their partisan political views.
this guy got run over because of a political sign? The thief drove off and ran him over?
And he survivied? Isn’t he like 80 years old. PV police not taking it seriously? I mean this is crazy! And it’s funnier than anything i’ve heard. Maybe he should vote for Biden.
Wait, is this article just you interviewing yourself for your own hot takes?
+1,000,000
Hearne and I often discuss things and bounce ideas off each other. He thought it would make for a timely post so he wrote up his notes, let me read them,and then published. I don’t see any thing underhanded or off putting about this. Why don’t you address the substance of what I said rather than carp about the format it was presented in?
I lost my vintage 2016 Trump sign two nights ago between 8:30 to 9:30. Someone walked right up and stole it. I was pissed. So I called the Lee’s Summit Police and talked with him a few minutes, just to send message that I would call the cops over this, to my neighbors. I live at the back of the subdivision so it was one of my neighbors.
The next morning I drove to Jackson County Republican Party store (at 706D NW HWY 7 in Blue Springs) and picked up new signs. I now have a Trump sign, a Mike Parson sign, my Thin Blue Line flag and a brand new trail camera all set up.
If they do it again, I am going to double the size of the sign.
Has Hearne abdicated his column for good? I hope not!