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Antifar
06/02/21 9:26:49 AM
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https://www.nj.com/union/2021/06/f-bomb-bird-flipping-anti-biden-flags-outside-house-near-nj-school-infuriate-neighbors.html
Anti-President Joe Biden [Antifar's note: we should have an Anti-President. Cool title to have] flags prominently featuring profanity hanging outside a Roselle Park home have caught the attention of local code enforcement after residents complained, noting the proximity of the residence to a local school.

Borough officials began receiving complaints Friday about the display, which includes a photo of Donald Trump raising both middle fingers and the words F--- Biden below, said Mayor Joseph Signorello. Three of the six flags include the F-bomb. The property is close to a nearby elementary school and children regularly walk past it, he said.

Signorello said the homeowner was asked to remove the display because it goes against a borough ordinance that prohibits residents from displaying obscene materials.

Its been brought to our attention less because of the political aspect of it, but the vulgarity of it, he said. The real problem is, from a neighbor perspective, is its a block away from an elementary school. Its in a high visibility area for children. Most of the ire was drawn from a lot of local parents.

A map of the home shows it is around the corner and down a short, four-home block from the corner of a local elementary schools property.


The homeowner, Andrea Dick, said she doesnt plan to remove the flags, which she put up recently and which she considers protected under free speech. She denied there is an ordinance banning the display of obscene materials, though it can be found on the boroughs website.

Part of the boroughs ordinance, which Signorello pointed to, defines obscene as any material that lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value or depicts sexual conduct in an offensive way.

Im not taking them down, Dick said. I refuse to take them down... Today I got a phone call from code enforcement... I said nothing against you, but Im not taking them down. I said I have a right, freedom of speech, and Im leaving them up there.

Signorello said if Dick does not take the obscene flags down, she could be cited. The citation carries a fine, he said.

My code enforcement and my police department right now is checking with the borough attorneys before we make any next moves, he said, but we feel it is within our boundaries while respecting free speech to ask her to take down at least the vulgar signs.



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wackyteen
06/02/21 9:28:39 AM
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Can we nominate Anti-Presidents?

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TwoDoorPC
06/02/21 9:29:06 AM
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another american that doesn't understand free speech

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Southernfatman
06/02/21 9:29:16 AM
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Appropriate that her last name is Dick. It's just sad when people get this obsessed over political figures in general. I bet she has a shrine to Trump inside. Hope she gets some fines racked up for those signs.

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wackyteen
06/02/21 9:29:42 AM
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TwoDoorPC posted...
another american that doesn't understand free speech
"Fuck you! listen to my insane drivel!" /s

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UnfairRepresent
06/02/21 9:29:57 AM
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"don't blame me I voted for Trump"

lol

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Were_Wyrm
06/02/21 9:30:24 AM
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I was a little relieved to see some people start to remove their Trump 2020 flags in my town, but about half of them have just been replaced with Trump 2024 flags...

People are going to be clamoring for this family to have political power until they die out aren't they?

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thronedfire2
06/02/21 9:30:43 AM
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someone just needs to take a big bucket of paint and throw it all over her fence

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steveoSEK
06/02/21 9:33:15 AM
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Were_Wyrm posted...
I was a little relieved to see some people start to remove their Trump 2020 flags in my town, but about half of them have just been replaced with Trump 2024 flags...

People are going to be clamoring for this family to have political power until they die out aren't they?
Yup

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Machete
06/02/21 9:33:46 AM
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TwoDoorPC posted...
another american that doesn't understand free speech

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JuanCarlos1
06/02/21 9:34:25 AM
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How how can you display stuff like that and think you have any sort of high ground against the other side.

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Funkydog
06/02/21 9:34:44 AM
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Antifar posted...
She denied there is an ordinance banning the display of obscene materials, though it can be found on the boroughs website.
Given she denies Biden is president, why would a little thing like facts and actual rules change her reality.

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MaddenDude--
06/02/21 9:34:46 AM
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i still routinely see trump bumper stickers in the south. i kinda like it, it lets me know that the person is a fucking idiot without even talking to them.

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Solar_Crimson
06/02/21 9:35:57 AM
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TwoDoorPC posted...
another american that doesn't understand free speech


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Rapid99
06/02/21 9:44:18 AM
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Small white sign surrounded by several large, black signs.

The Internet has ruined my brain.

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Lathissamus
06/02/21 9:45:44 AM
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The signs are crude, probably violates her housing commission's policies. She has a right to hang up political signs, but I think a picture of Trump flicking people off is disrespectful to anyone. She could use more tactful flags and signs.

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KStateKing17
06/02/21 9:49:10 AM
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The city can fine her ass until she takes them down or goes bankrupt.

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The Trent
06/02/21 9:50:52 AM
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just go late at night and paint over the flags or spraypaint the flags

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Antifar
06/02/21 9:51:21 AM
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Rapid99 posted...
Small white sign surrounded by several large, black signs.

The Internet has ruined my brain.
lol

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Kaldrenthebold
06/02/21 9:51:27 AM
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I was driving to my wedding venue up in north west Jersey on Saturday and saw a large billboard covered in an American flag and bald eagle picture that said something like "God loves Trump" and "trust in Q" in front of someone's house.

We are fucked.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
06/02/21 9:51:49 AM
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I haven't seen flags like this where I live, but it's amazing the amount of Trump election yard signs that are still up. One dude in my parents neighborhood has a small upsidedown flag next to a Trump yard sign.

I live in a small town on the Appalachian Trail (in the North, not the South) and I saw hikers stop twice over the weekend to take a picture specifically of my neighbors yard signs.


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masterpug53
06/02/21 9:51:52 AM
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Now is this that whole Conservative free speech being censored thing that I keep hearing about? I keep waiting to see an actual example of that, so I don't really have a frame of reference.

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wackyteen
06/02/21 9:54:10 AM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
One dude in my parents neighborhood has a small upsidedown flag next to a Trump yard sign.
That's a signal of distress. Obviously somebody in that household is being held hostage by their Trump loving parents /s

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sktgamer_13dude
06/02/21 9:55:07 AM
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Just take away the 3 signs that say fuck and then theres nothing they can do. The others arent obscene.

They might get her to take down the sucks sign, but I can see arguments that sucks isnt obscene.
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eston
06/02/21 9:56:09 AM
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cjsdowg
06/02/21 9:57:33 AM
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Don't blame me I voted for Trump.

How has Biden made things worse for that to be a something can use at this point ?

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MC_BatCommander
06/02/21 9:58:59 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
Don't blame me I voted for Trump.

How has Biden made things worse for that to be a something can use at this point ?

The kind of person that puts up those signs is so unhinged they probably blame Biden for bad weather

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3PiesAndAFork
06/02/21 10:04:28 AM
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God damn, how stupid and/or brainwashed do you have to be to think Biden is a socialist?

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VanananaHeyHey
06/02/21 10:05:56 AM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
One dude in my parents neighborhood has a small upsidedown flag next to a Trump yard sign.
After the election, someone in my area took down their Trump 2020 flag and raised a Chinese flag (top) and a Biden flag in the Trump font on their flagpole instead. It's a very confusing protest message.

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Lathissamus
06/02/21 10:27:05 AM
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The Trent posted...
just go late at night and paint over the flags or spraypaint the flags
congrats you committed a crime because you were offended lol

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Lathissamus
06/02/21 10:42:46 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
So take the trespassing charge and take the flags down.
Imagine advocating this.

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hockeybub89
06/02/21 10:44:07 AM
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hyperpowder
06/02/21 10:44:45 AM
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I guarantee nothing has changed in her life because of the switching of presidents. Just wants to be controversial and loud

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hockeybub89
06/02/21 10:45:04 AM
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Lathissamus posted...
congrats you committed a crime because you were offended lol
So you wouldn't hit me if I insulted your mother?

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Lathissamus
06/02/21 10:46:50 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
So you wouldn't hit me if I insulted your mother?
No.

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Machete
06/02/21 10:49:49 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
So take the trespassing charge and take the flags down.


Or just get away with it and take no charge.
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KStateKing17
06/02/21 10:50:33 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
So take the trespassing charge and take the flags down.
For Trump signs it isn't worth the charges honestly. Taking trespassing and vandalism charges for something she may end up paying for anyway just fucks you over while making her a victim.

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hitokoriX
06/02/21 10:52:15 AM
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This is actually kinda interesting. Political speech (as referenced in the muni ordinance) typically cannot be abridged. There are actually a number of cool legal points to look at, including her right to free speech vs the local ordinance and rights of others. I'm sure if she took those signs to an anti biden protest she'd be fine.

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fan357
06/02/21 10:52:46 AM
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Why do people think its ok to have these kinds of thing publicly displayed?

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ZevLoveDOOM
06/02/21 10:54:13 AM
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sounds like another microdick ass motherfucker whose highest moment in life was "triggering the libs"...
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Garioshi
06/02/21 10:55:01 AM
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Antifar posted...
The homeowner, Andrea Dick


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Lathissamus
06/02/21 10:55:20 AM
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fan357 posted...
Why do people think its ok to have these kinds of thing publicly displayed?
Because it is, outside of situations where you may pay fines from your housing community

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littlebro07
06/02/21 10:55:39 AM
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fan357 posted...
Why do people think its ok to have these kinds of thing publicly displayed?

and why is it almost always conservatives doing it

I saw the occasional fuck Trump sign but 9/10 times if theres an obscene political sign or flag its pro-Republican

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Heineken14
06/02/21 10:56:46 AM
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Man, right wing cultism is fucking crazy.
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LightHawKnight
06/02/21 10:56:52 AM
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Dont HOA not allow obscene stuff on display? Swear words seem to be something that would get banned.

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Master_Bass
06/02/21 10:57:35 AM
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Yeah, I have one of those people near me too. They used to fly a Trump flag and the Confederate flag, but now switched to that oh so classy Fuck Biden and fuck you for voting for him flag.

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Guide
06/02/21 10:58:53 AM
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Roselle Park

This person is absolutely a habitual drug user.

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hockeybub89
06/02/21 11:00:35 AM
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Master_Bass posted...
Yeah, I have one of those people near me too. They used to fly a Trump flag and the Confederate flag, but now switched to that oh so classy Fuck Biden and fuck you for voting for him flag.
I bet they cry about the lack of unity in this country and how it will destroy us

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