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SE Cupp: How I felt watching Trump hug our flag
CNN Opinion ^ | March 4, 2019 | SE Cupp

Posted on 03/06/2019 1:54:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It would have been a jarring image no matter the president.

We're used to seeing the American flag handled in a number of ways. It can be hoisted, saluted, folded in honor of the fallen, even burned in protest.

But it's not every day you see the leader of the free world hug the flag in front of a crowd of adoring followers.

Enter President Donald Trump on Saturday at the annual gathering of conservatives known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He grabbed an unassuming Old Glory by its stand like a prom date, and gave it a brief, slightly terrifying, slow-dance to "Proud to be an American."

In that moment, in a way, the flag was so many of us -- Americans recoiling at the smothering and unwanted advances of an unstable lech. On behalf of the flag, I wanted to shout: "I beg your pardon, sir! Get your hands off of me!"

But as off-putting as Trump's grabbing of the stars and stripes felt to many, it was clearly a consensual act to his supporters, who loved every minute of it and the 122 that followed.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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Time to bring back polygamy so that beta neocon men can scoop up Cupp and Coulter as sister wives.
1 posted on 03/06/2019 1:54:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Somebody needs to get back to what she does best:


2 posted on 03/06/2019 1:58:55 AM PST by Paladin2
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I considered that as a display of love for the flag by the President. S.E. Cupp can ESAD.


3 posted on 03/06/2019 1:59:39 AM PST by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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I was a bit taken aback by his hug of the flag as well. But yes - it was a display of how much he loves America. I wonder if this gal has ever written of the ugly acts against the flag performed by Antifa, hippies, or Bill Ayers?


4 posted on 03/06/2019 2:04:09 AM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When you’re an uninteresting, mediocre writer, you got to try to ruffle some feathers, right Sarah?


5 posted on 03/06/2019 2:08:53 AM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Paladin2

S.E. Cupp was once a smart, sharp conservative. Today she sounds like she is in her cups. Stopping drinking the Kool-Aid, S.E. Remember what it did to the people of Jonestown.


6 posted on 03/06/2019 2:13:04 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I concur.

TDS can be virulent.


7 posted on 03/06/2019 2:14:11 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

8 posted on 03/06/2019 2:25:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To communicate with SE:
https://twitter.com/search?q=SE%20Cupp&src=typd&lang=en

I just tweeted my disgust at who she has become. She won’t care but I feel better.

What an idiot you have become SE. You can’t even recognize love and a desire to protect & defend our Country. So sanctimonious you have become that genuine emotion affronts you.


9 posted on 03/06/2019 2:31:56 AM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: 21twelve
Don't forget Moochelle...


10 posted on 03/06/2019 2:34:34 AM PST by moovova
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Ooops...sorry. You beat me to it.


11 posted on 03/06/2019 2:35:33 AM PST by moovova
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Worthy of my favorite pic:


12 posted on 03/06/2019 2:41:18 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To SEC: You are not, my dear, that which I love and cherish. You, I would never embrace with the fervor of a man who loves and gives his life and well being for our country. How presumptuous of you to compare yourself to Old Glory. That which once was glorious about you is long since slid into the swampy mire.


13 posted on 03/06/2019 2:43:23 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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14 posted on 03/06/2019 2:45:13 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a talent for accurately envisioning what women will look like as they age.

This one is not looking good, in fact, it looks rather ghastly.

The downside of such talent is in the difficulty of shaking off the visions. This one will cause nightmares.


15 posted on 03/06/2019 2:54:03 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just remember skanks like this when they try to come get back into our good graces post Trump six years from now. Treat them like Jane Fonda. Never forgive, never forget.


16 posted on 03/06/2019 2:55:41 AM PST by cdpap
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To: 21twelve

So many Flag Code violations she could write about she chose something that isn’t. (Unless the flag touched the ground when he hugged it.)


17 posted on 03/06/2019 2:58:02 AM PST by greatvikingone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She USED to be somewhat SANE until she went to the dark side of CNN.


18 posted on 03/06/2019 2:58:23 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Piss off C cup


19 posted on 03/06/2019 3:01:10 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FU Cupp


20 posted on 03/06/2019 3:08:12 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (I hate modern life)
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