Neighbor has Trump sign

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

To address previous questions, we are selling now because we are moving overseas in January and have no relatives nearby to handle the sale. I agree that spring would be a more ideal time to sell.

Our realtor visited this afternoon to finalize staging and she immediately commented on the Trump sign. (It is quite big on a small lawn).

So that concern prompted me to visit my neighbor. We have always exchanged pleasantries but do not talk much - they are in their 70s and we have little in common. I told her we are moving and putting the house on the market, and that because of the divisive nature of this campaign, we worry that political signs in general might scare some buyers. She said she completely understands, does not even like Trump much, but her husband is a big fan. Fortunately he was not home. So she went outside with me and removed the sign.

Baking brownies for them now. There is some good in the world, even in 2016.

Thanks, OP, for getting back about this.
I certainly hope that some of you who have stereotyped and accused these people of being horrible things are feeling just a tad bit embarrassed and have learned that you are too quick to judge.
Somehow, though, I doubt it.

Uh... the reasonable neighbor "doesn't even like Trump much." Kind of proves the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

To address previous questions, we are selling now because we are moving overseas in January and have no relatives nearby to handle the sale. I agree that spring would be a more ideal time to sell.

Our realtor visited this afternoon to finalize staging and she immediately commented on the Trump sign. (It is quite big on a small lawn).

So that concern prompted me to visit my neighbor. We have always exchanged pleasantries but do not talk much - they are in their 70s and we have little in common. I told her we are moving and putting the house on the market, and that because of the divisive nature of this campaign, we worry that political signs in general might scare some buyers. She said she completely understands, does not even like Trump much, but her husband is a big fan. Fortunately he was not home. So she went outside with me and removed the sign.

Baking brownies for them now. There is some good in the world, even in 2016.

Now let's imagine what would have happened if someone asked an HRC to remove their political sign. Do you see it ending as pleasantly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

To address previous questions, we are selling now because we are moving overseas in January and have no relatives nearby to handle the sale. I agree that spring would be a more ideal time to sell.

Our realtor visited this afternoon to finalize staging and she immediately commented on the Trump sign. (It is quite big on a small lawn).

So that concern prompted me to visit my neighbor. We have always exchanged pleasantries but do not talk much - they are in their 70s and we have little in common. I told her we are moving and putting the house on the market, and that because of the divisive nature of this campaign, we worry that political signs in general might scare some buyers. She said she completely understands, does not even like Trump much, but her husband is a big fan. Fortunately he was not home. So she went outside with me and removed the sign.

Baking brownies for them now. There is some good in the world, even in 2016.

Thanks, OP, for getting back about this.
I certainly hope that some of you who have stereotyped and accused these people of being horrible things are feeling just a tad bit embarrassed and have learned that you are too quick to judge.
Somehow, though, I doubt it.

Uh... the reasonable neighbor "doesn't even like Trump much." Kind of proves the point.

Translated: She likes Trump enough to have the sign in her yard but didn't feel like getting into it with the neighbor lady?

[Anonymous]

OP - what will you do if they have a Trump sticker on their car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

To address previous questions, we are selling now because we are moving overseas in January and have no relatives nearby to handle the sale. I agree that spring would be a more ideal time to sell.

Our realtor visited this afternoon to finalize staging and she immediately commented on the Trump sign. (It is quite big on a small lawn).

So that concern prompted me to visit my neighbor. We have always exchanged pleasantries but do not talk much - they are in their 70s and we have little in common. I told her we are moving and putting the house on the market, and that because of the divisive nature of this campaign, we worry that political signs in general might scare some buyers. She said she completely understands, does not even like Trump much, but her husband is a big fan. Fortunately he was not home. So she went outside with me and removed the sign.

Baking brownies for them now. There is some good in the world, even in 2016.

Now let's imagine what would have happened if someone asked an HRC to remove their political sign. Do you see it ending as pleasantly?

That's a good question.

[Anonymous]

Wait to put your house on the market!

[Anonymous]

Look, this SO sums up liberals. "I'm open-minded and believe in free speech unless I find it offensive and then I will tell you that you can't have your opinion or say what you want."

[Anonymous]

As an immigrant, brown person, non-Christian - I would not buy this house. Why would you ask your neighbor to remove the sign though? Shouldn't the buyer know about this?

[Anonymous]

I'm not a Trump supporter, but I'm offended that you would stifle someone's political opinion for your own greed and expediency in selling your house. And you probably think Republicans are the greedy, free speech-hating, close-minded bigots. This is truly amazing to me that you don't see how narrow-minded you are.

[Anonymous]

It is different when you are White and not a Trump-supporter vs. if you are non-White and not a Trump supporter. I have never felt as scared and traumatized about potential violence against me in any other election or ever before in my adopted country as I do now.

Trump is not Republican. Trump is another Hitler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a minority and I'm far more interested in the features of the house, schools, location, etc. there is no way in hell I would allow some random trump supporter prevent me from buying a house that is otherwise right for us. I have always appreciated people who wear/display the confederate flag or other racist things because it lets me know who you are. I also have a trump supporter in my own family. I think he's kind of dumb, but he certainly isn't racist.

There is NO way someone can support Trump and not be a racist.

There are numerous ways, actually. But thanks for playing.

True, you could also be a sexist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an immigrant, brown person, non-Christian - I would not buy this house. Why would you ask your neighbor to remove the sign though? Shouldn't the buyer know about this?

+1

Agree completely. You have an obligation to let the Trump supporter be known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am embarrassed to live by people that have Barbara Trumpstock signs. A right wing Republican lawyer that made a living out of attacking democrats and wasting taxpayer money on partisan fishing expeditions.

http://bluevirginia.us/2016/08/email-exposes-barbara-comstock-personally-directing-political-attack-machine

McLean – In an exclusive, late-breaking news story today, the Loudoun Times-Mirror revealed internal emails that expose the real Barbara Comstock, someone who has “worked since her 2014 election to appear a congresswoman focused on her constituent services and disinterested in the nitty-gritty politics of campaigns.” In fact, the article exposes email communication between Comstock herself, her Deputy Chief of Staff, and a staffer at the National Republican Congressional Committee, in which she is personally directing negative attacks against her opponent. The email, “offers a peek inside her role as a political and media strategist.”

“This Loudoun Times-Mirror article pulls back the curtain on the real Barbara Comstock, a career political operative, mudslinger and opposition researcher who above all else feels most at home personally directing attacks against her political opponents,” said Bennett campaign spokesperson Robert Howard. “It is not surprising that the day after Donald Trump visits her district, the Congresswoman is personally at the helm of a deceptive negative campaign to try to distract 10th district voters from her support for Donald Trump and the divisive and extreme agenda they share. The voters of the 10th district deserve a Congresswoman whose primary concern is serving her constituents, not preserving her own political career.”

Long before holding elected office, Barbara Comstock made her name as a Republican party operative and opposition researcher.

She was the primary architect and energy behind Dan Burton’s investigations of the Clintons. Wasted MILLIONS of taxpayer money.

There are more McLean republicans than you realize, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, this SO sums up liberals. "I'm open-minded and believe in free speech unless I find it offensive and then I will tell you that you can't have your opinion or say what you want."

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I worked democratic campaigns and had to quit after election: I had never heard people talk such smack about other people. It was the most I had ever been offended since I attended a women's bar association meeting where they spoke of men like pond scum. I went home and needed a shower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is different when you are White and not a Trump-supporter vs. if you are non-White and not a Trump supporter. I have never felt as scared and traumatized about potential violence against me in any other election or ever before in my adopted country as I do now.

Trump is not Republican. Trump is another Hitler.

Trump isn't the one lumping people into baskets of deplorables.

The one who sounds like Hitler to me is not Trump. I have never seen a Presidential candidate talk about United States citizens the way that Hillary has talked about Trump supporters. This has all really gotten way out of hand.

We should be able to put a respectful political sign in our yard or a bumper sticker on our car without having our neighbors stomp over to our homes and demand their removal.