Where Are The Signs

I am in a progressive neighborhood in a very liberal city and don't see many signs endorsing any candidates.  Plenty of Black Lives Matter and "In this house. . ." signs though.

Back in 2016 and 2020, Bernie signs were ubiquitous. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1b3acUNyGg&pp=ygUjc2lnbnMgZml2ZSBtYW4gZWx...

Way too many Trump or 1776/Don't Tread on Me/etc flags, like dozens. There are 3 houses , including mine, that have Pride flags... what i do find particularly ironic and only exacerbates my impression of the vast ignorance of my hillbilly neighbors are the MANY American flags that are not properly displayed...torn to shit, not lit at night , hanging in tatters and hitting the ground...fucking ignorant poseur  'patriots'

There's a locksmith in my small town who flies a Trump flag year-round. Also, one of my neighbors has a Republic of Jefferson flag draped on his front porch.

When I moved here in 2020, my neighbors had Trump and Don't Tread on Me flags everywhere. One old codger this year has a Trump flag flying. I like the flag flyers.  Makes it much easier to know who to avoid.

I work 1.25 miles from my home and I pass at least 20 Trump flags a day.

I love thr FUCK BIDEN flag that flies into the sidewalk 100 yards from the elementary school.

flag kooks are the worst.

i am in one of the most conservative counties in the state. i see a few flags for chump, basically zero for biden. lots of stickers....the new thing are these bastardized american flags with blue, black, or red stripes. love the cops types.

bought 2 olive trees yesterday. family is packing for georgia.....blah blah, tump, blah blah...uh, LATER! see yas!

I live in a blood red MAGA stronghold and they never took the 2020 ones down (even a 2016 one here and there if you look hard enough), just more, varied, occasionally newer signs pop up here and there. Can't drive in either direction on our country road without being overwhelmed by them. Let's go Brandon, last election ever, fuck your feelings, no more bullshit... such class. Then it's the cars and trucks with trump crap plastered all over the doors, hood, roof... life size car window pics of trump riding in the backseat, they're worse then the marine corps vets with all the stickers lol

personally I have never really cared for campaign signage like this in any capacity. People who make partisan politics an actual physical component of their identity or their property are generally to be avoided regardless of persuasion.

Hostility on both sides, who wants to be a target of the extremist nut jobs that have nothing to lose. They even drive that way now a days 

The new Trump run Republican Party is not going to spend money printing signs for congress persons, senators, or Trump himself

it will cut into profit margins

but I guarantee you, they will have their accounting firm deduct some imaginary cost off of their tax statement.

not many of either party signs, or Trump Caravans, Trump Boat Caravans in this part of Florida as in years past. 

Signs? 

Hostility on both sides, 

^lol. still with that narrative?

they are all too prevalent here, with all the cusses, oversized vehicle flags, and etc hatred

and still, you can freak them out so easily in endless ways. 97% of them are abjectly miserable and scared, cloaked as anger

#thinnestskinnest

No narrative, my observations...  I have no problem owning the emotions felt by both sides these days. You even see it here, sometimes even toward each other

Just overnight the first "Biden/Harris" and "Never Trump" signs went up on our block.  I imagine we will be seeing more now that the Democrats have a new presumptive nominee.

I wish I saw signs in my university district community.  It would show some semblance of engaging with critical thought.  Instead, we just have excessive amounts of graffiti, which is usually just a desperate cry for attention from some wanker who can't control themselves from tagging their name/handle everywhere, and just looks like shit.

<<Instead, we just have excessive amounts of graffiti, which is usually just a desperate cry for attention from some wanker who can't control themselves from tagging their name/handle everywhere, and just looks like shit.>>

Fully agree with your Herbal.  I completely hate Graffiti.

Do these taggers ever spray their OWN property or just mar and force their 'art' on the public using other people's property?

I have the opposite feeling for buskers as their art simply floats away into the air in temporary (hopefully harmonious) fashion.

LFG Kamala!

For some reason the only place I don't mind graffiti is on train cars.

I think it's ironic that ancient graffiti is revered and protected.  Are today's graffiti artists the "Touch Heads" of cave paintings?

When a spray paint can disperses its contents I imagine this song going through the artist's mind:

What shall we say, shall we call it by a name
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout
I am, I am, I am, I am

Graffiti is like looking at litter 

There is good graffiti and then there's crap graffiti:

It would be good if cities set up graffiti review boards made up of professional art critics that decides what stays up and what gets painted over.

And murals are good way of controlling graffiti.  It has been shown that buildings with murals are less likely to be subject to random tagging.   I was just over in Glasgow and Belfast last month and they have huge murals scattered around town.   Cool stuff:

Yo I don't hang out with those guys, man, I ain't got nothing to do with those dudes.
Wait a minute, I saw your female with 'em, too. What's up with her? I've been hearin' that she been givin' that stuff out to ALL them graffiti guys.
Yo, shut the fuck up, Chico, man!
I could paint three of those murals for some of that ass.

Yea I support the mural movement 

https://www.muralarts.org/

We believe that art ignites change.

Together, we create art that transforms places, individuals, communities, and institutions

https://www.muralarts.org/about/about-jane-golden/

Jane Golden has been the driving force of Mural Arts Philadelphia since its inception, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation’s largest public art program and a global model for transforming public space and community through art. Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over 4,000 works of public art through innovative collaborations with community-based organizations, city agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, the private sector, and philanthropies.

Initially hired as a young artist by former Mayor Wilson Goode to address Philadelphia’s widespread graffiti issue through the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network in 1984, Golden worked with graffiti writers to channel their creative energy and talent toward mural collaborations, transforming neighborhoods where buildings and communities had long suffered from years of neglect. The process gave graffiti writers an opportunity to rethink their work and contributions to the city as artists. In 1997, the Anti-Graffiti Network was restructured by then Mayor Ed Rendell, who would eventually support the creation of the Mural Arts Program under Golden’s leadership. In 1998, Golden established the Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates, a nonprofit organization to work in tandem with the City and raise funds to support the program.

https://www.muralarts.org/40years/ignite/

In 1984, under the leadership of former Mayor Wilson Goode, the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network was established.

Mayor Goode appointed Tim Spencer as the Executive Director, and subsequently, artist Jane Golden was brought on board to engage Philadelphia's youth. Golden's innovative approach transformed graffiti writers' talents into positive community art initiatives. With its collaborative mural creation, the Mural Arts program has since become an influential mechanism for fostering dialogue, strengthening community bonds, empowering neighborhoods, and stimulating economic growth.

one dude's graffiti is another dude's art

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, tenement halls" - Paul Simon, "Sounds of Silence"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iSFRbwwnVPA&t=302s&pp=ygUGQmFua3N5

Here is what we have in our yard in Portland:

We are down in Florida for two weeks and staying at the little bodega on A1A behind my parents' place.   Stopped by the St. Johns County Democrats HQ and picked up a sign to put out front of the bodega:

There is a lot of traffic along A1A there I was half expecting someone to snag it, but it's still there.  Also thought my mom would make us take it down as soon as she saw it, but she was cool with it too.   In fact, there are more Harris signs in my parents' neighborhoods than Trump ones (but did get stuck at a traffic light the other day right next to a gaggle of flag waiving trumpers on the corner with "honk for Trump" signs and plenty of idiots honking).  

Searching? Found this at a local mall. 

EXCITED AT ALL THE HARRIS SIGNS THAT HAVE SPRUNG UP  (oooops) lately. my excitement over rudy's indictment is still humming

still see more of the other people's signs

it is nice to see our folks in any case

In Seattle the taggers put their tags up over the murals, on designated landmark buildings; wherever. There are Facebook/Reddit/X/Instagram accounts linked to the seattlelookslikeshit theme:

https://x.com/realslls
 

We basically are trying to recover from a three year period where our police department became severely understaffed and the city attorney wasn't prosecuting non-violent crime.

The graffiti issue is systemic at this point.  It's hard to see much working to deter it other than harsh penalties.  Maybe being held accountable for the cost of the restoration of their property damage and some jail time with graduating lengths of incarceration for each time arrested, would make some of them reconsider how they display their "art".  Probably not though, as their seeming addiction to recognition (perhaps a sign of an inferiority complex?) hampers their self restraint.

I just want to clarify (artistically, stylisticly) that graffiti and tagging are two separate things. They're not interchangeable terms.

Unauthorized murals are graffiti. banksy is graffiti. you can disagree with the placement or quality of it, but to provoke thought is kind of what art is.

tagging is pissing on a fire hydrant. It's carving your name in a picnic table. An ode to self. It's claiming space, turf, or street cred. The "art" (yes, that's sarcasm) lies in the actual risk or prominence of the act.

anyways

sometimes they're obvious....

My Car Magnet