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Do MAGA Boomers Think Burning The Flag Should Be Illegal

Sep 3, 2025 5m 11s 803 words automatic
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Dad, should it be legal to burn or deface the American flag? >> Yes. >> Why? >> Should be illegal. >> Illegal. He said illegal. That scared me there for a minute. >> You know, I've defaced several American flags back in my street art days. >> Several years in jail. >> Why have you What have you done to the flag, Chad? >> And I would stand behind you and clap as you walk off into the jail cell >> for making a piece of art. >> No, for burning the flag. >> You didn't? >> I never burned it. I spray painted flags with the phrase none of this is real and put them up around Los Angeles >> with flags. I thought you just did it with money. >> No, I did it with money, American flags, all of the different uh symbols, the idols that we worship. >> Spend a little time in a pokey. >> Okay. Mom, do you believe that it should be illegal to deface a flag? >> Yes, I do. should be illegal >> because that represents our country, our patriotism, the pride we have. It should not be burned. He should not allow anyone to burn that flag. >> And that's what he's doing. >> So, you're against freedom of speech then, both of you. >> No. >> Yes. >> I'm against burning the American flag. That's freedom. >> Free speech. >> No, it's not. >> No, it's not. >> The Supreme Court has ruled again, as I said, multiple times, >> Supreme Court. It's going to go to the Supreme Court again. >> So you're like, I love America. [ __ ] the Supreme Court. >> So you don't actually love America as it is now. You don't or as it was prior to our authoritarian. >> I love America as the republic that it is. >> It is not a democracy. If you go look up your definition of democracy in a republic, you will come to light that all you damn Democrats that are trying to defend democracy don't even know what the [ __ ] democracy is. >> H >> you don't have a clue. Go look it up. Get you a [ __ ] definition. >> Okay. >> I'm not a Democrat, just by the way. >> Same. >> No, you're socialist communist, which is even worse. So, both of you guys think that burning the flag or defacing it in some way should be illegal is not a freedom of speech issue. Correct. >> Not at all. >> Are there other things that you think are in that vein? >> Depends on what comes up. >> Do you think you should be able to express dissent at all against Donald Trump or the current administration? Yeah, you can walk down the [ __ ] street running your big mouth. >> Okay. >> So, you believe in protests? >> Sure. >> Okay. >> Burning the flag is disrespectful to our country, to the people that died for that flag in our country. It's a that is a form of disrespect. >> The guy who burned the flag. >> If you want to burn that flag, you should not be in this country. just get your ass out of here and go live in another country and burn off. >> You're worried about 1700 pennies that went down the toilet. How about the 54,000 of them that got killed in Vietnam? >> Pennies that went down the toilet. That's people's children. >> Yeah. Pennies. Pennies on the [ __ ] dollar. >> What are you talking about? >> Jesus Christ. We lost we lost 54,000 people in Vietnam and had over a half a million guys banged up. >> Why does the Why does the quantity matter so much to you? Like even just one kid dying >> because it all matter because it all matters. Not if it's a small percentage of the entire population. >> But you're hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. >> Hang on. Right there, Dad. what you're saying. >> It doesn't matter. Dad, >> to change my mind about something that has that is in my opinion irrelevant. >> Okay. Because you're saying statistically it's a small number of the population, right? Doesn't matter. >> Yeah. It doesn't matter. >> So then why are you so hung up on the shooter being trans? It's such a small percentage of the population. Doesn't matter. Because what that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt is that these transgenders are sick [ __ ] >> Okay. So you have mental illness mentally ill beyond comprehensive [ __ ] >> and remind you that you just called children [ __ ] pennies on the dollar. >> That's right. >> That's that's mentally ill in my mind. That's in my mind that you just completely >> don't give a [ __ ] >> Me and babies have died in school. >> Me and 80 million other Americans. >> What are you talking about? Pennies on a dollar. >> That 1,700 people is se is is penny poker compared to the amount of people have given their life. >> You're also comparing [ __ ] war to children being gunned down in school. It's >> No, we're at war. We're at war. He's not thinking right with that.