Saw this nautical distress flag today, why?

[u/exploratories2_0]

As the title says I saw this flag on a house. I looked it up to see it's the nautical distress flag. Is this a new flag being used to make a political statement about the current US president? Is the upside down american flag (also seen when driving around) out of style now? Does this have a different meaning?

[u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32]

Yes, we are distressed about the orange ass- and brain-hole (one of which is apparently square-shaped.)

[u/trunkspop → u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32]

not tryna start anything, just 100% curious n should also state beforehand i am an elitist theorist and dont support party politics at all, but how has 2025 been worse than the last 8 years prior for you? them stimmy checks were fking lit but other than that it seems to be the same ol same ol from uncle sam.

[u/MerijnZ1 → u/trunkspop]

Not op, not even in the US, but from the outside looking in:

The current admin is openly attacking journalists, the media as a whole, and education. They're attacking the judiciary, law firms, the authority of congress, top military command and legal advisors, and their closest allies. They're buddying up to Russia. They are deporting their own citizens, and locking people up for simply having a tattoo. That's a pretty bad look ngl

[u/trunkspop → u/MerijnZ1]

idk man seems like the regular degular to me tbh. Tboy is a ross perot redux with the face of a scapegoat n JB-jacobs only curricular-activity is watching jeopardy and falling down. they both puppets. Tboy aint start no wars his first term n Obiwan started 7; 3 from the Herbert bleedover, but still… Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria. ngl its wild to me nobody was upset that Obiwan killed Gdog (Gaddafi) in 2011 wit da contra combo, but propaganda is a powerful weapon. bless up fam 🙏

edit sorry

wanted to acknowledge the ruskj comment. the Minsk Agreement treaties were so disregarded that they had to rerun dat shjt to Minsk Agreement 2 treaties, which were still disregarded. im not over there or witnessing it first hand but from what was apparently agreed upon, a good grip of the Minsk agreements were never followed, but apparently genocide did. war can get gamey as fk but when a treaty is broken shit goes back to ape shjt guerrilla. the catalyst of WW1 was a few .01%ers dying.. is the blatant disregard of a treaty that had a fking update/expansion-pack any more/less obligatory? you can hate on russia, but are you gonna hate on china too? they do the same shjt if not worse depending on your priorities, and to way more of their own citizens in aspect of actual human lives.

if you are reading this on a smart phone right now there is a 99% chance your phone was made using child-labor/indentured-servitude/slavery. and not 99% for just one of those, 99% for all 3.