The reality is when you make ‘America First’ a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you’re telling them is ‘America Only’.
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
During President George W. Bush’s two terms, you couldn’t drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: ‘Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.’
Talking points aren’t going to help the viewers understand something better. They’re about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.
People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there’s a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that’s the case.
A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be ‘Proud to be an American.’ It really should say ‘Lucky to be an American,’ for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
‘Cold Case Files’ and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.
I’m one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It’s like a little sign that says ‘Hey, let’s never hang out.’
Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again.
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