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Episode 220th September 2024 • Good Talk, America! • Tifton Media Works
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Political signs. You see them EVERYWHERE. It's one thing when it's in your yard. But does it make sense to have a political sign, no matter which ideology you fancy, displayed loud and proud in front of your business?

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Donovan Adkisson

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email: podcast@goodtalkamerica.com

This show is produced by Tifton Media Works, LLC

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Let's talk America.

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All this week, the few instances where I needed to actually go somewhere, something that has

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been somewhat striking to me, and it actually somewhat came up in a group that I, a Facebook

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group that I'm the admin of, and I created, Tifton Talks.

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But what I started seeing earlier this week made me stop and take a moment.

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This has to do with political science.

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You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones that are either going to say Trump vance or

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Harris walls, depending on which way you lean, who has your support, who you want to run

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the country for the next four years.

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And I get it.

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I get it.

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If you want to demonstrate, for whatever reason, that that is your political leaning, your

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political bias, then by all means, if your covenants or ordinances or what have you that

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governs signs for your home allow it, then you do you.

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Let your freak flag fly, as they say.

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I don't really care.

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I know personally, I've thought about it, and I have never put a political sign in my

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yard.

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Not when I lived in Fitzgerald, which back then I really wasn't that political, but I've

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never put one here.

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Now that I live in Tifton, I can say in my neighborhood down, we have two roads that

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come into our neighborhood down the main road, the one I call the main road because I live

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at the end of it about midway down exiting the subdivision on the left hand side.

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There is a homeowner that has a Trump vance sign.

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Honestly, it does not surprise me.

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I do not know this individual personally, but I've seen him around and he's an older

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gentleman, nice enough, and I cannot begin to understand what's going through his head

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other than what I think is typical of most older people when it comes to supporting Trump.

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And for the sake of the topic that I actually want to discuss in this particular episode,

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I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole.

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But the thing about the signs has struck me because earlier this week, down the road,

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probably about I'm going to estimate two miles, one and a half mile, two miles, maybe three.

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I haven't actually clocked it that I can recall recently.

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There is a convenience store.

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I'm not going to name the convenience store, but flanking their multiple entry points in

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to their facility, their driveways, because they're sitting at the corner of two roads.

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There's at least four different ways to get into this place.

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And flanking pretty much all of those driveways are Trump-Vance political signs.

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Now, I suppose that if you are a Trump supporter, that's probably right up your alley.

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You probably look at that and you're like, hey, I'm going to support that business because,

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well, they apparently their values align with my values and my values align with their values

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because we're both Trump supporters.

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But then you have someone like me who wouldn't piss on the motherfucker if he was on fire.

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And I see those signs and not that I did much business with this place anyway, especially

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since I don't I don't drink anymore.

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It used to be a place where I'd stop off and grab a six pack or 12 pack, whatever beer

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years ago, maybe a few times would get gas.

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But they're outdated.

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Their pumps are busted most of the time when it comes to credit cards.

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And as a side note, if I've got to walk in and pay for my gas, I'm not going to get gas

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from your establishment.

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Call me an elitist if you want to.

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I don't give a shit.

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But it is solidified the fact that I will not do business with this establishment.

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And I've started noticing that in various places around town and unfortunately, some

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of these are clients of mine.

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They have political signs prominently in front of their places of business.

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And that disturbs me.

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It disturbs me on two fronts.

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One, it lets me know who they support.

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And these are people that I wouldn't necessarily have thought that they would support someone

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like him.

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But OK, now I know I've already cut ties with one of my other clients because they were

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a staunch, hardcore Trump supporter back when he ran in 2016.

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I don't have anything to do with that client anymore.

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But here's the thing.

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I would I think I would feel the same way if they had a Harris-Walz political sign in

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front of their business.

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I personally don't think that it is in your business's best interest to advertise your

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political leaning.

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I just don't think it's good for business.

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Because think about it.

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When you are when you are a business, when you are in business, when you this is your

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livelihood, you are catering to everyone.

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You may not like everyone.

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You may not agree with everyone.

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But the point is, you want to provide a product.

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You want to provide a service to everyone.

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And when you put your political ideology on display, I think that's bad for business because

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OK, so not maybe everyone will feel like I do.

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But again, I'm not saying this necessarily because I can't stand Trump and Vance.

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But again, if they had put a Democratic sign on there, you know, even back when it was

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Biden-Harris and now it's Harris-Walz, I don't think that's a good idea.

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If I had an office in town, I would not put a political sign there because my business

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is not political.

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My business is to provide a product or a service, the best quality product, the best quality

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service that I can to my customers so that they appreciate what it is I have to offer.

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They pay me and they'll come back and solicit my services or buy my products again.

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We can have differences of opinions when it comes to political ideology.

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And if we decide that at some point that we're friendly enough that we might want to have

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a cordial conversation about that, that's fine.

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But to just blatantly display I'm for this side of the ticket or I'm for that side of

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the ticket is bad for business.

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Now, granted, I know that living down here in the South, I'm going to see predominantly

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Trump-Vance signs.

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It's just the nature of the beast.

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We happen to be a part of the group that are a little bit more oddball.

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We're not religious.

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We're centrist leaning a little to the left, not Republicans.

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We believe in a woman's right to choose.

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We believe that it should be easier to vote and not harder.

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That's a completely different story that I might get into or topic that I might get into

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later with all the bullshit and shenanigans that are going on here in Georgia with them

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trying to make it even harder for people to vote, because when it comes right down to

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it, and I'm going to slide off in a ditch a little bit here, the only way Republicans

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can win nowadays is if they do the one thing, the one thing that they keep blaming and saying

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that Democrats are doing, but it's projection because the only way Republicans can win is

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to cheat.

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That's it.

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When it comes down to the real issues, they fall flat on their faces.

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But back to the political signs.

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Again, to iterate my point and to wrap this up, I don't think it's in your best interest

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to display your political ideology in front of your business, because if you lean left

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and you put a Democratic sign up, you're probably going to piss off some people that are Republicans

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and support Trump.

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They don't want to do business with you anymore.

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And then you're going to wind up with people like me that I see the Trump Vance signs.

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And now I'm having to rethink who I'm going to do business with.

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And it's even worse, like I said, when these signs are in front of one of my own clients'

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place of business.

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It's a sticky situation.

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What do you think?

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What what's your thought on political signs in general?

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Do you want to have them in your yard?

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I think it's a safety issue, especially here in the South.

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And if you're if you're not not with the crowd, especially like I say down here, if you're

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not with the crowd, Trump Vance, then it's probably a safety issue not to put this Harris

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Walls sign in your yard, even though that is the right thing to do and that is the right

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ticket to vote for.

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But more to the point, political signs in front of a place of business.

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What do you think about that?

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Let me know.

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Email me.

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Podcast at GoodTalkAmerica.com.

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Thanks for listening and good talk, America.

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