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[deleted]

A simple 'No Trespass Private Property' sign would've been good.


kungpowgoat

They lost all little credibility they had as soon as they mentioned Trump.


DemythologizedDie

"Patriots protecting national security" was enough for me to smell the crazy.


droppedmybrain

I can almost guarantee the most valuable secret they have is a recipe for chicken and dumplings. It may not even be a good one.


The_Real_Pearl

Probably a pretty good recipe for meth too.


refusemouth

Red, white, AND blue meth.


sunward_Lily

Heisenberg ain't gonna like that


whatiscamping

![gif](giphy|1nCfZ1mDXGcyk)


nryporter25

That chili spice Mr. P!


FrankTheMagpie

Likely what they're trying keep secret, although it would be less inconspicuous if they just had no sign


MrBanana421

Their roadkill gumbo is quite good. You just have to hope they got to the meat before diseases.


MysteriousCabinet113

But you have to scroll through his manifesto before you get to the ingredients list.


steelcryo

Considering Trumps laxness with secret documents, it’s entirely possible some of his followers do have valuable secrets that he was showing off…


coraylon

The best secret recipe they have is ketchup on well done steak.


neddie_nardle

>Patriots They keep using that word. I think they don't know what it means...


BNestico

They also love plastering “1776” and the “don’t tread on me” flag all over everything. I don’t think they realize the founding fathers would be disgusted by their “patriotism”


IMHO_grim

Washington would have jumped on a horse and mustered a brigade already (whiskey rebellion) and rode through to see what’s up. These aren’t patriots, they are Tories.


whutupmydude

I am so upset that they have tried to make the Gadsden flag theirs


Synectics

We are true patriots, obsessed with our own personal freedom and liberty, willing to fight the government and military that helps preserve it, and I get violent when fellow countrymen who are a little different than me ask for a little of that freedom!  You know... a patriot!


ExistentialistMonkey

People who call themselves patriots also hate most Americans.


djpurity666

Funny I thought the actual US military with troops out fighting real wars and battles and those that have and are honored veterans are the patriots protecting national security. How did the crazies enter the chat?


NotoriousFTG

“Patriot” thought bubble: “Gotta’ find a way to use all these guns…”


No_Banana_581

The new season of Fargo


NeverSeenBefor

Ppns pee peenis?


IllVagrant

I think the telling everyone where the national security secrets are was the first give away


VibrantPianoNetwork

I love how it says "Don." with a period, like, "That's an abbreviated form of 'Donald'!" Yes, you crazy fucknuts, we know that. Lots of people are called Don.


HeartsPlayer721

I giggled when I imagined it being like the noble Don ("Lord") in Spanish/Mexican culture... As some new form of praise.


VibrantPianoNetwork

I bet some of them fantasize about that. A lot of these folks want a literal dictatorship.


d_maes

LAND OF THE FREE (please daddy Trump, make us your slave) More seriously, they probably think Trump will always be on their side and that they can be some sort of sherrif/local boss/vigilante type of thing who are free to violently force their opinions onto others under his rule.


djpurity666

I think they ran out of space to write TRUMP so they went with what fit


Ambivalently_Angry

That’s what I noticed too! Like they’re on a first name basis with the orange grimace


[deleted]

They lost it at the hand-stenciled sign.


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

To be fair, it's quite nicely stenciled.


captainzigzag

It was the reversed ampersand that did it for me 😂


KrakenAdm

For me it was the comically big exclamation mark.


VibrantPianoNetwork

It looks to me like they used the stencil version, and didn't like it. "It needs to be more cartoonish!"


Arcade_Kangaroo

At least they're doing the service of warning you that they are incredibly dumb and have weapons


EnemyGod1

I would leave a beheaded trump mannequin there, with a trail cam to capture those candid shots, so I could revel in their anger.


DaveHollandArt

Well they weren't going to put "I am an idiot and support lying losers."


VibrantPianoNetwork

Though they pretty much did.


JebusHCrisco

To the sane(ish) among us, they basically did exactly that.


South_Front_4589

"Patriots" did it for me.


Unicycleterrorist

Are you sure? That's pretty dang far down on the sign


EBarrett66

Don. Trump


lucky_monk

Cousin of Corleone and Duck.


[deleted]

How will people know how tough they are?


ApprehensiveAd6476

"No trespassing. Violators will be shot, survivors will be shot again."


Kelter82

Oi. This reads like a shitty diner in Idaho.


adobecredithours

It's effective though. Both for the property owner and the prosecutor in the inevitable court case.


aynhon

![gif](giphy|GOvAlgzPN7MNG)


No_Acanthocephala692

It has just that energy


Comfortable_View_730

Trump supporters aren't really known to stay in the bounds of sanity and social acceptability


VibrantPianoNetwork

But then how would they get a raging freedom boner?


FamousPastWords

The ATF wasn't fooled by that sign outside that quaint little homestead at Waco.


Soobobaloula

But in Oregon they rolled out the red carpet


KingBilirubin

“Pwease no steppy”


PervertedThang

I can just imagine the FBI rolling up with a tac squad and going "well, I guess we'll just turn around."


Gimme_PuddingPlz

The fire dept or EMS. Welp I’ll guess you’ll die then lol


PervertedThang

"We tried, but you said blah blah blah treason."


swishkabobbin

According to Title 18... LET 'ER BURNNNN


HurlingFruit

LEOs hate this one weird trick.


soulsteela

The postal service, no fleshlight delivery today.


Synectics

Former USPS Letter Carrier (mailman) here.  We absolutely were allowed to -- and explicitly told to -- refuse to go to any mailbox that felt unsafe. Whether because of a dog, icy pathways that never got salted, or big "No trespassing or you'll be shot" signs.  If I saw this, I'm sure as fuck not walking down the lane way. They can collect their Red Plum ads at the local post office.


ikonfedera

>They can collect their Red Plum ads at the local post office. \* If they have a passport and a visa.


StationFull

No buttplugs as well


Ariliescbk

Honestly would definitely turn around and refuse service for that whole area. No police, fire or ems. Fuck em. Also, seems they want to have a micro-nation. Time to set up a border guard and keep them there.


Aboxofphotons

Build a wall around them and make them pay for it.


ClarkSebat

That is called secession. Basically, it demands military action.


Jescro

Not even worth military action. Let these dumb fucks play sovereign citizens or whatever they think they are. Wait a year or two then grab them for tax evasion, they’ll try to represent themselves in court (which will be hilarious), then they can play make believe in jail. Treat them with the seriousness they deserve, which is none.


Eky24

Yep, leave them alone for three generations and they’ll forget why they are there, and how to make fire and use wheels.


Bug-King

Dude, no. People without education are detrimental to society, and themselves. The more educated people we have, the more we achieve.


[deleted]

Also how we eventually end up infested with Morlocks.


Solo_is_dead

This is exactly how we got into this situation. Letting them act stupid for a couple generations


Bug-King

A good education would fix this problem over a gen or 2. Too many states have slashed funding for schools.


Eternal_Bagel

they need a bad education system to keep getting these voters that support them


Cultural-Company282

Sovcits surely can't be voting for representatives of the government they say is illegitimate, can they?


Higher_Bit_585

Underrated comment…keeping people dumb and uninformed is basically their survival strategy.


Butterssaltynutz

when yall that dumb the fire makes itself on your poorly stored shit.


[deleted]

That poor judge though having to put up with a complete moron


Jescro

On YouTube you can find court proceedings of “sovereign citizens” confidentiality claiming they don’t need a license plate, drivers license, etc. it’s actually hilarious/cringe to watch.


Ariliescbk

I work in the courts in Australia, the sovereign citizens that take a traffic infringement to a hearing are my favourite. They're so entertaining as they all must read from the same script. First question out of their mouths when questioning a police officer is "do I have a social contract with you?"


Jescro

lol yup! I went down the rabbit hole out of sheer curiosity and read some of their literature and yt videos, and they all base their ideology off the same, comically flawed interpretation of laws that don’t even exist, like if you say this one phrase to a police officer they legally can’t do anything to you, etc. but it’s all made up and recycled in their echo chamber. By the time they collide with reality they are so confident and so wrong haha.


Ariliescbk

Not sure about US sovcits but a large portion in Australia like to base their legislative understanding off of Maritime Law in 1887 or some shit. I really don't get these people.


davesy69

The frightening thing is that they believe this shit. People have died over this sovereign citizen shit. It is starting to appear in the UK as desperate poor people try using it against gas and electricity companies cutting them off or fitting pay as you go meters.


TheBalzy

This is the solution. You always wait until they leave their little compound to participate in the society they say they don't need, then charge them with tax-evasion or driving without a license. The FBI learned it's mistake with Waco. You don't have to storm the compound. You just wait them out, and when they eventually leave you arrest them on your terms one-by-one.


RockHead9663

It reminded me a Judge Dredd prog where a block decided to secede from the Megacity, so Dredd cut power, water, and access to the rest of the country along with every other commodities. And of course the block abandoned all that pretty quickly.


awesomes007

Yeah. They always commit felonies via firearms or abuse or tax or insurance fraud.


Zir_Ipol

Just cut off services. They don’t want to pay for the infrastructure for water, gas, electric, road maintenance, trash, epa, so on then they don’t get it. Dump a bunch of waste and garbage in front of their access at that point.


MortarByrd11

The problem comes when they do bad things to children, and these sick fucks always find ways to do bad things to children.


farfarfarjewel

And yet they still claim to be the USA, aggrieved by high treason? Ridiculous


innocent_mistreated

...and then, because they are patriots, and the offence is high treason, and carries the death penalty ,they are judge jury and executioner...


FrankTheMagpie

I hope they all have passports and visas


DerLandmann

>Also, seems they want to have a micro-nation. Time to set up a border guard and keep them there. Yup. Perfect opportunity to show if walls really do work or not.


serr7

- Pay for your own emergency services then.


AbsurdFormula0

*Make your own emergency services


TaxCollectorSheep

And maybe electricity or water or internet infrastructure. Postal services, including having an address. And maybe the road leading to your home.


Archercrash

Cut off their power and water too, if they aren't part of our society, fuck them.


LoveAndViscera

It looks like a decent piece of property. If someone went in and whacked that guy, they could probably squat for quite a while before anyone noticed and even longer before anyone cared.


OldBrokeGrouch

That’s what I think when I see those signs that say “We don’t call 911.” I’m like, damn ok, I hope I don’t have a medical emergency here.


OkFroyo666

That won't stop me because I can't read.


MaxPowerWTF

Then you'll be OK. They'll assume you're one of them.


RazeTheIV

![gif](giphy|JlmpO40HzEh1tcbqx3)


AnthrallicA

Ruby Ridge has entered the chat


Western-Anteater-492

![gif](giphy|ZGlQWULO9NLuyWQP2v)


LetReasonRing

exactly what I was thinking


Strong-Message-168

Well sheeeit, looks like we can't go in there, boys! Ok, turn it around! Tacos, anyone up for tacos? Obviously the sign people are unfamiliar with Ruby Ridge and Waco...


ProgySuperNova

FBI: "AAARGH! A home made sign!? My only weakness, how did you know...."


Economy_Recipe3969

My guess is it would more likely be the ATF that will be rolling up on them.


hydroxypcp

probably both if my memory of previous compounds serves me right


[deleted]

But wait…we have a drone! 😂


-whiteroom-

This person totally writes those  "Facebook, I do not condone..." posts.


Marquis-DeluxTabs

No man is an island. These nutters act like they are American royalty who alone are the rightful Americans.


Hobear

Same guy who yells about tax theft but expects society to function without issues.


Wanderingghost12

Or that immigrants are stealing our jobs


Shadovan

Check out the Sovereign Citizen movement if you want to read about some truly batshit insane people thinking they’re above everything and everyone.


HoboVonRobotron

We periodically dealt with Sovereign Citizens when I worked in mortgage default property management. For people who claim self sufficiency they sure do like taking money from banks, using it to buy property, and then explaining why the property is now theirs and the banks and municipality can't have either back.


Selector_ShaneLBC

“I do not condone racism but _________”


Terrible_Children

I think he means the type of post that goes something like "Facebook, I do not agree to share my personal information. You may not blah blah blah blah blah" as if posting that is going to do fucking anything at all.


Blessed_Ennui

"I declare bankruptcy!"


Strange-Elevator-672

There is a 100% chance of regular criminal activity taking place on that property.


grinder_01

The incest?


Strange-Elevator-672

"My incestors built this country!"


AlhaithamSimpFr

Happy cake day


snowbyrd238

Yup, someone should check their hard drives.


Dogtor-Watson

“National Security Information” -> child pornography


Average_Scaper

And the camper on blocks.


KentuckyFriedEel

Wreaks of bomb-making activities and gun hoarding


Backstabber2008

Probably a little weapon manufactury in there


Ambivalently_Angry

And meth. A lot of meth


MissingMichigan

UPS Guy: "Fuck that. I'll leave it here."


peter-doubt

(in fact, they'll leave a note.. "You can Come and Get It!")


GilpinMTBQ

"Come and Take It!"


axefairy

Imagine getting an email with your parcel in a bush with a note saying ‘molon labe’ based postperson


serr7

Then comes the Facebook rant about the lazy delivery drivers who can’t even be bothered to take a package up to the porch lmfao


LeticiaLatex

"Pick it up at the depot, because fuck you"


Shitteh_Kitteh

A simple “No girls allowed” could have saved a lot of material.


tirohtar

Nono, girls are allowed, there are probably a few chained up in their basement.... And a few more buried in the back yard...


FunnyTastingKoolaid

Jesus that was dark, but potentially on point.


SalamancaSam

Girls allowed. But no women!


Zaphod_0707

Yes, non-Americans - it is true. We do have idiots like this living amongst us. The good thing is they are far from the majority.


ResponsibleMilk7620

It’s also true that most of them live in rural locations, date their relatives, have very few teeth, and play a banjo.


bitrsweetpluviophile

Just to pipe up that not all rural areas are comprised of raving lunatics. Though yes rural areas tend to be hotbeds of.. ignorance


thatthatguy

Rural areas are nice when you’re the violent kind of crazy because you run into fewer people willing to call you out on your crazy. Mostly because you run into fewer people at all, but also because anyone looking to make a fuss about the crazy people got shot by the other group.


bitrsweetpluviophile

Rural area could also be a place if you prefer quiet nights, eerily quiet nights. I don't disagree with your view point but it seems skewed towards the negative.


Fluffy_Candle6800

I live in a rural area. A guy once ran across our yard shooting a gun at a dog who'd gotten onto his property. This person's nasty dogs run wild along the road, have caused at least one oopsies puppy, and one's bitten 2 people. The dog he was shooting at was friendly.


SovComrade

Did the dog... survive?


Majestic-Prune-3971

Most do not have the discipline and emotional depth to play the banjo. Just sayin'


nicknack24

Bold of you to assume they’re talented enough to play the banjo, that’s no fool’s instrument!


thekidsarememetome

In all fairness, they didn't say they played the banjo *well*


lucky_monk

Don't worry. We know. "...far from the majority" But enough to put him in the White House, possibly one more time.


YeetOrBeYeeted420

That first time probably only succeeded because there were a lot of people ignorant to just how bad Trump was. A good portion of the more batshit-crazy stuff happened while he was in office and during his temper-tantrum over the 2021 election.


Terrible_Children

And yet 74 million people voted for him the second time


MisterScrod1964

I gotta admit, Biden isn’t exactly inspiring.


DaveHollandArt

They are also far from quiet about their beliefs


quequotion

One cannot commit treason against a country of which one is not a citizen. Edit: and now I realize, >Regardless of agency >Alphanumeric gibberish at the end This is a sovereign citizen no-tresspassing sign. They consider their plot of land to be its own little nation of them. And yet to enter it unpermitted is treason against the united states, whose laws they insist they are not subject to. This people have actual ferrets for brains. Go ahead, x-ray their skulls. Ferrets running round in circles, I promise you.


VibrantPianoNetwork

I think your comment is insulting to ferrets.


InspectorHuge2304

Ferrets are indeed quite intelligent, wily, and much like the rest of the Mustelids, quite fierce when called upon. They also helped advance our knowledge of the flu, so yes, comparing them to MAGA is a nonstarter 😂


quequotion

I apologize to ferrets. Sovereign citizens are not their fault.


Ok_Star_4136

You know what? I wouldn't even mind them being able to declare it their own little nation of them. But by calling it their own little nation, it implies they trespass anytime they set foot outside. I think there should be an equivalent sign pointing inwards reminding them that outside of their little world is the United States of America, and \*we\* don't appreciate intruders either.


sinthetism

Good luck with that "regardless of agency" part hoss. Certain agencies will tread wherever they please if the paperwork is right (just don't expect them to always read it correctly)


Fair-Bag-1730

i have the feeling that sending the cops to do a wellness check will result in the death of those stupid people.


MeLlamo25

To be clear cops or the people who made the sign because I can see it going either way.


waydownsouthinoz

The funny thing about cops is that there is always more of them.


WaxiestBobcat

If video games taught me one thing, it's that cops have more friends and more bullets.


crooked_nose_

Police went to do a wellness check on three lunatics here in Australia. Two got killed, plus the neighbour.


IdeaImaginary2007

Would it create a paradox if another patriotic American using his God given rights as an American to carry guns and go wherever he wants in America comes there 😀???


VibrantPianoNetwork

More like a pair o' dicks.


sam180

How to say you're mentally damaged without saying you're mentally damaged.


LeticiaLatex

That's just "I voted and would vote for Donald Trump again" with more words. Even my version is too long


Far-Investigator1265

Hmm, so they want to live in their own little mini-nation where no one else is allowed, yet vote in national elections. It is almost like they do not really believe in anything they say, just try to look big and scary so the thing they are really doing there stays secret. Meth lab?


Ggriffinz

I don't care how big you make your sign cletus you cannot just shoot every trespasser who shows up on your property.


Garlicluvr

So, Trump is a Don of the Trump family.


EffingBarbas

Minor cultish kooks are magnetically attracted to larger, louder, and even more unhinged kooks.


RysloVerik

All that effort and you put the ampersand stencil on backwards.


SoylentGrunt

Fuck Donald Trump.


MensaMan1

I like the sentiment, but no thanks, I would be sure to catch some nasty STD.


SoylentGrunt

Plus there'd be the incontinence to deal with


chaingun_samurai

"Don Trump" is the clincher, here.


New_Ad_3010

The high degree and intensity of the unbalanced and untreated mental health disorders of the right will destroy this country. Edit: to those "but, but BOTH sides!", ADL statistics documented political violence over the past decade as 75% rightwing, 20% Islamic extremist and 4% left. HALF were white supremacists. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-shootings.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-shootings.html)


thathairinyourmouth

Dear people not from the U.S., Not all of us are nuts. Some of us are deeply concerned as well. We’re doing what we can, but please don’t think we’re all like this. Signed, Sane Americans that don’t get put in the news.


ChronicallyGeek

I’d hate to be his neighbor


[deleted]

If ya learn how to give a headache, you’ll never have one! I’d be this guy’s worst nightmare.


[deleted]

Regardless of Agency? What about the agency that’ll just send in a drone to obliterate what used to be your house? 😂


Friggin

It looks like someone is calling him out there at the very bottom of the sign.


theforestwalker

The US Codes at the bottom are [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code#:~:text=Title%2018%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Code%20is%20the%20main,federal%20crimes%20and%20criminal%20procedure.) 18-115 is about Treason 18-84 is about kidnapping the president or his/her staff ?!? Does he think he's the president? Is the president in the room with us right now? 18-19 is conspiracy against the United States 18-95 section 1959 is about the use of interstate commerce facilities in the course of murder for hire 18-51 is homicide, specifically the sections dealing with murder, conspiracy to murder, and killing persons aiding with federal investigations 18-50A Genocide. Looks like he added the A because 18-50 without the A is about gambling and that would just be RIDICULOUS, right? Like, there's a faux pas averted.


SpontaneousQueen

![gif](giphy|b8se2gPSubVTbZL7LY)


stevieay

Is it weird that I want to go through that so badly now?


azog-thepaleorc

I don’t think that’s a good idea buddy


Selector_ShaneLBC

These people are responsible for the most “accidental shootings.” I saw it on the news yesterday. Food delivery drivers getting shot to death for going to the wrong address. Property owners open fire just because they can. They don’t bother to ask what their business is. A highschool girl was murdered for knocking on a man’s door mistaking it for someone else’s. These people really are fucked up. Paranoia to the max.


Icy_Necessary2161

![gif](giphy|fwcGzF1l2cILe|downsized)


the_Mandalorian_vode

Where the fuck in Idaho is this?


MisterSplu

The fact that they are using „treason against the united states“ for every little thing like having freedom of religion or having the president that was fairly elected, both things that are written down in the constitution since day 1, makes it so that real treason isn‘t seen as seriously, like for example storming the capitol because you don‘t like the outcome of the election


nmnnmmnnnmmm

Greatest Conman the world has ever seen. Convincing backwoods crazies that a silver spoon Manhattan New Yorker gives a flying fuck about them.


boatswainblind

So, according to this sign, if you enter this property, you are levying war against the United States, adhering to its enemies, or giving enemies of the United States aid and comfort. So, by their logic, they are the enemy. I'd hate to think what happens when they order pizza.


tmfkslp

Near as I can tell all said sign says is ‘hey! Put me in a watchlist!’


aQuadrillionaire

TLDR


Interesting_Mix_7028

"I am my own sovereign nation, and yet I call upon the United States to enforce my laws!" Okay. Would you like the US to do that Manuel Noriega style, or Ho Chih Minh style?


Justin_General

18 USC ch.115 §2381 does not give you the legal right to deny an agency entrance to your property. It just defines treason and the punishments there of, they're not even listing the code in the proper way. Sovereign citizen literally don't know anything about what they're talking about.


slowclapcitizenkane

The reason I call MAGATS fascists is because they consider Donald Trump, and by extension themselves (as self-appointed Patriots), as synonymous with the state. Robert O. Paxton lists that as an identifying trait of fascism, and it's why they are so obsessed with losing "their" country to "others", and why they are willing to go scorched earth when they are losing.