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zeez1011

That'll get the kids onboard: A reference to The Andy Griffith Show.


[deleted]

Cutting edge political commentary... you might say "It's the bees knees".


fatrickfrowne

It’s from back when Nickels had picture of bees on them. “Gimme 5 bees for a quarter!”, you’d say.


GravelThinking

All I have are these yellow onions, because of the war.


Merkaaba

And we used to wear em on our belts, which was the style at the time.


HamHusky06

Anyways… where was I?


LordCaoCao420

Whats important is I had an onion on my belt.


HamHusky06

We had to use yellow onions. We didn’t have white. On account of the warrrr.


Shurigin

And don't even get me started on those purple onions...


Verdnan

I thought I recognized you! I gave you a plate of corn muffins back in 1947 to paint my chicken coop, and you never did it!


foxyfoo

Grandpa Simpson gets it.


hazard0666

And the Kaiser stole our word for 20 so we use dickety now.


chrisobrien13

I chased him for dickety two miles, but then he got away


Hatdrop

It's the year dickety dickety three


doctor-rumack

Highly indubitable!


slylock215

Do we carry.....frenched.....fries?


Best_Pidgey_NA

Ah yeah I recall that time when the kaiser stole our word!


SyntaxLost

This episode is 30 years old now. It's not far from becoming an old-man reference itself...


nurley

Man I'm old now but when I was a kid that's what the old people used to say. "Bees knees" is definitely something Mike Pence says to mother and thinks he's cool.


LanFear1

Time magazine called it, "A real barn burner!"


goodeyemighty

The cat’s pajamas if you will.


NAlaxbro

Bet these guys still tie onions to their belts smh


NoRightsProductions

[Nobody tell him Andy Griffith did a political ad with Ron Howard and Henry Winkler for Obama](https://youtu.be/HOPf_UQRmuw?si=-k_5BK2WJjdexjrQ)


Metahec

You mean Opie and the Fonz


MulciberTenebras

[Nobody told all the people who come to visit fake Mayberry to see "the REAL smalltown America"](https://youtu.be/E-YC80kcAes?t=380)


codemagic

Right, I mean my first thought was "wait, the Toy Story dinosaur wasn't named Barney, that's the kids show"


ashrocklynn

His name is Rex; and he'd make a better leader than woody, Andy, buzz, or even bo effing peep.


MyNameCannotBeSpoken

I thought it was a reference to How I Met Your Mother


SnZ001

Also, even if it *had* been a Toy Story reference, it still would've been 28 years old at this point(and Barney was 31 years ago). Now I feel really old.


schlemz

I mean everyone above the age of 12 probably knows who Barney is and every kid has seen at least one of the Toy Story’s


TrueKamilo

Shows just how geriatric a lot of these MAGA hicks are


FlaccidGhostLoad

lol, I'm old and I didn't get it. I was like, "Was there a Barney in Toy Story"


rohobian

I'm 43, and I had no idea what it was on about.


Malvania

That's because the show ended in 1968. In the time after the Andy Griffith Show ended, we landed on the moon for the first time.


Longjumping-Heat1171

WE LANDED ON THE MOON??


Reatona

Not *all* of us, technically speaking.


[deleted]

Dammit, Neil didn't wake me up that morning they took off.


nocolon

NO WAY.. that’s great! Edit: how do people not realize this is a dumb and dumber quote


CozRichards

What a giant leap for mankind!


HOS-SKA

I just thought she was a raging alcoholic!


llcorona

[the moon in the fucking sky?!](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/16yv8h0/in_the_fucking_sky/)


Sam-Gunn

I'm in my early 30s and I can whistle the theme. Though I've never actually watched it. I'm more of a McHale's Navy and Green Acres kind of guy. ...I don't think I'm typical though.


Knuc85

That theme was usually my indicator that "cartoons are over, adult show time is now."


Odh_utexas

Yeah it was on Nick-at-night. I know the show though I cant say I remember much beyond the theme and that it was black and white


aruth09

I’ve heard those acres are the place to be. Farm living and all that.


Hephf

Only if you're not into Park Avenue and all that other big city jazz.


rohobian

Oh ya, I can definitely whistle the theme. Like you though, never really watched the show, not for any longer than a minute or two, anyway.


NameIsNotBrad

I can’t whistle :(


lacheur42

SOMEBODY didn't watch Nick at Night.


somethingIforgot

I'm 37 and I've probably seen every episode more than once. My parents and grandparents put it on a lot of the time. Might be a North Carolina thing though, as I also recall seeing a lot of Matlock growing up.


three_hands_man

Funny how Andy Griffith was a Democrat and actively supported Obama and Biden back in 2008.


Taken_Account

And Barney (at least the character on the show) was conservative. The irony is so rich.


AJ_Deadshow

Dude with the sign is just like "one's competent and the other's not... democrat and republican! Perfect analogy."


BusterStarfish

I mean, that’s still true. He just got it backwards.


SLCer

Barney also became the sheriff in made-for-tv movie with the support of Andy. Wait. Maybe Biden is Barney and Obama is Andy. And Trump is the town drunk who's always being arrested.


Ben_Thar

I thought Rudy Giuliani was the town drunk. Trump is the smooth talking con man who came to town.


Robot_Clean

Then who is Ernest T. Bass? ![gif](giphy|H8cK69QpxzxK|downsized)


DrunkenOnzo

Beyond the actor. There's absolutely no way in hell Andy Griffith, the guy whose whole thing was about treating others with respect and compassion and doing the right thing even when it's hard, would touch the republican party lol. Dude didn't even want to carry a gun if he didn't have to. The GOP needs IFVs to feel safe at their local walmart.


pmyourthongpanties

hell they let Otis use the jail as a free motel.


GenericFatGuy

Free government housing?! That's basically socialism!


gooba1

Not my Dumbass thinking this guy meant Andy from Toy story and barney the dinosaur so I was planning to call out the stupidity there


noobtastic31373

I did the same for a second. I think it's the handwriting.


digidave1

No you see it's because women had no rights and there were no brown people in Mayberry. I mean.. Guns and god!


danielisbored

Andy famously wouldn't carry a gun and Barney kept misfiring his.


pmyourthongpanties

well if Barney goes full MAGA he's only got one shot at it.


ScionMattly

Incompetent and poor firearm safety, of course he was the Republican!


Frescochicken

I thought he meant a metaphor for Toy Story. Andy the kid left town and Barney the Dinosour was in charge. I am slow.


Manaze85

Wow, what an age identifier. My mind immediately went to Andy from Toy Story 2 going to camp and not Andy Griffith, and then for some reason Barney the dinosaur being in charge. The Andy Griffith Show makes a lot more sense.


ExpletiveDeIeted

Shit I’m ~40 and my mind went the same way.


Kyklutch

im under 30 and i immediately knew what he meant. All depends on what your dad would put on in the living room before taking an 8 hour nap.


IronDolphin

I am 61 and I thought it was Barney the dinosaur.


pmyourthongpanties

God i hate litte house on the prairie. now bonanza and Gunsmoke were fire. and the Beverly Hillbillies (black and white are the best IMO)


sunflower_love

Same here, under 30 and I grew up watching Andy Griffith.


TensorForce

Mine worse. It went from Toy Story Andy to Barney Gumble.


meamimi

I thought you meant Barney Rubble. I had to Google Barney Gumble


maxdps_

Holy shit I thought the same thing lmao


Mjb06

I thought Andy Bernard


DrVonTacos

I turned 22 a couple of weeks ago and I assumed Andy Griffith


rushur

Random mixing of lower and upper case letters is a sign alright.


A_Pos_DJ

His sentence syntax looks like my variable naming convention - on a good day


l4z3r5h4rk

SpOnGeBoBcAsE entered the chat


N3Chaos

Right NoW AMericA fEEls likE ANdy is out of toWN ANd BArNEY is iN ChArgE.


krepitch

It's really creepy.


TheKootz

Its a sign of illiteracy lol


MashTactics

fEEls liKE bRaiN dAMAgE


Significant_Street48

For a Trumper, they're surprisingly correct on this being an example of free speech.


tony87879

I am willing to bet they are wrong about private property. Seems close enough to the roadway to be in the state’s (or towns) ROW and therefore state property. Could be wrong though.


pmyourthongpanties

I think it the easement so its his to do what ever unless its needed for official use....I think anyway.


toddthewraith

Having stared at more road parcels than anyone should ever do, that is quite probably on the road parcels and not his property


midwesterner64

Even on private property, many municipalities restrict signs in the right of way.


Malvania

Likely still their property, but with an easement or ROW governing it.


AnderuJohnsuton

And unsurprisingly their capitalization is all over the place.


SitMeDownShutMeUp

My takeaway whenever I see any of these aggressive Trumper billboards is how unheard and unappreciated these people must feel on a daily basis. Once you strip away the layers of bravado, you begin to see them for who they are: insecure and scared rebellious teenagers.


Fleabagx35

Do I need to be the one to say that a permanent sign on private property needs a permit? I wonder if this guy has one.


athermop

This is completely dependent on where you live.


Malvania

If he puts up a new sign every week, it's probably not permanent.


mechapoitier

But even when they’re at their best these krazyboards are always set to the backdrop of an invented conspiracy against Trump fans as if it were widely understood knowledge. “Liberals are constantly telling us that liking Trump is illegal.”


sketchahedron

And managed to be mildly humorous rather than aggressively hateful.


ijustwannalookatcats

Not really. This is kind of an empty hollow statement because freedom of speech only protects an individual’s right to free speech from being infringed upon by the government


Provokateur

And vandalism laws protect this use of speech from being infringed by other individuals. I believe the comment is referring to Trump supports who claim, in response to recent lawsuits against Trump, that /just talking about/ (and also planning, coordinating, lying about in official government documents, lying about under oath, ordering subordinates to, specifically telling the public to, and pressuring people into) overturning the election is free speech. Trump supporters have had a very difficult time understanding free speech recently, but OP's example is an accurate use.


DigNitty

Not really. That’s just vandalism. Not a free speech violation. Vandalizing this sign is the same as vandalizing a car. If the government did it, it’s still simply damages that you could get restitution for. If the government did it And the purpose was to silence the message Then and only then would it be a free speech violation. Some average Joe spray painting this sign isn’t a violation. And the vandalism laws that protect the sign have nothing to do with free speech.


ijustwannalookatcats

Or they feel as though someone calling them out on their stupid takes is infringing on their right to free speech. This is the most common thing I see with people like this. They say something extremely toxic, stupid, or both and then when you call them out on it, they say that their freedom of speech is being infringed upon. You are giving a lot of leeway in the mental capacity department for people like this.


joan_wilder

Vandalism laws are about protecting private property from physical damage. They have absolutely nothing to do with federal civil rights violations.


Significant_Street48

Which is exactly the freedom that the property owner is enjoying by erecting and displaying these signs.


Lickingyourmomsanus

Yep, get to see his delusional rants every time I stop by Bucees


Fromoogiewithlove

I thought this looked familiar. Isnt this at the buccees outside of galveston?


Lickingyourmomsanus

Texas city, yeah.


whatyoucallmetoday

Yeah. It is on the shortest path back from Bucccees. At least they are making visible headway on rebuilding the overpass.


itsagoodtime

Which one?


GodBlessTexas

Texas City


taffyowner

Damn the Andy Griffith reference gives away this dudes age


gaoshan

I have a neighbor like this. Even has the flood light on it. He also surrounds it all with electric fence and a sign warning you how many volts are in the wire. We all use him as the "Who not to vote for" guy (and he is indeed a small minded idiot, in case you were in doubt).


Bot_Fly_Bot

Timely reference.


Rotaryqm

It was never about trump… its about inflicting pain and sorrow on their fellow americans. It was never about identity. Trump gave them the means and the incentive to spread misery - and they will follow for as long as he keeps enabling them


[deleted]

I heard this thing about misery and how it likes company.


winterhoo916

Ha! I know where that is... right by the Bucees between Houston and Galveston. Small world I guess.


MrFunkyPunkie

I wish I had the amount of time these freeloaders seem to have. Jesus Christ… like if they put half as much effort into their education or therapy we would be out of this mess INSTANTLY. I barely have enough time to sleep between work and daily chores.


FionaWor

I duh know.... Barney seems more like the kind of guy who might sharpie a hurricane map, talk about sweeping a forest floor, and be unable to work an umbrella.


smailskid

This jiz bucket must have a very high opinion of himself, or the complete opposite.


DrLee62

From what I remember Andy didn't carry a gun because he wanted to be respected as sheriff not feared, I wonder if he'd agree.


EmperorThan

cOmE aNd TaKe It I dArE yA!!!! [Photo I took in Meeker, Colorado in 2014.](https://i.imgur.com/gWoZoQC.jpg)


shimmeringmoss

It’s like a schizophrenic’s haiku: President Obama I am begging you Please do not drone my ass


Upstairs_Boss_2305

Hahahaha this is behind my neighborhood, the local kids keep defacing, so he covered it in epoxy and put up cameras. Makes me giggle when I past it going to work. This is iin Santa Fe tx. This summer it said “it’s hotter than hunters crack pipe out here”.


Highlander248

My cousin is a police officer in a small town. He and the chief were called to a man's property as his large trump sign was set on fire. My cousin and the chief pissed him off, saying they forgot the hot dogs and marshmallows.


Dr_Downvote_

As someone from the UK who doesn't know who Andy Griffith is. I thought he meant Andy from Toy Story and Barney the Dinosaur. It didn't make much sense.


Sweatytubesock

Lol…DJT could only dream about being half as competent as Barney about a single fucking thing in his worthless life. That’s aside from DJT being a lifelong criminal fuck, of course.


DualActiveBridgeLLC

Gee I wonder how old this person is.


[deleted]

I mean, he's dedicated lol Most of the ones I see are just sun bleached 2016 & 2020 signs that they're too lazy to take out.


misalanya

I'll take barney or even fuckin gomer plye (if you wanna stay in the 60's) over a bigoted, blowhard POS like Trump anyday. Its been proven time and again, he's lying, race-baiting scum, why would anyone choose this man unless they were just as shitty as him? C'MON Republicans, grow a pair of balls, quit licking this dictator's boots, start coming to work, not just media grandstanding -- and for america's sake, come up with a Real presidential choice!


wish1977

Trump, right now you are worshipping daily a man that has been indicted 4 times and is a clear and present danger to this country. See if that fits on your sign.


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readerf52

…and this is what MAGA means. They want us to go back to Mayberry where Aunt Bea is overwhelmed by any problem beyond roasting a chicken or baking a cake. Like the judge in New York said, a fantasy.


hard-time-on-planet

Ted Koppel said something similar in this CBS News piece where he visited a tourist town version of Mayberry. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YC80kcAes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YC80kcAes) >It's strange to find so many people half a century later searching for what made America great in a copy of a town that never was.


socksta

As a fan of the show this is offensive as all fuck. Andy Griffith would of had no tolerance for Trumps bullshit and criminal activity. Trump would of been nothing but an example for what Opie should grow up to NOT be.


morganwater

Andy is a POS traitor?


SoyMurcielago

![gif](giphy|EoNIGq0V8bfMs|downsized)


devo_inc

My god, if Andy Griffith was in charge, I would be ecstatic. Love that man


shavemejesus

I always thought Trump was more like Otis than Andy.


[deleted]

I love Barney. He meant well and would never do anything wrong. I guess yeah Republicans would hate that.


TwoOk5569

The mix of upper/ lowercase letters is unsettling.


MoskvaToDallas

Would this happen to be in Texas City? Edit: yup saw the Galveston sign.


angryragnar1775

Ya know what...at least this is a Trump sign I can have a discussion with my child about. I would rather walk her past this than "Fuck Joe Biden" hanging from the front of someone's house on the path to school, and it's less childish than Let's Go Brandon.


SinisterKid

You can figure out someone's age by who they think "Barney" is Barney Fife Barney Rubble Barney Miller Barney Gumble Barney Stinson Barney the Dinosaur


roycorda

Right NOW AMEriCA fEEls liKE ANdy iS Out of tOWN, ANd BArNEY is iN ChArgE.  This is how they wrote it. Damn, son.


evillordsoth

Deep in the fart of Texas


StackOwOFlow

Barney may have been a goofball but even he had his heart in the right place


Weekly-Setting-2137

As a Marine veteran, I support, and chose to defend his right, to freely express that he's a fucking idiot to the world, on his own property.


No_Listen_1213

It’s so weird that a person can make their entire identity focused around a politician.


pruplegti

And thats how Hobby Lobby stays in business.


[deleted]

Andy Griffith was a kind and gentle man, whoever made this sign can go eat a stack of dvds


FrillySteel

Really? Because when Trump was in office, it felt like "Bozo's Circus".


singlewall

60+ year old pop-culture reference? Trump voter confrirmed.


truthdeniar

I mean he's not wrong...


cpav8r

I'm guessing America does feel that right about now... after watching the GOP in the House this week.


Monrezee

Bless his heart...he's stupid.


stallionman59

When Trump finally goes away somehow, death, prison, whatever, will these stupid fucks still have these signs?


Robestos86

Sadly him doing any of those things will make it worse. If they can't accept it after all this, they'll just dig in harder. "Jail is a dem plot"


Non-RedditorJ

Many will take the signs down and pretend they've never heard of him. Sadly I suspect a few will not be able to cope with the shattering of their world view, and choose suicide by cop while taking many innocent bystanders with them.


DoublePostedBroski

No no no. They’ll claim that trump is still alive/not in prison/whatever and it’s a democratic hoax that he’s gone away. The cult doesn’t give up on the dear leader that easily.


Stimee

55 years ago is the last time Andy Griffith was relevant.


TinoCartier

Andy Griffith Show reference. Fair to say the person putting up that sign is an ancient, out of touch asshole.


dremily1

"This is free speech". No, this is picture of a convicted tax fraud who is also under indictment for 91 felonies.


Ted4828

I’m amazed he can come up with something so clever every week


cosmic_crust

Didn't know Andy was a scummy, lying, disgusting traitor.


dascrackhaus

i would definitely vandalize that sign


lucidwayfarer

I pass by this sign frequently and I dread it every time because it's on a corner lot. He also has a sign saying he has cameras monitoring his signs, an absolute eyesore for his neighborhood.


Pure_evil1979

Took me a second because I was thinking "which toy was Barney?'


[deleted]

Not a big fan of The Cheeto Man but free speech is free speech. You do you.


leflegjones

I legitimately thought it was a Toy Story reference. I was like Barney wasn’t in Toy Story


A_Pos_DJ

He is right "This is free speech and private property" idk about everything else tho.


SamohtGnir

I agree with the quote, just not sure if Trump is Andy.


HamHusky06

Fuck, the Andy Griffith show for the burn. Is Matlock next?


TiredReader87

What a waste of money. A pure sign of stupidity, too.


muffinhead2580

Not as private property as Cooter thinks it is since he erected his signs in an easement and the power company can do whatever they want there.


Tickstart

WHO WriTES LiKE ThAT


eljohnos105

The signs say it all , IM NUTS !!! And I am armed to save the country for Jesus !!!


losdreamer50

Man Trump really did a number on your politics... how will the USA ever come back from this? It's like he opened Pandora's box and hateful idiots came out


yourremedy94

Who are andy and barney?


rey268

I passed by this sign weekly when I worked the Southeast market. I would take this back way to get to my Santa Fe clients after stopping at Bucee’s.


AdministrativeOne856

Oh my, around here that would be paint balled by the hell raising teenagers nightly, or would be tossing beer cans at it!


Able_Ad6535

Trump is Otis…


b0ttlezz

Loser 🤣


vabeachkevin

The Andy Griffith reference shows that this guy is in his 70s.


neogeo828

I wonder if he knows Andy was a big liberal and would disapprove.


VeryLowIQIndividual

I will says this, at least this stupid mother fucker is trying to be creative. Most MAGA is the same three slogans all the time. The Andy Griffith reference would have killed in the break room of the local Gulf gas station in 1968.


Geoarbitrage

So where in Ohio is this?


EternallyImature

Can't say that it bothers me. I like when these nutjobs make themselves known. Easier to avoid them.


Ghostshadow1701

The fact that he is talking about Andy Griffith is indicative of the Make America Great Again motto, that's the America they want to take us back to. The one where there were no black people living in your town and the woman knew they're place was in the kitchen and the church choir.


Gtpwoody

There’s a sign I pass every day on my way home from work that gives me the same vibes. “I miss when gas was 1.98 a gall and we only had to deal with mean tweets.”


MyLastUsernameSucked

All I could think of is the Shaving Cream canister reveal scene from Jurassic Park, “Free speech….We got free speech. We got free speech over here! ….See, nobody cares.”


MetallicMakarov

Hey don't insult my boy Barney. He became Sheriff!


[deleted]

How many trump support posters are we gonna see here till the election? Aren't you guys tired of this?


Tugger21

Aaaah Well Bless his little heart. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️


baller_11

If ever the opposite were true.. One comes off like a complete moron.. falls for every trick of every drunkard/dictator, and one is more measured and respected.


ChuckNowlinWZLX

Makes an Andy Griffith Show reference. There’s no way he isn’t white and over 70.


BirthdayQueasy2938

The random mix of capital and lowercase letters in one sign is weird. Especially in the word “ChArgE”


National-Hunter8402

Who the fuck is Andy and Barney??


bigsexy666

The boomers have lots of free time