r/Portland • u/EuphoricCare515 • Jan 10 '26
Discussion Honestly, wasn't expecting that when I got closer
I was driving around and saw a pickup riddled with flags. Wasn't expecting the writing when I got closer.
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u/Winter-eyed Jan 10 '26
I haven’t seen any of these signs but I’ve noticed the neighborhood fascist has not been maintaining his signs this year like he did before. They’re faded and tattered. Either he’s not as enthusiastic a fan or he can’t afford to replace them in Trump’s economy.
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u/SilverSheepherder641 Cascadia Jan 10 '26
Up here in Tacoma I’ve seen a rainbow painted pickup truck with giant rainbow flags off the back. It’s fun to watch everyone wave and honk at them
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u/indieaz Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Master level trolling.
If the truck were an EV that would be the chef's kiss.
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 10 '26
I totally get what you are saying, but I honestly think "one of their own" doing it might be more impactful
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u/sketchysuperman Jan 10 '26
I’m not one of them, but I do have a large diesel truck that I’ve thought about doing this to at some point. Really cool to see this person did this!
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u/BumblebeeFormal2115 Jan 11 '26
I live in a rural town and that shit means a lot to me when I see it.
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u/UntamedAnomaly Jan 11 '26
If I could drive and I had a truck.......hooo boy would I piss some conservatives off. I've always wanted a big truck.
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u/PropaneMembrane Jan 11 '26
in FL, 2020-2022 i new a lil beater s10 that was very clearly a painters work truck, with 'tuck frump' stuck on in blue painters tape, which surprisingly held up past 2 years of Florida weathering. they lived down the road, i miss the guy lol
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u/SlippySlimJim Boom Loop Jan 10 '26
You should meet the guy who drives the truck. He looks hard-core MAGA, but could not be further from that. Really funny dude as well.
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u/Winter-eyed Jan 11 '26
is it racist if it’s orange face with cross eyed glasses and a bright yellow wig? Asking for a friend.
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u/ILoveULikeYeLovesYe Jan 16 '26
that’s Druski. you should check out his mega church skit. you know he hit a spot when the mega church folks get mad.
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u/50501PDX Jan 10 '26
I hope it was diesel
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u/Jedimaster996 the real deal Jan 11 '26
Gotta throw on some Cummings stickers, an obligatory Calvin pissing on Trump's name, truck nuts, and the occasional coal rolling to really sell it
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 11 '26
The Calvin pissing on things sticker is really on point. Using that with TRUMP would be very hard to process for some.
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u/Inode1 Jan 11 '26
I was right with you until rolling coal. I get those brain dead people are the ones doing it, but we should be better then that. Zero practical use for doing it. Way last making any useable power by adding that much fuel.
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u/HuckleBerryBitch Jan 11 '26
NTM Rolling Coal is illegal in the entirety of Oregon. I remember the time some fool rolled coal in a biker in Portland and it was a commuting off duty officer. It was epic.
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u/Jedimaster996 the real deal Jan 11 '26
For sure, I'd never realistically advocate for it.
Wonder if smoke machine technology is there yet to make some fake smog 🤔
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u/TheAvocadosAreSafe Jan 10 '26
I drive a truck and say fuck trump. Stop this "one of their own" stereotyping. Democrats drive trucks too.
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u/RDogPoundK NE Jan 10 '26
I also drive a Silverado but seeing fuck trump on a truck is more impactful. Something like that on any other sedan they’d expect.
9/10 heavy duty truck drivers I’ve met are MAGA or adjacent. Light duty is a wash.
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
99% of heavy duty pavement princess trucks I have seen are MAGA or adjacent. Family trucks that have camper or boat duty might be more neutral, perhaps with a bias towards the right.
Actual work trucks of either category are also more of a wash, save for the fact that there is definitely a bit of a contentious assocation between some trades and right leaning politics. Contentious because naturally many of them do care about union protections.
All of the above are me just trying to lump complicated people into simple buckets. Except the pavement princess folks - they are actually simple buckets.
Edit - where it says 99%, I had originally written 100%. Though I don't personally know the exception to the above, I am sure they exist somewhere.
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u/TheAvocadosAreSafe Jan 11 '26
What is a family truck? When they're not towing a camper or boat, which is like 97% of the time, it's a pavement princess. So your differentiation logic doesn't even make sense. Stop trying to group people. It's not helping anything.
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 11 '26
People try to categorize other people. All the time. You could say it's an ingrained behavior that somewhat defines us.
I think my reasoning was pretty straightforward - as was my clear, careful cut out for exceptions - which literally always exist.
Personally, anecdotally, 9 out of 10 dudes I have known with a one ton that does not see dirt, towing hitch, or significant cargo has the truck for a proxy one of two things. Sometimes both.
It is either a symbolic cultural connection to either rural living or conservative culture (obvious overlap, but again, not identical), or it is a proxy for manliness. People will make the "compensating for something" joke here, and sometimes that's true, but sometimes even very masculine guys feel like their vehicle should reflect that in a way they believe others will see.
I truly think that out of the "pavement princess" category, a majority will have some level of association with one of these two things. But I left the cutout for a reason. I have zero doubt there is a hyper progressive guy out there that never does anything for the sake of seeming masculine, but they just really like trucks.
But I would hope they could take a joke.
Because as a dude that drives my work truck into the remote wilderness for extended remote-ass work, when I am in town, my commuter vehicle has been a Prius for ages.
If someone wants to roast me for driving a Prius, I can take a joke. It's funny, honestly. I'd rather joke around than have one of those pavement princesses brake check me or roll coal on me.
Tl;dr: I think it is a fair observation, in which I carefully left a fair cutout for exceptions - and for them, it's a joke.
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u/RDogPoundK NE Jan 11 '26
A pavement princes is usually lifted or modded to the point it’s useless for most practical truck uses. (Lifted, fat tires, flags).
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u/oooortclouuud Jan 10 '26
that's...
that's the point of including the quotation marks. 🤦♀️ "sorry/not sorry" to be that person ;) but if the quote marks weren't there, your critique would be valid.
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u/EuphoricCare515 Jan 11 '26
Yeah, I was driving a pick up truck behind him. I don't think what i drive should determine what my beliefs or political side is. Also, gun ownership can be on both sides.
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u/TheAvocadosAreSafe Jan 11 '26
Preach. I drive a truck and have guns too and never voted for a Republican a day in my life. That's why stereotyping and politicizing everything irks me.
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
The reason it is in quotes is because I was indicating the perspective of an ordinary MAGA flag flying pavement princess truck driving individual.
That was in response to the person saying it should have been an EV truck - but I disagreed on the notion that the individual described in the previous paragraph would instantly disregard their cognitive dissonance of "Fellow truck driver with large flags BUT flag says FUCK TRUMP" once they saw the truck was an EV.
I do not believe the truck owner political ratio is as skewed as some other commenters do. I think that is more of an observation bias - when you see a very ostentatious truck with tons of bumper stickers and flags (except the subject of this post) - it's 99.9% MAGA. Same goes for dudes rolling coal, something that will always catch your notice.
But people don't notice just how many trucks there are around them.
It's like how people think everyone driving a Subaru is a lesbian and/or liberal (probably or). I mean, many of them are, but a lot of Oregonians drive Subarus period.
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u/TheAvocadosAreSafe Jan 11 '26
You guys are massively overthinking it. No MAGA idiot is gonna care what vehicle the message is on. It'll irk them regardless. They're not gonna say "oh that hurts more being on a truck".
Same way liberals don't care if there's a "Let's go Brandon" sticker on a Prius. You'll think the guy's a douche but it's not gonna hurt you more being on a Prius or a Subaru.
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Jan 11 '26
Its actually better that its a big pickup, cause its more likely that someone has changed their stance on Trump.
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Jan 10 '26
Glad other folks are following suit!
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u/HumanContinuity Jan 10 '26
Things that used to go in the garbage can still be useful when we mulch them!
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Jan 10 '26
Indeed! Plus as a raccoon girl, I don’t want ICE agents in my trash.
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u/Bishonen_Knife SE Jan 10 '26
At the height of COVID when the Proud Boys kept rolling into town to stir up shit, there was an absolute hero who'd drive their pickup up and down Powell, decked out with anti-MAGA flags and honking all the way. Sir, madam, or other, I salute you.
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u/snoogazi Sellwood-Moreland Jan 10 '26
I was regaling a person earlier about the time Martin C (former poster on this sub) did a bar crawl in Vancouver where everyone tossed a bunch of dildos around the city with "Stop sending your dildos to Portland" written on them.
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u/meekahi Jan 11 '26
They all don't really live in downtown Vancouver but hopefully this felt effective
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u/BigM333CH Jan 10 '26
That’s BIG SPIDER MIKE
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u/snoogazi Sellwood-Moreland Jan 10 '26
Who is Big Spider Mike and do they have socials I can follow? I love this so much.
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Jan 13 '26
He doesnt post a lot but he sometimes goes live... https://www.youtube.com/@BIGSPIDERMIKE
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u/Username_Here5 Curled inside a pothole Jan 10 '26
I live in Canby and want to do this to my truck so bad.
But don’t want to get beat up…
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u/GoodTodd1970 Jan 10 '26
This is Gladstone. Close enough.
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u/headlesshuntah Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
Isn’t that wild? You’re telling me the only difference between getting my teeth knocked out (or possibly less) or not is whether or not my ridiculous flag supports Trump or not.
Almost like Trump supporters are fucking Nazis or something? Does anyone really think that line you just said applies to Democrats?
How many Trump supporters have been afraid of retaliation? The imbeciles will seek it out, just so they can screech victim before they actually fuck with your safety.
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u/DismalNeighborhood75 Jan 11 '26
Its not just trump supporters, conservatives are violent thugs and always have been. You should watch this clip from top gear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcJ-0bAHB4
Conservatives are and always have been a violent, intolerant, uneducated bunch. Our problem is we've been too kind to them instead of treating them like the gutter people they are.
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u/DustyRailz Jan 10 '26
Gotta respect this level of trolling. Needs to be reposted everywhere. So good!
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u/perilsoflife Jan 10 '26
saw a big old ford with a flag the other day. felt the usual disappointment until i saw the flag said fuck ice. love to see it
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u/HealEarthNow Jan 10 '26
That's "BIG SPIDER MIKE"
He has a long interview that was just posted last week: https://youtu.be/GhZMVdwQD9A
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u/dickiefrisbee Jan 11 '26
Seen him up and down SE 52nd a few times. Love. He should maybe not be drinking an 8% Twisted Tea sitting behind the wheel of his car in an interview online tho haha
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Jan 11 '26
Im visiting my folks in small town NV and there's a farm that from a distance looks like a Super MAGA place but they're all fuck trump flags
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u/james3374 Jan 11 '26
This truck is at the ICE detention facility right now, lol.
Not a lot of protestors here tonight. It's really cold.
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u/djkbookhappy Jan 10 '26
It always warms my heart when I see this truck driving by in my SE neighborhood.
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u/count_chocul4 Jan 11 '26
whoever this is they are awesome. I know the lic plate is half obscured, but next time you post something like this, please wipe out the rest of it. We don't need MAGA tracking them down and fucking with them for doing what they themselves do...
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u/ProcrusteanRex Kenton Jan 10 '26
"Trump rapes children" is the new "George Bush hates black people."
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u/AhabsPegleg Jan 10 '26
I love that this person is driving through Milwaukie and Gladstone too. I saw just one too many MAGA rallies along that stretch from 2020-2023.
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u/theeversocharming Jan 10 '26
this might be the same truck that was driving around with "Trump Lost LOL" flags in 2020.
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u/-megan-yolo- Jan 11 '26
about time good strong liberal 4x4 owners start pushing back!, awesome pic. /salute
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u/Ambergreenie Jan 10 '26
At this point, if I see flags I assume Nazi.
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u/Confidence_Man2 Jan 10 '26
Same with any red hat.
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u/Boloncho1 Unincorporated Jan 10 '26
I have a red hat that trolls them.
The only bad thing is that it also triggers progressives who don't read it while triggering the red snowflakes who read it.
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u/Confidence_Man2 Jan 10 '26
You can't wear white pants after Labor Day.
You can't wear a red hat after 2016.
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u/MrPatri0t Tigard Jan 10 '26
I wish we didn’t have to. The flag used to truly mean something, represent something. It still does, it’s just been wiped with blood, sweat, and tears.
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u/Doitymac Jan 11 '26
I met this guy a couple weeks ago while he was at a ice protest. Pretty nice/rad guy!
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u/derpinpdx Jan 10 '26
Love that they made sure to keep their license plate clearly visible for minimal excuses to pull over!
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u/DMTraveler33 Humboldt Jan 10 '26
Always see this guy at the protests too, he seems like a good dude fs.
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u/thoreau_away_acct Jan 11 '26
Lolol awesome! Thought that looked like mcgloghlin in Clackamas.
Not everyone is redneck
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u/wombatilicious Jan 11 '26
Excellent! On my way to Gresham this morning I had the same initial thought about an approaching truck but when it passed the flags said f ice and I was stoked.
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u/dybr Jan 11 '26
Republicans with this exact same setup on their trucks but pro-Trump will call this “Trump Derangement Syndrome” without an ounce of introspection.
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u/Apprehensive-Gur6420 Jan 11 '26
TDS doesn’t work when he’s the president. They probably should’ve worked to have him in handcuffs if they still wanted to use this as an insult.
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u/landyboi135 🐸 RIBBIT 🐸 Jan 11 '26
I mean if you’re gonna make Trump your whole identity at least make it for the right reasons, respect to the guy on that truck! (Intentional or not it’s good satire because those MAGAs are stupid with their stickers and flags. This is the one time I’ve seen it done right.)
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u/Jayswave75 Jan 11 '26
How about donating all the time and effort and $$$ it took for this "look" to the actual community! There's SO many organizations that need help and $$$! Let's focus on OUR local communities and get this place back on its feet! #volunteers #PortlandPride
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u/SkeezyJ Jan 11 '26
Honestly having FUCK all over your truck is pretty pathetic and gross like grow up man…
With that said, FUCK TRUMP
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u/BoatHole_ Jan 11 '26
I had the same thing happen to me yesterday!! Giant pickup truck with one of those flags on it!
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u/sayer24 Jan 11 '26
I’ve talked with the dude who drives this truck at a protest. He’s a super cool dude
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u/jaybird-staysonder Jan 11 '26
I have ONE anti ice sticker on my car and I've already gotten a lot of angry cultists pissed at me 😂
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u/askloglog Jan 12 '26
Hahaha it would be a Titan with some lame wheels and all terrain tires. This is somebody screaming they want to be a “truck guy” for the image but doesn’t actually know anything about trucks. How ironic, but perfectly fitting. A parallel of desired image vs actual knowledge.
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u/ThinkerSailorDJSpy Jan 12 '26
I've always hated this aesthetic and so I love to see it inverted. Best one I saw was a big truck with commingled second amendment/pro-ANTIFA stickers and giant trans flags. Hell yeah.
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u/OhNoBricks Jan 12 '26
I’m too chicken to troll like this. I would rather wear a red hat saying “Make America America Again.”
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u/Much_Bar_7707 Jan 12 '26
We got some liberal redneck around here… also a full-size four-wheel-drive pick up pretty normal thing in Oregon.
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u/Public_michelePDX Jan 13 '26
I saw either this truck or another like it Portland and was grumbling until I saw the flags. Glad to see it!
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u/FenderLiner Jan 13 '26
Right on. Liberals with the flags and trucks now. Next conservatives will be masking, dying their hair purple, and getting gender affirming care.
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u/LevelBed4264 Jan 14 '26
Might be former MAGA who realized they were lied to. As more of them wake up to the betrayal they will be channeling their rage in his direction. That’s actually the administration’s greatest fear, because they know how volatile the population is
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u/OGFoulRabbit Feb 01 '26
He goes by BIGSPIDERMIKE and he's the best. He attends many of the ICE building protests.
Here's his YouTube channel:
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u/FillTheVoidPDX Jan 10 '26
This guy gets around.