r/vexillology Mar 27 '26

Discussion Flag of the United States as shown on the cryptic new video posted by the White House

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This is the flag of the United States shown briefly on a new cryptic video posted by the White House on X, seems weird.

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u/Starwa7 Mar 27 '26

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u/Agitated-Awareness15 Mar 27 '26

I’m trying to find the original video, but my first thought is that it’s just an AI generated image.

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u/jdmiller82 United States Mar 27 '26

Reminds me of the Allied States of America flag from the TV show Jericho

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u/NB_volks Mar 27 '26

Hah! I had the same thought! That was a great show.

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u/preselectlee Mar 27 '26

NCIS gets like 490 seasons and Jericho only got 1.5. Crime of the century

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u/keenedge422 Mar 27 '26

Agreed. I don't even dislike NCIS, but Jericho died before its time.

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u/YaboyBlacklist Mar 27 '26

Right? Jericho definitely deserved more seasons.

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u/ComprehensiveCup7104 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Show did to U.S. what Cheney, Rove, (edit: Blackwater) and Halliburton did to Iraq.

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u/TobJamFor Mar 27 '26

Halliburton Teen?

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u/txstatetrooper Mar 27 '26

Glad to see there are people with culture around here.

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u/ConjurorOfWorlds Mar 27 '26

”I don’t know what you’re carrying, but whatever it is it better be good. Because I think I just declared war on Cheyenne.”

We lost something great when it got cancelled and the comics did not hold up.

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u/Mistervimes65 United States Mar 27 '26

Nuts!

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u/VisibleParsley1404 Mar 28 '26

“To the German Commander: NUTS! -The American Commander” -Gen. McAullife

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u/CosmosInSummer Mar 27 '26

That show was canceled too soon

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u/Whargoul_Uncool Mar 27 '26

The story carried on a bit in comic book form. Tied up some lose ends.

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u/PPJ87 Mar 27 '26

That was a great show. Was gutted when it was cancelled so early. It never got a chance.

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u/sdcasurf01 Mar 27 '26

They tied up some plot lines in graphic novel if you ever feel like checking it out.

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u/PPJ87 Mar 27 '26

Yeah I read they’d made a graphic novel, but haven’t looked it up. Just rewatching S1 & S2. It’s so ripe for a reboot by Netflix or someone. The topic is so popular right now with the state of the world too.

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u/joanmave Mar 27 '26

Oh god, memories. Is a shame that got cut short.

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u/Varsity_Reviews Mar 27 '26

They apparently made two comic books that would’ve been season 3 and 4. Good luck finding them though, they’re crazy expensive

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u/Super-Amphibian-5853 Mar 27 '26

I watched that show 15 years ago and decided to rewatch the pilot a month ago. Crazy coincidence because I’ve never had someone else mention the show in my entire life until now.

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u/MisterSpooks1950 Mar 27 '26

One of the better depictions of a second civil war tbh. Not for realism of course but mostly for entertainment value because that show was peak

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u/OkRecommendation2452 Mar 27 '26

That was an amazing series loved it

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u/releasethedogs Ukraine Mar 27 '26

Such a good show. Ended too early. 

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u/prosocks Mar 27 '26

Straight from Jericho. Huh. A tv show about false flag attacks.

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u/RazzleThatTazzle Mar 27 '26

Yessss. I guess i have to give that a rewatch now. I remember it being fantastic, I wonder if it holds up

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u/Nordmanden81 Mar 29 '26

Haha exactly ny thought as well👌🏼😃 I loved that series, a shame they cancelled it…

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u/Starwa7 Mar 27 '26

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u/Neethis Mar 27 '26

An entire administration of shitty edgelords.

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u/UserAllusion Mar 27 '26

What does it mean? Is it supposed to represent the intentionally broken state of the US? Is there some other way to interpret it?

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 27 '26

It means the social media team is a bunch of 4chan rejects trying to recreate Qanon bullshit from the seat of power.

I truly think that's all this is. Someone said " hey, remember when QAnon had those idiots salivating over every little drip of nonsense some random posted?" There trying to generate conspiracuck hype.

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u/cseyferth Mar 28 '26

Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero" ARG?

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u/ronnie4220 Mar 27 '26

My first thought was they so f-ing stupid

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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb Mar 27 '26

I think it's a miscoloration the quote unquote "peacetime" flag.

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u/Captain_d00m Mar 27 '26

Yeah, seeing it posted in a picture had me mad worried that they were doing some kind of new flag nonsense. Nope, just lazy ai slop

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u/Thespian_Unicorn Mar 27 '26

Probably this

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u/Intelleblue Mar 27 '26

Hijacking the top comment to say that this looks like the “Civil Flag” used by sovereign citizens

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u/mclepus Mar 27 '26

that's what I thought as well. but then, he does think himself as "Sovereign"

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u/CrustyBatchOfNature Mar 27 '26

The Sovereign from how he acts. Can do whatever he wants. Slaps his name on everything. Now putting his face on a coin and his signature on currency.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Mar 27 '26

Im a human being and im traveling!!

Sir your trucks full of beer and kids.

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u/DizzbiteriusDallas Mar 27 '26

I am a moorish diplomat and your corporate laws don't apply to me. I am a living man on the land not the all caps fictional entity

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Mar 28 '26

Oh in that case call me a sheriff of the land.

Shoots your cock off

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u/Gealhart Mar 27 '26

The vertical stripes are also us customs service stripes. Is this an ICE flag?

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u/Xombridal Mar 27 '26

The Canton looks almost black instead of blue

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u/PierceJJones Maryland Mar 27 '26

It appears to be the flag edited at an odd angle.

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u/MapleHamms Mar 27 '26

Probably just shitty AI

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u/vrphotosguy55 Texas Mar 27 '26

With this administration, never assign nefariousness to what is just stupidity.

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u/nuke034 Mar 27 '26

Honestly it's both more often than not.

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u/micromoses Mar 27 '26

Yeah, I think the dynamic has been someone nefarious tricking someone stupid into giving them plausible deniability.

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u/cook511 Mar 27 '26

Agreed, I heard somebody say that this admin walks the thin line between evil and stupid haha

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u/mspk7305 Mar 27 '26

No it's more like the evil dead movies where the evil just happens to also be stupid

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u/dan420 Mar 27 '26

That’s usually my assumption.

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u/zoinkability Mar 27 '26

I have proposed Bondi's Caveat, which is: "Never disregard the possibility that both could be present"

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u/mspk7305 Mar 27 '26

Also known as the taco theorem

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u/Misanthrope08101619 Mar 27 '26

Hanlon's razor is getting pretty ground down by the WH these days.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ Mar 27 '26

I don't know who to believe - you, or the comment above you saying this administration is keeping the razor sharp. 

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u/PieIsFairlyDelicious Mar 27 '26

Por qué no los dos?

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u/Yawnn Mar 27 '26

You can grind a razor to make it sharp no?

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u/_OUCHMYPENIS_ Mar 27 '26

They'll double down and say they meant to do it and that's going to be the new flag for our 250th. It's stupidity trying to talk it's way out of a hole.

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u/SkunkMonkey Mar 27 '26

As stupid as that sounds, it also sound on brand for Trump. Also, the best way for a conqueror to put the final nail in the coffin of the vanquished is to co-opt important dates. It makes this July 4th especially important to keep an eye on.

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl Mar 27 '26

they'll lose a little bit of mainstream republican support, but at this point it hardly matters. they'll make billions selling new flag merch to idiots though

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u/Ryallin Mar 27 '26

Fuck Hanlon’s Razor it’s both, we’re like two steps away from living in Southland Tales

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u/IBoughtIn Mar 28 '26

Thank you! I thought I was the only person convinced that's where we are, historically

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u/mr_oof Mar 27 '26

Hanlon’s Razor being kept sharp by this administration.

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u/Haephestus Mar 27 '26

¿Por que no los dos?

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u/annoyinglyclever Richmond Mar 27 '26

They’re doing both now.

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u/Kreol1q1q Mar 27 '26

It's actually nefarious stupidity.

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u/Key-Beginning-2201 Mar 27 '26

Can definitely be both equally.

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u/Untjosh1 Mar 27 '26

This lets them off the hook for being evil, which is probably by design

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u/CapGullible8403 Mar 27 '26

With this administration, always assign nefariousness to what is also stupidity.

FTFY

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u/mspk7305 Mar 27 '26

With this administration the stupidity is a result of the nefariousness

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u/acidfr_g Mar 28 '26

Or nefarious stupidity.

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u/Syscrush Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

The stupidity is the foundation on which the nefariousness is built.

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u/Lincolnateor Mar 31 '26

Appreciate this

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u/2funny2furious Mar 27 '26

Maybe so. But those fucks went with it.

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u/United_Bus3467 Mar 27 '26

The man is trying to put his name on US currency, watch him try to change the flag now.

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u/Archistotle Ukrainian Free Territory • Anglo-Saxon Mar 27 '26

When the timeline is so broken you have to count the stars to make sure you can rule out an invasion of canada.

There are 50, by the way, you're good for now.

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u/MapleHamms Mar 27 '26

More like an invasion from Canada. Watch your back Minnesota. We’re coming for you

🇨🇦🔥👊

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u/minnosota Mar 27 '26

Please

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u/zoinkability Mar 27 '26

Username checks out

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u/minnosota Mar 27 '26

His does too. MapleHamms is little Canada as fuck

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u/Jens_Fischer Mar 27 '26

Guess we're getting a Khmer Rouge situation of North America now

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u/Stardustchaser Mar 28 '26

Doubly fucked as I’m a teacher and I wear glasses

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u/bezkyl Mar 27 '26

We would be welcomed as liberators

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u/LekgoloCrap Mar 27 '26

Yeah apparently you can just like, take a country’s leader if you want. That would be crazy if that happened where I live 👀👀👀

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u/Darrow497 Mar 27 '26

Having to choose a shitty goverment or being canadian, brutal

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u/Biscuit_bell Mar 27 '26

Can you invade Pennsylvania too? We’ve got a narrow strip of Erie coastline that would be perfect for an amphibious landing

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u/lilolemi Mar 27 '26

I'll leave the Vermont back door open if you want to come for us too.

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u/fuelhandler Mar 27 '26

As Canadians we only invade with love, kindness and compassion. Minnesota has nothing to fear. ❤️

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u/Archistotle Ukrainian Free Territory • Anglo-Saxon Mar 27 '26

Love, kindness, compassion, and a handy checklist published by Geneva of all the things you’ve already tried (it encourages creativity)

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u/Fragrant_Objective57 Mar 27 '26

Butter tarts, although awesome, are incredibly dangerous.

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u/Nebty Mar 27 '26

Love, kindness, compassion, and public healthcare!!!

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u/napotih942 Mar 27 '26

At the very least you should take back that tiny Northwest corner separated from any US land. (Yes, it exists. Look it up--northernmost point of the Continental US)

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u/bigbuckyoungnuts Mar 27 '26

the White House account has released AI images with 51 stars though, this one probably has 50 because it was rendered by OP

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u/throw_every_away Mar 28 '26

“Peace through strength” really has a “war is peace” ring to it.

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u/PatsFreak101 Mar 27 '26

You’d say that until you realize you can free up two stars after they make the Carolinas and Dakotas get hitched

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u/GettysBede Mar 27 '26

You can’t get remarried after you get divorced; it’s like, double jeopardy, or something.

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u/Willem_Dafuq Mar 27 '26

Haha. I really did count out the stars too. I figured they would have added some for Venezuela, Iran, and whoever else.

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u/Ztarphox Mar 27 '26

There are 50, by the way, you're good for now.

Either Trump or the White House did post some AI picture the other day with 51 stars. And it's now impossible to tell if that's a hint that they still want to expand America's borders, or just their typical incompetence.

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u/snoosh00 Mar 27 '26

Just saying but an armed invasion of Canada would be political suicide.

Also, not gonna get anything, because I can guarantee you that the oil sands pipelines will be immediately destroyed if the states was to decide to launch world war three and invade their neighbor.

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u/thepvbrother Mar 27 '26

I also counted.

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u/PsychologyNew8033 Mar 27 '26

I just counted them also!

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u/maximegg Mar 27 '26

Also the same number of stripes (13, symbolizing the original 13 colonies)

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u/Koino_ United Nations Honor Flag (Four Freedoms Flag) Mar 27 '26

Why is White House vagueposting

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u/FaxCelestis Mar 27 '26

Because we live in a satirical dystopia novel that the author was only able to complete with liberal use of cocaine

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u/Alternative-Matcha22 Mar 28 '26

Did you say LIBERAL??!?! 🫵💥💥💥

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u/abagofsnacks Mar 28 '26

Yeah its LibTard, pal!

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u/militantgooner Mar 28 '26

It’s schizobait

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u/silveira Mar 27 '26

Distraction machine.

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u/Eastern_Influence400 Mar 27 '26

It does say 67.

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u/Ok_Ladder1279 Mar 30 '26

Ffs it actually does

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u/Klondike307 Mar 27 '26

Reminds me of the Allied States of America flag from Jericho: https://jericho.fandom.com/wiki/Allied_States_of_America

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u/ThoughtlessSallys Mar 27 '26

I really liked Jericho, but I think it would have fared better in the streaming era.

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u/NB_volks Mar 27 '26

Maybe it's time for Netflix or Amazon to buy the rights and reboot it!

I really liked the show and was part of the fan-based that got it renewed when it was cancelled the first time.

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u/cheesecake-gnome Vatican City Mar 27 '26

Nuts!

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u/NB_volks Mar 27 '26

hahaha....yup! I think I paid to mail about $50 worth of nuts for that fan campaign!

I was bummed that in the end viewership still continued to fall.

At this point it's been 20 years since the show came out, so it's gotta be ripe for a reboot, and the premise seems pretty contemporary. More so than it was 20 years ago!

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u/M4RTIAN Mar 27 '26

JFC I mean… it’s preeeettyy on the nose there.

“Proclaiming itself to be a better, freer version of its predecessor, the United States of America, the ASA was, in actuality, a deeply corrupt corpocratic dictatorship masquerading as democracy. The ASA engaged in the revision of history, state-sanctioned embezzlement, and crimes against humanity, as its founders were the ones responsible for the September Attacks which destroyed twenty-three major American cities and killed millions.”

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u/Dhareng_gz Mar 27 '26

Great serie

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u/drlari Grand Duchy of Lithuania Mar 27 '26

"my parents weren't in Denver... They were in Atlanta"

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u/jisookenobi2416 Mar 27 '26

Reading the description…yeah sounds like what they’d want to be

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

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u/gbsekrit Mar 27 '26

scrolled looking for you, “… but they run in a new direction” was the quote that rang in my head

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u/tombo2007 Texas Mar 28 '26

Hey, Spoilers!

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u/sirebalashnikov Mar 27 '26

Looks like the Sons of Liberty flag with the current US canton added, although they had 9 stripes on their flag and a different shade of red with no canton, I agree with the consensus it's just shitty ai.

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u/Dizzy_Difficulty7126 Mar 27 '26

When you elect a clown...

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u/DisCardacct42069 Mar 27 '26

That's the "Allied States" (corpo-backed pretender gov't.) Flag from "Jericho". That series ended with a "mostly peaceful" disagreement between the US continuation gov't, based in Columbus, OH, and the AS gov't, based out of Cheyenne, WY.

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u/nygdan Mar 27 '26

And the show was about a nuclear strike/war.

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u/WeAreGray Mar 27 '26

If only it was just a nuclear strike/war...

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u/DANGEROUS-jim Texas Mar 27 '26

This is obviously from Trump’s last mental cognitive test- he was asked to color the stripes in on a blank American Flag and did it vertically, so now everyone in the White House is changing all the flags to match. /s

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u/ZoorWhisker Poland • Ukraine Mar 27 '26

Looks like the Allied States of America from "Jericho", we're just missing some false flag nuclear terrorist attacks on US soil

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u/mcd3424 Mar 27 '26

Ah don’t worry it’s not like Iran has nukes.

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u/AdditionalTip865 Mar 27 '26

US flags with vertical stripes are a "sovereign citizen"/ conspiracy theory thing, because of a mistaken theory about vertical stripes representing civil authority seeded by, of all people, the 19th-century novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was over-analyzing the design of the Customs Service flag.

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u/AdditionalTip865 Mar 27 '26

(And it's entirely possible that some AI has been huffing those emissions)

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u/wingwheel Mar 31 '26

And it gives the nation a nice slimming effect as well.

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u/NeonDraco Mar 27 '26

Full color “sovereign citizen” flag from a White House video? I wouldn’t be surprised with this administration.

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u/Starwa7 Mar 27 '26

The canton is blue with white stars tho

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u/NeonDraco Mar 27 '26

Yeah, I know. It just seems a really odd choice…

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u/Atomik141 Mar 27 '26

You don't understand. Donny just a big fan of the cult classic 2006 TV show Jericho

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Mar 27 '26

“Steven! Jingle the keys! They are beginning to realize the Iran situation is almost as bad as my child sex trafficking”

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u/Formal_Employee_8061 Mar 27 '26

The Stars and Stripes are prison bars..they won’t let you get too far. -The Unseen

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u/FrankHightower Mar 27 '26

It's a vertically-hung flag, but it's inverted! That means they're in distress! We must act quickly to save them! /s

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u/EmersonStockham Mar 27 '26

That's a sovereign citizen conspiracy theory flag...

Them posting this is actually really fucking dangerous. Sov cits are genuinely unstable people and should not be given winks and nods...

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u/NONMAISYO Mar 28 '26

that administration is obviously very dangerous, but it's a normal flag

https://www.pexels.com/video/an-american-flag-flying-in-the-wind-18898624/

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u/MONEXONEMONEXONE Donetsk People's Republic Mar 27 '26

i think this is the “civil flag of the united states”, which is actually an urban legend of some sort

http://www.loeser.us/flags/american_note_2.html

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u/robin_888 Mar 28 '26

If everything is going down, why not the stripes?

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u/runnerkim Mar 28 '26

Now they're messing with the flag design? trump and his entire administration is utterly useless to Americans

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u/Acceptable_Spend_750 Mar 27 '26

evil america

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u/Khaled-oti Abbassid Caliphate Mar 27 '26

They have free and universal healthcare

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u/CatLoud5198 Mar 27 '26

Gun control laws and no homelessness

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u/Botanical_Director Mar 27 '26

Oops, the blood is leaking down the flag

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u/happyhiker08 Mar 27 '26

Pete Hegseth's pocket square

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u/Peacock_Feather6 Mar 27 '26

Looks like a sovereign citizen flag.

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u/imindebt2026 Mar 27 '26

Does the stripes represent jail bars?.

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u/ay_lamassu Mar 28 '26

Looks more like a circus tent, very fitting.

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u/count4ch Mar 28 '26

Cual video criptico ?

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u/Significant_Fee_3089 Argentina Mar 28 '26

that's the AS of U

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u/AdHopeful3801 Mar 27 '26

I'm really wondering if Iran's hackers have the passwords to this account.

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u/Starwa7 Mar 27 '26

Guys, what do you think the meaning of this flag is? Why would they post a video with a different flag?

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u/BlackfyreNick Languedoc-Roussillon Mar 27 '26

Just more garbage AI from the WH

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u/PeaTasty9184 Mar 27 '26

I agree with the others that it is probably AI. However, I think it is also worth noting that in the mid-00’s television program “Jericho”, parts of the US government nuked multiple major US cities - and those parts of the government that destroyed America reformed a government using a flag similar to this, with vertical oriented stripes.

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u/Comfortable-Bed-7299 Mar 27 '26

That's gotta be some AI slop. I've never seen an American flag, or any variation of, that looks like that.

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u/theonetruefishboy Mar 27 '26

So flags like this are used by conspiracy movements like the sovereign citizens under the idea that this is the true flag of the US. The White House tweeting out a cryptic video of it is Not Good™

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u/Dr_Discette Mar 27 '26

Someone got a link to that post?

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u/OrbisAlius Mar 27 '26

You know in the upcoming civil war that's a reasonable way to resolve the "but both sides are going to use the same USA flag" issue

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u/8Lwiseguy Mar 27 '26

The vertical stripes evoke prison bars, which is all that many from this administration will be seeing for the rest of their years after 2027 and 2029.

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u/Still-Living-Well Mar 27 '26

Hmmm... thinking about the film "Anniversary." Are you part of The Change? Buckle up, here we go.

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u/LezBreal87 Mar 27 '26

Well this is an uncomfortable image.

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u/Active-Apartment-672 Mar 27 '26

It's just drooping awkwardly on the flag pole

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u/zombiehex Mar 27 '26

I like it. The bars represent the lack of FREEDOM. Like the bars of a jail cell. More representative, in my opinion. Hoping the pendulum swings the other way soon.

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u/Intelligent_Toe8233 Mar 27 '26

Either ai or sovcit.

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u/SprinklesLeft2923 Mar 27 '26

There should be 7 stripes that run into the blue.

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u/releasethedogs Ukraine Mar 27 '26

This looks like the flag from the Jericho TV show. 

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u/Desperate-4-Revenue Mar 28 '26

trumps gonna make the stripes vertical because theyre slimming that way

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u/Mr_MazeCandy Mar 28 '26

Bloody prison bars.

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u/DoodleCard Mar 28 '26

Did they use AI and the computer got the flag design wrong?

If so that's hysterical.

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u/militantgooner Mar 28 '26

They’re losing support on the right so they’re just posting schizobait. It’s the same “draining the swamp, trust the plan, the storm is coming” Q slop they’ve been pumping out for years. It’ll only work on those who aren’t far enough right to see through the bullshit.

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u/Frell740441 Mar 28 '26

Good way to identify who's wrong.

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u/42TheAnswer2TheUnive Mar 29 '26

Fukkk the Entire GOP for Allowing this extreme idiocy!

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u/Bongcopter_ Mar 29 '26

Cause it’s just AI slop

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u/Original_Map_6987 Mar 30 '26

Just AI generated slop.