Current Events > Ashland country fair kicks out Dem Party for offensive buttons mocking Trump

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remember when people were talking about the first 6 months this year all the stuff happening like with DOGE and deportations etc
looks like that was shaping to have been the calm before the storm

the fascist nazi forecast isn't looking good per the local news weatherman

https://www.richlandsource.com/2025/09/18/ashland-county-fair-board-boots-ashland-county-democratic-party-booth-for-offensive-buttons/

ASHLAND Ashland County Fair officials booted the Ashland County Democratic Party booth on Thursday following the political partys sale of offensive buttons directed toward President Donald Trump.
The Ashland County Fair posted on Facebook around 8 p.m. on Thursday that it had been made aware of offensive buttons in the Democrat booth.

We are a family friendly fair and do not condone this from any vendor/merchant. We apologize for those who saw the display. The democrat (sic) party has been asked to pack their booth up for this year so they not be here (for the remainder) of our fair week. This is not political, we just cant have this at our county fair, reads the post.

As of 11:45 p.m. the post had been shared 478 times with 967 comments on the Ashland County Fairs Facebook page.
Heather Sample, chair of the Ashland County Democratic Party, declined to comment Thursday evening because she is waiting to speak with a lawyer.

The Ashland Fair Board did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday night.
A Facebook user took a photo of the buttons. They depict a red hat with words such as Fascist and Resist. Smaller text reads Is he dead yet? and One day, we will wake up to his obituary.
Some of them also contained 8647, a political code interpreted by some as a call to violence against President Trump.
Ashland County Sheriff Kurt Schneider said he would contact the U.S. Secret Service on Friday to follow up, according to Fox 8 in Cleveland.
Violence shouldnt be tolerated in any way, in any venue in any jurisdiction in the United States and it certainly wont be tolerated here in Ashland County, he told Fox 8.

Political emotions have heightened in the United States over the past week in the wake of conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirks assassination in Utah on Sept. 10.
Since the murder, there have been mass disciplinary and retaliatory actions taken against various people for commentary or social media posts believed to celebrate, justify, or trivialize Kirks murder, encourage further political violence, denigrate Kirk, or tarnish his legacy.
On Sept. 17, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmels show was suspended indefinitely after his comments about the Kirk case on the Sept. 16 episode.

These snowflakes can't take a joke.

Bet there's Maga merchants with t-shirts with hilarious helicopter tour jokes and skeletons making death threats against liberals.

Hypocrites

sfcalimari posted...

Bet there's Maga merchants with t-shirts with hilarious helicopter tour jokes and skeletons making death threats against liberals.

Trump says these are the best

Remember all those effigies of Obama they lynched?

oh they definitely wouldn't like my booth then:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3e2fbceb.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/36f2e421.jpg

Sad this one not a blue state, or I would say arrest the county officials for their fascism. We need law enforcement who will treat these people as the garbage they are.

suchiuomizu posted...

We need law enforcement who will treat these people as the garbage they are.

law enforcement is who escorted them out and then said he was going to report the people to the secret service

out of all the buttons i like the cracker barrel release the epstein files button.

The Democrat booth at my local county fair (won't say where, but it's a pretty red part of California) had a sign of Gavin Newsom about to suplex a baby caricature of Trump and they had no problems.

kingdrake2 posted...

out of all the buttons i like the cracker barrel release the epstein files button.

lol yeah, that's a favorite with everyone

that and the "Chinga La Migra" one

How did I know it would be Ashland, OH?

They're so sensitive.

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Yes?

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Don't have a strong opinion, tbh.

Based on what's written about the buttons:

They depict a red hat with words such as Fascist and Resist.
-Completely aboveboard, IMO.

Smaller text reads Is he dead yet? and One day, we will wake up to his obituary.
-Kind of morbid, but not really enough to justify kicking them out. Can't say I haven't honestly had the same thoughts some days.

Some of them also contained 8647, a political code interpreted by some as a call to violence against President Trump.
-This one I don't know about. If it's accurate that this is a call for violence, then I'd say that's a "fair, next" in terms of them being tossed out. That said, I've literally never heard of "8647" before, so I have no idea if this is just someone overreacting over something that isn't actually a call to violence or it's something actually worth getting upset about.

DoesntMatter posted...

oh they definitely wouldn't like my booth then:

All winners.