Bumper Stickers are Back, Baby!
Restarting reader-submitted Bumper Sticker posts. I miss those early days when we were “just a blog” and the internet was more fun. And we weren’t so serious. I want to rekindle that spirit.
There was a time when we regularly ran reader-submitted photos of bumper stickers. We have a Tag for it, Bumper Stickers, dating back to 2010 and running regularly for several hundred posts and several years particularly during the Obama era.
According to our media library, we have over 1000 images of bumper stickers, here’s a small sample
Here was our first one on June 24, 2010:
It was a popular feature, and from time to time we ran annual “best of” posts such as this Best of 2011:
And the Top Ten of 2014:
We specialized in Group Photos, like this one I took in Ithaca in 2012:
Some of the entries left just a little to the imagination, like this one from 2014 taken in Worcester, MA:
The anti-Hillary ones mostly required some background knowledge, like this one from High Springs, FL.:
Notice we redact or crop out license plates except when the vanity license plate wording itself is the story.
We kept at it pretty much into the early stage of Trump 1.0, and then for whatever reason (I don’t remember) it fell by the wayside and we only occasionally ran bumper sticker posts. The common themes were anti-Obama, pro-Obama, anti-Trump, pro-Trump. Funny how that works. The Biden era was a desert for us.
I have a feeling “liberals gone wild” will be the theme moving forward. It’s downright dangerous to put a pro-Trump or pro-Republican bumper sticker on your car, so liberals flaunting the crazy likely will be the next big (recurring) theme.
I miss those early days when we were “just a blog” and the internet was more fun. And we weren’t so serious.
I want to rekindle that spirit.
So we will start running reader-submitted bumper sticker posts from time to time as appropriate entries come in. If you send one in, it must be your own photo, not something taken from the internet (unless you source it to the photographer and that person gives us written permission), and you must give us written permission to use it. Please state when and where you took the photo, and if you can preemptively redact the license plate number that would save us time. And NO PHOTOSHOPS or AI images please.
To kick off our reawakening, here’s a photo Rhode Islander and Legal Insurrection reader Amy Rodrigues posted on Facebook and gave us permission to use.
Spotted this “beaut” in Narragansett today. I guess the “No Kings” losers are parking in Salt Pond Plaza to meet and get bused to the “rally” on the Rt. 1 overpass. 
Let the games begin.
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Bumper stickers have devolved into political tramp stamps. Like unnatural hair colors or livestock-worth face jewelry, it is just another early warning sign informing the wise to take a sudden detour to avoid the owner.
It’s a little petty and cathartic, but I took a lot of joy sending a box of Oregon Hearts Ice stickers to Portland.
Also back in the day if you encountered some cash with Tim Geitner’s name on it that had been defaced with a sharpie…. I plead the fifth.
I used to get ones printed up in quantities of two or three at a shirt stencil place that had a proof press and sticker stock.
BLESSED ART THE CIVIL SERVANTS FOR THEY HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH
I had an AMC Pacer at the time. Stop laughing; it was a PERFECT “bear car” and ran like a dream.
I had one made for it that got me both nasty looks AND thumbs-up.
MY MERCEDES IS IN THE SHOP AGAIN TODAY
In most parts of MA, the only successful Trump stickers are on pickup trucks with suspiciously empty gun racks in the rear window and some S&W stickers on the windows.
Otherwise, it is key city. There is one Cybertruck its NY owners are hiding up here with a “no Elon” sticker on it.
I would no more put a political sticker on a car than I’d fly to the moon.
My latest Bumper sticker: M*Tex Oil.
Cool–somebody’s already doing show merchandising?
Thank heavens! It’s about time. We need some levity. Everywhere. I’ll start keeping my eye open.
Aren’t memes the new bumper sticker?
The left can’t meme.
“Drive on,” she said!
A Barbara Frietchie reference? Touche. Love John Greenleaf Whittier,
Shoot if you must this old gray head.
Her great great grand daughter Karen Frietchie:
“Shoot up in the streets you frenanyl heads,
and wave this Mexican flag,”she said.
If you want your car keyed
Put on a pro Trump sticker
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Welcome back!!! Thanks for updating the algorithm, and re-constituting this thread, prof!!
The thing you have to realize is: There is no spoon… 🙂
Thank you for this. I really miss the old days on LI. I assumed the success of the blog took your time from such matters. The stickers posts seemed to really connect you to your readers and showed off your great personality and sense of humor. It would be great if we could turn the whole internet back to those simpler times.
Out on the road today I saw a Biden sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said don’t do crack
You should never smoke crack…. 🙂
One of my favorite songs from high school…. And now you’ve made it hilarious!
Black Hole Son….
You can drive a billboard or you can drive 10 over the speed limit, but you can’t do both. That is why I don’t use bumper stickers and never get vanity license plates.
I can’t get the vanity plate I want simply because someone else has it.
Only a weak mind with weak convictions needs to flaunt his/her beliefs on the back of a car. My cousin has one saying “Don’t confuse your racism with patriotism.” I unfriended him.
When Hillary was running the saying was, democrats would put the “Run Hillary, run” bumper sticker on the rear bumper and republicans would put it on the front bumper.
I have one on my pickup that says. “QUE MALA”.
We had a king under the BUYden regime. He like king George wasn’t fit.
George III was a political genius compared to Bi-Den.
COEXIST or get the leftist power fist.
I have deliberately purchased beaters with a heater for the sole purpose of having the bumper stickers of my choice on them. Keep my car, I won’t even be able to tell.
They have the added benefit that they do not have all the alarms going off as I’m driving down the road.
“Key” my car
A few years back when she was running I noticed a Hilary bumper sticker on a car at my golf club (not really a bastion of libs). I found a piece of paper and wrote a note and left it under his wiper. The note said, “I just wanted to let you know that someone put a Hilary sticker on your car. I’m letting you know so that you can remove it before people start thinking you’re an asshole.” I have since become friends with the guy and we play together often–we don’t talk politics.
One often hears automotive purists at car shows pointing out ever so slight flaws in a nicely restored car. The tires are tubeless; none existed when that car was made blargle blargle blah blah.
I saw a beautiful 1954 Chevy convertible that, while in beautiful shape, was not striving for 100 points at Pebble Beach. It was just a nicely restored little car. But, it did have a period correct bumper sticker in the back. “I Like Ike”.
I put bumper stickers on my first car, then had to remove them to sell it. I never put stickers on a car after that.
WAAAAYYY off topic, but..
…if anyone is interested the trial of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan got underway yesterday (jury selection last week).
Play by play here: https://www.wisn.com/article/day-2-of-milwaukee-judge-dugan-trial-jury-selection-live-updates/69728834
Moved to Colorado in 71, the bumper sticker on cars everywhere was ” Don’t Californicate Colorado”, bumper stickers don’t work.