Having only three characters really cuts down on signmaking time. Per sign the tracing takes about 1 minute, painting about 4.

Pretty wild huh? You see something you don’t think is right, you can just paint a protest sign and stick it up on the commons. You can paint ten signs, or a hundred, or a thousand. Big or small. You don’t have to ask permission. You don’t have to get a bunch of people to do it with you. You can just do it. Wild.

I figure there’s about a hundred million of us who think it’s wrong for the Republicans to accept help from Russia and allow them to meddle in our elections. If just one percent of one percent of them did what I do for a week, that’d be 10,000 signposters, and the week after that there’d be no more Republican Party. Right now we’re about 9,982 short of that, but we’re trying. Here’s 100+ signs our army of 18’s done this year.

That’s right. I said it: Cheating is wrong.

The first signs I did today were the two above. Park at the Seabreeze Deli. Walk about 200 feet, and just drop those suckers in the slot. Like this.

I know I must sound like an old fuddy-duddy with my old-fashioned “Cheating is wrong” folderol, not like those young whippersnappers Donald “It was a perfect call...” Trump and Alan “If he thinks being re-elected is what’s best for the nation then the President can solicit foreign help or cheat as much and in whatever way he likes” Dershowitz. I know my silly old signs and corn-pone morality probably seem quaint and you’re all thinking “Don’t be such an old stick-in-the-mud Grampa! Everybody knows the Russians and the Republicans are working together… it’s been normalized!”

And then I shake my head and realize, by gum they’re right… it has been normalized.

Signs not facing the sun can’t be read unless they’re very large with very few characters. I use the dark side of this bridge for paucity of exits.

But it ain’t normalized on the 101. Not today anyway. ‘Cuz even if it accomplishes nothing else, the one thing a freeway sign does is eliminate the appearance of normalcy.

You’ve got a bit of a wait until the next exit, and a long way back over Potrero Hill before you can get to this one. And then you’ve got to back track more to get back on, and more traffic just to get back to where you were. And you’re already late as it is. Everybody is.

Big signs like this can take up to ten minutes to make, and cost up to fifteen cents in materials. But it’s fun, and I figure it’s for a good cause. And hell, I’d probably do this just for the photography alone.

And it ain’t normalized on the 580 in Oakland.

This one I actually put up on the 580 about five days ago, figured I’d include it here anyway.

More de-normalization in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond.

Hillsides next to elevated roadways are the best free speech areas in the nation.

And it ain’t gonna be normalized on this elevated section of the 280 for a long, long time because in order to take that sucker down you’re gonna have to drive about three miles to the next exit, backtrack on surface streets then find the right cul-de-sac, scale a fence by an abandoned homeless encampment and then climb an 80’ hill next to a high school where many of the students are black and I ain’t seen a Republican capable of doing that since Teddy Roosevelt.

I wish a democratic leader would stand up and say this.

Finished off with my favorite. I’ve put this one up all around the Beltway, as well as St. Louis, Denver, Phoenix, Portland and Seattle, as well as a few times around the Bay Area and LA. Of all my signs I think this one best embodies what the Founders had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment.

Now I imagine that 1% of 1% figure we’re still 9,900+ shy of is roughly one thousandth of the kind of participation the framers of the constitution expected of us in this sort of situation, but if we can be just one one-thousandth the citizens our founding fathers expected us to be, we can win this thing.