From Newsweek, May 17:
After January 6, measures to protect the U.S. Capitol building have arguably emblemized a sense of uneasy vulnerability felt at the country's seat of power since rioters broke in after the 2020 election.
Earlier this year, fencing was erected outside the building ahead of Joe Biden's State of the Union address, a move which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) criticized, claiming that the president was "afraid of Americans visiting their Capitol."
In what some interpreted as a further sign of nervousness, photos were published on social media this week showing the U.S. flag flown upside down outside the Capitol, a display associated with "dire distress."
A tweet by DC_Draino, posted on May 16, 2023, and viewed 2.7 million times, showed what appeared to be a photo of the U.S. flag outside the Capitol upside down.
DC_Draino tweeted: "NEW: US flag currently flying upside down over Senate building signaling distress and needing rescue
"Some believe it was flipped after Sen. Fetterman spoke with the sophistication of a drunk toddler in a hearing today."
Fetterman had been questioning executives from the failed Silicon Valley Bank at a Senate banking committee hearing.
Under U.S. Flag Code, the flag should never be displayed with the Union down "except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."....
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Sheldon Cooper turning the flag of apartment 4A upside down to indicate distress:
