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The NFL and Trump
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A Vestigial Mote
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What the law states? You still haven't answered that one. What law? Where is this written? Who is required to observe this law? Athletes? Kids in school? Everyone? Is there a clause protecting people in wheel chairs from prosecution? What about amputees? Are they required to wear prosthetics if the national anthem is playing? You are blowing smoke. Just admit it to youself and stop.
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
Within the first couple of lines:
Encourages? So what? Do you think they can break the first amendment right of people wishing to express themselves politically? Do you honestly think they should?
As far as I can tell, your second link is broken.
Yeah, I got the meaning. I just wondered about the context, if there were an import or allusion I was missing.
"Looked after" meaning surveilled,watched, blackmailed, controlled?
Sounds like authoritarian submission.
An American Stazi doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
Maybe you're the 'strong father' psychological type.
Give a man cool, macho toys and there's sometimes an irresistible urge to play-act the part -- and to use them inappropriately.
Just look at the history of what happens to Liberals, intellectuals, artists, political dissidents and the 'social enemy du jour' when authoritarians are in power and begin flexing their muscle. Look at Argentina, Spain, East Germany, Chile and dozens more.
It can happen here.
Team sports are, after all, vicarious tribal skirmishes, little different from tribal raids and skirmishes in the Amazon basin or the New Guinea highlands.
People are tribal. We love a good fight. If we don't have a tribe of our own, and an enemy, we'll create artificial ones.
Motive?
I get the impression Trump's more impulsive than strategic.
Protected from harm. I don't have that paranoia.
No, it really wouldn't. Your assumptions bear no resemblance whatsoever to the law.
Interesting development: Dale Earnhardt Jr. has chimed in on Twitter.
NASCAR's Earnhardt Jr. quotes JFK on ‘violent revolution’ after Trump protest attacks
Dale Jr. said:
NASCAR's Earnhardt Jr. quotes JFK on ‘violent revolution’ after Trump protest attacks
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yeah, just singing a song....
Democrats, noticing that Trump achieves political successes
with bone headed remarks, have decided to try the tactic.....
MAD MAXINE: Impeach Trump over NFL kneelers! - The American Mirror
Ya know the great thing about this political donnybrook?
It's utterly insignificant!
No bombs dropped, no rights lost, & no money wasted.
Unlike uncomfortable things going on in the real world,
we can enjoy this without a care.
with bone headed remarks, have decided to try the tactic.....
MAD MAXINE: Impeach Trump over NFL kneelers! - The American Mirror
Ya know the great thing about this political donnybrook?
It's utterly insignificant!
No bombs dropped, no rights lost, & no money wasted.
Unlike uncomfortable things going on in the real world,
we can enjoy this without a care.
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
Interesting... this is the first time I have found myself yawning when someone else was stretching...
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I agree with you to a point, but I think it goes well beyond that because of his patterns throughout his life. He has a long history of racist tendencies and one of also creating conflicts amongst his employees to see who'll "rise to the top". The only ethics he seems to have is that of having power and fame, and he feels that apologizing is a weakness. Belittling others seems to make him feel strong and dominant.
Now, which of these items, or possibly others, is/are largely contributing to his NFL rants? That I don't know, but I have my suspicions.
Last Try to get this off my chest.
What is the National Anthem to you? One Guy decides it equates to Black lives matter and then the world says, kneeing to it means you support black lives matter. Can the LBGT community also take a knee for discrimination against them. Can women take a knee because of discrimination against them. Is it OK for the religious to take a knee because of discrimination against them.
There is no direct link to the National Anthem, the flag and discrimination. They stand for the freedoms this country has gotten by all our past citizens and their fights for the rights. None in the past have ever taken a Knee for the Anthem or the flag but thrust it in front of them carrying it in their protest. Singing while they marched. Daring others to knock it from their hand or silence them.
You are an NFL player or any one in the Media and you want to support something put it on a Hat or shirt and wear it proudly in front of the camera and wave the flag or sing the Anthem to remind people of what America stands for. Don't manipulate what The Anthem or the Flag stands for.
To be honest one Guy tried something different and it really wasn't the right way to go but he had the freedom to try. Do we want to lose the symbol of our freedom for the mistake of one guy.
What is the National Anthem to you? One Guy decides it equates to Black lives matter and then the world says, kneeing to it means you support black lives matter. Can the LBGT community also take a knee for discrimination against them. Can women take a knee because of discrimination against them. Is it OK for the religious to take a knee because of discrimination against them.
There is no direct link to the National Anthem, the flag and discrimination. They stand for the freedoms this country has gotten by all our past citizens and their fights for the rights. None in the past have ever taken a Knee for the Anthem or the flag but thrust it in front of them carrying it in their protest. Singing while they marched. Daring others to knock it from their hand or silence them.
You are an NFL player or any one in the Media and you want to support something put it on a Hat or shirt and wear it proudly in front of the camera and wave the flag or sing the Anthem to remind people of what America stands for. Don't manipulate what The Anthem or the Flag stands for.
To be honest one Guy tried something different and it really wasn't the right way to go but he had the freedom to try. Do we want to lose the symbol of our freedom for the mistake of one guy.