“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
So, Steve, why is there more coverage on most of the news shows about the football players than PR? If the athletes and owners are such good-hearted people, where are their contributions? How many generators, how much water and food, and how many relief flights could they pay for out of petty cash?
Maybe your outrage is directed not by facts, but by simple hatred.
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
—Sinclair Lewis
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.”
A swift knee to the cajoles may be what we need to make America great again. Anyone who tries to steal rights from Americans should get this treatment.
You set yourself up so easily to be knee-capped. Keep it up (which shouldn’t be too hard for you to do, given your blind-eyed, hypocritical, hateful, race-baiting ignorance). Why was Trump a tweeting tornado all last weekend about the NFL with nary a peep about Puerto Rico until just now? Where was your outrage about that?
Stop while you’re behind.
When you can’t win the argument about Trump’s racist attack against African-American, NFL-player “sons of bitches” (as he brutishly called them)—whom Trump said need to quit their sideline First-Amendment-protected demonstrations against racial injustice—you desperately try to change the subject.
Par for your Cro-Magnon course, you completely ignore Trump’s White-boy demand that these African-Americans players quit exercising their free speech right to peaceably demonstrate against police brutality (I make note of this as a former fully-sworn cop). And, before you desperately try to divert to a bright and shiny object, these African-American football players weren’t expressing opposition to the American flag. Rather, under the freedom of expression symbolized by that very flag, they were openly displaying their opposition to assaults on their communities of color by LEO excessive use of force.
You showcase your sickening view via a shameless double standard, supporting a president who eagerly defended the First Amendment right of White supremacists’ of Charlottesville fame to wave their treasonous, slavery-lovin’ Confederate flags as they rallied and marched, shouting anti-Black and anti-Jewish epithets. Recall how Trump described these so-called ethno-nationalists as including “some very fine people.” The same president who now says that Black NFL football players who dare to protest under this nation’s banner of constitutional protection “should be fired.”
To use your own words, you and Trump are united in your common, crustacean, two-faced, race-rooted “simple hatred."
Here’s a basic civics lesson: I strongly recommend that you review the famous wartime “flag salute” cases of the 1940s, where the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled that it was an unconstitutional overreach of governmental power to require a mandatory, involuntary pledge of allegiance to the American flag by students in public schools.
Trump is now inappropriately attempting to use his executive position to browbeat a private business—the NFL—into changing its rules handbook to prohibit players from taking a knee during the national anthem.
Oh how I wish there was more than a ‘like’ button here. As for Ionizer, who snarkily asked where where were the contribution of food, etc, to Puerto Rico – I suggest you do some research. They have. One team owner sent his own plane with provisions and I’m sure many others in the football world also made huge donations. Not everyone wants or – needs – press for good deeds. And, btw, what have YOU contributed?
emptc12 over 6 years ago
It’s a groin old flag …
Silly Season over 6 years ago
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Ionizer over 6 years ago
So, Steve, why is there more coverage on most of the news shows about the football players than PR? If the athletes and owners are such good-hearted people, where are their contributions? How many generators, how much water and food, and how many relief flights could they pay for out of petty cash?
Maybe your outrage is directed not by facts, but by simple hatred.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 6 years ago
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
—Sinclair Lewis
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.”
—Craig Washington
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
A swift knee to the cajoles may be what we need to make America great again. Anyone who tries to steal rights from Americans should get this treatment.
SteveBenson4 over 6 years ago
So, Ionizer the Trump Lionizer—
You set yourself up so easily to be knee-capped. Keep it up (which shouldn’t be too hard for you to do, given your blind-eyed, hypocritical, hateful, race-baiting ignorance). Why was Trump a tweeting tornado all last weekend about the NFL with nary a peep about Puerto Rico until just now? Where was your outrage about that?
Stop while you’re behind.
When you can’t win the argument about Trump’s racist attack against African-American, NFL-player “sons of bitches” (as he brutishly called them)—whom Trump said need to quit their sideline First-Amendment-protected demonstrations against racial injustice—you desperately try to change the subject.
Par for your Cro-Magnon course, you completely ignore Trump’s White-boy demand that these African-Americans players quit exercising their free speech right to peaceably demonstrate against police brutality (I make note of this as a former fully-sworn cop). And, before you desperately try to divert to a bright and shiny object, these African-American football players weren’t expressing opposition to the American flag. Rather, under the freedom of expression symbolized by that very flag, they were openly displaying their opposition to assaults on their communities of color by LEO excessive use of force.
You showcase your sickening view via a shameless double standard, supporting a president who eagerly defended the First Amendment right of White supremacists’ of Charlottesville fame to wave their treasonous, slavery-lovin’ Confederate flags as they rallied and marched, shouting anti-Black and anti-Jewish epithets. Recall how Trump described these so-called ethno-nationalists as including “some very fine people.” The same president who now says that Black NFL football players who dare to protest under this nation’s banner of constitutional protection “should be fired.”
To use your own words, you and Trump are united in your common, crustacean, two-faced, race-rooted “simple hatred."
SteveBenson4 over 6 years ago
P.S. to Ionizer the Lionizer:
Here’s a basic civics lesson: I strongly recommend that you review the famous wartime “flag salute” cases of the 1940s, where the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled that it was an unconstitutional overreach of governmental power to require a mandatory, involuntary pledge of allegiance to the American flag by students in public schools.
Trump is now inappropriately attempting to use his executive position to browbeat a private business—the NFL—into changing its rules handbook to prohibit players from taking a knee during the national anthem.
Uber-patriot Mussolini would be so proud of you.
Dtroutma over 6 years ago
With those tiny hands is there really much of a target for that knee?
GoneGirl over 6 years ago
Oh how I wish there was more than a ‘like’ button here. As for Ionizer, who snarkily asked where where were the contribution of food, etc, to Puerto Rico – I suggest you do some research. They have. One team owner sent his own plane with provisions and I’m sure many others in the football world also made huge donations. Not everyone wants or – needs – press for good deeds. And, btw, what have YOU contributed?