Clay Jones for December 01, 2022

Mr. Kaepernick Was much more respectful than many. You know. like the rioters who used the flag to beat police officers. And tore up the Capitol Rotunda. Disrespected the laws of this country. Mr. Kaepernick deserves an apology from many.

You just know for every condemnation of others by America that the same thing is happening in your own back yards not forgetting everything is bigger and better in America!

Colin Kaepernick’s protest is nothing compared to the Iranian soccer player’s protest. Socker beats american football bigtime

Give the rat a pizza, and give the MAGAGA a ………..

It looks like Squiggles or Hector or Anne of the Green Gables was right for once. A huge nobody replied to Daeder’s post.

It’s a curious juxtposition, of which I wish I’d thought.

Questions, if you’re watching a game and the National Anthem comes on, should you stand up for it? What if you have a big bowl of chips and dip resting on your crotch? If you switch channels in the middle of the playing, should you cancel yourself?

A case in point of Republican mis-branding. Kaepernick was protesting racism; Trump rebranded it as “disrespecting the military.” Of course somehow football, a high-school kids’ game turned multi-billion-dollar BUSINESS, has become synonymous with patriotism and militarism.

From, the republican dictionary: “Free Speech” my right to say whatever I want to no matter how inaccurate, hateful, violent, or destructive while you STFU!

The only job of football players is to knock one another senseless. From my recliner, I scorn these wussy concussion protocols. I cheer for tough guys like The Swinish Swindler.

Nobody tortured Kapernick’s relatives, Mr. Jones. Give it (and us) a rest.

Kaepernick was advised by a U.S. Special Forces Soldier to take a knee during our National Anthem rather than sit in protest. Taking a knee is the most respectful form of protest I have ever seen. We take a knee to our GOD and take a knee to our fallen heroes.

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision on compulsory flag salutes in 1943, Justice Robert Jackson’s majority opinion discussed various ways of showing respect, listing “appropriate gestures of acceptance of respect: a salute, a bowed or bared head, a bended knee.”

It seems to me after all my years that every problem this Great Nation has gone through began with ignorance.

Never understood what the hallabaloo was about the man kneeling. Seemed more of a soft protest, not a big threatening explosion.

God doesn’t seem to mind people Kneeling…but the Qpublicans hate it.

It amazes me that people don’t realize Kaepernick was allowed to exercise his right to free speech. It also amazes me that people think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences. And in his case, it wasn’t the government that handed out those consequences, so his rights weren’t violated in the slightest.

Outstanding analogy.

EDIT: I refer of course to the analogy the ‘toon conveys.

The comment by artegal above is accurate, but contains great irony.

How many RWNJ comments are left below the gocomics political ‘toons raging that criticism of right wing ‘toonist’s is tantamount to an assault on freedom of speech?

If a coder wrote software which counted accusations of free speech suppression on internet public comment sites, I’d bet everything I own that conservative accusations outnumber non-conservative accusations by, oh, maybe 100-1 (and I’d also bet this is a very conservative (yuk yuk) estimate).

For so many people, the First Amendment protects only their right to voice, all other opinions are treason. Whereas, the ALCU will defend the rights of the most despicable group’s first amendment rights, not because they agree, but because all voices have the right to be heard (and totally dismissed).

It was T rump and Pence that spun this into lies for their own BS gain. It didn’t matter what K said as the why he was doing it. People like T rump don’t like the truth because it exposes who they really are.