45 advocates forced ritual in NFL...

[FFaith]

Obama says if this was the 80s, he'd be considered a moderate Republican.

I think I was wrong. This protest is not about Kap's message anymore. It's a bandwagon Trump protest now. Those players wouldn't kneel with Kap to protest injustices against black and brown people before, but now that Trump weighed in they kneel to give him the finger, and many of them backed down afterward which only makes Trump look good in the end. R.I.P. Kap's message.

[downbeatplumb]

Indeed. Violent rallies protecting the "free speech" right to maintain statues of traitors are okay ... but the silent protest which discommodes no one, why, that's unacceptable!

...and violent rallies on college campuses opposing free speech are okay too. It's just unacceptable to be critical of those protesters who dishonor our flag and national anthem.

Those were private citizens he is the president of the USA he should be better not much much worse.
Oh and by the way its a fucking piece of cloth get over it, I couldn't give a flying crap if people disrespect the union flag (its only a union jack when its on a ship) its a piece of cloth.

[Brian37]

...and violent rallies on college campuses opposing free speech are okay too. It's just unacceptable to be critical of those protesters who dishonor our flag and national anthem.

Those were private citizens he is the president of the USA he should be better not much much worse.
Oh and by the way its a fucking piece of cloth get over it, I couldn't give a flying crap if people disrespect the union flag (its only a union jack when its on a ship) its a piece of cloth.

Holy shit is he one dense dumb jackass.

He and Covfefe's  supporters do not understand the difference between the rights of a private citizen, and the role of a public official. 45s tactics of vilification are the issue. His rhetoric of scapegoating and vilification has been going on for 5 years and still today while in office. He is not protecting free speech, he is bullying everyone. 

He isn't trying to bring progress and equality like Martin Luther King Jr, he is pandering to a very racist and bigot past, and to condemn those who are standing up to that is just bat shit insane.

Let's review 45s sick vile rhetoric.

1. Spends 5 years painting a black guy as not being born in America. HAWAII IS A STATE  JACKASS.
2. Threatens political rivals.
3. Shits on McCain and Khan's service.
4. Burns his way through his own primaries insulting even his own party members.
5. Shits on 17 law agencies that he now has to rely on.
7. Scapegoats Hispanics and Arabs.
8. Vilifies the press which is the core watchdog of our government. 


This isn't a pattern of one gaff. This is a political tactic to silence dissent. This is what Un does, this is not the behavior of a western leader whom claims to value pluralism.

If A-Theist thinks I give one fuck about making him uncomfortable, he is a moron.

You don't honor the flag by putting up with the political tactics of a despot wannabe.

Those players, have every fucking right to kneel. I could give one fuck less what 45 thinks or what A-Theist thinks.

If someone advocates keeping monuments up to glorify owning other human beings, please, take a barb wire dildo and shove it up your ass.

[Minimalist]

Nazi fuckheads don't understand much.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Trump's daddy was a KKK member. Trump grew up in a racist household. He's a Jim Crow baby. If he isn't an active KKK member himself he should be because that's his heritage. If he had lived in the early 20th Century he would have led mobs to lynch black people.

[Brian37]

Trump's daddy was a KKK member.  Trump grew up in a racist household.  He's a Jim Crow baby.  If he isn't an active KKK member himself he should be because that's his heritage. If he had lived in the early 20th Century he would have led mobs to lynch black people.

I am sure he would, but I think the bigger picture as to why he is such an asshole bully is that his dad verbally abused him and probably physically as well. His dad hated losing and taught him to win at all costs.  And when you look at the rise of despots even outside this issue, at a minimum they come from strict authoritarian families. 

Abuse often leads one to grow up to abuse others.

45 hated his dad being angry at him and did everything to please him, even if it meant shitting on others.

[Minimalist]

I bet his dad hated Puerto Ricans, too.

[Silver]

NFL players kneel again despite fresh criticism from Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/nfl-pla...rom-trump/

Black Lives Matter activists to join NFL’s Chargers in on-field protest before game

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/black-l...me-report/

[Minimalist]

I hope his blood pressure rises to the point where he has a fucking stroke.

[Brian37]

I hope his blood pressure rises to the point where he has a fucking stroke.

I don't. While I would feel a huge sense of relief, the conspiracy nuts would start a civil war. I simply want 45 to step down or get impeached. That fucker is not worth a civil war.