Trump’s comments about NFL, NBA’s Stephen Curry invoke strong responses from players, owners

If I had to listen to the dirge of America the Free every time I went to a sport event, and the singers always over-egg the pudding with the pathos, it would put me off going in the first place.

 

The League, the union, the team owners and managers were in solidarity with the players against the President.

That is a very good thing.

 

Another failed, and constantly evolving leftist narrative. Kaepernick took a knee protesting police brutality. That blew up in his face, and created a lot of backlash, earning him zero sympathy. Other NFL players then started kneeling to protest Kaepernicks unemployment ... again, no sympathy. Players now kneeling to protest the mistreatment of minorities. Basically levelling the charge of racism against the only group of Americans that doesn't have protected minority status. The intent, and inference is both obvious, and odious. Malign millions without being courageous enough to face rebuttal. Like leaving Nazi flyers at bus stops ... cowardly.

 

OK, so the guy posting anonymously on the internet is accusing a group of well known people who protested in the most public way possible of being cowards. You might want to take a look in the mirror there sparky. Whatever you think of these individuals and their views, they are out there in the public glare making their protest and potentially risking their careers & even their personal safety. You doing the same?

I mean, if you'd like to provide us with your name and enough info to track you down on social media, then jump on national TV & offer your incredibly valuable opinions (together with said info) then maybe we get to take you seriously. Otherwise it is YOU who are the coward leaving flyers anonymously at the bus stop.

I'm torn between thinking the internet is making people stupid and thinking it is just giving people who were already stupid the ability to parade it before a wider audience.

 

Then I guess for them it's a good thing that their bosses, the owners, stand in solidarity with them.

 

Kind of like the alt-right voted for the unqualified man simply because he promised to erase all evidence of the black man, keep the nasty Muslims and Mexicans out of the country, and make this apparently no longer great country "great again".

 

Customer is always right?

 

It's all just a show, theater and as the paid actors in this highly choreographed play "on camera" is synonymous with "raise the curtain". The stage is revealed. Show time!

 

Looks like Trump's pandering to his racist base is working they love it

 

Five lessons from Canada on single-payer health care
Chicago Tribune-13 hours ago
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves after speaking at a health care rally at the Convention of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses ...
A Canadian Doctor Explains How Her Country's Single-Payer ...

 

I thought the gig was to kneel.

 

My critique addresses players not openly stating what they're protesting, and who they're acusing, or what "reparations" they're demanding. Doxxing wouldn't concern me at all if not for sheer volume. I don't bite my tongue. Players use a public platform, but aren't forced to address their critics, I address mine

 

Went AT Trump?

He said he turned down an invitation, what type of candy-ass snowflake SOB whines about turning down an invitation?

Oh wait, Donald Trump is that Candy-Ass Snowflake Son-of-a-Bitch.

 

Here are a couple items of interest from people who knew John McCain.

John McCain was a known hot-dog.
John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.

McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure.

The 23-year-old junior lieutenant wasn't paying attention and erred in using "a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn," investigators concluded.

The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/06/nation/na-aviator6


John McCain: Privileged 'War Hero', Liar, Collaborator, Traitor
Part 1
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/earlhopperinterview08feb08.shtml

Editor's Note: I transcribed the dialog of a 5 part video interview on June 22, 2007 between retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper and Gerard Kiley of Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. To make the reading flow easier, I removed the repeated phrases, false starts, etc. that hamper a printed version of an unrehearsed conversation. Earl Hopper had spent 30 years with the Army in Airborne Special services and with Army Intelligence and was a founding member of the National League of Families dedicated to retuning living POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War.

The impression that McCain and the media has attempted to portray of McCain's 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam is about as far from the truth that one could possible go. McCain, from the first moments of his capture, had behaved as a COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for his North Vietnamese captors. McCain had engaged in no less than 30, and likely as many as 38 anti-American propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi during the period of his captivity. Far from the image of a dedicated American "hero" sweating it out in a North Vietnamese prisoner's "hotbox" for 5 1/2 years, McCain was often given "special" treatment by his captors, who were fully aware of his father's and grandfather's 4 star admiral positions with the Navy.
No one has ever witnessed McCain's supposed "torture" at the hands of his jailers The consensus opinion of other POWs in McCain's camps was that McCain was NEVER tortured by the North Vietnamese. McCain's disgraceful and wholly reprehensible conduct (along with John Kerry) during the 1991-93 Senate Committee on POW/MIAs leaves no doubt that McCain is a traitor to this country and its veterans and especially to the families of POWs and MIAs.

 

It's also in the contract that all teams will be on the field for the national Anthem or they can be fined $100,000.

 

What a stinking pile of BS.

First, why do players need to be specific about the exact nature of the protest? To satisfy some coward on the internet? To satisfy a bunch of no talent nobodies sitting on their arses at home drinking beer?

Second, when asked players have been happy to explain themselves. Unlike you, they actually have to explain themselves in public and before a worldwide audience. Some of them have received sustained personal abuse & even death threats. That takes actual courage, not anonymous pretend internet courage.

Finally, those players are going to be exposed to more 'volume' of criticism than you ever will, so stop bleating about how you are the stand up guy & they are the cowards. It is the very definition of delusional. You don't face your critics. You hide behind an avatar and post on sites where a few thousand people max will ever even see your posts. No one is going to stick a mic in your face on national TV with your name helpfully captioned below and you know it.

 

Just for the benefit of posters who weren't at all concerned before players made it all about Trump, and the 1st amendment ... Players were taking knees to protest racist NFL owners who wouldn't hire Kaepernick, last week. Goodell and the leagues owners surely appreciate the cover Trump's given them. So when's Kaepernick signing?

 

^^ That narrative is skewed and way off balance.

Kapernick will soon be hired by a NFL team now that the narrative has swerved dramatically against the President and his small minority of followers.

 

see #293 ... Nothing skewed at all. Kaepernick: racist police... Players: racist team owners... Players / owners: racist fans...

 

People are booing the NFL players for their childish acts. We pay them and because of their intolerance, they're about to lost a lot of fans.

Have YOU ever studied a playbook? The players study pictures and practice doing what is in the pictures.

 

He does, that's why he withdrew their invitation. Now on to more important things than baxetball.

 

The "stinking pile of BS" many of us see is laced through the entire foundation of BLM's assumption that America's police officers are deliberately, and for no reason at all, targeting 'innocent' Blacks for mistreatment, abuse, and death. As a 'blanket-condemnation' of police officers, that is nothing but unsupportable, untruthful CRAP.

Want to go back to the origins...? The "Michael Brown" brouhaha? An overbearing Black thug commits criminal acts against a store owner, and then goes barging out into the middle of a public street where he becomes a menace to public safety. A policeman tries to get him out of the street, but instead, 'Saint Michael' refuses and charges the police officer, trying to get his service weapon. THAT is a "BLM hero"... a 'victim' of police brutality...(?).

Fast-forward to today -- now we see all these multimillionaire NFL 'stars' making disgusting spectacles of themselves by supporting those who hate the United States, hate the police, hate the very concept of Law and Order, and who have just about the same kind of ethics and integrity as the ghetto-trash they venerate by 'taking a knee'.

As long as this America-hating idiocy continues many of us will raise a middle-finger 'salute' to every one of these knee-taking morons, their coaches, their owners, and THEIR SPONSORS. Let them honor criminals and thugs if they want to -- that's their right. However, it's also the right of most of the rest of us to treat them and their mockery of American football as a disgusting display of manipulative hyperliberal political "theater". It's a mental disease! Recover from it, or die....

Meanwhile, ice hockey season begins at just a few more days. I recommend hockey to everyone, not just as a substitute for the NFL, but because, frankly, it is a sport that actually MOVES for more than ten seconds at a time, and because it demands much more sheer athletic ability, mental focus, and highly-complex teamwork. GO COLORADO AVALANCHE!

 

When their ratings takes a dump and so does the money................

 

Really? The post before yours answered it in 15 words.

 

What part of boycotting the NFL don't you get? It'll hurt the owners just as much, and nobody cares what the people who benefit the most have to say. These people piss and moan about Trump and then cry even harder when he responds back. They're purposely looking for, and creating divisive barriers. It's biting them instead.