“He’s exercising his freedom to speak,” league spokesman Joe Lockhart said on a conference call with reporters, “and I’m exercising my freedom not to react.”
This is so adult-like, and the polar opposite of the ferret-wearing shitgibbon-in-chief.
I, for one, am sure that Donald Trump will respond to his increasingly-tightening spiral into irrelevance with grace, dignity, and tact.
Trump devotes so much of his energy into this NFL thing because he’s rudderless on North Korea, Russia, the Mueller investigation, Syria, Iran, the economy, climate change, Puerto Rico, the border wall, Obamacare, the Senate, the Miss America Pageant, civil rights and the KKK, fake news, and cyberbullying.
Deeds, not words - how about an NFL scholarship fund for military families in memory of Heather Heyer… see what Hair Furor has to say about that.
Great! Very subtle way to put the Donnie in his place.
"These players… can express their political views without in effect denigrating the symbols of our nation,” Sessions said.
“… which is a talent that, unfortunately, neither I nor the President possesses.”
I still don’t understand why people in Arizona were booing the National Anthem.
Trump wins as long as the country is divided. Any means he can use to cause division, he’ll use. He has been using divisive tactics since he started his campaign. As a bonus for Trump and Bannon, this conflict also has racial undertones.
The more divided and conflict-ridden the country is — and the more frayed its social fabric — the more a demagogue like Trump will thrive.
BINGO
This is ALL about divisive politics.
In other words, Roger Goddell and the NFL are treating Donnie like my dad treated me when I threw temper tantrums when I was 2 years old – ignoring the tantrum and not giving into my demands.
“These players, with all the assets they have, can express their political views without in effect denigrating the symbols of our nation, a nation that has provided our freedom to speak,” Sessions said during an appearance at Georgetown University’s law school.
First, I thought it was Republican gospel that those with assets had more of a right to speak. They’ve got it to the point that anonymously giving money to politicians is “speech.”
Second, could there be any more circular reasoning than suggesting you not assert your free speech rights in a certain way (by being black and against Trump) in a nation in which your free speech rights give you exactly that freedom of speech, as Sessions said so eloquently.
Got exhausted, just reading this list.
The NFL has Kaepernick syndrome. The longer that this goes on, they not only have to deal with the world’s most class(less) and petulant asshole but they might just have to deal with the Kaepernick issue in the right way.
And then again there is the actual purpose of the whole protest, cops killing blacks indiscriminately and without penalty.
Trounce is the sideshow!