I hope there’s enough players willing to buck this.
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The reader would do well to note that these fartbursts never come on their own. They are always a part of a self-referential derp-parade of doubling down. As the dotard likes the sound of his voice but, as he sees people nod or clap, he realizes he should keep saying it, saying it harder, saying it bigger, saying it ten times harder than Crooked Hillary would.
It doesn’t reflect any real policy or belief other than the policy that Donald Trump likes people to be happy with the wordburgers he’s making.
Let’s follow along! This fake transcript may be lightly edited for clarity.
"You should stand for the anthem" | okay, agree to disagree, but that’s not an outright ludicrous opinion
"You have to stand for the anthem or you shouldn’t even play that day" | um, that’s really the NFL’s call, or the owner’s, or the player’s, or the NFLPA’s, or some combination of the four, but definitely not yours
"If you don’t stand for the anthem, you should get banned from the league" | as above, but much biglier
" If you don’t stand for the anthem you shouldn’t be in the country" | say whaaaaat
Pat yourself on the back, Donnie! You said something very big, strong, and powerful. You said it very hard. The hardest anyone has ever said it, many people are saying. You did good.
These words are troubling on their own, but they’re not a Trump-fascism clarion call. He’s already mostly forgotten he said them.
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Well, hold on a minute. Did the dog vote for Trump?
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Or Jill Stein, for that matter.
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On a more serious note, how is it that the NFL thinks they can get away with penalizing their employees, professional athletes, for not standing for the Anthem? Labor lawyers will be all over this.
Trump poisons everything and everyone within his reach. And yes, even tweet-reachable global victims, with the South Korean president Moon being the latest victim.
Can’t wait for Trump to accidentally drop a certain name today, that nasty Deep State ‘informant’.
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Are you sure that’s the policy the NFL just approved?
I haven’t read all the posts yet, so forgive me if this has been said but …
A PRESIDENT WHO DOESN’T DEFEND THE 1ST AMENDMENT MAYBE SHOULDNT BE IN OUR COUNTRY.
My .02
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Latest I read players have two options; either stay in the locker room (or in the tunnel) during the playing of the anthem, or, if they’re on the field, they must stand during the anthem. If they don’t they will be penalized. Not sure what the penalty might be? Thinking ten lashes or, if it’s the SB, facing a firing squad at halftime.
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And he stoically avoided being a loser POW by not being captured in combat.
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Hahaha, you didn’t just really say that did you?!? 
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“…I think the people pushed it forward. This country is very smart. We have a very smart country.”
Americans are a stupid people for the most part, and you Trump, being President, are exhibit #1.
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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
–United States Supreme Court, 1943
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There is this steakhouse I enjoy. They don’t play the national anthem before guests order their meals. Maybe the owners should leave the country.
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Well, if you don’t like it I was hacked.
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Aw shucks, my ‘like x 1 million’ button is broken today! 
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But what about the steaks!!
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Oh dude, you’re on fire this morning! Rolling out the Joy Reid defense and all!
You crack me up. 
ETA: thank God for some humor, we need it after the news this week (so far)
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Just trying to stay sane with the occasional tongue-in-cheek observation. Not entirely succeeding. : )
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Trump is accomplishing the mathematically impossible, flailing about in ever wider circles while spiraling down into the black hole of his own narcissism.
OK, so I mixed the metaphors up a bit. He should sue me.
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And yet, somehow, you absolutely fucking nailed it! 
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