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  • #1368092
    ☕️coffee addict
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    I really can’t understand these celebrities/athletes!

    If you don’t like America enough to stand for the national anthem then just leave!

    😡😡😡🏉🇺🇸

    #1368286
    👑RebYidd23
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    Exactly. Just like the Founding Fathers left the British colonies when they didn’t like the government!

    #1368296
    Joseph
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    Just like the royalist supporters left America for Canada.

    #1368317
    Lightbrite
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    What if you’re in a wheelchair and cannot stand up?

    #1368334
    Joseph
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    After coffee addict kicks those traitors in the knees, they’ll all be in wheelchairs. Then we can involuntarily wheel them into Mexico.

    #1368360
    ☕️coffee addict
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    +1000 Joe,

    and maybe they can be swallowed up by some earthquakes while they’re there!

    #1368363
    👑RebYidd23
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    And you wonder why liberals don’t like you.

    #1368369
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    I’m so with you on this, I was just fuming about it last night. When i first heard about this whole kneeling garbage i said if you want to be unpatriotic, that’s your right, BUT NOT WHEN YOU MAKE MILLIONS REPRESENTING AMERICA ! So now trump says badically the same thing and everyone’s going crazy supporting them!! Nobody is willing to accept the truth of something if Trump says it.

    Fire them!!
    😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

    #1368383
    shulemmacher
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    Fire them!!!!

    #1368397
    ☕️coffee addict
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    And you wonder why liberals don’t like you.

    No I don’t, I don’t really care

    What I wonder is why they are still here if they hate our
    president with a passion

    #1368396
    Joseph
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    Just as the players have the legal right to punch America in its guts by disrespecting the anthem, the President has the right to protest against the players, severely criticize them and call for a boycott against the NFL.

    #1368404
    👑RebYidd23
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    Coffee addict, why does disliking the president mean leaving the country?

    #1368424
    yehudayona
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    Also, why does disliking the president mean you’re a liberal? He’s one of the least moral presidents ever. I don’t understand how social conservatives can support a serial adulterer who has a long history of stiffing those who have worked for him.

    #1368442
    Joseph
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    He was the best of the (realistic winning) available choices on election day. And he’s done some good things. Regarding your point, former Pres. Clinton was no better.

    #1368486
    akuperma
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    Freedom of Speech applies even to rich athletes (and team owners). They have the right to express opposition to the government. And fans have the right to not go to their games or to refrain from watch broadcasts of their games. If someone can’t live with all this freedom of expression, perhaps they should move to Cuba or North Korea, where no such nonsense is allowed and athletes who opposed the regime see their careers terminated (with “extreme prejudice”).

    #1368485
    ☕️coffee addict
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    You can dislike the president, make rallies do whatever you want but president doesn’t = 🇺🇸 (proof being because kapernick started it when obama was president)

    So you don’t like America? LEAVE!

    #1368495
    zahavasdad
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    I cant tell if Akuperma was taken over by a bundist Dybbuk or not

    #1368506
    Curiosity
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    Akuperma. The players’ protest is not protected by 1st Amendment rights since they are on paid time. If their employer tells them to stand they must stand or he can fire them. Likewise, (unless it is buried somewhere in NFL contracts) the league can disqualify a team if they break rules. Apparently standing up for the anthem is not currently a rule, but the league has the right to include it as a rule. Make no mistake about it, the NFL is BIG BUSINESS, and these are business decisions, which is why liberal city teams (Seattle, New England, San Francisco, etc) support the players’ protests, while owners from less liberal cities (such as Jerry Jones on the Cowboys) are against it. They want to keep the financial support of their home towns.

    #1368507
    Curiosity
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    Also, this is not Trump’s fault. Kaepernick was kneeling while BHO was still in office.

    #1368534
    zahavasdad
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    NFL Players (and All sports players for that matter) are not paid employees, they are independent contractors. Its not Paid time

    #1368603
    Joseph
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    Actually they are contractual employees, not independent contractors. But this is irrelevant because even if they were independent contractors the team has a right to provision their contract that they are required to stand for the anthem or the team will have the right to immediately terminate their contract if they fail to do so.

    #1368605
    ☕️coffee addict
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    It’s funny that we’re arguing this because the coach of the Pittsburgh steelers spoke out against the player that stood for the national anthem

    #1368608
    zahavasdad
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    However most people cannot play Quarterback in the NFL, so these jobs are not easily replaceable. Thats why the players have some say

    #1368750
    huju
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    I’m a liberal, I cannot stand our current president, I agree with Kaepernick’s original reason for kneeling – to protest trigger-happy behavior with black Americans by some police officers – and I ain’t leaving America (except for my sister’s wedding in Israel, but then I will come back).

    One of the great things about America is that you can demonstrate your concern for public issues any time, anywhere in public. If the bosses of the NFL players want them to stand during the National Anthem, they could do so, but they have chosen not to. If you don’t like that, watch a golf tournament, but there is much less risk of brain injury to the players, and nobody runs very fast or ever, ever catches a ball.

    #1368774
    👑RebYidd23
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    People who don’t like America and also think Trump is bad for America have no problem with Trump.

    #1368776
    Curiosity
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    Huju, I’m very curious how a liberal justifies the statistics which show no racism exists. White men are just as likely to be shot by police when the incidence rate is normalized over the incidence of police confrontation for violent crime. Meaning, if black men and white men commit the same rate of violent crime (which they don’t – statistically, black men are 3 times as likely to) then upon contact with the police there is no indication that the black man will be shot more frequently than the white man. What say ye?

    #1368793
    👑RebYidd23
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    Please don’t say “What say ye”. It is annoying and grammatically incorrect, even if you really think you live in a time where “ye” was used in normal conversation.

    #1368800
    Curiosity
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    Why must ye tell others what to saye? *Cough* ye *cough*

    #1368946
    ☕️coffee addict
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    I agree with Kaepernick’s original reason for kneeling – to protest trigger-happy behavior with black Americans by some police officers – and I ain’t leaving America (except for my sister’s wedding in Israel, but then I will come back).

    the flag represents our country, the police officers represent a service that the country does, no different than trash pick up construction for bridges, or the fire department

    if you don’t like the police officers (for the FEW that are trigger happy) don’t use their service!
    if you don’t like the country so much so that you can’t show respect to it’s flag GET OUT!

    #1369000
    Meno
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    So what is all this supposed to accomplish again?

    #1369128
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    “Why must ye tell others what to saye? *Cough* ye *cough*”
    wondered the same thing as ye

    “So what is all this supposed to accomplish again?”

    what? you don’t understand football?

    #1369275
    OblikoMorale
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    It is rarely mentioned, but all professional sports leagues operate under antitrust exemption granted by the Congress. The right thing to do would be to remove them , and to pass a law prohibiting public funds to be used for stadium construction etc. (Hello, Mr. St. Lawrence!). Grown men should play children’s games on their own buck. Of course, Drumpf would never try to get that passed, his buddies would be too upset

    #1369390
    akuperma
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    The NFL owners would be free to fire the players, however the NFL owners are supporting the players. It is clearly the right of the owners to express their political opinions. Note, that is why the owners could fire Alejandro Villanueva for not joining the owner-endorsed protests. Earlier protests were tolerated by the owners, the one’s this week were endorsed by (and in come cases, directed) by the owners.

    And of course it is perfectly legal for fans to refuse to buy tickets or watch the games on television for the same reason – or to buy an Alejandro Villanueva jersey . The unknown in the equation is to what extent football fans are “blue” or “red”, and how that affects the teams’ bottom lines.

    I myself prefer baseball, a game involving more intellects, more skill and less brute force — and in which almost half the players on American teams are from foreign countries (and with less overrepresentation of African Americans, which is also a factor in the protests), but if my favorite baseball team started protesting against my country, I would stop going to their games.

    #1369655
    Curiosity
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    Of course they wouldn’t fire Villanueva, because the backlash would be enormous – he’s a former Army Ranger who wants to respect the flag, and it’s not an official team rule that he must remain in the locker room with his team during the anthem. However, if they did fire him it would be very interesting to watch the chaos that ensues. Much worse than ESPN removing Asian-American Robert Lee.

    #1369750
    huju
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    Reply to Curiosity: I am not familiar with the statistical evidence that racism does not exist. Where and by whom was it published, who collected the data, who analyzed the data. And if the statistics say what you say, well, good, racism problem solved. That gives me more time to worry about health care, tax reform for the middle class, and neo-Nazism.

    #1369758
    yehudayona
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    OblikoMorale, preventing public funds from being spent on stadiums is a state issue, not a Federal one. So there would have to be 50 laws.

    Akuperma, I read an article somewhere that attempted to quantify the political beliefs of football fans, and it was more red than blue, but I don’t remember by how much or where I read it. It also said that the NFL is 80% black and the fans are more than 80% white.

    #1369867
    ☕️coffee addict
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    I liked what happened last night at the cowboys game

    The cowboys knelt before the anthem to join in protest against trump and then stood for the national anthem

    #1370083
    huju
    Participant

    To coffee addict, who quoted me: First of all, the US, i.e., the federal government represented by the Stars and Stripes, provides very little police service. Local and state governments provide most of the police service. And most of the objectionable police shootings have been committed by local or state police. And I clearly did not condemn all police, I specifically said “some” police have engaged in wrongful conduct.

    The handful of times that I have been at a ball park, stadium, court or ice rink where the US National Anthem is played, I stand, voluntarily. If the US started rounding up Jews or Yazidis, or local police started shooting us or the Yazidis, I might sit in protest. Is it OK with you if I stay here in America? Not that I would leave if you say “no”.

    #1370137
    Curiosity
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    Huju, YWN doesn’t allow links, but just google “police shootings by race”. There’s a great article by National Review, and another by the LA Times, if you lack faith in conservative news sources and desire liberal ones. There’s enough research out there on this topic to keep you busy for days. Also, I would humbly suggest that if you must spend your time worrying about dangerous groups, Muslim terrorists should be much higher on the worry list than the elusive Neo-Nazis.

    #1370132
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Huju,

    I’m surprised you said that based on our past!

    If cops killed Jews and justice wasn’t served I would for sure leave the US, if you can’t trust cops who can you trust to uphold the law, on the flip side if I realized that those cops were exceptions to the general population of cops I wouldn’t generalize and say “all cops are bad and this country supports cops (which are bad) which makes the country bad so therefore I’m not going to honor my (bad) country by standing for the flag

    It’s just silly nonsense and trying to make a statement where there shouldn’t be one

    If you want change you get laws passed by getting people supportive of your beliefs in the government (just like the Tea Party) as opposed to protesting and crying about it (just like occupy Wall Street and blm

    There, I’m done with my rant

    #1370182
    👑RebYidd23
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    This country was founded as a place for people to protest and cry about stuff.

    #1370455
    ☕️coffee addict
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    This country was founded as a place for people to protest and cry about stuff

    To quote Shlomo ha Melech
    There is a time for everything….a time to laugh and a time to cry

    That time isn’t right before a football game

    #1370468
    👑RebYidd23
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    Football games are not sacred.

    #1370474
    DovidBT
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    The irony of these protests is that they support violent criminals who get stopped by law enforcement officers.

    #1370664
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Sean Hannity just said it well

    You can’t tell players that you can’t put logos on your clothes because it’s political but then say you can kneel because of your first amendment rights

    (What they didn’t allow was a 9/11 logo and wearing pink

    #1370610
    ubiquitin
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    CA
    “What I wonder is why they are still here if they hate our president with a passion”

    wonder no more!
    I am settled here my family job etc are all here. Why would Iget up an leave just becasue the PResdient is severly brain damaged . whn he wil be gone in probably 3.5 years maybe less (worst case 7.5 years)

    Frankly your question is offensive, and like the current President shows a pofound lack of understanding of the very basic principles that this country is founded upon.

    “If you don’t like America enough to stand for the national anthem then just leave!”
    There is this thing called the first amendment.. In AMerica you get to voice your opinion and stay. IF you dont like that you of course are free to stay and campaign to have the first amendment removed that too is your right.
    So too you I say this is a free country people have a right to protest the country AND stay here. and if you dont like it, you too are welcome to stay.

    (As an aside you know your president really has a screw loose when regarding a fight between Nazis and Anti-Nazis the best he can muster is there are some “nice guys on both sides” but a couple of peacful protsters protesting police brutality “Get those ……..the field”

    #1371469
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Uniq,

    Nowhere did I say that first quote I don’t even know where you got that from (I’m assuming it’s a straw man)

    I never said if you hate our president with a passion it’s perfectly fine to stay (there’s a lot of people that hated obama/bush/Clinton/Reagan with a passion

    No one says you u have to love our president

    What I am saying is you have to love our COUNTRY (which is what our FLAG represents)

    Secondly Antifa aren’t anti-nazis

    Also your part parroting everyone else of “first amendment rights” doesn’t work in a restaurant btw where a same gender couple wants a cake and someone doesn’t want to bake it for them but it works for someone that wants to disrespect our service men and women?

    Someone else has a few screws loose and I’ll give you a guess who (hint : it’s not me)

    #1371474
    👑RebYidd23
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    Forced love is what they have in Rocket Man’s country.

    #1371495
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Rebyidd,

    You’re right I should have said respect our country

    We keep on going around in circles with the first amendment but I have answered it already with logos above (people pick and choose what they like to address (I guess that’s part of living in this country 🙄

    #1371494
    DovidBT
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    “What I am saying is you have to love our COUNTRY (which is what our FLAG represents)”

    I don’t believe that you have to “love” our country, but if you live here, you need to respect the government, including the court system and the police.

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