"You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn't be playing. You shouldn't be there. Maybe you shouldn't be in the country," Donald Trump said.
I wanted to start the blog with the above quotation because it stands on its own so well. This comment by the President comes on the heels of the NFL announcing a new policy in the coming season that essentially requires players on the field during the national anthem to stand. The policy states that it is acceptable for those who want to protest to stay off the field in the locker room during the anthem, but that they cannot protest on the field.
It was essentially a policy the NFL came up with to stop the bleeding that has been happening with their ratings since Colin Kaepernick started the protesting nearly 2 years ago now. Colin, however, was not protesting the National Anthem, but violence and unfair treatment of black Americans by the police. It became an unbelievably controversial topic as months rolled on and he continued to protest, but with time, many players from many teams did the same in support of Colin.
Going back to the quote above, there are some major issues I have with a statement like that. First, it is coming from the President of the United States. The President of the United States said in so many words that someone who is doing something they have the Constitutional Right to do should lose their job and possibly not even be allowed in the United States. That is wholly Un-American, and for it to come out of the mouth of the President is very concerning to me.
Here is another quote taken from the letter the President sent to the leader of North Korea, announcing that the United States is cancelling the summit between the two countries. Quote, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
This is in the letter sent to an insane leader of a country that has long range nuclear capabilities. Our President needs to stop. Stop lying, stop lifting himself up through false narratives, stop sticking his head into private business he has no right to be involved in, and stop making a mockery of our Great Nation to the rest of the world through his unintelligible knowledge of foreign relations spewed from his mouth on a regular basis.
Donald Trump has created over the past week a conspiracy narrative he calls Spy Gate in which he says there was a planted spy within his campaign team for political reasons. That is so far from true is stinks like a skunk, but his team and his lap dog Fox News continues to use the spin words to turn what is a commonly used informant practice into a deep state conspiracy that didn't happen. He feels that the more he and his team say it, the more people will believe it, and sadly he is right.
Trump's ratings are going up, and that scares the absolute shit out of me as an American. EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING he and his team are talking about right now is false. It is all to divert your attention away from the ongoing investigations and taint the Mueller Investigation through the use of conspiracy theories with no basis in factual information.
I am sick to my stomach right now.
DUNK
I wanted to start the blog with the above quotation because it stands on its own so well. This comment by the President comes on the heels of the NFL announcing a new policy in the coming season that essentially requires players on the field during the national anthem to stand. The policy states that it is acceptable for those who want to protest to stay off the field in the locker room during the anthem, but that they cannot protest on the field.
It was essentially a policy the NFL came up with to stop the bleeding that has been happening with their ratings since Colin Kaepernick started the protesting nearly 2 years ago now. Colin, however, was not protesting the National Anthem, but violence and unfair treatment of black Americans by the police. It became an unbelievably controversial topic as months rolled on and he continued to protest, but with time, many players from many teams did the same in support of Colin.
Going back to the quote above, there are some major issues I have with a statement like that. First, it is coming from the President of the United States. The President of the United States said in so many words that someone who is doing something they have the Constitutional Right to do should lose their job and possibly not even be allowed in the United States. That is wholly Un-American, and for it to come out of the mouth of the President is very concerning to me.
Here is another quote taken from the letter the President sent to the leader of North Korea, announcing that the United States is cancelling the summit between the two countries. Quote, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
This is in the letter sent to an insane leader of a country that has long range nuclear capabilities. Our President needs to stop. Stop lying, stop lifting himself up through false narratives, stop sticking his head into private business he has no right to be involved in, and stop making a mockery of our Great Nation to the rest of the world through his unintelligible knowledge of foreign relations spewed from his mouth on a regular basis.
Donald Trump has created over the past week a conspiracy narrative he calls Spy Gate in which he says there was a planted spy within his campaign team for political reasons. That is so far from true is stinks like a skunk, but his team and his lap dog Fox News continues to use the spin words to turn what is a commonly used informant practice into a deep state conspiracy that didn't happen. He feels that the more he and his team say it, the more people will believe it, and sadly he is right.
Trump's ratings are going up, and that scares the absolute shit out of me as an American. EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING he and his team are talking about right now is false. It is all to divert your attention away from the ongoing investigations and taint the Mueller Investigation through the use of conspiracy theories with no basis in factual information.
I am sick to my stomach right now.
DUNK
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