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spanone

(135,846 posts)
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 07:56 AM Sep 2017

'president' is up & tweeting....




If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!







...NFL attendance and ratings are WAY DOWN. Boring games yes, but many stay away because they love our country. League should back U.S.
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'president' is up & tweeting.... (Original Post) spanone Sep 2017 OP
My God... Freedomofspeech Sep 2017 #1
Where the hell is General Kelly? dewsgirl Sep 2017 #4
I was thinking the same TEB Sep 2017 #9
Still trying to get his palm print off his face exboyfil Sep 2017 #13
Kelly is home watching football Motley13 Sep 2017 #28
Kelly never controlled President The Donald. He's no doubt mentally Hortensis Sep 2017 #15
Kelly has disciplined WH operations and WH staff, but he can't control tblue37 Sep 2017 #21
he is truly demented. spanone Sep 2017 #5
Role models janterry Sep 2017 #2
+1 The men kneeling are the real heroes. sharedvalues Sep 2017 #7
It is pretty sad... CatMor Sep 2017 #3
Logical media strategy: pressure GOP NFL owners sharedvalues Sep 2017 #6
Even Kraft came out with a statement criticizing the president. smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #24
Screw Bob Kraft. sharedvalues Sep 2017 #32
He's always batshit on Sundays. cwydro Sep 2017 #8
He can make the NFL look good. HopeAgain Sep 2017 #10
You know when rational folks are saying exboyfil Sep 2017 #16
Teach your children well .. DemoTex Sep 2017 #11
And all over the country, Rethugs who can't afford tickets Croney Sep 2017 #12
Stadiums are already empty sharedvalues Sep 2017 #14
What a sick and demented individual. Kath2 Sep 2017 #17
day to day, it's got to be wearing this nation down....never in my many years have we had to endure spanone Sep 2017 #18
I'm 59. Kath2 Sep 2017 #19
the office of the president will never be the same....it will be years in restoring any dignity spanone Sep 2017 #22
I agree. Kath2 Sep 2017 #26
"I am the U.S." dalton99a Sep 2017 #20
The racist tweets of a madman malaise Sep 2017 #23
He is a full-out racist...the hood is off. spanone Sep 2017 #25
FUCKING INFURIATING LuckyCharms Sep 2017 #27
Every day I say to myself, "What has the #$@&*! dotard done now?" Motley13 Sep 2017 #29
Has the president ever told a private company to fire employees? Last I checked we were still a SweetieD Sep 2017 #30
This whole knee business, altho symbolically sweetroxie Sep 2017 #31
not really. it's an honest protest started by one player. spanone Sep 2017 #33
there is widespread hurricane damage and this bastard is screaming about peaceful protest Skittles Sep 2017 #34
it's unprecedented...he's off his rocker, as we would say spanone Sep 2017 #35

Freedomofspeech

(4,226 posts)
1. My God...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:00 AM
Sep 2017

Why is no one stopping him? He needs to be in a straight jacket...he is going to get people killed over this.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
28. Kelly is home watching football
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:28 AM
Sep 2017

dotard needs the Chinese puzzle for his fingers & tape across his mouth.


Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Kelly never controlled President The Donald. He's no doubt mentally
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:16 AM
Sep 2017

sitting with his head in his hands.

tblue37

(65,409 posts)
21. Kelly has disciplined WH operations and WH staff, but he can't control
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:11 AM
Sep 2017

Trump. The only control he can apply to Trump is to block staff from getting to him with RW nonsense from Breitbart, Alex Jones, etc., that can set him off.

spanone

(135,846 posts)
5. he is truly demented.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:05 AM
Sep 2017

these athletes should go to the white house and carry his sorry, crooked ass out of there.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
2. Role models
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:00 AM
Sep 2017

For years we have decried professional athletes for not being role models. These men - who are kneeling - are precisely the kind of role models we need.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. It is pretty sad...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:00 AM
Sep 2017

when the country is only safe when the President is sleeping. Maybe he can be put in a drug induced coma until 2020.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
6. Logical media strategy: pressure GOP NFL owners
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:07 AM
Sep 2017

The president (27.5, let's call him, following LeBron) is nothing if not media savvy. These tweets are designed to pressure his natural allies - the GOP billionaires that own NFL teams.

I think 27.5 has misjudged this one. If the owners don't fall in line (and I don't think they will), this will blow up in his face.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
32. Screw Bob Kraft.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 02:04 PM
Sep 2017

But yes I agree with you.

I was watching a pats game and saw Murdoch in Kraft's box. Consorting with an enemy of America, that's what Kraft did. I'm done with him.


But I'll take Kraft's statement on kneeling, even though it was fairly weak.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
16. You know when rational folks are saying
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:17 AM
Sep 2017

that the dictator from North Korea has a point, then you have lost the moral argument.

I am seeing folks call for Sessions to go after the antitrust exemption. You know, that is a great idea.

DemoTex

(25,399 posts)
11. Teach your children well ..
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:13 AM
Sep 2017

Little Donnie apparently was never taught and/or never learned to pick his battles wisely. Quite the contrary. He is quick to gratuitously start a shitstorm where waters are placid. He is a fool.

Croney

(4,661 posts)
12. And all over the country, Rethugs who can't afford tickets
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:13 AM
Sep 2017

and would never go anyway, are yelling HELL NO, WE WON'T GO! But they'll be watching on TV as usual, and hoping for empty stadiums so they can gloat.

Instead of the wave, fans at games could do a mass kneel, or adopt some group movement that implies kneeling.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
14. Stadiums are already empty
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:15 AM
Sep 2017

And that has little to do with patriotic players who kneel to protest racism in the white house.

TV, high ticket prices and CTE have all affected ticket sales.

spanone

(135,846 posts)
18. day to day, it's got to be wearing this nation down....never in my many years have we had to endure
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:19 AM
Sep 2017

the likes of this shit.

Kath2

(3,074 posts)
19. I'm 59.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:27 AM
Sep 2017

I thought Reagan was a horrible president and he was. Then George Bush with his god damn war. But Trump is like nothing I have ever experienced. Makes me physically ill.

spanone

(135,846 posts)
22. the office of the president will never be the same....it will be years in restoring any dignity
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:16 AM
Sep 2017

LuckyCharms

(17,444 posts)
27. FUCKING INFURIATING
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:24 AM
Sep 2017

Mexico, Puerto Rico, Houston, Virgin Islands, etc etc etc.

And this slimey fuck is tweeting about this.

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SweetieD

(1,660 posts)
30. Has the president ever told a private company to fire employees? Last I checked we were still a
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:39 AM
Sep 2017

Democracy, for how long I don't know.

sweetroxie

(776 posts)
31. This whole knee business, altho symbolically
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:55 AM
Sep 2017

meaningful, is also another shiny object to distract us. Sleight of hand trickery.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
34. there is widespread hurricane damage and this bastard is screaming about peaceful protest
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 02:24 PM
Sep 2017

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM

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