it's not the same. Drumpf will be gloating.

freedom to stand, freedom to kneel

... but to get noticed and get the message out. The Cowboys definitely got noticed.

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It seems they took a stand/knee against injustice. That is what this is all about. It isn't about the Anthem.

It's no longer about "taking a knee" and staying on it for the entire national anthem.

Getting on knee and getting back up is a show of solidarity for people who want to take a knee.

It also sends a direct signal to Trump.

If he gloats, he has nothing to gloat about.

We're stronger than the killer cops who it is that caused this to be to begin with.

I have utmost respect for our brothers and sister LEO but they have to realize that we're all HUMAN. We're not just black, we're not just white, we're HUMAN first and foremost

You think these NFL owners want the US president hurting their business and tell them who to hire and fire? He just lost Jerry Jones, OMG!

If you are Trump and you lose Kraft and Jones, you are done.

Looked like TV camera the guy was carrying.

Fir the unelected Orange Nazi. But now...Jerry Jones? ???

just bit the hand that fed him. Most owners are republican. trump went after their income.

but this is masterfully played. Somehow you need to take away the binary of Trump vs. kneeling. I have always thought it was counterproductive, but did not get bent either way about it. I have friends, some of them liberal, who are angry about kneeling during the National Anthem. Those friends have served in our military (along with several of my conservative friends who are also angry about it).

Jones could follow up with a large contribution to a PAC lobbying for changing the procedures related to investigating LEO shootings. Also scholarships for disadvantaged African Americans etc.

I loved this guy's tweet:

Link to tweet

essentially said the same thing on Facebook and all her friends whom she served with answered back in agreement.

It would be a huge blow to this administration.

then they are full of shit.

I have a family member who is in this category and it is very troubling.

pre-game demonstrations by his players. Does anybody walk around transcribing every word he said, so that it can be proven that he never used the word "fired" in that context? Probably not. So at worst, possible hyperbole.

They take something with a kernel of truth to it and then distort it into something that gets the clickety clicks and fires up their mouth breathing base. The facts are he never said anything remotely like what has been circulating on my Facebook feed today.

Oh--and Texas and Florida are still cleaning up from Cat 4 and 5 hurricanes. At least the GOP attack on our national health care system might be halted temporarily.

But, yeah, let's keep talking about who stood up, who knelt, and where their hands were for that couple of minutes before a sporting event. I have no freaking idea how the rotting mango can think this is worth talking about.

SMDH.


Laura

Football is a game.

The situations you mention are life and death. I am from Texas and love the cowboys, but human life is important. Football is a game.

It's all about pandering to his deplorables and providing a distracting from his complete inability to deal with the real problems you identified, and his Russia connections.

and it is every bit as important as natural disasters and the stolen election.

What amazes hell outta me is the huge amount of shit raining down all around us, and all he could manage to be upset about--or even really notice--was what position football players took for a couple of minutes prior to a sporting event. The fundamental issue of cops killing black people then walking free completely eluded him. The fact that we had (still have) other brown skinned or Spanish speaking Americans fighting to survive was nothing he could recognize.

THAT was what my comment was about.


Laura

Apologies if it sounded like I did.

I just meant that all that is going on is.. intentional disruption of democracy in America..
We also need to remember that we are in a war and the other guys are engaging in what is called NON-LINEAR WARFARE.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hidden-author-putinism-russia-vladislav-surkov/382489/

I have been posting variations on the these points below all week and think we really need to see or remember that something else is going on ...

...............
It doesn't matter, in a way, what it is each day, or what happens tomorrow.( Of course it MATTERS.) But there is a reason for what is happening.)
It goes much deeper than that...
It is NON-LINEAR WARFARE.

PR, POC, immigrants, NFL, library books, grocery store selling diapers on the wrong day.. nothing matters to the enemy in this battle... EXCEPT disruption... disruption of society. disruption of government.

It is intended to be too much for a person to absorb... exhausting, distraction-- THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. Confusion, get people to just give up.

It is a tactic to bring down western democracy!!
Well, WE WON"T GIVE UP.

We need to deal with the day to day insanity, but at the same time, and maybe even MORE importantly, keep our eyes focused on the big picture of what is happening..

Vladislav Surkov, Alexander Dugin- look them up.. plus Putin and Bannon and others..

eom

pissed off. People who were posting on fb how great it was that Jones was going to make sure every player
stood for the national anthem.

Of all the demonstrations I've seen this weekend, I think that one was the most impressive.

I have much more class than that. I'm a Broncos fan!

...to which, this Washington Post reporter had the perfect response.

Link to tweet

Kneeling for the press, but standing for the National Anthem, every other team in every other sport will be doing this. The Cowboys may have just saved America

Most GOP nazis are crying because the NFL was one of their last places they could escape the dystopia that their policies cause all over the planet. Now that we have successfully taken over their precious 'MURICA!! moment, we will now start to implement policies that will take them out for good.

And they were leaving the field, one of the Cowboys patted Tony Romo too hard on the back, and he collapsed. He'll be out for three games.

I don't even follow sports, but I know enough snarky jokes to get under my Cowboys-fan brother's skin.

TlalocW

Tony Romo retired, he's a sport announcer now.

I don't follow sports.

TlalocW

...But He Seems Pretty Good At Reading A Defense ...From The Booth.

and his team of star-brandishing hooligans, you know Trump has made 2017 the most surreal year in American history... I have no doubt that 2018 will bring UFOs or some other crazy shit.

Why do we play the anthem before each and every formal sporting event in this country? I can see why we do that for something like the Olympics that has a nationalistic theme, but for football, baseball and all the rest?

The initial act offended many and got a lot of attention. Kap stood his ground and clearly stated what he was protesting. Now the offense is taken away and they are acts of solidarity behind the true issue.