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Is the NFL Players' Union the Latest in a Long Line of Leftist Stooges?
FR/Vanity ^ | 9/26/17 | Jim Newell

Posted on 09/26/2017 9:15:32 AM PDT by Jim W N

Is the NFL Players' Union the latest in a long line of stooges used by the Left to spur division and unrest in our country?

Why does this smell like a Leftist Player’s Union deal probably spurred on by the Likes of Soros, the Communist party and probably the America-hating DNC? This stupid “team unity” thing tipped their hand to me. You never heard about “team unity” when it came to honoring America, the flag , and the anthem.

For whatever reason, everyone seems to be afraid of the unions which are generally anti-American, in this case the NFL Player's Union. Unions killed Detroit. Will they kill the NFL also?


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To: Jim 0216

I don’t think this latest stunt has anything to do with the Unions.

The sad fact is that the leftists have co-opted American Sports. And have used the players as idiots to promote their anti-American agenda.

From the NFL, the owners, ESPN, the players and yes, the unions too..... They all are liberal.

So what to do? Ignore then. Do not go to their games. Do not watch them on TV. Boycott them all.


21 posted on 09/26/2017 10:27:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Jim 0216

Yes. Absolutely. Without a doubt.

I knew it when I saw the coaches and owners kneeling. Substantial pressure has been brought to bear.


22 posted on 09/26/2017 10:31:04 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Be Free
Evil only triumphs when good men sit by and do nothing.

This has been the Republican Party for the past few decades. They have become submissive and fearful of The Left. They are like the bullied kid in school who finds it easier to just hand over his lunch money every day and comb the spitballs out of his hair at night. In fact, he goes out of his way to please the bullies, hoping that they will eventually like him. The kid is now fully cucked and has no self-respect. Just look at Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. They are nothing more than grown up bullied kids who are weak and timid, forever trying to get into the good graces of Democrats who despise them and hold them in contempt. There is no fight in them anymore. They just want to go along to get along.

If not for Donald Trump, I think a president Hillary would truly be the end of conservatism. You saw it among almost every Republican politician just before the election. They were all reconciled to the fact that Trump would lose and so they were positioning themselves to pay tribute to her and help her take America down a bad road.

23 posted on 09/26/2017 10:46:09 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Crucial

“I knew it when I saw the coaches and owners kneeling.”

Same here. The other owners probably got threatened by the more rabid lib owners.


24 posted on 09/26/2017 10:57:56 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: SamAdams76

Apparently you mis-read my post, or I wasn’t clear. I wasn’t saying Trump should NOT have reacted. I just think he responded in a way that plays the game on the opponent’s field. He should have ridiculed them. Or he should have challenged them, in some way defining the impetus of the protests in a light that is unfavorable to the players.

I mentioned already how he could have re-tweeted a picture and captioned it in a way that would have made them stop, nearly immediately (”players bowing their heads and kneeling in reverence”). He could have also gone back to the guy who started it, who apparently has a love-affair with communist dictators: “Why are all of these players going all in with a communist sympathizer?”. Or kick the legs out of the BLM false-charge that police and/or republicans are racists. Or that police are targeting blacks. They’re all demonstrably false.

In other words, ask: “What are these spoiled millionaires protesting”?, then pivot back to his core appeal and message: “While these cry-babies protest and dishonor our nation, millions upon millions of hard working Americans, of all races, genders, and backgrounds, are shelling out their precious & hard-earned money, that enable these guys to play a game for a living. And for what? Lie, upon lie, upon lie. They’re dividing, not uniting our country.”

Trump reacted exactly as they expected him to react, and they’re now playing their next card and painting him and all Republicans as racists - specifically because the way he reacted enabled them to.


25 posted on 09/26/2017 11:24:33 AM PDT by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: Jim 0216
When Colin took the knee for the first time, the NFL did nothing. That is the reason we are here today. Had they fined and or suspended him or take some course of action we wouldn't be here today. The blame falls squarely on Roger Goodall and him alone.
26 posted on 09/26/2017 11:51:59 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Phlap

That idiot Goodall made a federal case out of a pound of air.


27 posted on 09/26/2017 12:07:02 PM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I say: “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!”


28 posted on 09/26/2017 12:13:18 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Jim 0216

Stooges implies they are being fooled into a position they don’t already hold. Unfortunately a large percentage of blacks (and a smaller percentage of whites) are raised to believe this is an evil, oppressive country. They have no clue how lucky they are to have been born here, and no idea of what life is like elsewhere.


29 posted on 09/26/2017 1:46:21 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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