Posted on 06/19/2020 4:31:29 PM PDT by DFG
The Washington Post published an editorial today calling on the New England Patriots to change their team name due to its association with the United States of America.
The article called for the Patriots to change their team name immediately to something that doesn't imply they are proud of their country.
"The negative associations with the horrible country of America should be left in the past," the editorial board wrote. "This name is very offensive to austere religious scholars in other countries, liberals, and Canadians. We must call on the NFL to do better, to be better."
"They must change the name to something that signals that they are not proud to live in this country."
Suggestions for the new name included The New England Colonizers, The New England Oppressors, and The New England Sorry For Being Americans.
Today’s satire may be tomorrow’s news
It nearly got me too.
Chuckle.
These days reality and satire are hard to tell apart.
Eff them. When will some grownup say “Enough!”?
They got me on this one. Lol.
L8r
That is it.
I am going to sue Free Republic and The Babylon Bee for Freeping related whiplash injury.
I constantly scroll down a page of threads, then jerk my head back up to look at one I just scrolled past.
My neck!
Then I read the title, my blood pressure spikes, and and I position my cursor to enter the thread, and at the last second, I sharply move my head to stare back at the source...The Babylon Bee!
Argh! My achin’ neck!
Its impossible to tell what is satire and what is current events anymore.
The Bee headlines have a way of coming true.
The Slaveholder Big Stick needs to become the Commie Antifa Diatribe.
OK, I admit I swallowed the bait whole and jumped around in anger with the hook in my mouth.
The Bee rarely catches me, but since the world has gone insane I'll believe anything that sounds crazy.
Now back to reading Johnathan Swift's cookbook for Irish children.
Who the hell is Patriots offensive to, the British?
Sure, why not? And while we at it, Post, why not change your credo to “Democracy Dies in Darkness and We’re Here to Pull the Plug.”?
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