Now they are going to take a knee at the Olympics.
Too bad I never watch them anyway.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Grown men and women playing kids games. I just dont take them too seriously
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Olympics is just a program containing TV commercials broken up by a few fake sports anyways.
3 posted on
06/28/2020 7:27:55 PM PDT by
The Iceman Cometh
(Donald J Trump 45th President of the United States! MAGA)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Can you take a knee during the anthems of other countries or only when your own team’s song plays?
4 posted on
06/28/2020 7:28:07 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Shut all the stupid sport contests down. Just let the egos promote their causes. Heck, they could take their clothes off, too. Huge paying audience, no doubt.
5 posted on
06/28/2020 7:28:22 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Having a good memory means you never have to think of anything original to say.)
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Off the team! Right mittens? 📴
6 posted on
06/28/2020 7:28:55 PM PDT by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
We should drop every pro, college, and Olympic athlete off in Mogadishu.
9 posted on
06/28/2020 7:31:02 PM PDT by
EEGator
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10 posted on
06/28/2020 7:31:12 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“The renowned Olympic protester”
That’s a winner.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
John Carlos is part of the “BKM” movement. Black Knees Matter.
14 posted on
06/28/2020 7:33:14 PM PDT by
Ratman0823
(Today's news is all about the Leftist's "narrative". If it doesn't fit, the sheeple don't see it.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cancel the Olympics. The Greeks had slaves.
15 posted on
06/28/2020 7:36:32 PM PDT by
petitfour
(APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Someday, people are going to get pissed off and not watch these events. We dont miss cable/satellite. There is some decent material on Acorn, Netflix and Prime. Yeah, I know Obama / Netflix and Prime / Bezos.
16 posted on
06/28/2020 7:37:44 PM PDT by
Cobra64
(Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So now they want to ruin another sports venue for everyone. Selfish pieces of garbage! No one is interested in their personal political views, so keep ‘em at home.
20 posted on
06/28/2020 8:07:02 PM PDT by
EinNYC
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I guess these two black turds don’t understand what the Olympics is supposed to be all about.
21 posted on
06/28/2020 8:09:03 PM PDT by
falcon99
(qu)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Will the Olympics organization stand up and protect athletes from say Communist China if they take opportunity to protest against China’s policies and human rights record?
Or is this just a protection against backlash from the Olympics and if the athletes soon disappear to a re-education gulag for 5 years pay it no attention?
23 posted on
06/28/2020 8:24:01 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That bastard, John Carlos won’t quit.
He is known for one thing only, the fist in the air commie salute. So now, as he fades even farther to black, he campaigns to have the protest rule, made BECAUSE OF HIS SHAMEFUL ACTION, ended.
John Carlos: black skin, black heart, black brain, black blood and black mark on Olympic History.
24 posted on
06/28/2020 8:26:01 PM PDT by
BatGuano
(Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya? Nunc Bibendum)
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26 posted on
06/28/2020 9:51:07 PM PDT by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important
so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.) ― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Quick, without looking it up...what event did John Carlos compete in?
28 posted on
06/29/2020 4:01:36 AM PDT by
MarDav
To: E. Pluribus Unum
In the early years, political expressions were outlawed, it was a contest of individuals under a with national identity only that they paraded under a national banner. Athletes could not be sponsored by a nation, only private funding. This was all contaminated by the Communist countries of the USSR era who did finance their Olympic programs and used international sports programs as part of their foreign policy. Then in 1972 in the Munich Games, the South African team was sent home because of apartheid. The non-government, non-political rules still are in force, but enforcing them is another question.
29 posted on
06/29/2020 7:32:02 AM PDT by
elpadre
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30 posted on
06/29/2020 7:37:10 AM PDT by
moovova
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