Posted on 09/23/2017 10:17:15 AM PDT by mandaladon
Former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) tweeted that she hopes all NFL players kneel during the national anthem on Sunday in response to President Trump's remarks attacking Colin Kaepernick.
Edwards, who left Congress earlier this year, called Trump a "white supremacist who squats in our White House" in her tweet.
Trump suggested at a rally Friday night for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange (R) that NFL players like Kaepernick who kneel during the national anthem should be fired and fans should walk out.
"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now,'" Trump said, adding, "'He is fired.'"
"When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they are playing our great national anthem the only thing you could do better is if you see it, even if it's one player, leave the stadium," Trump added Friday. "I guarantee things will stop."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded to Trump's remarks on Saturday, calling them "divisive" and saying they show a "lack of respect" for the league and its players.
Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities," Goodell said.
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Be careful with such speech. FBI agents are watching us, and they might not want to take it lightly. But it’s cool with me. All I’m saying is, if the pampered football pre-madonnas think people have to watch them, they’re extremely mistaken. Same thing with the hollyweirdos and recording stars.
Figure of speech...
Before all this anti-American BS, most of the things I read about with the nfl were about their players constantly being arrested. Lot of good that does a community.
Yep, we got real class acts here, like Ezekiel Elliott.
Yeah, well, she’s a government official. Is she speaking as a government official? Then she should shut up about this. It’s only a few steps away from government “talk” to government action. If people don’t speak up and tell government to pipe down, then often government “talk” leads to miserable and unconstitutional action.
DON’T give government, especially the power-and-money-hungry Dems, the benefit of the doubt. Take every opportunity to put them in their place where they rarely are.
And President Trump called for an appropriate response from his supporters, who are legion.
“genetics aren’t a problem.”
Cultural values are. Lousy political policies and implementation are. Sin is.
Genetics are not.
Personally I like soccer but only go to local games; have seen no political stuff of any kind.
Dems - the KKK party.
Yes, let everyone including the cameraman kneel. Add the BLM fist too.
Lots of college games on.
I would recommend the nfl be very careful here. They are dividing their fans. They are setting up a lose-lose scenario. Eventually they will lose most of at least one side, maybe both.
Don’t you dare put hockey in there....
British and European soccer is good. So is South American, Asian and Australian. It’s American soccer that fails to draw crowds, so doesn’t draw good players, and Israel, while it has some good players and teams, can’t stack up against European soccer imho. We have great doctors and scientists, but not great athletes.
Why is the NFL throwing this issue in our faces? They make me puke.
For the first time in decades I am not watching one nfl game this weekend
No kidding. Talk about tone deaf. Dems truly are insane.
The Democrats are showing their real Anti-American feelings.
Let them reap what they sow.
15 years ago we used to blithely say that political correctness is killing us. The Gullibles (about half the country) lie under the guillotine of all that was America and beg for the media and their controllers to drop the blade.
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