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Trump’s full-scale culture war with the NFL
Washington Post ^ | Sept. 24, 2017 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 09/24/2017 12:28:27 PM PDT by Innovative

President Trump has flirted with many culture wars before. This weekend, he may have set off a full-fledged one with lasting implications. On Friday night, Trump said NFL players who kneel during the national anthem should be fired. Then Saturday, he disinvited the Golden State Warriors, the NBA champions, from a White House visit because superstar Stephen Curry suggested that the team should skip it in protest of Trump.

All of this comes shortly after the White House suggested that ESPN host Jemele Hill should be fired for calling Trump a “white supremacist.” All three events pit Trump against black sports figures whose political statements he believes are out of bounds or unpatriotic. And the entire situation seems to be reaching a tipping point.

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KEYWORDS: nfl; patriotism; trump; trumpnfl
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To: corlorde
Courageous Patriots have fought and died for our great American Flag --- we MUST honor and respect it! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/912037003923005440

41 posted on 09/24/2017 1:07:31 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Innovative
The NFL has moved to the top of my organizational kill list. NBA goes to 2nd for their antics and support of NFL. Hollywood goes to 3rd for their efforts to help change our culture by supporting the NFL.

Haven't watched, listened to, or attended an NFL or NBA game in at least 20 years. The last movies I attended were Star Wars and Harry Potter with my kids. Nothing since then.

I told my BIL, an avid fan of pro, college, and high school sports that I care nothing about who wins or loses and what any of the pro players say or do. He was a bit stunned, but maybe he understands a bit more in the past few weeks.

42 posted on 09/24/2017 1:08:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, NBA, Hollywood, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, CAIR, ESPN, NPR, BLM, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: Spktyr

See post #41


43 posted on 09/24/2017 1:09:56 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Innovative

• 42.6% of victims of all solved criminal homicides from 2009-2012 were black males
• 89.6% of black males killed in criminal homicides from 2009-2012 were killed by another black male
• 40.6% of the police officers murdered in the line of duty from 2009-2012 were killed by black males*
• In spite of these statistics, only 32.2% of the deaths from police use of force from 2009-2012 involved black males

* www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka

These data suggest yearly averages of:
• 120 black males are killed each year by police use of force

Of the 1,491 persons that died from police use of force from 2009-2012:
• 915 (61.4%) were white males
• 481 (32.2%) were black males
• 48 (3.2%) were males of other races
• 28 (1.9%) were white females
• 15 (1.1%) were black females
• 4 (0.2%) were females of other races

Compare this to the following averages:
• 38 black males are killed each year in negligent accidents
• 162 black males are killed each year in justifiable homicides by citizens acting in self-defense
• 4,166 black males are killed each year in criminal homicides (murders & man slaughters)

Police-Related Killings and Black Males

• This suggests yearly averages of:
• 120 black males are killed each year by police use of force
• Compare this to these additional averages:
• 2,369 black males are killed each year in the U.S. in motor vehicle accidents*
• 2,532 black males commit suicide in the U.S. each year**
• Race statistics are not available on lightning strikes***

* National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, Injury Facts, (2012). http://www.nsc.org
** http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/statistics/aag.html
*** http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/wlightning.htm


44 posted on 09/24/2017 1:10:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: proust
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you never, ever want to be involved in a business that shows up like this on the Twitter page of the President of the United States on a Sunday afternoon:


45 posted on 09/24/2017 1:11:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Innovative
I wonder what this BRAVE American would give to stand on his OWN two legs just ONCE MORE for our Anthem.

 


46 posted on 09/24/2017 1:11:48 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Innovative

I hope he’ll go against the war on Christmas this year. It is a oldie but goodie.


47 posted on 09/24/2017 1:12:34 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Enlightened1

48 posted on 09/24/2017 1:13:52 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Enlightened1
WRONG, KRAFT knelt in abject subjugation to the ONLY Black Lives Matter, Communist Social JustUS Warriors, PC pink crowd and all of their leftist, anti-American social engineering agenda/garbage today ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE TEAM AND "patriots" (no longer worthy of caps) FRANCHISE today in an utterly despicable OFFICIAL TEAM STATEMENT that he crafted and personally disseminated to the media.

Robert Kraft doesn't give a darn about America, the patriots or the fans. ALL Kraft REALLY CARES ABOUT IS THE MONEY!

The so-called "patriots", along with the entire NFL is dead.

49 posted on 09/24/2017 1:24:37 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: delchiante

They are being forced to play his game. and he’s using their own rules.


This is great stuff but I can’t help wondering if he isn’t using a swat team to ticket j-walkers. Why isn’t he using these great tactics against a much bigger foe: like Mueller and the whole Deep State monster.


50 posted on 09/24/2017 1:25:27 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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51 posted on 09/24/2017 1:26:24 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Innovative

Aaron Blake is taking the bait.

Think Trump has gone “full scale culture war” with the morons of the NFL?

Nope.

Trump is reflecting what most of us THINK about the haughty millionaires playing for billionaires in the taxpayer subsidized, anti-trust protected football league.

The NFL should have stopped the cop-hatred, flag-hatred and nation-hatred when it raised its ugly head. But it didn’t.

Now, it’ll pay a price.

Trump is reflecting...and it really isn’t a full scale war, Aaron. All this is is deciding to turn away from bigotry, racism, and cronyism within the NFL.

Kind of like the Washington comPost losing money—it is a sure thing.


52 posted on 09/24/2017 1:27:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Alberta's Child
"...out on a limb ..."

Here is a strategic difference between Obama and Trump:

Obama creates enemies of straw and imagines defeating them with comically self-centered rhetoric.

Trump creates enemies of men and evokes within them an impassioned drive to defeat themselves.

It does not take a multi-dimension chess master to predict that poking an already-annoying slimy pig would make it squeal fingernails on the chalkboards of America's true patriots.

53 posted on 09/24/2017 1:27:06 PM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Innovative
The NYTimes and company did not want a "culture war" to interrupt their leftwing "culture purge."

They rather it had played out like it did with the unopposed Red Guard actions in Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China.

The NY Times' history reveals they played the same role of supplying "Fake News" to cover-up for Stalin and for Castro: See the false reporting of the Reporters Walter Duranty in 1930s Russia & Herbert Matthews in the late 1950s Cuba.

54 posted on 09/24/2017 1:30:55 PM PDT by drpix
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To: snarkytart

Good post and telling the truth is basically a criminal offense.


55 posted on 09/24/2017 1:34:58 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: samtheman

the deep state know the rules that trump is using, too.


56 posted on 09/24/2017 1:37:58 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: BenLurkin

That’s exactly what this is. THey’ve had control of education, the media, and pop culture so long they actually think everyone is a left-leaning Hollywood-loving queer who thinks like they do.


57 posted on 09/24/2017 1:38:07 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"Blake is taking the bait."

So is the politically dark side of the NFL.

Trump knows decent people hate the Kapernick Crusades.
He knows the NFL is already tanking since they began.
He knows more kneeling will cause NFL to tank more.
He knows his tweet will cause more kneeling.

Just like the enemy media paid for most of his publicity during the campaign, now the enemy league is self-promoting a fan boycott he endorsed. And Trump will then claim credit for winning when the NFL predictably loses more viewers as they were already on a projection to suffer.

58 posted on 09/24/2017 1:46:21 PM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Innovative; All

Real men stand for their National Anthem and kneel only before God


59 posted on 09/24/2017 1:49:51 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Innovative

60 posted on 09/24/2017 1:50:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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