Posted on 09/30/2017 10:18:03 AM PDT by BereanBrain
The 10 stages of an anti-Trump controversy:
1 - An issue arises or President Trump makes an observation or statement that is disagreeable to the leftists, Social Justice, Warriors, Racists,
Globalists, Pink Pussy Hatters, Snowflakes, sexual perverts and other democrats and leftards.
2 - The leftards go bonkers and rise up against him.
3 - The leftist media goes full anti-Trump 24/7.
4 - Democrat crazies load the airwwaves and social media with anti-Trump invective, whining that he isn’t fit to be President and calling for impeachment.
5 - Anti-Trumpers declare this is it! This is the final act that will seal the President’s fate and drive him from office.
6 - Polls, mostly ignored or distorted by the leftist media, begin to show that the majority of Americans agree with the President.
7 - The longer the controversy is in the news the higher the President’s ratings climb.
8 - Sooner or later it becomes clear that President Trump was correct and/or is winning the debate.
9 - The leftist media carries on as if the evidence in support of the president doesn’t exist.
10 - The leftards drop the issue like a hot potato and move on to the next anti-Trump nothing-burger.
Yes, hope you were clear that my “protest” suggestion was for Dez and Colin, not you, OP.
I am with you on tuning out the NFL and have cancelled the Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. When I saw that pic of Jerry Jones kneeling I thought “man, I bet he felt like an ass”. I hope so.
I gave those rich entitled stupid spoiled brats a piece of my mind.
That will leave a mark
” they were told it was to “send a message to Trump”.”
It was? Okay, where the hell were they back in the 60’s when all colors of people were being slaughtered.
The Dallas organizations response was a huge disappointment to me. Thought individuals like our coach and many players like Whitten had firm standards about decency and virtue and integrity. I know a job and a paycheck and getting along with other team members is important, but is it more important than God, America, family and ones own integrity? The answer is apparently ‘yes’. Sad and not the message for the light of the world to be sending.
EVERY Coward-boy knelt. Sooo, they ALL took it political, and KNEW they were doing so.
So, they have a right to do that, and I have a right to buy my entertainment elsewhere (and I WILL).
Good-bye, Cowboys. From a fan since the late 1960’s. Stand for the flag. Kneel for the cross. Leave the politics at home. Truly, you disgust me, and will not be followed or viewed in my home from last weekend forward.
Thanks for the link. I left a message.
“You only had one job, to play football.”
That it did, as well as to the rest of us. The message being:
"We suck and should actually be cleaning toilets"
As a Cowboy’s fan since the days of the original Doomsday Defence, I never liked Jerry Jones but grudgingly supported the team of my childhood. Last year I didn’t watch the NFL but kept an eye on the scores and standings and was pleasantly surprised when Romo was replaced with a competent quarterback. No more. I don’t even have the NFL listed on my sports app.
What we sent... email address was required but I just pasted their own contact us link from above and away it went :)
We have been boycotting NFL since Week 2 last year, but we always thought we’d be back. So imagine our shock (and horror) when we tuned in last week to watch Dallas show the world they would not take a knee, and they did! And Jerry joined in! So we really just want to thank Dallas for showing us there are no America loving teams left in the NFL and that we’re not missing anything at all! Feels so good to finally know we are done and gone for good, and we owe Dallas for helping us close the door forever! We love the USA far more than the game of football!
“And what’s this about people being slaughtered?”
I guess you weren’t around then. So instead of covering the years, basically from 1964 till 1974, I will give you a chronology of one year of murders I can call nothing short of slaughtering.
• January 14, 1969: The Los Angeles chapter of the Panthers gets into a shootout with members of the competing US Organization, and two Panthers are killed.
• April 7, 1968, seventeen-year-old Panther national treasurer Bobby Hutton was killed, and Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Party Minister of Information, was wounded in a shootout with the Oakland police. His conviction of was later overturned by a court technicality.
• April 1969: Twenty-one members of the New York chapter are indicted and jailed for a bombing conspiracy.
• May 1969: Two more southern California Panthers are killed in violent disputes with US Organization members
• May 1969: Members of the New Haven chapter tortured and murdered Alex Rackley, who they suspected of being an informant
• July 17, 1969: Two policemen are shot and a Panther is killed in a gun battle in Chicago
• October 18, 1969: A Panther is killed in a gunfight with police outside a Los Angeles restaurant
• October 28, 1967, Oakland police officer John Frey was shot to death in an altercation with Huey P. Newton during a traffic stop.
• November 13, 1969: A Panther is killed in a gunfight with police in Chicago
• December 4, 1969: Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are killed by law enforcement in Chicago.
And this isn’t all of them. Many of the cases were never finished due to lack of evidence or witnesses.
And to show you it didn’t stop there, I’ll also give you a little of 1970 to 1974, but not near most of it:
According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the Black Liberation Army was suspected of involvement in over 70 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1976. The Fraternal Order of Police blamed the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers.
On October 22, 1970, the BLA was believed to have planted a bomb in St. Brendan’s Church in San Francisco while it was full of mourners attending the funeral of San Francisco police officer Harold Hamilton, who had been killed in the line of duty while responding to a bank robbery. The bomb was detonated, but no one in the church suffered serious injuries.
On May 21, 1971, as many as five men participated in the murder of two New York City police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones. Those arrested and brought to trial for the shootings include Anthony Bottom (a.k.a. Jalil Muntaqim), Albert Washington, Francisco Torres, Gabriel Torres, and Herman Bell.
On August 29, 1971, three armed men murdered 51-year-old San Francisco police sergeant John Victor Young while he was working at a desk in his police station, which was almost empty at the time due to a bombing attack on a bank that took place earlier - only one other officer and a civilian clerk were there. Two days later, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter signed by the BLA claiming responsibility for the attack.
On November 3, 1971, Officer James R. Greene of the Atlanta Police Department was shot and killed in his patrol van at a gas station. His wallet, badge, and weapon were taken, and the evidence at the scene pointed to two suspects. The first was Twymon Meyers, who was killed in a police shootout in 1973, and the second was Freddie Hilton (a.k.a. Kamau Sadiki), who evaded capture until 2002, when he was arrested in New York on a separate charge, and was recognized as one of the men wanted in the Greene murder. Apparently, the two men had attacked the officer to gain standing with their compatriots within Black Liberation Army.
On January 27, 1972, the Black Liberation Army assassinated police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie at the corner of 174 Avenue B in New York City. After the killings, a note sent to authorities portrayed the murders as a retaliation for the prisoner deaths during 1971 Attica prison riot. To date no arrests have been made.
The BLM grew out of the Panthers.
There was a tremendous amount of violence and brutal killings and torture during those years. And it was accomplished by both sides. But, for me, the real issue came down to categorizing the way I have is when on august 22, co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Huey P. Newton was fatally shot outside 1456 9th St in West Oakland by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member, Tyrone Robinson.
Black on black, white on black, black on white, it didn’t matter. Ir was war on the street and everyone could play.
And BTW, my term for “you” of course doesn’t mean people not born yet. My reference is where were the activist like them before and why now when other times would have been easier/better? There was no talk. Only violence.
And the threat is still there today. An example is a case concerning an incident that occurred during the 2008 election. The New Black Panther Party and two of its members, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, were charged with voter intimidation for their conduct outside a polling station in Philadelphia.
The Department of Justice later narrowed the charges against Minister King Shabazz and dismissed the charges against the New Black Panther Party and Jerry Jackson. The decision to dismiss the charges has led to accusations that the Department of Justice under the Obama administration is biased against white victims and unwilling to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations. These charges have been most notably made by J. Christian Adams, who in May 2010 resigned his post in the Department of Justice in protest over the Obama administration’s perceived mishandling of the case, and by his former supervisor Christopher Coates.
The conduct for which members of the New Black Panther Party were accused of voter intimidation took place on Election Day in November 2008, at a polling station in a predominantly African-American, Democratic voting district of Philadelphia.
Two members of the New Black Panther party, Minister King Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson, stood in front of the entrance to the polling station in uniforms that have been described as military or paramilitary. Minister King Samir Shabazz carried a billy club, and is reported to have pointed it at voters while both men shouted racial slurs, including phrases such as “white devil” and “you’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.
See the similarity? See the needless violence? And I can just as easily find trash on the cops, the KKK, skin heads, and all the many mafias throughout the US. But I hope I made my point about the current activists and their timing and tactics of the activist right now. Everyone is wrong. When are we going to talk? And talk constructively?
rwood
Of course it was. That's why all the teams did it. Trump tweeted the SOB thing and they united agianst him. There was never any doubt in anyone's mind about that.
File this one under the "Well, duh!" category.
so, do you support the NFL’s stance one protest during the games (of any sort).
Did I say anything remotely close to supporting it?
just asking.
I’m never setting foot in Albertsons as long as Witten is one of their spokesmen
The answer is no. I was just saying how obvious it was that this protest went beyond Kaepernick’s original reason for it. Trump spoke out, NFL took it to an extreme.
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