It's a strange world when a NASCAR driver has a better handle on the Bill of Rights than does the President.Not all NASCAR people are siding with Trump -- with Dale Earnhardt Jr. throwing his support behind NFL protesters ... despite several NASCAR owners bashing them.Trump is trying to bully the NFL. A bunch of guys who spend their working day smashing into one another are not going to intimidated by the demented ravings of an old orange-haired loudmouthed racist.
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"All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests," Dale Jr. tweeted.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Even Jerry Jones, who gave the Trump campaign a million dollars, took a knee.
UPDATE: It's all about Trump pleasing his batshit-base.
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I don't follow football or any sports really, but I find this fascinating. Herr Cheeto seems to have really stepped on his own dick again, and badly this time.
The Football Players are powerful in their own realm. People Listen to them. The Football owners are smart enough to follow along at least to not antagonize a Strong Union. Cheetolini has walked into a wall here and he isn't known to apologize or back off.
I am awaiting each days tweet storm like wood on the fire on a cold morning.
I am so hoping that "This" will be his Waterloo, and all downhill from here.
If Only N/K doesn't act out on his antagonism in the mean time?
w3ski
Have a look at Keith Olberman's recent video about this. He pointed out that trump stepped over a big line, and pointed out the consequences.
Cheetolini is more upset by people taking a knee than he was about a Nazi running over people.
I also find this very interesting, but for a different reason. People are saying the players can do this because of free speech. And I'm thinking the players can do this because their employers allow them to do this. When they are in the stadium they are at work. My wife's workplace doesn't allow any political discussion as a condition of her employment. Does she have free speech? Yes, but not at work. As for Trump, the football tweets are just his opinion and everyone has one just like rectums.
Not really clear if the owners could.fire a player(s) for this behavior. The players have an Employkent Contract with the owner/team and a Union Collective Bargainning Agreement with the league/teams. The terms of that contract involved in this are pretty boilerplate, but the issues involved here are not. Cutting a player would involve paying their contract guarantees, and only chosing one or two players would likely make an appeal a sure winner. It's not even clear the acts of the players give the owners the grounds under the Employment Contract to fire a player, as the legal standards within are rather generic and not clearly defined with regard to this kind of act. It's pretty clear no owner will fire someone, and they all understand that Donnie is still butt hurt from the USFL and the 2014 fiasco with the NFL.
The same unctuous disingenuous fake empathy that trump, Cruz, Rubio, Pence, McConnell, Palin, Clinton all display, so easy to spot even a caveman could see it. Pretending they're not paid-for corporate puppets and spokesmodels. Grifters gotta grift, large or all.
But let's never forget trump's being paid by Putin, or Putin's obedient pet bankers, so that makes him a fucking traitor as well as corporate stooge.
I think that this flag thing is a diversion to keep people from noticing the wet pant leg he got in the pi**ing match with N Korea .
The wildest stuff he tweets usually comes when he needs a distraction .
He may not be educated , intellectual , disciplined or smart but he's not stupid .
Glenn
Glenn: Right. Remember who he learned the art of evil fuckery from: Roy Cohn.
-Doug in Oakland
Somebody said "well, why is the NFL pissing off their supporters by doing this?" Well, it's simple: Trump Country has no money. The counties that voted for Hillary account for 2/3rds of the nation's economy and most of the cash that goes into the NFL's coffers. Some inbred bucktooth foulmouth cretin in Alabama who doesn't buy anything except chewing tobacco and pickup trucks has limited appeal to the advertisers who are most of the NFL's revenue stream, while the affluent metropolitan voters who went for Hillary are beloved by advertisers because they have money and *spend* it, and spend it on things other than pickup trucks and chewing tobacco and opioids.
Believe me, if the NFL thought this was going to cost them money, there would be directives flowing down from above and owners would be freaking out....
Meanwhile, NASCAR says that any team that takes a knee at their races will be kicked out of the venue. It figures. NASCAR events have more KKK flags (oops, "Confederate" flags) than a Klan convention, so obviously any protest calling for equal rights for black people would be anathema to them. BTW, NASCAR revenue has been on a downhill slide for the past eight years, the more Confederate flags they fly to get the Trump demographic, the fewer advertisers are willing to spend money on them. See my point above about who has the money in America....
They're all raking in the dough, no matter the distraction. I'd bet they just had their best second (third?) weekend of the season ever.
Boycott football. Boycott stadium sports.
My My Badtux, and you accuse me of making assumptions about people. You post is a classic. What a vile screed of hate and disregard towards others not of your tribe. .
You should take your own advice.
B, I can say snarky things about rednecks 'cause I is one, born and bred.
The moment you become black, you can say snarky things about black people too, 'kay?
- Badtux the Snarky Redneck Penguin
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