Trump vs Pro Athletes

[infection]

Not shaping up to be a good weekend for Dotard. Pro athletes from the NFL and NBA have joined in speaking out against the child in chief. Steve Kerr had an exceptionally good piece.

Here's just a small part:

http://amp.timeinc.net/si/nba/2017/...ld-trump-white-house-stephen-curry?source=dam

[MENTION=405]LifeOnaPlate[/MENTION]

 

[DutchJazzer]

the problem with all this is people tend to go to sport to be united!
escape from the world's problem

but now you gotta chose between the cops or the criminal lying black lives matter hands up dont shoot myth!


yes hand's up dont shoot micheal "thug" brown has been disproven.
just take a look at the court case and use all minority eye witnesses!
disregard the coroner support and white witnesses if you will, only go by the black witnes acount and still the conlcuision is michael brown was a thieving thug who attacked a cop!

yet Counterfeit News Network chose a side, instead of remaining nuetral on it!

yeah i am on the side that does not lie to me daily!

so **** black lives matter(the organization, because i think all lives matter)
**** the mainstream media
and **** those players turning beloved sports into a poltical battleground


ofcourse as i say this the players are free to do whatever, and the fans are free to boycot, just like the emmies and oscars are being boycot!
and marvel universe is losing viewership because hyudra agents used donald trumps qoutes. they alienated half their viewers by suggesting donald trump is on the side of hydra while hydra is the ofspring of NAZI which are true left wing!

but remember this is nfl players are not allowed to (excessively) dance in the end zone, or wear different headphones except bose! so the owners/;league can suggest they not do it. this is a bad business decision!

 

[Red]

Some would argue that Trump picks these fights because the actual job of governing just does not interest him:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...-and-the-politicization-of-everything/540915/

"It has been said that the age of Trump is the politicization of everything. The claim is impossible to dispute, especially one week after an Emmy’s ceremony that felt like an extended presidential roast. But it’s important to note that Trump is choosing to politicize sports and entertainment, not only because he is inclined toward controversy, but also because he is so demonstrably uninterested in actual policy and the political process.

Nobody is forcing the president to morph into a sports radio commentator. It is merely the role that best suits the skills that come most naturally to the former game-show host. Consider the simple, uncontroversial fact that in his ninth month in office, the U.S. president has a clearer position on Stephen Curry’s White House clearance than on any single detail of health care or tax reform. Trump is so bored by the quotidian demands of his surprisingly “complicated” job, which requires guiding policy through a complex political process, that he uses his position to instead harass Americans on the internet. Judging by the attention his sports commentary received this weekend, one can assume that Trump’s shock-jock-in-chief routine will be a long-running show".

Others point out that, because the majority of Americans do not support kneeling for the National Anthem, Trump has set a trap that both the pros and the public that opposes Trump have once again fallen for:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports...p/news-story/5c4ea843402408249c7966945b634ab2

And, just as an aside, since one of the resident trolls continues to conflate Nazism with the Left:

http://www.snopes.com/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

 

[Red]

Charles Blow of the New York Times pulls no punches:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/columnists/trump-race-nfl-nba.html

"Donald Trump is operating the White House as a terror cell of racial grievance in America’s broader culture wars.

He has made his allegiances clear: He’s on the side of white supremacists, white nationalists, ethno-racists, Islamophobes and anti-Semites. He is simpatico with that cesspool.

And nothing gets his goat quite like racial minorities who stand up for themselves or stand up to him.....

....Trump has no desire to advance truth and reconciliation when it comes to race in this country. His venality and vulgarity seeks only to exploit white racial anxiety and hostility, in the most vulgar of terms, to maximum political gain.

With every passing day, Trump diminishes the office of the presidency and elevates a virulent strain of racial animus. Trumpism is becoming ever more synonymous with racism."

 

[candrew]

Others point out that, because the majority of Americans do not support kneeling for the National Anthem, Trump has set a trap that both the pros and the public that opposes Trump have once again fallen for:

I didn't support it either until this past week. But we now have a president who is purposely pitting one group of Americans against another - for no other discernible reason than to gain cheap applause at political rallies to boost his ego.

While I'm sure this opinion will still maintain a plurality I'd like to see them run another poll in about a month. Hell even Michael Jordan came out for it - though I'm sure he ran it through all his endorsements deals thoroughly beforehand.

 

[Stoked]

I still don't really like that they are kneeling. But I fully support their right to do so. I got called a sociopath who spits on American vets yesterday for refusing to condemn them. I laughed in his face.

 

[Ron Mexico]

so **** black lives matter(the organization, because i think all lives matter)
*!

Thats a wierd statement. So you do support black lives matter since what you think is what their message is?

 

[Rubashov]

America has changed, does anybody else remember what happened to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf when he sat out the national anthem?

 

[DutchJazzer]

Some would argue that Trump picks these fights because the actual job of governing just does not interest him:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...-and-the-politicization-of-everything/540915/

"It has been said that the age of Trump is the politicization of everything. The claim is impossible to dispute, especially one week after an Emmy’s ceremony that felt like an extended presidential roast. But it’s important to note that Trump is choosing to politicize sports and entertainment, not only because he is inclined toward controversy, but also because he is so demonstrably uninterested in actual policy and the political process.

Nobody is forcing the president to morph into a sports radio commentator. It is merely the role that best suits the skills that come most naturally to the former game-show host. Consider the simple, uncontroversial fact that in his ninth month in office, the U.S. president has a clearer position on Stephen Curry’s White House clearance than on any single detail of health care or tax reform. Trump is so bored by the quotidian demands of his surprisingly “complicated” job, which requires guiding policy through a complex political process, that he uses his position to instead harass Americans on the internet. Judging by the attention his sports commentary received this weekend, one can assume that Trump’s shock-jock-in-chief routine will be a long-running show".

Others point out that, because the majority of Americans do not support kneeling for the National Anthem, Trump has set a trap that both the pros and the public that opposes Trump have once again fallen for:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports...p/news-story/5c4ea843402408249c7966945b634ab2

And, just as an aside, since one of the resident trolls continues to conflate Nazism with the Left:

http://www.snopes.com/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

snopes is biased!


read hitlers book, look at the actual policies hitler enacted!

hitler is a full on leftie!


dont read revisionist history. and biased sources like snopes en politifact!

 

[DutchJazzer]

I didn't support it either until this past week. But we now have a president who is purposely pitting one group of Americans against another - for no other discernible reason than to gain cheap applause at political rallies to boost his ego.

While I'm sure this opinion will still maintain a plurality I'd like to see them run another poll in about a month. Hell even Michael Jordan came out for it - though I'm sure he ran it through all his endorsements deals thoroughly beforehand.

lol trump did not start this.

espn made everything political, players did.trump is just hitting back!

 

[DutchJazzer]

Thats a wierd statement. So you do support black lives matter since what you think is what their message is?

they are based on a lie!

i support all lives. edited!

people had to stay up nights to protect their shop. from rioters looters and thugs!


if you ar e white brown yello green jew muslim budhist indian whatever you are if you did what michael brown did i wish the same fate upon you!


hands up dont shoot which changed it's name to black lives matter is sowing division!

 

[candrew]

America has changed, does anybody else remember what happened to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf when he sat out the national anthem?

He sat because his interpretation of his religious beliefs brought him to the conclusion that standing for the national anthem was offensive to Allah.

This is a completely different set of circumstances. Today Abdul-Rauf would get black-balled and then have that followed up with some visits from the DHS.