Trump blasts NFL kneelers

Obviously, I don't think we should be squelching people's right to free speech by law. But if I had a player/employee who disrespected the flag and my battle buddies by kneeling/sitting during the national anthem, I'd fire them in a heart beat.

The problem I see is that the people who show this disrespect aren't sending the message they intend (unless of course that message IS disrespect). They say that they are sending a message concerning the systemic racism in our country. Even if that were true, what they are actually doing is disrespecting the men and women who have fought so that they could have the freedom to disrespect them.

It's idiotic and misguided at best. And that's giving them the benefit of the doubt.

 

Of course he would say it to their face - with the secret service men all around him he no doubt would.

I have heard immature Christians use vulgar language and I have counseled other Christians of sins that I wish would have only been vulgar language and I am not lying to myself or anyone else.

I'm not saying President Trump is or isn't a Christian, he has indicated that he is.

Example, after 3 years of being with jesus
Mark14
70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter,
Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.

HankD

 

It doesn't matter what your skin color, if you resist arrest or assault a police officer, the chances of you being killed goes up exponentially.

 

What makes you say that poverty is the main reason for crime? That sounds like something that was thought 100 years ago. Adam had a perfect environment and still he took what was not his to take. Judas saw God in the flesh daily and still he sold Him out for money. Maybe love of money is a reason for crime?

 

Salty and everyone else, we are surrounded by prima donnas. Blacks have been raising the fist since the Olympics in Mexico--wasn't that about 1968? (Democrats are like vegans--they have to tell you what they are in the first 10 minutes of meeting you.)

Look, the upper-middle class whites and the very rich whites who inhabit the Colts Stadium, Lucas Oil, in downtown Indianapolis are probably no more patriotic than the players, who seem to be in it just for the money and the politics. However, it is the taxpayers of Indianapolis, who thought nearly a billion dollars of their money on credit for a stadium would be a good idea. So if the NFL now means something like No Fans Left, we will see if the owners will go ahead and spend their own money to keep the wages high for the players and we can laugh at the people of Indianapolis who will now have no chance, if they ever did have one, of getting their money back on the white elephant called Lucas Oil Stadium.

(And by the way the NBA Pacers probably will never earn enough to pay off the city-held mortgage on their Fieldhouse. And the Pacers would really be in trouble if they couldn't sell alcohol at their games.)

I would only want to go to a game to have fun--not so much fun anymore, huh?

 

So would I.

But the President of the United States should not be admonishing private businesses to fire people.

Agree with you all the way.

 

Should not <> Can not

 

The President of the United States called an entire group of people SOB's. Is that presidential? Is that uniting or divisive?

Do you think the NFL players and owners should just roll over when they are called SOB's and agree with Trump? What was Trump expecting would happen?

I agree with what Trump said, but he could have said it more diplomatically or even had someone else say it for him. Who's the secretary of Labor?

 

Yep, kneelers during the anthem--that's an entire group of people.

Do you want a self-professed Christian leader of the greatest nation on earth to call people SOB's?

 

Yeah, get back to me when your reading comprehension and memory improves.