Donald calls for a boycott and the NFL tries to fight back:
President Donald Trump on Sunday urged fans to boycott National Football League games to pressure it to fire or suspend players who kneel in protest during the national anthem, intensifying a battle over politics, social justice and race in America’s most popular sport.
But in the first NFL game since Trump touched off the spat Friday with an expletive-laden speech to supporters in Alabama, at least a dozen players on the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonsville Jaguars, playing in London, took a knee Sunday during the playing of “The Star-Spangled banner.”
Others stood and locked arms in a show of solidarity. More protests were expected Sunday as the rest of the games of week three of the season were played.
It was one of the largest such protests since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is African American, first began refusing to stand for the anthem in 2016.
And now #BurnYourGear becomes a thing:
A player Spits on a patriotic fan:
And the meme-warriors have not even begun yet. Short your NFL stock now.
Free speech is fine, but the NFL also needs to recognize the desires of their fans. Forcing fans to watch anti-Police, Anti-Military, Anti-American displays during every game, that insult our national anthem and disrespect our veterans, may not be good for business – or good for their sponsors. We have free speech too, and we think the NFL look like a bunch of leftist traitors who support Police shootings, could care less for the Armed Forces, and hate our country.
I have no idea if any of the President’s people surf these blogs, but if they do, I would suggest a couple of things.
First mold the perceptions of the battle lines. Point out Colin Kapernick’s display began as (and is) an anti-Police display, and that the NFL banned a similar, pro-Police demonstration of free speech, designed to show sympathy for five officers murdered in cold blood. Show that the NFL took sides, and suppressed free speech it didn’t like. Then highlight the free speech they like that involves hatred of Police, and the free speech they oppose, which is supporting of Police. Show the NFL’s true colors, and why the leadership deserves to be punished, and needs to be changed.
“It’s just ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the Dallas (Cowboys) football club from honoring the slain officers in their community with their uniforms stands silent when Kaepernick is dishonoring police officers with what he’s wearing on the field,” Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations (a coalition of police unions and associations from across the country), told USA TODAY Sports.
(The Cowboys’ plan to use a helmet decal as a tribute to the five police officers killed in July’s sniper attack was denied by the NFL, according to a published report.)
Highlight the sacrifices of veterans, and the importance of respect for the flag they served under. Highlight all the veterans burning their gear, and ask if enraging them, and leaving them that insulted, after all of their sacrifice is something the NFL is OK with?
Conservatives support police and the military innately, but even the mushy middle, which has no real political values, recognizes Police and Armed Forces deserve support. And among leftists, they know the support for the Police and Armed Forces is large enough that they will flee from the argument once the debate is reframed in that manner. Add the Police and Armed Forces into the battle lines, and you clarify just how anti-American and depraved the NFL has become.
Second, point out to the NFL what its image may be in a year. Anti-American, Cop-killer-supporting, Armed Forces Insulting, Flag-burning Leftists who spit on patriotic fans for loving the country, in a nation where the majority of their fans are exactly the opposite.
Point out to NFL fans that the goal is not to destroy the sport and the league, but rather to remove the politics from it, and make it foster national unity and support for America. To do that, you need a boycott that removes the anti-American, Anti-Cop, Anti-Armed Forces political activist people in the NFL from the sport. Donald should say “We love the NFL, we want the NFL to stay, but things need to change, and we are going to make the NFL make the changes. And when we are done, the NFL will be bigger, and better, and more patriotic and more American, and we can all support it.” That would go a long way to adding people who love the sport, and are hesitant to destroy the NFL to the boycott.
It is likely these ideas are all already part of the plan. I cannot believe Donald and his people did not already see the socks on Kapernick, or realize his entire protest was against the Police. My guess is Donald began this as if it was off the cuff, and poorly planned to drag the NFL into the fight. In reality, it was all planned, even down to the Eriksonian storytelling hypnosis of a big strong man, tackling everyone as hard as he can, as feminist referees try to call a flag on his plays to make their wives happy (talk about foreshadowing). Now the NFL stupidly counter-attacked, and Donald will have them right where he wants them when he reframes everything under these terms. The NFL will capitulate, or they will die. They will capitulate, and Donald will have tackled them and their pansy referee, and we will all cheer him wildly as he does a victory dance on the field.
When all the Cucks who are watching this, sure Donald has dug his own grave, watch as he remakes the NFL, removes a large anti-American vocalization in support of leftists that we kept hearing about, and in so doing he unites the nation together by out-grouping the leftists, I am sure the cuck’s heads will explode.
I love it, and my head is about to explode. All these aggressive, conflict-loving, K-stimuli floating through the ether. The battle is on, and even that is remodeling amygdalae. As painful as the descent into r has been, what a gift to live to see it all reverse, right before our eyes. And the real reversal is still to come.
Imagine, leftists on the run, and beginning to hide, as patriotism and national unity is made fashionable again. I suspect Donald’s 2020 re-election will be by a landslide, the likes of which the nation may never have seen. And it is all because he approaches his political strategy the way he approaches political ideology – with the K-selected psychology. He would rather endure hits now, and take the pain immediately, so the battlefield will be that much more advantageous later when he needs it.
The K-shift is now upon us, all we are waiting on is Apocalypse to finish it off.
Great post, AC. God bless America and God bless Donald Trump.
ALL HAIL THE GOD EMPEROR DOLAN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYX0bJE9uRM
When it comes to boycotting. I wonder sometimes if that’s enough. There is this one thing that is a dirty trick /alinsky like tactic someone could do that I have been thinking about.
You call up some lower functionary in an organization and attempt to charm your way up as high as you by asking super Nicely if you can talk to their boss about your entirely made up thing.
when you get as high as you can, you start talking to them about x in a likable way. Be likable as possible so it makes what comes next really contrast. Then the subject comes up an you turn vile and insulting, really jamming the figurative knife & twisting.
. The purpose of this is to ruin their day and make their work environment oppressive and unfun. Hopefully they will spread it down the line to those who work under them. Like acid poured in a machine
Cops are unlikely to get involved if you don’t make threatening statements
The key to the thing would be the swing from friendly to caustic, which would be an A-jack if I am not mistaken.
” I suspect Donald’s 2020 re-election will be by a landslide, the likes of which the nation may never have seen. ”
I think you are right but I add one caveat he needs to get the wall started.
Do that and I think his reelection will be the landslide that you have said
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