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posted September 23, 2017 03:49 AM            

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Then along comes President Trump in Alabama!

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posted September 23, 2017 04:21 AM            

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Of course you think it's great. The best ever.

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posted September 23, 2017 12:47 PM            

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Great speech by President Trump in Huntsville Alabama!

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posted September 23, 2017 02:06 PM            

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Yes i hear he now equates protest with being unamerican. How predictable.
http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-called-kneeling-nfl-players-sons-btches-richard-shermans-response-epic/

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posted September 23, 2017 02:31 PM            

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The Dems' idea of protesting is anarchy.

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posted September 23, 2017 03:29 PM            

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Halfway House for Trump Supporters

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Saying it was the first step in gaining the confidence and stability he would need to reintegrate back into society, residents and staff on Thursday welcomed former White House strategist Sebastian Gorka to New Beginnings, a halfway house for fired Trump administration members.

The 20-bed residential treatment center, which opened earlier this year in the capital’s quiet Woodland Park neighborhood, reportedly offers round-the-clock care to traumatized former West Wing insiders, providing life skills training, wellness workshops, and psychotherapy under the guidance of licensed social workers.

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posted September 23, 2017 03:51 PM            

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😄🤣😂

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posted September 23, 2017 03:52 PM            

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The Dems' idea of protesting is anarchy

Yes I'm sure order will breakdown totally because some football players don't stand for the Anthem.

Apparently Reality Prez thinks he has the authority to choose who plays and who doesn't.

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posted September 24, 2017 10:39 AM            

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Haha Node!

So I hear more protests are going to happen, than usual today. I know an MLB player kneeled last night. He knows how to unite people against him, that's for sure.

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posted September 24, 2017 12:54 PM            

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posted September 24, 2017 01:20 PM            

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Downright anarchy!!! Players kneeling all over the place. Meanwhile the Prezi Dent is making a mountain out of respect for the anthem and not one word about aid to Puerto Rico whose entire electric grid was disabled by Maria...

Priorities! Ratings! Claptrap!

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posted September 24, 2017 02:44 PM            

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." To underscore its decision, the Supreme Court announced it on Flag Day

, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiancein school. The Court's 6–3 decision, delivered by Justice Robert H. Jackson, is remembered for its forceful defense of free speech and constitutional rights generally as being placed "beyond the reach of majorities and officials."

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posted September 24, 2017 03:40 PM            

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Photoshopped.

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posted September 24, 2017 04:03 PM            

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In Kaepernick and Goodell, Trump Shows He Knows How to Pick His Enemies
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/09/24/in-kaepernick-and-goodell-trump-shows-he-knows-how-to-pick-his-enemies/

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posted September 24, 2017 05:17 PM            

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Football deserves a kick down the stairs .. and all this patriotic jingoism with it. But it is way out of bounds for the president to tell anyone to honour his idea of "respect" for the flag or any other symbol of the country.. and far more UNAmerican than silent peaceful protest . Hey had basically broken the law and disrespected the constitution which is far worse than protesting the anthem kneejerk obsequiousness.

What is he doing for PUERTO RICO?

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posted September 24, 2017 06:02 PM            

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"Hey had basically broken the law and disrespected the constitution which is far worse than protesting the anthem kneejerk obsequiousness."

Of course, you can lay your little leftist fingers on the exact Article of the Constitution which forbids the President from weighing in on "Accidental Americans" showing total disrespect to America and America's symbols....like the American flag and the National Anthem. Go for it.

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posted September 24, 2017 06:56 PM            

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First, where was the outrage when Obama did the same thing? Obama wouldn't even wear a flag pin for a long time.

Second, that pic looks photoshopped to me.

Third, the First Amendment only applies to the U.S. government, not private employers.

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posted September 24, 2017 06:58 PM            

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Fake news!

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posted September 24, 2017 06:58 PM            

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http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-flag-salute/

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posted September 24, 2017 07:00 PM            

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But Obama really did it!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp

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posted September 24, 2017 10:28 PM            

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I quoted the SCOTUS decision of 1943 jwhop. Perhaps you would like to read that and drop your supercilious pretense of knowing it all.

I'm going to give you guys credit and assume that you can't be that stupid.. which leaves me with the only alternative.. deliberate stonewalling and gaslighting.

I remember well the outrage that was drummed up when Obama supposedly didn't put hand to heart in a similar scene. But teasel was just pointing out the irony of DT pretending he cares about the Form of respect even tho he considers himself above such things.

He is just stirring it with the NFL.. something he's been doing for decades

Meanwhile no power in PR and no grand gestures either. But by all means lets pretend its legal to try to force people to stand for the anthem.. it's not

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posted September 24, 2017 10:45 PM            

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Every NFL player has a clause in their contracts that allows them to be sanctioned or terminated for behavior. It's not only legal, but they agreed to it when they signed.

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posted September 24, 2017 10:48 PM            

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"Supposedly"? Obama didn't. But The Trump pic was fake.

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posted September 24, 2017 11:19 PM            

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"Supposedly"? Obama didn't. But The Trump pic was fake.

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posted September 24, 2017 11:20 PM            

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I could care. If its illegal to force a schoolchild to recite the pledge its no big deal if someone doesn't put hand on heart for it. I thought bucking the stodgy form-for-forms-sake was what you liked about DT?

And i could care if players can be sanctioned. It's not trumps job to tell every one how to behave, nor how to run their business..and I don't think he really cares he just wants to make NFLers squirm. As it happens there are probly at least as many people who think he's being an arse as people who care about who stands for the anthem.

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