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Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:6-8

Him? Like Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe who proclaimed there was no place in the country for protesters against the removal of a civil war statue. The mayor of Charlottesville said the same thing. Triggered indeed.

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If Democrats were confident their nominee actually received more than 80 million votes they wouldn't have more troops occupying Washington, DC than Lincoln had defending the city during the Civil War. Not Joe Biden, Kim Jung Biden.

Then again, form your own football league and you decide what is important. However, the NFL has figured out that most of their audience are patriotic Americans that do not tolerate disrespect for the flag or the anthem. Therefore, they have made a policy to ensure that their product conforms with the sensibilities of their audience, i.e. their customers.

Sure, but unfortunately they let this get to the point where now people are curious as to the actions of those millionaires on the field showing disrespect to the country that has provided them with the opportunity to become millionaires by playing a game.

Fines and bans are ways to enforce their policies just as they are when players abuse drugs or PED's. Without enforcement mechanisms, what are the incentives for players to follow the rules?

I missed where this is part of this discussion. However I don't think anyone is proposing that they leave the country over this unless you are referring to the pretty common stance that patriots for years have frequently stated "America, love or leave it". That is something for another thread.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

I don't recall ANYONE on the right suggesting that fellow Americans should leave the country because they don't agree with them. However I have seen radicals on the left physically attack anyone with whom they disagree. Maybe you are conflating the two.

I could give many examples of Obama being divisive, but that would derail the thread.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

we disagree

President Trump responded with support for the NFL’s decision to ban kneeling, saying on Fox & Friends that “I don’t think people should be staying in the locker rooms, but still I think it’s good. You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”

If president Obama said that about you.
Would you feel like it's just some off the cuff sentiment that you should not take seriously?
"You shouldn’t have job, you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country."

But sure, Ok, maybe Trump didn't really mean it, he doesn't really feel that strongly about the flag, anthem and such it's just random BS talk, so It's Ok. right?
Or Trump, Did mean it, it really shows how much he loves America, the flag and the anthem, and speaking as President of the USA someone should heed his words and should make his sentiments reality.
Right?

which is it?

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Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:6-8

it could be said that trump acted stupidly.
but then again some probably think the nfl acted stupidly.

I remember when the Democrat governor of New York said that Conservatives are not welcome in the state...That was 2014...Well into Obama's second term...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Kinda weak correlation there....

That wasn't Obama saying that, he would never be that stupid.....

But, that has never held Trump back.....

"Believe me"....