Posted on 09/24/2017 3:08:21 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
“Turn off the NFL,” reads a digital ad produced by the nonprofit America First Policies, which planned to begin spreading the message on social media Sunday afternoon.
A political group with close ties to President Donald Trump is amplifying his attack on professional athletes who kneel during the national anthem as a form of protest.
“Turn off the NFL,” reads a digital ad produced by the nonprofit America First Policies, which planned to begin spreading the message on social media Sunday afternoon.
The ad includes a photo with Trump, hand over his heart, and a #TakeAStandNotAKnee hashtag. It follows Trump’s recent remarks, first delivered during a Friday night speech in Alabama, aimed at football players who have protested police brutality and other causes.
While campaigning for Luther Strange, who is locked in a tough Republican primary to keep the Alabama Senate seat he was appointed to earlier this year, Trump asked those in the audience if they would "love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'get that son of a bitch off the field right now.'" He added that such players should be fired.
Trump continued the attack over the weekend on Twitter.
“If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL, or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect … our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem,” Trump posted in a series of tweets. "If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!”
NFL team owners and players reacted strongly and disapprovingly to Trump’s push.
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Let them take a knee. The American public will sit out the season
We should also start contacting the financial sponsors
Our home is now an NFL-free zone now...and will remain that way.
I have no respect for National Felons League anymore.
Thanks BlackFemaleArmyCaptain.
Alternative: Keep those overpaid exhibitionists in the locker room during the Anthem, resting their knees on its floor.
The repulsion is a response to disrespecting the flag and the United States.
It just happens to be that the individuals disrespecting the flag and our United States are nfl players. You know, the millionaires whose salaries are paid by the regular joes that comprise the country they are claiming is horrible.
Well said, and thank you for your service!
There was lots of talk about the incidence of domestic violence rising during football games and - in particular - the Super Bowl. Then came all the players and their wife/girlfriend battery incidents. All this culminated in a series of PSAs.
Fast-forward to now. Wouldn't it stand to reason that IF there was more abuse during football games, that the anti-abuse crowd would LOVE the current backlash and attendant diminishment of abuse?
Where are the press releases supporting or encouraging men to stop watching football and instead reconnecting with their wives, their kids, to inter alia, combat abuse?
Wouldn't that be something else....NOW and Deplorables united on an issue.
This is EXACTLY why statists feared a Trump presidency. Unlike Hillary, Trump is a uniter.
We already have. We told Verizon there will be NO new equipment purchases or contractual renewals as long as it sponsors the UNpatriotic, hypocritical (n)fl
And our contract expires this month.
sugestion instead of the NFL try going to a local highschool game. suport a team that wont threaten to leave the city if you dont pay for there new stadium.
While idly channel surfing I came upon the new england game. I didn’t stay long enough to see who the opposing team was.
Amen, Brothers.
CUT THE CABLE AND THEY WILL LOSE THEIR MONEY!
Colin Kaepernick: I lost my legs and arm fighting in the US military, the same military that I took an oath to defend our nation and flag from enemies foreign and domestic. Next time I hear the national anthem I’ll be sure to stand for the both of us since you feel that you’ve been oppressed. We live in America, the land where no one is truly oppressed in the grand scheme of things. If you want to see the real meaning of oppressed I suggest you enlist in the military and travel abroad to the Middle East where you will witness what oppression is. Where women are beaten and killed in honor if they are raped, where 6-year-old little girls are forced to marry men in their 60’s, thats just a little taste of what oppression is. You Know NOTHING of what oppression is. Every American has a choice and every opportunity to better their lives, this is America the greatest country on this planet.
Fans vs the NFL. See who outlasts who. My GF put an American flag decal over the Hawks logo on her car plus a black stripe like cops do when they lose a member. The Hawks are dead until they resurrect themselves. If this childish protest is over BLM then why do they kill each other like in Chicago, etc and abort their kids?
Boycott the NFL.
Yep. I remember.
The NFL is dead to me as of today. We won’t speak of it in my house.
I pray all Americans join in combating the NFL and it’s crazy players.
I haven’t watched since last year, welcome to the party.
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