Protest while you can

It's getting harder and harder in this country.  Loyalty oaths and youth brigades can't be far away.

He's on a nervous, insane, hate filled (of course) Twitter rant this morning on everything from the Philadelphia Eagles, to North Korea, to the border wall, to the "Witch Hunt Hoax" trying to cover up that he's a loser.  Here's just a small sampling (as of 9:00 am EDT, he's still ranting - 8 tweets in the last hour) regarding the Eagles:








Still fuming because the Philadelphia Eagles didn't want to come and be his propaganda tools.  How dare they!

So now, he wants to force players onto the field and make them stand.  There's the American spirit!  Achtung!

Yes, we get it: NFL = blacks; Nascar = whites.

And did you see his ridiculous, petulant "statement"?

You are uncordially uninvited to my party.

NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported that it was going to be a "really small" contingent of players in attendance that "wasn't 20, it wasn't 10, it was going to be less than that."

  NJ

What fund do they use when they pay "fans" to show up?

"They disagree with their President."  And now, you not only have to stand, but you have to have your hand on your heart.  And it's disrespectful to the military if you don't. Forced morning prayers while kneeling toward D.C. - no, scratch that: toward Mar-A-Lago can't be far behind.

Kneeling during “The Star Spangled Banner” wasn’t an issue for the Eagles during the last regular season—none of them participated in the demonstration.

  Weekly Standard

Hmmmmm. Maybe they disagree with their President because he's a racist, criminal, fascist, whiney POS who calls their peers sons of bitches.

Wide receiver Torrey Smith said that “plenty” of players would not accept this president’s invitation. Smith’s reasons for his own boycott, given to Don Lemon of CNN, may stand the test of time. He said, ”For me, it’s not just about politics. If I told you that I was invited to a party by an individual I believe is sexist or has no respect for women or I told you that this individual has said offensive things towards many minority groups.… this individual also called my peers and my friends SOBs, you would understand why I wouldn’t want to go to that party. Why is it any different when the person has title of President of the United States?”

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Another Eagles player not playing the NFL and Trump’s game is defensive end Chris Long. The Charlottesville native was challenged by Trump lickspittle Boris Epshteyn on social media about why he wouldn’t go and try to dialogue with Trump about his concerns. Long spent this year donating his paychecks to fund social-justice scholarships in C-Ville following last August’s Nazi march. He listed off the questions he’d ask Trump:

“Who were the fine people on the side of the Nazis and KKK that gathered in my hometown the day a terrorist put 20 ppl in the hospital? Why reference the hatred and bigotry on ‘many sides that day’? Why didn’t you immediately denounce them?”

Then he said, “I already know the answer. None of that is political. I’m not interested in a dialogue with someone who I have to ask those questions of.”

Safety Malcolm Jenkins has said simply that he was “not interested in a photo op” but would meet with Trump if he wanted to talk about the actual reasons he and many others were staging protests during the anthem—racial injustice—saying that he would only “meet to talk about advancing our communities.” Jenkins might want to get a Snickers, because that meeting is not happening any time soon.

  The Nation

I think the mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, pegged it.

“Disinviting them from the White House only proves that our President is not a true patriot, but a fragile egomaniac obsessed with crowd size and afraid of the embarrassment of throwing a party to which no one wants to attend”

  John Clark NBCS

UPDATE: 

Hahahahaha.  Fans.  Hahahahahaha.

From an NBC reporter:

But look...it's even better:



Hysterical.