Good for Pence!
These kneelers are anti-American. They hate America. They deserve to experience the negative feedback from the millions they've offended by their behavior. If their income streams from endorsements all dry up, I wouldn't shed a tear.
Where was all this conservative outrage against political statements on the job when the NYPD turned their backs on de Blasio?
Can't wait until these anti-freedom couch goblins are irrelevant.
The American flag is not the same thing as the mayor of New York City. One is a man, the other is the designated symbol of national unity. Not that I think Fuzzy has any ground to stand on, as I've made clear in the past. He supported a guy who knowingly invited foreign intelligence to attack American citizens, and enjoyed it, on national TV.
The American flag is a symbol of this nation, and kneeling to protest injustice is one of the most American things you can do.
I tend to think that police officers shooting African-Americans in the back is a lot more disrespectful than an abstract act of protest, but expecting the orangutan in the White House (or Fuzzy Bear) to care about the former is clearly futile.
If I knelt in Court when the Bailiff said, 'All Rise!", a Judge could hold me in contempt. That's because my act would be considered active defiance of the authority of the Court.
While not mandatory, the gesture of NFL football players kneeling is the display of contempt for the United States. If you don't believe it, ask the kneelers about what they think of America as a nation.
Police officers involved in a shooting go through a legal nightmare. If they avoid criminal liability, they still face civil liability that threatens the retirement benefits that are the primary reason these guys hang in at a tough job. The idea that there is an epidemic of police shootings of blacks that are totally unjustified is nonsense. Nonsense. That a black person is killed in a police shooting does not make it murder on its face. The real threat to black lives are the violent acts of remorseless criminals living in predominantly minority neighborhoods. Why are these kneelers not addressing any aspect of that?
This is one line of argument I just don't get. In sports, kneeling on the field is typically done as a show of solidarity with an injured player - praying (in a sense) for their speedy recovery. I did this in little league, in my soccer team, really all sports teams I've been on. Isn't the message that they're sending by kneeling more one of "we know you're going through a hard time, America, and we're with you"?
