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NO POLITICS ON BILLS FORUMS-- OR YOU ARE--- AN ---hole

I'd usually agree (and generally hold my tongue on it despite being one of those politically effusive a-hols) except when the President calls NFL players "sons of b's" and our star RB returns volley by calling him a name we can't write here (in many variations, apparently), what's a poster to do?

 

The other day, one of the ESPN or NFL Network talking heads (i think it may have been Nate Burleson) made the point that these days, you can't really talk sports without talking politics. They're just intertwined. Should they pretend that the President didn't say anything about the NFL on an opinion show?

 

This is about a comment our star player made after the President attacked players of his sport. How do we not discuss it? The team themselves is having a special meeting the day before a vital home game.

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on the contrary. but if i did oppose it i would tow the new progressive line and i would be considered an enlightened member of society! #forward

 

but these folks are only given a podium because they can do neat things with a ball. not because they are intelligent. these guys believe the earth is flat, run afoul of the law consistently, have more given to them for nothing than anyone, give back a small percentage to the community and all in all do not live in the real world.

 

the real world is denton, arkansas, plymouth, illinois, paris, ohio, bastian, wv, appleton, wisc, etc... where people live every day lives, working hard for their families, support their communities and live a good life.

You and I went round and round on the "knee" topic awhile back and we have wildly contrasting views on the issue. But I strongly agree with your point about the real world being in places that people in NYC and la refer to as flyover country. This trump conversation occurs in significant part because he recognized that when nobody else did (and won an election because of it). Maybe we can agree that everyone should be heard -- people in middle America who feel that their struggle is ignored, people of color who have a different but equally trying struggle, etc. Bottom line, empathy is a good thing .... except for the broncos tomorrow. Go bills.

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because Kimmel was way off in his statements and excised an opinion that knew very little on the subject matter just as these athletes do.

 

If we want political mumbo-jumbo we turn to the Maddows, carlsons, blitzers, etc.

 

We want sports and we want to laugh. We don't need a barrage of Media group think when it's shown most disagree with the statements.

what makes you think Kimmel was way off....many people, including reporters and other politicians said he was correct in his statements. To say athletes and others shouldn't comment on these issues is wrong

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So you're embracing Kim's insult now? That's where we are now?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079172/North-Korean-defence-minister-executed-anti-aircraft-fire-disrespecting-leader-Kim-Jong-dozing-military-events-answering-back.html

 

Congrats, we have about as big of a clown running the US as North Korea.

 

Kim is literally a psychopath. Have you seen the concentration camps? How he executes people for fun? That guy is a lunatic and should not be in power.

 

 

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You and I went round and round on the "knee" topic awhile back and we have wildly contrasting views on the issue. But I strongly agree with your point about the real world being in places that people in NYC and la refer to as flyover country. This trump conversation occurs in significant part because he recognized that when nobody else did (and won an election because of it). Maybe we can agree that everyone should be heard -- people in middle America who feel that their struggle is ignored, people of color who have a different but equally trying struggle, etc. Bottom line, empathy is a good thing .... except for the broncos tomorrow. Go bills.

I wish everyone thought like this

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Dotard is an English word (an arcane one, but definitely our language). Maybe we should be more concerned that a whack job North Korean dictator has a better grasp of the English language than our big league leader does, but that may just be the writer/editor in me.

 

Even a mass-murdering clock...no, Kim Jong-un doesn't deserve the normalizing of that joke.

 

All that being said, yeah, we probably shouldn't be running with that one, when there's a ton of other options to use to diss the man.

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they're driving this agenda of division. from hollywood celebs to entitled athletes dumber than rocks.

 

there is no innocence to this. the agenda being pushed is simple and athletes are some of the stupidest people on the planet, right above kardashian level.

 

they blindly follow what pop culture is doing for the most part. they think people care what they say. but between the coasts these idiots travel between there is a world they will never know. a much better culture where there is no division, where there is no differences which they seem to fuel, a world in which harmony is achieved daily.

 

but that does not fit the agenda of those looking to simply be an !@#$. this is not about the president, this is simply about those who are looking to espouse the popular opinion as some elite thinker to be against an establishment. this is the liberal agenda.

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McCoy is smarter than the president*.

Umm no he isn't. The President was spot on with his comments. Players have the right to protest and no one is disputing that. Their employers also have the right to fire them if their actions reflect poorly on the team. He spoke the truth.

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what makes you think Kimmel was way off....many people, including reporters and other politicians said he was correct in his statements. To say athletes and others shouldn't comment on these issues is wrong

this topic is in PPP. It's not too much to go read on it there. But he was way off.
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Umm no he isn't. The President was spot on with his comments. Players have the right to protest and no one is disputing that. Their employers also have the right to fire them if their actions reflect poorly on the team. He spoke the truth.

You know those owners didnt want Trump as a partner because they viewed him as a clown.

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The problem with Kim is not that he is a clown.

As much as I despise Trump, and did so decades before I had much of a hint of his politics (save for the whole kill the {eventually exonerated} Central Park Five full page ad), he's still yet to resort to murdering his enemies and we can presumably vote him out if we'd like in 2020, if he is still the President.

 

Kim is a lunatic dictator with absolute power and nuclear weapons.

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Dotard is an English word (an arcane one, but definitely our language). Maybe we should be more concerned that a whack job North Korean dictator has a better grasp of the English language than our big league leader does, but that may just be the writer/editor in me.

 

Even a mass-murdering clock...no, Kim Jong-un doesn't deserve the normalizing of that joke.

 

All that being said, yeah, we probably shouldn't be running with that one, when there's a ton of other options to use to diss the man.

 

Obviously, it is an English word. The point is that he has popularized calling Trump that.

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Umm no he isn't. The President was spot on with his comments. Players have the right to protest and no one is disputing that. Their employers also have the right to fire them if their actions reflect poorly on the team. He spoke the truth.

There's a BIG difference between employers having a right to fire employees and the President, the most powerful man in the country, calling for a private entity to fire its employees for having the temerity to criticize him.

 

I'm really not trying to be a jerk here, but can you really not see the difference? A leader who wants to exact revenge on those who criticize him is a weak leader, something that's very dangerous to our democracy.

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Obviously, it is an English word. The point is that he has popularized calling Trump that.

Yes, I got you, and even sort of agreed with you. It's just that it's too fitting a word for the man that I wish it weren't such a psychopath who used it, and wish we didn't have a president whose tremendous lexicon stretches to reach quadruple digits.

 

That being said, it is a bit unseemly to seem to be siding with Kim Jong-un by using the arcane word he brought to our attention. So, we agree, and let's move on. We're both kind of arguing for stupid, nitpicky points now.

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As much as I despise Trump, and did so decades before I had much of a hint of his politics (save for the whole kill the {eventually exonerated} Central Park Five full page ad), he's still yet to resort to murdering his enemies and we can presumably vote him out if we'd like in 2020, if he is still the President.

 

Kim is a lunatic dictator with absolute power and nuclear weapons.

 

Well said. Same here.

 

But just a thought - if Trump has the same amount of power as Kim Jong Un has, how scared would you be of what he might do? Could you see him doing some of the same type of stuff?

 

Maybe he wouldn't take it to the same level as Kin Jong Un has. But I could easily see him rounding up people and putting them in concentration camps and stuff like that. He even pardoned Joe Arpaio for doing something very similar.

He wanted to kill those Central Park 5 before there was any proof...

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Yes, I got you, and even sort of agreed with you. It's just that it's too fitting a word for the man that I wish it weren't such a psychopath who used it, and wish we didn't have a president whose tremendous lexicon stretches to reach quadruple digits.

 

That being said, it is a bit unseemly to seem to be siding with Kim Jong-un by using the arcane word he brought to our attention. So, we agree, and let's move on. We're both kind of arguing for stupid, nitpicky points now.

Yes, sorry, and I appreciated the rest.

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There's a BIG difference between employers having a right to fire employees and the President, the most powerful man in the country, calling for a private entity to fire its employees for having the temerity to criticize him.

 

I'm really not trying to be a jerk here, but can you really not see the difference? A leader who wants to exact revenge on those who criticize him is a weak leader, something that's very dangerous to our democracy.

 

Wait, Kaepernik was doing these protests prior to Trump. So it doesn't fit that narrative.

 

You are full of ****

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they're driving this agenda of division. from hollywood celebs to entitled athletes dumber than rocks.

 

there is no innocence to this. the agenda being pushed is simple and athletes are some of the stupidest people on the planet, right above kardashian level.

 

they blindly follow what pop culture is doing for the most part. they think people care what they say. but between the coasts these idiots travel between there is a world they will never know. a much better culture where there is no division, where there is no differences which they seem to fuel, a world in which harmony is achieved daily.

 

but that does not fit the agenda of those looking to simply be an !@#$. this is not about the president, this is simply about those who are looking to espouse the popular opinion as some elite thinker to be against an establishment. this is the liberal agenda.

Huh????

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Trump thinks he's one. Acts as one. And would be one if he could.

Yes, probably, certainly, even -- but he's still slightly less dangerous than Kim, b/c there are options in place to remove him relatively peacefully.

 

I've felt Trump was the worst example of an American for decades, and really wish we weren't in the darkest timeline. Right now, he's ranting and raving about a healthcare bill he knows nothing about while I'm recovering from an illness that thankfully didn't kill me (yet) but could have bankrupted me (could still from the looks of it) and it's hassle enough trying to fight infections while sorting out billing, yet he would gleefully make sure people would be ruined and/or killed because they had the misfortune of losing a job and/or working constantly yet the employer being unable to provide health insurance. He's both ignorant and mean -- the worst combo. Plus he's trying to deport hard-working students at my job, so, yeah, this has even become personal.

 

But Kim is still worse, not that that really matters, and we probably should be careful about co-opting his insults, especially since there's many other options to call our so-called leader since our vocabularies are much stronger than his.

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Trump thinks he's one. Acts as one. And would be one if he could.

every president for the last 300 years has thought tbis.

 

No but seriously at least the last dozen or so. It's scary how powerful that office has become over the last 12 years

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Well said. Same here.

 

But just a thought - if Trump has the same amount of power as Kim Jong Un has, how scared would you be of what he might do? Could you see him doing some of the same type of stuff?

 

Maybe he wouldn't take it to the same level as Kin Jong Un has. But I could easily see him rounding up people and putting them in concentration camps and stuff like that. He even pardoned Joe Arpaio for doing something very similar.

He wanted to kill those Central Park 5 before there was any proof...

I'm scared of what he could do now. I'm baffled that we've come to this and keep hoping I wake up to find out this was all a bad dream (and that it's Super Bowl 52 Sunday and the Bills are about to do something which will earn a visit to a president whose name is not Trump). I grew up in NYC (my family was from Lockport and i wound up going to UB during the SB years) and it was that ad that cemented him as, well to paraphrase the man himself, someone who was "not good." I wish this thread didn't exist and that McCoy would never have felt any need to respond to a man who made it very clear he has zero respect for people who do his job (seriously, who's against the NFL trying to figure out ways to make sure fewer players die young).

 

Not sure how to end this...just saying I agree.

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He is a big fat Chihuahua! It's funny how some people praise this man as President, says he's patriotic and for the flag and this country Hoo friggin Haa!! This same man draft dodged while countless men and women fought and died or came back disfigured. Same as Bush.....I'll stop here, just came back from being banned for running my yap.

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