And yet, the President, his press secretary, and at least 2 Cabinet members are attempting to stifle free speech.
You mean, like the NFL player that felt unfairly targeted by police in Vegas after a shooting in a nightclub just a couple months ago?
Shut up and…well, just shut up.
Another way to look at it is that they are showing tremendous amount of intestinal fortitude and solidarity. Despite holding a variety of views on the subject they are united in standing up to that incompetent orange douchebag.
Seems the Great Orange Menace is capable of uniting the country after all. Majority of people across the spectrum are coming together in their loathing of the GOM.
Sorry, not getting it here. In what way does Trump benefit from making large portions of the population become permanently disgusted with him?
No, you don’t get it. Just like you didn’t get it for the whole period of the presidential campaign.
Wait a minute… I thought being divisive was bad?
If you stick your tongue just a little deeper up Trump’s ass, you’ll actually be licking Putin’s ass with him. See how far that will get you.
Period is right. It’s a bloody mess.
You can stand for the anthem and advocate for those who don’t at the same time, that’s why people linked arms. I’ll continue to stand and continue to think that Trump is a few cards short of a full deck.
Trump barely won a Presidential campaign, therefore everything he does is MASTER MANIPULATION! No wall? MASTER MANIPULATION! Rocket Man? MASTER MANIPULATION! Grab 'em by the pussy? MASTER MANIPULATION! Props to you for your consistency!
You (again, plural) think that the SDMB echo chamber is in any way reflective of the country. It isn’t. If you haven’t learned that from the 2016 election, you never will. Trump, whether intuitively or intellectually, has his finger on the pulse of the country more often than not. And bringing up this issue was one of the most effective ways for him to make his opposition seem like a tiny minority in the standing-up-for-the-anthem country. As I said, a brilliant stroke. See how Democrats are playing along with it by kneeling in Congress. Perfect.
As with most of Trump’s brilliant strokes, it will only become obvious to you what it was in the future. At the time it is always a “blunder” for the political junkies. And they are always wrong.
I believe he did. He is intentionally creating and exacerbating divides in the American populace. And I think that’s evil. I don’t demand that kind of loyalty from my family, much less an abstract notion like my country.
Jesus. No matter how much you kiss Donald’s butt, he isn’t going to ask you to the prom.
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You mean “those who care about it in a childish, reflexive, jingoistic way” and “those who care about it in a mature, responsible, truly patriotic way”, I hope.
Do you?
There was always a divide between those who would stand for the national anthem and those who wouldn’t. Pointing at the divide is not creating it. It is (arguably) exacerbating it.
Neither Trump, nor you, would recognize a “brilliant stroke” if it stuck its dick in your ear and fuck-started your brain.
Skull fucking is allowed in the pit? This is a cozy place.
Now maybe comrade troll will run back between Bone’s legs in Elections to be protected from the bad words down here.
Exactly.
I have always stood for the National Anthem. I don’t think I will anymore. Trump has pushed me across the divide.