When Kaepernick started this last year, public opinion was strongly against high-profile show of disrespect for anthem. 2/
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Now, Trump has made argument about himself. No polls yet, but opinion will likely be mix of feelings about anthem protests *and* Trump. 3/
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Some Trump opponents who don't really care about football now vocal supporters of players refusing to stand for national anthem. 4/
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And there are Trump supporters who agree with him on anthem but wish he would stick to big pressing issues, taxes, health care, NK. 5/
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One last thing. We hear a lot of about the Constitution and 'rights' in this argument… 6/
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Of course, refusing to stand for anthem is constitutionally-protected speech -- protected against government retribution. 7/
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But there's no constitutional reason NFL couldn't crack down on the protests, if it chose… 8/
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Plenty of people have been fired or disciplined for constitutionally-protected speech. Just ask that Google engineer. End. 9/
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Bryon sometimes you get things backwards, you do not seem to know/understand we the people that live in flyover country. God,Honor, Country.
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Visual: Trump stands with anthem and flag; Trump-haters kneel to protest both. I don't think Trump loses this round.
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They don't even know what they are protesting anymore. Most are protesting Trump. They just won't admit.
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Teams and players should unite to win games. But expecting players to "join" (unite as a team) in political protests is wrong-headed.
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WTF was the point of that?
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You are clearly out of touch w/American electorate, NFL fan base. Escape your bubble, visit flyover country sometime.
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