Google again...leaked email

[GMDino]

(09-19-2018, 03:33 PM)Dill Wrote: I think you are right.

Bfine may think all Americans regardless of party should respect the flag, and so for that reason he sees the issue as non-partisan.  

If so, he doesn't really look at the history of this "respect" and the partisan arguments over its enforcement, as the "liberal" side thinks we should respect the individual right to free speech and the anti-democratic side thinks people should kow tow to the flag as a symbol of authority. 

So from a historical/legal perspective, people like Jerry Jones and Trump are not being non-partisan when they stand for coercing football players--employees in a private business--to submit to their authoritarian politics while on the job.  Other people are partisan; they are just right.

This carries over to complaints about the politics expressed on people's sigs.  Same deal.

I have to think, that given the opportunity, I would take a knee if Trump could see it.  Not out of disrespect for the flag, or the military.  Not to support the cause of Kaepernick and others.  Just to see if he'd say anything or not.  Just to show the folly of "demanding respect" for something because...respect.

My guess if one of these NFL players did it with him watching he'd keep his little hole mouth shut until safely behind his tweeting machine.