tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7006967730600535653..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Kaepernick, Bash and the Meaning of GesturesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34511396804738190572018-09-07T17:41:19.802-07:002018-09-07T17:41:19.802-07:00Here's a history of the Anthem usage, apparent...Here's a history of the Anthem usage, apparently players standing for the anthem only began in 2009. I wonder why? Perhaps because of a declining audience and multi-billion dollar stadiums to pay off? <br /><br />And of course the DoD also probably has a recruitment problem with all the endless wars, so it makes sense for them to work together to try to make military service look cool again. OTOH, I remember hearing that police officers who have experienced combat situations are less likely to shoot first, so if coolness gets us better trained police officers, it works for me.<br /><br />https://www.axios.com/the-history-of-singing-the-national-anthem-before-nfl-games-1513305769-97a4edd0-6748-432d-b1cc-2b377848e712.html<br />2009: NFL players began standing on the field for the national anthem before the start of prime time games. Before this, players would stay in their locker rooms except during the Super Bowl and after 9/11.<br />2015: Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake released a report revealing that the Department of Defense had spent $6.8 million between 2012 and 2015 on what the senators called "paid patriotism" events before professional sports games, including American flag displays, honoring of military members, reenlistment ceremonies, etc. Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29540098180266474142018-09-07T07:47:11.230-07:002018-09-07T07:47:11.230-07:00Zina Bash goes into the Women's Room in order ...Zina Bash goes into the Women's Room in order to use her decoder ring that emits microwave signals that cause democrats to act like clowns. It is never their lack of ability to ask intelligent questions and create a dialogue to discuss the legal ramifications of Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice.<br />These bozos have the gall to tell us that we lack the proper qualifications to run for political office? If their actions are any indication they are right because none of us are that inane. God they make me ashamed that I ever considered myself a Democrat!<br /><br />dtrumpetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55665760583600348932018-09-07T06:52:50.090-07:002018-09-07T06:52:50.090-07:00Which restroom does Zina Bash use?Which restroom does Zina Bash use?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-13845588913765974692018-09-07T03:27:00.411-07:002018-09-07T03:27:00.411-07:00Liberals usually display their inner facism by bei...Liberals usually display their inner facism by being unable to draw a distinction between the government and the people of a nation.<br /><br />"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43778988372290815922018-09-06T17:41:38.618-07:002018-09-06T17:41:38.618-07:00Ignatius 1, Ares 0.Ignatius 1, Ares 0.Molly Kulenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33221404841513397312018-09-06T12:07:03.620-07:002018-09-06T12:07:03.620-07:00And by the way, the "okay" gesture is of...And by the way, the "okay" gesture is offensive in Germany, too.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60325290087573931312018-09-06T12:06:47.597-07:002018-09-06T12:06:47.597-07:00Similarly, when you are born with a penis, you use...Similarly, when you are born with a penis, you use the men's bathroom. When you are born with a vagina, you use the women's bathroom. This is not hard for most to understand. It's part of the social code. In the self-absorbed veneer of openness, mindfulness and moral magnificence, others have said this is not the case, and the biological realities of gender are spectral, and thusly do not apply to them. <br /><br />The people who believe in these things all have one thing in common: they gravitate Left. <br /><br />Lefties are destroyers. They create nothing. They criticize everything. Their needs are insatiable. It's always someone else's fault. They are parasites. <br /><br />Don't believe me?<br /><br />Consider that when you believe this sort of rubbish, you arrive at the idea that taking a knee during the national anthem is patriotism. Not metaphorical patriotism based on an abstraction -- REAL patriotism. We've gone from protest to patriotism with an activist falsehood. The core problem is that Kaepernick has a personal expression he chooses to express during the national anthem. They're not compatible. And that's the problem we have in America today: nothing is sacred. The McCain funeral showed it, too. <br /><br />I don't care whether Colin Kaepernick is a good football player or a bad football player. He was an employee of a NFL franchise, and now he's toxic goods. It has nothing to do with his playing ability. He is using his personal convictions as an excuse to harm an iconic American brand that makes him and his colleagues millions of dollars every year. It wasn't a one-time stunt, it's become a movement. And the movement is parasitic, and is destroying the host. The host is too stupid to do anything about it because its leadership believes in the power of political correctness. But political correctness cannot protect you from a destroyer. Destroyers destroy things. That's their source of power. They cannot create, they destroy. Kaepernick isn't creating anything.<br /><br />Kaepernick does not actually represent a cause. Instead, he is the icon of what's become of America. There is no escape from politics, and there's no escape from people who don't believe that social codes apply to them. We see it in our bathrooms, in sports and now in shoes. It's corrosive. It ruins everything.<br /><br />And stuff like this is why Trump won.<br /><br />Today's social culture is being held hostage by the lowest threshold of emotional maturity/stability. Combine this with the surveillance state and swarming retributive attacks from Leftist groups, and you realize that people are scared to say what's on their mind. My fear is that conservatives will stop playing the game. They will wake up and say "I don't give a crap what you feel, I feel this way and now that's your problem!" In the current environment, this is fast becoming a sensible choice. But it's actually inherently antisocial and furthers cultural atomization. People are uncertain how to act or react. We are quickly abandoning thinking and sliding towards purely emotive discourse, which really isn't discourse at all -- it's waiting for your next turn to talk, or to "express yourself." <br /><br />Tolerance has become indifference. Indifference is dangerous, and is born of anomie. We have a serious problem with all this social chaos, and good people are deciding that the risks are too great and it's best not to play the game. Look at the Kavanaugh hearings. It's a pathetic, infantile disgrace. And we wonder why our ruling class is bereft of wisdom?<br /><br />Who's leading the charge? The nihilistic political Left. Destroyers all.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-3706694807425857482018-09-06T11:37:17.710-07:002018-09-06T11:37:17.710-07:00Stuart: Kaepernick’s gesture was elicited by his M...Stuart: Kaepernick’s gesture was elicited by his Muslim girlfriend and was intended as an attack on America. He might not have known it. His fellow NFLers might not have known it. If so, they were all duped. The gesture means what it means.<br /><br />This all looks to me like the right's version of "political correctness". We want cheerful happy millionaire black people to prove the American Dream is available to anyone if they work hard enough, and we want gratitude, not politics that risks making us feel bad about the world.<br /><br />And that's how businesses should see the world. They don't want to turn off half of their customers whose numbers get them advertising dollars to keep the gravy train coming. And that would be all good, if only sports stayed out of defining patriotism, but sports leaders took sides. They decided patriotism could make them more money, and so while they have the right to silence political symbols that remind us things are not all well, their attempts at silencing prove their gamble to wrap themselves around the flag were not about patriotism, but just about money. And so now they deservedly lose market shares no matter which side they take.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62562092408042035932018-09-06T09:24:00.873-07:002018-09-06T09:24:00.873-07:00The only picture I have seen of Ms. Bash has her ...The only picture I have seen of Ms. Bash has her thumb touching her forefinger and the others curled up and hidden behind it. The Dems and the enemedia say differently, unsurprisingly.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com