Your concern has been noted

Why is this race even close at all?

“These people may not like Trump the man but may think it’s fair to want a shakeup and that wanting that shakeup doesn’t make you, yourself, a racist, sexist, homophobe, or xenophobe.”

Well put!!

Then the answer must be yes because that happens like 20 times a day around here.

I’m a feminist but if I wrote that half of feminists on Jezebel were embarrassments I think even the ones I wasn’t insulting would get offended.

I like how ‘deplorable’ suddenly means something worse than ‘serial child murderer’ just because it came out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth.

Politicians, when you don’t disavow and actually court the racist and lunatic fringe, people are going to call you out on your shit. If David Duke and the KKK think you have some good ideas you need to seriously look at your life choices.

Even if Hillary Clinton turns out to have bubonic plague, she still won’t be as medieval as this nightmare man.

I don’t think the ‘deplorable’ comment was damaging at all. A recent poll found that 60% believe Trump promotes racism and sexism. It was women and minorities that swept Obama into the White House twice, and Hillary needs to get those same voters energized. The comment itself, and the Trump campaign’s boneheaded…

How brave of Pence to come out of the closet as a racist without having to speak a single word.

The GOP can’t stop, won't stop. They put all their eggs in one basket of Deplorables.

Fuck you, Mike Pence. You Hank Hill’s father looking ass. You god damn funeral insurance actor looking ass. You fucking hateful lego figure looking ass. Go to hell, you fucking parasitic worm wearing a white wig coming out of Donald Trumps asshole. I hope you fucking rot.

Pence is responsible for lots of deplorable legislation — yet, somehow he just can’t take ownership of it. The guy is genuinely an alt-right religious darling and he scares the shit out of me.

The problem for the GOP is that basket of deplorables is the base.

So much this. They don’t want to address it, and it’s scary that it’s in their face. It’s now making them question THEIR OWN ACTIONS, not just those of the police. (and if it’s not, it should be)

They aren’t stupid...they just don’t want to talk about the real issue that Kap, Marshall, and others are protesting...hence the need to protest in the 1st place. So they make it about something completely different to confuse those of us that are idiots and try to discredit Kap and Marshall and turn them into some…

Hey, can we clear something up? These players are NOT “protesting the anthem” — they are staging a protest DURING the anthem. These things are wildly different. And if people can't see the difference, then they're fucking stupid.

This whole thing is reflective of a larger problem we have in the United States: that people will take professional sports players to task about their opinions on this country, but (currently) FORTY FUCKING ONE percent of voters have no problem with a hateful Internet comment troll leading our country into the next…

The thing is, these guys were awfully vocal in the days leading up to the game that they were going to make a statement. However, their statement became a rambling, incoherent run-on... much like my comment.