But they created the problem! If you split the country with a protest, you can’t then say....”Hey I have to keep it up because half the country will be mad.” It may be in the contract (disrespect the nation you are in-they go international), even if not, they are “ambassadors of the sport”, they get penalized for…

Well, I think we disagree on essential. These guys are paid based on their ability to draw crowds. If they get controversial, alienating a large segment of the population, they loose some money making ability. That is essential.

Walkouts over money is a little different. I think there are people who may quit watching/paying if they don’t do something as well, its more complicated than what the profit split is for a bunch of rich guys. No one who was not involved, cared. This is something that I think will galvanize people on both sides of…

Personally, and I don’t think I am alone, there is too much money in “professional” sports. And this irreplaceable work force is VERY replaceable, you may play guys who would have been just on the bench....but the game might be more interesting. The first 3 or 4 of these guys who get put on suspension might become…

Good catch on the “except”/”exempt”, maybe bad catch on the rest. Am I white and a troll or I troll whites or all three- white who trolls white? Sad when you have to get someone to explain what you are, but that is society today. You define everyone, rather than defining yourself.

You really don’t get that? You have freedom of speech, not freedom of repercussions for free speech. They are there to do a job, they can’t listen to their favorite headphones (if they aren’t a sponsor) or wear their favorite shoes (if they aren’t a sponsor), and I imagine there are contract requirements that prevent…

I missed that, so it’s only applied to blacks? All other races are except from this rule, that is horrible, that is literally what Jim Crow laws did!

One other thing, about your last statement:

Are you not precious, you don’t understand sarcasm or play on words do you. Your insight is a lot of nothing, a hollowed out area, the absence of the sounding material, a hole bunch of insight..... Yes, you are a hole (lack) bunch of insight. You keep trying, you will eventually be able to talk with the grown ups in…

Well, you are truly a hole bunch of insight!

China = Communist Government (in charge) = Communism = Left Side of Political Spectrum = Left Wing. Despite the current SJW fad is to call anything you don’t like “right-wing” fascism, that is an oxymoron, as opposed to you, a plain moron. Great conversation, thanks!

The cop was wrong on the law, wrong on the behavior. Unless he changes, he should not be dealing with getting anything voluntarily from people...period.

“know that they fucked up, though” Starting out with that position may make some people less inclined to talk. Its not like Hillary was worth it, incompetence or corruption with incompetence seemed to have been the choice. And “supports Trump”, when he signed the additional sanctions on Russia...is it okay to…

See, when you say “wrong”; you already started with a subjective term and want to equate that with a fact. The only fact you demonstrate is the stupidity of some comments. And if you don’t see divisiveness as a problem, well then that would be a sad fact. Note the qualifier.

So 50% of the population is saying the other 50% are the problem? You realize the other side could say the same thing....and that is the problem you should be considering.

I know, right? Who would vote for Hillary, that is what I just don’t get. Thanks for your support!

Well he is president now.

No, not shut up, well not exactly. Just judge persons on what they do, not overly broad (and thus can’t be true) crap. The guy wasn’t even talking about Trump, just people who voted for trump, so 49.x% of the people who voted. So yeah, if you are going to talk shit about that many Americans, such as people who…

I don’t know if he will be running again, just pointing out the stupidity of people like him. That type of rhetoric will at the very least turn some people towards the guy he supposedly is against. Personally I voted against someone in the last election, not for someone.

Keep up that kind of talk, you are going to be one of the reasons he gets a second term. Let me guess, there is no way he will win again...and you were one of the ones who said he would win the first time? You want to make fun of someones actions, that is one thing, to lump them in with everyone else in a larger…