Trump and rabid nationalist base consumed with Flag Worship, phony Symbolism.

Like the First Amendment says, there's a time a place for free speech...

Trump on Friday said NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to protest racial justice should be fired.

"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. He is fired".

And there are preferred ways to protest now during an NFL game...thanks to a little guidance from Trump....

Is our sociopathic narcissist playing his base for suckers, or did he just forget this....

 Or that players standing for the National Anthem was strictly for propaganda purposes in the first place...never gets mentioned enough-"paid patriotism:"



Still, my conservative friend in Milwaukee just played the Christian victim card with poor guy Tim Tebow, without ever knowing anything about Colin Kaepernick:

They’re both Christian football players, and they’re both known for kneeling on the field, although for very different reasons. One grew up the son of Baptist missionaries to the Philippines. The other was baptized Methodist, confirmed Lutheran, and attended a Baptist church during college.

Tebow was home-schooled by his Christian parents, and spent his summers in the Philippines, helping with his father’s orphanage and missionary work. Kaepernick was born to a 19-year-old, single, white woman (who) was destitute and gave him up for adoption. He was raised by the Kaepernicks, a white couple from Milwaukee. His body is festooned with religious tattoos, including depictions of scrolls, a cross, praying hands, angels defeating demons, terms like “To God be the Glory,” “Heaven Sent,” “God will guide me,” Psalm 18:39 and Psalm 27:3.

But Trump would have that son of a bitch Kaepernick fired...

He's an activist and philanthropist ... the offseason Kaepernick launched a GoFundMe page to fly food and water into suffering Somalia ... He had already pledged to donate $1 million (and) proceeds of his jersey sales to charitable work. This year, Meals on Wheels announced it had received $50,000 from Kaepernick. He joined with the charitable organization 100 Suits, to pass out free suits in front of the New York State Parole office for people who have been released from prison and are looking for jobs.

But then Kaepernick began sitting/taking a knee back in 2016, protesting officer shootings of innocent black people.

Kaepernick decided to either remain seated or kneel ... in support of Black Lives Matter and to protest police violence against black people. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

You know what happened next, right?

Kaepernick was voted the “most disliked” player in the NFL. People posted videos of them burning his jerseys. He was called “an embarrassment” and “a traitor.” He was blamed for a significant drop in NFL television ratings, with fans boycotting the NFL because of his protest. He received death threats.

Real Americans like Trump, who tout the First Amendment...well, seems pretty empty now doesn't it. Here are the Trump Tweets that breathed life into this whole mindless wedge issue in the first place:

But wait, "real Americans" angry over disrespecting the flag better check their closets...wanna talk about disrespect? Click to enlarge the real flag rules...

Packer's quarterback Aaron Rodgers offered this generally accepted level headed perspective...

LeBron James....

National Anthem singer...

Drooling Trumpian American not happy about free speech after all...



Oh, and just one more thing....

Check out Sly's pod cast with John Nichols on Trump's special focus on black athletes here, and Jake's Economic TA Funhouse!!!

TeaTards oppose Common Core Standards, Oppose the Tough Public School Standards they Pushed the last decade.

American schools will join the rest of the world’s move toward Common Core Standards, a simple way to achieve a competitive level of education. But teabilly low information voters don’t like it one bit.

So a statewide coalition of tea parties have petitioned the state Republicans to defund Common Core.

Here’s just a mind numbing sample of their drooling incompetence. They actually oppose  all the troublesome technology, training and text books our kids will be exposed to.

click to enlarge and laugh at the names

WheelerReport: Wisconsin’s embrace of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which many of you have blessed, is leading us off a cliff. Local taxpayers like us will have to foot the yet untold bill for CCSS – including but not limited to major technology initiatives, additional administrative staff, training, and textbook compliance. Our children will be subjected to CCSS and will have to live with whatever outcomes it yields. But CCSS will be entirely out of our hands. That’s taxation without representation, against which each of you has a sworn fiduciary duty to protect your constituents.

Yes, Common Core is unconstitutional. Surprised? I especially love the following argument that really says more about private voucher schools than a nationwide public school standard:

CCSS, then, makes children guinea pigs for unproven educational theories and approaches. These are arbitrary standards, not higher standards.

These guys are stupid. Tea party dunderheads apparently haven’t been paying attention to the Republican attacks on the UW, because they want just the opposite:

The new standards will now prepare children only for technical school, not for a four year college or university. Shouldn't Republican officials be raising their eyebrow and asking why?

Even more outrageous? Teabillies hate the very standards they and their Republican comrades have zealously forced on public education with NCLB. It’s jaw dropping hypocrisy:   

CCSS encourages us to believe that a strict regimen of standardized testing, along with loads of new textbooks and technology, will result in smarter kids. Standardization and standardized testing do not equate to higher standards. Nor do laptops, tablets, prescribed textbooks and software, or endless standardized testing equate to enhanced performance. No hard evidence supports either presumption. In fact, endless standardized testing may well result in children who will take tests – and orders – on command but can’t think for themselves.

In case you haven't noticed, these bullies are acting outright scary:

We will not rest until CCSS is repealed in this state. We are watching. We are not alone. Our numbers are growing.

For fun, click the picture for all the laughably nationalistic and corny patriotic names.

Tea Party Dummy; "Make sure we end the recalls, and protect our representative democracy!!" Huh?

Tea Party Patriots (don't you just love their mindless names?) co-founder Jenny Beth Martin started this ridiculous interview on Fox News with this incredible observation:

Martin: "We are encouraging people to go out and vote, and make sure we end the recalls, and protect our representative democracy." 

It would be funny if it wasn't so utterly sad. These are the same people taking control of our congress and state legislatures. I don't want to sound too hyperbolic, but be afraid, be very afraid.



And what about those lousy out-of-stater's meddling in our politics?

Martin: "We have hundreds of people are going to be here from around the country..."

Talking Point Alert: Silently getting their message across without one media word of criticism, the tea party Republicans in Wisconsin have been methodically painting a one sided picture of "special interests;" Democrats, liberals and unions. I guess they forgot about the big money interests like corporations, billionaires, think tanks, lobbyists and super PAC's.

Martin: "As far as the primary opponent goes, I think that it really is these special interests on the left; the unions, the Move On, the Occupy movement, those are the opponents in this election by and large...we have a country to save. We're going to start with Wisconsin, save Wisconsin, and we're going to go out and save the country."

That's all they got? I guess they also forgot about all the protesters that showed up last winter.