I Think The Dam Has Broken

[ProfessorGAC]

92 billionaires just told the temp to SFFU
20 superrich pros have said. STFU
Dozens kneeling
The moron fucked with the wrong crowd
Yeah, you Alabama folks, good for you!
I've got multimillionaires on my side. You have minor league football fans. So does your boy
He's done!

[GulfCoast66]

9. You forgot your sarcasm thingy

[Eko]

10. Ahhh, no.

Ive been poor for most of my life, Im in my mid forties and finally have made it to lower middle class. I grew up with food stamps, powdered milk, govt. cheese, free lunches. Our dessert was sugar on a piece of bread. I dont struggle so much any more, but there are weeks where I have to live cheap in order to pay my bills. I have a new car, but it was the cheapest on the lot and I needed something reliable for my job as I am required to travel up to 4 hours away. I help support my mother who is raising my two nephews, she has cancer and is on the ACA. I help everyone I can, my family, my employees, the Vet in the wheelchair that stops by work once a week and panhandles. Why would you want to make me poor again?

[demigoddess]

16. Our dessert was sugar on a piece of bread.

me too. And my father had a full time job in the military and was a war vet. He was an NCO with several years in. And my dad, I'm sure would be just fine with allowing someone to kneel during the National Anthem. I grew up a military brat and I saw the destruction that war brings. Standing up for the National Anthem or the Flag is just FOR SHOW. If you really love this country and its vets, STOP HAVING WARS. Especially those wars with nuclear weapons or last for 15 years.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. Empty spoon

When we were completely out of food, my sister and I would suck on empty metal spoons and pretend it was some indulgent desert.

[MLAA]

29. Excellent.

[sarisataka]

11. The only path to freedom and equality

Is totalitarianism

[onit2day]

19. Ha. A contradiction in terms

[BigmanPigman]

2. I thought you were referring to Puerto Rico

where a huge dam IS spilling over causing more devastation (real devastation and not symbolic).

MSNBC was reporting on it.

[uppityperson]

3. Me too.

[samnsara]

4. i know me too! But I think I read the threat has lessened.

[onecent]

5. oh no!!!! Where can I find this info?

[Alice11111]

8. Yep.. We don't see our Great Dotard leader calling us to action there.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Yep.

This is much better news.

[marylandblue]

6. He is not done until the white players kneel too

[sharedvalues]

20. Yes. Good showing today

But we need more white players to kneel in solidarity. I think we will get there.

[thegoose]

7. He needs to be stripped of power immediately

He's increasingly unhinged and hateful. He'll do something even more terrible if he's not stopped.

[get the red out]

26. Definitely

He is insane, too much of the media still dances around that but it is still true.

[NNadir]

13. I was worried you were talking about the Puerto Rican dam when I opened this post.

Thank God it was something more trivial, billionaires and millionaires and football.

[malaise]

14. And not just in Puerto Rico

He's a fucking moron

[onenote]

15. I'm seeing plenty of comments on FB urging a boycott of the NFL by those who support Trump

I don't think the dam will ever break for his base.

[Ligyron]

18. Yes they are urging a boycott.

But then so are fans of Colin Kaepernick until some team hires him.

I don't think the Trumpsters will have a lot of luck with this. Fox network depends on sports, esp football for revenue so they kinda shot themselves in the foot.

[EffieBlack]

17. I hope you're right, but I don't now

I hope you're right, but I don't now… every time I felt so in the past, I've been proven wrong. His country has an amazing tolerance for ugly, racist, misogynistic behavior - at least if it's coming from a white so-called billionaire.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Sorry Gang, Forgot I Posted This

Also, sorry for the use of that metaphor given Puerto Rico.
Looks like my post made someone have a sad. Prolific poster, that Post Removed!
I'm sticking to my point though, as all these owners, all richer than the buffoon claims to be, have had to step out over him! You inconvenience the super rich and you pay!

[raven mad]

22. The idiots that actually vote in Alabama do so for one reason.

But the Crimson Tide rocks.

My daughter was born there, and works against racism EVERY DAY. Don't assume.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. I Assumed What, Exactly?

Perhaps you are inferring something i did not say.

[raven mad]

28. That just because it's Alabama

they're redneck idiots.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. He Made his Comments In Alabama

In front of a group of supporters. There was no assumption and no implication. They cheered when he said it. I am talking about those people.

Did you forget he made that statement in AL?

[get the red out]

27. Go SEC

I am a southerner and need to remind myself that we aren't all bad!

I will wake up to sports once again in basketball season, (University of Kentucky class of '87, LOL)

[Bayard]

30. U of K

Didn't graduate. But same thing, the basketball rocks! Still miss Joe B. Hall saying, "Base-ketball".

[haele]

34. I've been hearing from in-laws there that there's a serious Republicans for Jones movement...

Both Strange and Moore are making the non-evilangelical business-oriented GOP in Alabama very, very nervous. Especially those Dixiecrat/Reagan educated republicans.
The end-timer out in the boonies GOP in-laws are voting for Moore, but the GOP in-laws and their acquaintances (including several in Tuscaloosa who know a lot of Democrats working at the UofA) living in towns and cities are seriously considering voting for the Democrat. Strange and Moore are that bad...

BTW, did you know that Sabin doesn't let his team on the field until after the National Anthem is over? It's more important to him to keep his guys loose and focused on the game, rather than stand in place for two minutes getting stiff for no real reason, because most people don't know how to stand at attention properly and most of the fans are still getting refreshments.

Haele

[Blue_Tires]

24. Well, declaring war on Black America was never going to end well...

[Awsi Dooger]

32. Very interesting silence on sports message boards

Those forums are overrun by loud right wingers. They've backed Trump on everything and in arrogant delighted fashion. No shame at all.

But gad did it change yesterday. Silence. That's the only way to describe it. I looked for threads. They weren't there. This time Trump finally veered into something they couldn't support.

It won't be long lasting or impact their overall impression of him. That I'm certain of.

The results proposed here never threaten logic, given the way the other side thinks.

But it's a good blip in terms of thwarting the upturn in Trump's approval rating.

[HughBeaumont]

33. Gee, if only America's "Economically Anxious" would just say no . . . to Republicans.

Republicans are the narcotic America just cannot quit.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. I See Your Point

But, when ACTUAL multi-billionaires are making public statements about what a tool you are, you've lost what you've assumed was a rock solid alliance.

Even other billionaires (actual) can't look the other way now.

[HughBeaumont]

36. I wonder if wealthy people getting pissed off at him . . .

. . . will translate into poor Republicans who think they'll BE wealthy people someday getting pissed off at him.

One can only hope.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Let's Hope, Hugh!

Let's hope.