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womanofthehills

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38. I have a friend married to a Trump supporter
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:43 PM
Sep 2016

She is planning on leaving him soon, but she told me after her husband saw the football players kneel, he went totally crazy - screaming and stomping around the house - and said he was never going to watch football ever again.

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The reaction illustrates a huge part of the problem. (n/t) Iggo Sep 2016 #1
Donnie's Deplorables major debacle Sep 2016 #2
You win the thread malaise Sep 2016 #4
Drop the mic. There's nothing more to say! 11 Bravo Sep 2016 #6
Great name for a Punk band! johnp3907 Sep 2016 #7
Yes blueseas Sep 2016 #11
There certainly seems to be a lot of Caucasians angry at the lack of symbolic obeisanc LanternWaste Sep 2016 #3
Deplorable. sinkingfeeling Sep 2016 #5
White People: 'Hey, all those black people should protest peacefully and quietly!' underahedgerow Sep 2016 #8
Yep gratuitous Sep 2016 #12
Hear, hear!! Missn-Hitch Sep 2016 #17
Gov. Bevin of Kentucky, for example gratuitous Sep 2016 #21
Check this out. Missn-Hitch Sep 2016 #22
Sure if you want to play the lets lump all people together game Egnever Sep 2016 #28
Yup! mountain grammy Sep 2016 #31
The ones wigging out about black people not standing for the Special Song... backscatter712 Sep 2016 #9
Thread winnah. forest444 Sep 2016 #23
TruckNutz... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #25
never heard of this "take a knee" barbtries Sep 2016 #10
You haven't heard of it? Been asleep the last month? brush Sep 2016 #13
People can tune out all things football and not realize there are bigger things going on with it Blue_Adept Sep 2016 #19
nope. barbtries Sep 2016 #30
Yes, that is what they did... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #26
thank you awoke barbtries Sep 2016 #32
No problem awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #33
They heard from tRump voters. kairos12 Sep 2016 #14
Bet those idiot white people blame Obama for gettin' em all uppity. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #15
I want some of that action. It's a sure bet. Missn-Hitch Sep 2016 #18
"They should have died in 9/11" - Wait, weren't they not alive then? Oneironaut Sep 2016 #16
^^^ THIS!!! ^^^ KamaAina Sep 2016 #36
And In Addition. . . ProfessorGAC Sep 2016 #39
Good on those kids GeoWilliam750 Sep 2016 #20
We are also being tartegeted Coolest Ranger Sep 2016 #24
This country keeps getting nuttier... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #27
Those threats and crude name calling Dorian Gray Sep 2016 #29
the basket of deplorables, spill over. eom salin Sep 2016 #34
Thx M$M for normalizing hatred, they'll act like they've played no part. uponit7771 Sep 2016 #35
Yes, because nothing says patriotic respect for American values like freedom Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #37
I have a friend married to a Trump supporter womanofthehills Sep 2016 #38
All lives matter Orrex Sep 2016 #40
This La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2016 #41
This old white woman wrote a LTTE published in the Raleigh paper last week mnhtnbb Sep 2016 #42
Gosh, I love our post-racial society! KamaAina Sep 2016 #43
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