Free Speech - It's Not A Right If You Can't Exercise It

    Trump's at it again with the NFL. 
    He's hated them every since the USFL and his team, the New Jersey Generals, bit the dust in 1986. He just can't let it go...
    Something I'll never understand is when veterans and members of the Armed Forces claim they fought to defend the right of NFL players to take a knee...
    But they want to punish players when they do it. 
    See...if players get punished for exercising one of their rights, it's not really "a right."
    Follow me so far?
    Now...of course, you have the right not to watch the NFL. What this accomplishes is punishing the league, the owners, the players, the advertisers, and everybody employed in any capacity who has anything to do with the NFL and their families. It doesn't just punish the kneeling players. And if you're a fan, you're also punishing yourself.
    Still with me?
    Okay, you fought to protect and defend the right of an NFL player to take a knee during the National Anthem. The player takes a knee. Then, because he did what you fought for him to be able to do, you and a bunch of people who think like you do decide you're not going to shell out $150 apiece for tickets so you end up ruining Christmas for the 2-year-old son of the guy who sweeps up the beer cups at Nissan Stadium because he didn't get his bonus this year.
    And THAT'S how ridiculous this entire Trumpian-inspired "no sane person gives a shit" so-called controversy can get.
    Don't fall for it. These players aren't protesting the flag, the country, or the Armed Forces--never have been. Trump wants you to believe that so he can exact his revenge on the NFL. He's using you and your patriotism to try and hurt a league that succeeded where he (once again) failed. 
    He's playing you.