Megan Rapinoe & The US Soccer Team

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tennvols77 said:
It's a way more positive PR move and hopefully would allow for many others in this country to see some civility and decency regarding emotionally charged issues.
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This hasn't exactly been the theme of the current admin which is probably why we're seeing this kind of childish/obstinate behavior from both sides.
 
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tennvols77 said:
If she truly cared about her "issues" and wasn't a child, she would go to the Whitehouse and show respect (as well as Donald), then ask for 5 minutes of Donald's time to talk about her grievances. Adult thing to do, and in this time of emotionally fragile people, it will show that no matter the "disgust" or vitriol, we can sit down and at least speak to one another respectfully face to face, and worst that comes from it is we're back to square 1 and at least we tried.

It's a way more positive PR move and hopefully would allow for many others in this country to see some civility and decency regarding emotionally charged issues.
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Exactly right. "I just want to start a conversation.....with only those I agree with" seems to be the stance here.

I dont care if she meets with Trump or not but saying she wants everyone to be nice and loving and then saying what she does is hypocritical and makes her no better acting than Trump.
 
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tennvols77 said:
If she truly cared about her "issues" and wasn't a child, she would go to the Whitehouse and show respect (as well as Donald), then ask for 5 minutes of Donald's time to talk about her grievances. Adult thing to do, and in this time of emotionally fragile people, it will show that no matter the "disgust" or vitriol, we can sit down and at least speak to one another respectfully face to face, and worst that comes from it is we're back to square 1 and at least we tried.

It's a way more positive PR move and hopefully would allow for many others in this country to see some civility and decency regarding emotionally charged issues.
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Civility and decency? Trump doesn't exude those qualities.
 
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Bigun said:
Matt Birk had a 4.0 GPA at Harvard. He spent fifteen years in the NFL as a member of the Minnesota Vikings and the Baltimore Ravens. He was a center and a six time Pro Bowl choice. He was once named the Vikings' Man of the Year for six consecutive years. He was the 2011 winner of the NFL's Walter Payton award, an award that recognizes volunteer and charity work and excellence on the field. After the Ravens won the 2013 Super Bowl, he was invited with the rest of the team to the White House. He did not respond with profanity nor insults, but he did not attend. He said, "I have great respect for the office of the presidency." However, he explained that the then 44th President had asked God blessings upon Planned Parenthood and that he could not endorse that since he believed abortion took innocent human life. Matt Birk was not held up for praise by the national media, but he stood for what he believed and he dealt respectfully with those with whom he disagreed.
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Mark Birk probably didn't make a spectacle of himself in the process either.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
I could care less if they protest frog humping. The timing of when they do it is the problem. Little s**theads like her an kaep have no problem doing it during the National Anthem because they've never been handed a folded flag.

Fk'em.
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Again, you want them to do it at a time when they have less of an audience and less of a voice.

You have every right to protest, I just don't want to see it. GTFOH with that.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Again, you want them to do it at a time when they have less of an audience and less of a voice.

You have every right to protest, I just don't want to see it. GTFOH with that.
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Actually, it is "you have every right to protest and act like a jackass depending on who is in the office of the POTUS"

 
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tennvols77 said:
If she truly cared about her "issues" and wasn't a child, she would go to the Whitehouse and show respect (as well as Donald), then ask for 5 minutes of Donald's time to talk about her grievances. Adult thing to do, and in this time of emotionally fragile people, it will show that no matter the "disgust" or vitriol, we can sit down and at least speak to one another respectfully face to face, and worst that comes from it is we're back to square 1 and at least we tried.

It's a way more positive PR move and hopefully would allow for many others in this country to see some civility and decency regarding emotionally charged issues.
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On the other hand: if Donald Trump had followed your advice, then he would not be POTUS.

He showed a belligerent, controversial, social-media-insult-driven, crush-your-enemies-and-hear-the-lamentations-of-their-women, campaign style gets you a disproportionate amount of attention from all sorts of media.

Though the left in general has been slow to pick up on such things and use them for their own purposes, there is a younger group which has fully co-opted Trump's tactics and are turning them back on him. Rapinoe is a case n point.

Still, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk will do their best to get in the cross-fire and they should be able to still form the typical circular firing squad Democrats enjoy so much and hand Trump a second term.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Again, you want them to do it at a time when they have less of an audience and less of a voice.

You have every right to protest, I just don't want to see it. GTFOH with that.
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They could do it on mars and it would be shoved down our throat. Either one could go on a tour protest to all big cities. Have a press conference and march their protest parade through the streets. It would be covered like we cured every disease in the world at once.
 
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But he is now POTUS, and maybe it would be the first step in trying to come back to some sort of reality where childish antics and actions give way to some sort of normalcy.

The current reality is that of grade school and the only way the current trend ends is either in physical altercations, or, just conversation where the diametrically opposed can at least congregrate together and try to talk and work through differences, they do not have to agree, but, at least can talk without anything other than substance being the discourse.
 
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Rifleman said:
On the other hand: if Donald Trump had followed your advice, then he would not be POTUS.

He showed a belligerent, controversial, social-media-insult-driven, crush-your-enemies-and-hear-the-lamentations-of-their-women, campaign style gets you a disproportionate amount of attention from all sorts of media.

Though the left in general has been slow to pick up on such things and use them for their own purposes, there is a younger group which has fully co-opted Trump's tactics and are turning them back on him. Rapinoe is a case n point.

Still, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk will do their best to get in the cross-fire and they should be able to still form the typical circular firing squad Democrats enjoy so much and hand Trump a second term.
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That has been the left's MO since their Jim Crow days. Trump is acting, professionally and privately, just like the left has always acted and they hate him for it.
 
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tennvols77 said:
But he is now POTUS, and maybe it would be the first step in trying to come back to some sort of reality where childish antics and actions give way to some sort of normalcy.

The current reality is that of grade school and the only way the current trend ends is either in physical altercations, or, just conversation where the diametrically opposed can at least congregrate together and try to talk and work through differences, they do not have to agree, but, at least can talk without anything other than substance being the discourse.
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Working through differences will never be in the interest of these two political parties and their enablers.

There is simply too much money to be made selling tickets to the catfights on cable news and talk radio and too many campaign contributions to strip from gullible sheep who think that this will be the year my noble party addresses key issue X that they claim to care so much about.
 
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Bigun said:
That has been the left's MO since their Jim Crow days. Trump is acting, professionally and privately, just like the left has always acted and they hate him for it.
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I cannot ever recall any leader acting like trump. Left or right
 
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Rifleman said:
Working through differences will never be in the interest of these two political parties and their enablers.

There is simply too much money to be made selling tickets to the catfights on cable news and talk radio and too many campaign contributions to strip from gullible sheep who think that this will be the year my noble party addresses key issue X that they claim to care so much about.
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Sadly, I feel the same, we need better and decent people in government.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
You liberals really enjoy disrespecting athletes
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disrespectful?

Why are we even outraged over what a woman's soccer player thinks? There are far, far more important issues to be outraged about.

I hate to say it, but if what Peter Pan thinks offends you, you are a snowflake. You are choosing to be outraged over something completely trivial.
 
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