taking the knee

So are these ex presidents part of Them, which as we all know is the shadowy organization that gets the US into wars and then ensures that we never win them?  It sounds to me like that John Birch flame is burning brightly out there in the freehold.  So are you saying that HST got us into the Vietnam war while never intending to win it and it just continued that way with the following presidents working to make sure that we didn't win the war until finally RMN put a stop to it?

Methinks there must be a lot of deeds to the Brooklyn, or maybe it's the Cheboygan, bridge rattling around underfoot out there on the far side of Michigan.

When I said that thing about the war effecting the lives and the land of the Vietnamese I didn't mean to imply that we were trying to take their land, just that when the war is being fought on your land you take the war more seriously than when it is fought on the other guy's land.


I wanted to talk about  this taking the knee thing which has now taken professional sports, though not the fuel-fume-addled followers of NASCAR, by storm.  So it was kind of a big deal when that guy Kaepernick first did it, people were shocked.  I guess most people thought it was alright to complain about  that recent spate of black kids getting shot by cops, but to do it by taking a knee at the beginning of a football game, why that was just a knee to far.  The guy was out of a job, and still is.

But other guys were doing it now, I guess in sympathy with K, or whatever.  I didn't follow it  too closely.  But the man in the red hat ambled to Alabama to make a speech for the guy that Sessions appointed to succeed him, and who is running against a bull goose loony who had the ten commandments carved in stone and set in his courtroom and refused to remove it until the feds removed him.  I may be off on some details here, but what I am trying to establish is his bull goose loonyness, and the odd fact that Red Hat finds himself in the odd position of speaking against a bull goose loony.

So his heart is really not in it.  And worse yet for RH the guy he is speaking for is losing.  He is backed by the Bannon crew who is trumping him as the real Trump candidate, even though Trump is campaigning against him, making him the head of the long awaited Church of Trump without Donald Trump.  So not only is RH on the wrong side of this, but his guy is losing and you know how Donald feels about this. 

So what the hell, I guess this is why Donald called all the guys taking knees SOBs and urged that they all be fired.  The next day, which was a Sunday, knees were being taken all over the NFL, there was also some locking of arms which was not as activist as taking the knee, but more activist than standing around with your hands in your pockets or whatever. And remember the reason for the original knee was the shooting of black kids, although the Trumpian crew asserted it was to show that they did not support our troops.  And then some guys were saying they were doing it so show their solidarity with their teams or the sport of football or that they didn't like Red Hat messing with their sport and what the hell. some were doing it to support the troops.  And the athletes were on the political shows and the sport shows intoning earnestly and nobly why they had made the tough decision to take the knee.

And then at some point I believe the theory evolved, or maybe I made it up, that this is America and if you want to take a knee for whatever reason, just go ahead and take it.  And I think that is where it is now.