that knee thing

What Beagles sent was like 20 pages of pdf.  I don't like pdf, too hard to navigate, and after a few minutes I gave up looking.  It seems like he is speaking of the specifics of the case, but the ruling, the import, is that employees cannot take a class action suit against their employers, that is they cannot pool their money and hire a hotshot lawyer.  They have to individually hire lawyers and those guys go up alone against the corporate legal artillery.  Sounds like a raw deal to me.  One of the reasons a lot of republicans, but not necessarily Trumpists, gave for backing Trump is that he would appoint conservative supreme court justices, and so he did.  If Obama had been allowed to fill the vacancy that came up during his tenure, the decision would probably have gone another way.

I like it when words are spelled differently than they are pronounced.  I'll wager the locals get to giggling when some tourist says Mackinack.  How square, look at him wearing his big city hat and shoes and he doesn't even know how to say Mackinac.


So this taking the knee thing.  At the time there had been a rash of cops shooting unarmed black kids, and the idea was that taking the knee was a protest against that.  That seemed kind of stupid to me, what does the one thing have to do with the other?  How does taking the knee do anything to keep another unarmed black kids from getting shot?  On the other hand, as we like to say, it's a free country, what matters is does our team score more points than the other team.

And then along came the orangeman, and he decided that taking the knee was really about not backing the troops.  Again they were just taking a knee, how does that harm the private in camp swampy, the star-bedecked general in his fancy office, the poor fool sent on some fool's errand deep in Africa? 

But then this little battle brewed, some guys kneeled, some guys stood, some guys hid in the tunnel, most owners were agin kneeling and some were fer it.  Again I don't believe this had any effect on kids getting shot or on the men in the armed forces.  The whole thing actually was, of course, not about the kids or the army, it was about Trump.  He is like a modern day Orange Midas, everything he touches becomes about him.  If you kneeled you were agin him and if you stood you were fer him.

And now the owners, I would reckon all of them Trumpists, counting that wad that they got from the tax cut, and not putting any aside to hire more workers (see Harley Davidson), have decided that all the players, no matter how they feel about the kids, or the army, or Trump, have to stand or be fired.

You know I am not big on brass band patriotism and the idolatrous worship of the flag, the anthem, the eagle, whatever, but I suppose there is something stirring about seeing the heroes of Sunday standing with their helmets over their hearts, because, I don't know, they love their country.  It is not so stirring when you realize they are doing that because they will be fired if they don't.