Trump/NFL political theater: who’s winning?
by Jon Rappoport
September 27, 2017
Who’s protesting what?
Players are standing up with arms locked, they’re sitting, they’re kneeling, they’re staying in the locker room during the National Anthem, a few owners have come out of their high offices to join with the players on the field, the networks are suddenly airing the pre-game Anthem because TV viewers want to see the protests and it’s all about ratings and ad revenues; viewership for the games is down, one quarterback who stayed with his team in the locker room confessed he wanted to be out on the field and didn’t want to be known for protesting the Anthem, Trump praised fans in the stands for booing the players, it’s a party, a circus, it’s theater, so who’s winning?
According to counts and a survey, 70% of NFL players are black, and 83% of NFL fans are white.
One biracial player, Colin Kaepernick, started the whole business by kneeling during the National Anthem, to protest police brutality against black people.
Colin Kaepernick’s original message, whatever you may think of it, has exploded into pieces all over the landscape. Now people are talking about the flag, the Anthem, patriotism, the veterans, ungrateful millionaire athletes, “unity,” the League, the Commissioner, racism in general, and Trump as a slavemaster according to Jesse Jackson.
But don’t worry. We’re assured these football protests are part of engaging in a “national dialogue on race.”
How many times have we heard that one before?
What dialogue? The whole country is going to assemble in the geographical center of America and begin talking earnestly to one another?
Yes, Trump is “energizing his base,” as they say. But he’s also gleefully attacking the NFL team owners, some of whom were/are his pals. He likes that kind of theater. He’s sticking the owners with the nasty job of defending the players. If the owners remain silent and go away and hide, they’ll be seen as racists. That’s not a good look. So a few of them appeared on football fields Sunday, “standing in solidarity” with their teams. Now they can run away and hide.
“Jeeves, tell my pilot to gas up the jet. I’ve done my duty. We’re heading to the Cape. Let the staff know they’ll have to open up the summer house again…”
Trump also wants his enemies everywhere to understand he’s willing to attack anyone, even the rich owners of NFL franchises. Fallout, no fallout, he doesn’t care.
So today, a Pittsburgh Steeler offensive tackle few people have ever heard of, a decorated ex-Army Ranger, Alejandro Villanueva, is the most popular player in the League, because he didn’t stay in the locker room with the rest of his team during the playing of the National Anthem. He came outside and made himself visible on the field. Suddenly, his jersey has shot up to number one on the best seller list of NFL merchandise.
That 80% of white fans are buying it.
This is supposed to be part of the “national dialogue,” too?
(Update: Villanueva has now apologized for standing alone and “throwing his teammates under the bus.” What’s the policy on returning NFL merchandise?)
The strategic winner in this big NFL story, so far, is Trump. His America-first rhetoric is making a bigger impact than all the NFL protests.
Joe Scarborough, MSNBC: “This may be unpopular but it is a political reality. Every NFL player refusing to stand for the national anthem helps Trump politically.”
Oops.
Of course, the rest of the politically Left media echo chamber refuses to acknowledge that. The echo-chamber denizens always try to convince themselves they’re creating and owning and controlling the narrative.
“If we say the NFL player protestors are smacking Trump down, the American people will believe us.”
Yes, just as people believed the echo chamber when they elected Trump over Hillary “nothing is my fault” Clinton.
Of course, the echo chamber has to drown out a few voices. For example, a player many think is the greatest NFL athlete of all time, hall of famer Jim Brown: “I’m going to give you the real deal: I’m an American. I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.”
Hmm. That doesn’t work for the preferred narrative, so put it on the back page.
Where is the wild NFL-Trump-media theater piece heading? It’s obvious, isn’t it? More supporters for Trump. More voters on his side.
And who wants that?
The Russians! Yes. Now we see the light. Vladimir Putin is behind all these NFL player protests because, as a chess player, he understands the end game: Trump wins.
Putin somehow manipulated Colin Kaepernick into staging his original kneel during the National Anthem. That’s the op.
Is WikiLeaks going to play a role? We don’t know yet. Stay tuned.
I’m sure James Comey will fit right in. He can return and testify before Congress:
“Well, we know Ivanka Trump met with Putin eighteen months ago. At the time, he expressed an interest in buying the Dallas Cowboys, with gold bars he found in a Venusian UFO that crashed in Siberia. But then the conversation turned to the possibility of triggering player protests, as a way of garnering support for Donald Trump…”
Putin is also behind Black Lives Matter, Antifa, incidents of violence, riots, cops being shot, because all that, too, will swing support over to Trump.
Note to John McCain: Get moving, John. Put together the Committee hearings on the Hill. We’ve got our man. Putin. We’ve got the tiger by the tail…
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What a wonderfully visual “protest”, almost like it’s made for my big screen TV. Even if you watch in a noisy bar, you get the message. But the NFL and networks know how to put on a show so it should be no surprise.
Police brutality against blacks (who cares about anybody else?) is a wonderful distraction for the NFL from the previous focus on brain injury which was leading to questions about how player’s bodies are treated.
What I’m wondering is how Villanueva goes from being the child of a Spanish Naval NATO father to West Point? Who sponsored him and why him? Then he played various football positions with no distinction, paying to enter NFL tryouts. The real story should be how he went from 250 pounds when he joined the Steelers to 340 pounds within one year? He played below par for over a year, finally started playing well and was given a 4-year, $24 million contract just this year – $6 million dollar man indeed.
But focus on the controversy and not on what the NFL is doing to his body and the body of every other NFL player. And for sure don’t think about what’s happening in our country that’s created 3rd-world conditions in huge chunks of our large cities. Coming soon to a smaller city or town near you.
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This is sort of off topic but it does have a common theme and that is to denounce everything president Trump does, denounce it hard and denounce it fast. Well on the morning CBS ‘news’ the vultures were waiting. They had the Governor of Puerto Rico coming on and they had their knives and forks ready for him to condemn the Trump Administration and their lack of effort to send the help needed to the hurricane ravaged Island. Instead Governor Rossello said that the help needed was being supplied and the problems all had to do with delivery to the isolated areas of Puerto Rico. If these 3 television announcers had been flying they would have crashed and burned. The looks on their faces as they tried to save face was to say the least, something to savor.
Poor news castors left with egg on their faces for all the world to see. Lol. They should have hired an expert in the field to control the narrative.
ha ha
Why not denounce it when he’s earned it. Trump’s administration f**ked up here big time.
It’s A National Bonfire: Fans All Over America Are Burning Jerseys To Show Their Anger With The NFL
Does the NFL actually think that it can go to war with the national anthem and the American flag and win?
https://newswars.com/its-a-national-bonfire-fans-all-over-america-are-burning-jerseys-to-show-their-anger-with-the-nfl
Theo,they do not have a choice. the NFL was given their script and told to march or else. They are just obeying orders. Its a Broadway play with many different actors and parts and only writers know the outcome in the final act.
The script is Saul Alinksky’s rules for radicals and the end game is communism/globalism. Now we know which side each is on by their words.
These protests are deeper than they seem.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/understanding-the-battle-between-the-deep-state-and-one-nation-under-god-the-holy-war-within-the-united-states-of-america/\
The whole DACA nightmare is also part of this battle and the goal of the North American union where mexico america and canada are all one territory divided up into tiny u n territories.
We have to start demanding prosecution of all these criminals. The fate of our grandchildren is in our hands. There is no one else to step up.
The traitors are coming out of the woodwork. This scum in the video below is a fan of Colin K, this is just one way they continue to recruit idiots for their violent takeover of America. My question is, who sponsored him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N08WHHa9rxo
It is really too bad the people didn’t listen to McCarthy and the John Birch Society. They were right all along.
I am amazed at how many people who live in America do not appreciate the freedom they have and want to destroy not just America, but the whole world due to their envy and hate.
This insanity did not happen over night, its been growing for more than 50 years.
The good news is, the people are starting to wake up and reject this death narrative. Roy Moore won in a landslide despite 30 million dollars being spent to defeat him.
The best thing that could happen right now is for people to turn off their tv and start living. Its happening.
Small steps, but if you attempt to turn something as large as an ocean liner too fast it will capsize.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
“COLIN KAEPERNICK OUTED “CROOKED HILLARY” BEFORE DONALD TRUMP DID”
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=84413
This is the fact of the racial divide and unequal justice in America where 33,000 destroyed emails were given a pass by a system of justice that was a big part of Kaepernick’s protest, but hidden by the media in 2016 to protect Clinton’s Presidential bid and now being concealed in 2017 by Trump’s Team for not jailing her as part of his campaign promise. The whole of it makes Colin Kaepernick’s point exactly. View the full unedited press conference in 2016 that started the whole thing and you will come to know the biggest part of the story still being concealed from the American People.
Looking at the photos on media of lines of footballers kneeling and bowing their heads, without looking at headlines or reading related articles, I would assume they were all deep in reverent prayer.
According to William peppers in his exceptionally well documented book (The Plot to Kill King) Jesse Jackson called the motel in Memphis where King was to stay. Jackson called the night before King’s arrival demanding that King’s room assignment be changed from a secure inner courtyard room to the balcony room where he was assassinated.
Speaking of Russiagate, have you seen this?
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/20/more-holes-in-russia-gate-narrative/
Nationalism and freedom of speech in the same room is always good theatre.
Tina Turner said it best; “Two men enter – one man leaves.”
But esteemed party member Comrade Kommissar Eric Holder said Amerikwa is too cowardly to have a dialogue on race?
Players have their first amendment rights but is this the right place to protest?
The fourth wall is penetrated and if the average dullard fan of the National Felon League protested at work he would be out of of a job.
Did any of these SJWs go to Chicago and try to stop the black on black violence?
Or did they move out of the hood as fast as they could when that contract came through.
Also don’t these rich white one percenter owners pretty much own these contracts?
I wondered when Jesse “Hymie Town” Jackson and Al “Not So” Sharpton would crawl out from under their rocks.
Maybe the money was running out for these fine reverends.
Hymie Town is doing very well and this page be wayciss thoughtcrime:
http://www.jessejackson.org/hos.html
The NFL better pony up a gift for the good revrem.
DID TRUMP READ 1984? HE WOKE UP THE PROLES BY SLAYING THE NFL
The answer to 1984 is 1776
https://www.infowars.com/did-trump-read-1984-he-woke-up-the-proles-by-slaying-the-nfl/
This is also another amazing possibility:
Excerpts:
By turning the public against the NFL, President Trump has awakened the “proles,” a large segment of the public who were once too distracted by football to care about globalism.
In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the proles were the uninformed masses who passively accepted the rise of authoritarianism – and the corresponding decline of civilization around them – because they were too preoccupied with “films, football, beer, and above all, gambling.”
By their sheer numbers, the proles had to power to improve society, but only if they weren’t so distracted by bread and circuses.
#TakeAKnee is this year’s “ice bucket challenge”.
The ice bucket challenge. A satanic ritual, virtually an anti-baptismal that they convinced the country to participate in.
A satanic ritual? I am thankful to say that I did not participate, but so many people did. Could you provide a link or source for the satanic ritual?
Ironically, the federal government, in particular the DOD, paid 14 NFL franchises $5.4 million between 2011 and 2014 to stage patriotic salutes to U.S. troops and veterans during games. As far as I know, no one at the NFL protested the payments.
Note to John McCain: Get moving, John. Put together the Committee hearings on the Hill. We’ve got our man. Putin. We’ve got the tiger by the tail…(Jon)
LOL… I have always like that expression.
Buck Owens Tiger By The Tail
Buck Owens Tiger By The Tail
Note to John McCain: Get moving, John. Put together the Committee hearings on the Hill. We’ve got our man. Putin. We’ve got the tiger by the tail…(Jon)
LOL… I have always like that expression.
Buck Owens Tiger By The Tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVy8eJuk0gM
ALEJANDRO VILLANUEVA IS HISPANIC, SURELY THE DELORABLES HATE HIM TOO!!!!!!!
Deplorables hate all races including their own, didn’t you get the memo from theTrumpenführer-SS?
Now can’t we wrap ourselves in the flag and be one big happy family as we ride our unicorns over to the magic chocolate fountain that mommygov gave us?
Bernie has some free beer and buds for us that he redistributed from those wealthy capitalist pigs comrade. Forward!
*s for sarc*
This NFL crap is all about “Distraction”! Worrying and fighting over Inconsequential nonsense.
What we need to be asking is “what is it they do not want us thinking about, or focusing on”?