TRUMP SUCKERS THE NFL TO GO FULL KAEPERNICK

I live in Pittsburgh.  You can imagine the contempt I feel for the Steelers right now and their execrable coach.  But I also love the way Trump is playing them, and the entire Leftie cabal, like a fiddle.

Coach Mike Tomlin thought he’d found a way around the dilemma the NFL created for teams with its knee jerk reaction to remarks President Trump made Friday night (9/22).

Tomlin hadn’t.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, say: ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. He’s fired,’” Trump said during a rally in Alabama.

 “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL…” Commissioner Roger Goodell had the gall to say in a statement Saturday morning. Talk about the kettle calling the pot pitch black.

In “solidarity” protests Sunday, dozens of players – and four entire teams – knelt during the anthem, or stayed in the locker room during it.

The Jaguars and Panthers, playing in London, stood for “God Save the Queen,” took a knee when the Star Spangled Banner was played.

This was the big news of the weekend, and it still is today (9/27). Journalists described the protests as a sharp rebuke of the president.

Evidently the MSM bubble is so thick journos couldn’t hear boos cascading from fans in every stadium where players knelt.

A large majority disapproves of anthem protests. Most also think the protesters shouldn’t be fired, this Cato Institute survey indicates. But 65 percent of Republicans agree with Trump.

Isn’t it amazing how easily the president goads adversaries into cutting their own throats? He baits the hook, they snap at it like trout.

With a few remarks and a couple of tweets, he triggered an indefensible PC response, for which Social Justice Warriors in the NFL will pay dearly.

Trump’s criticism is divisive, demonstrates a lack of respect for the NFL, Commissioner Goodell said.

Good Lord! What could be more divisive than spitting on the cherished symbols of our country? Since when is the president obliged to demonstrate respect for the NFL?

The anthem protests originated with former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee to protest the “murder” of black men by police.

The charge is buncombe. A black is ten times more likely to be shot by another black as by a cop. Black criminals are 18 times more likely to kill cops than cops are to kill black criminals. Twelve percent of cops are black. Don’t their lives matter?

An NFL player is arrested once a week, on average. The chief offenses are DUI, drugs, domestic violence and assault/battery.

Could this be why some black athletes identify with thugs?  Here is USA Today’s NFL Player Arrests going back to year 2000.  Here’s a NFLArrest.com chart of NFL team arrests color-coded by crime for just the past five years:

Kaepernick makes clear how little regard he has for his country – which reeks of monstrous ingratitude, coming from a guy reared by a middle class white family.

Every NFL player makes at least $450,000. For them to diss America galls fans who earn a small fraction of that.

Because they went Full Kaepernick, Goodell and ilk must defend the indefensible.

The NFL forbids end zone celebrations. But it endorses disrespect of the national anthem.

Last year the NFL forbade the Dallas Cowboys from wearing stickers on their helmets to honor five murdered Dallas police officers. Not many knew this before last weekend. More do now. They see the hypocrisy.

Trump wants the NFL to ban anthem protests. Sooner or later – probably sooner – the NFL will comply.

But not before suffering irreparable harm. Fan reaction to the anthem protests was ferocious. Ratings for Sunday Night Football plunged. Some sponsors dropped commercials featuring athletes who took the knee.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones signaled the form the NFL’s surrender will take before the Cowboys played the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football.

Jones led the Cowboys in a group kneel to demonstrate “solidarity” among players and coaches. Then Jones led his entire team in standing for the national anthem.

If Goodell doesn’t issue the appropriate ruling in the next few weeks, Jones and the other owners – who know now they stand to lose big bucks – will fire him.

You should never go Full Kaepernick.

Fortunately, lefties can’t help themselves. For this dipstick Congresswoman and these deranged law professors, taking a knee has become the preferred means of showing “resistance” to President Trump.

Leftists should rethink their symbiology. Is it really a good idea to associate opposition to Trump with disrespect for the United States? Is a gesture of submission the best way to “stand up” to someone?

Leftists won’t, because they hate America. The president delights in goading them into revealing it. If Mr. Trump cackles, he’s cackling now.

Often, the president tweets or speechifies provocatively to make the Lying Swine chase rabbits. Was there something he wanted to divert their attention from?  Could be…

At 3:59 pm local time Saturday – a few hours after Trump called out the NFL SOBs – there was an “earthquake” at North Korea’s principal nuclear site. It was an unusual earthquake, in that it appeared to be on the surface. Some described it as an “explosion.”

Was it another nuclear test? North Korea said it wasn’t. No radiation was detected.  And now the Punggye-ri nuclear site may be in danger of collapse.

Could it have been a “Rod from God?” Could that be what SecDef James Mattis was referring to when he said this?

President Trump won’t say. Kim Jong Un could never admit it. To learn the truth, we’d have to examine Kim’s trousers. If there’s a dark brown stain…

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  Until his retirement in January 2017, he was the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.