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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/17/harrison-butker-jersey-speechHarrison Butkers university commencement address at Benedictine College excoriating Pride month, working women, abortion rights activists and others has prompted the National Football League to disavow his remarks but the Kansas City Chiefs placekickers jersey sales have spiked as conservatives seize on their latest culture war.
Butker has also drawn an impassioned statement of support from Josh Hawley, the far-right US senator from Missouri known for his opposition to abortion and a viral video which showed him running away from the mob he incited during the US Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.
We need a different generation of kids that are willing to say no thats not right, there is such a thing as right and wrong, Im not going in for all of this lefty garbage and I just thought that his calls for folks to stand up and be bold was great, Hawley said in reference to Butker during an interview on Wednesday with Spectrum News.
He talks about not being too nice when youre standing up for your convictions, Hawley said to Spectrum News, a little more than three years after he threw up a clenched fist at and then was caught on video running from a mob of Donald Trump supporters who carried out the deadly Capitol attack after the former presidents 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. And I just think hes right about that.
We have a toxic sickness to defeat in November.
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Marcus IM
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spanone
(137,117 posts)atreides1
(16,267 posts)That particular kind of toxicity has to be destroyed...defeating it would only make it retreat until it comes back again!
CousinIT
(9,694 posts)They're on the warpath against women, dark-skinned people, and anyone non-binary. We HAVE TO DEFEAT these clowns in November.
Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)Benedictine, a private liberal arts school about 60 miles north of Kansas City, invited Butker to be its commencement speaker nearly three years to the day after the college removed its chaplain from his position after he disclosed inappropriate conduct with a female student.
Meanwhile, a report on Friday from the Chicago Sun-Times documented how an Illinois-based monk belonging to the religious order which is associated with Benedictine pleaded guilty to a felony battery charge against a former student of the school where he taught and has now landed on a list of organization members deemed to have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse.
Wounded Bear
(59,911 posts)I mean, who the hell buys a kicker's jersey?
Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)- tRump $60 upside down Bibles
- VonShitzenpants $400 'Never Surrender' sneakers
- Don Snoreleone tRump University degrees
- Nodfather $100 NFTs
- $99 Victory47 cologne
- $100 tRump Bucks
- tRump Media stock
- All the garbage here (*Gag Warning*):
https://www.trumpstore.com/collections/trump-sale/
DinahMoeHum
(22,234 posts). . .and let it be known on social media.
https://www.sbnation.com/2024/5/17/24158617/harrison-butker-commencement-speech-benedictine-college-bigotry-nuns
Butkers commencement speech at Benedictine College was bigotry disguised as religion, and these nuns werent going to let that slide.
https://www.mountosb.org/
https://www.facebook.com/mountosb/posts/843047964525749?ref=embed_post
https://www.mountosb.org/statement-in-response-to-supreme-court-decision/
A final fillip from the author of this story refers to Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift:
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Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)Two of the best humans I've ever known were (former) nuns, quite progressive and very empathetic in their thinking and deeds. With all of the Catholic priest scandals and Supreme Court Catholic scoundrels it's good to keep the good-hearted ones in mind.
Irish_Dem
(55,272 posts)In Irish families the custom is for the two youngest children to be sent to the convent
or seminary at a young age.
At age ten my aunt was sent to the convent, a teaching order.
She was extremely smart, sophisticated, educated, progressive.
Superb social and relationship skills.
Humble too. We did not know until after her death all of her many accomplishments
and her high ranking jobs in the Catholic Church until we read her obituary written by
the diocese where she was working. We were astounded. We just knew her has Aunt Ann.
All of her nieces and nephews adored her. She always wore civilian clothes when she came
to visit, she didn't want to be off putting to the kids. She was just our aunt, no airs, no rules
with her. She was focused on us and how we were doing, always.
At every reunion we toast her, we still miss her.
Our last reunion was held outside and it was a terrible day with nonstop rain.
But just before we were all to meet, the day cleared up perfectly. And the biggest rainbow
you ever saw stretched across the sky.
My cousins are a smart, sophisticated group of people.
Doctors, engineers, cops, detectives, military, etc.
And every single one of us will swear under oath that Aunt Ann gave us the rainbow that day.
DemocratInPa
(713 posts)Chris Jones, the All Pro DE who is said to be a Biden supporter has come out in support of Butker.
Waiting for Mahomes and TK to do the same tbh..
Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)I would have expected far better from him. But maybe it's just the age-old axiom in sports that no player shall ever publicly criticize a teammate.
Kingofalldems
(38,979 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,655 posts)NickB79
(19,448 posts)Her hard work as an intelligent, college-educated woman supported their family, is why he was able to play football in high school, go to college, and become a professional athlete.
What a douchebag.
NickB79
(19,448 posts)Now any woman who's hit on by a guy wearing a Butker jersey, or sees one on his wall at home, will know to run the other way ASAP.
And a lot of RW conservatives will be pissed they can't get dates because they're literally wearing their misogyny 🤣
BannonsLiver
(17,399 posts)Trump got a lot of women to vote for him in both 2016 and 2020.
tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)What defines a spike in sales when previously there were no sales? 1? 3?
True Dough
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Torchlight
(4,056 posts)A financial swan song akin to Paula Deen's high tide mark just to quickly recede and fade just prior to final commercial death.
edisdead
(3,117 posts)Someone gonna get blocked into the kicker at mini camp or training camp and thatll be all that we hear about this guy anymore. NFL isnt going to want anything to do with this guy.