Heard On Thom Hartmann's Show Today About Taking The Knee....

[global1]

The suggestion was - if one takes a knee and holds one hand on their heart during the anthem to protest police treatment - they should hold a little American Flag in their other hand to show they are not disrespecting the anthem or flag.

What do you think? Would that shut down this controversy & Trump?

[Grassy Knoll]

1. Republicans Would Cause The World To Fall Off It's Axis...

...Their Minds Would Be Blown From Confusion.

[Mediumsizedhand]

2. I will stick strongly with what the military man said to Colin.

Holding a little flag to prove you are patriotic to me is feeding what Trump and the others are doing, would not be good enough anyway, and is silly.

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[Rorey]

6. Thank you for this

I'm going to show it to my husband who just doesn't "get it".

[alwaysinflux]

8. Indeed, "kneeling is like sitting,"

according to Trump, so holding the flag wouldn't be good enough. Nothing would be good enough except getting this protesting out of their faces. The whole point of protesting is to get it in people's faces, so it's been a brilliant way of doing that.

[Solomon]

3. Fuck that.

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[BigmanPigman]

4. I'd like to "knee" him in the crotch

but I doubt I could find it, even with a microscope.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. What? Not a little flag AND a cross?

[Dave Starsky]

9. Should be a flag draped over the shoulders...

A cross in one hand and an assault rifle in the other. Just to make sure all the Republican religious symbolism is in there.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. An American gold medalist swimmer took a knee last week

I'm not sure that received any coverage here. Probably. I saw it on a swimming site.

Anthony Ervin took a knee at a meet in Brazil. He is of mixed heritage -- black father and white mother, although he looks white.

Ervin won the splash and dash 50 meter freestyle last summer in Rio at age 35, and 16 years after he won the same event at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Here is a link including a photo:

https://swimswam.com/anthony-ervin-kneels-national-anthem-raia-rapida/

Nothing would shut up Trump and the Republicans, not when they've got symbols and fear.

[eleny]

11. How about if they just carry a gun

Hey, 2nd Amendment and all that.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Gun, bible, Constitution

And a misspelled sign