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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat May 25, 2019, 03:13 PM May 2019

Mayor Pete: If Trump Hadn't Dodged The Draft Maybe He'd Understand The Right Of NFL Players To Kneel [View all]

TMZ Sports reports:

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is going to bat for Colin Kaepernick … telling TMZ Sports he supports the QB’s right to take a knee during the national anthem — and he’s ripping Trump for going after the protesters.

“The way I feel about it is the flag that was on my shoulder when I served represented, among other things, our right to free speech,” Mayor Pete — a Navy veteran — told us in New York. “You don’t have to like it, but one of the reasons we serve was to defend that right, the right of peaceful protest and the idea that we can protest what is wrong with our country.”

“If the president had served,” Pete says. “Maybe he’d feel a little more strongly about some of those freedoms. And, I get that there’s a lot of strong opinions about this, but that’s part of why we served.”


[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/05/mayor-pete-if-trump-hadnt-dodged-the-draft-maybe-hed-understand-the-right-of-nfl-players-to-kneel/|

BOOM!!!!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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But, but........... MyOwnPeace May 2019 #1
Still looking customerserviceguy May 2019 #2
Biden has 5 deferments for college leftofcool May 2019 #3
Bottom line is customerserviceguy May 2019 #4
Pete was asked about Colin Kaepernick crazytown May 2019 #11
He has a knack for finding the best possible answer to a question customerserviceguy May 2019 #12
Rather cynical, aren't we? murielm99 May 2019 #5
Well customerserviceguy May 2019 #6
WOO!!!!! Skittles May 2019 #7
Feel the burn, Donnie! Cousin Dupree May 2019 #8
Keep calling tRump out, Pete, NancyHillary, et al. Only way it will penetrate to the wobbly middle Bernardo de La Paz May 2019 #9
He'd be a great zentrum May 2019 #10
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