fbi ny office was leaking **** to giuliani during the campaign and overall they were way too hard on hillary

Teams get fined not the players actually.

And teams are allowed to discipline players for it. Try harder with your trolling.

I think teams are free to pass fines along to players.

It's worse than that. It's pissing on everything the flag and anthem are supposed to represent. Forced participation is 100x more disrespectful than anything players have done.

The NFL is inviting an insurrection, which they probably win in the end, but not without a lot of damage to their precious brand. Maybe they're boxed in by the president and their fans but they're also dicks and this is the dick move so "we'll see what happens!"

I'd take Marshawn Lynch. He's old enough to retire and say a big **** you to Goodell on the way out.

Luckily for us, he is like the 33rd smartest person that has ever posted in this thread.

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How much are the fines?

If I had a nickel for every time an elite said "Here's a great idea I picked up from a clever poster on an online gambling forum," I'd pray it was a 1913 Liberty Head nickel.

Yup. He might lose on the deal and claim he won.

It kind of is in a way. He was the one pushing this issue harder than anybody else. Of course he didn't do it for jingoistic reasons. He did it because he hates the NFL for refusing to let him buy a football team God knows how many years ago.

Also it's clickbaity. Deplorables click on it to see their God's victory and liberals click on it for anger porn.

Very true. I've always found the faux patriotism to be super kitschy and shallow. The truth is that the whole support the troops thing is shallow from every imaginable angle. It's nothing but lip service from everybody.

Kind of amazing. If he was really that smart, he'd be posting these remarkable theories and thought experiments in places where academics could discover his supposed brilliance. Maybe he'd try to submit an academic paper to a journal if he was that smart. Instead, he gets mocked on his own forum by posting these brilliant ideas where anybody else can snatch them as their own.

About a month after I moved to a new apartment in Scotland, I received a voter registration form in the mail which included the option to mail my ballot directly to me when elections are held. It's pretty easy to do.

Another thing would be to move Election Day to Sunday like they have in Spain.

It's incredibly un-American. The type of worship and patriotism expressed in America is only seen in dictatorships.

God ****ing damn it NFL. This dumb ****ing **** was just about to blow over. But this is the surest way to make sure it continues to be a ****ing issue next season. I don't know how else to read this but the owners wanting to incite Trumps base.

The flag pin was the start of this ****. Cannot some congressperson give a speech and say if you wear a flag pin it's probably to mask your guilt about secretly hating America? Could see Bernie saying that. Like I don't need to make a big deal about how much i like pie, because I'm not concerned about being exposed as a secret pie-hater. My love of pie is genuine and untainted.

The concept of supporting our troops is noble. It's just that the people most likely to say it are on the side that doesn't want to pay to properly fund the VA or treat PTSD, and mainly use it as a way to conflate supporting another war we don't need with supporting the troops.

I support our troops. I want them to live long, peaceful lives. If they do have to fight, they should return home to the best healthcare available - including mental healthcare.

Dems shy away from that fight out of fear, but they shouldn't.

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It's just business imo. More people who watch the NFL hate the protests than like them. I think it's ****ing cowardly what theyve done, but I totally get why they did it.

****ing hell. Just when I think this couldn't get any worse, now I have to be a fan of the ****ing Jets.

I had to side with lavar ball once too. Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

I know. My pony has been left behind in the deserts of Qatar, but man, the corruption with this Broidy guy and George Nader is off the charts.

https://apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4c199...ortune-seekers

There are more juicy tidbits in there about an op ed they got published in WSJ and my favorite part about a man named "George Vader" getting a photo with Donald Trump.

The Daily Beast has another good article on Broidy making a fortune selling influence to the GOP and Trump, not just from SA and UAE, but also from Romania and Malaysia.

Just another thing to keep in mind next time you're arguing with a rightwinger frothing at the mouth over Clinton Foundation pay to play.

Well the Clinton Foundation, not to mention Uranium One, makes things basically equal. #bothsides

How did Teapot Dome become such a big issue? I thought corruption was more common back in the day, but from what little I know about Teapot Dome, it was minor compared to Trump's corruption.

Maybe there was something equivalent to Nixon's tapes that drove the point, or maybe Harding was already in hot water.

Edit: Maybe it blew up because "the Harding administration, [] was already severely diminished by its controversial handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

I've been listening to the Revolutions podcast (shout out to whoever bigged it up itf, it's great) and in the French Revolution chapter, they touch on the XYZ affair. At the time, the French had been attacking our trade ships doing business with their adversary Great Britain. The Americans were committed to neutrality, but obviously were not happy about the attacks. So they met with the French foreign minister to negotiate. But he said that before negotiations could begin, they must first pay him a large bribe. The American diplomats were so scandalized by the suggestion that they called off the negotiations, and in the fallout the Americans ended up waging a small scale naval war against France.

Sure this one goes the other way than the Broidy case, with the Americans expected to bribe foreigners to change their policy, but it's still kind of remarkable that at the dawn of our nation, foreign pay-to-play was such an affront to American sensibilities, we actually went to war over it.