President Trump told a crowd at a rally for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange (R) on Friday night that they should “pick up and leave” NFL games if they see players kneeling during the national anthem.
“When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they are playing our great national anthem – the only thing you could do better is if you see it, even if it’s one player, leave the stadium,” Trump suggested. “I guarantee things will stop.”
The very moment Trump calls Black NFL players "son of a bitch" and yells that they should be fired.
Absolutely disgusting. pic.twitter.com/i8nXlZVcLp
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 23, 2017
“Luther and I and everyone in this arena tonight are unified by the same great American values. We’re proud of our country. We respect our flag,” he continued.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b—- off the field right now,'” he continued, adding, “‘He is fired.'”
Trump has previously blasted NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who gained notoriety after he kneeled during the national anthem to protest the treatment of people of color in the U.S.
The president slammed Kaepernick earlier this year, saying he is a free agent because of his refusal to stand during the national anthem.
https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/911611153800990720
https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter/status/911726863856361477
https://twitter.com/sanacardi/status/911739318909026304/photo/1
Kay from BJ:
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David FrumVerified account @davidfrum
A great way to show respect for the flag is to refuse offers of clandestine election assistance from hostile foreign espionage agencies
9:41 AM – 23 Sep 2017
Samuel Sinyangwe
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@samswey
Trump is referencing the power of white supremacy. The power of white owners over black players. Of white politician over black population.
8:53 PM – Sep 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/911671699480879104
Betsy DeVos directs schools to let accused rapists interrogate their victims
By Matthew Chapman | September 22, 2017
Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education just rescinded Title IX guidelines to protect survivors of campus sexual assault, in a letter that gets even the basic facts about federal policy dead wrong.
https://shareblue.com/betsy-devos-directs-schools-to-let-accused-rapists-interrogate-their-victims/
Go George!
https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/911631671098793985
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/911671825565982721
uh huh
https://twitter.com/TheUndefeated/status/911682699819208704
Simply adorable
https://twitter.com/marissaalana_/status/911382134144737280
yes….
https://twitter.com/mrjafri/status/911660926595682304
https://twitter.com/wokeluisa/status/911662766435467264
uh huh
uh huh
Scott DworkinVerified account @funder
I won’t be looking for who is taking a knee tomorrow, I’ll be looking for who’s not. #TakeAKnee
12:55 PM – 23 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/ifuaskmee/status/911667665655169024
https://twitter.com/MartysaurusRex/status/911693921557925888
This is absolutely adorable. I think it’s the coolest thing that these teenaged girls knew who he was and was star struck.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Savmasta/status/911316107927076864/video/1
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The GIFS in that thread are PRICELESS.
Cleaned this up for you, Liza. Thanks!
TY, Ametia. I don’t get pictures from Twitter for some reason. I click on “embed tweet” and copy and paste the code.
This tweet didn’t have any media, but I check to include media and only get text. Must be my settings somewhere? Haven’t figured it out.
TRUTH
https://twitter.com/ava/status/911609106435276800
UH HUH
https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/911611153800990720
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/911580889024475136
YES, the POS #45 ATTACKS BLACK PEOPLE, every time BOBBY III STICKS moves in on I’m and his RUSSIAN CABAL.
It’s to feed & distract his white trash base.
Clint SmithVerified account @ClintSmithIII
Meanwhile Kaepernick has transparently donated nearly $1 million & Trump has lied about pretty much every donation he claims to have given.
5:35 AM – 23 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/911612125818351616
NO LIES TOLD
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/911621362917216256
FOR.THE.WIN!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/911441579864395776
UH HUH
UH HUH
https://twitter.com/Christiana1987/status/911394197894201344
YES!!
https://twitter.com/abell/status/911658845830877184
https://twitter.com/CP3/status/911623341076832256
https://twitter.com/CP3/status/911623819361734657
https://twitter.com/ava/status/911591399967125505
ALL.OF.TIS.RIGHT CHERE:::::
And boycott all the networks too. any and all that air #45′ hate rallies and tweets.
SHUT ALL THOSE MOFOs down. They don’t exist without viewers. Let the so-called #45 base tune in to his shit.
https://twitter.com/GQMagazine/status/911656576464883712
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/911650067999854592
https://twitter.com/Sterlingartz/status/911626600470519809
https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/911608345265627136
https://twitter.com/NYCLU/status/911610703525634048
Indeed!
https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/911595610607804416
#NFL players, #TakeAKnee until change comes… #ImWithKap
Black people just want a right to live. #BlackLivesMatter
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/911629557060521984
HEYYYYYYYYYYYY
Yeah, I can certainly understand how Trump’s presence could ruin what would otherwise be an interesting experience.
I love him 😍😍😍
👇🏾
https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/911610455877021697
https://twitter.com/RyanNegri/status/911610661049737219
Bravo, King James
Unfortunately i see nothing but a forced exodus from the island. Then the wealthy friends of friends of the govt will swoop in and privatize everything. I fear the island will not come back from this. Desperation will take over and people will have no choice but to abandon their former lives and go to the willing and accepting relatives on the mainland. How many of those do u think will be able to go back to areas that will now undoubtedly be unattainable or unaffordable to them. This is devastating
Sunshine, I just ache from reading your take on the future for Puerto Ricans. It is so sad and scary.
The most vulnerable get the SHIV, the mot powerful gets the PROFITS$$$$$$$$$
Reading this breaks my heart :(
Hurricane Maria devastation, 246 photos…
Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Dominica (PHOTOS)
Sep 22 2017 03:30 PM EDT
weather.com
https://weather.com/photos/places/news/hurricane-maria-photos
The above link does not appear to be working now. See the pictures at this link (at least for now), scroll down to bottom: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-virgin-islands-dominica-caribbean-turks
How to Find a Shelter in Puerto Rico, and How to Get in Touch With Family Members After Hurricane Maria
By Sean Breslin
Sep 23 2017 08:00 AM EDT
weather.com
Thousands have been evacuated from near the 90-year-old Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s destruction.
Hurricane Maria severed communication lines across the Caribbean, leaving millions with nowhere to go and no instructions for what to do next.
This is certainly the case in Puerto Rico, where 100 percent of the island was left powerless and residents have struggled to communicate with family members on the United States mainland and elsewhere. Even worse, some might not know where to go for safety in the wake of the storm.
According to the Associated Press, 1,360 of the island’s 1,600 cellphone towers were downed by Hurricane Maria and 85 percent of above-ground and underground phone and internet cables were knocked out, so making contact with family and friends on the island is limited.
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If You Haven’t Heard From a Friend or Family Member in Puerto Rico, Here Are A Few to Try
(at this link): https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-shelters-how-to-find-family-members
‘Thousands of people could die’: 70,000 in Puerto Rico urged to evacuate with dam in ‘imminent’ danger
By Samantha Schmidt, Katie Zezima, Sandhya Somashekhar and Daniel Cassady September 22 at 10:37 PM
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — Tens of thousands of residents in northwestern Puerto Rico were ordered to evacuate Friday amid fears that a dam holding back a large inland lake was in imminent danger of failing because of damage from Hurricane Maria’s floodwaters.
Officials worried that as many as 70,000 people could be in the path of a massive amount of rushing water in the event the Guajataca Dam releases into the Guajataca River, which flows north through low-lying coastal communities and empties into the ocean.
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Abner Gomez, executive director of Puerto Rico’s emergency management agency, said in an interview late Friday night that the dam’s gates suffered mechanical damage during the storm, making it impossible for them to open and let out normal water currents. Officials worry that could cause the dam to spill over.
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The urgent situation Friday came more than 48 hours after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico’s southeastern coast as the most powerful storm to strike the island in more than 80 years. It was a reminder that Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico is far from over; officials still have little sense of the scope of the damage the island sustained as a communications and power blackout continued to affect nearly everyone in the U.S. territory.
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Though damage assessments have been nearly impossible, early reports reveal an island ravaged by Maria’s high winds and torrential rains, with roofs peeled open like tin cans, neighborhoods waterlogged, and trees that were lush just days ago now completely stripped bare of leaves. The hurricane plowed through the entire 100-mile island, with the eye tracking diagonally from the southeast to the northwest.
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The lack of communications has isolated rural areas of the island. Just 15 percent of the island’s communication towers are working, and some of the island’s transmission towers have collapsed. Up to 85 percent of its fiber cables are damaged.
Power remains completely out on the island, and just 25 percent of it has water service.
Shock has given way to frayed nerves as officials warned that it could be months before power is restored to some areas, and there is no indication of when communications infrastructure will be fixed. In the capital, streets were choked with traffic as people tried to find loved ones and spent hours waiting in line for gas.
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Puerto Rico, with 3.5 million U.S. citizens, also is facing a crisis because of its geography: It is an island dependent on air and sea for supplies and volunteers. The immediate response that occurred after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, where volunteers from Louisiana headed in during the storm, or during Hurricane Irma in Florida, where utility trucks were pre-positioned to turn on power, is impossible here.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/22/at-least-6-dead-in-puerto-rico-due-to-hurricane-maria-officials-say/?utm_term=.6dbc9bdc8b45
Well, according to FEMA, they’re all over it. I guess we’ll see…
Hurricane Maria Response and Relief Operations Underway
Release date:
September 21, 2017
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) top priority is to provide life-saving resources to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, while aggressively working to gain greater access to disaster affected areas.
Federal coordinating officers and other FEMA personnel are on the ground, coordinating with the governors of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and their respective emergency management agencies.
Read more…
https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/21/hurricane-maria-response-and-relief-operations-underway
Reminder: #45 & RUSSIA, ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS, ASSAULTS ON OBAMACARE, MEDICAID, WHITE SUPREMACISTS, KKK EMBOLDENED, DENIERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
CHAO, CHAOS, CHAOS.
WHO ISS PROFITING MOST FROM ALL THE CHAO?
I’m disgusted and dismayed by the lack of attention for PR. I don’t know if my family is ok and I can’t get any info. I’m ashamed of our country and hopeless In this world with this moron as our leader. I cry and feel helpless and see a world of hate and bigotry. This doesn’t feel good it shouldn’t be real. Seeing this country with the truest eyes ever keeps them overflowing with tears.
I hope that your family is ok.
But, yes, the lack of coverage about Puerto Rico is appalling.
Hi, Sunshine,
I’ve wondered how much the federal government is doing in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to help the recovery.
I am ashamed too. Who would ever have believed things could get so bad?
Hang in there, you are not forgotten. It will take some time to get out of this hole, but we will.
Sunshine, you, your family & the citizens of Puerto Rico & Mexico are in our prayer. Focus on the LOVE, God’s love. You know what this means for you.
The media is fixated on #45. They have been since he started that birther bullshit.
Thee outlets are selective in their coverage of disasters.
I pray your family is ok, Sunshine. We all see what the media is doing. But you are not alone. We’re right here with you.
Sunshine, I am sending out prayers and bright, positive thoughts that your family is safe and doing well.
I agree with you that we should be seeing far more media coverage on the disasterous conditions and the emergency needs of Puerto Rico.
*Hugs!
“Where you can donate to help with hurricane and earthquake relief and recovery”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-you-can-donate-to-help-with-hurricane-and-earthquake-relief-and-recovery/ar-AAsgRzP?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
Excerpt from article at this link:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-harvey-revealed-about-climate-change-in-the-south/ar-AAsmmuM?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
Also this:
Good Morning,Everyone 😐😐😐
Pay attention, people! That fraud in the WH is stirring up violence
STAY WOKE!
Don’t you close your eyes…….
https://twitter.com/DVNJr/status/911407697026801664
https://twitter.com/BryanAGraham/status/911397671553732608
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/911401571300380672
https://twitter.com/mikefreemanNFL/status/911400283602866176
Tell it, Ms. Hill!
Is Trump trying to get CK assassinated?
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/911457485122392064
A draft dodging son of a bitch pretends to be patriotic. Isn’t that rich?
Get that son of a bitch out of our WH. See how that works, mofo?
#ImWithKap
FUCK YOU!
Chump is a turd. I can smell him from here. Let me run get my febreze extra strength!