@cteavin:
@Frederick:
This is incredible.. now football players get in trouble when they DO stand for the National Anthem!
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/09/25/steelers-coach-mike-tomlin-raps-alejandro-villanueva-for-standing-for-national-anthem.html
Trouble is a strong word. Simply, sports is dividing along political lines.
Personally, I watch tv, go to the movies, and see sports games to be entertained, not to be preached to. I'd like all such entertainers to put a lid on their political beliefs. I think a solution is for there to be a clause placed into their contracts that they can no longer do such things or be fined and suspended.
But why do you think they're kneeling in the first place? Is it a legitimate complaint or just a trend because it's popular to hate Trump?
Colon Kapernick started that kneeling thing during the regime of Sheik Obama's occupation of the White House. Can't blame that one on Trump.
I have personally messaged several celebrities to stop their hateful political comments. The basic reasons I gave them are: it divides their fan base - roughly half of the population is republican or democrat - so they are offending about half their fans with their comments; They are ruining their own careers; they are making it difficult for their fans to be entertained by them knowing that they have those strong political views; they are jeopardizing the careers and success of the actors they work with, the productions they work on, and the studios they work for.
One that seemed to take the advice to stop being so political was Bryan Cranston. Gotham's Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin) and Corey Michael Smith (Riddler) are both so stupid they don't understand why anybody is upset with them for calling for the impeachment of Trump. The show Gotham is going into the toilet this season and you will never see nor hear of either of those 2 boobs again.. so doesn't matter. Actor Justin Berfield (Reese on Malcolm In The Middle) and his husband Jason Felts are the mindless minions of Richard Branson.. their movies are a consistent stream of box office bombs.. and they don't give a damn.. it's only Sugar Daddy Dickie's money going down the drain. It doesn't occur to them that by offending nearly half the country, their movies might not do as well at the box office.