Known Fact

A key component is missing from the current controversial discussion surrounding football players and the national anthem. In the recent days of argument over whether NFL players have the right to protest racial inequality and systemic injustice in the United States, few have brought up the fact that less than a decade ago, professional football players didn’t even appear on the field during the national anthem.--EN

Like everything else in the U.S., patriotism is bought and sold on the open market. The sweetheart deals among major professional sports franchises and their billionaire owners and the Department of Defense are rich, concocted lies.

If a couple of international hoodlums like U.S. Sens. McClain and Flake are capable of ascertaining why this is a poor idea, you'd think even more people of questionable intellect might get the point.

Though their qualms sadly aren't focused on the moral aspects of this arrangement, budget talk is better than nothing.

The entire spectacle of what happens pre-game in virtually every major sporting event is a calculated charade, propaganda par excellence.

Any thinking athlete or fan feels the fraudulent nature of the "patriotic experience" at hand. The NFL "kneeling" protests are obviously emblematic of that.

There has never been a better running back or home-run slugging first baseman alive than the ones concocted by the jingoists for the purpose of exploitation--patriots number 1 and 2.

I don't care how much money professional athletes get paid for this nonsense, they're being used if they buy into the ruse--it's simply more stupid billionaire arrogance, and our prez is exemplar.

Here's your other reading for the weekend.


TS