Here’s my thing: I think it’s crazy to get upset about players taking a knee to protest police brutality and racial inequality given how many much bigger problems there are. If we lived in a better world (because it wouldn’t be close to a perfect world if people still had to protest police brutality and racial injustice) where the government didn’t send off thousands of soldiers to die in largely pointless and ineffective wars and then didn’t neglect them when they got back, then fine, get upset about kneeling if you’re really that upset. But until those same people actually start protesting those far more serious problems, those people need to stop pretending they care about the troops.
Moreover, anyone who supports a man for President who 1) dodged military service because of “bone spurs,” 2) could send thousands of more young men and women to die because of his intemperate nature, and 3) doesn’t even know the words to the National Anthem, should be forbidden from ever complaining about some football players kneeling down during the song. 45 disgraces the flag and this country before breakfast most days than every kneeling football player has done collectively up to this point. And football players should not be held to higher standards than the President (though the official GOP position now seems to be that everyone should be held to a higher standard than the President).