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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 186623" data-attributes="member: 373"><a href="http://kfgo.com/blogs/news-views-with-joel-heitkamp-1/961/whats-the-point/" target="_blank">http://kfgo.com/blogs/news-views-with-joel-heitkamp-1/961/whats-the-point/</a>Quote"I was there. On Sunday, I was at the Vikings/Buccaneers game at U.S. Bank Stadium. I knew about the controversy that was rippling through the NFL and professional sports well before the game. The controversy, created by President Donald Trump, was about players kneeling or sitting during the national anthem. I knew that the President had called those who didn’t stand “sons-of-bitches.”I had to ask myself what is the point ? What is he getting at and why? The only thing I came up with was that President Trump was playing to the 35 percenters, his base. Red meat to the lions – he is Pavlov and they are the dogs, so to speak.Then again, it could be a 2-for-1. By saying this, he could fire up his base and make them forget he ate chocolate cake with Nancy Pelosi. All that, while at the same time, taking the nation’s eyes off of healthcare – where, might I add, he is about to fall again.If the 35 percent focus on hating black football players, then they won’t notice my repeated failure. Instead, they will notice that these football players support black lives and hate our country! Both are great reasons to demonize them.It took Joel Heitkamp 3 paragraphs to throw the racist flag.  There are FAR more than just "black" football players kneeling. But that is what this is all about divide and alienate. Joel actually believes that the people that support this president are racist deplorables clinging to the guns and bibles that aren;t smart enough to think unless Trump rings a bell. And yet he and others like him are the ones that are not smart enough to figure out  that mentality, the same mentality that supports these fools protest is what lost them the election.  Don;t bet his sisters views are any different. - - - Updated - - - That guy is full  of shit. First of all he seems old enough to have been around when Truman was president or Joe Biden  or even Obama when he called Kayne West a "jackass" which was likely the one thing I agreed with Obama about so he should have heard words used along the lines of son of a bitch from a president. Harry TrumanThe folksy "Give 'Em Hell Harry" was beloved by some and tsk-tsked by others for the colorful language he attributed to his youthful days working on the Santa Fe railroad, when he slept in hobo camps. In Truman's eyes, General Douglas MacArthur was a "dumb son of a bitch," and Nixon was "a shifty-eyed goddamned liar." "I never did give them hell," he once reminisced. "I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." It was an earlier, simpler time. Barack Obama<img src="http://img.wennermedia.com/660-width/rs-138297-20121207-obama-306x306-1354904601.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesOur 44th president has a very vivid vocabulary. Obama famously called Kanye West a "jackass," and on the audiobook version of his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, you can hear the future president mimicking an old high-school friend who evidently knew his Richard Pryor: "You know that guy ain't shit. Sorry-ass motherfucker ain't got nothing on me." But it was in the pages of Rolling Stone that Obama really drew the ire of the pious, calling opponent Mitt Romney a "bullshitter." Second Trumps comments are not saying a peaceful protest should end, simply that it has no place on the football field during our national anthem. After he screwed that up I quit listening. .</blockquote>

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