Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night I couldn't wait I headed straight for the Capitol Mall My heart began to pound Yahoo! It really exists The American International Pictures logo I looked up at that Capitol Building Couldn't help but wonder why I felt like saying "Hello, old friend" Walked up the hill to touch it Then I unzipped my pants And pissed on it when nobody was looking Like a great eternal Klansman With his two flashing red eyes Turn around he's always watching The Washington monument pricks the sky With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom The symbols of our heritage Lit up proudly in the night Somehow fits to see the homeless people Passed out on the lawn So this is where it happens The power games and bribes All lobbying for a piece of ass Of the stars and stripes of corruption Makes me feel so ashamed To be an American When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes Trying to start another Vietnam Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese" "America's back, " alright At the game it plays the worst Strip mining the world like a slave plantation No wonder others hate us And the Hitlers we handpick To bleed their people dry For our evil empire The drug we're fed To make us like it Is God and country with a band People we know who should know better Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!" Business scams are what's worth dying for Are the Soviets our worst enemy? We're destroying ourselves instead Who cares about our civil rights As long as I get paid? The blind Me-Generation Doesn't care if life's a lie So easily used, so proud to enforce The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! Tell me who's the real patriots The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags? Or the people with the guts to work For some real change Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves Our real test of strength is caring Not the toys of war we sell the world Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms Old glory for a blanket As you suck on your thumbs Real freedom scares you 'Cause it means responsibility So you chicken out and threaten me Saying, "Love it or leave it" I'll get beat up if I criticize it You say you'll fight to the death To save your useless flag If you want a banana republic that bad Why don't you go move to one But what can just one of us do? Against all that money and power Trying to crush us into roaches? We don't destroy society in a day Until we change ourselves first From the inside out We can start by not lying so much And treating other people like dirt It's easy not to base our lives On how much we can scam And you know It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs I'm thankful I live in a place Where I can say the things I do Without being taken out and shot So I'm on guard against the goons Trying to take my rights away We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws Let kids learn communication Instead of schools pushing competition How about more art and theater instead of sports? People will always do drugs Let's legalize them Crime drops when the mob can't price them Budget's in the red? Let's tax religion No one will do it for us We'll just have to fix ourselves Honesty ain't all that hard Just put Rambo back inside your pants Causing trouble for the system is much more fun Thank you for the toilet paper But your flag is meaningless to me Look around, we're all people Who needs countries anyway? Our land, I love it too I think I love it more than you I care enough to fight The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! If we don't try If we just lie If we can't find A way to do it better than this Who will?
^^^ See what I'm saying. This all just creates more of a divide. Not everybody thinks you should be kneeling. Like I said, I don't care what guys do but yesterday really just seemed like some PR moves. Didn't have the same feeling as when Colin did it out of no where. It got weird. That's all I was trying to say, other than that I don't care what people do when the anthem comes on
There's a difference. They are contract employees. The protests obviously don't violate their contracts. Also, until 2009 players NEVER even had to stand for the anthem. And NFL owners (2 of which are Drumpf supporters) locked arms and JOINED the protests. But here's the rub... How come no one in here (or anywhere else) is down on TOM BRADY joining the protests?? He didn't take a knee but he publicly denounced Drumpf's punk ass remarks and locked arms in solidarity with his teammates I don't hear MFs in here talking about him... Why is that you think?
steeler fans have a storied history of burning shit even in victory. you'll notice they made the list twice for rioting and burning cars and other private and public properties. http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1064692-the-10-drunkest-super-bowl-fan-riots
SlyPokerDog is delusional and fired-up about this. He needs to chill. He's making himself look bad. SLYPOKERDOG EDIT: The no personal insult rule will be firmly enforced. Please, the OT section is bad enough. The discussion needs to be civil or I will just move the thread. This means everyone. Thanks
LOL. No. It's people like you and the blind hypocrisy that y'all spout in this forum and throughout the country.
Can't really answer, since I'm not really representative of the people you're talking about, but...if he didn't take a knee during the anthem, then it's not quite the same thing, is it?
Yes it is. How often do you see owners standing arm and arm with their players during the anthem? Never. It's exactly what Tom Brady did. Just because he didn't kneel didn't mean he didn't protest.
SlyPokerDog is just yelling, screaming, stomping his paws and shouting like a 4-year-old. Gee, I wonder why nobody takes him seriously.
I'll applaud them. The country is great is you're a white male and pretty good for a white female. Once it starts becoming great for all walks of life, then we can talk.
When it comes to the safety of my black child, yes, I get pretty fired up about that. I'm sure you would about yours...
I guess I see it differently. It's like the guy a couple weeks back who wouldn't kneel with his teammate, but stood next to him with his hand on his shoulder. Basically saying, "I'm with you in terms of speaking up for change in the way the police treat POC, but I'm still going to stand for the anthem because I think that's important too." I think it's very possible to support the reason for a protest without necessarily supporting the manner of protest. That's how I interpret Brady standing arm-in-arm with his teammates; saying "I support the protest, but also respect the flag." It's no surprise to me that people would be OK with that. In fact, it's hard for me to see how someone could find fault with that. It's about as centrist a position as one can take.
