The Political Page, T+246 -- September 23, 2017

Updates

Later, 6:56 p.m. Central Time: the tea leaves suggest we could see widespread "kneeling" in the NFL tomorrow. The announcers do what they can to avoid commenting on political issues and producers always cut away from controversial video. It will be interesting to see how things play out Sunday, tomorrow, September 23, 2017. 

Original Post

 

I haven't really kept track but generally, it seems, President Trump gets about 30,000 to 50,000 "likes" on any given Tweet.

I assume he has had more than 100,000 likes on some tweets, but I don't recall any recently. I will watch. What got me thinking about that was this latest tweet:

The NFL commissioner's response suggests that he, the commissioner, would like all NFL players, owners, and managers to kneel or sit during the national anthem. At least that's how I interpreted his response. By the way, the commissioner calls Trump's remarks "disrespectful" of the NFL which apparently, for the commissioner, is worse than US multi-millionaires disrespecting the national anthem. Whatever. At least he didn't call the president "deplorable." LOL.

It will be interesting to see if President Trump re-tweets this one:

As long as I'm posting these, I might as well clean off my desk-top. One more, although I was saving it for Halloween:

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Irony, Blind Spot, Or Simply An Idiot?
Fair and Balanced. You Decide

Wow, talk about a blind spot. In Fortune, Hillary Clinton is quoted as saying that she does not understand how women can support Trump. 

Hillary Clinton spoke about her thoughts on what she viewed as sexist comments by President Donald Trump and women who continued to support him.

"When I see women doing that, I think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves? Why are they opening the door to have someone say that about them in their workplace?

In a community setting? Do they not see the connection there?" Clinton said in an interview on AM Joy.

Hillary has the audacity to say this even after her husband is overwhelmingly supported by US women voters despite his history.

Stand By Your Man, Tammy Wynette

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Interesting Read

This is behind a paywall but if you don't subscribe to The Los Angeles Times you might be able to access this article by googling

Raids in New Jersey town target ultra-Orthodox Jews accused of welfare fraud. 'What is going on here?'