AWESOME: Gov Greg Abbott RESPONDS to NFL warning about new Texas bathroom bill
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WATCH: Gov Greg Abbott just CALLED OUT the NFL for trying to interfere in Texas business!
Texas Governor Greg Abbott was on with Fox News today, calling out the NFL over trying to interfere with legislation in Texas. Abbott took great umbrage at the NFL trying to dictate to Texas what is acceptable and basically told the NFL to mind their own business, pointing out the ample problems the NFL has with its own players.
Here’s a partial transcript:
The NFL has its own share of problems. The NFL coddled its players who refused to stand for the National Anthem. The NFL has its own problems with people, such as violence against women. The NFL has its own problems to solve. The last thing the NFL needs to do is to get in the business of telling states how to operate their own political operations.Imagine this. If the NFL tries to come down on the state of Texas, I might just pass a bill in the state of Texas mandating that all NFL players have to stand and put their hand on their heart when the National Anthem is played.If the NFL really wants to solve this problem about bathrooms for people who are transgender, the NFL should impose on all of its teams to put their own bathrooms into their stadiums to accommodate those with transgenders as opposed to trying to dictate to states what laws they must comply with!You can watch the rest in the clip above.
I must say I love how Abbott isn’t backing down from this fight. It’s ridiculous on its face that the NFL would rather sacrifice the safety and privacy of women and children by trying to keep Texas from passing this bill, and I’m glad Abbott is calling them out on the carpet.
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He's free to do as he pleases, and he's free to lose out on the revenue.
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sounds like extortion to me. "You pay us protection money, or we'll let you
lose your business to our thugs"
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Uhh... The NFL is completely within their right to not do business in Texas because they disagree with the laws there. Same thing that's been happening to NC.
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sure. but establishing football teams in states doesn't give them the right to
political run those states. Sure, they can pull their superbowls from Texas.
but they can't try to be the Texas gov with threats of economic intimidation, that's
a bit different. Pull em, don't pull em... but using the ability to pull them as coercion..
not the same thing.
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sure. but establishing football teams in states doesn't give them the right to
political run those states. Sure, they can pull their superbowls from Texas.
but they can't try to be the Texas gov with threats of economic intimidation, that's
a bit different. Pull em, don't pull em... but using the ability to pull them as coercion..
not the same thing.
sure. but establishing football teams in states doesn't give them the right to
political run those states. Sure, they can pull their superbowls from Texas.
but they can't try to be the Texas gov with threats of economic intimidation, that's
a bit different. Pull em, don't pull em... but using the ability to pull them as coercion..
not the same thing.
We have elevated a mental disorder to a civil right. One may delude themselves into thinking they are the wrong sex but their DNA and physical bodies say differently.
Not to mention the rights of the majority being trampled on to cater to a few. Women and girls should have the right to go to a public restroom without any men present. Seems like common sense but common sense is getting harder to find these days.
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here's something else - there are a lot of republican governors - they coud all tell
the NFL to go shove their superbowls. Let the NFL have the superbowl in the middle
of a blizzard in Green Bay. and have a nice day, NFL liberal sombeitches.
Getting into political coercion is the worst idea the NFL could have. Letting kaeperclusterfooknick
alienate half of the NFL audience was an indicator.
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sure. but establishing football teams in states doesn't give them the right to
political run those states. Sure, they can pull their superbowls from Texas.
but they can't try to be the Texas gov with threats of economic intimidation, that's
a bit different. Pull em, don't pull em... but using the ability to pull them as coercion..
not the same thing.
We have elevated a mental disorder to a civil right. One may delude themselves into thinking they are the wrong sex but their DNA and physical bodies say differently.
Not to mention the rights of the majority being trampled on to cater to a few. Women and girls should have the right to go to a public restroom without any men present. Seems like common sense but common sense is getting harder to find these days.
We have elevated a mental disorder to a civil right. One may delude themselves into thinking they are the wrong sex but their DNA and physical bodies say differently.
Not to mention the rights of the majority being trampled on to cater to a few. Women and girls should have the right to go to a public restroom without any men present. Seems like common sense but common sense is getting harder to find these days.
True. I wonder that how many of them let their children go into "unisex" bathrooms.
I doubt hardly any. It seems to be more taking down of American society/structure/culture
to effect a new utopian kind of existence in gov. Star Trek happyland equality, especially
everybody gets to win the lottery and be rich....
Something not mentally healthy or normal.
Sometimes I wonder about people who go off the deep end over all this, and wonder
if it's like John Lennon's song "imagine there's no country, it's easy if you try..." etc etc.
Dreaming of utopia, and hate reality and everything in it accordingly.
Mental disorders.
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What if the majority doesn't want the law?
And again, for the thousandth time, you don't get freedom of consequence.
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then it gets changed via congress. The NFL is a majority??????
for the thousandth time, nobody doesn't know that. But like I mentioned,
a lot of Rep governors in the south could tell the NFL to shove their superbowls.
and the NFL would end up not hardly having any good state to have it in.
Of course consequences can bounce either direction.
the left only wants consequences going towards the right.
I'd have to ask Gipper on the law, but deciding to pull the superbowl, fine,
but threatening to pull it if the state gov doesn't violate it's own law...
I wonder if that is possibly racketeering. ....where's Gipper......
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Considering it's already been done repeatedly in NC, I think they're fine here.
And the southern governors are more than welcome to say they don't want to host to biggest sporting event in our country...
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and the NFL is welcome to destroy itself with leftist political expediency, too.
Which, the NFL is already doing. The niners are an example, Woody. The consequences
are a double-edged sword. Cuts both ways.
Santa Clara City Council concerned about 49ers attendance - Niners ...www.ninersnation.com/.../santa-clara-city-council-49ers-declining-attend...Oct 25, 2016 - The decline in the turnstile attendance is certainly taking money out of the49ers ... The 49ers lease for the stadium has NFL event concessions and ..... Any hope thatKaepernick might be better now that he had surgeries or ...Is Colin Kaepernick Really The Reason for The NFL's Ratings Decline ...observer.com/.../is-colin-kaepernick-really-the-reason-for-the-nfls-rating...Oct 14, 2016 - Some blame controversial San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernickfor the National Football League's slide in television ratings.Kaepernick Effect? Falling ratings force NFL TV networks to give back ...www.sportingnews.com/...dropping...kaepernick-49ers.../1qtrec7b21cf1...October 7, 2016 8:27am EDT October 6, 2016 9:01pm EDT The NFL is seeing a noticeable dropin TV ratings, and many think 49ers quarterback Colin ...Market for 49ers tickets and PSLs is “plummeting” | ProFootballTalkprofootballtalk.nbcsports.com/.../market-for-49ers-tickets-and-psls-is-plu...Apr 18, 2016 - Market for 49ers tickets and PSLs is “plummeting” ..... I thought Kaepernickwas going to be the winning face of this .... The Warriors have had one the best attendancerecords in the NBA for years, the Niners sold out every ...America Responds To The NFL Allowing Kaepernick's Protest To ...www.headlinepolitics.com/colin-kaepernick-america-response-nfl-protest...Sep 16, 2016 - When the 49ers do nothing they are effectively endorsing his protest of the National Anthem. The NFL's attendance is down after opening week ... -
Oh geez. The links. Why I have you on ignore.
The NFL has fallen for a lot of reasons, not because you think they're super liberal.
This is also not on topic. The NFL can refuse to play SBs in Texas and Southern states are more than welcome to keep the NFL out.
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Oh geez. The links. Why I have you on ignore.
The NFL has fallen for a lot of reasons, not because you think they're super liberal.
This is also not on topic. The NFL can refuse to play SBs in Texas and Southern states are more than welcome to keep the NFL out.
Oh geez. The links. Why I have you on ignore.
The NFL has fallen for a lot of reasons, not because you think they're super liberal.
This is also not on topic. The NFL can refuse to play SBs in Texas and Southern states are more than welcome to keep the NFL out.
All you have to do is read the titles of the links to see I have a point - the NFL can try to intimidate with consequences, but
right back at the NFL. That's all. There are consequences against the NFL, too. I just listed a couple.
Consequences is your defense of the NFL. My counter is that that is a double-edged sword. The NFL has been
losing for various reasons. But consequences of what they are doing is causing it. That most
certainly is part of the topic at hand.
The NFL is possibly getting involved in liberal politics do try to fix that? Bad, really dishonest idea.
The NFL got it's ass kicked when it left it's friend fArt Schmodell take our Browns. And we made
the NFL give us our team back. But teams moving, halftime shows that alienate a lot of viewers,
or at least disinterest viewers, leftwing politics getting onto the field, gay football player controversy,
it's ruining the NFL. Patriot cheating controversies, poor officiating controversies,
player drugs/crimes controversies, steeler violent cheapshot controversies, teams moving...
doesn't paint a pretty picture. Everybody knows there are a lot of reasons why the NFL
is starting to see disinterest. We had friends over, and turned the tv to pause and had
dinner, etc, and ignored the hafltime show. The commercials aren't often funny anymore.
But getting into political crap is one of them - take it to the bank, and this garbage with
the NFL getting really stupid with Texas is most definately another straw to NFL fans.
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btw, on ignore. that's a woodpecker quip. But I'll let it fade.
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What if the majority doesn't want the law?
And again, for the thousandth time, you don't get freedom of consequence.
That's actually an excellent question but remember it works from both sides.What if the majority doesn't want the law?
WSS
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That's actually an excellent question but remember it works from both sides.What if the majority doesn't want the law?
WSS
That's actually an excellent question but remember it works from both sides.
WSS
I never said it doesn't. But one side is bringing up majority rule, and I'm wondering if they realize how that will affect other social issues if we go off of the same rule.
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The number of people that have you on ignore is growing Cal, just FYI.
And again, I don't think the NFL is worried about the "consequences" you think will happen. If the governor wants to explain to his state how he drive away the super bowl though, he's more than welcome to.
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Goodell should keep politics out of the NFL as much as he possibly can. I hate politics in sports. When I watch a football game I really don't care to hear about a lecture on gun control at half time from Bob Costas or the whining about the Redskins name. I watch sports as an escape and taking a break from this stuff. There is a time and place for everything.
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