A Strong Week(Weak) in Review

By Michael The Libertarian

It's been a busy, busy week!

More allegations of sexual impropriety, all across the board George Takei, Judge Moore, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfus (whose son accused someone else, last week) of all people!

It appears that my favorite appellation for Hollyweird (A sewer of Pablum©-Puking, self-appointed, arbiters of morality) is proving all too true.

Enough, already! I think it's time to just close the whole place down and start all over.

We also have Donna Brazile, writing a book confessing to all the things we already knew about last year's Democratic Primary race.

Of course, once the excerpt from the book was released where she confessed, she spent the rest of the week distancing herself from what she wrote. That brings to mind another of my favorite sayings. When someone asks me: “Have you read (Insert Hollyweird or Political name, here)'s book yet?”, knowing that ghost writing is a lucrative and busy field, my usual response is: “I'll read it when he/she does.”

Then, of course, we have the on-going NFL kneeling thing, which I've written about before. The newest wrinkle being that the Seachickens decided to be decent citizens and stand for the anthem to “show support for the troops for Veterans' day”. News flash, idiots: EVERY TIME that anthem plays while the COLORS ARE BEING PRESENTED it is about “supporting” our veterans. It is about paying (maybe as much as) ninety seconds of respect for the sacrifice (ultimate and otherwise) which was purchased for us through the blood of the noble.

How many of these morons (I wonder) understand that the reason for the red stripes is to recognize and honor the blood that was spilled in service to this country? It's WHY THOSE STRIPES ARE RED TO BEGIN WITH! Morons, most of them!

That to the side, this issue is one of my “pet peeves” and I've been doing a lot of thinking about it vís-à-vís the “accusations” launched by “Papa John” Schnatter and Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cryboys.

Both claim they are losing money due to inaction and fecklessness on the part of the NFL for failing to enforce their own policy regarding comportment during the National Anthem.

I am not going to re-argue the case, here and I've come up with an answer. I KNOW what's going on.

First Jerry Jones. This acerbic, often insulting, old white man purposely started making garbage draft picks, back in 2012/2013. He, repeatedly, hired inadequate coaches and coordinators, drug-addled (or PED using) players and encouraged late-night partying and other dangerous behaviors so that when his team started “tanking” (2015 or so?), he would be set up to claim it was because of the 2016 Kaepernik I-Suck-But-I-Still-Want-To-Play protests.

Jerry, obviously an unapologetic racist, felt it more important to prepare for up-coming protests that he knew nothing about (unless he and Colin are in cahoots?) than to field a good team.

Then, Schnatter. Oh, this conniving creep! You see, I've heard all kinds of arguments ranging from: “Papa John's is tomato sauce covered cardboard” to “He hasn't changed his business model”. Let's examine those?

Papa John's threw in his lot with the NFL years ago, paying the money to be able to use the “Official NFL Sponsor” tag. When he did it, the NFL was on a (seemingly) perpetual up-tick in popularity and revenues. He did so by heavily aligning himself with the NFL, paying some of the most popular and recognizable faces (Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, J.J. Watts) to appear in his advertising. When he did, many praised it as an incredibly smart business move. He surpassed most of his competition.

Then, he decided to “not update his menu” (ya know because when something isn't broken, you should “fix” it). The man whose earliest commercials were: "Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa John's" decided to change up that whole business model and go with less than quality ingredients. He brought in inferior ovens. He changed his "recipe" (which would really be ingredients, for the most part. Baking a pizza ain't rocket science) and he changed his advertising (the whole world HATES Peyton Manning, J.J. Watts and Joe Montana) all around the same time that baby-men in the NFL decided to join in with Kaepernik's "I-Need-A-Job" protest.

So there we have it, an evil plot by John to set up his business for a loss so he could blame the NFL and show his true white supremacist colors by not supporting poor Kaepernik (who couldn't QB a football game better than some high schoolers, at the end), the man who is half black and raised by two oppressive white people (who adopted him because they are racists, also).

It is a vast Anti-NFL conspiracy that dates back to ... well, we know when it dates back to.

That's it! Print it! Stop the presses! I have an exclusive!

- Michael