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Should Freed UCLA Basketball Players Thank Trump?

Should The Freed UCLA Basketball Players Thank Trump?

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Moderate Right said:
Voters didn't want someone politically correct and they didn't want someone who was presidential and they didn't want someone who was establishment. That's what you guys don't understand.
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And Trump won by approx 160 K votes, in IIRC 4 States.
 
Lutherf said:
I guess I missed the part where the OP asked about Trump's Tweet.

I answered the question in the OP, period.
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And does that change your POV?
 
Lutherf said:
No. The polite thing to do would be for them to apologize. Trump's tweet doesn't change that at all.
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Any opinion on the tweet?
 
Lutherf said:
No. The polite thing to do would be for them to apologize. Trump's tweet doesn't change that at all.
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Happily they both apologized and thanked. They took responsibility for what they did. That's the most important part.
 
Trumps needy personality requires stroking, SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING?:roll:
 
Lutherf said:
No. The polite thing to do would be for them to apologize. Trump's tweet doesn't change that at all.
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Aww poor Donny gets no love, maybe he should have chosen another proffession.
 
Lutherf said:
I'm not a fan but it certainly made a point.
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Well I do appreciate the honesty.
We all miss things in an OP- Links and such.
 
Lutherf said:
Well, doing so would be the polite thing to do. Unfortunately, being polite to people with whom you or your social group might have an ideological (especially political ideology) disagreement can be seen as "support" for that ideology and, if we know anything today, it's that ideological purity must be maintained no matter what the cost.
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It's about him asking for a thank you.

That's just bad form and selfishness.

This ain't no president, this is a circus clown
 
I was driving today and heard on the radio that Trump tweeted he wanted a Thank You from 3 COLLEGE basketball players. LOL. I almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard.

The level Trump will go to be idolized and loved knows no bounds. The man is an embarrassment.

Unless it's an 8 year old bragging that my daddy can beat up your daddy you CAN NOT get more petty and immature then Trump.
 
Praxas said:
And?? Voters voted for obama into office twice that didn’t stop cons like you from complaining.
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I voted for Obama in 2012 because I was fairly happy with his first four years. However, his last four years he turned into a partisan hack who would not compromise with the right.
 
MrWonka said:
Oh, that's even better. So you're saying that if he didn't just happen to be in that general part of the world at the time it all happened he wouldn't have done it at all, and these kids would be rotting in prison for the next decade?
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Just like a typical liberal, twisting what I said. I forgive you though. I know that's just how the left's brain operates and they are not capable of understanding.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Now that they have thanked Trump we can move on to should they be expelled...currently "Suspended Indefinitely". I was talking to a 40ish year old black woman college ball fan at a bar near Tacoma Dome yesterday about this, she who said "I have been poor all my life" and her take is to lower the hammer..... kids are not taught anymore she said , they have to learn that there are consequences...let there be consequences.

Three UCLA basketball players held in China suspended indefinitely, offer apologies - LA Times
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Obviously these three student athletes had a serious lapse in good judgement and put themselves and their school in a very bad light on the international stage. Though once home, they took complete responsibility for their actions, issued apologies to all, gave thanks to HE Who Demands Thanks, and promised to hold themselves to the highest behavior standards in the future. At this point the school should decide the length of their suspension and/or return to the team. They should not be held up as some national examples
of how kids today don't experience consequences. Certainly there are better examples of that. Expulsions don't always occur for sexual assaults on campus, and only sometimes for hazing deaths. We elect people to office that physically assault journalists and who admit to assaulting women. So if we are looking for poster boys for a cause there are better candidates.

Trump tweeting that he is due some graciousness is hilarious.
 
JMR said:
Obviously these three student athletes had a serious lapse in good judgement and put themselves and their school in a very bad light on the international stage. Though once home, they took complete responsibility for their actions, issued apologies to all, gave thanks to HE Who Demands Thanks, and promised to hold themselves to the highest behavior standards in the future. At this point the school should decide the length of their suspension and/or return to the team. They should not be held up as some national examples
of how kids today don't experience consequences. Certainly there are better examples of that. Expulsions don't always occur for sexual assaults on campus, and only sometimes for hazing deaths. We elect people to office that physically assault journalists and who admit to assaulting women. So if we are looking for poster boys for a cause there are better candidates.

Trump tweeting that he is due some graciousness is hilarious.
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The university is working their process, what ever that is, and I have not seen an estimate for time frame. I gather since sports stars dont really go to class like everyone else anymore that they did not have the option of going to school but being kicked off the team for now, but it really sucks to be suspended from school as the process works, that is handing out punishment before due process has worked, which is unjust.
 
Moderate Right said:
I voted for Obama in 2012 because I was fairly happy with his first four years. However, his last four years he turned into a partisan hack who would not compromise with the right.
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And the point goes right over your head, as usual. :lamo
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The university is working their process, what ever that is, and I have not seen an estimate for time frame. I gather since sports stars dont really go to class like everyone else anymore that they did not have the option of going to school but being kicked off the team for now, but it really sucks to be suspended from school as the process works, that is handing out punishment before due process has worked, which is unjust.
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They were suspended from the team. From my experience and limited knowledge, college sports stars often don't attend regular classes during their season, but often take classes with instructors who might travel with the team, or courses that have odd meeting times. So I imagine they are able to keep on with their class work. The NCAA keeps tabs on academic progress and students who do not do course work become ineligible.
Of course, if these students become permanently suspended there will be MANY schools interested in taking them in. UCLA's program is top of the order and these guys made that cut.
 
JMR said:
They were suspended from the team. From my experience and limited knowledge, college sports stars often don't attend regular classes during their season, but often take classes with instructors who might travel with the team, or courses that have odd meeting times. So I imagine they are able to keep on with their class work. The NCAA keeps tabs on academic progress and students who do not do course work become ineligible.
Of course, if these students become permanently suspended there will be MANY schools interested in taking them in. UCLA's program is top of the order and these guys made that cut.
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Ah, thanks for the correction, you are correct, they are still doing academics.
 
When I was just a child my mother told me repeatedly that when someone does something nice for you to thank them. She called it common courtesy. But then again, she was pretty old fashioned.

Trump was just reminding them to do what my mother insisted upon.

Yes, if they have any manners at all, or honor, or character, they should thank the president for bailing them out. Of course, I don't expect that from criminals.

IMO, Trump should have left them to do that ten years. In a Chinese prison. Might teach them a thing or two.

On the other hand, better to bring home some college students than a traitor who caused injuries to so many, and Trump didn't even have to let any Guantanamo terrorists go to get the deal done.
 
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