protects it s about the government. right. independent private companies can be private companies, and if you re the employee, they can lay down the law. yeah. jerry jones has every right to do what he wants to do with his team. obviously there are contract stipulation and so on, but generally speaking that s true. the point that was just made about the significance of the flag and how this is being coopted is an important one. the fact that this is being made about the flag, about the military is because those are political winners. the military is a political winner itself. donald trump is extremely unpopular, vice president pence they re protesting the military to gather people around. he spends so much more time dealing with this than he has, frfrm, the aftermath of haurk maria if puerto rico. it s something that his base and republicans get excited about and he needs that support right now. and so he s seizing on what