Nike unveils new ad featuring Colin Kaepernick

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  1. Pardon_Me

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    Exactly. and take a knee for what he doesn't. America.

    ( His "career" was going down hill at a good clip before he ever "chose to "sacrifice it btw).
     
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    It seems he may make a more profitable career out of disrespecting America than he did playing football.
     
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    He quit his job with the 49ers. He turned down an offer from the Broncos. Hed still be playing if he didn't demand so much money.
     
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    False. I have noted his action, and I do approve of Americans' right to free speech and respectful expression. I have not opined regarding the effectiveness of the gesture in drawing attention to social injustices, not regarding the NFL's response to Kaepernick's posture.

    When have I ever uttered a word concerning your "pig socks"? What are you talking about?

    Brooding over popular ex-presidents is not confronting the issue. Trump, who attempted to falsely cast a peaceful expression of social protest as disrespectful, wee wee'd up his cult, but failed to sabotage Nike's corporate objective of selling shoes by targeting its demographic who are fully capable of distinguishing what Green Beret Nate Boyer called "respectful" vs Roseanne Barr's conduct during the playing of the anthem.

    Trump is unpopular with most Americans, and very unpopular with younger ones, and his fake characterization of Kaepernick's gesture very likely contributed to the advertising success.

    Without Trump, I doubt that this advertising promotion would have been undertaken by Nike.

    [​IMG]
    "WHAT WAS NIKE THINKING?"
    Answer: As a capitalistic enterprise, they were thinking about
    selling their shoes, and are, thus far,
    winners.




     
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    He didn't really need a crystal ball: https://www.dailywire.com/news/3542...k-signed-star-contract-nike-has-emily-zanotti

    "According to ESPN, former 49ers second string QB Colin Kaepernick hasn't made quite the sacrifice his new Nike ad suggests — at least, not with Nike.

    It appears Nike has been paying Colin Kaepernick since back in 2011 when he inked a deal with the athletic wear company to endorse their products, and Nike continued to pay him even when Kaepernick turned down short-term contracts from both the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers to remain an unemployed political activist."
     
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    Yeah no that websites full of nonsense.

    Powder Cocaine is the highest concentration.

    Once it’s turned into crack it has been cut with another substance. (Baking soda usually)

    Also, nasal usage of cocaine is the fastest acting ROA available for any form of cocaine.
     
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    Smfh, you do know that not all black kids live in the ghetto. Also there are plenty of kids who come out of the ghetto and are productive citizens. sheesh.



    The problem is not being with white kids, the problem is trying to avoid the black ones.



    What's wrong with white friends.

    Who said all white folks hate black folks.

    I am better off not listening to somebody making up some bullshit story to try and push a right wing agenda.
     
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    Only in the short term. He can only hold the social justice rebel warrior facade as long as he doesn't open his mouth. ( Or dress himself!).
    He's a poor sport who behaves like an impetuous child when's not being handled by Nike.
    Eventually people will see that the Emperor has no clothes.
     
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    Many have already seen the Emperor is naked. Trump and Jerry Jones are the cowards, while CK and the protestors are the brave ones.
     
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    We still have two Krappernick clones on the Denver Broncos' team: Demaryus Thomas and Brandon Marshall. They're even worse than the other creeps that 'take a knee' -- these two HIDE IN THE TUNNEL: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/09/demaryius-thomas-brandon-marshall-national-anthem/

    When the Broncos get rid of these America-hating crudballs (and any others who participate in this 'BLM guerrilla-theater) I may watch this team that I loyally supported for decades again... but NOT until they're all GONE.

    Meanwhile, we're just a few days away from NHL hockey pre-season! FINALLY!
     
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    Nike bankrolls Kaepernick. I don't see the challenge.

    Kaepernick and his foundation, which donates to radical groups, has a money source and it's not unlikely that Sorros or
    some other leftist group has funneled money to Mr. Kaepernick so he can continue his campaign of leftist undermining of societal order.. https://www.dailywire.com/news/21753/colin-kaepernicks-foundation-donates-group-named-ryan-saavedra

    The rich man with the white parents and nice home has never known real challenge, other than what he himself has created.
     
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    More of the fake right wing propaganda.

    He is still better than half the bums playing QB today.
     
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    False, the reason he turned down the Broncos job is because Elway told him that he could not kneel. Get your story straight.
     
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    So since he isn't a homeless man living on the streets then he doesn't really know the struggle, is that what you are saying.
     
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    It all depends on how do you define struggle? I too struggle every morning, trying to force myself to get up at 5:15AM.

    So no, Kaepernick's struggles are nothing like a struggles of a homeless man.
     
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    I think you just make this **** up as you go along.
     
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    I never claimed they were. I am not surprised you want to water down Kap's struggles in life, because that is what you folks do with black folks in general.
     
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    Kaepernick has basically been white balled by the NFL.
     
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    [​IMG]
    "WHAT WAS NIKE THINKING?"
     
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    No.
    That's what you are saying. I'm saying Kaepernick has always had his NFL money, his Nike money, his foundation money to keep him
    comfortable.

    The idea that Collin Kaepernick has suffered in order to fulfill his role as an exalted SJW pillar is just bullshit. There is absolutely nothing to
    support that claim. Kaepernick is donating one million dollars, as of two years ago, to groups that will further his political agenda.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ational-anthem-protest-police-socks/89743344/

    Is that "suffering" to you?
     
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    Because there are no black quarterbacks in the NFL? Is that what you are trying to say?
     
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    Has nothing to do with black QBs, it's not as if we haven't seen it before. It has been done in all sports.
     
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    Oh, okay. So you admit Collin Kaepernick has not been "whiteballed" by the NFL for racial reasons.

    But did you know that the Baltimore Ravens were interested in signing Kaepernick when his racist, moron girl friend, Ness Diab
    (apparently the one who pulls Kaepernick's strings) blew up negotiations with him? I doubt it. http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-kaepernick-ravens-lewis-20170906-story.html

    Keep pumping out your misinformed and factually deprived posts.
     
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    *shrug, then you should not compare Kaepernick’s “struggles” to the struggles of a homeless man.
     
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    Yep. And a safe one at that .
     

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