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Kobe Bryant Was The NBA’s Last Apolitical Superstar
Hot Air ^ | February 1, 2020 | Hot Air

Posted on 02/01/2020 4:40:26 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

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To: max americana

I imagine that few alpha males (like professional athletes) voted for the Hildabeast over Trump.


21 posted on 02/01/2020 5:40:52 PM PST by Cecily
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To: 2banana

Mixed bag to be honest. He did comment on taking the knee and I think he said some things about Trump but consistently over his career he wasn’t going the way of today’s nba stars and LeBron deep dive into politics. Made comments after his career was over but for the most part he was about helping others and the community


22 posted on 02/01/2020 5:42:17 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Bryant’s apolitical attitude....”

HORSECLINTON!!!!

“Kobe Bryant said he would kneel for national anthem if he were still playing”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2017/10/05/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-kneel-national-anthem/735758001/

“Kobe Bryant Criticizes Donald Trump for Causing ‘Division and Anger’”

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2734739-kobe-bryant-criticizes-donald-trump-for-causing-division-and-anger


23 posted on 02/01/2020 5:46:39 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Bigtigermike

Agree. I’m not even a Kobe Bryant fan, can’t remember the last Lakers game I watched and don’t know why I spend my time defending him to a bunch of internet folks who obviously have no interest in the NBA anyway.

Bryant made a couple of comments on Kaepernick and the Trump-Warriors WH visit controversy. That was all. He was never in yo’ face woke like LeBron and many other pro athletes.


24 posted on 02/01/2020 5:49:50 PM PST by lodi90
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To: treetopsandroofs

LOL. There you go again. Reposting the same 2 quotes from 2017. You got anything else from his 20 year career? You obviously don’t care about Bryant or the NBA. Why do you insist on carrying on about him?


25 posted on 02/01/2020 5:51:28 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

“2017”

Only children and liberals claim something so much as 1 day in the past doesn’t count. 2017 was just yesterday and counts plenty.


26 posted on 02/01/2020 5:55:47 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

OMG. Kobe Bryant was a Democrat? Shocking.


27 posted on 02/01/2020 6:03:18 PM PST by lodi90
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

[I think a lot of black athletes are Republican, but they can’t speak out.]


The vast majority of blacks don’t like immigrants (illegal or otherwise) and they sure as heck don’t like gays. But they like the rest of the Democratic platform of impunity for black criminals, no bail for criminal suspects, early release for drug dealers and racial quotas in college admissions and workplace hiring. Unless the GOP relents on the second set of issues, its share of the black vote likely won’t exceed the current number by more than a few percent.


28 posted on 02/01/2020 6:10:04 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Bump


29 posted on 02/01/2020 6:10:12 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Kobe Bryant Was The NBA’s Last Apolitical Superstar”

That’s not news or anything else to write home about.


30 posted on 02/01/2020 6:27:39 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Except for being a DNA proven rapist on a hotel employee in Colorado— who had enough family money to come after him.
Just that one widdle flaw, liking to strangle women as he takes them doggie style-— it’s a dominance thing, esp. over white submissive women. Lot’s to confess in church, who with money has gladly papered over his.... history.

Sad to die in a crash, but the reality of the individual is not obscured by a tragic death, and shouldn’t be.


31 posted on 02/01/2020 6:28:08 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

That’s been my thoughts on all of this as well


32 posted on 02/01/2020 6:29:41 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: hawkaw

Public relations. Where truth is obscured for the benefit of the money making from death. Like an Elvis cult, ignoring his perversions or that he died of an overdose while on the toilet, morbidly obese and disgusting waste of a life. But a hero to trash as “their hope”. Utter bullcrap, and ignores his early musical contribution.

Old time WSM performer Alton Delmore wrote an incomplete biopic of his 1920s country music experience on the Opry and elsewhere. Title: “Truth is Stranger that Publicity”.

Kobe and his death and the freaking Church behind the donations and bullcrap... are a current example.


33 posted on 02/01/2020 6:34:33 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Megiddox69
Jordan give the perfect answer why he stand out of politics. “Republicans buy tennis shoes too.”

Tennis shoes?!? Jordan never called sneakers tennis shoes!

34 posted on 02/01/2020 6:39:18 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: Cecily

Very few. I mean how many pro athletes stated they voted for hitlery? Logic dictates those majority who kept quiet voted for Trump and men vote in general for men.


35 posted on 02/01/2020 6:43:10 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: John S Mosby

36 posted on 02/01/2020 6:46:38 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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Thought he was a big bammy fanboy...


37 posted on 02/01/2020 6:51:22 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: gundog

LMAO.


38 posted on 02/01/2020 6:54:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: lodi90

How interesting that among the many other posters here who share my POV over this, you continue to obsess over mine.

Back off. Now.


39 posted on 02/01/2020 7:09:57 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

LOL. Back off???

I just noticed that one post was a near cut and paste job of a post you addressed to me. I can see you’d rather engage in personal attacks than “back up” your thesis. So, yeah, I’ll “back off.” So feel free to enjoy bashing a dead man at your leisure without comment from me. Adios.


40 posted on 02/01/2020 7:21:06 PM PST by lodi90
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