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Over $3 Billion Wiped From Market Value After Nike Names Colin Kaepernick Face of 30th Anniversary
The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 4, 2018 | Christina Laila

Posted on 09/04/2018 2:42:46 PM PDT by detective

Nike went full ‘social justice warrior’ this week when they signed cop-hating, America-hating Kaepernick to be the face of its newest campaign.

On Monday, Nike revealed they selected former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to be the Nike didn’t learn its lesson after seeing NFL ratings plummet because of Kaepernick’s National Anthem boycott.

Stadiums often have rows and rows of empty seats because Americans are fed up with the politicization of football.face of its 30th anniversary of its ‘Just Do It’ campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blackprivilege; colinkaepernick; formernflqb; kaepernick; nfl; nike; nikeboycott; sell
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To: SpaceBar

I like it. Wow. Tone deaf and color blind.


21 posted on 09/04/2018 2:59:17 PM PDT by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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To: detective

I wonder if the stockholders are willing to sacrifice everything?


22 posted on 09/04/2018 2:59:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: detective

>>I hope whoever made this decision is fired soon.<<

Guaranteed Phil Knight made the final decision to say, “F*** you, America!” (He says he’s retired, but is still calling the shots.)


23 posted on 09/04/2018 3:01:52 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: wgmalabama

[I like it. Wow. Tone deaf and color blind.]

Were these the same people who were marketing Jeb!....?

I think Nike just had their “gay J.C. Penney’s” moment.


24 posted on 09/04/2018 3:02:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Covenantor
Nike, the corporation from 2002 or so, is NOT the Nike 2018 version.

They might tsk! tsk! about another 911, but behind the scenes they would be cheering just as loud as Sansour.

Piglets and hypocrites.

25 posted on 09/04/2018 3:03:45 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I don’t think I ever had any Nike shoes and definitely never will.

New Balance has been my shoe of choice.


26 posted on 09/04/2018 3:04:36 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: detective

Oh you know how Nike feels . . . money means nothing — the principle of the whole thing is what matters, bro!


27 posted on 09/04/2018 3:05:44 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Covenantor

All the Nike competitors should adopt a slogan and campaign like that one.

Everyone else should have a patriotic, pro America theme.

Make Nike look even worse.


28 posted on 09/04/2018 3:06:17 PM PDT by detective
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To: grania

LOL


29 posted on 09/04/2018 3:06:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: jimbug

Yes...

Nike—”Let’s use the showboating anti-American ahole that killed the NFL as the face of our new ‘just do it campaign’...That sounds like a good idea”

More corporate suicide on the alter of cultural marxist brainwashing.


30 posted on 09/04/2018 3:07:01 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: detective

Gotta be honest: Nike will have bad press but the rational part of me says that this is likely to be a short term thing, that in six months they will have recovered all the stock price and more. That would mean this is a buying opportunity. I don’t buy individual stocks so it’s not a conflict for me. But from a pure capitalistic perspective, this is probably a good time to buy some stock.


31 posted on 09/04/2018 3:08:24 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: detective

I guess they are gambling on all the unemployed SJW’s buying all their gear and attending all the NFL games.
Or perhaps since Ex- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
is backing Kaper-snack the gear will be grabbed up by terrorists....
............Great call Nike...


32 posted on 09/04/2018 3:09:36 PM PDT by VicVanleeuwenhoek
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To: Phillyred

Nike’s business model isn’t based on guys buying $80 sneakers once a year. It is built on young guys in the inner city fighting to get hold of $300 sneakers, then a few month later repeating it. Their markets are the big cities. Don’t believe me? Go to their website and see how they picture America.

Or as you put it, “Nike doesn’t care what white guys think.”


33 posted on 09/04/2018 3:09:45 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

What o’ what will the University of Oregone do if uncle fill doesn’t have enough money to buy them some more football players and refs...


34 posted on 09/04/2018 3:11:04 PM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: detective

What has all this crap got to do with shoes? I guess you can’t advertise a product on its merits.


35 posted on 09/04/2018 3:13:54 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
I wonder if the stockholders are willing to sacrifice everything?

Many may be dumping it like James Woods did this morning, tweeting a copy of a message to his broker to sell his Nike stock and never buy anymore again.

36 posted on 09/04/2018 3:15:43 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: detective
Nike will lose billions in market value.

Sure they will and I will be laughing.

It should be noted that the incident of the Red Hen in Lexington VA has caused a dramatic decrease in tourism to the point the city's Tourism Board is desperate to fund an ad campaign in order to entice people back to the city.

As expected, all the libtards who supported the chicken coop have no eggs in the basket and thus are not really concerned about the outcome. But hey, they used the internet to voice their concern.

All mouth but no cash.........LOL!

37 posted on 09/04/2018 3:16:28 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: wgmalabama
Tone deaf and color blind.

Only half right. They are tone deaf.

38 posted on 09/04/2018 3:18:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
What has all this crap got to do with shoes?

Nike produces more than shoes. Their products encompass virtually every item used in the sports industry...........From shirts, underwear, outerwear, from lacrosse to ball gloves............everything.

39 posted on 09/04/2018 3:19:53 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: detective




40 posted on 09/04/2018 3:22:05 PM PDT by Songcraft
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