Pretty much my first thought exactly.
If the flag is just a piece of cloth, then Kaper-dick is just a chunk of meat.
Either hypothesis is just as easily proven as the other.
Posted on 10/14/2016 6:55:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick believes that the flag of the United States is nothing more than simply a piece of cloth.
"At the end of the day the flag is just a piece of cloth and I am not going to value a piece of cloth over people's lives. That's just not something I can do, it's not something I feel morally right doing and my character won't allow me to do that," Kaepernick told reporters.
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I’m NOT a Bills fan - but will be rooting for their pass rush to bury Kaepernick.
If somebody had called and said "burn that flag or I'll shoot this innocent child" then I'd agree with Kaepernick. But he puts forth a false equivalency. Nobody argues that the flag is more important than lives. Neither is football. And frakly, neigher is Kaepernick. And if Kapernick stands up and salites, no loves will be lost.
But it is a great way to poke a bunch of people in the eye and get a lot of press attention for himself and that's why he does it. If we see him on the streets in a march or protest, then I'll buy his commitment. But kneeling for a couple of minutes while everyone gushes about how brave he is, then going out partying in his supercar and expensive suit afterwards is pure hollywood-style BS.
More from America’s premier *sswipe.
And you Colin Kaepernick are just a street thug who proves money can never buy class.
Moron.
If it’s such a meaningless symbol why are you protesting when it’s raised?
Does that mean you think your protest is meaningless?
Or did you mean to say “y’all whiteys are getting wee-wee’d up over nuttin - this message isn’t bout you or for you”
Kapernick needs to put on a US Marines uniform
You can dress up a turd but it’s still just a turd. Kap couldn’t handle boot camp.
wow, took all the way ‘till post # 15, I thought it would be sooner.
Hit the NFL where it counts. Don’t “say” you’re not going to watch if you aren’t also going to notify their advertisers.
I have a few suggestions that may help at the grassroots level.
1) I’m not a Luddite and do watch television. I even have cable, I like Archer, South Park , college football, UFC and Dallas Cowboys.(I know they suck etc..) BUT!! what you can do to the NFL if you have to watch NFL is ONLY WATCH YOUR TEAM....DO NOT WATCH ANY OTHER GAME ON ANY OTHER NIGHT!!
Secondly, if possible WATCH it at a bar/club/group party. That way no extra eyeballs for other games and NFL goes to the rating basement like baseball, which is now only a regional sport view with crappy ratings.
They are currently blaming this on the election. Make them bleed after the election. Then we can see what excuse they come up with.
2) This is the hard one but if you can only pick out ONE advertiser, mail (snail mail) them a letter and indicate that you have purchased a competitor’s product.. car, erection pill, Budweiser, truck, ANYTHING and send them a copy of a receipt that you’ve bought a competitors product. It is a lot of effort to do it to all their advertisers but the more you can do that the better. So I aim low and try for at least one.
A way of doing this with a vehicle is to get the window sticker and mail it in.
Any product, any restaurant, any insurance company, any vacation, any pizza, any THING that is advertised by an NFL player....just try to drop them a HAND WRITTEN note or typed by snail mail indicating your choice for either a local product or a competitors.
Enclose your letter with a printed photo of a kneeling NFL player. Don’t comment , don’t deface the photo, don’t threaten, don’t ANYTHING... just send the photo
Same goes for any offers for season tickets or tickets to the game that come in the mail.
This will take an effort but it will be kinda fun to see the reaction. Copy and past this on your social media, twitter or any other place you want.
Should be a hoot. Let’s be happy warriors and make their wallets leak like a sieve.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
True enough, Colin. On the other hand your 49’er jersey is just a “piece of cloth” too. Take it off and what are you?
Ever noticed that Kaepernick rhymes with Wunderlich? Methinks he did not score well on that test.
CK - That jersey is just a piece of cloth. That multi-million dollar contract is just a piece of paper. At the end of the day, you shouldn’t have either. Be gone with you, scum.
Z - No, idiot lives don’t matter. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
In a healthy culture, people like this would at the very least be ignored.
Instead they lead the parade on Sunday,
We have the biblical definition of reprobates serving as our elected leaders and of whom their only competent abilities are for agitation and disruption and the tearing down of what is good and lasting.
America has gone mad upon her idols,
I’m done with the NFL. My friends don’t believe me. But they didn’t believe me in the 1970s when I said I would never watch another Jane Fonda movie.
Defense of Fort M’Henry
-Francis Scott Key
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave![26]
And I think that he is simply nothing more than a POS. I stand for the flag. I ignore a POS.
Pretty much my first thought exactly.
If the flag is just a piece of cloth, then Kaper-dick is just a chunk of meat.
Either hypothesis is just as easily proven as the other.
White Queen (aka Colin Kaepernick):Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
And that’s what the TV crews should be doing. Just don’t point your cameras at him and talk about it. It’s like naked guy running on the field. Just don’t show it. But nooo...
Liberals give us false equivalencies and false choices like this all the time.
But they are never called out by the media for their nonsense. Instead the media give liberal idiots big platforms to spew their pablum. The media give it a certain legitimacy.
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