Posted on 08/29/2016 10:23:26 PM PDT by TigerClaws
What you are about to hear represents an utterly monumental lack of self-awareness on Donald Trump’s part—astonishing, I know.
Trump appeared on Dori Monson’s show on KIRO radio in Seattle this afternoon, and was asked about 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the National Anthem as a protest against racial oppression, police brutality, and all-around inequality in the United States. His answer:
“Well I have followed [the Kaepernick story], and I think it’s personally not a good thing. I think it’s a terrible thing. And you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him, let him try, it won’t happen.”
Trump’s entire campaign is based around the idea that America is stumbling, or broken, or fundamentally subpar in some way—“Make America great again” and all that. His response to someone else who believes America needs to fix things is to tell him to look for another country. Incredible.
I’m reminded that “if you don’t like it, get out” was a common rejoinder to political protests of the Bush era—as if America were perfect, and supporting it means never acknowledging its faults, and if you want to call attention to its shortcomings and work to make it better, you must not truly love it. That refrain seemed to have thankfully disappeared from top-level political discourse. God bless Donald Trump for never failing to disappoint with the takes.
Some have speculated he did this so he couldn’t be fired. If he’s fired now, it’d be bad press / anti BLM / anti free speech.
I think the 49ers need to give him the ax. But we will see. Watch the left turn him into some kind of martyr, like the gay guy who couldn’t cut it in the league and blamed being cut on his sodomite practices.
Pay-wise, I don’t think they can really afford to dump him. But he’ll be the target of opposing players, and eventually....I think he’ll just walk off the field. At that point, the team can find the right wording to fire him.
He might want to review career options.
This seems to be his secret weapon.
That’s not really true.
They can bench him for the year, pay him 12 million this year(and 12 million last year) then cut him by April next year and own him nothing more.
So 24-25 million for a crummy QB.
Trump is too nice to krapperdick. In a previous post, I told Kap to join his jihadi brethren and become a failed suicide bomber, accidentally exploding himself before he could reach his assigned target.
Excuse me, $61 mil. guaranteed, not $65: http://www.ninersnation.com/2014/6/4/5780450/colin-kaepernick-contract-extension-guaranteed-money
Seems there are a lot of unclear provisions, though.
Pay the SOB in Venezuelan Bolivars. It’ll take several Mack trucks to haul his first week’s salary, if you put the money on pallets like Obama did for the Iranians.
The 49ers need to do something about Kaepernick. He is not playing very well. Putting him on the bench will be the best place for him now. His mouth will build a better case for canning him later.
Colin Kaepernick signed a 6 year, $114,000,000 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including a $12,328,766 signing bonus, $61,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $19,000,000. In 2016, Kaepernick will earn a base salary of $11,900,000, a roster bonus of $2,000,000 and a workout bonus of $400,000. Kaepernick has a cap hit of $15,890,753 while his dead money value is $19,697,260.
Yes sir ree bob-- Old Colin has surely been... 
the victim of severe racism!
Have him tag along w/Babs when she moves to Australia. The two could tag team w/their constant barbs and slanders about “Our Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty”! We’ve little use for either one of them. Period.
Actually he didn't. His mic was noise activated and he paused just a smidgeon too long before the 'a.' So the 'a' got stepped on. You can hear it if you listen hard, but for most people it was lost. I couldn't figure it out either, all that time to think and that was the best nonsense he could come up with for all the eons... It was explained quickly but most didn't hear the explanation.
Another somewhat black multi-millionaire whining about whites keeping blacks down.
Who does he think he is?
Moochie Obama?
Barack Obama?
Beyonce’?
Kanye West?
DEADSPIN needs to put on its thinking cap. Sitting down for the National Anthem is not a suggestion, it's a rejection. So, he should go look for another country. I would ask DEADSPIN, does this help Trump, or hurt Trump? Choke on your answer.
It would be nice if Kaepernick could experience what happened over the Charlotte stadium yesterday...to remind him that the freedom which allows him the ability to do this is not free:
“Military jets fly low over stadium in Charlotte”
CHARLOTTE (WTVD) —
Military jets were spotted Monday flying low over Huntersville, uptown Charlotte, and Bank of America Stadium where the Carolina Panthers play.
Four A-10C Thunderbolt II’s from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base took off from Charlotte Douglas International Airport at 11:30 a.m. Monday and flew over the Carolina Panthers stadium at low altitude, U.S. Air Force officials said.
http://abc11.com/news/military-jets-fly-low-over-stadium-in-charlotte/1490114/
Did anyone even read this stupid screed?
The author is anti Trump ......the author is a moron.
Trump is right, of course.
I think many people have figured out how to scam the professional sports money system. he seem like he has done a good job at that. and it’s a game.
Kaeperdick is on his way out. His performance is horrible. In the past 3 years he has gone from starting QB to 3rd string QB, Horrible. The 49er’s to their credit, have spent mega dollars trying to transform him into a superstar. He just doesn’t pack the gear upstairs.
So now the blame game. It’s everyone else’s fault but his. With this latest fiasco no other NFL team will want him. He essentially has a “no show” Democrat union slug job. He’ll suit up sit on the bench, not play, and collect $12M a year. America has been very, very good to him, yet he is peeing on our shoes and telling us it’s raining. In a just world he’d be unloading trucks.......
‘I love you all but the story here is not Neal Armstrong.’
Imagine, criticizing Neal Armstrong on a thread criticizing an antiamerican incident perpetrated by a terrible character andnot condemned by his organization, which calls itself “national...”
Annoying and outrageous.
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