Obama. Berlin. 2008. 200,000 turned out to hear his speech.

I’ve got a very simple task for you... Don’t fucking click on the articles regarding politics. I don’t understand why this is so damn hard

Ironically enough, we appear to be sending them both a criminal and a rapist.

They could just send him to New Mexico and he may not know the difference.

No....some super virus that makes all his hair fall out.....5 to 1 he quits the race

Actual quote from Kap, explaining just that:

Still doesn’t change the fact that Al-Qaeda / Afghanistan / ISIS or whoever else are not a threat to American freedoms. A threat to safety, yes (even though the statistical likelihood of being felled in a terrorist attack is vanishingly small), but not freedom.

Burns Kaepernick jersey when Colin Kaepernick does a non-violent protest in a manner that results in no one being hurt.

Being tricked into thinking (or simply choosing to believe) you’re protecting something is not the same thing as protecting it. The post-9/11 military fetishism actually actively curtailed Americans’ rights, and led to (ongoing!) violations of the Constitution directed against citizens and non-citizens alike.

9/11 was an atrocity, but not a threat to our freedom. In fact, our own response to 9/11 (pervasive surveillance, murder-by-drone, militarized police, etc...) are actual threats to our liberty.

So, the thing about all these “Here’s what the flag stands for” arguments is that Kaepernick is saying the flag stands, or should stand for those things as well! I think the point he’s making is that the country is not living up to its ideals. This is why I hate American exceptionalism so much and the near-religious…

Thank you. I can’t with this “they fought so you could []” shit. Somehow the [] is never the more correct “buy cheap gas.”

The national anthem should be about the 2 vast oceans that naturally disincline any wouldbe predators.

The Axis forces were not a threat to the freedom of Americans. They may very well have become one had things turned out differently, but we will never know.

Also sports still exist in monarchies and autocracies...

Oh FFS...UNLESS THE SOLDIER IN QUESTION SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OR FOUGHT FOR THE UNION IN THE CIVIL WAR, THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING ANY OF OUR FREEDOMS.

Tony Stewart tried it yesterday and twitter gathered him up real quick

Can we get away from the false equicvalency that not standing for the pledge of allegiance is the same as simultaneously shitting on the graves and in the mouths of people in the armed forces? Kaepernick has the right to not stand and express dissatisfaction with this country. Unless it’s coming from a white old dude…

Y’know, the thing about this whole thing that sticks out to me the most is that we’re making such a big deal out of, and drawing so much attention to, one guy’s choice to sit down during a song, whether that was ok to do or not, instead of the very thing that Kaepernick is trying to bring attention to, which is the…