Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 12:18 am:
Oh, golly gee! #2!
Lots and lots of #2.
My guess is the spin is that the committee members are just working for and with the Common Man.
Naturally, I perceive it as them exploiting the duped.
But I have to say, that the Hate is pervasive. Everywhere, 24/7, the Media pushes that Trump wants to take away a women's GoD Given Right ( they don't ever say it that way, since Nietzshe is Dead, after all ) to abort her baby. That Trump wants to enslave Blacks. Give guns to babies. That Trump Hates Jews. Women. Men. Homosexuals. Puppies. And wants to Kill And Eat All of them.
Never mind Jerusalem. Employment figures. Murder rates in Gun Free Zones, facts, none of that matters when it doesn't get reported on NBC. Didn't report it, didn't happen.
And the constant "impeach, assassinate, chase them down and never let them rest" mantra of the politicians and Actors is becoming normal. It's a Good Thing to hound someone out of "your" bar and chase them down the street screaming curses at them. It's the New Normal.
Heck under Barry, the New Normal was just that you were never going to get a job. Now it's Mob violence.
The pattern is not new. I know it makes me seem like some sort of radical to say it, but this is how they got mobs to beat Union organizers. Pick a time period, how about 432 AD.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
( see, I avoided the Brown Shirts! So There! Hah! )
So what does tomorrow bring? More of the same, but worse, of course.
If I was going to speculate, Sports Riots. Antifa clashing with ???? fans?
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 08:19 am:
So what does tomorrow bring? More of the same, but worse, of course.
If I was going to speculate, Sports Riots. Antifa clashing with ???? fans?
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“We believe Colin is one of the most inspirational athletes of this generation, who has leveraged the power of sport to help move the world forward.”
~ Gino Fisanotti, Nike’s vice president of brand for North America
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Nike Value Takes a Knee as Colin Kaepernick Becomes Face of Brand CTH - Sep 4, 2018
Nike shares fall Tuesday after the company revealed failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be the modern face of the brand. It will get much worse; much worse.
It is only day #1 of the Nike decision to make Colin Kaepernick, and all of the controversy that surrounds him, the brand image of Nike sporting goods apparel; and today the stock dropped over 3%.
However, the current valuation drop doesn’t really tell the full story; because massive investment/branding moves like this are generally projected to increase share value, not lose it. The financial loss is actually much more significant, and only beginning.
There is another problem. Not only is Nike branding themselves based on severe political ideology; and not only is Nike selecting a failed athlete to express that image; and not only has this decision removed well over half of their potential customer base; but Nike has also decided to go much further. Nike will present an entire line of Colin Kaepernick apparel and products. Essentially an apparel line for the Antifa audience.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 09:05 am:
Did the guy try to get sympathy to get a QB job, but wasn't good enough overall, or are the team owners all hateful bigots? I think that the owners saw him as less-than-starter material and there are too many equal or better backups out there to want to deal with his disruption.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 09:15 am:
He sacrificed so much to become a famous millionaire that plays games for a living. Also, Nike didn't just pay him even more money to have his idiot face all over. Also whatever amount of money that Nike payed him for this advert was donated to charities.
Because he cares passionately about things that he was told to care about.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 02:33 pm:
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Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts. I wonder if they had any idea that it would be this way? As far as the NFL is concerned, I just find it hard to watch, and always will, until they stand for the FLAG!
-- President Donald J. Trump, 9:39 AM - Sep 5, 2018
I have no opinion on the guy's quarterback talent. Wasn't paying attention. From a business standpoint, I wouldn't want to hire a guy after my customers told me they'd spend their money elsewhere, if I hired him.
Unless I believed he was unfairly treated and his talents would make me more than I'd lose. I'd even take the loss, if I thought his cause was just.
And the general reaction to protests from millionaires who the owners consider pampered poodles, means the loss is very real.
I support these folk in their right to protest. My counter protest is to not pay for their brand. That is fair both ways.
What made this all a big deal is most Americans don't think being disrespectful is a protest, it strikes many as a tantrum.
Plus the initial protest was factually incorrect.
Many of us here have no problems with protesting The Establishment. At least I don't. I might disagree on who that is!
For example, rich athletes that have multi million dollar contracts to sell me Brand name products, Are The Establishment.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 04:28 pm:
"From a business standpoint,... I'd even take the loss, if I thought his cause was just."
Business case history study for the day:Tomkins PLC, and their ownership experience of Smith & Wesson. Corporate execs rarely review history regarding conservative american values. They just go where they think the profits are. They factor in to lose a few customers in the short term but expect most of them will eventually come back. Tomkins found out in the bankruptcy sale how deep american ideals run, (near 90% devaluation in 12 months). I suspect Nike is in better shape financially, but I'll bet their shareholders must be ticked right now. Nike should have taken a look at Tomkins, and to a lesser extent Dick's Sporting goods for cautionary examples or at least polled their shareholders before making political statements.
(Message edited by mnscrounger on September 05, 2018)
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 05:27 pm:
Why is Dick's, Nike, Levis even making statements like this?
Virtue signalling as marketing? Corporate failure as performance art?
This is so tedious. If I have to buy a toilet, now I have to research American Standard, Kohler, Delta to see which one doesn't stab me in the back with my own money?
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 06:18 pm:
The day the Nike news hit, my wife sat for a number of hours with a sweatshirt in her lap. I finally asked her what she was doing. She had a real nice Nike sweatshirt, with NIKE embroidered across the front. She was sitting there cutting all of the embroidery off! She usually lets this stuff go, but NIKE pissed her off. A lot of others too.
I agree with Greg's view of Nike playing a gamble. I'm not sure that this is the sort of thing that will build brand loyalty with anyone though. It will certainly burn bridges with many though. Stupid gamble IMO.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 07:02 pm:
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Epic – Republican Rep. Billy Long Uses Auctioneering Skills to Shut Down Committee Protester CTH - Sep 5, 2018
This is epic. Must Watch. Missouri Republican Representative Billy Long falls back on his prior job skills to shut down a disrupting protester. Then comes the best part:
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 08:04 pm:
She's got a point (this was while Twitter's Jack was sitting in the congressional hot seat today addressing claims of possible (ha!) conservative censorship). However, this was neither the time or place, and besides, P45 is already all over the issue.
It's possible she was paid by the baddies simply to disrupt the hearing and attempt to slime P45 in the process; if she were a true patriot I doubt she'd have been such a maroon.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 08:39 pm:
The Left is all in:
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President Trump Responds To Media Questions About Anonymous Administration Official Op-Ed CTH - Sep 5, 2018
Earlier this afternoon the New York Times presented an Op-ed claiming to be from an anonymous Senior Official within the Trump Administration [SEE HERE].
The op-ed is titled: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” and carries a bi-line saying: “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
The tone, flow, construct and syntax of the article points to a very familiar “establishment republican” perspective. The “resistance” criticism levied within the article is centered around the outlook of the professional political class, and their sense of importance. If NRO’s Jonah Goldberg worked for the administration, he would be suspect #1 – that’s the dripping sense of superiority and elitism expressed.
The opinions expressed within the “anonymous” op-ed reflect the typical worldview of elitist republicans. That is to say, a holier-than-thou neocon “establishment” GOPe type, who prefers crustless cucumber and mayonnaise sandwiches on white bread cut into little triangles. From this world-view President Trump is an outsider; a vulgarian, a deplorable who needs to be managed by those who are much more important.
From the construct of the trade positions espoused within the writing; in combination with the voluminous praise for Senator John McCain; we can see the epicenter of this “republican resistance” is based on Trump’s withdrawal from foreign interventionism and his economic/trade policies which contradict with the customary globalist views of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street and the pontificating financial class.
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[Transcript] Question: There’s anonymous op-ed in the New York Times that says, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” Just posted. Your reaction?
Question: This person works for the administration, they said.
THE PRESIDENT: This is what we have to deal with. And, you know, the dishonest media — because you people deal with it as well as I do — but it’s really a disgrace.
I will say this: Nobody has done what this administration has done in terms of getting things passed and getting things through. A article was just printed, just came out a few minutes ago: Trump breaks the record for budget gridlock wins, “scores big win.” So for 20 years — it’s a 20-year record — for a 20-year record — they call it “the ‘fouled up’ budget gridlock” and “scores big win.” Here is the thing. So this just came out. So in 20 years, it hasn’t been like it is now. It’s — we broke — we broke it. That’s just really positive stuff.
And then, in addition to that, point after point after point, if you look, almost 4 million jobs created since the election. (Applause.) More Americans now employed than ever recorded in our history. So we have more people working today than at any point ever in our history.
We’ve created 400,000 manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest pace in more than 30 years. Economic growth last quarter was 4.2 percent. And as you people know, it was headed down. Big. And it was a low number. A very low number. It would’ve been — in my opinion, it would’ve been less than zero. It was heading to negative numbers.
New employment claims recently hit a — think of that — the unemployment picture in the country is the best its been in 49 years. African American unemployment, lowest in the history of our country. Asian American unemployment, lowest in the history of our country. Hispanic American unemployment, lowest in the history of our country.
I mean, I’m just looking at these — just point after point. Under my administration, veterans’ unemployment reached its lowest in many, many years. The — let’s see — almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps, just since my election. Then you go into all of the benefits that we got from the tax cuts. All of you people benefited tremendously from the tax cuts. (Applause.)
You go into regulation cuts. You go into Right to Try. Right to Try is where you have the right — if a person is terminally ill, you have a right to go and try, and see whether or not a drug that’s not approved yet can be used and utilized. They didn’t allow that.
Point after point: Getting rid of the individual mandate, the most unpopular thing there is in 0bamacare. Coming up with new healthcare plans. We’ve never had a period — even if you look at the Olympics; got the Olympics. The World Cup just got — you just saw them; they were in my office. Got the World Cup. Nobody has — and we have started the wall. Nobody has ever done, in less than a two-year period, what we’ve done.
So when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration, probably who’s failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons. Now — and the New York Times is failing. If I weren’t here, I believe the New York Times probably wouldn’t even exist. (Applause.) And some day — let me just tell you — and some day, when I’m not President, which hopefully will be in about six and a half years from now, the New York Times and CNN, and all of these phony media outlets, will be out of business, folks. They’ll be out of the business. Because there will be nothing to write, and there will be nothing of interest.
So nobody has done what this administration has done. And I agree, it’s different from an agenda, which is much different than ours, and it’s certainly not your agenda — that I can tell you. It’s about open borders. It’s about letting people flee into our country. It’s about a disaster and crime for our country.
So they don’t like Donald Trump, and I don’t like them, because they’re very dishonest people. Remember this also, about the New York Times: When I won, they were forced to apologize to their subscribers. They wrote a letter of apology — it was the first time anybody has ever done it — because they covered the election incorrectly. So if the failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial — can you believe it? “Anonymous” — meaning gutless. A gutless editorial.
We’re doing a great job. The poll numbers are through the roof. Our poll numbers are great. And guess what? Nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020 because of what we’ve done. We’ve done more than anybody ever thought possible in — it’s not even two years.
Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 09:22 pm:
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Just read the anonymous @nytimes article and it’s blindingly obvious it’s an in-house product written not by any Trump official but by a professional writer at the newspaper itself. This is the very definition of #FakeNews
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 08:17 am:
^ Snips from the article:
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President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Paul Ryan have teamed up this summer to do something that hasn’t happened in two decades — write and pass department spending bills instead of lumping everything into a massive package.
The House and Senate are moving at a brisk pace to pass the appropriations bills, with the Senate leading, approving nine of 12.
Many on Capitol Hill are giving Trump and his team the credit for breaking the 20-year log jam. They cite his refusal to sign another massive “omnibus” spending bill that ignored his priorities, even if it means shutting down the government.
“This is all driven by the president,” said a key congressional insider. “It’s a win for the president. For 20 years this system has been busted.”
“This is about omnibus prevention," [said McConnell] "about actually demonstrating to the American people that we can do what we’re supposed to do.”
He also urged Americans to pay attention to the breakthrough on an issue that is critical to Washington budget geeks, but few others. “It is an important step forward and ought to reassure the American people that Congress is in good hands,” said McConnell.
Shifting from a huge spending bill, usually passed at the last minute, to separate department packages, is change Trump hopes to repeat. “I don’t think we can understate how big of a culture change this is,” said a senior administration official.
Trump’s former top congressional lobbyist, Marc Short, said the change was bolstered by new Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby and gave the spending-writing authority to lawmakers closer to the issues than party leaders.
“It’s a big deal,” he said. “It’s the way it should be,” he added.
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 08:23 am:
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Can we talk about how the media went from dismissing the deep state as a conspiracy theory to publishing a column from a senior official who admits to sabotaging Trump?
I feel like we sort of have to have that conversation now.
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 08:32 am:
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Dear Nike,
Let me tell you about sacrifice!!!!! This is the ultimate definition of it. Right there lies a huge piece of my family. Our son, LCPL Ty Hart. Only 21 years old. Only married 7 months.
I am sure you have heard his name..... He grew up 60 miles from your head quarters and even worked on a landscape crew there during the summer. When his casket came home covered by our American flag, the whole state of Oregon watched.
Everything for us has changed. Death does that to a family. Time does not heal. When you're missing a family member you don't get used to it. You try to live but inside you're hurting so bad. Every day we live the word SACRIFICE! The agony is unbearable.
The fact that Ty died "serving" this country makes us proud. The fact that he is gone literally breaks our hearts.
He came home under the American flag. Under it Nike!!!!! Stop for a moment and think about THAT. Under the American flag. And he was under it because he was willing to be, sacrificed it all for HIS country. So you and I can live free.
Ty was the all-American kid. Played sports like none other. He was smart as a whip. Ty could have done ANYTHING. He chose to SACRIFICE and join OUR United States Marine Corp. And he did not come home!!!! He will never again walk through the back door and yell "What's for dinner?".
Ty paid the ultimate SACRIFICE.....his life! Our family paid and lives that SACRIFICE every single hour.
Everyday now is a process of trying to live again. Figure out how to go camping with one of your sons missing. Plan an exit strategy at a wedding should you lose it. Prepare your mind for the reality that in order to visit Ty we have to walk to his grave. His GRAVE, Nike. Where he lays in rest....... Because of SACRIFICE!
I am angry at your choice of words with your new ad campaign. Why? Because it is so offensive. I wonder if that was the idea. Shock journalism. Maybe. Whatever. But sit down and talk to any Gold Star family and you will find out that SACRIFICE isn't about a career, football, cars or money.
It's about that empty seat at our table, it's about never being handed a grandchild from our son, it's about not getting to see him come up the walk, it's about never feeling his hug again or hearing his voice. I could go on and on Nike. Why? Because we SACRIFICED it all.
We honor that flag. We stand for our National anthem. We wear our Gold Star with pride. We miss our son Ty Hart. We miss our normal life.
The tears come everytime we stand for the National Anthem. TAPS is unbearable And NOTHING in life is easy anymore.
All because of the SACRIFICE our family paid.
You owe the American people an apology. You really do. Nike was an American icon. Everyone knows who Nike is. You branded yourself through years of goodness. To use the word SACRIFICE in the way you just did is in poor taste. It offends so many.
Just Un"do it" Nike. Honor what SACRIFICE truly is. I would be happy to show you.
In honor of our fallen hero who SACRIFICED it all,
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 08:58 am:
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The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy - & they don’t know what to do. The Economy is booming like never before, Jobs are at Historic Highs, soon TWO Supreme Court Justices & maybe Declassification to find Additional Corruption. Wow!
-- President Donald J. Trump, 7:19 AM - Sep 6, 2018
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 09:35 am:
And make sure you're not wearing Nike or Levis...
The left wants names and addresses of jurors; what are we trying to hide in the corruption redactions? Names? They DID IT, so let's shine a light on them, punish them, and in the process DISCOURAGE FUTURE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.
It's called "deterrent effect"; if the crooks aren't punished, we breed more and more crooks. And that's what we've been doing for decades. Time to stop.
