[DAILYWIRE] Nike’s "Betsy Ross Edition" shoe was reportedly canceled by the company after famed anthem-kneeler and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick ...Formerly a petulant quarterback for the San Francisco Giants, now looking for a job. He was willing to stand up for his principles by kneeling during the national anthem, which he had every right to do, but not willing to take the consequences, which he apparently thought shouldn't apply to him... complained about the patriotic kicks; the former 49er signed onto a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with Nike last year.
"Nike has pulled a Betsy-Ross-themed Fourth of July sneaker after Colin Kaepernick ‐ now a Nike ’endorser’ ‐ found it offensive," Nine Line Apparel said in a statement. "In response, Nine Line Apparel, a veteran-owned apparel company, has just released a t-shirt line that proudly features the Betsy Ross flag."
The apparel store is also "calling on Americans to boycott Nike and to display their patriotism with the hashtag #NoToNike." As reported by The Daily Wire on Tuesday, a #WalkAwayFromNike boycott gained traction online when Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) similarly asked Americans to refrain from buying Nike goods.
Army CPT (ret.) Tyler Merritt, CEO of Nine Line Apparel, slammed the athletic gear giant for seeking "profit through controversy, but with absolutely no regard for the consequences."
"In its corporatist wake, it leaves behind anti-American sentiment and division, harming our country," Merritt said in a statement. "But since Nike has no interest in displaying the Betsy Ross flag, a classic symbol of freedom and unity, then we proudly will."
"How far Nike has fallen. It was once an iconic American company. Now it can’t even stomach associating itself with one of the greatest moments in our country’s history, when individuals of diverse backgrounds put differences aside to fight tyranny and secure liberty," the CEO continued. "The American people should support the red, white, and blue and boycott Nike and join our #NoToNike campaign. Nike says ’just do it.’ We say just stand ‐ stand for your beliefs and for your country."
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I wonder what the big FBS college teams are going to do. Here is a list from 7/2018 of cash to schools for use of their merch.
Here’s the updated Top 20 most lucrative collegiate apparel deals (money includes cash to school and apparel provided. top 20:
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#1 I wonder what the big FBS college teams are going to do.
My guess is nothing as most of these schools have gone left-wing over the years and are probably sympathetic to this manufactured brouhaha by Kaepernick and Nike.
Kaepernick is a media hustler who's 15 minutes of fame passed long ago. He may have been a decent QB at one time but he has since become a liability to football teams because of his hate-America splashy protests. He ought to direct his vitriolic virtue-signaling into something positive that actually helps someone. If he has a bitch about perceived racism in America, he ought to help kids, the homeless or veterans or otherwise people who need help; otherwise his protests are vapid, inane and pathetic.
Ultimately it’s within your constitutional rights to do this but it certainly won’t gain you any friends and support. If you hate the US so much why not just quietly move away from it? Pretty pointless and rather disrespectful on such a day. https://t.co/qciShx5X5K
Two protesters were arrested and a pair of U.S. Secret Service officers received minor injuries in front of the White House on the Fourth of July after an American flag was set on fire ahead of President Trump’s “Salute to America” celebration, the agency says.
The two were allegedly arrested for "burning an American flag outside the limits of a permit that had been issued by the National Park Service."
The Secret Service told The Hill that one person was arrested for felony assault on a police officer and for malicious burning, and the other was arrested for obstructing a police investigation and resisting arrest. One person was transported to a hospital for minor injuries, and two Secret Service officers were also transported to a local hospital for treatment.
USA Today reported that a group calling themselves the Revolutionary Communist Party burned the flag and posted video showing protesters pushing and shoving each other after the flames died down.
Washington Examiner reporter Steven Nelson shared footage of the burning on Twitter and reported that a veteran grabbed the flag while it was still on fire.
A Marine veteran in a MAGA t-shirt. Semper Fi, most assuredly.
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In reference to the "Capital 4th" on PBS tonight (Executive Producer George Soros):
o Poor selection of acts. There's a heavy concentration on minorities, most of these acts wouldn't make it into the semi-finals of AGT, and the anchor concentration on Muppets is really dumb.
It pays a bit of homage to our independence and we have a military protecting us, but otherwise silly acts, and no reference to our President's parade and speech earlier in the day.
Heavy on cheap entertainment, completely negligent on July 4 issues; independence, protection, freedom to say whatever you want (outside crying fire in a theater).
Notes
o 76 trombones – Soros guess at what would draw the folks in
o Emcee uses his baby in most scenes
o Get your cell phones out
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Sixteen Maoist rebels did this in India in 2009, burning the tricolor. Only one of them survived the mob that descended on them from nowhere. From nearby vendors to rickshaw pullers, commuters... it was like a zombie attack by common people. The mob was let off with a pat on their backs.
Patriotic vigilance is seldom 'just dismissive' of physical or symbolic dissent, and to liberal minded people, seems like an overreaction. But few people can dare to do it now. I suspect the same is true for many 'illiberal' countries looked down upon by the west.
Interestingly, the Flag Desecration Act of the US was obliterated by the action of a sworn leftist judge. Judge William J. Brennan Jr. - celebrated democrat, a hopelessly irrational progressive. His ruling in a case against some anti-war 'Nam vets is the precedent for creatively relating flag-burning with the 1st Amendment. A champion of the 'misunderstood, under-represented minorities' And probably responsible for their over-representation today , he was a savior of criminal defendants throughout his career. Also worked fervently against the death penalty.
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Have to be Maoist. It's in the nomenclature - a blatant claim to organized revolt. And a symbolic attack with the implicit promise of escalation. Maoist. I'd bet money on it. Besides, we have a RCP in India too, that unsurprisingly tried to do the same thing.
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Did you know that you don't own your own mailbox? That even if you purchase it and place it in the appropriate spot, it belongs to the USPS. When yokels get a hootn' and blow one up, its a federal offense, because its federal property.
Title 18. USC
Section 1705. Destruction of letter boxes or mail
Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
So, the legal principle is established. Why should it be so hard to extend to the flag? /rhet question.
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Flag burning, nude dancing and panhandling have all been decreed "free speech" by SCOTUS. Two of the three entail those who want to watch handing over currency.
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panhandling will get your ass locked up where i live
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oh, and guess it is free speech too aggravate the hell out of ppl dron
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Burning the US flag *is* protected political speech. It's a way of saying America is an awful, icky, repressive place.
It is also ironic as all get out and anyone doing it should be loudly mocked. Want proof? Go burn the national flag in a truly icky, repressive country like, say, NKor or Cuba and see what happens. Don't forget to post the pix for our amusement, loser!
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SteveS, isn't that how Otto Warmbier ended up getting imprisoned to death?
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Wait.. how is panhandling free speech ?
Cause SCOTUS can't tell commerce from speech. The air is really thin up there. Same people who struck down vagrancy laws and residency laws. They seem to have a knack in creating problems where there were none before.
[Washington Examiner] Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner and advocate of large-scale immigration, once tried to block the evacuation of tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees who had helped the United States during the Vietnam War.
As a senator, the future vice president, now 76, was adamant that the U.S. had "no obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals," dismissing concerns for their safety as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong swept south toward Saigon in 1975.
His position was in stark contrast to the one he took nearly 30 years later over Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who had worked with U.S. forces. "We owe these people," his then top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken said in 2012. "We have a debt to these people. They put their lives on the line for the United States."
Biden said in 2015 that keeping Syrian refugees out of the U.S. would be a win for ISIS and tweeted in 2017 that "we must protect, support, and welcome refugees" to maintain the promise of America.
As South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and the U.S. government undertook to evacuate thousands of South Vietnamese families who had assisted the U.S. throughout the war. The leading voice in the Senate opposing this rescue effort was then-Sen. Joe Biden.
My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's T own).
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Well... that cuts her virtue signaling down....
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Well, she could play the "at least i know who my father is" card, but a certain demographic would likely be unamused.
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Realistically she's probably both. As an ex-slave said after the Civil War, "Of course, we're proud, some of the finest blood in the South runs in our veins."
[AMERICANTHINKER] By Monica Showalter
I was going to write this piece on the left's ugly way of censoring little eight year olds who make fun of congressional members, such as the precocious Ava Martinez whose satirical impersonations of Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... are preternaturally brilliant. The child's family got doxxed and death-threatened, and as a result, the little girl's parents announced the shutdown of all the child's social media accounts, whose videos have delighted conservatives. (A few can still be seen here and here.)
Image montage by Monica Showalter with shareable YouTube screen shot and public domain sourcing
It shows that the left is synonymous with censorship in every awful way - from social media censorship, to campus silencings, to the brutal attack on journalist Andy Ngo, to the gaslighting in the press about President Trump being the censor instead. But this sort of censorship, depriving all of us who enjoy these hilarious videos, every one of them a work of genius, is the worst. The child is eight years old. Democrats have made a huge stink about the treatment of foreign eight year olds in undocumented Democrat detention camps. Where's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's concern about this eight year old dealing with death threats and doxxing in a bid to ensure that lots of fear if not some death might happen?
Actually, nowhere. But in light of this outrageous silencing of a child, something did come to light a couple days ago that gives one pause.
According to the Washington Examiner, Noted Rodeo Clown Rep. Frederica Wilson made this argument:
"Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable [sic]," Wilson said during comments made Tuesday outside of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida.
"We're gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted," she continued. "You cannot intimidate members of Congress, frighten members of Congress. It is against the law, and it's a shame in this United States of America."
What a coincidence. And maybe it was just a coincidence that this call to prosecute those who make fun of Congress, as if America is now Castroite Cuba, is just a coincidence that Mini-Ocasio was suddenly in for a surge of death threats in a bid to shut her down, same as would happen if prosecutions became the norm of the day.
And surprise, surprise: Wilson just happens to be an unusually close ally of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as I noted in December here.
Might this Wilson stunt have had Ocasio-Cortez more in mind than Wilson herself? Could the death threats and doxxings have actually come from some member of Ocasio-Cortez's or Wilson's political machines? It would be useful to know who did them and if I were an investigator, it's one place where I'd look. We already know what kinds of people are in those congressional political machines, given the recent jail sentences meted out to a couple of Democratic congressional staffers over the doxxing of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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No amount of drinking would make a man want to take either of these two home.
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are they gonna prosecute all the so called comedians and celebrities that make fun of trump?
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Chris, no making fun of Trump. That's different because ... shut up!
Actually, if Trump were actually the evil dictator/Hitler that the Dems, MSM, and night time "comedians" make him out to be, several of them would be in jail or dead already.
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[NYPOST] President Trump on Thursday slammed Rep. Justin Amash ...pretend Republican congressman from Michigan, who probably won't be there come 2020... as a "total loser" ‐ cheering the Michigan politician’s decision to quit the GOP.
"Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most disloyal men in Congress is ’quitting’ the Party. No Collusion, No Obstruction!" Trump tweeted hours after the 39-year-old libertarian announced his move in a Washington Post op-ed.
"Knew he couldn’t get the nomination to run again in the Great State of Michigan. Already being challenged for his seat. A total loser!" the president added.
Amash faced two primary challenges after saying in May that Trump committed impeachable offenses ‐ and that Attorney General William Barr had "deliberately misrepresented" special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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And the difference between Justin Amash and Senator Romney are?
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And the difference between Justin Amash and Senator Romney are?
Amash is another one of those who feels his particular mongrel background comes ahead of being an American. Romney is just a rank opportunist and a carpetbagger.
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The sort of "Republican" we are much better off without.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Formerly a petulant quarterback for the San Francisco Giants, now looking for a job. He was willing to stand up for his principles by kneeling during the national anthem, which he had every right to do, but not willing to take the consequences, which he apparently thought shouldn't apply to him...
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
"Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable [sic]," Wilson said during comments made Tuesday outside of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida.
...pretend Republican congressman from Michigan, who probably won't be there come 2020...
