Well Mitch obviously you were never a fan of Sheldon Cooper’s Fun with Flags. He explained all this.
Betsy Ross is a fucking myth.
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Is it just me, or does the pattern of stars on the Ft. Sumter flag look like a roadkill turtle?
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Is there anything the Nazi and Slavery Party won’t ruin and turn into a symbol of racism?
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At the risk of repeating myself again, McConnell was against desecration of the flag before he was for it.
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What about you buy some Nike shoes when they agree to make them in the good ol’ USA, Mr. McConnell?
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Mitch relies on myths in order to keep his job.
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If Nike wanted Mitch dead, politically speaking, there wouldn’t even be a red smear left in his office.
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What the fucking hell do they want him around for? They need to get busy and make us all happy - hell I’ll buy a hundred goddamn pairs of Nikes if they will just rid us of this piece of filth.
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The only people who care about this hated both Kaepernick and POC anyway. Let them have their boycott. It hasn’t hurt Nike in the past; it won’t hurt them now.
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Mitch McConnell OT but it reminds a of this:
“But we’re also getting our first real taste of the punditry that will frame this next year and a half, and so far, it is the opposite of fresh, diverse, or forward-thinking. Rather, the analysis coughed up by some of the nation’s loudest and most prominent talking heads sounds familiar and stale. The dispiriting truth is that many of those tasked with interpreting our politics are — in addition to being extremely freaked out by the race they’re covering — totally ill-equipped for the historic task ahead of them.”
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There really is, I’m sure, a hive of GOP operatives in some secret bunker or T* property constantly combing through news stories and social media posts in search of the perfect outrage for the deplorables to mainline and get their fix. It’s just so tiresome.
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Of course not - would not fit his pandering duplicitous strategy
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Just an observation, but McConnell has done more to undermine the Constitution of the United States than any Senator since John C. Calhoun.*
Calhoun, as the creator of the “Nullification Doctrine”, was one of the founding Fathers of the Confederacy.
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*Joe McCarthy may have been a close second.
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Sorry to be perhaps in the minority here, but I really don’t see what the fuck is wrong with the thirteen star flag. It was the flag carried by our troops in the Revolution, it was George Washington’s flag, it was the flag at the time when we declared independence. Is all our history supposed to be erased before the Civil War finally ended our original sin?
I think this PC thing is going waaaaaaaaaaay too far on this, and I just don’t get it. It’s fucking counterproductive, because it just gives the actual fascists like McConnell something to hit us on the head about.
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Like they don’t just make shit up otherwise.
Who cares what they do with what we say?
And pro-tip - Nobody in America is going to go wrong siding with Nike over Mitch McConnell.
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I read this yesterday - it is brilliant. Glad you posted it.
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Betsy Ross was married to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. No, seriously — Wilbur Ross was married to Betsy McCaughey, lieutenant governor of New York.
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No. But some aspects of it need to be kept in historical context and never trotted out without comment in a way that allows for the kind of dog whistle race-baiting Mitch McConnell seems to be engaging in here. I understand that some white people are over it with having this stuff called out nowadays, but a lot of colored folk have been silent about the counterproductive nature of what’s been visited upon us for a very looooooooooog time. So, there will be some headaches while we all try to sort this out today.
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Kaepernick is exceedingly brave, he put his career on the line for his principles and it has cost him dearly, but ask any war “hero”, being brave in one instance doesn’t preclude being cowardly in another. Cowardice in this case is reacting in a standard fashion to another asymmetrical attack by the right on shared culture by effectively ceding them the ground they’ve claimed. That is a retreat and if not cowardly, it’s certainly not taking the fight to the enemy. They are relentless, creative and resourceful, they will try anything and everything on multiple channels simultaneously, so we have to look carefully in every instance and craft an unexpected response. To fail to do so and instead react is not facing the problem head-on. I’ll give you that cowardly may be too strong a term for Kaepernick in this case, but I stand by it as concerns NAACP and Nike. Our side pushes back in ways that are expected and unsurprising, that only appeal to our own adherents while making us appear weak to the uncommitted, and every time we do that the right notches another cultural victory. Outrage and appeals to decency have no traction with 40% of the voters, standing proud and aggressively owning our own culture makes their machinations and insinuations irrelevant. We have to all be brave to do that.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
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Old enough to remember when right wingers like McConnell decried clothing appropriating the flag as unpatriotic. But now they want to put it on their shoes? Seems kinda desecratey to me. What’s next Mitch? Stars and Stripes toilet paper?
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