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marcus says

The whole football players kneeling issue is a perfect example of the "phony controversies and manufactured outrage" Obama was talking about the other day.

Why is it phony?

That fake outrage will do some real bankruptcy to many NFL teams this year.
NFL is about to undergo a bigger crisis than the NLB went through in the 90's when the striking players took the fan's consideration for granted.

NLB was the biggest thing in America up until the players started striking. Now Baseball is hardly ever talked about. I can't remember the last time the World Series captured the Nation's attention.

PrivilegedtobeWhite says

Why is it phony?

Of course it's phony you RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY THEORIST! The whole NFL was blown out of proportion by Breitbart and the Trumptards! It was a Nothing Burger! There is nothing to it! NFL Players love America!



Nike doesn't think the Kneeling is "Phony Controversy"

This is the face of the new Nike Ad Campaign

THE! WHOLE! MOON! ARE! BE! MINE!

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

No it was the fuck not a Global Achievement. It was an American Achievement.

I think this is actually a significant point, and not a reaction to a "manufactured controversy".

The globalist agenda is to destroy all national borders and national identities for the benefit of a corporate oligarchy which can then rule the globe without pesky things like nations and democracy getting in the way.

So it makes sense that globalists would play down, ignore, or deny specifically American achievements.

I can see how the oligarchs prey on well-meaning but naive leftists who see that wars have been between nations, and assume that the abolition of nations will mean the abolition of war. What they are not thinking through is that the abolition of nations means that we all instantly become de facto slaves of the oligarchs.

TrumpCuck says

There is no secret cabal of "globalists"

You're right that it's not secret.

The demands for globalization and the elimination of borders in the name of corporate profit are overt and public.

TrumpCuck says

If you consider that almost all of the mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering technologies required for the moon landing were discovered and developed in Germany, Italy, England, France, and other European nations, one could make the argument that it was a Global, or at least Western, achievement.

How much money did UK, Germany, Italy, France pay for the Apollo Program?

TrumpCuck says

It's interesting how easily people get caught up in manufactured controversy.

Yep, and Nike just announced today they are promoting Kapernick's deed in a multimillion ad campaign.

Nike sure is manufacturing controversy!

Nike should take some (most likely apocryphal) advice from Michael Jordan: Republicans buy sneakers, too.

NIKE stock down 2.5% so far. Investors think stoking controversy a bad idea.

Aphroman says

Maybe he’s simply supporting his country...

Well, it's gone viral, but not in a good way?
Following the announcement, the hashtags #BoycottNike and #JustBurnIt started trending on Twitter. Some angry consumers even posted photos and videos of themselves burning their Nike shoes and other gear to protest the company using the divisive figure in its 30th anniversary ad campaign.

Nothing is more anti-American than supporting Vietnamese Communists whipping little children to make shoes faster in 19th Century Conditions, while running multimillion dollars ads celebrating an former NFL player for kneeling during the anthem.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Nothing is more anti-American than supporting Vietnamese Communists whipping little children to make shoes faster in 19th Century Conditions, while running multimillion dollars ads celebrating an former NFL player for kneeling during the anthem.

Yep -
Touche!

Fuck globalist. Fuck their revisionist hollywood shite that I'll never go to see, and fuuuuuuuuck Nike.

Happy Monday!

Aphroman says

Destroying your own stuff is the work of the antiMENSA’s

True. If they do not like Nike, just peel off Nike logo and use shoes as long as possible and do not buy next ones from Nike.

EBGuy says

Nike should take some (most likely apocryphal) advice from Michael Jordan: Republicans buy sneakers, too.

Nike should have also taken some advice from Dicks's Sporting Goods when they pulled AR15s from their stores. They forgot that Rednecks are the active ones, not the pudgy Liberals, and the Rednecks also buy other sporting products.

..."Shares of Dick's Sporting Goods plunged by more than 9 percent Wednesday morning after the retailer said it sold less merchandise during the second quarter than analysts were expecting.

Sales at Dick's Sporting Goods stores open for at least 12 months also tumbled by a bigger-than-expected 4 percent during the quarter.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/dicks-sporting-goods-shares-slide-as-retailer-misses-second-quarter-sales-forecasts.html

What's with these CEO's, pissing off over half of their customer bases to make a political statement?

Colin wasn't even a good football player, he was benched because he can't make more than one read before he dashes down the sideline like a running back.

If he was good he would be on an NFL team. This is absurd. It's like a 500 woman complaining she's not a Victoria's secret model, and kneeling (I know, use your imagination) in protest.

This is the one Nike should have run.

Dick move by Nike. They are free to do what they want wrt PR but investors will likely continue to punish the stock.

No more Nike for me.

The Nike ID Sweatshop E-mail Controversy refers to correspondence that took place in 2001 between Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti and Nike customer service over a pair of shoes he had ordered with the word “sweatshop” embroidered on them.

FortWayne says

No more Nike for me.

If Nike is the going concern, you're going to need to stop using a whole hell of a lot of other products. Just sayin'

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

NIKE stock down 2.5% so far. Investors think stoking controversy a bad idea.

That's a good start.

I wish I owned Nike so I could sell it like I did when Starbucks started getting too political.

I never short anything. There is unlimited danger in shorting. If you own a stock and it goes to zero, fine, life goes on. If you borrow a stock and sell it (ie, short it), you can be bankrupted if that stock goes to the moon.

I suppose I could buy puts in the options market, and hope the price falls below the put strike price.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

NIKE stock down 2.5% so far. Investors think stoking controversy a bad idea.

And 3.16% for the day. Investors are not happy that their money is being used to push a political agenda instead of to run a business:

Aphroman says

Wonder why you picked a 5 day chart instead of a 6 month, YTD, or 1 year chart.

Because the goal is to show how this ad campaign resulted in investor flight.

Any more 3rd grade questions?

Aphroman says

Oh the horrors! The stock has crashed all the way down to values not seen since....ten trading days ago!

That is pretty funny. The average trump voter uses sporing goods from carhartt and remington, not nike. Do the trumpets really believe that a 35 billion dollar company doesn't know who they are selling to and advertise to appeal to the customer base?

bob2356 says

That is pretty funny. The average trump voter uses sporing goods from carhartt and remington, not nike. Do the trumpets really believe that a 35 billion dollar company doesn't know who they are selling to and advertise to appeal to the customer base?

We'll find out soon, down 3.2% on the market. Wonder why that happened all of a sudden?

Aphroman says

Nike is a 127 billion dollar company.

Not for long. In fact, it was a 131 billion dollar company before this campaign.

It will be interesting to see what the market thinks of businesses that get distracted by politics.

bob2356 says

Do the trumpets really believe that a 35 billion dollar company doesn't know who they are selling to and advertise to appeal to the customer base?

You could say the same thing about ESPN and the NFL about knowing their customer base too.

How did that work out for them over the last few years with their SJW nonsense?

socal2 says

You could say the same thing about ESPN and the NFL about knowing their customer base too.

How did that work out for them over the last few years with their SJW nonsense?

Just fine. Viewership is down a lot more in NASCAR--is that because of Kapernick too?

Patrick says

I wish I owned Nike so I could sell it like I did when Starbucks started getting too political.

I wish I shorted some South African stocks before the land grab was formalized earlier this year. The SA ETF Down 25% YTD

LeonDurham says

Just fine. Viewership is down a lot more in NASCAR--is that because of Kapernick too?

Well, if one sport loses viewers, then another sport must be losing viewers for the same reason.

LeonDurham says

Viewership is down a lot more in NASCAR--is that because of Kapernick too?

The NFL lost more viewers last year than there are total NASCAR viewers. NASCAR (and alot of auto-racing) is pretty niche and has had alot of ups and downs if other leagues like Indy Car or F1 are having an exciting year. Whereas the NFL had a pretty rock steady viewer base until all the kneeling B.S. last year.

Golf ratings are rising this year thanks to Tiger Woods playing better.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Well, if one sport loses viewers, then another sport must be losing viewers for the same reason.

Well, if there is a trend that all sports are losing viewers, then there might be something there, huh?

LeonDurham says

Well, if there is a trend that all sports are losing viewers, then there might be something there, huh?

Not the NBA, where Adam Silver threatened to discipline any kneelers, in a league where pretty much every player supported the kneeling movement.

You have to explain the drop off that exceeds comparable Big League Sports (ie NBA, NHL, NBA, not NASCAR) and at a pace disproportionate to the unplugging of cable.



UBS study shows Protests were the #1 reason tuner-outers gave for not watching the NFL

It's interesting that Atlantic, Vox, and the "Missing Link" Media, along with the "Late Night Shows" immediately criticized, "Explained/Factchecked" (Left wing term for Tendentious Denigration and Dismissal) lampooned the Nike Boycott, but did not such thing re: In-And-Out Burger, which was far more ridiculous.