Colin Kaepernick wore socks on the practice field depicting cops as pigs.
He came to a Miami interview wearing a Che Guevara tee.
Ravens were about to offer him when his GF called the owners slaveholders.
He never wanted to play ball. He wanted to be exactly where he is today.
I didn't post this to bash Kaepernick, although I think that carnival barker deserves all the bashing one may want to deal out. I shared this because there's an important story inside. One that has nothing to do with Colin or football. It has to do with pretext and activism. 💡
This isn't an authentic person.👇 It's a fucking clown! It's a cheap canvas strung on a wall with a broken-down projector playing a garbage movie. He's no longer a football player, he's a professional agitator. He's fake. He's Shaun King in shoulder pads.
I can't believe I didn't previously appreciate just how important your choice of state is. Where you reside in the US is now of paramount importance. And if we remain on our current trajectory, we may have states so different the lifestyles seem like separate countries. FL vs CA
I recognize that's a bit hyperbolic, but I really don't mean it that way. We are undergoing seismic shifts in America right now. I don't think most of our 330M people quite appreciate it. I believe many don't realize it much at all. It feels so different down here in Florida now.
I'm going to drop 2 threads, because that's what I do. But understand, while this first one strays hard into politics, the changes that have occured to the Floridian psyche go so far beyond elections and candidates. We are a different people now.
I knew they would bring charges against Trump before the Jan 6 Commission ever even began. It's been so incredibly obvious for a really long time. The Truman Show has been working feverishly to eliminate Trump before he was even inaugurated. We're talking years now!
What the US govt did with Russiagate was simply heinous! And that was driven by Team Clinton (and her puppeteers), who didn't want to relinquish power. But no one cares about that because we're only allowed to talk about January 6th (and now documents) instead.
I've said since before this ABC TV Exec-produced film was even released that the end-result would be them bringing charges against Trump to set the morality binary of "You either support America and these charges, or you support Trump in court" and try and split the GOP vote. 🥱
We have a recent and robust data set out of Israel that showed NO BENEFIT AT ALL to Paxlovid unless you were 65yrs of age or older. And yet here our former Surgeon General broadcasts that we should "Get more people on Paxlovid".
But when Joe "Beat Pharma!" Biden has already purchased billions of this ineffective drug before we even knew if it worked, people like Adams and Biden (The Machine) are going to push propaganda to try and deploy it anyhow.
I've burned some bridges; some quite intentionally. But I've also put in effort at building some others. I see value in both, as counterintuitive as that may be. The wide array of individuals I interact with on here gives me great hope for us. I never lost faith in our people. 🇺🇸
I see it the same today as I did when I started this. We're a horseshoe. We have wackos on the edges, both sides convinced their own shit doesn't stink. Of course it does, it reeks! And then there is America that resides in between. We're really not that different. Countrymen.
But we're just not able to see that right now. And that's by design, because the powers that be don't want us to. I've grown more and more to believe in the notion of the "duopoly". Neither the GOP/DNC has our best interests in mind. They have their own selfish interests ahead.