Colin Kaepernick cashes in on wokenness once again.

Crime surges as Democrats focus on blaming everybody else.

And Don Lemon explains that Black Lives Matter doesn't include all black lives.

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us a five-star view to help us push past that 100,000 mark. Okay, so this is an amazing country.

It truly is. It's an incredible, incredible country. It's an incredible country because basically you can never underestimate the power of the American people to make somebody extraordinarily welcome. If you are, let's say, a mediocre quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, you know, somebody who didn't kneel for the anthem and who took the Niners to the Super Bowl is, you know, good for one season, basically. And then you started to fall apart

because people sort of figured out your bag of tricks and sort of figured you out as a quarterback.

And soon you found yourself backing up the immortal Blaine Gabbard in San Francisco.

And you were on bench. And you started thinking about things. And soon you were kneeling for the

national anthem while maintaining at the same time, you were not protesting the American flag or America more deeply. You were really just protesting police brutality. It was just police brutality. That's all it was about. It was about police brutality. And it turns out that that was not the most popular thing to do because people don't like when people kneel for the national anthem or kneel for the American flag. And also people didn't quite believe you When you said it was all about police brutality. After all, you were wearing like Marxist T-shirts and you had socks with pictures of cops as pigs on them. And overall, you just didn't seem like that great a dude. The good news is that in America, this racist hellscape, this evil racist hellscape of America, you can make millions of dollars by calling America an evil racist hellscape. It is the easiest way. It is so, so simple in today's day. You can be Robin DeAngelo and write an awful crap book about how all of America, except for you, is filled with white people who are deeply white supremacists, but you've internalized your own white supremacy. And so you can now lecture all of us. You can be made a millionaire on the back of diversity classes. You can be Sarah Rao, and you can give lessons to woke white ladies about how America is evil, and they are evil, and you can charge them thousands of dollars for the privilege. And you can be Colin Kaepernick. Everyone, young kids, you could grow up to be Colin Kaepernick, not to be like quarterback Colin Kaepernick

because he's not playing. And not to be like an astronaut, you can't grow up to be like a soldier

or the president of the United States, what you can be, everyone can be this. You can grow up

to be somebody who makes millions of dollars of calling America a terrible, horrible,

evil country. You can do it. Dream the dream.

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