Episode 688 | Nike, Ross & Kaepernick | AOC Snaps over Genocide, GOP mad about her BEHAVIOR?!

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🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Episode 688 | Nike is catching heat over Kaepernick once again. This time over a very poorly designed Betsy Ross-themed running shoe. Seriously, have you seen the shoe?

Kaepernick is saying that it's because of the shoe's connection to slavery, but he could have just as well said the shoe was just ugly and no black person would ever by that -- even without knowing the flag has ties to slavery and to present day white supremacy.

In other news, AOC got angry at genocide and screamed at some working-class border patrol agents. Obviously, Republicans are concerned with what really matters like treating people like humans at the border, ensuring that children are specially cared for, and creating a sensible and humane asylum process. HAHA, yeah right. They're concerned with AOC yelling over human rights violations.

Let's talk about how Republicans regularly use "civility" to create a false-equivalence between AOC yelling and the genocide she was yelling over.

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0:00.0	The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support.
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0:12.0	So Nike again is taking and join the Progressive Army.
0:17.0	So Nike again is taking heat over Colin Kappernik. This time it is over the Betsy Ross flag that was
0:27.0	stitched in on a I guess celebratory line of Nike for the 4th of July upcoming and word got back to Colin Kappernik that they were going to put out these shoes with the Betsy Ross flag.
0:37.5	And Colin Kappernik called up his people at Nike and said no.
0:42.0	And so Nike has decided to pull it.
0:45.5	Colin Kappernik's justification or reasoning for this.
0:49.2	As it's reported, no one has been able to speak to Kappernik himself,
0:52.4	but as it reported through Nike, that he, that
0:56.2	Kappernik did not like the association that flag had with slavery.
1:01.3	Betsy Rall's flag, 13 stars, 13 colonies, obviously during the height of American slavery.
1:08.9	And so, conservatives are losing their minds.
1:21.0	And I guess that's to be expected to a certain extent mainly because that's what conservatives are going to always do. It doesn't matter if a position is meritorious. It doesn't matter if they know we're right. It doesn't matter if they know we're right. It doesn't matter if they believe the same thing that we believe
1:35.2	Republicans jobs, conservatives job will always be to take the opposition
1:41.3	against no matter what so so yeah I mean we fully expected them to do
1:46.2	this over the Betsy over Colin Kappernik and this flag situation but keep in mind they would
1:52.3	do it no matter what they will always
1:55.8	stand on the opposite side of anything that is remotely progressive you can
1:59.6	guarantee that so okay they're losing their minds and saying, oh, so it actually was about the flag all alone.
2:07.0	Well, this flag is even more problematic than the United States flag that we have now,
2:12.0	or in fact, actually actually almost fell into their
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