I've been wondering why Nike would choose to alienate so many customers with their idiotic new ad campaign featuring that whiny, privileged, sub-talented Kaepernick.
This article at Conservative Treehouse has an insight I hadn't thought of. Read the whole thing if you have time.
"The agenda is to defeat the Trump-trade-reset; however, they, in this example Levi Strauss, cannot openly side with China and Asia against the United States. The PR optics would be horrible…. So they do it covertly by supporting domestic political policies and opposition toward the President who is threatening the construct of their multinational business model.
Together the NFL, Nike and Levi Strauss stand to retain their current level of trade benefit (profit) if President Trump is blocked from instituting America-First trade and manufacturing policies. Supporting gun control (Levi Strauss) or supporting BLM/Antifa (Nike) is simply a tool to support the political opposition of the policy-maker adverse to their financial interests.
Can you see what’s happening?
Just like the DeceptiCON moves in the U.S. Congress, this is exactly how U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue works. Donohue is aligned with both Democrat and Republican wings of the UniParty. Any group in the momentary position to best support the efforts of his Wall Street corporations is where Donohue focuses his lobbying efforts."
The backlash to the ad has been massive, but Nike doesn't care. Now I know why.
Trump is the only one who can fight for us on this scale. Boycotting and/or burning shoes/jerseys/blue jeans will be ineffective.
ReplyDeleteMy Senator's affiliation is D-Nike.
ReplyDeleteAnd - see here's the thing - reasonable people could be for or against the minutia of policy as it came down the neoliberal pike.
The truth is I bought into most of the free trade neoliberal program of the 90s. There _is_ something to be said for the free exchange of goods and services - and ideas with them.
It benefited technological advance in particular, and advanced tech was our national edge for decades. We drained the worlds brains and they worked for us. And it really did work that way for quite a while.
No more though.
The Big Lie was that everybody would have seats when the music stopped. I figured since I wasn't the one telling that lie, I wasn't complicit. But I was, still. Karma is a bitch.