Former President Obama had sharp words for the politics of division. Coming from a president of the party that created identitity poliics, that seemed a bit rich. When I was kind, the circus consisted of an audience of normals watching clowns in the ring. For the Kavanauch hearings, it seems like the normal person is in the ring, surrounded by clowns. Nike made Colin Kaepernick the center of their their new, big marketing campaign, implying that his stand on the flag made him sacrified his football career. In reality, he sacrificed his football career by not having the skill–and having too much arrogance–to sustain it. Twitter finally permabanned Alex Jones and InfoWars. Which is probably exactly what Alex Jones wanted.
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