re: VERY High T tonight! 1 HOUR AND 25 MINUTES OF HIGH T

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I didn't see it, but you know Trump just made Kaepernick more famous and more of a martyr to HIS base, right?

It's called the bully pulpit for a reason.

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Kaepernick knelt for the anthem for a couple of the previous preseason games before anyone in the media caught on to it. At that time he was a mediocre QB, not well known outside the sports world, and his okay was regressing (post Harbaugh) along with whatever popularity he had. And he was alone in this kneeling and its social activism, and what he was causes he was supposedly standing for/against weren't that exteme or controversial (police brutality).

Then all of a sudden the outrage came. Yet, despite his continued mediocrity he all of a sudden became much more well-known, far more well-known than ever before or at a level usually exclusive to the Brady's and Manning's of the NFL. And all of a sudden more people started kneeling, and all of a sudden his activism became more exteme and more controversial. And all of a sudden the trend continued.

I wonder if the outrage had anything to do with his increasing popularity, the increasing popularity of the kneeling and activism, and the increasing extremity of the activism. It's almost like the outrage is making the thing that's causing the outage to become more prevalent and exteme.