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Peternick's Response To American History
I want to thank Colin Kaepernick for teaching me what true bravery is. Before his powerful act of resistance to America, I thought heroes were the kind of guys and gals I served with in the Army. But I’ve learned that being a hero really means being willing trash your own country and thereby risk drowning in the tsunami of slobber spilling from the pie hole of every leftist dork from here to ESPN’s studios.

Get ready, surviving Tuskegee Airmen! The zillionaire manchild with a room full of colorful sneakers is going to help you get woke. Prepare to receive a knowledge download on oppression from a pampered prince who is unworthy to kiss your combat boots.

I get a lot of grief for having absolutely no interest in following, watching or even
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These are the kind of people who argue that, because America waited ~70 years to engage in a war in which hundreds of thousands died in order to free the slaves instead of doing it right away, its history is one of unblemished evil and it has forfeited any legitimacy 150+ years later. Of course, these graduates of the John Oliver School of Lib Cliché History neglect to mention those hundreds of thousands who died in order to free the slaves. In court, the response to offering such evidence would be “Objection! That fact hurts my case!”

President Obama and Hillary Clinton fall into this category. Whenever they have to stand up and pretend to love this country, it’s pretty clear that they think America would be much better off without any actual Americans.

Then there are the folks who don’t get how the whole free speech thing works. Let’s take it from the top: Just because you exercise a right does not necessarily mean you are not a blithering idiot. If that were the case, then the many quarter-wits sounding off about how Kaepernick is some sort of hero for merely using the rights his sorry rear end neither earned nor defended should be rallying around Donald Trump. I mean, Trump is speaking freely, so by their logic they hate everything America stands for by disagreeing with him.

Wait, what? This is where they explain that it’s different because they don’t agree with

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