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2016 Postmortem

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IronLionZion

(45,639 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 06:25 PM Oct 2016

Dear Donald Trump: I played in the NFL. Here’s what we really talk about in the locker room. [View all]

http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/10/10/13230346/donald-trump-locker-room-talk-chris-kluwe

Dear Donald Trump,

Last Friday, audio leaked of you making incredibly demeaning comments about women and bragging about sexual assault. When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was "locker room talk," and it's just how guys speak about women.

You're wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish, plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy.

How do I know this? Simple. I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility. Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys I wouldn't want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.

Now, Donald, I'm sure you're wondering just what it is we talk about in a professional locker room, if we don't spend all our time regarding 50 percent of the population as mobile fuck receptacles eagerly awaiting our tiny-handed grasp on their love lapels. I shall educate you!

We talk about our families. We talk about our significant others, our children, and our parents. We talk about our fears that if a Hitler wannabe who can't even string together a coherent statement on domestic policy becomes president, what that might mean for those of us who are married to a member of a minority community, or are a member of a minority community, or have children going to schools where hopefully nobody screams racial epithets at them or tells them to go back to [insert foreign country they couldn't identify on a map here].


Chris Kluwe, Punter Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks





What locker rooms has Trump been going to? Normal people don't behave like him.
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I doubt Trump has seen the inside of a locker room since middle school liberal N proud Oct 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2016 #25
Must be in Trump golf club locker rooms Angry Dragon Oct 2016 #2
With other wealthy and BlueMTexpat Oct 2016 #42
Rec'ing my new boyfriend's article Happyhippychick Oct 2016 #3
LOL Get in line! SunSeeker Oct 2016 #12
Smart and good lookin. In that order! Happyhippychick Oct 2016 #14
Wow-- thanks for posting ailsagirl Oct 2016 #21
+1! eom BlueMTexpat Oct 2016 #43
Thank you, Chris. sunweaver Oct 2016 #4
Welcome to DU, sunweaver!! ailsagirl Oct 2016 #22
Yeah Chris DK504 Oct 2016 #24
Yep, and he catches a lot of flak for it, unfortunately. geardaddy Oct 2016 #55
Welcome to DU! IronLionZion Oct 2016 #26
Welome :) blueseas Oct 2016 #54
the whole mercuryblues Oct 2016 #5
Chris is really a great guy. I remember him posting on Reddit /r/NFL back when he was still playing RAFisher Oct 2016 #6
Trump's "excuse" based on typical rightwing fantasy about... Beartracks Oct 2016 #7
K and r. cwydro Oct 2016 #8
Sucks to be Deplorable Don. MoonRiver Oct 2016 #9
Of course he hears it in locker rooms GulfCoast66 Oct 2016 #10
Melania was 3 months pregnant then. Advanced enough for Donald J tRump to know. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #11
Powerful. Dayum. Love me some Kluwe. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #13
Excellent! Scurrilous Oct 2016 #15
Wow, there goes my stereotype about dumb jocks. smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #16
What a family, thank you saidsimplesimon Oct 2016 #17
Beautiful! Shivers! Love! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #18
Wow, that is an awesome statement! Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #19
K & R LAS14 Oct 2016 #20
Fantastic. Thank you Chris Kluwe!!!!! Hekate Oct 2016 #23
K&R mcar Oct 2016 #27
"Over-tanned ham hock", OMG. I love this guy catbyte Oct 2016 #28
I have little doubt..... creoledna Oct 2016 #29
Going to pass that along. K&R fleabiscuit Oct 2016 #30
My new hero NastyRiffraff Oct 2016 #31
Well, damn! demmiblue Oct 2016 #32
Excellent response! Far better than the "over-tanned ham hock" deserves. FailureToCommunicate Oct 2016 #33
K & R TomCADem Oct 2016 #34
You got to read the whole thing. Frank Cannon Oct 2016 #35
This is great.. I love the blowback from the locker room guys! Cha Oct 2016 #36
Watch Daily Show with Trevor Noah tonight if you can IronLionZion Oct 2016 #37
Kluwe has a book out for those of you who want more of his writing. Jim Lane Oct 2016 #38
Boom goes the dynamite. lark Oct 2016 #39
Here's another reason to admire Chris Kluwe. radicalliberal Oct 2016 #40
k&r Liberal_in_LA Oct 2016 #41
"Hose them down, hose them down, hose them down, and grab some tit" progree Oct 2016 #45
That is just great. Shared to fb. mnhtnbb Oct 2016 #46
You mean men are human too. njcpa1978 Oct 2016 #47
I'd Rec this 100 times if I could. OMG his use of language is brilliant. Love this line... Pacifist Patriot Oct 2016 #48
Ah, yes. Chris Kluwe has a way with words. malthaussen Oct 2016 #49
Admit it Chris Glaisne Oct 2016 #50
I hope he runs for office. He's one of the best human beings in this nation. blm Oct 2016 #51
I read the whole piece on Vox yesterday rivegauche Oct 2016 #52
K&R nt lillypaddle Oct 2016 #53
"over-tanned ham hock...." Jade Fox Oct 2016 #56
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