Here's another story about Colin Kaepernick. And if that subject seems tiresome to you, that’s because the people who despise him have angled for it to be as such. This week’s storyline concerns the Wisconsin legislature, which planned on moving forward with a resolution to honor the heroes of Black History Month, until one swollen asshole in the state GOP noticed that Kaepernick—who very much deserves to be honored for his activism—was among the honorees. From my colleague Luis Paez-Pumar over at Deadspin:

Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, who is both white and a Republican, would only tell reporters on Tuesday that Kaepernick was kept off of the Republican counter-resolution “for obvious reasons,” and went on to say that the former Niners quarterback is “obviously a controversial figure.”

Like Paez-Pumar, I wanna focus in on Steineke (who has a rap sheet that includes a hit-and-run and a DUI) saying that his party was acting to exclude Kaepernick “for obvious reasons.” These reasons are not obvious to people who are sympathetic to Kaepernick’s cause, but no matter. Steineke wants his blackballing to be treated as a given. Automatic. He wants you to accept that Kaepernick deserves what’s coming to him. This is, ahem, obviously a grotesque heaping of bullshit, but it’s straight out of the GOP playbook to treat injustices as obvious. Their goal is to wear you down with outrage until there’s no more outrage left to give. They want you to give up and live with their disgusting villainy.

Regarding Kaepernick, spectator wear-out is somewhat inevitable. He hasn’t played in the NFL in two years. He’s not going to play in the NFL ever again, despite having career numbers and an on-tape résumé that merits a roster spot. And since there’s no new gameplay of Kaepernick to watch, nor any public interviews to pore over since he hasn’t granted any, making his case involves re-litigating shit we’ve already litigated many, many times over. It’s an old story, all by design. To Steineke, it is bothersome that a peaceful protester like Kaepernick would be bothered by something, and he believes that his agitation is far more valid than Kaepernick’s rightful agitation over policemen indiscriminately shooting minority offenders. Steineke, like the others of his ilk, just wants you to get over it. And he wants to portray anyone who objects as "triggered" over nothing.

This is the eternal operating procedure of the powerful: to feign fatigue over outrages until everyone else adopts that same fatigue for real. If you point out a flaw in the system, then YOU are the problem. You’re a whiny, codependent baby who can’t get over it. And they want you to get over everything. Police brutality? Get over it. Wealth inequality? Get over it. Encroaching climate catastrophe? Get over it. Can’t pay your medical bills or your student loans? Get over it. Everyone with a legit gripe is a coward to them, especially if they happen to come from a traditionally disadvantaged position.

These cheese-humping Republican legislators in Wisconsin are hardly alone in crowing about how everyone except for them needs to get over it. When congressional representative Ilhan Omar grilled Elliott Abrams, a man already convicted on two counts of deliberately withholding information from Congress, and asked him if he would support armed groups engaging in war crimes in Venezuela (the oversight of which Abrams has been assigned by the State Department), Abrams had the gall to treat Omar as if she were the criminal: