As Seth Meyers points out, every time Trump steps out from the bubble of Fox News, it's a disaster for him.
So one has to wonder why Trump does it. At this point, we have two candidates that have a propensity to say stupid shit, but we only have one who lies with every breath he takes, over 20,000 lies in three and a half years. He's a fucking bully who specializes in making enemies of our long-term friends. He can't be bothered to do anything meaningful about this pandemic, because that requires steadiness of purpose and speaking the truth to the American people, two things he just cannot master.
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Now, to shift gears to the NRA.
You've probably read that the attorney general of New York is suing to dissolve the NRA. If you read any of the conservative media, you'll see a lot of teeth being gnashed over an assault by a liberal on a storied organization.
Let's be honest about that: There is a germ of truth in that charge by conservatives. Nobody sued to dissolve the Komen Foundation, TIGHAR or the Wounded Warrior Project after it came to light that they were big on feathering the nests of their bosses.
But let's also be honest about this: The NRA did it to themselves. You only have to surf the online firearms communities to see frank discussions of how much of a shitstorm the NRA has become. There a lots of allegations of how the CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has been treating the NRA as his personal piggy bank, to the point that he wanted the NRA to buy him a $5 million mansion in Texas, a purchase that fell through because it became a PR nightmare. Through the NRA's ad agency, an apartment was rented for a comely intern (allegations were that she was WLP's chippie) and over a quarter-million was charged for WLP's purchases at a tony boutique in Beverly Hills.
Second Amendment activists have been trying to clean up the NRA for years. But WLP keeps doing what he does, including purging directors who opposed his kleptocratic regime and rigging the board elections. The NRA has been shedding members. If you're a member (other than a life member), you've probably gotten one email after another offering reduced membership rates. But nobody can penetrate the armored bubble WLP and his acolytes have erected.
Maybe the NY AG can. It's likely a politically inspired lawsuit. But it's a lawsuit that would never stood a chance of success if WLP had not mortally wounded the NRA from within.
If we have an assault weapon and high-cap magazine bans in the near future, a goodly share of the blame should attach to WLP.
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Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff known for his controversial hardline tactics against undocumented immigrants, lost his bid to win back his former position in Maricopa County.Signals: Alfa! Mike! Foxtrot!
Arpaio lost Tuesday's Republican primary for Maricopa County sheriff to his former chief deputy Jerry Sheridan by about 6,000 votes, according to the results from the Maricopa County Elections Department.
Adios, you fascistic motherfucker.
Not sure the NRA filing is as political as retributional. The NRA, under WLP, made a shitload of enemies in New York, and yet remained registered and based in New York. Something about not shitting in your own rice bowl comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA has really been no friend to the 2nd Amendment. They did however, serve as a convenient overt boogeyman for the Left to focus on, while the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America won case after case, fighting infringements on a Constitutional Right. I’m not sorry to see them and most especially, Wayne LaPierre go by the wayside and reap the fruits of corruption that they have sown.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of fool puts a two inch red dot in the back window of the pickup, right behind their head? Or the plastic body parts just aft of the gas tank? Oh, right, fools; rubes, easy-pickin's, some bright boy getting rich not underestimating the stupidity of your average American.
DeleteReminds me of when the boys and I had that little spread up in Montana, and the neighbors were all hot and hopped up, armed and dangerous or so they said, were gonna' overthrow the government. When the feds showed up I just sat there on my sack of seeds.
Or maybe it goes back to when I was a kid growing in the middle of nowhere out on the Oregon High Desert and they wanted to come into the schools and teach us kids how to shoot. G'da got a good laugh out of that.
The NRA is a joke, always has been.
That wasn't supposed to be a reply to you, CI, no ire. I only noticed coming back with an addendum, because as an obscure Z list blogger I tend to the obtuse.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure all here can remember the canard about registering your guns (look how well that turned out for my kind) and the government will know just where to find you. Kinda' like joining the NRA.
In was a member back when they ran the hunter safety program you had to take to get your hunting license. Not that I needed it by then, but I wasn't the only one there. Let my membership lapse in the late seventies when I lost interest in hunting.
ReplyDeleteNot positive, but last I checked they didn't run the hunter safety program in California any more.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Born and raised in Idaho. Dad started taking me hunting at three years old.
ReplyDeleteNever much saw any sense in sending money to some city slicker organization like the NRA. Saw through that scam long ago...