Well…the second court action today makes me smile a lot, too, when it was announced this morning that NY AG James filed suit to dissolve the NRA due to overwhelming fraud by the officers of the nonprofit where over 60 million dollars were stolen between 2015 and 2018…how do you feel about your donations now maga NRA members? How does it feel that the only thing your money went for is lining Wayne LaPierre’s pockets? It’s been well known and documented in many news stories that the NRA was just a slush fund for grift and the repubs and even for funneling Russian money into our political campaigns…again, these are state charges which are out of reach of trump and this is the same process that shut down and dissolved idiot boy’s supposed charity a couple of years ago…so a two for one day and I think I’ll be smiling all day and waiting for the Duetche Bank shoes to drop….
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The NRA is done…
Well…with the news that the Russian spy Maria Buttina is changing her plea from not guilty to guilty and is cooperating with the FBI, the NRA is done. If you didn’t read about this one, during the 2016 election, Buttina did her best to insinuate herself into the NRA to use the NRA as a money funnel to the trump campaign…with the NRA spending almost 3 times what they have ever spent on a presidential election…and the money came from an arm of the NRA that didn’t have to disclose it’s donors…again, something that had never happened before. Buttina’s handler in this whole spy operation (and it has all of the hallmarks of a Russian spy operation) was Alexander Torshin, who is a close ally of Putin’s and sits on the board of Russia’s central bank….and someone who had access to all the money he needed to funnel to the NRA. Oh, a twist to this story is that, after it was revealed that Buttina was going to flip, Torshin “retired” from his roles in government in Russia and has disappeared…or Putin has disappeared him to try to sever the ties back to him and the Russian government. Tomorrow is going to be the day that Buttina is heading back to court to change her plea so there should be some more details coming…on thing we can’t forget is that Don Jr. met with Torshin and Buttina at some conference in DC during the campaign…I wonder what that was about? Impeach….
An NRA talking point dies….
Well….with the good news that the NRA is getting it’s records ready for prosecutors who are looking at the conspiracy between Russia and the NRA to funnel Russian money to repub candidates, there was another little noted story about a new study that kills one of the NRA’s talking points that open carry and their more guns everywhere makes us safer and lowers the crime rate. Just one little problem with that…it doesn’t…in fact right to carry laws actually increase the crime rates where they are passed…the study found that in the ten years after these idiotic laws are passed, the incidents of violent crime will be 13 to 15% higher than if they stayed sane and didn’t pass these laws. So, the next time this talking point comes up, we all should call bullshit on it…more guns mean more crime…period. Geez….
Now they’re hypocrites about free markets…
Well…as the pressure mounts on the corporate supporters of the NRA to flee before permanent damage is done to their brands, we now have another huge bout of hypocrisy by the repubs in Georgia (are you surprised?). The free market is just fine, fine, fine, as long as it supports the right wing assholes in this country, but as soon as it doesn’t go their way, they screech that it’s unfair and try to use the government to force business to do what they want. The latest is the idiot repubs in Georgia threatening Delta airlines with increased taxes sine they broke with the NRA and decided to not be part of NRA sanctioned murder machine that almost daily kills children across the country. And, do you know what Delta did? They immediately started looking for a new state to move their headquarters to…putting 30,000 jobs in Georgia at risk and making real the possibility of billions of dollars of economic losses just so the lieutenant governor can earn his NRA bribes. This has fallout past just Delta moving…with the politicization of business tax breaks in Georgia, Amazon is now re-thinking putting a headquarters there citing the uncertainty of doing something that would make the idiot repubs there mad and bringing retaliation down on them. So, nice job hypocrites…I hope the bribes you got from the NRA are enough to offset the billions of dollars you are going to lose with your bullshit….and I can’t wait for you to explain to the 30,000 people who will be out of jobs that the NRA is more important than them…November is coming….geez…
The NRA is a bunch of whiners…
Well…I have been laughing at the meltdown that has been coming out of the NRA over the past couple of weeks as their advertisers and partners flee them in the aftermath of the Florida murders…as people rightly assign blame to them for preventing meaningful gun control by buying repub politicians. The response from the NRA to these latest developments started out with denial…that there was no problem with losing partners since it was a only a few leaving…that changed when almost all of their corporate partners bailed over the past week and then they turned to anger at the companies that left calling them “unpatriotic” and bleating that the NRA was the only organization protecting our “freedom” and that these companies would be sorry for leaving…that one made me laugh since it was just so predictable…sounding like an 8 year old throwing a tantrum. The latest is that they are now attacking the survivors of Parkland, calling the teenagers “bullies” for working to neuter the NRA and make sure that anyone taking money from them will be voted out of office. Now, that is just too rich..the biggest bully in the political sphere is calling a bunch of teenagers bullies for standing up to the NRA and fighting their nonsense….I just love that the nuts at the NRA are finally getting a dose of their own medicine…maybe we can get some sensible gun legislation now…..geez…
Let’s stop the NRA nonsense of arming teachers…
Well…yesterday, the idiot trump, under prompting by the NRA (or is it under orders from the NRA?) proposed that the solution to school massacres is to arm every teacher in the US since “the only solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” to quote the NRA. Yeah, there are a few huge problems with that…the first is that, once the shooting starts, the teachers will certainly be outgunned since there is no crazy assed proposal to give all of them an AR-15, the murder weapon of choice for school shooters, and second, according to sheriffs across the country, is that in an active shooter situation they don’t know who the good guy is so any teacher responding would be just as likely to be killed by the police than by the terrorist. This whole fallacy that “good guys with guns” can take down bad guys with guns was proven by the attack on St. Ronnie of Reagan when his 12 good guys with guns (the Secret Service) couldn’t stop the one “bad guy with a gun” that shot him three times before anyone could wrestle him to the ground. This whole nonsense is just a ploy to change the conversation away from gun control and getting rid of some of the 300 million guns in this country to how can they sell more guns and continue to normalize them in every facet of our lives….even the conservative police departments across this country don’t want more guns…they even want to end open carry and concealed carry since it makes life more dangerous for them…but, the NRA doesn’t give a shit…they just want to sell, sell, sell….geez….
The right smears the victims…
Well…almost as predictable as the sun rising, the hard right, pushed by the NRA is smearing the kids who survived the shooting in Parkland Florida, calling them “FBI plants” and rolling out the right’s perennial bugaboo, George Soros, as being behind the student protests. No, assholes…these are teenagers who have had enough, who look to the adults in this country to protect them, and all they see is the repubs saying there is nothing that can be done, that dead children are the price we pay for “freedom”. I understand how they feel…not from a school shooting when I was young, but we did walk out at my high school to protest the Vietnam war and the lies that started it and continued it…and the same tactics were used against us that are being used now…calling us communists and un-patriotic while we were just trying to stop something we knew was wrong. Just like the Parkland kids. The knuckle dragging, NRA funded gun fetishists on the right are trying to use the fact that these kids are organized and putting together protests so quickly that it must be a left wing plot, that no group of teenagers could do what they’ve done in the past few days…hey, knuckle draggers…do you know any modern teenagers? With how social media is ingrained into their lives, they know how to use it to organize…I mean, I even set up my Facebook page in less than 5 minutes, and I’m an old guy. It is imperative that those of us on the right side of this issue, those of us who support these kids trying to finally DO something about children being murdered have their backs, and to push back on these right wing assholes who would smear and denigrate their efforts…go get ‘em Parkland!
trump is the most vile human on the planet…
Well…as you know, and as it seems like every frickin day, 17 more people were killed yesterday as a domestic, white, terrorist attacked a high school in Florida….and who should be held responsible for this heinous act? According to the most vile person in the world, the idiot trump, is it the classmates and neighbors of the murderer, not the NRA who keep pushing for more and more lax controls of these military style weapons, not the chickenshit legislators in this country who suckle at the teat of the NRA and cower at the NRA’s money (much of which comes from Russia)…no, it’s teenaged kids who are at fault because they didn’t do something, something to stop themselves from being killed. This is the most vile thing I have ever heard, from the most vile person who has ever lived in this country…so now, instead of being teenagers and worrying about teenaged things, the idiot *president thinks it’s not his responsibility to keep our children safe, it’s not our legislators responsibility to keep our children safe, it’s our teenaged children who must take care of themselves and make themselves safe…this is one of the sickest things I have ever heard….no, trump, it is your fucking job to protect our children…it is the repubs in control of this government and you do nothing…you rip childhood away from every teenager in this country to keep the NRA happy while you do nothing….all of you fucking repubs should be ashamed of yourselves…okay…I know this is the first time I’ve ever used this kind of language here and I apologize to my readers if it has offended you..but I just can’t take this anymore…it is time to do something…my heart is broken…
It’s all connected…
Well…another day, another 17 dead in another school shooting…I am damn tired of writing about this crap…but, one thing popped into my head today in the way that only my brain can do…you remember a while back I wrote about how the Russians funneled over 50 million dollars through surrogates to the NRA that they then used to support repub candidates across this country…including just about all of the repubs that were running…and this morning it dawned on me that it is all connected….that the Russians are making sure that our streets are flooded with guns as part of their attack on the US that has been going on since I was a kid…that the cyber attacks, the support of Nazi groups here, and making sure that the school killings continue is all part of Putin’s plan to disrupt our society and keep us busy while he continues, with repub help, to undermine domestic society. This includes installing the idiot trump who has done his job to destroy our influence in the world so Putin and his cronies can step into the void that this withdrawal has created. We need to look at this as part of a huge conspiracy that the repubs are complicit in by not doing their jobs….it is not a standalone discrete event, but just another facet of the Russian attack on the US that all of our IC says is ongoing but trump and the rest of the repubs are ignoring…and that is treason, plain and simple….
Let’s hope the NRA goes down….
Well….the coffee has finally started to work so I thought I’d come here to talk about a little article I read this morning about the NRA…you know, the hate group that is responsible for thousands of deaths every year in the US…this morning, it was reported that the FBI is investigating where the 30 million dollars the NRA spent to help elect the idiot trump came from. Yep, and the conjecture is that it was funneled from Putin and his cronies…well…not even conjecture…there is fire where the smoke is coming from or the FBI wouldn’t be involved….it’s just like the American citizens who were instrumental in funneling Russian oligarch’s money to the repubs in the election…and this wasn’t even restricted to the idiot trump but the money went to all levels of repbus, including Ryan and McConnell. My only hope is that this investigation proves the criminality of the NRA and shatters that terrorist organization so we can finally have some sane gun laws here in the US…..geez….