It was 2015. The National Rifle Association was arguably at a high point, basking in a series of legislative victories while recording a whopping $165.7 million in revenue from memberships.
Rubes, scared by a manufacturer trade group into buying some guy a bunch of expensive suits.
Itâs no surprise to find serious corruption in a group that has no legitimate purpose and a corporate culture based on deception. If gun rights were really âunder siege,â the members would be interested in getting results, and hold the leadership to account. But the groupâs purpose now is to propagandize on behalf of gun manufacturers in the face of demographic change that threatens those businesses. The aim is to sell more guns, and more expensive guns, to a shrinking group of people interested in buying them. So they lie, and when a group is run by liars the results we see are to be expected.
Think of the positive that these big donors could make if they put their money into an organization that was out to do some good in the world instead of hawking machines of death.
Hope the NRA continues on itâs path of destruction from within.
UhâŚcanât quite bring myself to sympathize much with a bunch of people who are happy to leave hundreds of millions of dollars to a white conservative identitarian organization, provided it is an adequately effective white conservative identitarian organization that doesnât embarrass them in the news.
ââDepending on who you are and who you know, and how much money youâre willing to give, you could work up and get to a higher caste,â he said.â I find it curious that, apparently unprompted, this man would choose the word âcasteâ for this groupâs levels of donor commitment. And am I the only one here who, when first opening the story, finds an ad at the header for a piece of furniture that has space to conceal two handguns that is unlocked with RFID cards? Because I seem to recall not so long ago the NRA being against the notion of handguns themselves that only operated when the user was wearing a ring having embedded in it an RFID chip that served as a safety allowing the gun to fire. This seems inconsistent at the least to me.
In other news, todayâs weather forecast is the familiar continuing pattern of presidential stupidity:
Iâd retitle this article, âWhy we need a progressive income tax.â
And, at 3:43 a.m. no less. Doesnât sound quite like the usual blather, again not writing his own tweets?
They can always get Uncle Vlad to make up any shortfalls.
I remember this was a kind of parlor game back in the early days. Seems you can tell what kind of device was used if you read the tweets on the phone app, which I donât have. Hardly matters, does it? He talks like a crazy person in front of the microphones in just the same way. And why would they release these in the small hours? To make him seem even crazier? In the end itâs all craziness and if itâs direct from Crazy Central or filtered through the crazy minions just doesnât seem to matter.
Define âa reckoning.â
The only change these brave revolutionaries want is better headlines in the media coverage of the NRA.
Giving away your entire estate to the Normalizing Russian Authority thugs.
Putin smiles and his pals at the Kremlin crack open another case of champagne!
TWO 48oz steaks???
I would think one would mark you as the glutten you are.
âDepending on who you are and who you know, and how much money youâre willing to give, you could work up and get to a higher casteâ
Sounds like Scientology.
Crap headline. Should read âDisgusted NRA donors removing NRA from their willsâ
TWO 48oz steaks???
Sounds like his will will be exercised sooner than he may think. Hopefully, the fascist ammosexuals are still excluded when he croaks.
Imagine how much happier Trump would be if he completely gave up Fox News and Twitter and instead spent quality time with Barron?
Give $1 million to the NRA and you get a bronze figurine of Charlton Heston and a lapel pin. Good GodâŚ
How much do I have to pay to not get those tchotchkes?