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Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a second letter to the NRA asking for details about the pro-gun lobbying group’s finances. The letter zeroes in on the group’s ties to Russian banker and accused mob boss Aleksandr Torshin, a longtime confidant of several consecutive NRA presidents and a “life member” of the group.
The FBI is reportedly probing whether Torshin illegally funneled money to the NRA to help Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Wyden letter asks about the now-notorious trip to Moscow taken in 2015 by a number of NRA executives and supporters, including then-Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke, as well about the NRA’s “Golden Ring of Freedom” program, reserved for million-dollar-plus donors.
In one of the pictures tweeted by Torshin’s Russian gun-rights group, Right to Bear Arms, the head of the Golden Ring of Freedom program, Joe Gregory, can be seen in attendance.
“Please identify the purpose of Mr. Gregory’s December 2015 trip to Moscow and confirm whether he attended in his capacity as the individual who runs your organization’s million dollar donor program,” Wyden wrote.
You know what, I'd like to know the answer to these questions as well.
But for right now I will simply assume that the NRA is a terrorist organization who receives financing from Russian mobsters.
And unlike what the NRA promotes, I bet this is not simply a conspiracy theory.
Awe come on that photo, with all the "funny writing" in the background was taken in the USA.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the penalties for a non-profit to take money from a foreign enemy?
@4:13--Why should a non-profit in the USA be taking money from a foreign adversary and then funneling that money into political campaigns???
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sen. Wyden; you rock!
The NRA is about making money. They have no conscience. The flag waving is just a ruse.
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Cra$H on ~IT~
Deletehttps://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/7/17091084/stock-market-gary-cohn-dow
If they're calling it the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, you know it won't do any of those things. In fact we should be worried about recession, deregulation and losing all of our consumer protections.
DeleteFuck the Democrats. They're getting as bad as the Republicans now.
Idaho and Montana. They're getting as bad as the DINOS in the South.
More eroding of Dodd-Frank.
More risk. Even slightly more risk under 45 is too much risk.
"Although the bill is supposed to benefit small banks, the CBO said it’s possible that JP Morgan and Citibank, specifically, would benefit from changes to the way that regulators measure capitalization for banks that are “predominantly engaged in custody, safekeeping, and asset servicing activities.” "
And there you have it. Tell me again how the Democrats are any different than the Republicans when it comes to sucking up to and protecting Wall Street.
"The Crapo bill contains a host of other provisions, including one that would reduce data collection used to detect discriminatory lending practices and others that Democrats say would protect consumers. "
LOL. They call it the Crapo Bill. More like Piece of Crap Bill.
Have they destroyed Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Protection Agency yet?
"The Senate is expected to vote on final passage of the bill later this week. It’s unclear whether the House would vote to pass it as is or amend it with other changes, such as provisions undermining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That agency, created under President Barack Obama, is a favorite target of congressional Republicans."
And there you have it.
Ru$$ian Redrum
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– Radiation unlikely –"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/uk-police-know-substance-involved-suspected-poisoning-russian-double-agent-sergei-skripal/
North Korean Redrum
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Your headline is incomplete: DEMOCRAT Senator wants to know... I know at this point it is obvious that anyone in govt trying to actually find out the truth is a democrat, but don't let that stop you from rubbing it in. ;P
ReplyDeleteDemocraTIC Senator.
DeleteYou're using Republican-Speak. Grammar was never their long suit. Or spelling.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plans-to-blame-video-games-for-gun-violence?ref=home
ReplyDeleteOBAMA!"“We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds, and their minds are being formed,” Trump said. “I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts.”
It’s a common talking point for the National Rifle Association—a key Trump ally—as well. In the wake of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Wayne LaPierre, the group’s executive vice president, took aim squarely at the video game industry.
“There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people, through vicious, violent video games with names like ‘Bulletstorm,’ ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ ‘Mortal Kombat,’ and “Splatterhouse,’” he said.
“Guns don’t kill people,” LaPierre declared. “Video games, the media, and Obama’s budget kill people.”"
Grab um by the pu$$y rioT! "Russia MP: 'I don't feel people up. Well, OK, just a little'"He also said that female journalists who felt afraid to cover the Russian parliament should seek work elsewhere." <FUCK THAT.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8
Delete'AmeriKa, Fuck Yeah!'
Has Sarah got that newspapers list ready?
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Beto O'Rourke won the primary to challenge Ted Cruz and Cruz is shitting kittens in fear.
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"Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a warning for his fellow Republicans: The party is in danger of losing both houses of Congress in November.
Cruz said the “extreme left” could turn out in big numbers, motivated to fight the agenda of President Donald Trump.
“We know that the left is going to show up,” Cruz told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “The extreme left, they’re angry. They’re filled with rage. They hate the president.”
Cruz also said that if the economy is booming and conservatives show up at the polls, his party could pick up as many as seven seats in the Senate and hold a “large, functioning majority.” "
Why is it important to hold both the House and the Senate asap?
Just in case Trump has an opportunity to nominate another Supreme Court Justice. Sucks is going to be the deciding vote that breaks the unions so the Republicans can start to undo the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt. Social Security and Medicare won't be far behind. Plus a whole litany of other destructions.
"If Democrats take control of the House, he predicted that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would become speaker again and immediately initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump."
(Well, no she won't. But she will protect Mueller.)
"Cruz himself is up for re-election. While his seat is considered safe, he’s facing a challenge from Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from the El Paso area.
O’Rourke raised $2.3 million in the first six weeks of 2018, or nearly triple the $800,000 raised by Cruz over that period, according to the Texas Tribune.
While O’Rourke is still considered a long shot, the Cook Political Report changed Cruz’s seat from “Solid R” to a “Likely R” earlier this year. "
May I add this same scenario played out in California with Darrell Issa. He won his last re-election by a squeaker and was looking at losing this go around, so he decided not to run.
May the same thing happen to Cruz only much faster. Like may he LOSE in November. The timing couldn't be more perfect.
“The extreme left, they’re angry. They’re filled with rage. They hate the president.”
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but it was ok when the morons filled with rage elected trump