Courtesy of Mediaite:
National Rifle Association backers are outraged over claims a company decided to cut ties with the organization, so they’ve started blowing up their products.
Yeti, a Texas-based outfit for outdoor gear, is known for its pricey coolers which can cost more than $1,000 each. The company had been offering discounts to the NRA, but once those deals were ended, the NRA said Yeti was engaging in a boycott. That prompted owners of Yeti products to lash out, crushing, shooting and blowing up their purchases, The Washington Post reported.
The source of the boycott claims was a letter from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action stating that Yeti was the latest in a series of companies to end business with the organization following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, FL, the Post said.
Footage of NRA advocates above shows two women destroying a Yeti cooler in what’s being dubbed the ‘#YetiCoolerChallenge,’ then stating, “Yeti does not support the NRA, so we do not support Yeti.”
So let me see if I understand this.
If a company chooses to break ties with an organization that lobbies for gun manufacturers due to gun violence, these supporters of that organization respond with gun violence?
Good thinking.
Speaking of good thinking as it turns out the Yeti folks actually did NOT cut their ties with the NRA.
Though I would think they might be reconsidering that decision now.
So this is an example of a rational, mature response toward a company that is no longer going to offer them a discount?
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ReplyDeleteOh, dog. Trump is even fucking up ambassadors.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-harris-us-ambassador-south-korea_us_5adff33ee4b07be4d4c5cef3
"President Donald Trump has pulled his choice for U.S. ambassador to Australia and will send him to South Korea instead, according to several media reports.
The White House had tapped Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of U.S. Pacific Command, to be the next envoy to Australia in February. But officials told The New York Times that Harris would instead be nominated for the posting in Seoul just weeks before Trump is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Australian officials confirmed that Harris would not be coming to the country.
“We understand this sort of thing happens and we also understand the challenges the United States has on the Korean peninsula,” Julie Bishop, Australia’s foreign minister, told reporters.
Harris, who oversees about 375,000 military and civilian personnel, has taken a hard line against North Korea in the past, saying at a Senate confirmation hearing in 2014 that he viewed the country as “our most dangerous and volatile threat.”"
Because Australia and South Korea are so much alike?
Just. SHIT.
And another Federal Judge rules against DACA.
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"In September, President Donald Trump canceled the Obama-era DACA program, which shields undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as youths from deportation. But in a stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s legal logic, U.S. District Judge John Bates described the program’s cancellation as “arbitrary and capricious because the Department [of Homeland Security] failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.”
“Neither the meager legal reasoning nor the assessment of litigation risk provided by DHS to support its rescission decision is sufficient to sustain termination of the DACA program,” Bates wrote in the opinion.
The ruling has no immediate effect, and the decision to cancel DACA has already been stalled by a nationwide injunction. Bates’ ruling is unique, however, because it opens the possibility that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services might have to start accepting new DACA applications. The current injunctions only require the federal government to renew the applications of people who have already been approved for the program.
Bates gave the Department of Homeland Security another 90 days to give a better explanation for canceling the program before moving forward with the decision."
Trump's track record in the courts is pretty dismal. He's losing. A LOT. Biggest loser ever.
"...Trump's track record in the courts is pretty dismal. He's losing. A LOT. Biggest loser ever."
DeleteWhich explains why he wants to limit or completely destroy the court system.
From the text it looks like the judge ruled against the Administration's ending of DACA. DHS has 90 more days to come up with a good reason for ending the program.
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Do they understand that once they’ve bought the coolers, Yeti has their money? Destroying them is idiotic. They can’t be returned, can’t cash in a warranty (if there is one) and can’t sell or give it away to someone else. Dumb.
ReplyDeletePlus there's all that free publicity for the anti-gun folks to all go out and buy Yeti coolers.
DeleteAnd when it turns out that this is all nonsense, they have to go out and buy another cooler.
They do this over and over. Seems like the gun folks are just stupid and like to shoot up stuff. Any excuse will do. And they're always shooting up expensive stuff.
"...Yeti, a Texas-based outfit for outdoor gear, is known for its pricey coolers which can cost more than $1,000 each."
ReplyDeleteOnce again they are proving it does NOT take brains to be a gun nutter.
They blow holes in something that costs that much? Sounds to me as though they have more money than brains. Why am I surprised by this?
Yes I saw this. It reminds me of people that we may know that will always take the opposite side of an issue no matter what. It is like people that will defend something they do not understand nor actually care about. They just want to fight and hate and argue about anything. They live in a world of confusion and dysfunction. And these are the trump voters, deranged, dysfunctional, confused, angry and yes ignorant. So send money to the NRA, go buy more guns and fight fight fight fight. They need to belong to a empty vessel and get directions from oz. What a sad life for them. And then they breed and teach their kids their same moronic lifestyle. They grow up and shoot up schools and innocent life.
ReplyDeleteWeren't they recently shooting their televisions because they didn't like what they heard? Crazy people, one and all.
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Or?
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"A 13-year-old boy has fatally shot his 11-year-old brother in suburban Cleveland in what police are describing as an apparent "premeditated act."
ReplyDeleteOfficers were called to a home around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Streetsboro police said. The 11-year-old died at a hospital.
Police say the 13-year-old has been charged with aggravated murder in Portage County Juvenile Court. Police say the gun used in the slaying was stolen from his grandfather's home.
Police have not said what prompted the teen to shoot his brother."<AP
In a sane world. Anyone who posted a video like this should immediately have all their guns taken and be placed under psychiatric treatment.
ReplyDeleteProving once again. Gun nuts are just nuts.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/25/even-scott-pruitts-mentor-and-senate-ally-is-fleeing-from-him.html
ReplyDelete' he was now concerned enough about the allegations — particularly those of ethical lapses in Oklahoma — that he would like to see them investigated.
“I want to check and see how authentic the accusations against him are. If they are authentic it could have an effect,” he said. “But sometimes things are not all that authentic.”'
OT? "Each year about 700 to 900 mothers die, and thousands more nearly die, due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, many of which are preventable "
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/years-of-inaction-and-thousands-of-deaths-later-congress-finally-addresses-maternal-mortality-9b809c7425aa/
These people have a lot of money to piss away.
ReplyDeleteOT Murder and Rape:
ReplyDeleteA suspect believed to be the notorious East Area Rapist, or Golden State Killer, was reportedly taken into custody early Wednesday morning in the Sacramento area — more than 30 years since he allegedly committed 12 murders and 45 rapes from 1976 to 1986."
"Former Auburn POLICE Officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked on two counts of murder"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Report-East-Area-Rapist-who-murdered-12-12863488.php
REDRUm mURDER $>
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https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/04/daphne-project-voice-will-not-silenced/
Delete" a team of 45 journalists from 15 countries will continue her work, determined that her voice will not be silenced."
“The idea is to ensure the survival of stories,” wrote French journalist Laurent Richard in The Guardian about the project." "Caruana Galizia was murdered on Oct. 16, 2017. While Maltese authorities have arrested three men on suspicion of the killing, protesters continue to accuse Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his party of allowing corruption to flourish.
Caruana Galizia followed up on the 2016
PANAMA PAPER$ with her own reporting that revealed further details on Maltese politicians involved in the leak."
If these people are so tough, think that a good guy with a gun beats a bad guy with a gun, and they insist on being allowed to buy military weapons, then why not join the military? Oh that's right... like Ted Nuggent, they are all cowards and posers.
ReplyDeletedo you think i'm sexy??? only to idiots, gun whores.
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