As always, please go to the links for the full article/ op ed.
The National Rifle Rampage Association is led by shameless grifters vacuuming money out of the pockets of ammosexual loons/suckers. Discuss:
A former pro football player who serves on the
National Rifle Association board was paid $400,000 by the group in
recent years for public outreach and firearms training. Another board
member, a writer in New Mexico, collected more than $28,000 for articles
in NRA publications. Yet another board member sold ammunition from his
private company to the NRA for an undisclosed sum.
The
NRA, which has been rocked by allegations of exorbitant spending by top
executives, also directed money in recent years that went to board
members — the very people tasked with overseeing the organization’s
finances.
In all, 18 members of the NRA’s 76-member board, who
are not paid as directors, collected money from the group during the
past three years, according to tax filings, state charitable reports and
NRA correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post.[snip]
Among the revelations that have burst into public view: CEO Wayne LaPierre racked up
hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges at a Beverly Hills clothing
boutique and on foreign travel, invoices show. Oliver North, forced out as president after trying to oust LaPierre, was set to collect millions of dollars in a deal with the NRA’s now-estranged public relations agency, Ackerman McQueen, according to LaPierre. And the NRA’s outside attorney reaped “extraordinary” legal fees that totaled millions of dollars in the past year, according to North.
Be it the Extremely Stable Genius, his Fox "news" boosters, Bible- banging hypocrites, the NRA, or
any collection of right- wingers, the common denominator is selling fear to the suckers.
Another common denominator is corruption:
A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner
has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle
since he entered the White House as a senior adviser to his
father-in-law Donald Trump.
Investment has flowed from overseas to the company, Cadre, while
Kushner works as an international envoy for the US, according to
corporate filings and interviews. The money came through a vehicle run
by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy.
Kushner, who is married to Trump’s elder daughter Ivanka, kept a
stake in Cadre after joining the administration, while selling other
assets. His holding is now valued at up to $50m, according to his
financial disclosure documents.
Who's the incompetent little sleazeball doing government favors for now in exchange for the $90 million, you ask?
Virginia Heffernan identifies and expands on one of many bad character traits of the Extremely Stable Genius:
The Mueller report
amply chronicles President Trump’s staggering, decades-long crime
spree. Like an iron skillet to the head, the extent of Trump’s
corruption seems to have stupefied voters, legal scholars and, of
course, Congress, all of whom are currently at a loss for a remedy.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
in her run for the Democratic nomination for president, put it best:
“If he were any other person in the United States, based on what’s
documented in that report, he would be carried off in handcuffs.”
But
because our norms appear to be inadequate to the current catastrophe in
the White House, Trump is not yet in handcuffs. So while Congress equivocates
about the Mueller report and its implications for impeachment, voters
ought to recognize a more homespun truth that it doesn’t take a degree
in con law to understand.
The president is a cheater.
Brian Cranston won a Tony award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Howard Beale in "Network." After the requisite thank- yous, he had this to say:
“Howard Beale is a fictitious TV newsman who found his way into the line
of fire because of his pursuit of the truth, and I would like to
dedicate this to all the real journalists around the world, both in the press and the print
media and also broadcast media, who actually are in the line of fire
with their pursuit of the truth. The media is not the enemy
of the people. Demagoguery is the enemy of the people. Thank you very
much, good night.”
You can see Cranston's full remarks at the link.
Joshua Zeitz looks back at the early 20th century Progressive era for lessons progressives today should take to heart:
... Being a progressive in the opening years of the 20th century didn’t
require strict adherence to a party line or blanket support for a set of
specific legislative proposals. Because there was no progressive
“movement,” in the singular and definitive meaning of the word,
progressivism could draw freely from all sectors of society without
demanding even broad consensus on basic questions like the morality of
economic concentration or the right of women to vote. It was a malleable
and shifting coalition of people who recognized common problems,
believed in a rational and fact-based approach to resolving the
challenges of modern society and animated public life with an innovative
and optimistic spirit.
That's just one of many "finds" in
Infidel 753's latest link round- up. Many links, many topics, so little time. Go!
