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TexasTowelie

(111,322 posts)
Thu May 31, 2018, 09:41 PM May 2018

The New NRA President is a Deep-State Thug

When the National Rifle Association (NRA) selected Oliver North as its president last month, you probably reacted with what has become the baseline emotion of the Trump era: entirely unsurprised shock.

It may seem strange for an organization that claims to stand for the right to arm “good guys” against criminals to choose someone best known for illegally running guns and drugs on three continents. But in reality, North and the NRA are made for each other.

For one thing, he’s perfect for an organization that needs to step up its trolling game. The NRA relies on generating outrage in order to make its members feel under siege so they...buy more guns.

No disrespect to the organization’s current leaders working tirelessly to further the trauma of school-shooting victims by calling them crisis actors and demanding that their teachers be armed, but they needed someone with cable news star power to compete for airtime with the Troll-in-Chief.

Read more: https://socialistworker.org/2018/05/31/the-new-nra-president-is-a-deep-state-thug

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The New NRA President is a Deep-State Thug (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2018 OP
I posted this earlier. guillaumeb May 2018 #1
Thanks, I missed your earlier post. TexasTowelie May 2018 #2
Before John Bolton was tapped by trump, he worked for NRA trafficking guns worldwide. Hoyt May 2018 #3

TexasTowelie

(111,322 posts)
2. Thanks, I missed your earlier post.
Thu May 31, 2018, 09:45 PM
May 2018

I was about to post a different article, but I ran a search and saw that you beat me to it.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Before John Bolton was tapped by trump, he worked for NRA trafficking guns worldwide.
Thu May 31, 2018, 09:54 PM
May 2018

Ollie is the perfect to carry on that aspect of the long-range plan and advance the organization’s white wing goals that go far beyond guns.

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