kpete
kpete's JournalGod: I barred a leader from entering Israel once. It was Moses.
It was a dick move then and it's a dick move now.
https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1162078881374851074
I was a proud member of the NRA. These days, I think about the moment they lost me forever
What led to my final break with the organization was a chance encounter with an NRA event in Northern Virginia, probably in 2004. I had been attracted to a show of Civil War memorabilia near Dulles Airport and discovered that there was an NRA gun show at an adjacent venue.
As I wandered over to check out the NRA event, I was astonished by how many people were openly-brandishing guns even before they entered the hall. While I was taking in all of this, I was lured to an NRA enrollment table with the offer of a discounted ticket to the gun show. By re-joining the NRA after so many years, I would not only get a discount on the ticket but also an NRA ball cap.
Most of what I saw inside the gun show was a lot of trading and selling of guns and ammunition, but what grabbed my attention and appalled me were the number of vendors selling Nazi memorabilia or knock-offs. The best possible interpretation of these vendors was that they were selling the Nazi items to World War II re-enactors, but the more I observed, the more I became convinced that my initial understanding was naive. In some cases at least, these items were being purchased as objects of veneration.
That was the day the NRA lost me forever. Today, the organization has become nothing more than a front for firearms manufacturers and its leadership is corrupted by vanity and self-dealing.
MORE:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/09/nra-gun-shows-wayne-lapierre-mass-shootings-firearms-column/1955827001/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/15/1879119/-Abbreviated-pundit-round-up-Tweaking-Social-Security-rationalizing-Biden-gaffes-reforming-gun-law
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Economists refer to this affect as the powder snort yield curve
@joshtpm
economists refer to this affect as the powder snort yield curve https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1161719409804808193 …
@realDonaldTrump
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
..Spread is way too much as other countries say THANK YOU to clueless Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve. Germany, and many others, are playing the game! CRAZY INVERTED YIELD CURVE! We should easily be reaping big Rewards & Gains, but the Fed is holding us back. We will Win!
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1161728480914157568
How the trump saved Christmas
https://twitter.com/roweafr/status/1161555860801200128
An updated poem for the Statue of Liberty.
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1161671262466449417
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Just called Mitch McConnell "Moscow Mitch" For blocking Bills
SHE SAID THIS
"Moscow Mitch says that he is the Grim Reaper. Imagine describing yourself as the Grim Reaper, that he’s going to bury all this legislation."
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1161693482764816384
Melania poses with the baby
https://twitter.com/AnnTelnaes/status/1161225748130205697
KRUGMAN: What looks like raw ignorance and prejudice is, in fact, raw ignorance and prejudice
@paulkrugman
Amazing how many people have spent time trying to project some rationality onto Trump trade policy. What looks like raw ignorance and prejudice is, in fact, raw ignorance and prejudice https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1161640080794107905 …
@MichaelRStrain
"Events are making the post hoc rationalizations about Trump’s trade regime — that he is actually a radical free trader using tariffs to make trade even more free in the future — increasingly unpersuasive."
My latest Bloomberg column: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/u-s-businesses-are-stuck-in-trade-war-uncertainty … @bopinion
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1161649405235204096
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