{"id":17284,"date":"2018-05-07T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:28:57","slug":"new-at-the-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/05\/07\/new-at-the-nra\/","title":{"rendered":"new at the nra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Points made about the naming of Oliver North as\u00c2\u00a0president for the NRA.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bbs.boingboing.net\/t\/the-new-president-of-the-nra-is-oliver-north\/120432\/3\">See Boing Boing comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one way to read this exhumation:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Suck on THAT, stupid libruls!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A corrupt arms dealer\u00c2\u00a0who sold weapons to terrorists, in an effort to undermine a democracy.The NRA has become a left-wing parody of the NRA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/05\/ollie-north-nra-double-down\/559823\/\">described about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes it feels as though the current moment in American history is unique. At other times, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a disquieting d\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor example, this week, when both Daniel Ortega, the Nicaragua Sandinista leader, and Ollie North, the American Marine who funneled weapons to his right-wing opponents the Contras, are both in the news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; wait.\u00c2\u00a0 W<a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/samj-3930\/2018\/05\/07\/can-we-get-a-hell-yeah-oliver-north-to-become-next-nra-president-cue-snowflakes-melting\/\">hat do we got here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Can we get a HELL YEAH?! Oliver North to become next NRA President (cue snowflakes melting)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This. Is. So. Damn. Cool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Heat.\u00c2\u00a0 Brought.\u00c2\u00a0 Snowflakes.\u00c2\u00a0 So fragile against the heat rays of Oliver North.\u00c2\u00a0 Just as&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailystar.com\/community\/step_back_in_time\/step-back-in-time-may\/article_546a43d9-369b-5986-8d04-959d2008ef69.html\">back in the day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>may 4, 1993<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oliver North, the central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, blasted the Clinton Administration, suggested spending less on teaching foreign language in high school and reducing taxes during a speech Monday night at Hartwick College in Oneonta<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you know.\u00c2\u00a0 Guns don&#8217;t kill people,\u00c2\u00a0Uccidere persone persone.\u00c2\u00a0 Some point to the cessation of school prayer, but really&#8230; it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Points made about the naming of Oliver North as\u00c2\u00a0president for the NRA.\u00c2\u00a0 See Boing Boing comments. I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one way to read this exhumation: Suck on THAT, stupid libruls!! A corrupt arms dealer\u00c2\u00a0who sold weapons to terrorists, in an effort to undermine a democracy.The NRA has become a left-wing parody of the NRA. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17285,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions\/17285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}