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National Rifle Association ridiculed for bankruptcy filing: ‘We already knew the NRA was bankrupt!’
January 15, 2021
The National Rifle Association on Friday announced that it was declaring bankruptcy.
The NRA is incorporated in New York, and the state's attorney general, Letitia James is seeking to dissolve the group. In response, the NRA is trying to restructure the organization as part of a move to Texas, where the apparently believe they will receive less scrutiny of potential lawbreaking.
<p>Here's some of what people where saying about the situation:</p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="74a0c01b839213bd4c3e212880fcd878" id="93753"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350192016647467015"><div style="margin:1em 0">We already knew the NRA was bankrupt</div> — Preet Bharara (@Preet Bharara)<a href="https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/statuses/1350192016647467015">1610745836.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="48534e82c3f6c2b953712c61f9ee3781" id="9a81b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350193990948315143"><div style="margin:1em 0">Could not have happened to more deserving people.</div> — Jill Filipovic (@Jill Filipovic)<a href="https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/statuses/1350193990948315143">1610746307.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="349043a1a6cfe831e124dc51edec0fd1" id="27e01"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350193194265403404"><div style="margin:1em 0">The NRA is a mouthpiece for gun manufacturers that lines the pockets of lawmakers to block common sense gun safety… https://t.co/CfcSE4qpl9</div> — Julián Castro (@Julián Castro)<a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/statuses/1350193194265403404">1610746117.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5c1871ddcf0cbe57988ba8886f47b432" id="fd86f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350194235908222977"><div style="margin:1em 0">It's as if Trump was the CEO of the NRA
https://t.co/o1al6V4X3a</div> — Neal Katyal (@Neal Katyal)<a href="https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/statuses/1350194235908222977">1610746365.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9ea3c2710100dd35cb96eab9ceca836b" id="42def"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350194078000979971"><div style="margin:1em 0">The NRA has gone from moral bankruptcy to actual bankruptcy.</div> — Miranda Yaver, PhD (@Miranda Yaver, PhD)<a href="https://twitter.com/mirandayaver/statuses/1350194078000979971">1610746328.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f1cc5a974ec267a992bbf0b8c1bcfea9" id="91dda"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350193362389749761"><div style="margin:1em 0">Now you know why you don't piss off investigative journalists, @NRA https://t.co/pKLUgK2zLD</div> — Brooke Binkowski (@Brooke Binkowski)<a href="https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/statuses/1350193362389749761">1610746157.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8a598633f6cdf57a298e9ff7512d45e8" id="86c26"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350195007253172224"><div style="margin:1em 0">can we all just take a moment to acknowledge the abject badassery of @shannonrwatts and @MomsDemand, who looked at… https://t.co/H4z8ooQD7F</div> — shauna (@shauna)<a href="https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/statuses/1350195007253172224">1610746549.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c3ad581ce5013562858484f7a0f4f16c" id="3bc33"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350189507090518020"><div style="margin:1em 0">Who had "NRA Files For Bankruptcy" on their January 2021 bingo card?
https://t.co/2kYe2rWzr7</div> — Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@Rachel Maddow MSNBC)<a href="https://twitter.com/maddow/statuses/1350189507090518020">1610745238.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f38ece58004e1a7e86afcb27dfa42d9c" id="702ed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350195856444678144"><div style="margin:1em 0">Wild how the NRA just won’t pull itself up by the bootstraps.</div> — Natalia Antonova (@Natalia Antonova)<a href="https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/statuses/1350195856444678144">1610746752.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6a9e68e915d342b1c5e40af4aa2261b1" id="46f62"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350193200624001027"><div style="margin:1em 0">2/ NYS can't just keep them or it's not that simple. But basically this is the beginning of a lengthy and fairly ru… https://t.co/1s5YyKxgv7</div> — Josh Marshall (@Josh Marshall)<a href="https://twitter.com/joshtpm/statuses/1350193200624001027">1610746119.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3795e925b8ca5a7fdac2d38d8006faa9" id="485fc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350194244435152897"><div style="margin:1em 0">Reminder that the NRA was using conspiracy theory and propaganda to radicalize disaffected white people long before… https://t.co/SOovSvrzts</div> — Ben Rhodes (@Ben Rhodes)<a href="https://twitter.com/brhodes/statuses/1350194244435152897">1610746367.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0d2bb1b789716a0df85d125691b563f4" id="25ce2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350190804778840067"><div style="margin:1em 0">NRA going bankrupt is good, Trump going bankrupt will be better</div> — Jennifer 'It's time to grow up' Rubin (@Jennifer 'It's time to grow up' Rubin)<a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/statuses/1350190804778840067">1610745547.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="670c0ddaeca1a33e4db20231ca32b402" id="3f205"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350195140095340547"><div style="margin:1em 0">With the NRA declaring bankruptcy, now seems like a good time to look back at one of their more expensive and point… https://t.co/4GXHdDrmvk</div> — Last Week Tonight (@Last Week Tonight)<a href="https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight/statuses/1350195140095340547">1610746581.0</a></blockquote></div><p><br/></p>
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National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy on final Friday of the Trump administration: report
January 15, 2021
Longtime GOP strategist Rick Wilson has received widespread praise for coining the term, "everything Trump touches dies."
The four-word analysis explains how Trump has a history of harming everyone around him.
<p>And that term may now apply to the National Rifle Association, which was one of the most powerful political organizations in America before it backed Trump during the 2016 campaign.</p><p>"The National Rifle Association of America ("NRA") today announced it will restructure the Association as a Texas nonprofit to exit what it believes is a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York," the NRA said in a <a href="https://www.nraforward.org/press-release" target="_blank">statement</a>. </p><p>"The Association will seek court approval to reincorporate the Association in the State of Texas – home to more than 400,000 NRA members and site of the 2021 NRA Annual Meeting in Houston," the NRA explained. <br/></p><p>New York Attorney General Letitia James announced in August she was seeking to dissolve the NRA.</p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b46914784d62cae158d230a229e347ff" id="a474f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1293924612124876807"><div style="margin:1em 0">One week ago, I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the @NRA.
We’re sending a loud and clear message that no matter how p… https://t.co/B61IbLWW1h</div> — NY AG James (@NY AG James)<a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/statuses/1293924612124876807">1597330642.0</a></blockquote></div>
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Trump’s Pentagon chief stuns reporters with ‘incoherent briefing’ in which he declares ‘I cannot wait to leave’
January 15, 2021
Reporters were stunned on Friday following a bizarre gaggle that acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller held with the press.
"I so…I mean, I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me," Miller said.
<p>Stephen Losey of the Air Force Times described it as "<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenLosey/status/1350173994658492416" target="_blank">the most epic case of senioritis ever</a>."</p><p>"Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defence secretary, Chris Miller, today," Julian Borger, the world affairs editor for the Guardian, reported.</p><p>Borger noted the Pentagon transcript included the phrase, "blah blah bluh blah."</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9a94946fef0c20a3411d989b64450b3a" id="8730d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350162724861468673"><div style="margin:1em 0">Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defence secretary, Chris Miller, today.
Highlights include "I ca… https://t.co/Iqc0IOoFYf</div> — Julian Borger (@Julian Borger)<a href="https://twitter.com/julianborger/statuses/1350162724861468673">1610738853.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Politico's Andrew Desiderio was shocked that Miller praised Russia for the success they have had during the Trump administration.</p><p>"Russian? I think they're extremely…uh…I have professional respect for how they do things…I think they're played a really bad hand of card very, very well. Declining population, single -- single source of economic revenue through natural resources. I kind of, you know, like professionally I'm like, wow, they're doing pretty well, and they're using a lot of irregular warfare concepts, information, all this stuff, in a way that, you know, like…good on them," Miller said.</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="53bed9d31d0603f99cb321093178a3a4" id="2e88b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350170118349795329"><div style="margin:1em 0">I can’t believe what I just read.
The defense secretary actually said this about Russia:
“Professionally I’m like… https://t.co/sg0Uro1zpV</div> — Andrew Desiderio (@Andrew Desiderio)<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/statuses/1350170118349795329">1610740615.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Read the <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2473893/press-gaggle-with-acting-secretary-miller-en-route-to-washington-dc/source/GovDelivery/" target="_blank">full transcript</a>.</p>
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