Saturday, February 24, 2018

#BoycottNRA

The kids at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School raised hell in several venues after the February 14 mass murder: in Tallahassee, the capital of the Asshole State, in a town hall meeting with politicians, including Marco Rubio who caught particular hell, at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Broward County, in a YouTube video which seems to have been the spark, in protests around the county and state, and in the #BoycottNRA project.

Alamo Rent a Car

Avis

Allied Van Lines

Bestwestern

Budget

Chubb Insurance

Delta Air Lines

Enterprise Rent-a-Car

First National Bank of Omaha

Hertz

MetLife

North American Van Lines

Paramount Rx

SimpliSafe

Symantec

TrueCar

Sixteen companies in ten days are not going to moderate LaPierre, his dick still doesn't work and he's pissed about it but sixteen companies when there has never been one major corporation boycott the NRA, that's not nothing. The boycott movement has gotten the attention of the NRA who released one of their typical screeds accusing the companies of political correctness.

Why has #BoycottNRA gotten the NRA's attention? I suggest because it makes the association and their members look like pariahs. The NRA has cultivated this image of hunters, patriots, crime fighters not criminals, rugged individualists, family men who only want to protect their families and so on--generally all-American, White, of course. Now they're being boycotted all-'Murican companies like they're Black, Gay, Democrat, Socialist, Criminals. That's why. Wayne LaPierre, impotent cuckold, gave a speech at C-PAC, the Cuckold Political Action Committee, predicting a "socialist wave" or a something socialist.

More important than whatever the boycott numbers grow to be, the kids at Douglas High and their calls for gun control are in a position unassailable by the NRA: they are kids, victims, survivors; They are all-American. The make LaPierre and NRA members look like the Nativist Russian Association.

The kids at Douglas High started this wave on their own and in only ten days they have done something that has never been done before: they have moved the needle of the gun laws debate.