{"id":32379,"date":"2018-05-08T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32379"},"modified":"2018-05-08T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:04:51","slug":"republicans-on-parade-5-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/republicans-on-parade-5-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 5\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RepublicansOnParade4.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred fourteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Gun Smuggler and Ammosexual criminal, Oliver North. He is so honored for the additional evil he is about to commit in his new job.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0508Oliver-North\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0508Oliver-North\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0508Oliver-North.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"462\" \/>You read that right. Oliver &quot;Iran-Contra&quot; North will be the next President of the NRA. Granted, it&#8217;s mostly a symbolic position since Wayne LaPierre gets paid around $5,000,000 a year to pimp guns.<\/p>\n<p>But there is some really wild irony &#8212; trolling, even &#8212; involved here. North is the guy who facilitated arms sales to Iran, was convicted for it, and then saw his convictions reversed not because they weren&#8217;t valid, but because of technicalities with his immunity deals.<\/p>\n<p>And now the NRA is a de facto paramilitary organization acting on behalf of arms manufacturers everywhere, with Oliver North as the face they turn to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver North, Cold Warrior, Reagan acolyte and eventual fall guy. Consider this <em>Mother Jones<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/05\/the-pentagon-considers-this-russian-sniper-rifle-a-big-threat-to-us-soldiers-the-nra-helped-promote-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">story today<\/a> about the NRA&#8217;s promotion of a Russian rifle which pierces U.S. body armor. How <em>very patriotic<\/em> of them.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the <strong>NRA sent a delegation to Russia to tour the factory where the guns are manufactured which pierce American body armor<\/strong>. The delegation included Sheriff David Clarke along with a top NRA donor and past NRA president David Keene&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2018\/05\/arms-dealer-oliver-north-be-next-president\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what North has been doing lately.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9H8NmNji\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I cannot imagine a less desirable candidate for this post.&#160; I also cannot imagine a more appropriate leader for the NRA, or one more worthy of a parade.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred fourteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican Gun Smuggler and Ammosexual criminal, Oliver North. He is so honored for the additional evil he is about to commit in his new job. You read that right. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/republicans-on-parade-5-8-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}