When Michael Bloomberg announced he would spend $50 million on gun control this year, he said he hoped to make the National Rifle Association “afraid.” This weekend, the Bloomberg-backed group Everytown for Gun Safety will help pay to send hundreds of anti-gun violence supporters to the NRA’s annual convention in Indianapolis.
via Bloomberg Group Sends Hundreds Of Gun Reform Activists To NRA Convention.
That’s all you need to know. They are not and never were grassroots. They are making a big show of having to pay for their activists to travel to the NRA Annual Meeting to “face off” tens of thousands of people who paid for their own travel & expenses. And that it is happening on Shannon Watt’s backyard is even more humiliating.
It is hard to win a war when using mercenaries.
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So they destroy jobs, increase entitlement participation and then pay their minions to protest our rights. Tyrants
And then they’ll claim that “pay[ing] their minions to protest our rights” is “creating jobs.”
Weasel-wording tyrants.
Why wasn’t I told about this when I could hire on and get paid to attend the convention? I would have loved to go, especially if Bloomberg was paying the bills. I’m a Life Member, choose me! Does he include a hotel room? Meals (I like nice steaks!)?
[…] Most of the MDIAFMI members attending the rally were convincingly camouflaged as an empty lawn, but there were perhaps 100+ people (some have claimed as many as 200, but a good 10%-15% appeared to be media, so that number seems inflated) clustered around the stage, roughly matching the numbers of supporters that Bloomberg paid to attend. […]
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