{"id":36186,"date":"2022-06-08T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36186"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:49:58","slug":"the-big-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/08\/the-big-shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is all – meaning the last few years – beginning to feel like sitting in on a Master’s class in grifting.<\/em>\u00a0Here’s the latest I’ve run across:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The far-right American Firearms Association is telling its supporters to prepare for \u201cbattle\u201d at the U.S. Capitol this week amid Senate talks on potential legislation for relatively small gun safety reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re coming after us right now,\u201d warns the subject line of a Monday fundraising email, signed by AFA president Christopher Dorr.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur federal legislative team believes that because of the enormity of the battle this week in DC, there will be thousands or even tens of thousands of Bloomberg-funded, red shirt radical, commie mommies all over the Capitol complex,\u201d reads the email, apparently referring to the gun safety group, Moms Demand Action<\/a>. [HuffPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya gotta wonder how long it’ll take before the marks are scraping their pockets for spare change to send, although they may have already been considerably thinned out by the former President’s grifting ways, primarily by sucking dry the credit cards of the marks through the tiny-print grift<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The AFA<\/strong><\/em> will show up in D.C., of course, in order to justify that fund-raising letter, as a good grifter must have a bit of theater close to their heart. But any violence or even hint will be at their instigation. Stoking the paranoia is an integral part of continuing the grift.<\/p>\n

And address the issue that the United States is, historically, a land of limited<\/strong> rights? Heaven forbid!<\/em><\/p>\n

So take notes and follow along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is all – meaning the last few years – beginning to feel like sitting in on a Master’s class in grifting.\u00a0Here’s the latest I’ve run across: The far-right American Firearms Association is telling its supporters to prepare for \u201cbattle\u201d at the U.S. Capitol this week amid Senate talks on \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36188,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36186\/revisions\/36188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}