Ranting and Raving (v7): Leave it to a Dem

You have got to be freaking kidding me. Seriously.

Today, 89 days from the most consequential presidential election in memory, the New York State Attorney General decided to drop a bomb on things by suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association.

Honestly? You simply cannot make this stuff up. From the Wall Street Journal article linked above,

The extraordinary move against the nation’s largest gun-rights group comes after an 18-month investigation by Ms. James. As a nonprofit registered in New York since its founding in 1871, the NRA is regulated by the attorney general’s office. 

The suit alleges that longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre and three other top officials “instituted a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement, and negligent oversight at the NRA,” failed to properly manage the organization’s money and violated numerous state and federal laws, according to a news release announcing the complaint.

I. Just. Can't. Even.

This is the election equivalent of Patrick Mahomes handing off to a 49ers defender on purpose, and then refusing to chase him down, allowing the Super Bowl-winning touchdown to be scored against Kansas City. Seriously. If Tish James were an athlete instead of a politician, she'd be thrown off her team, publicly accused of cheating to help the other team win, investigated by her league (and by more than on state Attorney General). She'd join the 1919 Chicago Black Sox in perpetual ignominy.

People thought James Comey's announcement about the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails in July 2016 was interference? Some think that his subsequent letter to Congress at the end of October was the quantifiable straw that broke the camel's back on  her election chances? This is ALL of that, and worse.

It's worse because it's New York against the country. It's the most hated blue state attacking gun owners, for Pete's sake. Even if that's not her intention, it's like attacking Santa Claus AND not saying Merry Christmas anymore AND stealing Easter eggs and Halloween candy from little children in red states, all rolled into one, and streaming it live on Disney+.

This is the stupidest thing to come out of New York since Donald Trump.

There's ZERO urgency with this - absolutely zero.  I don't care that she spent 18 months investigating, I really don't.

I've spent more than enough time reading articles about it, all of the sordid details and the infighting and chest-clutching being done in the organization over all of this nonsense, and it's definitely nonsense, and it's a definitely a swamp and all of that, but good grief - 89 days before the election, an election in which the Dems are already under attack by people pretending that the most extreme anti-gun people in the party are the mainstream of the party?

Seriously? Seriously? What the actual hell???

When the Dog-whistler in Chief has been saying, for MONTHS that the Dems are going to take away people's guns and erase the 2nd Amendment - you know, like it's a Confederate soldier on a papier mache pedestal in Richmond or something - and NOW Tish James pulls this out of her...hat?

As long as I live, I will never cease to be amazed by the ability of educated Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot - and the other foot, and the knee, and the other knee. It's as reliable as the sun coming up tomorrow that, at the WORST possible time, a Dem will do something stupid, unnecessary, and self-serving - it's guaranteed.

Here's what James said:

The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets,” Ms. James said in the press release. “The NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse, which is why, today, we seek to dissolve the NRA, because no organization is above the law.”

If you ask me, what that REALLY means is something along the lines of

The Governor's influence has been so powerful that attention to him went unchecked for weeks and months while he made daily appearances  talking about the pandemic, and multiple appearances on his brother's national cable show, and I don't have that kind of access or a famous brother who can help me out so today, we seek to dissolve the undivided attention on the governor by doing something so brazen that people won't have a choice but to talk about it. And me. And me! 

Tell me it's not that. Convince me, I dare you. I've got time.

And I'll ask you this: If it isn't that, what is it?  What possible other explanation is there for pulling something like this, this close to this election?

Donald Trump has been known to say that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and none of his supporters would leave him. Well, Tish James just shot the Biden campaign in the middle of the forehead.

Don't believe me?  Wait for the polls.

Wait for the polls.