UPDATED: Looking for a Weekend Activity? Here’s Where You Can Send Some Love Notes
UPDATED:
As we are all acutely aware, the NRA came out with guns blazing today (no pun intended) blaming gun violence on everything but guns. Wayne LaPierre, chief propagandist, blamed everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Hollywood stars for mass shooters killing hundreds of people with the AR-15, the Official Rifle of Angry White Men.
With all this noise, I believe you might be a bit discourage and feeling helpless. Well, you’re not. Remember how we virtually put Rush Limbaugh out of business by shaming his sponsors into dropping out? You can use that same tactic again, this time against the NRA’s business partners who provide all kinds of discounts to the mouth breathers who are members. Here’s a handy list to help get you started:
- Hertz
- Avis and Budget
- Lifeline Screening – a preventative health testing company
- Symatec – Norton anti virus software
- Allied Van Lines
- North American Van Lines
- Simplisafe – home security
- Starkey Hearing Technologies
- Manage UrID – personal privacy
- Life Insurance Central
- Medical Concierge Network – doctor care
- eHealth – insurance
- Teladoc – telemedicine service, whatever that is
- FedEx
- LifeLock
- Wild Apricot – whatever that is
- First National Bank of Omaha – issue(d) the official credit card of the NRA. As soon as Think Progress published their name, the bank dumped the card. One down.
- Enterprise, National, and Alamo – the conglomerate who owns these three major brands dropped the NRA today. Two down.
Keep those cards and letters going out, kids, the evil cyclops is starting to stagger.
UPDATE:
As of this evening, here’s who’s dropped the NRA like a hot potato:
- Hertz
- Symatec
- Lifelock
- Simplisafe
- North American Van Lines
- MetLife (not originally listed by us)
- Chubb Insurance (not originally listed by us)
Keep up the pressure, especially on Amazon to drop NRATv. We’re getting results.
I love the hearing aid manufacturer, Starkey Hearing Technologies.
Maybe if the ammosexuals had worn ear protection they wouldn’t need hearing aids.
1as far as i’m concerned, the NRA should be declared a terrorist entity. Mr. LaPierre should be arrested, and charged with giving aid & comfort to the enemy.
2Thank you for the list. I will carry in my wallet and consult when I shop.
3Thanks for the list, but considering Rush Limbaugh is still (unfortunately) very much with us, he might not be the best comparison.
4Yes Rush Limppaw is still around but only on small weak stations. Even that’s too much but he will eventually pass into a fat gassball and float away. As for the NRA, holders of stock in gunmanufacturers are rethinking their share voting power. That could be the way to break the stranglehold of the NRA.
5Teledoc is where they get their little blue pills from. Sometimes, being around all those big guns, a little guy can get pretty intimidated.
6I spent well over 20 years of my life in a major American city where there were, eons ago, gangs that reached as far down into the community as elementary schools. At that time the city maintained a three-plex campus within a good walk from my house consisting of an elementary, jr and sr high, all of which was infiltrated by gang members. How to handle this? Well, the city went out like baseball scouts and found specifically ex-Marines who had taken advantage of the GI Bill and had degrees and teaching certificates. They listened to the problem and agreed to sign on with that city. The discipline in the classrooms, hallways, restrooms and entire campus immediately improved. Gang activity just moved away from its base and died out. ‘Nuff said?
7@M. Bouffant
You are correct. According to the audiology practice which prescribed my hearing aids, the likeliest cause of my hearing loss is the repeated exposure to the sounds firearms I have fired afield and on the range all my life.
8I signed someone’s petition to FED EX. I also emailed a store ( Chewy’s)where I buy a LOT of pet food. They use FED EX as carrier. I told them I wish they would allow customers to choose carries, because now I will have to rethink ordering from them, small gesture but how will they know otherwise.
9I have read recently that Hertz, Avis and Enterprise as well as Omaha have dropped the NRA.
10Wild Apricot is membership management software. No, I don’t use them, I Googled.
11I just contacted Life Line that I won’t be getting any more of their screenings until they straighten up and fly right.
12FedEx does a lot of business with rural folks. Correct that from “does” to “did.” FedEx as does UPS skims the cream by delivering to our nearest Post Office to have the USPS do the final and more difficult leg of the trip. Time to let our suppliers know that USPS is the preferred carrier. Hello Amazon …
13Symantec Corp ended discount program
SimpliSafe also terminated its discount program
Insurer Chubb Ltd ends underwriting self defense ins. policy
MetLife Inc ended an auto and home incentive programs
Hertz is eliminating a discount program
Three rental car brands owned by Enterprise Holdings are ending discount programs
14Add another one to the list, just saw this from Delta Airlines!
Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.
155:32 AM – 24 Feb 2018
United Airlines, too!
16Fed Ex has announced they are no longer offering discounts for the NRA. I suspect there are more on the list, too. I hope people are checking for updates before wasting time writing letters, etc. to companies that have already done the right thing.
17This is trending on Twitter and all over FB. Hooray! And . . .
F**k the NRA!
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