{"id":92130,"date":"2019-10-25T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92130"},"modified":"2019-10-25T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:36:57","slug":"the-real-reasons-for-doing-stupid-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92130","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reasons For Doing Stupid Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The real reason Dick\u2019s destroyed all those guns may be right here.\u00a0 Ed Stack wants to run for Prezzie on a 3rd<\/sup> party ticket. Instead of returning them to the manufacturers for a refund, he wanted to do his part in Political Virtue Signaling.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2019\/10\/23\/could-this-be-the-reason-why-dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-destroyed-millions-of-doll-n2555218<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 Ed Stack, the CEO of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods and a longtime Republican donor, is testing the waters for a possible third-party presidential bid that could scramble the dynamics of the 2020 general election.<\/p>\n

Various messages were presented to a focus group in southern Wisconsin this week centering on the billionaire businessman, along with possible three-way match-ups against Donald Trump and Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n

The focus group, according to a source who took part in the testing, ran through varying themes involving Stack and heavily focused on his example of \u201cshowing leadership\u201d by halting the sale of assault-style rifles at all of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods stores in the wake of the high school massacre in Parkland, Fla. – article<\/p>\n

As the author of the article indicates at the end:\u00a0 Riding the artificial energy of the anti-gun crowd won\u2019t usher you into the White House.<\/p>\n

Gee whiz, boys and girls, I thought Bernie Sanders had that whole 3rd<\/sup> party thing tied up and stuck in his pocket. I was counting on his petulant soul running as a 3rd party candy date, as always, so that he could drain votes by his supporters (a growing number) from the Dems.\u00a0 Competition\u2026 well, the more they butt heads with each other, the better, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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