Yeti cuts ties with NRA

[Gman]

Those reading the WaPo (or HuffPo for that matter) will find whatever excuse that makes them feel better about themselves. They will never agree with what they find to be "the basket of deplorables" in flyover country.

At least people destroying their own coolers (putting their money where their mouth is) feel comfortable enough with their decision to post it on the web and become targets for those that don't agree with them. If you ask those rednecks if they care what some keyboard SJW on WaPo thinks about them, they won't give a damn.

Some people live their lives. Others just sit back and grandstand about how much better they are because they disagree with how the other people are going about it.

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[bkincaid]

I copied this from a discussion on the same matter happening over on the accurateshooter.com forum: http://forum.accurateshooter.com/thr...3949725/page-7



"DATE: April 24, 2018
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President

If it wasn’t bad enough that YETI dropped The NRA Foundation as a client, now they’re calling us liars because we informed our members and friends of their actions.

The NRA Foundation has over 1,100 “Friends of NRA Committees” around the country. These committees host banquets and auctions that are attended by hundreds of thousands of guests each year. These events raise funds to support charitable causes and programs. The NRA Foundation supports the needs of youth programs for education, safety and training, as well as law enforcement needs, shooting ranges and conservation programs.

For many years we have purchased coolers from YETI for our auctions. We have auctioned off many thousands of YETI coolers each year. YETI recently dropped The NRA Foundation as a client. Not only would they not take our orders for more coolers, they forced us to cancel orders already in the system that they said they would not fill.

Three days after we notified you of YETI’s decision to drop The NRA Foundation, YETI issued their prepared statement in which they admit they dropped us but claim they simply eliminated the discount program and dropped other (unnamed) organizations as well. That’s news to us.

Perhaps the people writing YETI’s damage control statements are not talking to the people who enforced YETI’s decisions and refused our orders. We had even offered the YETI Roadie in one of our sponsorship levels for 2018 – which we’ve had to cancel.

We told you the truth.

YETI’s attempts at damage control is to say our statement is not accurate. Shame on you again YETI. You know you made a mistake. A big one. Now you must live with your mistake."

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I usually go to WaPo to laugh at the posters and commenters, but they were 100% right on this one yesterday in their excoriation of the "typical" NRA member as they're exploding coolers, looking like uneducationed and senseless rednecks.

Haha, irony. (Or typing on a tiny phone!)

At least people destroying their own coolers (putting their money where their mouth is) feel comfortable enough with their decision to post it on the web and become targets for those that don't agree with them. If you ask those rednecks if they care what some keyboard SJW on WaPo thinks about them, they won't give a damn.

They won’t give a damn, but way to show “the man” to whom you just gave $400 (or whatever). I bet Yeti gives less of a damn if possible. They got theirs, and if their product truly is “lifetime” they weren’t expecting another sale anyway. Now tannerite homeboy is out $400 and needs a new cooler. And probably didn’t exactly do the rest of us any favors demonstrating “gun safety.”

[Aloha_Shooter]

I don't see the point in blowing up coolers you already bought but they could paint over the Yeti names and what not to avoid giving the company free publicity and let the company know there will be no more orders.

In related news: https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/0...from-the-left/

The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31, the group’s first full month of political fundraising since the nation’s deadliest high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, according to filings submitted to the Federal Elections Commission.

Most of the donations, $1.9 million of the $2.4 million total, came from small donors who gave less than $200.

... and in more brilliance from the left ...

A new coalition of celebrities and activists, including actor Alyssa Milano and Parkland student David Hogg, announced plans Friday to take on the National Rifle Association and elected officials who accept money from the powerful gun advocacy group.

In an open letter to NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, which was first obtained by TIME, the more than 100 members of the newly formed NoRA Initiative — short for No Rifle Association — pledge to reduce the NRA’s influence in American politics through a series of voter registration drives, nationwide art campaigns, demonstrations and boycotts…

NoRA’s members include Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Alec Baldwin, Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore, Patton Oswalt, Constance Wu, W. Kamau Bell, Amber Tamblyn, Debra Messing, Minnie Driver, Tarana Burke, as well as several artists, policy experts and survivors of gun violence.

I hope someone publishes their full list of members so I know what movies, TV shows, and other media to avoid.

[CoGirl303]

boom!


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[Jeffrey Lebowski]

boom!

So they donated once and are now expected to do so in perpetuity. If you support this, I fully expect that you donate to all the same groups, year after year regardless of any factors. So you never, ever get to give less (or none) to your favorite health care charity, or telethon, or church, or any other do-good group.

[crays]

On a bit of an aside, what is the status of under armor in the shooting community these days?

I seem to remember them being the "evil turn your backs on the 2A" corp in recent history?
Have they changed their positions, re-instated sponsorships, etc.?

Seems we had this same type of discussion over all that flooflaw then. Part of the board adamantly saying "f' em" and part of the board saying "best shit I ever owned/used", and part of the board saying "meh, I pay a lot less for shit that seems to work perfectly fine".

I only ask, because in my last email from Primary Arms, the shooter modeling their new scope is wearing an UA shirt.

[Gman]

They won’t give a damn, but way to show “the man” to whom you just gave $400 (or whatever). I bet Yeti gives less of a damn if possible. They got theirs, and if their product truly is “lifetime” they weren’t expecting another sale anyway. Now tannerite homeboy is out $400 and needs a new cooler. And probably didn’t exactly do the rest of us any favors demonstrating “gun safety.”

I agree that it doesn't really hurt Yeti...until they buy a new NotYETI® cooler to replace it. It's merely a symbolic gesture.

By the way, in the videos that I've seen of the exploding YETIs, I haven't seen any real "gun safety" issues.

[Honey Badger282.8]

When was the last time a political boycott of a company was successful? I can't think of a single one from either side of the aisle.

[Irving]

I'd like to see a knife company jump into the mix and advertise that it was one of their knives that helped Yeti cut ties with the NRA.

"Only our political grade steel holds an edge well enough to hack through the muscular tendrils of the NRA. Our Seppuku blades are all 20% off right now!"