NRA supporters are blowing up Yeti coolers. Yeti says its all a big mistake.

[Arkansas Granny]

Yeti coolers are the hottest coolers around. They are also wildly expensive, between $250 and $1,300, depending on the size. So a discount on a Yeti, like the one the company offered to the NRA and other organizations, is no small thing.

Still, the price of the coolers didn’t stop some Yeti owners from blowing them up in ritual anger after the National Rifle Association claimed that Yeti was terminating the discount as part of an NRA boycott.

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The letter, sent by former NRA president and current lobbyist Marion P. Hammer, said the company “declined to do business with The NRA Foundation” without prior notice and “refused to say why.”

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“When we notified the NRA Foundation and the other organizations of this change, YETI explained that we were offering them an alternative customization program broadly available to consumers and organizations, including the NRA Foundation,” Yeti said. “These facts directly contradict the inaccurate statement the NRA-ILA distributed on April 20.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/24/nra-supporters-are-blowing-up-yeti-coolers-yeti-says-its-all-a-big-mistake/?utm_term=.757edfe32191

It appears that there are a lot of dead Yeti products out there that were needlessly killed due to misleading statements by the NRA. I wonder just how stupid some of those who blew up their expensive coolers and mugs feel now.

[PJMcK]

1. Not the brightest, eh? (n/t)

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. "just how stupid some of those who blew up their expensive coolers and mugs feel now"

They're too stupid to know how stupid they are.

[grumpyduck]

3. And I wonder how many of them will go out and buy another Yeti cooler now.

As someone said recently, "You can't make this stuff up."

[kysrsoze]

4. NRA supporters are blowing up Yeti coolers... that says it all

They're complete morons who are so angered about a discount on a cooler that they feel the need to blow them up.


Fuck them.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Angry, impulsive morons

Just the sort of people who you would want to have access to military-grade firearms.

[TNLib]

6. A bunch of unstable loons

Those coolers and cups are expensive.

I just hope my right wing nutter brother inlaw doesn't damage the Yeti coffee travel cup I got him for Christmas. If he does that'll be the last present I buy.

[Mc Mike]

7. I hope they don't hear about how CaliFame, the company that makes dRump MAGA hats,

pulled out of that crosspromotional agreement with the NRA. Or how Carrier stopped offering NRA members discounts for their air conditioners, or how Foxconn backed out of their deal for IPhones and IPADs for NRA members.

And I really hope they don't hear about that anti-NRA stance coming from the company that makes engine blocks for Ford and Chevy trucks.

Oh no, I've said too much.