Nra speech thoughts and prayers6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They were surprised when actual bankers fell for the joke and joined them. “Kind of, like, over-the-top stuff that ended up being taken seriously.” Speaking to protesters while wearing “thrift store suits”, they would lament their plight: “‘We’re gonna have to stop doing so much cocaine if we can’t afford it any more because you guys are out here,’” Stiefler recalls saying. Selvig and Stiefler posed as bankers, telling the media they represented the “Occupy Occupy Wall Street” movement and were proud to be part of the 1%. They became friends playing basketball together before conducting their first joint project, during Occupy Wall Street. Selvig and Stiefler – born in the 80s, though they found themselves temporarily unable to speak when asked their exact ages – met through friends on the comedy scene in New York City. He spent the moments before his speech trying to craft remarks that “matched the tone” of the others there – apparently successfully, given the applause afterward. “We didn’t know that I was going to have that opportunity to be on a microphone with Wayne LaPierre until I walked into the room,” Selvig tells the Guardian. As of Monday, the video had received nearly 10m views on Twitter alone. But when a clip of the speech emerged online, the rest of the world certainly didn’t. Many in the audience appeared to miss the satire. And maybe these mass shootings would stop happening if we all thought a little bit more and we prayed a little bit more.” ![]() He reeled off a seemingly endless list of tragedies before reminding the crowd that “the NRA under Wayne LaPierre’s leadership has provided thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. But you might know them best from a recent appearance at an NRA convention in Houston, days after the school shooting in Texas.Īddressing attendees as well as the NRA’s executive vice-president himself, Selvig made an impassioned speech, condemning “the leftwing media” for “saying Wayne LaPierre isn’t doing enough to stop these mass shootings”. At an event for Ted Cruz – a frequent target – Stiefler managed to get onstage next to the senator and ask the crowd: “What made everyone so weird and sad that they had to come out here?” During a moment of prayer with the then presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, Selvig asked God to “give the candidates the strength to know when to quit”. ![]()
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