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By Mark Morales and Sean Lyngaas, CNN

The New York City Police Department launched an internal review of two active officers after their names and phone numbers were reportedly found in leaked data that apparently belongs to the Oath Keepers, a far-right, anti-government militia, a law enforcement official told CNN.

The leak came to light earlier this week when Distributed Denial of Secrets, an anti-secrecy group, published 5 gigabytes of apparent Oath Keepers data.

The data leak appears to include emails between Oath Keepers and prospective members, records of member fees, and copies of members online chats on political issues.

The incident is under internal review, a spokesperson for the NYPD said when asked for a response to the report claiming two officers names appeared in documents associated with the Oath Keepers.

Its unclear in what context the NYPD officers were associated with the data from the leak, or if they are current or former members.

Neither officer is being investigated for any potential participation in the January 6 insurrection. To date, no active NYPD officer has been found to have participated in the riot.

The Daily Dot first reported details of the hack this week, and the Gothamist/WNYC first reported the apparent connection to NYPD officers.

When asked about the report Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there will be a full investigation to find out if any officer was involved, how were they involved, what did they do, what did they say, if its the kind of thing that would disqualify them from serving.

Officials at the daily mayoral briefing were also asked if there was ever a comprehensive review of the NYPD, its members and their possible ties to extremist groups.

In the context of that question, NYPD Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes, on hand at the mayors daily briefing for a separate announcement, said, if we receive an allegation of someone being affiliated with those particular groups, then that would definitely automatically trigger a thorough investigation.

The Gothamist also reported that two Republican Party members in New York state were named in the hacked database.

Thomas Zmich, a Republican candidate for Queens Borough president, told CNN that he was a member of the Oath Keepers from 2015-2018 and that he joined because he believes in the Constitution and the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

He said there is no longer a New York chapter of the Oath Keepers. It was dissipated, he said.

When asked if he was concerned about the optics of being a former member of the Oath Keepers, Zmich said, you can call me anything you want, just dont call me late for dinner.

CNN has reached out to a lawyer who has represented the Oath Keepers organization in several insurrection-related lawsuits.

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When hunting is mentioned near any political conversation today, it is a point of order for those who understand the basis of the Second Amendment to say with conviction: The Second Amendment isnt about hunting.

This statement is a reaction to anti-Second Amendment groups and politicianssuch as President Joe Biden (D) and former senator and presidential candidate John Kerry (D)who have tried to divide and conquer gun owners by going hunting or mentioning hunters and then claiming true sportsmen and women dont need this or that type of gun.

Biden, in fact, still likes to repeat the weird line that deer dont wear Kevlar vests when he argues that hunters dont need some arbitrary number of rounds in a magazine. When he does this, no mainstream news reporter bothers to ask Biden what right protected in the U.S. Bill of Rights is predicated upon the governments subjective understanding of needour constitutional rights are, after all, restrictions on government.

So, given the dishonest politics at play, saying the Second Amendment isnt about hunting is certainly an understandable reaction and a true statement, as hunting is simply an extension of this natural right. The trouble is, this response tends to end the conversation when there is much to say about what hunting does for the Second Amendment.

As many hunting seasons are now in full swing, lets explore this point for a moment.

First of all, about 15 million people in the U.S. went hunting in 2019, according to Statista. Other estimates put the number somewhere between 14 and 20 million, but if its 15 million, this means that only about 4.5% of 328 million Americans went hunting in 2019.

Though this is a small percentage of Americans, consider how much this 4.5% in one yearplus the unknown overall number of people who have huntedaffects American culture.

To get a sense of this hard-to-quantify concept, first realize that when a hunter picks up one of their gunsespecially if the gun was given to them by their father or grandfather and has been in their hands on crisp autumn mornings in duck blinds, upland cover or deer standsthey feel much more than the guns steel, wood or polymer. To a hunter, a gun theyve gone afield with is alive with memories. Maybe it even has memories beaten into it, like a Remington Model 870 Wingmaster I still carry for small game. This pump-action shotgun has a dinged and chipped stock, bluing thats nearly gone, a fixed modified choke, no ventilated rib and a simple steel bead on the end of a 28-inch barrel. Its as battered as a 40-year-old boxer who should have hung up his gloves at 30. But I shoot this shotgun, just as my father did. It is alive in my hands. (Take a breath, anti-gun typesIm using alive metaphorically.)

Hunting is simply a use of our Second Amendment rights; the trouble is, this true statement tends to end the conversation when there is so much more to say.

This is why, when hunters talk about guns, even to non-hunters, these memories are within the beat of their words and in the depths of their eyes. This earned reverence for the tools they use has an infectious influence on how their families, friends and others they interact with perceive guns. Hunters are, to use a modern term, major cultural influencers who are spread out across America. As a result, even non-gun owners who happen to know a hunter might think when they come across a mainstream-media attack on gun ownership: Well, my Uncle Joe is a hunter and he has all of these guns and he is a good guy, so this doesnt ring true to me.

Real thingsand nothing is more real than huntingjust have a way of vaporizing fake mainstream-media narratives.

Indeed, hunting is so earthy, experiential and practical, it even has its own archetypes that help people to grasp who hunters are. Consider, for example, the upland bird aficionado. He might have a shotgun that is a work of art, or the gun might be as beaten and weathered as an old boat oar. Whatever the case, to him (or, increasingly, to her), the shotgun, and how he carries it in the field, has a touch of what the Spanish call gracia in it, a word that deals not with things but with the aesthetics of moving action. Ideally, he might even be trying for a little of what the Spanish call duende, a characteristic the author James Michener said is almost indefinable, as it means something with taste, refinement and elegance in just the right proportion and with no showiness. It is something a person can only manage for fleeting moments when life and art meet before again separating with a bad gesture or missed shot.

The shotgun, after all, is a friend, a trusted companion who comes along as an integral part of adventures in the field. When an upland hunter picks up a shotgun he knows, it points him toward a wild escape. Such a hunter might wear a classic upland coat, pants and vest splashed with orange, or he might be in jeans and flannel. Regardless, a hunter, with a gun in hand, is embodying an established archetype dating back to classic Outdoor Life covers and before. You can find him in the pages of Robert Ruarks classic The Old Man and the Boy and in Corey Fords famed posthumously published story The Road to Tinkhamtown. Though now misunderstood by op-ed writers at The New York Times, even the fashion set is aware of this upland-bird-hunting archetype. Beretta, after all, has stores in Milan, Paris, London and New Yorkand, oh yeah, theres one in Dallas, too.

Different icons can be found for various subsets of waterfowl hunters, for various styles of deer hunting and much more. Hunting also has new and emerging archetypes, such as the high-country big-game hunter in technical clothing that uses innovations from climbing apparel.

Such is why, when anti-gun politicians pretend to be part of this culture, they are quickly seen for the frauds they are; pretenders are just so easy to spot within these complex cultural milieus.

So, no, the Second Amendment isnt about hunting, but one of the reasons the Second Amendment stays relevant in our culture is because of hunting. Whether you hunt or just see sportsmen parked along the rural roadways at this time of the year, understand they are a part of what keeps this right practical and whole. They are doing something real, not virtual. This is culturally impactful. And we havent even touched on the game management hunters do for us or how much they pay for conservation across America.

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Champions of the idea point to a 1997 law, which in theory would allow the Treasury Secretary to authorize a platinum coin at the value of his or her discretion.

The president could direct the Treasury Secretary to mint a $1 trillion piece that could be deposited in the Federal Reserve and used to cover a big portion of Washington's bills.

Such a maneuver would bypass Congress, which is again flirting with disaster. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned on Tuesday that the government would run out of cash unless the federal borrowing cap is lifted.

Accounting 'gimmick'?

Though it may seem far-fetched, the idea got far enough during the 2013 impasse that the Treasury Department explicitly ruled out minting the coin.

Former president Barack Obama alluded to the internal talks over the concept in a January 2017 podcast, just as he was leaving office.

"There were all kinds of wacky ideas," Obama said on "Pod Save America" of the 2013 discussions with staff.

But the solution has hardly been embraced by mainstream economists.

Critics include economist Paul Krugman, who wrote in March 2020 that the idea was "an accounting gimmick" that "wouldn't even fool anyone."

Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University, said it was "the kind of thinking of a third world country."

"The essence of the issue here is printing money to pay the government's bills," Kotlikoff said. "And when you print enough money, you get inflation."

Policy makers are already grappling with pricing pressure in the wake of heavy fiscal spending during the pandemic. That marks a break from the anemic inflation seen over most of the last two decades.

Congressional Republicans have opposed raising the debt ceiling, arguing that President Joe Biden's enormous proposed investments in infrastructure and social programs are fiscally irresponsible.

For now, there is no obvious solution to the impasse, raising the possibility that the United States could default for the first time in its history.

But if the trillion-dollar coin draws eye rolls from economist, it is a source of curiosity on social media.

Quadrillion-dollar coin

On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said senior Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler "wants to have a trillion-dollar coin that doesn't require congressional approval."

Economics professor L. Randall Wray, a Bard College professor who has championed Modern Money Theory, which de-emphasizes the drawbacks of debt, said the special coin is no wackier than other expansionary financial maneuvers enacted by the Federal Reserve during the pandemic that have involved hundreds of billions of dollars of public and private debt.

"It is a work around," Wray said. "It sort of makes it obvious that the debt limit itself is a pretty stupid idea."

Wray and others note that massive infusions of liquidity by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 crisis did not spur inflation.

For Matthew Gertz of Media Matters for America, the question is not whether the trillion-dollar coin is too big, but whether it is big enough.

"A trillion-dollar coin isn't cool," Gertz wrote on Twitter. "You know what's cool? A quadrillion-dollar coin."

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'Who wants to tell him?': Trump Jr. mocked for declaring the Second Amendment is 'non-negotiable' even in Australia - Raw Story

Paul Adell stood in the shooting stall wearing earmuffs atop his Chicago Bulls baseball cap. He fired a Canik TP9 Elite Combat pistol a half-dozen times, hitting a target 10 feet away with almost surgical precision.

He pressed the safety on the gun and placed it on a table in the stall before turning to me and the rest of the group.

Praise God and pass the ammunition, he said.

Adell, 30, was a big Black man in his element loading guns, sharing ammo, and dispensing shooting advice at The Firing Pin indoor shooting range in Bergen. He shoots for sport, for fun, and for protection.

The Firing Pin, a busy spot off Interstate 490 on the outskirts of Monroe County, is home to the Rochester African American Firearms Association, or RAAFA, which provides gun and self-defense training mostly but not exclusively to African Americans like me.

The growth in the number of organizations like RAAFA in the United States has mirrored a surge in gun sales to Black people fueled by the uncertainty of the pandemic, skyrocketing violent crime, and polls showing that half of Black Americans feel they cant trust the police to treat them fairly.

These groups are not militant, their organizers insist, but are rather an outgrowth of a conclusion reached by many Black people that they have been left with no choice but to exercise their Second Amendment right to protect themselves, fearing that no one else will.

It is our fundamental belief that the duty of the people is to arm and educate themselves in order to protect and defend themselves, reads a statement on the RAAFA website, which claims the group has received an overwhelming interest and response and is now the largest of its kind serving upstate New York.

Were not criminals. Were not a gang, said Adell, a U.S. Concealed Carry Association and National Rifle Association instructor. Were not any type of militia or military or militant type of group. Were a community-based organization that offers training and education.

The groups philosophy is that not every sign of trouble requires a gun. Its instructors teach de-escalation techniques as well as hand-to-hand combat maneuvers.

Every day is not a gun day. The firearm is the last resort, and thats what we teach people," Adell said. "The best thing to defend and combat the violence is using the mind and using the heart and sometimes the mouth, too.

But for me, that day was a gun day.

After crash courses on gun safety, I signed a waiver and headed to the range floor with five RAAFA members, including an educator, a counselor, and a retired Monroe County Sheriffs Office sergeant, Mark Cochran, who is the groups chief instructor.

There, I held a Ruger Pistol Caliber Carbine rifle and Adell and Cochran helped me adjust my stance. Adell advised me on the importance of repeating my approach with every shot, like a quarterbacks throwing motion or a point guards jump shot.

Within a half-hour or so, I improved, learning to use a scope and to breathe easier with a butt of a rifle lodged against my shoulder. It was tough to not anticipate the explosion out of the barrel, let alone the other gunshots on the range, but I got the hang of it.

If data is any guide, moments like these are happening around the country with greater frequency.

The almost 40 million checks conducted last year represented a 40-percent increase over 2019, and the nearly 28 million checks done through August of this year are on pace to shatter the record.

The checks do not reflect the number of guns sold, but the National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that slightly more than half the checks done last year were conducted on new gun owners, many of them women and people of color. The group polls firearms dealers and figures gun sales to Black Americans are up 58 percent, the largest jump of any demographic group.

Todays gun buyer doesnt just look like me, a 48-year-old white guy who lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Mark Olivia, a spokesperson for the foundation, said. Todays gun buyer looks like the rest of America, because they are the rest of America.

Demographic data on gun owners is hard to come by in New York, but anecdotal evidence suggests the same trend is playing out in Monroe County.

In the past, getting a permit typically took six to nine months. But the backlog is so great now that County Clerk Jamie Romeo said her staff is telling most applicants to expect to wait a year.

I think 2020 was an unfortunate perfect storm, where there were lots of other outside influences that for whatever reason made people interested in gun ownership, Romeo said. It's created a swell that we are not necessarily seeing dip in at this moment.

[T]heres just a lot of people that are looking for ways to have some personal safety, she went on, and simply owning a firearm won't make an individual safer, especially if they don't know how to use it.

RAAFA has grown as well.

When the organization was founded last November by Adell and fellow small business owner Michael Nix, it served a handful of members. Today, Adell and Nix count a few dozen members, about half of whom are women.

Nix, a 54-year-old Marine veteran, grew up around guns. He said part of the appeal of groups like RAAFA for new Black gun owners is learning from instructors who look like them, like he did.

My grandfather was a hunter, Nix said. I identify (with gun owners) because I grew up in the house and the house was exposed to that type of activity. But the average kid that grew up in a neighborhood with me, doesn't.

Theres the issue of trust, he continued. We tend to be more willing to accept something from someone we trust. When you're here, you're getting educated by someone who can relate to your struggle.

Barksdale said fear kept her away from guns for most of her life, but joined RAAFA after learning about it from a friend. Now, she does community outreach for the group, dubbing herself a 2A person a Second Amendment person.

Like basically most Black women, Barksdale said, I wasn't raised in a home that was firearm-savvy.

Barksdale said she was motivated to pick up a gun by a different kind of fear: Being a single mom of an 8-year-old daughter.

I have a child in my home, and I want to be able to protect her, Barksdale said. I don't want to have to wait for someone else to come and advocate for me or be able to protect my home. I need to be able to do that myself.

Phillip Smith, founder of the 40,000-member National African American Gun Association, said Barksdales sentiment is common, particularly in light of the volatility of the last year.

Citing the long history of gun control laws in the United States that impinged the rights of African Americans to own guns, Smith said that Black people are still maligned for wanting access to firearms.

Images of Black people with guns, he said, have always been negative. That is something that both the national and local gun groups have worked to counter.

Other communities have guns all the time, Smith said. The Jewish community, the Asian community, the white community, and nobody bats an eye. We get questioned. Why is it so different for us?

The last year-and-a-half has seen rapid change lockdowns, mask mandates, civil unrest and a spike in violent crime in cities across the country.

Homicides and aggravated gun assaults hit peaks in the summer of 2020 and continue to hover above pre-pandemic levels, according to the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice.

Shootings and slayings in Rochester are at least at 10-year highs. Last year, the city had its first riot in half a century, followed by months of civil unrest marked by clashes between protesters and police over the way the city handled the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated while in police custody.

Adell said these conditions awakened people to their vulnerability and played a role in the rise of gun ownership and growth of his group. He asserted that Black gun groups arent a fad, but rather the latest incarnation of a rarely acknowledged American tradition.

It's been a very silent group, but it has always existed, Adell said. And I think because of the conditions, it has brought people out, and I think because of organizations like RAAFA, people feel a little bit more secure.

James Brown is a reporter for WXXI News, a media partner of CITY.

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Black, Armed, and Aware - Rochester City Newspaper

INCREASE AGREEMENT REGARDING INCREMENTAL REVOLVER

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THIS INCREASE AGREEMENT REGARDING INCREMENTAL REVOLVER COMMITMENTS AND SECOND AMENDMENT TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this "Amendment") is entered into as of September 28, 2021, by and among WELLS FARGO CAPITAL FINANCE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as the arranger and administrative agent (the "Agent") for the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below), the Lenders party hereto, WABASH NATIONAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation ("Wabash"), certain Subsidiaries of Wabash designated on the signature pages hereto as borrowers (together with Wabash, such Subsidiaries are collectively referred as the "Borrowers") and certain Subsidiaries of Wabash designated on the signature pages hereto as guarantors. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the definitions provided therefor in the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined).

WHEREAS, Borrowers, Agent, and Lenders are parties to that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, the "Credit Agreement");

WHEREAS, Borrowers have requested, pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Credit Agreement, that certain Lenders party hereto (each an "Increasing Lender" and collectively, the "Increasing Lenders") increase their Revolver Commitments under Section 2.2 of the Credit Agreement in an aggregate amount equal to $50,000,000 (the "Incremental Revolver Commitments");

WHEREAS, the Increasing Lenders have agreed to make the Incremental Revolver Commitments on the terms and conditions set forth herein;

WHEREAS, Borrowers have also requested that Agent and Lenders make certain amendments to the Credit Agreement, and Agent and Lenders have agreed to the foregoing, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Increase. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to effectiveness set forth in Section 3 below, each Increasing Lender party hereto hereby agrees to increase its Revolver Commitment by the amount set forth beside such Lender's name under the heading "Incremental Revolver Commitment" on Schedule C-1 hereto, such that after giving effect to such Incremental Revolver Commitments (the aggregate amount of which equals $50,000,000), the Revolver Commitment of each Lender shall be as set forth beside such Lender's name under the heading "Total Commitment" on Schedule C-1 hereto. The Incremental Revolver Commitments and any amounts borrowed in respect of the Incremental Revolver Commitments ("Incremental Advances") shall constitute Revolver Commitments and Advances under the Credit Agreement, respectively, and shall be entitled to all the benefits afforded by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and shall, without limiting the foregoing, benefit equally and ratably from any

guarantees and the security interests created by the Loan Documents. Borrowers shall take any actions reasonably required by Agent to ensure and demonstrate that the Liens granted by the Loan Documents continue to be perfected under the Code or otherwise upon giving effect to the Incremental Revolver Commitments, the Incremental Advances and the Maximum Revolver Amount set forth herein. The interest margins for the Incremental Advances shall be the same as the interest margins for the Advances under the Credit Agreement. The outstanding unpaid principal balance and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Incremental Advances shall be due and payable on the earlier of (a) the Maturity Date (subject to extension in accordance with Section 2.18 of the Credit Agreement), and (b) the date of the acceleration of the Advances in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the increase to the Revolver Commitments contemplated by this Section 1 shall constitute a Revolver Increase under Section 2.2 of the Credit Agreement.

2. Amendments. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to effectiveness set forth in Section 3 below, the Credit Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

(a) A new Section 1.8 is hereby added to the Credit Agreement in appropriate numerical order as follows:

1.8. Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction's laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Stock at such time.

(b) The second sentence of Section 5.11 of the Credit Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety.

(c) Section 5.12 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to add the following new sentence immediately before the last sentence thereof:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein (including Section 5.11 hereof and this Section 5.12) or in any other Loan Document, Agent shall not accept delivery of any joinder to any Loan Document with respect to any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is not a Loan Party, if such Subsidiary that qualifies as a "legal entity customer" under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation unless such Subsidiary has delivered a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Subsidiary and Agent has completed its Patriot Act searches, OFAC/PEP searches and customary individual background checks for such Subsidiary, the results of which shall be satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion.

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(d) New Sections 17.17 and 17.18 are hereby added to the Credit Agreement in appropriate numerical order as follows:

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shall be deemed to have made a cashless assignment of the full face amount of the portion of its Advances (but not its Commitments) with respect to which such Erroneous Payment was made (the "Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans") to Agent or, at the option of Agent, Agent's applicable lending affiliate (such assignee, the "Agent Assignee") in an amount that is equal to the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (or such lesser amount as Agent may specify) (such assignment of the Advances (but not Commitments) of the Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans, the "Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment") plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such assigned amount, without further consent or approval of any party hereto and without any payment by Agent Assignee as the assignee of such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment. Without limitation of its rights hereunder, following the effectiveness of the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, Agent may make a cashless reassignment to the applicable assigning Lender of any Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment at any time by written notice to the applicable assigning Lender and upon such reassignment all of the Advances assigned pursuant to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment shall be reassigned to such Lender without any requirement for payment or other consideration. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (1) any assignment contemplated in this clause (d) shall be made without any requirement for any payment or other consideration paid by the applicable assignee or received by the assignor, (2) the provisions of this clause (d) shall govern in the event of any conflict with the terms and conditions of Section 13 and (3) Agent may reflect such assignments in the Register without further consent or action by any other Person.

(e) Each party hereto hereby agrees that (x) in the event an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered from any Payment Recipient that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, Agent (1) shall be subrogated to all the rights of such Payment Recipient with respect to such amount and (2) is authorized to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Payment Recipient under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by Agent to such Payment Recipient from any source, against any amount due to Agent under this Section 17.18 or under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement, (y) the receipt of an Erroneous Payment by a Payment Recipient shall not for the purpose of this Agreement be treated as a payment, prepayment, repayment, discharge or other satisfaction of any Obligations owed by the Borrowers or any other Loan Party, except, in each case, to the extent such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by Agent from the Borrowers or any other Loan Party for the purpose of making a payment on the Obligations and (z) to the extent that an Erroneous Payment was in any way or at any time credited as payment or satisfaction of any of the Obligations, the Obligations or any part thereof that were so credited, and all rights of the Payment Recipient, as the case may be, shall be reinstated and continue in full force and effect as if such payment or satisfaction had never occurred.

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(f) Each party's obligations under this Section 17.18 shall survive the resignation or replacement of Agent or any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations (or any portion thereof) under any Loan Document.

(g) The provisions of this Section 17.18 to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) nothing in this Section 17.18 will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from any Payment Recipient's receipt of an Erroneous Payment, (ii) there will only be deemed to be a recovery of the Erroneous Payment to the extent that Agent has received payment thereof from the Payment Recipient in immediately available funds,whether directly from the Payment Recipient, as a result of the exercise by Agent of its rights of subrogation or setoff as set forth above in clause (e) or as a result of the receipt by Agent Assignee of a payment of the outstanding principal balance of the Advances assigned to Agent Assignee pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, but excluding any other amounts in respect thereof (it being agreed that any payments of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts (other than principal) received by Agent Assignee in respect of the Advances assigned to Agent Assignee pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment shall be the sole property of Agent Assignee and shall not constitute a recovery of the Erroneous Payment), and (iii) no Borrower shall be deemed to be a Payment Recipient under this Section 17.18 in respect of the proceeds of any Advance funded in accordance with Section 2.3 of this Agreement.

(e) The definition of Maximum Revolver Amount set forth on Schedule 1.1 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

"Maximum Revolver Amount" means, as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, $225,000,000, decreased thereafter by the amount of reductions in the Revolver Commitments made in accordance with Section 2.4(c) or Section 3.5 of the Agreement, and increased thereafter by the amount of any Revolver Increases made in accordance with Section 2.2 of the Agreement.

(f) Schedule 1.1 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to add the following definitions in appropriate alphabetical order:

"Agent Assignee" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"Beneficial Ownership Certification" means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

"Beneficial Ownership Regulation" means 31 C.F.R. 1010.230.

"BHC Act Affiliate" of a Person means an "affiliate" (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such Person.

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"Covered Entity" means any of the following:

(a) a "covered entity" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. 252.82(b);

(b) a "covered bank" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. 47.3(b); or

(c) a "covered FSI" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. 382.2(b).

"Covered Party" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.17 of this Agreement.

"Default Right" has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

"Erroneous Payment" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"Erroneous Payment Impacted Loans" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"Payment Recipient" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.18 of this Agreement.

"QFC" has the meaning assigned to the term "qualified financial contract" in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

"QFC Credit Support" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.17 of this Agreement.

"Second Amendment Effective Date" means the "Effective Date" under and as defined in the Second Amendment.

"Supported QFC" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.17 of this Agreement.

"U.S. Special Resolution Regimes" has the meaning specified therefor in Section 17.17 of this Agreement.

(g) Schedule C-1 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as set forth on Schedule C-1 hereto.

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3. Conditions to Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the first date (the "Effective Date"), when, and only when, each of the following conditions have been satisfied (or waived) in accordance with the terms therein:

(a) Agent shall have received a copy of this Amendment executed and delivered by Agent, the Lenders and the Loan Parties, together with each of the additional documents, instruments and agreements listed on the closing checklist attached hereto as Exhibit A (other than the documents, instruments and agreements listed under the heading "Post-Closing Items" on such checklist);

(b) Borrowers shall have paid (i) the increase fee referred to in Section 7 below, and (ii) all other Lender Group Expenses incurred in connection with the transactions evidenced by this Amendment to the extent invoiced on or prior to the date hereof; and

(c) the representations and warranties in Section 4 of this Amendment shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Effective Date.

Agent shall promptly notify the Administrative Borrower and Lenders of the satisfaction of the conditions to the occurrence of the Effective Date, which notice shall be conclusive and binding.

4. Representations and Warranties. In order to induce Agent and Lenders to enter into this Amendment, each Loan Party hereby makes each of the following representations and warranties to the Lenders, each of which shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof), as of the date hereof, and shall be true, correct and complete in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) at and as of the date of the Effective Date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of such earlier date):

(a) such Loan Party has the corporate or other organizational power and authority to execute, deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of this Amendment and has taken all necessary corporate or other organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment;

(b) such Loan Party has duly executed and delivered this Amendment and this Amendment constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium, or similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and subject to general principles of equity;

(c) neither the execution, delivery or performance by such Loan Party of this Amendment nor compliance with the terms and provisions hereof nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (a) contravene any material provision of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or governmental

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instrumentality binding on any Loan Party, (b) result in any breach of any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien upon any of the property or assets of such Loan Party (other than Permitted Liens) pursuant to the terms of any Material Contract of any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries other than any such breach, default or Lien that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or (c) violate any material provision of the certificate of incorporation, by-laws or other Governing Document of such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;

(d) both immediately before and upon giving effect to the Effective Date and the transactions contemplated hereby, all representations and warranties made by each Loan Party contained in the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to "materiality" or "Material Adverse Change" shall be true and correct in all respects) with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Effective Date (except where such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to "materiality" or "Material Adverse Change" shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date); and

(e) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on the Effective Date before or upon giving effect to the effectiveness hereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

5. Reaffirmation of the Loan Parties. Each Loan Party hereby consents to the amendment of the Credit Agreement effected hereby and confirms and agrees that, notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Amendment, each Loan Document to which such Loan Party is a party is, and the obligations of such Loan Party contained in the Credit Agreement, this Amendment or in any other Loan Document to which it is a party are, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects, in each case as amended by this Amendment. For greater certainty and without limiting the foregoing, each Loan Party hereby confirms that the existing security interests granted by such Loan Party in favor of the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents in the Collateral described therein shall continue to secure the obligations of the Loan Parties under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as and to the extent provided in the Loan Documents.

6. Amendment, Modification and Waiver. This Amendment may not be amended, modified or waived except in accordance with Section 14.1 of the Credit Agreement.

7. Increase Fee. In consideration for the agreements set forth herein, Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the ratable benefit of each Increasing Lender (based on each such Lender's pro rata share of the Incremental Revolver Commitments), the increase fee set forth in the supplemental fee letter dated as of the date hereof among Borrowers and Agent, which fee will be deemed to be fully earned, nonrefundable, due and payable on the Effective Date.

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8. Post-Closing Covenants. Borrowers have notified Agent that Wabash intends to incur unsecured notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $400,000,000 on or before October 31, 2021 (the "New Note Issuance"; and such unsecured notes, the "2028 Notes"), the proceeds of which will be used in connection with such issuance to, among other things, refinance and replace in full the 2025 Notes and refinance and replace in full or in part the Term Loan Indebtedness, and Borrowers have further advised Agent that the 2028 Notes will constitute Permitted Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, consisting of Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of the 2025 Notes and/or Incremental Equivalent Indebtedness, as applicable. In furtherance of the foregoing:

(a) prior to the occurrence of the New Note Issuance and in any event at least two (2) Business Days prior to the occurrence thereof, Borrowers shall deliver to Agent a certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, certifying as to compliance with each of the requirements of Refinancing Indebtedness and/or Incremental Equivalent Indebtedness, as applicable, under the Credit Agreement in respect of the New Note Issuance; and

(b) promptly after the occurrence of the New Note Issuance and in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, Borrowers shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide Agent with copies of items 9 through 11 on the closing checklist attached hereto as Exhibit A, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

Failure by Borrowers to satisfy any of the foregoing covenants shall constitute an immediate Event of Default under the Credit Agreement.

9. Release of Claims. In consideration of the agreements of Agent and Lenders contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Loan Party, on behalf of itself and each of its respective successors, assigns, and other legal representatives (the "Releasing Parties"), hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably releases, remises and forever discharges Agent and the Lenders and each of their successors and assigns, and each of their present and former shareholders, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, predecessors, directors, officers, attorneys, employees, agents and other representatives (Agent and the Lenders and all such other Persons being hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Releasees" and individually as a "Releasee"), of and from all demands, actions, causes of action, suits, covenants, contracts, controversies, agreements, promises, sums of money, accounts, bills, reckonings, damages and any and all other claims, counterclaims, defenses, rights of set-off, demands and liabilities whatsoever (individually, a "Claim" and collectively, "Claims") of every kind and nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, at law or in equity, which any Loan Party or any of its respective successors, assigns, or other legal representatives may now or hereafter own, hold, have or claim to have against the Releasees or any of them for, upon, or by reason of any circumstance, action, cause or thing whatsoever which arises at any time prior to the date of this Amendment, including, without limitation, for or on account of, or in relation to, or in any way in connection with this Amendment, the Credit Agreement, or any of the other Loan Documents or transactions hereunder or thereunder. The Releasing Parties hereby represent to the Releasees that they have not assigned or transferred any interest in any Claim against any Releasee prior to the date hereof.

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10. Miscellaneous.

(a) Expenses. Each Borrower agrees to pay promptly after receipt of written demand therefor from Agent all reasonable costs and expenses of Agent (including reasonable and documented attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Amendment and all other instruments or documents provided for herein or delivered or to be delivered hereunder or in connection herewith. All obligations provided herein shall survive any termination of this Amendment and the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.

(b) Choice of Law and Venue; Jury Trial Waiver; Reference Provision. Without limiting the applicability of any other provision of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, the terms and provisions set forth in Section 12 of the Credit Agreement are expressly incorporated herein by reference.

(c) Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of which, when executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Amendment. Execution of any such counterpart may be by means of (a) an electronic signature that complies with the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, or any other relevant and applicable electronic signatures law; (b) an original manual signature; or (c) a faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature. Each electronic signature or faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. Agent reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to accept, deny, or condition acceptance of any electronic signature on this Amendment. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Amendment by faxed, scanned or photocopied manual signature shall also deliver an original manually executed counterpart, but the failure to deliver an original manually executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability and binding effect of this Amendment.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized and delivered as of the date first above written.

BORROWERS:

WABASH NATIONAL CORPORATION,

a Delaware corporation

By: /s/ Michael N. Pettit

Name: Michael N. Pettit

Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

WABASH NATIONAL, L.P.,

a Delaware limited partnership

By: Wabash National Trailer Centers, Inc.,

Its General Partner

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) A state House committee has approved a constitutional amendment that would change Pennsylvanias election process in several ways.

Some Republicans see this as the best way to get the changes they desire. For years, Republicans have pushed the idea that every voter shows an ID card when voting.

In this state, thats only required the first time you vote in a new precinct. When a bill to expand that to all elections was vetoed by Governor Tom Wolf, Republicans decided to put the question on the ballot as an amendment to the State Constitution. Its one way to bypass the governor.

Its a way to overcome his unwillingness to come to the table on these issues and ignore the will of the people, said Bill Bretz, the chair of the Westmoreland County Republican Party.

Bretz likes the proposed amendment approved Monday by the State Government Committee.

It states: A qualified elector shall present a valid government-issued identification prior to voting.

ID would be required whether you vote in person or by mail and voting by mail would also require the electors signature on the envelope, which would have to match a signature of record.

I think thats an easy thing to implement. I dont think thats disenfranchising because everyone has an ID, and I think that would restore a lot of confidence in the electoral process, Bretz told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Tuesday.

If you want a photo ID in rural Pennsylvania, there are no photo centers in some of the counties. There are no buses and no transportation, so the poor and the elderly will be the ones left behind, said State Rep. Scott Conklin, a State College Democrat who leads the Democrats on the committee who voted no to this amendment.

Conklin said most forms of voter ID discriminate against certain voters, and he said Republicans are trying to solve an election problem that doesnt exist.

Not one county commissioner has come to me, who run the elections, and said, Weve got to overhaul the system. The County Commissioners Association who oversees the elections has not come to us. This is strictly a fraud thats run to try to fool people, Conklin said.

In 2012, the Commonwealth Court struck down a photo ID requirement, saying it disenfranchised voters, but this amendment makes no mention of a photo, calling instead for a government-issued ID, leaving the Legislature free to dictate the type of ID necessary to vote.

Theres also a strong push for voter ID, and I do think thats something that most Pennsylvanians and most Americans would like to see implemented, Bretz said.

A second amendment would require elections to be audited by the auditor general prior to being certified. Democrats said this is already done by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who oversees elections.

Before those ballots are certified, the election is certified, there is an audit to check a certain percentage of all the ballots randomly to make sure theyre true. Its worked very well. Theres not been widespread fraud, Conklin said.

But Republicans unhappy with the performance of former Secretary Kathy Boockvar want to make her office a statewide election like the attorney general, auditor general and state treasurer.

We should approach the idea of electing election officials with a great deal of skepticism, said David Thornburgh, who heads a good government think tank and is the son of the late Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh.

Thornburgh warns against this amendment.

It politicizes it. All of a sudden, theyre out raising money. Theyre asked to take positions on issues before theyre in office, Thornburgh said.

And who can forget how former President Donald Trump called Georgias secretary of state, asking him to find 11,000 votes.

There are lots of reasons why we should protect that office from partisan interference, Thornburgh said.

Before these proposed amendments can get on the ballot for voter approval, they must pass both houses of the Legislative twice in separate sessions. That means nothing will be on the ballot until 2023. This process is just beginning.

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The musket and cannon debate is admittedly prone to silliness but opinions such as Bidens suggest a horribly shallow knowledge of history and no willingness to learn the facts, either among the public or the establishment media. They allow gun prohibitionists, including the president, to get away with such nonsense without challenge.

This is where grassroots Second Amendment activists step in. This column has encouraged readers to write letters to the editor, or be so bold as to write an Op-Ed for the local newspaper. Were heading into late autumn and soon it will be winter. Of course hunting seasons are under way, but set aside a little time for gun rights research and get busy writing.

There is ample material from which to draw for such a project. The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation are excellent sources, and one can go on a search engine and simply look for information about Gun Control or Gun Rights and start studying.

This is not for laughs. Youre trying to educate people who havent made up their minds and the most important thing is to explain how Rights are different from Privileges. When Joe Biden, or some other anti-gunner declares, Nobody needs 100 rounds for deer hunting, remind them the Second Amendment is not about hunting, its about prohibiting the government from stepping on your rights.

Keep your writing terse and on topic; short sentences, proper spelling and punctuation. Put your name, address and telephone number on it. Do not plagiarize someone elses work. If you quote someone else, put it in quotation marks and provide attribution.

Offer yourself as a source to local reporters. Be someone they will want to contact for the other side of any story on guns. Build your credibility by telling the truth, providing honest assessments of situations, understanding firearms and being able to explain the differences between military arms and modern sporting rifles.

One year from this month, America will hold its mid-term elections. If you want things to change, youre going to have to vote and get everyone you know to vote. In 1994, frustrated citizens changed the face of Congress by throwing out more than 50 anti-gun politicians who voted for the Brady Law in 1993 and the Clinton Crime Bill with its 10-year ban on so-called assault weapons and original capacity magazines. Bill Clinton was effectively neutered for the rest of his time in office.

The time has come to do it again. If you entertain, even for a heartbeat, any notion the party now in power doesnt want to turn your Second Amendment right into a heavily regulated privilege, you are woefully nave.

The nomination of David Chipman earlier this year to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wasnt a signal; it was an open declaration of war on Americas gun owners. Here we are five months later. Any questions?

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At least 20 mayors of American cities apparently understand that the world can be a dangerous enough place to require armed securityfor them. Yet, these same mayors have worked to defund the police in their own cities.

Armed security for me, but not for thee?

Thats the inevitable conclusion one has to draw from an article published in the Daily Mail, which noted that, At least 20 mayors from cities that have called to defund the police enjoy the perks of private security at a cost to taxpayers of millions of dollars a year.

One example is San Francisco Mayor LondonBreed, who took $120 million in funding from her citys police department and redirected it to new and existing programs.

San Francisco spent $12.4 million to protect Breed between 2015 and 2020, with the bill rising from $1.7 million in 2015 to $2.6 million last year, reported the Daily Mail.

In another example, in 2020 the Baltimore City Council voted to eliminate $22 million from the police budget, supported by then-City Council President Brandon Scott, who is now the mayor of Baltimore.

This is just the beginning, and I intend to continue leading this process to redirect our public dollars and reimagine public safety in Baltimore, said Scott at the time.

Other examples where taxpayers fund police details or private security for officials in cities where law-enforcement budgets are being reduced or are under attack include:

Many of these same mayors are members of the Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).

As the NRA-ILA noted, MAIG was created in 2006 to lobby for gun control, including increased restrictions and bans on completely legal firearms.

NRA-ILA also reported that political elites receiving taxpayer-funded security, while police forces are being reduced, was not limited to mayors.

On June 26, [2021] the Minneapolis City Councilvoted unanimously to advance a measure to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. The move to defund the police received significant criticism from leaders of the communities that most rely on the police department.Being charitable, the left-leaning Minneapolis Star Tribune described the city councils proposal as not well thought out.

But Minneapolis taxpayers spent $63,000 on private security for three council members who voted for the defunding law enforcement!

Still, when it comes to pure hypocrisy, big-city mayors have few peers on this issue. Consider Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Though she eliminated 600 jobs from Chicagos police departmentand the Chicago judicial system is notorious for going very soft on criminalsLightfoot regularly blames the Second Amendment for the citys out-of-control crime and drug gang related shootings in her city.

At the same time, according to NRA-ILA, Lightfoot has gone to great lengths to ensure her personal safety. The city has constructed what some locals are referring to Fort Lori around the mayors entire neighborhood, with the Chicago Police Department effectively banning protesters from demonstrating on Mayor Lori Lightfoots block. The police have orders to arrest anyone refusing to leave.

NRA-ILA said it best: Through their actions, these politicians have made clear that they are willing to sacrifice the safety of their constituents, but are unwilling to compromise their personal safety in the process. Such a flagrant breach of the social contract forfeits whatever perceived moral authority they may have claimed in order to control how their constituents provide for their own defense.

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Kids These Days: Not a day goes by that we dont ask ourselves what in the heck is wrong with people. This week, our ire is pointed at the idiots that sprayed graffiti on a limestone bluff at Hickory Canyons Conservation Area in Ste. Genevieve County, forcing Missouri Department of Conservation staffers to grind down the limestone to remove it and try to restore the natural beauty of the place. To the people with the spray paint: What the heck is wrong with you? Since you just sprayed your names and dumb smiley faces, were assuming that youre stupid kids and not professional artists. And as stupid kids, you should know that its much cooler to spray paint goverment buildings. Were not saying dont tag anything anywhere, were saying that you should be more strategic with your vandalism! You go out into nature to get high, not to tag shit! Keep the tagging in the city, keep the weed in the woods. Didnt your parents teach you anything?

Hearts of Stone: Really, would it have been so fucking hard to wear your mask at the Rolling Stones concert at the Dome at Americas Center? Were almost two years into this thing and youre still being pissy little babies about masks? Every photo from the event showed a sea of maskless people with just a few non-idiots sprinkled in with their faces covered. The hospitals are full, the nurses are at the end of their ropes, the vaccine isnt infallible, yet still, you wont make even basic moves to protect yourselves or those around you. Some 688,000 people have died from COVID in this country, and at the rate were going well see hundreds of thousands more slowly suffocate to death because nobody is willing to face reality. To quote the Stones: Ain't nobody slowing down, no way / Everybody's stepping on their accelerator / Don't matter where you are / Everybody's gonna need a ventilator.

Jimmy Kimmel Defense Squad: Jimmy Kimmel caused quite the stir in St. Louis this week when he went up against Imos Pizzas No. 1 fan, Simone Biles, over the infamous za. On his show, he told Biles the pizza was very, very bad, leading the gymnast to challenge him to combat over his opinion. But in defense of Kimmel, wed like to emphasize the very fact that St. Louis itself is split over our pizza. Depending on who you ask, you either get the cracker with cheese mentality or immediately pointed to a shrine dedicated to the Provel gods. With a wife from St. Louis who loves the pizza while the Brooklyn native says it tastes like melted plastic, he represents a very real split. St. Louis was quick to throw Kimmel under the bus for his thoughts on our culinary proclivities, but we all should be praising him for his bold stance. Standing up to Biles is no feat. Shes proven herself time and time again as a strong woman, going up against predators like Larry Nassar, and as an undefeatable gymnast who knows when to take a break. And while Kimmel will never be widely beloved by St. Louisans in the way Biles is, maybe we all should take a second to recognize the tenacity of Kimmel to go against a city as passionate as St. Louis. That takes some serious balls. We respect it.

Quick on the Flaw: Governor Mike Parson is apparently having second thoughts about Missouris publicity stunt gun rights law now that the cluster it has caused is too obvious to ignore. In June, Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act at a gun shop called Frontier Justice, grinning like hed just won a lifetime supply of Werthers Original candies. This legislation today draws a line in the sand and demonstrates our commitment to reject any attempt by the federal government to circumvent the fundamental right Missourians have to keep and bear arms to protect themselves and their property, he said at the time. But guess what? Cops hate it. Parson was so eager to own the libs that he and Republican legislators ignored police chiefs across the state who warned the $50,000 penalty for anyone caught helping enforce federal gun laws would make all those federal task forces they count on unworkable. KMOV was the latest to point this out, and Parson admitted to them the law needed to be revisited so they could move forward on this, without causing problems for local law enforcement or the federal agency. Parson meant the law to be a message to President Joe Biden, KMOV reports, which tracks with the governors line in the sand machismo. But the weird thing about treating laws like press releases is that laws stay laws, with actual consequences that outlast the headlines.

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