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“Respect the troops” - Republicans
“Don’t send us to die for Israel’s good for nothing war” - the troops
Breaks hand of the troops - Republicans
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Senator Tim Sheehy is also credibly accused of a form of stolen valor: he discharged a gun in a National Park in 2015 and paid a fine for it, but then claimed in his later memoir that he got that bullet wound in Afghanistan. When challenged, he refused to release any of the medical records that would prove it.
Sheehy also claims that he was discharged from the military because of injuries he sustained on duty, but then some reporter dug up the discharge records and nope, he actually just resigned.
Oh, and he apparently plagiarized several sections of his memoir.
Just another lying GOP coward.
Nice
I hope Brian McGinnis wins the North Carolina senate seat he is running for. Seems like the type of person who intends to do good.
His opposite number, Tim Sheehy, deserves a prison cell.
We have to overthrow this Iranian regime because they brutalize protesters. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told…
If you saw some of the unfiltered news, you would agree. I have quite a few Iranian friends that are watching their fellow citizens be murdered. but we know that’s not why the USA is doing this.
Also, change Iranian to American and I’m on board. Fuck ICE.
the brown-nosing senator joined in the fight to try to get PR.
That video is wild. Hr just keeps repeating his opposition
Maybe fuck the capitol police too
Well duh, all cops
Huh, I was told that kneeling silently while a piece of cloth was displayed and a song was playing at a game - was “disrespecting the troops”. I was told that not supporting whatever elective war the conservatives wanted to wage on brown people was “disrespecting the troops”. Meanwhile, funding troops when they were back home and their service and/or the war(s) they were in were over…eh, fuhgeddaboutit.
I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words. I guess breaking someone’s arm/hand is respecting the troops? As long as it is being done by a conservative?
“Black man dint stand for flag song” - conservatives
I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words
Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don’t care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.
Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.
That seems to be the academic consensus, with regard to right wing authoritarian personalities. They don’t seem to have the inner reflection that makes hypocrisy uncomfortable.
The math isn’t mathing up…
Fuck thats horrifying.
What are the chances this guy can sue?
Edit: also what was he trying to say before they grabbed him? He said no one wants to die for israel at the end right?
Sue successfully? Probably slim, but there’s a chance, seeing as it could be brought in the district of columbia.
Personal opinion? Fuck the entire body of sitting senators and representatives right now. If we had elected representatives who would hold their fellows accountable when they propose insane, or regressive, or asshole spewed, or corporate fucked legislation (and you can imagine whatever you’d like for how they could hold them accountable), then we would have long ago run out of or stopped sending pieces of shit in. They can all sit there and take the interruption that this marine and people like him bring to their ‘business’ or ‘work’ as congressmen. Removing him is uncalled for and they deserve every bit of their power and influence (money) being removed from them!
Legalish (I’m no lawyer, obviously) opinion? The marine was interrupting a government meeting, which means he was not welcome any longer in the building/space where the meeting was taking place, and when you are not welcome in a space the people who are allowed to be in that space can use force to remove you from said space if you do not leave (roughly… there’s obviously a lot more to it than that, especially in government settings). The individuals involved in the melee here weren’t using anything besides pushing/pulling, so it’s unlikely you’d see much success with an ‘excessive force’ lawsuit. I think if they had used a taser, or a baton, or even pepper spray there would be a good, strong case to be made, because he wasn’t doing anything but trying to not be moved and it would be pretty apparent to a jury that there was no call for any of those. Even punches or strikes of some kind would be more likely to win… but you’d have to make your case in front of a very sympathetic jury for what we saw to go very far in an excessive force case.
Crap, you posted this in between the time I began and finished posting the same thing.
Hold please.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was accused of breaking the hand of Marine veteran and anti-war activist Brian McGinnis.
During a break in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, McGinnis put his hand through a hole in the wall to prevent Capitol Police from removing him from the room.
A video recorded by another anti-war activist showed Sheehy getting in on the melee by grabbing McGinnis and attempting to force him through the doorway.
“His hand! His hand! Oh!” one onlooker shouted.
“The senator broke his hand!” someone else exclaimed.
“A US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine,” another member of the audience yelled. “A US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine; you’re a coward.”
Sheehy turned and walked away without successfully dislodging McGinnis.
“Yeah, go f— yourself,” someone muttered.
The video linked from the article:
Genuine WARNING if you are squeamish, as best I can tell, at least one bone in the Marine’s forearm snapped, and this can be heard, and seen.
… Right before his arm snaps, (which did not seem to affect his ability to grip the door he was clinging to) he shouted “No one wants to die for Israel!”
The video is already removed here.
https://youtu.be/3WT39WFuh24?is=NzcF-gyqD-kGGdL8
You can see it in this video from two different angles. All sane americans need to do something soon. I don‘t know what but you need to act fast or you will be fucked beyond your wildes immaginations and with you the rest of the world.
… Wow.
You’re right.
… It literally worked minutes ago, I was able to watch it on X, before I posted it, I checked that it worked.
Fuck.
I downloaded it from the top comment on this post.
As best I can tell they are different videos, from different cameras, or at least cut to different lengths, different annotation, etc.
Or… well… they ‘were’ different videos?
Man getting memory-holed in real time is fucking something.
Here’s a closer angle. https://www.vxinstagram.com/reel/DVek3rIkv-a/
Oh I didnt get to see the one posted in this chain unfortunately so thank you for letting me know.
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Between Sheehy and Gianforte you start to wonder if Montana has any elected officials that aren’t violent pieces of shit.
Zoey Zephyr
Someone ought to go beat their asses
That’s definitely a start.
Full video: https://www.vxinstagram.com/reel/DVexfyRAWrn/
Oh my fucking god.
The woman audibly losing her shit was the only one with a visible conscience; the whole thing is like a demonstration of the banality of evil.
At least there was one sentient human left in the room after they removed the (also sentient) marine.
I’d far rather be the guy with the broken arm and intact honor than one of the ones who couldn’t even be bothered to turn around and who just sat there silently listening, even to his arm snap, as they waited for it to be over.
Fucking scum. She really nailed it when she called them robots, the cowards couldn’t even watch
WOOOOAAHH that ending is absolutely horrifying. Something amazing is going on.
I don’t CARE if we have to Eliminate your Benefits Send you to War or BREAK YOUR ARM HERE we’re GOING to FUCK our Troops!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
You will die for zionism and you will be happy
Watch those generals. Thats what they will keep doing.
That was the actual disturbing part of the video.
