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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 hour ago

    Imagine telling congress that no one wants to fight for Israel when it’s all anyone in congress fights for.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 hours ago

    “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

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    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.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    No one wants to fight for israel, but everyone (excepts) governments wants to fight those fuckers.

  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
    15·
    4 hours ago

    We have to overthrow this Iranian regime because they brutalize protesters. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told…

    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      2 hours ago

      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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    901·
    7 hours ago

    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?

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words.

      They use whatever words they think will get them what they want. Their intent is not to convey meaning or to seek truth, it’s to grab more power.

    • jtrek@startrek.website
      43·
      6 hours ago

      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.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        3 hours ago

        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.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    91·
    8 hours ago

    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:

    https://x.com/alanhe/status/2029301477341061613/mediaViewer?currentTweet=2029301477341061613&currentTweetUser=alanhe

    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!”

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    22·
    6 hours ago

    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?

    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
      10·
      4 hours ago

      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.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 hours ago

    Between Sheehy and Gianforte you start to wonder if Montana has any elected officials that aren’t violent pieces of shit.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 hours ago

      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.