Discussion: Reporter: GOP Congressional Candidate In Montana 'Body Slammed Me'

I gave earlier in the cycle, and now I just gave again:

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It was supposed to mean that everyone would be cowed and accept them as their rightful lords and masters, swear fealty and obedience and then return to their serfdom finally knowing and being put in their proper place. That it hasn’t happened that way is driving them fucking crazy.

Of course, this will just increase Gianforte’s turnout, so I’m calling the win for him right now. Hopefully, he gets perp-walked at his swearing in and then Trump makes the mistake of pardoning him. That’ll make for some great fucking TV.

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Yeah, my first thought was, oh well, that probably seals Gianforte’s victory.

But then I’ve been told I can be a bit of a pessimist sometimes.

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Unfortunately, the Green Bastard is from Parts Unknown. Which I understand is somewhere out in Samsquantch territory. Wild country, gotta watch you back so you don’t get Fucked By Bears. Or Hill-a-billies.

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From Wikipedia:

Gianforte is a believer in Young Earth creationism, the pseudoscientific belief that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.

Stupidity coupled with Trump Re-election Stress can really bring out the worst in a human.

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You must be a youngin’ Gomer Pyle please

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Just more economically anxious Americans it seems. Compassion and understanding are required–not criticism.

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Trump says they’ll “be proud of him for years to come”:

Trump robocall

Years, hours, minutes, whatever…

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I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the TV network that was recording will “misplace” the tape.

Far as I can tell there’s only audio of this altercation But nobody disputes the body slam on the tape. They do later but not on the actual tape of the incident.

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@darrtown
Lot of dog lovers and dog avatars here
Some kind of liberal disease ?

Trump , no dogs no pets, no compassion
Just sayin’

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Wow. The campaign’s statement claims the reporter ‘grabbed him by the wrist and spun away from him’. Now, I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time working out the mechanics of that move in a way that would have the result of ‘they both wound up on the floor’ the way the campaign says.

I mean, if you’re reaching across your body and spinning into your own arm, that’s usually described more as ‘grabbed him and threw him’, because that’s a judo throw. If you spin away from your arm, as the statement indicates… you’ve got absolutely no leverage and run the risk of hurting yourself.

This statement is patently ridiculous.

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Trump has never even had fish as a pet.

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Updated, now the campaign is claiming that the librul reporter physically assaulted the candidate. And then performed a self-induced body slam.

This will probably be good enough for the base. If they wanted real facts they wouldn’t be voting Republican anyway.

Still, the lawsuit should be good, if the Guardian doesn’t just settle out of court to maintain GOP access.

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Not only is the move as described silly, the statement as provided by the campaign does not square what is heard on the tape at all. Not even a little.

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When I was little boy, I wanted a dog desperately, and we had no money. I was a tiny kid, and my parents couldn’t get me a dog, 'cause we just didn’t have the money, so they got me, instead of a dog - they told me it was a dog - they got me an ant. And I didn’t know any better, y’know, I thought it was a dog, I was a dumb kid. Called it ‘Spot’. I trained it, y’know. Coming home late one night, Sheldon Finklestein tried to bully me. Spot was with me. And I said “Kill!”, and Sheldon stepped on my dog.

–Woody Allen

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Apparently he was just taking a page from Grimm - who is in prison.

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This slam dunk monster should be slammed into a jail cell for assault!

CRIMINAL!

And keep your damn hands off of MY FREE PREES, bitch!

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Sadly, that was exactly my first thought.

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Ummm Dave Schultz got fired for assaulting a reporter. .

Also Belzer got paid due to a chin-lock going wrong.

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