U.S. MARINE VETERAN ARRESTED FOR OPPOSING WAR ON IRAN
BREAKING: Former Marine Sgt. Brian McGuinness stood up in Congress to say what millions of Americans are thinking: We don’t want to fight a war with Iran for Israel. Security dragged him out and broke his arm. Veterans are speaking out. The American people don’t want this war.
GOP senator claims he was 'de-escalating' as video catches him injuring anti-war Marine
A Senate Republican claimed he was attempting to "de-escalate" after video emerged of him helping police forcefully remove an anti-war Marin
If you are US American and have sort of a military family, and you live in Montana, an ex-Marine was protesting our war in Iran, and a senator from Montana, Tim Sheehy, attacked him (from what I can tell, he was the aggressor) and broke the ex-Marine's hand by pinning it in a door. Which is gross and it's on video. But if you were wondering, yes, he takes money from AIPAC. I hope he faces charges or at least gets sued to shit.
Montana Republican Senate nominee Tim Sheehy appears to have been caught in yet another lie about his military service. NBC News reported on
Emily Singer at Daily Kos:
Montana Republican Senate nominee Tim Sheehy appears to have been caught in yet another lie about his military service.
NBC News reported on Thursday that despite Sheehy claiming to have been discharged from his service in the military because he was declared medically unfit to serve, his discharge records say Sheehy voluntarily resigned and did not cite any medical conditions.
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This is the latest false claim Sheehy appears to have made about his time as a Navy SEAL, service he has touted on the campaign trail in his quest to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
In April, The Washington Post reported a discrepancy in a story Sheehy told about being shot in the arm. On the campaign trail, Sheehy said he was shot in the arm while serving in Afghanistan in 2012.
However, in October 2015, Sheehy went to the emergency room after a trip to Glacier National Park, where he reported having a gunshot wound in his arm. He told a park ranger that he had shot himself in the arm in the park by accident, and was fined $525 for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park.
He later said he purposefully lied to the ranger about the gunshot wound because he hadn’t reported being shot in the arm to the military. He said he didn’t report it to the military at the time because the wound may have been from friendly fire and he didn’t want anyone in his unit to get in trouble.
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Questions about his military service are not the only scandal Sheehy has faced during the election. Sheehy was hit by a lawsuit in April from former employees of his aerial firefighting company of defrauding them out of millions of dollars.
Sheehy has also been slammed by Native American groups in the state after he used racist stereotypes in talking about the Native population in the state. At a fundraiser in November 2023, Sheehy talked about going cattle branding on Montana’s Crow Reservation, and said it’s “a great way to bond with all the Indians out there while they’re drunk at 8 AM.”
Polls show Sheehy, a multimillionaire Minnesota transplant, leading Tester in the race, which could determine control of the Senate. Tester has an uphill battle to overcome the likely double-digit win former President Donald Trump will pull off in the state, which would require Tester to win over a number of GOP voters.
GOP Montana Senate nominee Tim Sheehy caught in yet another lie about his military service record.
This should be disqualifying, but sadly, he’ll defeat incumbent Jon Tester (D) and flip this seat (and likely the Senate) red.
CHICAGO ― Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stood on stage at the Democratic National Convention and made a very bold prediction.
“We’re going to hold the Senate again, and we’re poised to pick up seats,” he told the delegates in the United Center.
The fact Schumer feels confident in his prediction reflects the remarkable strength of most Democratic incumbents in swing states. But it also flies in the face of a tough reality for Democrats: Even if they win every swing state race, it might not be enough to get them control of the U.S. Senate.
To keep the word “majority” in Schumer’s title, Democrats will need to win at least one of three states where Republican nominee Donald Trump is a significant favorite in November: Texas, Florida or Montana. Each of the three states presents distinct challenges for the party, and it’s difficult to describe them as favored in any of the three.
It’s the culmination of a long-standing problem for the party: The Senate’s bias toward rural states advantages the GOP’s political coalition, forcing Democrats to repeatedly pitch the political equivalent of perfect games to stay in control of Congress’ upper chamber.
Republicans clearly believe the social conservatism of those voters will be more than enough for them to flip the Senate, with a win in West Virginia essentially guaranteed following the retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W. Va.). Democrats currently have a 50-49 edge in the chamber.
“Securing the border is top of mind for voters, and Senate Democrats are delusional if they think they’re going to win with candidates like Colin Allred, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Sen. Jon Tester, who have long records of opposing border security,” said Torunn Sinclair, the communications director for Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC controlled by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
In Montana, Democrats have the advantage of incumbency, but it might not be enough for Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to overcome a challenge from Republican Tim Sheehy. In Texas and Florida, Democrats are running against unpopular GOP incumbents Ted Cruz and Rick Scott, but are also on long-standing statewide losing streaks.
The road for the Democrats to retain even a 50+VP majority, let alone an outright one, in the Senate will be a very tough one, as West Virginia is assured of flipping Republican.
For the Donkeys to keep control, they need to either have Kamala Harris/Tim Walz win the Presidency and no other Democratic candidate lose (50+VP scenario), or flip either Texas and/or Florida and keep what they got.
Tim Sheehy, the Republican Senate nominee in Montana, has been caught using racist stereotypes to refer to Native Americans. According to au
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos:
Tim Sheehy, the Republican Senate nominee in Montana, has been caught using racist stereotypes to refer to Native Americans. According to audio released last Thursday by Char-Koosta News, the news outlet of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Sheehy claimed at a Nov. 6 fundraiser that he likes to brand cattle with tribal members on the Crow Reservation, saying it’s “a great way to bond with all the Indians out there while they’re drunk at 8 AM.”
In a second recording, from Nov. 10, Sheehy claimed that Crow members sometimes greet him by throwing beer cans at his head.
“If you know a tough crowd, you want to go to the Crow rez,” he said. “They’ll let you know whether they like you or not if there’s Coors Light cans flying by your head.”
If any of the Crow members heard how Sheehy was talking about them, it’s not hard to believe they might throw something.
Sheehy is a trust-fund cowboy whom Republicans recruited, thinking he was a great bet against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Any candidate who can drop $2.6 million on his own campaign in a state where the total population is just over 1 million is the kind of candidate the GOP loves.
Despite these supposed credentials, and before his leaked racist remarks, Sheehy was beset with problems, like allegedly defrauding his employees out of millions. Then there was the bizarre incident in which Sheehy first said that he had shot himself in the arm while visiting a national park, then later claimed it was a war wound he collected in Afghanistan. Sheehy also had the gall to claim that Tester wasn’t a real farmer, calling Tester’s multigenerational, 1,800-acre farm was just “a weed patch.”
But Sheehy’s racist comments are of a different caliber.
On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, which represents tribes and First Nations in the western U.S. and Canada, has reprimanded Sheehy for perpetuating stereotypes about Native Americans. Council Chairman Bryce Kirk has asked Sheehy to formally apologize.
Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) got caught making racist stereotypical tropes about indigenous peoples.
