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Classtoise posted:I'll be totally honest, I have no idea what literally anything you are harping about has to do with either American Politics OR Donald Trump. it's mindbogglingly stupid so it counts
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, that's when it got the most "heated" when Wolf was actually saying "No, Obama didn't give Flynn the clearance he needed to be part of the Trump Administration. That was the Trump Administration." and Chaffetz just started yelling "I've been in classified briefings so I know more than you!" Wolf showed enough spine to make Chaffetz freak out a little. That exchange was kind of funny because it showed how quickly Republicans can be angered. When Chaffetz started screaming "SHOW ME THE DOCUMENTS!", that sly smile on Wolf's face was priceless.
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Craig K posted:like, he's wholly correct that arkansas needs to be destroyed with extreme prejudice so its stupidity doesn't spread but he's coming off as peggy hill-esque in his insane montana fetish He will probably take offense that you didn't label him peggy mountain-esque instead.
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SirPablo posted:I like this geography (from the National Weather Service). Like if you want to break it down any particular way this is good
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FizFashizzle posted:More like Our Kansas. More like r/Kansas
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May 25, 2017 06:13
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is not election day or even special election day. This is singin' cowboy day, So lets kick it off with the campaign song for Rob Quist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukJIPsLpPw
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May 25, 2017 06:14
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Classtoise posted:I'll be totally honest, I have no idea what literally anything you are harping about has to do with either American Politics OR Donald Trump. he's drunk and or a  level sperg who can't let an argument go despite universal opposition to his idiocy
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May 25, 2017 06:16
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DC Murderverse posted:gently caress that sheriff for just charging him with a misdemeanor, if we teach rich people and politicians that they can assault journalists and get off just having to pay $500, we're gonna see a lot more journalists getting hit.
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That was a drat good read. What are the odds he resigns in the morning?
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Arrgytehpirate posted:That was a drat good read. What are the odds he resigns in the morning? 
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The charge could get upgraded if the reporter has a hairline fracture of his elbow. He's getting XRays.
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This was posted earlier but I love how the RNC had to basically hire a bunch of workers to ask people if they wanted to hear a pre-recorded message from President Trump regarding Gianforte. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/867413387092930560 They can't be automated robocalls because it's illegal according to Montana law: http://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/8/45-8-216.htm
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May 25, 2017 06:20
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The Rockies are beautiful. The Ozarks are beautiful. The Appalachians are beautiful. They are also all mountains. Who cares if one is taller than the other? Plus, the Appalachians were as tall as the Rockies. They're just older and have eroded.
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May 25, 2017 06:20
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NoDamage posted:Unfortunately based on the Montana statue it looks like aggravated assault requires the person to cause "serious bodily injury" which I guess this doesn't qualify as. At least people are pulling their endorsements. Hopefully it's not too late to absolutely destroy his chance of getting elected. 45-5-202. Aggravated assault. (1) A person commits the offense of aggravated assault if the person purposely or knowingly causes serious bodily injury to another or purposely or knowingly, with the use of physical force or contact, causes reasonable apprehension of serious bodily injury or death in another. (2) A person convicted of aggravated assault shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term not to exceed 20 years and may be fined not more than $50,000, except as provided in 46-18-219 and 46-18-222.
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Think like a Mountain is the best Concrete series.
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Lol one of the replies to that tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/MJaMitchell/status/867610004609781761 Granted most I saw were positive, so maybe there is hope after all. 
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You guys are stretching. Aggravated / felony assault means you used a weapon or really screwed them up.
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Psssh, you people sure love comparing the heights of your mountains.  Everyone knows that the true measure of geographical worth is miles of freshwater shoreline, which is why Minnesota is the best state in the nation.
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Raylen posted:This was posted earlier but I love how the RNC had to basically hire a bunch of workers to ask people if they wanted to hear a pre-recorded message from President Biff Tannen regarding Gianforte. As I recall from this Post article, they're getting around it by getting call centers to ask people if they'd "like to listen to an automated message from Biff Tannen," which somehow toes the line. also dammit i had to go back and correct my word substitution add-on that replaces his name with "Biff Tannen" and I heavily disliked doing it each time e: gently caress I missed one
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NoDamage posted:Unfortunately based on the Montana statue it looks like aggravated assault requires the person to cause "serious bodily injury" which I guess this doesn't qualify as. At least people are pulling their endorsements. Hopefully it's not too late to absolutely destroy his chance of getting elected. Official Montana Definition: quote:"Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury that: So it's broken bones at a minimum and probably more than that to be a protracted loss or impairment of function
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Pick that guitar, quist! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP4DHRRzUKw
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Caros posted:Oh no! We've lost one of our 47 seat majority. How ever will we continue to completely fail to govern without it? Whatever amended bill the Senate passes will have to be voted on again in the House, where the AHCA passed by exactly 1 vote after a delicate balancing act between Republicans who thought it was too evil versus Republicans who didn't think it was evil enough. One seat is actually a very big deal here, especially this one because Rep Gianforte would be an unprincipled rubber-stamp yea for whatever the Republican leadership poo poo out to the floor. Another Dem vote means the Republicans will have to find another vote to overcome Quist without losing a single Tea Party or moderate vote from before. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 25, 2017 |
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SirPablo posted:I like this geography (from the National Weather Service). These are way more accurate cultural-political fault lines than that Russian professor's nonsense.
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Play on! This is why Quist is famous in Montana. This video is well before his campaign a year ago, when he was playing a random gym for school kids. Its just what he does, everyone in MT apparently knows about and has heard their poet and singing cowboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66iY6tpHbgg
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Mustached Demon posted:They wouldn't call it BIG SKY BREWING if they didn't have mountains. Hot take: Cold Smoke is better 
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VitalSigns posted:Whatever amended bill the Senate passes will have to be voted on again in the House, where the AHCA passed by exactly 1 vote after a delicate balancing act between Republicans who thought it was too evil versus Republicans who didn't think it was evil enough. And if Quist wins, the GOP has to convince literally dozens of GOP Congressmen in districts far less red than Montana that voting for the AHCA isn't going to be the end of their careers in Congress (or if it is, there's a cushy job waiting for them after getting voted out).
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VitalSigns posted:Whatever amended bill the Senate passes will have to be voted on again in the House, where the AHCA passed by exactly 1 vote after a delicate balancing act between Republicans who thought it was too evil versus Republicans who didn't think it was evil enough. This is just wrong. While the vote was decided by a single vote cast, the actual total wasn't that close. What happened in the house for the ACHA is the same thing that happened with the ACA. House leadership got the approval of enough members to vote yes for the issue. Once they were sure they had that, they started handing out hall passes to anyone for whom the vote could be troublesome in their district. The only difference this election makes is that one less republican will be given a pass. Again, I'm not saying it isn't a good thing. I'd just rather republicans get publicly beaten on ideas in a way that frightens them rather than give house republicans the fig leaf that maybe they just don't need to bodyslam reporters in front of witnesses.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Psssh, you people sure love comparing the heights of your mountains. Hills 
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Caros posted:This is just wrong. I predict that there will be many Representatives in 2018 that will wish they were given that hall pass now that the CBO score is out.
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Caros posted:This is just wrong. They only have so many reps willing to fall on their swords, it matters. We don't and can't know how close they were (because anyone taking a hall pass by definition is not going to come out and say they were willing to pass it if asked), but the fact that it already failed once is a good indicator that it was a close call and they didn't have too many hall passes to give out. Those reps with hall passes already went home and told their constituents they weren't willing to pass a bill that hurt people in order to cut taxes for the rich, so unless the senate bill somehow doesn't do that (it will, the entire goal is to try to pass off a tax cut for the rich as "healthcare reform"), they'd be asking people to flip-flop on that promise. And there are two more house special elections coming up in June.
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Caros posted:This is just wrong. Unless the new cycle has given me an aneurysm, they were scrambling up to night before to actually secure the votes.
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This is the craziest thing I've seen in the last 24 hours, the guy can't hold his temper on the day before the frigging election and the weirdest part is I'm only 90% sure he is going to lose because these are strange times. Can we start using the phrase Conservative snowflakes so they can't own that phrase, so many thin skinned people like Gianforte and Hannity who lose their temper and cry about how unfair they are being treated.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hot take: Cold Smoke is better
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hot take: Cold Smoke is better Get some Mountain Man sometime. If you like Cold Smoke, you'll love that stuff. Bhaal posted:It's better than moose drool but where it's at for montana booze is Orphan Girl Yep. Real content, watching republican family on FB freak out about this has been pretty amazing. I really can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring.
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It took me a minute to figure out what the hell this was at the end of the article.  I went WTF, then realized this is way better than a comment section. Plus, I like to imagine that the people who are angry at a paper demonstrating a shred of integrity look like that IRL.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hot take: Cold Smoke is better Truth. Also: https://twitter.com/missoulian/status/867598860700569600 Billings is the largest city, it's usually a bellweather battleground. Missoula is hippies and students.
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If quist loses, it wont be because he was lazy or took voters for granted. He probably spent 10 minutes to convince this dude to remember to vote, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIkyoryQMw
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VitalSigns posted:They only have so many reps willing to fall on their swords, it matters. We don't and can't know how close they were (because anyone taking a hall pass by definition is not going to come out and say they were willing to pass it if asked), but the fact that it already failed once is a good indicator that it was a close call and they didn't have too many hall passes to give out. The final vote count was 217-213 with one absent who would have voted yes. We know that in the initial round (before things were changed) the total got as high at 223, though two of those were democrats who... I dunno, had a seizure or something. That means the republicans likely had, at minimum, 222 of the 216 votes that they needed. So no, one vote does not in fact matter. Democrats are unlikely to flip six house seats before 2016, so it really doesn't seem likely to matter in the grand scheme of things from a legislative sense. It does, of course, matter in terms of optics and scaring house republicans. Which is why I would have prefered an outright loss rather than a bodyslam based loss. I'll take my victory where I can get it, but a man can still dream, right?
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