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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 22, 2024 11:28:01 GMT -5
The Borowitz Report
Meet the New George SantosEver since the former NASA astronaut/Olympic gymnast/Beatles drummer George Santos left Congress in disgrace, one question has plagued Republicans: Could they ever find another liar prolific enough to fill his clown shoes? Donald Trump still pumps out impressive falsehoods on an hourly basis, but he’s 78. Who are the younger, fresher fraudsters on the GOP bench who’ll step up when their death-cult’s leader can no longer spew non-stop whoppers? Well, Republicans can relax: They appear to have found their new George Santos. And they’re betting on him to take control of the United States Senate. Presenting Tim Sheehy, the Republican nominee for Senate in Montana. He’s touted a business “success” that’s lost millions, incurred a mysterious gunshot wound, and crashed a plane into a house. Throw in some racist remarks caught on tape, and voila! The perfect MAGA candidate for 2024. Sheehy has bragged about two resume items throughout his campaign: His stint as a Navy SEAL and his prosperous business career. Both merit our scrutiny. He leaned into his warrior image in a campaign ad that blamed the supposedly woeful state of America’s armed forces on military bases’ practice of staging drag shows. (In this respect he differs from Santos, who, after initially denying that he’d performed under the nom de drag Kitara Rivache, now makes customized videos as Kitara for anyone willing to pony up $350.) On the campaign trail, Sheehy boasted that he has a bullet lodged in his right forearm from his time in Afghanistan. But in April, The Washington Post’s Liz Goodwin revealed that the bullet might have less exotic origins. In 2015—a year after he left active duty—Sheehy turned up in a Kalispell, Montana emergency room with a wound in his, ahem, right forearm. At the hospital, he informed a park ranger that, while he was hiking in Glacier National Park, a Colt 45 handgun he kept in his truck in case of bear attacks slipped from the vehicle and discharged. Clearly, getting wounded because you’re fighting the Taliban wins more votes than getting maimed because you’re scared of bears. But Sheehy had an explanation for the slight discrepancy between these two scenarios: He claimed he lied to the park ranger. What actually happened, he told the Post, was that he hurt his arm hiking, and was afraid that the injury might have dislodged a bullet stuck there since his days in Afghanistan—a wound he’d never previously reported. Complete article here: Meet the New George Santos
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 22, 2024 13:42:03 GMT -5
is this the guy running against Tester?
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Post by tallguy on Sept 22, 2024 14:05:28 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 22, 2024 14:12:33 GMT -5
jesus.
why the hell is Tester having so much trouble with this guy?
if even 1 claim in the OP is accurate, he should crush him.
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Post by billisonboard on Sept 22, 2024 14:28:49 GMT -5
jesus. why the hell is Tester having so much trouble with this guy? if even 1 claim in the OP is accurate, he should crush him. Why? Tester is a Democrat in Montana. |
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