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[Fenderputty]

Who gives a shit about middle aged white men? Old ass people, who reliably vote R, are being fucked here harder than anyone and the AARP will mobilize them.

 

[kadotsu]

Well, if it wasn't for those Obama/Hillary drone strikes the left would have come out in full force and we wouldn't have Trump right now.

 

[NeoXChaos]

Who gives a shit about middle aged white men? Old ass people, who reliably vote R, are being fucked here harder than anyone and the AARP will mobilize them.

Oh don't worry when millennials get to be that age they gonna be voting R. The Gen Z generation and the one after will be here to bail us out.

 

[Hooligan69]

If you listen closely, you can hear the AARP sharpening their knives.



Yeah, it's about 3-4% percent of the country, no?

I've already been seeing AARP commercials here in Colorado saying to vote against the healthcare bill. They're well done too.

 

[studyguy]

I've already been seeing AARP commercials here in Colorado saying to vote against the healthcare bill. They're well done too.

Playlist of said AARP ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7pTh20N5k&feature=youtu.be&list=PLErIJrtiGWSxXgW6DlpLFXeJhtc5e7oSa

"You're both over 50?"
"It's an age tax"
"Get charged 5x more for healthcare"
"Pre-existing conditions?"

It's got it all.

 

[Fenderputty]

Oh don't worry when millennials get to be that age they gonna be voting R. The Gen Z generation and the one after will be here to bail us out.

That voting block wouldn't have the same clout as the boomers though. In 2015 both generations were about equal with regards to population sizes.

 

[jtb]

not sure if it was posted already, but good Politico piece on whether or not Dems should give up on gun control. I'm tempted to say it's the one issue worth throwing away in the name of winning. The political costs are so fucking high, forcing the potential impact on gun violence from each tiny, incremental piece of gun control legislation to be imperceptibly low.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/24/democrats-guns-rob-quist-215186

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Playlist of said AARP ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7pTh20N5k&feature=youtu.be&list=PLErIJrtiGWSxXgW6DlpLFXeJhtc5e7oSa

"You're both over 50?"
"It's an age tax"
"Get charged 5x more for healthcare"
"Pre-existing conditions?"

It's got it all.

Ryan and Associates. LOL

 

[Tranqueris]

Oh don't worry when millennials get to be that age they gonna be voting R. The Gen Z generation and the one after will be here to bail us out.

Generation Z will probably be advocating for a goddamn purge and they'll get one when they elect President JonTron.

 

[jtb]

um what the fuck?

@Bencjacobs
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses

 

[Pryce]

um what the fuck?

@Bencjacobs
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses

party of family values.

 

[jtb]

party of family values.

@BenjySarlin 3m
Ben texted me the tweet is serious. Gianforte is the GOP candidate in the House special election in Montana.

 

[sangreal]

hope its on video

 

[Fenderputty]

hope its on video

There's gotta be witnesses if not.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

@BenjySarlin 3m
Ben texted me the tweet is serious. Gianforte is the GOP candidate in the House special election in Montana.

JESUS what a day for the GOP.

 

[Macho Madness]

Ben apparently has audio and the cops were called

 

[Aaron Strife]

Generation Z will probably be advocating for a goddamn purge and they'll get one when they elect President JonTron.

I will commit sudoku when that happens.

JonTron being removed from Yooka-Laylee will be the 21st century equivalent to Hitler getting rejected from art school.

 

[Fenderputty]

In a perfect world, Gianforte watches his loss from a jail cell.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Ben apparently has audio and the cops were called

Literally the day before the vote, this is unbelievable.

 

[Boke1879]

He should Press charges.

 

[Poodlestrike]

um what the fuck?

@Bencjacobs
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses

But why

Like what could possibly have possessed this guy to do this?

Also:

Ben Jacobs‏
Verified account
 @Bencjacobs 6m
6 minutes ago


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There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS

Maybe no video, sadly, but proof confirmed & incoming.

 

[Drakeon]

In a perfect world, Gianforte watches his loss from a jail cell.

He probably makes bail instantly, but it'd be really awesome if his mugshot was all over the news the day of the election.

 

[Aaron Strife]

This Gianforte business swinging the election would be fucking nuts.

Bet he still wins, but I want to believe.

Iirc there was an NC representative who punched a reporter or something in the run-up to the 2010 elections. Bob Etheridge I think? He was a Democrat.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

The poor widdle baby is probably afraid he's going to lose to a country music singer in an R+20 district and lashed out

 

[Emerson]

Sadly I find it hard to believe something happening literally on the eve of the election is going to make an enormous difference.

 

[Wilsongt]

I guess Gianfort will keep his seat. Him body slamming someone in the librul media will just spur on Republicans.

 

[Joe]

Obvious craziness aside, that bodyslam might end up skewing the results of an election that a lot of people were going to use as an important indicator.

 

[Ogodei]

On the one hand, he's a foreigner and part of the liberal media, so this might encourage Gianforte supporters.

On the other hand, it's assault by a guy who supported the AHCA (privately, while publicly being two-faced about it) on the day before the election and the same day that the CBO score for that bill comes out.

 

[sc0la]

Uppity liberals probably asking for comment on CBO scores.
SKADOOSH
Now you're dead snowflake.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Part of me is happy that the "body slam" is gonna look terrible for the GOP candidate, part of me is happy it happened to a reporter from The Guardian.

¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Aaron Strife]

Obvious craziness aside, that bodyslam might end up skewing the results of an election that a lot of people were going to use as an important indicator.

This just occurred to me. If Quist wins they can write it off as a fluke because Gianforte was a bad candidate, ignoring the underlying factors that made it competitive in the first place.

Because if Gianforte started out leading by 20 and this happened, he'd probably still win by double digits. If he's only ahead by 2-4 points as the GOP has been saying, he can't afford something like this.

 

[Wilsongt]

Part of me is happy that the "body slam" is gonna look terrible for the GOP candidate, part of me is happy it happened to a reporter from The Guardian.

¯\_(&#12484_/¯

Don't like The Guardian?

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Don't like The Guardian?

Employer of Glenn Greenwald and pusher of Russian propaganda? Not really, no.

 

[kirblar]

Employer of Glenn Greenwald and pusher of Russian propaganda? Not really, no.

That's The Intercept, no?

 

[Basileus777]

Employer of Glenn Greenwald and pusher of Russian propaganda? Not really, no.

Greenwald hasn't been at the Guardian in years. Hell he only worked for them for like a year.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Part of me is happy that the "body slam" is gonna look terrible for the GOP candidate, part of me is happy it happened to a reporter from The Guardian.

¯_(&#12484_/¯

Ben is a good reporter.

If Dems win tomorrow in Montana I will buy two people here pizza delivered to your home.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

um what the fuck?

@Bencjacobs
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses

ive heard this story before...

 

[Lo-Volt]

That's The Intercept, no?

He worked for The Guardian a long way back, when they and several other papers were publishing WikiLeaks material, before we knew their real endgame to be honest.

For someone to single one newspaper out or somehow mitigate physical assault because of that is a bit dickish.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

That's The Intercept, no?

Greenwald hasn't been at the Guardian in years. Hell he only worked for them for like a year.

Well I retract the first part then, and fuck The Intercept too

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Ben is a good reporter.

If Dems win tomorrow in Montana I will buy two people here pizza delivered to your home.

Dibs. Pepperoni & jalapeno please

 

[broz0rs]

Witness account of the Gianforte attack from a journalist

https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/867522985086910464

 

[BlastProcessing]

@existentialfish
NEW: I traced the the Seth Rich conspiracies back to the beginning. http://mm4a.org/2qQeya2

@existentialfish
The first mainstream publication to publish Seth Rich conspiracies was Heat Street, run at the time by ... Louise Mensch​

Of course.

 

[sangreal]

@existentialfish
NEW: I traced the the Seth Rich conspiracies back to the beginning. http://mm4a.org/2qQeya2

@existentialfish
The first mainstream publication to publish Seth Rich conspiracies was Heat Street, run at the time by ... Louise Mensch​

Of course.

Sounds about right

 

[Wilsongt]

@existentialfish
NEW: I traced the the Seth Rich conspiracies back to the beginning. http://mm4a.org/2qQeya2

@existentialfish
The first mainstream publication to publish Seth Rich conspiracies was Heat Street, run at the time by ... Louise Mensch​

Of course.

Was Mensch a Bernienite who hates the DNC and Hillary?

 

[B-Dubs]

Was Mensch a Bernienite who hates the DNC and Hillary?

Nope. A conservative from across from the UK I believe.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Was Mensch a Bernienite who hates the DNC and Hillary?

no

 

[aspiegamer]

I'd be pretty pissed off if I was at risk of losing a R+20 seat, but this is a whole new tier of hilarious. Having a POTUS part of the WWE hall of fame is clearly paying off down ballot.

@jamesdirkwood 9m9 minutes ago
Replying to @alexis_levinson

@NateSilver538 do you have a model to account for late breaking body slams

Oh, Twitter.

 

[Teggy]

What on earth is going on.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Witness account of the Gianforte attack from a journalist

https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/867522985086910464

That is awful to hear.

 

[Fenderputty]

That tweet to Nate is pure gold