Omnibus Politics Thread: Campaign 2016 EditionFollow

Every time I come to Alabama, Sean Hannity's tlak show appears to be the default station on the car rental cars and that's just about everything he talks about. No proof, but a lot of suggestions.

Looks like the health bill is getting to some politicians, as Montana GOP candidate Gianforte was charged for assaulting a journalist for being mean and asking questions about his support of it.

GOP better hope he loses. Then at least they can say he was a bad candidate and be done with this. If he wins they'll have to deal with the legal fallout and the court hearings over this.

Ben Carson says that if there were more mothers who were threatened with hammers over arguments about clothes like his there wouldn't be any poverty at all.

It means he wants to nail your wife.

Nope, he won. So it shouldn't be long before this bad apple is found and ousted, right?

The reporter was asking Gianforte about the healthcare bill that the CBO had recently scored, and then got bodyslammed. At least according to that liberal rag Fox News.

I don't think too many people are laughing it off.

The biggest problem I have with it is that Gianforte tried to lie about it, even with witnesses and video contradicting him. That's a special kind of stupid.

Except the Candidate and his Spokesperson(s?). At least the first couple days. Have no idea what they've changed their story to now, or how many people are going back/forth in this "he said - he said". You'd think there'd be footage available. But I haven't bothered looking into it beyond the first story a couple days ago.

http://nypost.com/2017/05/24/reporter-claims-he-was-body-slammed-by-gop-candidate/
http://nypost.com/2017/05/25/reporter-says-gop-candidate-lied-about-body-slam-incident/

Interestingly enough a Fox News reporter says he saw the Candidate "grab [the reporter] by the neck and begin punching him"... but according to those links the cops and reporter didn't say that.

Is there video of the event? (Truly curious, wifi here sucks, I can barely get 10kb/s speeds. IT needs to get their shit together) Cause I've only heard the audio of the situation on CNN, and if anyone out there would have damning video to rub in a Republican's face, it'd be CNN. And I'm not sure how you'd tell physical contact by audio recording alone.

Yes, but what if he deserved it?

Anyone could deserve anything at any time.

Two dollars?

Speaking of violence it looks like we're going to try to pin a hate crime on our own wonderful Stabby McStabpeople. For the blissfully unaware he got on the light rail and confronted 2 women, one of whom was in a hijab, and started screaming, swearing, and generally spewing all sorts of racist and "get out of my country" stuff at them. Some bystanders decided to try and intervene and he ended up pulling out a knife and killing 2 of them. The hate crime thing is/was controversial because he wasn't actually being racist towards the people he stabbed, so it'll be interesting to see if it sticks or not, but it looks like they're going to try at least.