Tuesday’s Quick Hits

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Coming to you from an underground bunker deep in the Montana wilderness, “Tuesday’s Quick Hits” is now posted at TheWesternWord.com. Here are the topics for today’s column:

  • Tim Sheehy’s Scandals
  • Best First-Quarter Fundraising
  • American Gun Violence
  • One More Thing

TIM SHEEHY’S SCANDALS:

The supporters of U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy are upset about a video posted on social media that I think is very funny.

According to a website called, The National Desk (TDN):

A Democratic political action committee called Senate Majority PAC, which funds Democratic Senate campaigns, took a jab at Sheehy Monday poking fun at the Montana Republican who claims to have been shot while serving in Afghanistan.

In the video that can be seen HERE, an actor playing a Sheehy staffer asks his boss about his injury: “Tim, it’s a simple question. Is the bullet in your arm from when you served in combat, or did you accidentally shoot yourself with a Colt .45?” the actor asks Sheehy in the skit.

The outrage from Sheehy supporters was over the top. If the Republicans were doing something like this against a Democrat, they would be fine with it.

Montanans don’t really know what to believe about Sheehy. It all started with one lie.

BEST FIRST-QUARTER FUNDRAISING:

The Hill is reporting that U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) raised more than $8 million in the first quarter of the year. The figure sets a record for the best first-quarter fundraising in a Montana Senate race, according to the campaign.

It was also reported through Fox News Digital that Republican Tim Sheehy brought in more than $3 million in the first quarter.

Besides having problems with lies and inconsistencies in his past, Sheehy seems to be having problems raising money. The fundraising might dry up even more as people hear about his lies and stories that don’t add up.

AMERICAN GUN VIOLENCE:

I follow Gun Violence Archive on social media and although the information they provide makes me sad, we need to hear about the senseless deaths from guns in the United States.

Here is a breakdown of real-time American gun violence numbers for 2024, as of April 15th:

  • 4,660 gun deaths
  • 8,349 gun injuries
  • 114 mass shootings
  • 203 children (age 0-11) shot
  • 1,178 teenagers (age 12-17) shot
  • 374 defensive use incidents
  • 393 unintentional shootings
  • 190 murder-suicides

We can do better.

ONE MORE THING:

REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Boston should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

That is all.

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7 thoughts on “Tuesday’s Quick Hits”

  1. Trumps’ remarks at Gettysburg 160 years after Lincoln’s really show how far we’ve fallen picking a President.

  2. Hahaha. Great commercial. And quite accurate. Tim’s tall tale is so fantastical and outrageous as to defy belief of any real Montanan. And this is cause for great concern. 

    We know the parking lots in Glacier, and we know that they’re always jam packed tourists. And we intimately know guns what they do when they’re fired. Therefore, we know that if he fired off a .45 in that location, it would have caused a huge disturbance, probably with Rangers responding immediately. Are we to believe he somehow took a bullet to protect all those tourists? Luckily he didn’t kill half the crowd near his vehicle!

    But we still don’t know what actually happened. Which lie are we to believe? And this is indicative of a very disturbing character flaw. He basically insults our intelligence when he claims he took a .45 slug to the arm, and his arm is still attached! Occasionally a lie is so fantastical as to approach mental illness. I recognize Tim’s lies, for I saw many similar lies working with mentally ill kids. My considered opinion is that there’s something really wrong with the guy. And this commercial captured it perfectly. That kind of lying is NOT normal behavior. Bottom line? Tim is unfit to be a senator for many reasons.

    • Huffpost has some more Sheehy lies and flip flopping.

      Used to acknowledge the reailty of climate and even tout the efforts of Bridger Aerospace to combat it.

      Now that he’s running for office as a card carrying wingnut all of a sudden he’s dismissing the “climate cult” and claiming all the wildfires are merely a matter of raking the forest floor or whatever nonsense Trump used to prattle about.

      Two Face Tim.

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-senate-tim-sheehy-climate-change_n_64dfa52fe4b0ee8ece70c7e6

      • Ya know, I really, really want to like the guy. I like vets, especially war vets. I don’t care if he’s an outta stater or not. He loves the same land I love and unashamedly admits it and wants to preserve it. And then he goes and falls in love with trump. That ended my admiration for the guy. Ya can’t have it both ways. You can’t love old Montana and be a trump fascist. The two are mutually exclusive. And unfortunately Tim doesn’t seem to understand that. And I’m afraid it’s going to cost him. Maybe once he gets his ass kicked in this election, he will rehabilitate himself and join the groups working to preserve Montana.

        From huffpo also.

        Asked recently about his venture into ranching, Sheehy called central Montana his “favorite part of the American West” and voiced frustration with rapid development in other parts of the state. 

        “It’s tough country, windy, cold, and remote, but that’s what drew me to it. Central Montana is kind of like a time warp,” he told Montana Land Reliance in 2021. “Other scenic valleys have gone the way of luxury resorts and subdivisions, but the Martinsdale area is still big ranch and farm country. We are committed to keeping the ranch in agricultural production and ensuring it stays as one contiguous operation for as long as we can.”

  3. Yet with shooting stats like that, and the Republican party wanting to tear down or abolish (Sheehy) government health care programs, Trump is at a total loss to understand why people from “nice” countries like Denmark don’t emigrate to the USA.

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