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$tevie wrote:
He's a typical GOP screw up.
U.S. Senate hopeful’s company reported losses of more than $77 million in 2023
SEC filing shows Tim Sheehy’s Bridger Aerospace is deeply in the red.
https://montanafreepress.org/2024/04/09/...n-in-2023/
That seems harsh. He has built a real company with over $60M in sales last year. Yes, it's losing money - but that is more complicated. If the company can continue to grow, it could be a success story.
He MIGHT be a mess in other ways, however. Just noting that I would not categorize his business as such - but that might change at the end of the year, if the company fails to grow and is potentially bankrupt.
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That seems harsh.
Maybe only the tiniest possible bit.
He may have ran his company on the up and up, trying to make it a going concern, and maybe he will.
But the guy, SEAL or no SEAL, is a mess, and not one bit reliable, despite his military service.
Maybe he'll eventually rely on TBI as the reason for his war and non-war relate injuries not making much sense.
If the USPS Ranger had occasion to check the gun and and observe a missing bullet, I'd guess Sheehy at some point said he was shot.
Given the gun is most likely of a design that probably shouldn't have fired from such a small drop (while loading or unloading a vehicle) I wish the ranger had taken the gun into custody for further examination.
But he probably felt much ado about nothing...
Well, until now.
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The article notes:
Thomas J. Esposito, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria who has spent 30 years as a trauma surgeon, said that the X-ray looks like an injury from a low-velocity firearm, such as a handgun, and that he found it “doubtful” the bullet was the result of ricochet from an assault weapon because of the smoothness of its edges.
And while guns can and do go off from being dropped, I personally feel that is one of the standard excuses used by gunners when they shoot themselves by accident when they (or others they’re with) have been screwing around with a gun (well, that, and the infamous “I was cleaning it and it went off” - cleaning a loaded gun?)
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Like Baldwin? Charges back on btw.
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Don’t think Baldwin is running to be elected to anything, much less the US Senate.
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Smote wrote:
Like Baldwin? Charges back on btw.
Let's compare; are they really "like":
Sheehy - Navy Seal
Baldwin - career actor
Sheehy - personal Colt .45
Baldwin - "prop" gun provided him by movie armorer
Sheehy - knew his gun was loaded
Baldwin - did not know the prop gun was loaded
Sheehy - lied to Federal officer about event
Baldwin - has never denied the event
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pdq wrote:
Don’t think Baldwin is running to be elected to anything, much less the US Senate.
no, but it's always not their fault, never their own.
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Now I’m reading that Sheehy is claiming he grew up in “rural” Minnesota, when in fact he grew up in a pricy house on a lake in a middle-to-upper class second-tier suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Went to elite private school; used the bank of rich-Mom-and-Dad to start his business…
Politicians have always done this kind of pretending, but today’s GOP has taken this to new heights.
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pdq wrote:
Politicians have always done this kind of pretending, but today’s GOP has taken this to new heights.
Yeah, there's always been exaggeration and an occasional unjustifiable yarn that wasn't that important (e.g., H. Clinton claim of a sniper in Bosnia) and the rare total fabrication of something that was essentially not true that was pretty-to-very consequential.
It seems like for Republicans, them watching Trump go completely off the map for deceit and getting away with has "set them free" of the constraints of having to at least approximate the truth.
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Ted King wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Politicians have always done this kind of pretending, but today’s GOP has taken this to new heights.
Yeah, there's always been exaggeration and an occasional unjustifiable yarn that wasn't that important (e.g., H. Clinton claim of a sniper in Bosnia) and the rare total fabrication of something that was essentially not true that was pretty-to-very consequential.
It seems like for Republicans, them watching Trump go completely off the map for deceit and getting away with has "set them free" of the constraints of having to at least approximate the truth.
I agree. George Santos being the extreme example, but it runs the gamut from white lies to huge whoppers right through the entire party.
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