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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Congratulates Montana GOPer Greg Gianforte On 'Great Win'
By MATT SHUHAM Published MAY 26, 2017 9:31 AM
President Donald Trump briefly congratulated Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte during his trip abroad Friday.
Great win in Montana, he told news photographers, according to a pool report.
Vice President Mike Pence added his congratulations on Twitter
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-congratulates-gianforte
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)yardwork
(61,649 posts)He's not from Montana. Why did he move there? How did he make his money? He seems to have anger issues. Any previous brushes with the law?
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Aging and retirement
Gianforte has outlined his position on retirement by using the Biblical example of Noah. He said:
"There's nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it's been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, 'Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach... The example I think of is Noah. How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn't hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical."[53][54][55][56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Gianforte
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)above. I can't even begin to point out how stupid his reasoning is. Of course Trump loves him, he is a shameless bully just like the shartstain-in-chief.
yardwork
(61,649 posts)leftstreet
(36,108 posts)it's hard to imagine what skeletons would have an impact
I'm with you though
yardwork
(61,649 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)frogmarch
(12,154 posts)Oh, well, I'll go ahead and add this bit from Gianforte's Wiki page anyway:
Gianforte is a believer in Young Earth creationism, the belief that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. He donated $1.5 million to the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in Glendive, Montana, a creationist museum which teaches visitors that evolution is false, the Earth is about 6,000-6,400 years old, that dinosaurs were on the Ark and that they likely died out 4,300 years ago during the flood described in the Book of Genesis.
spanone
(135,844 posts)moondust
(19,991 posts)How do the dregs of society end up becoming billionaires running a government supposedly "of, by, and for The People"?
Well, I suppose you could start by creating an amoral economy that mainly rewards those who already have much too much and their savage greed for much, much more with only limited liability for the damage they do.