Ammon Bundy has twice been on the non-government side of armed standoffs over his "God-given" right to run his livestock on public land. Having successfully navigated both standoffs without being shot to death by federal personnel, Bundy is now exerting his God-given right to run for governor of the state of Idaho.
The first standoff was in 2014, involving his father's ranch; the second was at Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which he and his hirsute buds occupied for 41 days with their God-given rifles, in a statement that was also intended to provide his God-given cattle with God-given grass at the expense of those other little critters that liberals love so much.
They were eventually arrested -- the occupiers, not the critters -- and the seven people who were charged were eventually acquitted by a jury -- a finding that apparently shocked everyone in the courtroom. Never mind; it probably just further proved to Ammon that his thinking was approved by the Almighty.
While spouting about the Constitution from one side of his face and about the deep state controlling the tyrannous Joe Biden out the other, Bundy gave the reason he’s running for office: He's “sick and tired of all of this political garbage just like you are.”
Bundy joins seven other candidates, but none have his colorful background. For one thing, Bundy was banned from the Idaho state capitol for a year, till this August, for various arrests. This March, Bundy was again arrested for refusing to wear a mask entering a courthouse. Since he was on the way into his own trial, he was then charged with failure to appear.
What is that song I hear in the back of my head? That Village People classic?
What’s the bigger-picture perspective here? How are these far-right, cartoon-like public figures possibly viable candidates?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/559339-man-who-led-armed-occupation-of-federal-refuge-announces-run-for-idaho?fbclid=IwAR2s6PqR3u6UcGcJLcusGbN-nnWeqetacLTBePMf9C4R8gX_WggVF9ZKBmE
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