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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
Note the 'Seal of the President of the United States' on the podium...I imagine had one been a witness to this event, that after whatever FJB had been mumbling about, one would conclude that Fetterman was a absolute prophet and intellectual giant by comparison!

Looks like a homeless guy commandeered the podium.

Aaaaahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahhaha!

https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/s.../1791471678137966855

Muchadoo about nuthin, now if Greene got up and started a beat down on AOC, then that would be epic, or, as back in the old days, went outside and settled it in a duel...

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Cilley died in office after sustaining a fatal wound in a duel with Congressman William J. Graves of Kentucky.[8] The climate surrounding the Twenty-fifth U.S. Congress was one of increasing political partisanship.[8] Majority Democrats fought with minority Whigs over the response to the Panic of 1837, which was generally blamed on the policies of Democratic President Martin Van Buren.[8] Underlying this conflict was lingering bitterness over the decision of Van Buren's predecessor, Democrat Andrew Jackson, not to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.[8] One of the pillars of the Whig press was the New York Courier and Enquirer, a newspaper edited by James Watson Webb.[8]

Democrats, including Jonathan Cilley, considered Webb's coverage of Congress to be biased and unfair; Cilley vented some of his party's bitterness in remarks made on the House floor, and suggested that Webb's change from opposing to supporting the re-chartering of the bank came about because Webb received loans from the bank totaling $52,000.[8] Webb, who considered himself insulted by Cilley's suggestion of quid pro quo corruption, persuaded a Whig friend, Congressman William J. Graves, to deliver Webb's challenge to a duel.[8] Cilley refused to accept the letter, in terms which Graves decided were an insult to his honor; Graves then challenged Cilley, and Cilley felt honor bound to accept.[8] Dueling was prohibited within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, so the participants and their seconds – George Wallace Jones for Cilley and Henry A. Wise for Graves – arranged to meet on February 24, 1838, at the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds, just outside the city limits and inside the Maryland border.[8]

As the challenged party, Cilley had the choice of weapons.[8] Because of Graves' reputation as an expert pistol shot, Cilley selected rifles, with the distance between the duelists to be 80 yards, a distance far enough apart to negate Graves' supposed shooting skill; in actuality, the marked off distance was 94 yards.[8] After their first fire missed, the participants shortened the distance and fired again, but again both shots missed.[8] On the third exchange of shots, Graves fatally wounded Cilley by shooting him through the femoral artery.[8] Cilley bled to death on the dueling ground within a matter of minutes.[8] He was buried at Congressional Cemetery,[9] and re-interred at Elm Grove Cemetery in Thomaston, Maine.[10]

Then we have Brooks v Sumner, not really a duel but a good old fashioned ass whipping.. and several more including a stabbing and a mele' between 30 house members over slavery...

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Originally posted by HRK:
Muchadoo about nuthin...

Think again. This isn't 19th century Code Duello. We are in the modern era. This is ghetto-ass trashy behavior. Do not try to excuse this in-the-projects weave-pulling crap.