Luxury For Me, Austerity For Thee: Let Them Eat Pickleball, The Tim Sheehy Story

Medicaid And SNAP Cuts From the Mansion On The Lake

Yesterday Tim Sheehy (R-MT) voted to cut Medicaid and food stamps so that multimillionaires like himself could get bigger tax breaks. While he lounges on a private peninsula with panoramic lake views and multiple boat docks, he’s making sure tens of thousands of Montanans can’t afford insulin or put food on the table. He didn’t just vote to slash Medicaid and food stamps— he did it for himself. So that when he sells his $10.5 million compound, he can pocket an even bigger tax break— because apparently $152.5 million, his current net worth, just doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.

And if his 7-acre compound, Bird Point, on Flathead Lake sells for the asking price, $10.25 million, that tax break will come in nice and handy. The property includes a main home, a guest house and a bunkhouse (renovated guest cabin), private dock, tennis and pickleball courts, expansive lawns, and 2,400+/- feet of shoreline. It’s on a private peninsula and none of those people whose Medicaid and food stamps he just helped disappear can get onto it.

The agent described it as:

Bird Point is located at the southern tip of Flathead Lake in Polson Bay, is fully accessible by vehicle and boat, and features views of the Mission Mountains. Flathead Lake has become an increasingly popular destination for recreators and those seeking the ultimate private family retreat; it is the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi. The property embodies a rare combination of privacy and exclusivity with accessibility, aligning with a generational shift in interest toward legacy-caliber waterfront holdings in Montana.

The main house is 4,925 square feet, with 5 bedrooms  and 4 bathrooms. The guest house is 1,631 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and the guest cabin (renovated in 2023) is 1,320 square feet with one bedroom, one bunk room and 2 bathrooms. The property includes “multiple boat docks,” fire pits, lawns and lake access for boating/fishing/swimming.

The listing broker said that ““There are only so many seats in the front row—and Bird Point is one of them. A private peninsula on iconic Flathead Lake represents a rare offering— especially at a time when Montana is experiencing unprecedented demand for premier properties. It’s exactly the kind of opportunity today’s high-end buyers are searching for. As Montana draws national attention and towns like Bozeman and Whitefish continue to define high-end mountain living, Flathead Lake is quickly emerging as the next great destination. This property feels like Lake Tahoe twenty years ago— before it was discovered. Bird Point is uniquely private, yet only five minutes from Polson by car or boat and just thirty minutes to Big Fork. It is an hour from Glacier National Park… Bird Point is the only fully private peninsula on the lake— no shared ownership, no outside traffic— just end-of-the-road seclusion with iconic Mission Mountain views. There’s nothing else like it.”

Bird Point isn’t just real estate— it’s a monument to the cruelty baked into Sheehy’s politics. It’s where he can toast marshmallows over a lakeside fire pit while families in Great Falls are lighting theirs to stay warm. It’s where he can host donors in his renovated guest cabin while kids in Missoula go hungry because their SNAP benefits were gutted. It’s where he can live out the fantasy of rugged frontier individualism—funded by government contracts, gilded by tax breaks, and guarded by policies designed to keep the poor permanently in their place. Leadership? Montanans may think so but I call it looting in slow motion, masked as patriotism, dressed in camo and floated on one of his luxury pontoons.

Back to the Big Ugly Bill that will devastate Montana rural hospitals that Sheehy voted for, did anyone not see this coming from the moment congressional leadership announced they would try to pass Trump's entire agenda via reconciliation?