Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.
yeah, but Teamsters don’t show up to a fight without preparing, including having already dug the other guys grave.
Nah, we’s not like that no mores, kid! Come around back to this cornfield and we will talk about some things.
“You’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’ BUDDY!”
So this was at the bottom of the article where McConnell weighs in “this is why congress shouldn’t run for 5 weeks straight, things get weird.” Wtf, what about everyone else in the world that works 52 weeks straight. Just another example of how out of touch some representatives are.
It’s a jungle out there
It makes me wonder how we keep from goin’ under
I do love a good Grandmaster Flash reference.
MMA. oh man I used to work with a Muay Thai guy. Body builder, ate nothing but protein. Suspected a lot of roids. They stand there and kick each other in the head. smh
Wtf is happening
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The decline of American democracy.
I mean yes, but we’ve had a man beaten to within an inch of his life on the floor of congress before so this isn’t unprecedented.
Right before a civil war, no less!
Ah shit, history does rhyme…
House o’ representin’
A probable boost in popularity. Wouldn’t be the first time violence elevated someone’s profile. What happened when Republican Greg Gianforte body-slammed a reporter.
Misunderstood masculinity.
Performative masculinity.
Idk he might just be an asshole.
I’m just saying (somewhat jokingly) banana republic. Please decent US people, stop this shit. it’s causing so much anxiety over the pond. I just can’t anymore.
With a name like that, had better make sure he isn’t married to his cousin.
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I’m sorry… Markwayne?
What kind of stupid fucking name is that.
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My uncle Bubbafred could beat him up.
It’s too common these days, and honestly, it’s just an evolution of hyphenated names. Why even have the hyphen? Just smoosh 'em together and nobody will notice.
You know, I was just thinking how stupid the name sounded until you pointed this out. I still think it’s stupid, but now it at least makes sense how we got here.
Someone’s overcompensating. It would have been interesting to see Mullin and O’Brien side by side:
And the US takes another step towards devolving into an African third world nation…
and Idiocracy
Don’t put down African nations like we don’t have the CIA to keep things that way.
I know, I know. The simile gave a bad taste in my mouth, but it was only rhetorical. The point, I mean, not the taste.
Can some one fact check my random knowledge dumpster of a brain?
I feel like at some point I heard or read that “third world” referred to countries who did not take a side during the cold war. Is this accurate?
Technically the term third world has nothing to do with the developmental status of a country, but it happened to take on this second meaning because lower GDP countries tended to stay out of the conflict? The West and their friends were “first world” and Soviets and their comrades were “second world”?
It’s basically a bullshit term and shouldn’t be used, I only did for comedic and or rhetorical effect. But it has no academic use, if we let it rest at that. It’s little more than economic racism.
Americans have been fighting each other in the Senate since the beginning. People used to cane each other in Congress.
The caning of Sumner. I know of that even as a EU citizen. But which only strengthens the point- the Republicans are reactionary to the point of reintroducing barbaric practices of the 18th hundreds.
Mullin might benefit from a little historical research on the activities of the Teamsters’ union.
Step 1: Challenge a teamster to an honest round of fisticuffs.
Step 2: Mutually approach your opponent arms raised to protect your face.
Step 3: Wake up (potentially in the hospital) at least a fair fraction of an hour later.
Step 4: Find out, dazed and confused, that you were concussed right before the fight proper initiated from the bludgeoning of a baseball bat upon your skull by a second teamster.
Step 5: Resolve to never fuck around again.
True, you’re going to fight all of them, if you want to, or not.
The creators of Idiocracy did not have the imagination for this.
Haha, you got that right!
Abe Lincoln would have wrecked them
yeah I kinda wish we could bring Abe and Teddy Roosevelt back to whip the shit out of the GOP… their shame should know no bounds.
Abe would beat the lot of em bloody. But Teddy would probably ask what type of modern firearms we have nowadays and then proceed to shoot up congress.
Best country in the world!
Make America a Third World Nation Again
