Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
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Might makes right.
My might makes me right.
This senator would beat anyone who disagrees or is critical of him. And worse yet, he sees nothing wrong with this idea. It’s abject danger to have him be the voice of constituents, he has no desire to improve society, but to inflict his will upon it.
But isn’t that the American way?
It sorta is, but it shouldn’t be. So it’s worth mocking and critiquing every time it rears it’s ugly head.
I’m sure he would also be the first to complain if someone stronger beat him and wanted to play by their rules, too.
Republicans shitting on the floor and demanding to be praised for it. You get no praise, fools… only shame and ridicule.
Is this Republican really bragging about being Bernie’s bitch?
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I consider myself progressive thinking, but think about some things you said… freedom of religion of all people is fine to be admired that you allow people to make choices for themselves. I think this is similar to freedom of speech. However, just as you would probably tell someone that spewing hateful racist remarks is a negative behavior and that we are equal, you sort of have to do the same with religion too. I mean, I do think it is right to allow free speech and freedom of religion, but that doesn’t mean you have to give a bigot a microphone or a church tax exemptions. Yes you can build bridges, and advocate for kindness, but if you’re too scared to say as a progressive that most organized religion is not a healthy choice, then you may as well kiss your very own existence bye. You don’t survive in the wild by treating a tiger like a cuddly cat. Also, progressives at least in my mind do not riot. The people at the BLM protests and Floyd protests vandalizing things were not progressives. Progressives are mostly peaceful and it is the forward-thinking educational mindset that will allow you to change the world, not disrupting through chaos.
Acting like you have the intellectual capacity to negotiate the legislative process is, contrary to this Senator’s belief, not political correctness.
Looking at his Wikipedia page it seems like this has been an on going thing with these 2.
On March 8, 2023, Mullin accused Teamsters president Sean O’Brien of “intimidation” during a Senate HELP Committee hearing on the PRO Act, claiming that O’Brien was forcing union members to pay dues and alleging that union leaders had attempted to unionize his plumbing business
On June 26, 2023, Mullin challenged O’Brien to a fight for charity via Twitter in response to an earlier tweet from O’Brien.
On November 14, 2023, when O’Brien again appeared before the committee, Mullin challenged him to fight, saying, “you want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here” and demanding that O’Brien “stand [his] butt up”.
Republican Senator tries to fist fight a union leader is a little too on brand. Like an Onion headline.
Too childish to use his words to resolve conflicts.
I’m just amazed this guy is picking a fight with a Teamster. I can get going after some pencil necked scientist but Teamsters will fuck you up and bring their friends to help.
WTAF is the thought process here? Fight the witness. Hmmmmm
They’ve both talked about having a mutual fight before, so this really isn’t anything new, this time it was just in person.
The incident ended with them agreeing to go get coffee together.
You’re giving the senator way too much credit. After Sanders got the Senator to sit his crybaby ass back down and act like an adult, the Teamster rep quipped that his idea of “settling this” would be discussing it over coffee like adults. The Senator then responded - flustered - that he’d do that, in an attempt to save face after having embarrassed himself. The teamster, sitting calmly and still smiling, said, “Yeah, sure, ok. Let’s grab coffee and discuss this,” is the most drippingly sarcastic tone ever uttered by man and still smiling, because he knew he won and made Senator Chucklefuck look like a total nutjob— who responded, btw, with, “Yeah, yeah… coffee.”
Senator Markwayne Gacy isn’t having coffee with anyone.
Meh, I thought the teamster guy came off as a scrub. Telling him to stand up and whatnot, then saying “wait, you want to fight?” in a fake-surprised voice.
He was winding up a prize d-bag, yes. But he was still being a punkass about it.
The Teamster dude was shit-talking the Senator the whole time. Of course he wasn’t going to fight him— it’s a Senate hearing, not a schoolyard, and they’re not children. Everyone (but Senator Jimbob, it seems) could hear how sarcastic he was being. (Edit: watch the video— it’s hilarious how he baits the Senator into his tantrum, but Bernie comes out as the real star just for acting like the grown-up in the room).
The Teamster guy baited the Senator into publicly embarrassing himself, and it worked. That’s why that Teamster dude was just sitting there and smiling the whole time; he was just egging that dickbag Senator on, and he kept falling for it until Sanders shut him down.
He’s a union guy through and through. I’m sure he’s seen worse at local teamster meetings
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Steroids and trt more likely.
Sorry but Urban Dictionary has no relevant entries for TRT
testosterone replacement therapy
So…gender-affirming hormone therapy?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin ran to Fox News to explain that, despite his best efforts to throw down in the middle of a Senate hearing, “political correctness” is what stopped him from beating up a witness.
On Tuesday, Mullin stood up during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee and made a move to physically fight Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, a witness before the committee with whom he’s been feuding for months.
During an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host reminisced to Mullin about his rough and tumble youth.
“I don’t think there was a single day that we were playing sports where we didn’t drop the gloves or, you know, have a brief interlude of, you know, throwing fists and it would be all be over,” Hannity said, asking Mullin when society had become so “woke” that fist-fights are no longer an acceptable solution to conflict.
The senator added that if he hadn’t challenged O’Brien to a fist-fight in the middle of his workday “the people of Oklahoma would have been pretty upset” with him.
In another interview Mullin gave on Tuesday to the Undaunted Life podcast the Senator said, unprompted, that he’s “not afraid of biting” his opponent in a fight.
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Is it because his parents gave him two first names as one?
Letting them fistfight would be an interesting way of reducing the amount of elderly representatives.
Oh yes democracy
You couldn’t get the fight license fast enough :(
But god fucking forbid Fetterman wears a fucking hoodie.
That would give him an unfair advantage in a fight!
Tbf the hoodie has +3 STR
I think there is a problem that a sitting senator can use his position of power to call fights on people he doesn’t like.
But I don’t think he understands the consequences if he loses. Or that there isn’t a situation where he really wins outside his ego.
Scenario 1: He loses the fight, people realize that violence solves deadlocked problems. Union Support emboldens.
Scenario 2: He wins the fight, everyone around him including the audience sees an MMA fighter beating the shit out of a union leader in 4k resolution. Union support with GOP would die in an instant. People realize that discussions don’t solve problems. ------> civil unrest.
Unironically inspiring in the most mundane way
What a weak minded pussy.
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