Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.
I’m sorry… Markwayne?
What kind of stupid fucking name is that.
My uncle Bubbafred could beat him up.
That’s the kind of dumb shit they come up with in the South.
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.
Yet Mullin cowardly hides under a row of seats during Jan 6.
Yeah he should have definitely stood his ground, unarmed, against an angry, violent and armed mob of lunatics. Like stfu you would do the exact same given the circumstance.
But we don’t act like big tough guys who try to fight people on the senate floor. We know we are weenies he just acts like he isn’t one. Did that break it down for you hun 💖?
Aww the condecension is cute, so is it just that you take issue with a politician lying? Incredible.
You tried to make a coherent response good try! 👍
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. That’s where that country is headed.
At least he cared about his fellow Americans.
And had enough wisdom to realize he didn’t know everything and enlisted the smartest person available for assistance.
Good lord, I’d take Camacho over the increasingly likely alternative.
President Camacho saw his people in trouble, so he sought out the smartest man alive, and empowered that man to make real changes. This caused some unforseen consequences because of how comprehensively bad the situation had gotten, but upon seeing positive results they championed and promoted Not Sure.
These are politics so virtuous that they can only be fictional.
The senator has two first names… in his first name.
What are people expecting here?
Name-calling?
Just another Republican.
“Sir, this is a time; this is a place. You want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.”
- Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stopped the altercation from happening, yelling at Mullin: “Stop it! No, no, sit down! You know, you’re a United States senator."
Markwayne was upset about a fuckin tweet. Shame on Oklahoma for voting him in. This is what you get from a MMA fighter, he tries to fight people. 😂
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stopped the altercation from happening, yelling at Mullin: “Stop it! No, no, sit down! You know, you’re a United States senator."
Bernie is a treasure.
Can’t be the only person who read this in Bernie’s voice.
We can be two consenting adults.
Two consenting adults, eh? 😏 I feel like that phrasing is almost always used before the words in the privacy of their own bedroom. If Markwayne wanted to get topped that bad he should have just asked; why are bottoms like this?
#LittleManSyndrome
In a funnier but still depressing timeline we might have gotten the first congressional actual dick measuring contest 😆
The entire episode devolved, with Mullin and O’Brien calling each other names not normally heard in committee hearings, but they did not get physical.
Sanders yelling at him was then followed by him sitting down while they just kept insulting each other. It’s like when your dog wants to fight another dog, and it obeys your order to sit, but still won’t stop barking aggressively,
Ever been to Oklahoma? They don’t know the word shame
Man-with-two-first-names syndrome.
I’m oddly disappointed the sentence didn’t end with “with a steel chair”
I was waiting for a meandering story ending with the Undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.
You guys remember this country fought a war against itself, right?
A lot of countries have had civil wars
Ah… well, that makes it ok then.
Mullin needs to go back to his crappy plumbing company. Wasn’t he the one hiding while his suposed buddies invaded the place a couple of years ago?
MMA fighters are all loose cannons. You don’t just decide that your life’s calling is to knock the piss out of another man by any means necessary. That’s psycho shit. So is threatening violence on a union president. If only Republicans understood that hatred isn’t a political ideology and doesn’t cash checks.
They know their constituents eat it up. It’s theater. Thanks, Jerry Springer.
No, they are all already like that, and their constituents eat it up. It’s not a charade, they’re not playing 5D checkers or whatever, they’re literally cognitively challenged bullies and that is basically the whole Republican voting demographic.
It’s both.
I have limited experience but I had a former MMA champion as a customer and he had been childhood friends with one of my coworkers and he was super nice and respectful
If only Republicans understood that hatred isn’t a political ideology and doesn’t cash checks.
It does seem to be the undertone of other things though that do cash checks. Unfortunately.
Sanders bringing back The People’s Elbow.
Can we please just have adults represent us. This buffoonery is embarrassing.
The adult broke it up.
I’m so thankful for Bernie. I have high hopes for AOC and his other prodigies.
I think you meant protégés. I agree with the sentiment, however.
Yes, autocorrect got me.
Almost got me as well. The only reason I said anything at all was the off chance it was a genuine misunderstanding of words. I figured better to say something here than let you go into a presentation and confidently use the wrong word.
1/3 of this country is buffoonery
Unfortunately it’s more then that…
It’s really not their vote just counts more
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.
Removed by mod
Someone’s overcompensating. It would have been interesting to see Mullin and O’Brien side by side:
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
And the US takes another step towards devolving into an African third world nation…
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.
and Idiocracy
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.
