No, Markwayne. You might. But nobody else needs to share in your kinks.
Your false bravado only reveals that you're a privileged coward with an inferiority complex so fragile that you think it's worthwhile to fistfight the leader of one of the biggest unions in the US, one that ostensibly commands a lot of blue-collar workers, over a tweet.
This motherfucker is lamenting that people aren't cool with political violence, and specifically references the type inflicted by pro-slavery legislators in the lead up to the civil war.
I know we are already living in the twilight zone, and the leading candidate for president is spewing nazi rhetoric and promising to put people in camps and imprison his political rivals. But can we just acknowledge that this piece of shit is going out of his way to embrace the kind of senseless violence committed by people who would go on to secede and wage war on the United States over their right to own people like cattle.
In a sane world, this asshat would have just ended his career. Here in the darkest timeline, he probably just secured his reelection.
The fucking gym is that way you ignorant fuck. The Senate is where grown-ups talk with words to do things.
What the fuck did you run for? Idiot.
The really sad thing is that some people view what he’s saying as good. Might be the same types that say things like “real men don’t exist anymore” and shit like that
Yo someone check in on this dude's wife and kids, right?
This guy's just upset his parents couldn't pick a name for him
Do they not have to watch those mandatory harassment videos, and ethics videos, code of conduct videos? Or is that just for us pawns?
How do I get in touch with US Human Resources?
https://www.ethics.senate.gov/
Besides the voting booth and helping the grassroots organizations trying to unseat these might-makes-right idiots, that's the closest we've got.
Yes hate this guy is our Senator. Fucker needs to be removed from office. Also is shitty plumbing company avoid them at all cost
Is he granting permission? This should be exhibit one in any cases against someone punching him in the face.
I'm hoping he loses a duel soon.
Says the man who didn’t punch anyone in the face…
Okla-fucking-homa elected this guy. Of course they did. Qualifications: stands a better chance than the average voter in a head-butting contest with an angry steer.
This isn't the kind of person you fight. Run, hide, get help, and defend yourself with violence as a last resort. Because this is the kind of person that will choose violence as a first resort.
Yes. Yes he does.
Yeah YOU do seemingly need to be
Seems like suggesting that you want to physically fight the Teamsters is good way to end up more missing than Jimmy Hoffa.
You know, if I threatened violence in any work place I've ever been in, I would be shit canned immediately.
Why the fuck are these people not held accountable?
They should be held to a higher standard, with more severe penalties for misdeeds. Not just violence either, every kind of crime.
He is representing the people of Oklahoma... Which is par for the course, but it shouldn't be.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of violence in American politics, claiming in an interview: “You used to be able to cane.”
Mullin isn’t backing down or apologizing after his confrontation with Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at a Senate Health Committee hearing nearly came to blows, forcing Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to step in to break up the potential fight.
I was like, ‘I’m a guy from Oklahoma first.’ In Oklahoma, you don’t run your mouth like that and if you do run your mouth like that, you’re expected to be called out on it,” Mullin said about his heated exchange with O’Brien after the Teamsters official called the senator a “clown” and a “fraud” on Twitter.
Brooks came to his colleague’s defense by pummeling Sumner into a bloody mess, forcing him to miss work for extended periods of time over the next three years.
Brooks was later arrested and convicted of assault and fined $300 for his action, which Massachusetts Sen. Henry Wilson condemned as “brutal, murderous and cowardly.”
“You got to remember that President Andrew Jackson challenged nine guys to a duel and won nine times,” he said.
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That middle paragraph threw me for a loop, I was like, "He did what now? Why isn't that the headline?" Apparently, it skipped some context for that.
I mean, it is sort of consistent with the GQP’s intent to take America back to the 19th century, when knife fights broke out in congress.
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