Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.

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What sort of pathetic man-child have the people of Oklahoma sent to represent them?

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ha, he is exactly what he represents in the conservative party.

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One named Markwayne, apparently.

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They elected an MMA guy to beat up people that disagree with them.

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Now that’s what I call an American Hero

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Probably should have elected an MMA fighter without a ticking vascular timebomb in his head then.

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“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.

Hannity is so full of shit, trying to act tough as always. Meanwhile, he STILL hasn’t been waterboarded like he said he would.

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asking Mullin when society had become so “woke” that fist-fights are no longer an acceptable solution to conflict.

For most of us that happened in elementary school.

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I remember when Mancow got waterboarded on the air. He completely changed his tune and said it was cruel. Even a broken clock is right twice per day I guess.

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Yep. Waterboarding isn’t torture, but please please please please don’t waterboard me!!!

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But god fucking forbid Fetterman wears a fucking hoodie.

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That would give him an unfair advantage in a fight!

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Tbf the hoodie has +3 STR

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Mullin has been going on a media tour in the wake of the near-altercation. 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,”

“Emotionally stunted manchild” would have been more succinct.

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He didn’t go a day without fighting as a kid? Wtf is wrong with him. That’s psychotic. I had maybe 2 or 3 fights during my entire childhood lol. Maybe he’s just an asshole

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He’s lying, and playing that “back in my day we weren’t snowflakes like those liberals are today” card that plays well with fox news audiences.

Doesn’t have to be remotely true, just has to paint a picture that confirms the bias.

Of course when push came to shove to actually confront someone to protect people he hid like a little bitch behind the chairs…

…and now he was waiting for someone to hold him back from his bravado - it ended up being Bernie who couldn’t hold back a feisty kitten if he tried.

But it’s ok this guy learned how to act tough convincingly in wrestling - so he went on the media circus.

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He’s playing the terrorist support card. He’s telling his dumbass supporters it’s okay to use violence against union members. And they will do it.

The next time teamsters are striking, see if one of those dumb fucks that love this guy doesn’t try and drive their car through them or do a mass shooting or stab a five year old fifty times.

These are Republicans and as they say, “we are all domestic terrorists.”

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WTAF is the thought process here? Fight the witness. Hmmmmm

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Cocaine is a powerful drug

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Steroids and trt more likely.

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Sorry but Urban Dictionary has no relevant entries for TRT

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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.

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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.

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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.

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