“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Even if violence was an acceptable form of conflict resolution, if you want to have a fist fight over twitter beef do it on your own time. Not while you're actively performing your job that we the people pay you to do.
Conservatives lack humanity. They lack the capacity for empathy or kindness for kindess' sake. For a conservative, everything is a transaction. If they show kindness or pretend to be empathetic, they feel they have done you a favor and you should be grateful for their kindness.
If a person shows kindness to a conservative, the conservative considers the kindness to be a weakness to exploit. If the person is not someone they wish to exploit, then they identify the kindess as a favor being done for them. A conservative cannot fathom kindness existing just for kindness' sake.
When you interact with a conservative, understand that they do not see your life as valuable. They do not empathize with you as they are simply not capable of that. They see you only as a transaction.
Use caution when dealing with conservatives. They do not value humanity or living things the way a normal person does.
This latest batch of conservatives seem to dial this trait up to 11. Before, it was mostly a callous indifference. "Oh, you need this social program to survive and we are cutting it for budgetary reasons? Well, why aren't you investing your money better? If you just invested your money better you'd be a millionaire by now even though your minimum wage job doesn't pay enough for you to survive."
Recently, though, they have gotten actively antagonistic to various people merely existing. "We need to shoot and kill these immigrants as they cross the border. Liberals should be rounded up and sent to prison. Globalists (aka Jews) should be killed. You disagree with me? Let's fight! I'll beat you up and then kill you!!!"
It's really scary and these people need to never get anywhere near power.
"We can be two consenting adults and do it right here."
"Get your butt up"
"I bite. And I don't care where I bite."
Quite the Freudian word selection.
Poor guy thinks the only way it's socially acceptable to touch another man in public is if it's in the context of a fist fight.
He's itching to fight everyone because he just can't walk down Congress's halls without being carried away by the allure of a testifying witness or a fellow Senator.
Can't wait for the eventual tell all from his college roommate if he continues to have any time in the spotlight.
Political correctness, nothing. We have laws in this country against assault, you moron. Laws you should know about, considering the fact that you're literally part of the legislative process.
Bernie Sanders was right to stop you. Hell, you should have been thrown out of the Senate entirely for your failure to act with some degree of decorum. You're a disgrace to the government.
Remember kids, if you have a psychopathic Senator trying to start a fist fight with you, kick 'em in the balls as hard as you can. It's the right thing to do.
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.
Apparently his MMA credentials are a bit suspect. The last time this story came up someone said he only has 5 fights in his entire career and if I remember correctly 3 of those were against the same guy.
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".
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.
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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