Bernie Sanders stops GOP senator from fighting teamster president at hearing: 'You're a United States senator!'
Bernie Sanders stops GOP senator from fighting teamster president at hearing: 'You're a United States senator!'
That gop senator is little bitch Markwayne Mullin.
Here he is cowering during the "peaceful tour" of Jan 6.
Whatever you do, please don't share that with him on Twitter or email him with it.
This guy looks like the kind of guy who you wouldn't want to mess with, lots of pent-up rage towards whiny weak reps.
Thanks, I was looking for this earlier.
Whatever you do, please don’t share that with him on Twitter or email him with it.
this but unironically
he feared for his live and i know that i would be traumatised from such an event.
Maybe he shouldn't have been on the side pushing for this?
He's a republican. He's anti-democracy. Fuck him.
Lets be fair, if he was under a desk because of a major earthquake, would you use that against him as well to tarnish his reputation?
Its not like the Congress' rule book for an armed insurrection breaking in has a section called "duck and cover" in it. You figure this shit out as you go, in real time. And taking cover is a reasonable thing to do.
I think the guy acts like a meathead, I'm no fan of his, but to use this picture is something of a cheap shot on your part.
If a guy says, "earthquakes are no big deal. I don't see what the fuss is about." and then goes to duck and cover it's worth pointing out their foolishness. It's not about his actions on Jan 6,which were completely understandable. It's about his actions on all the other days.
Where is the handbook that reads "after your pansy ass is done being scared, go to a press conference and deny it all."
where Teamsters President Sean O'Brien
He was a union man. I wonder if this guy knows his descendant ends up being the most important man in starfleet history.
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It's OK I approve.
OC risa memes in the comments.
Too funny.
Found Stamet's alt lol
@teft@startrek.website was around long before I was
I goddamn love Sean, he makes me happy to be a teamster. This years UPS contract was a great start in bringing rights and safety back to the union, its the next contract that we need to look forward to getting the union what we are owed.
I was a bit of a union lawyer for a while and worked with him. He's a charismatic, engaging dude, who cares deeply about his brothers and sisters in the union. He would fuck that Senator up too I have zero doubt. Dude is built like a pitbull.
Mullin is from Oklahoma.
Not that the TN senators Blackburn and Hagerty aren't clownshoes.
I wanna meet Blackburn in a Dennys parking lot at 3AM.
Just to talk, of course.
Oklahoma. But otherwise, yes.
Or if we wanna be historically accurate, they brutally cane each other.
Like the time a senator got bludgeoned on the senate floor for condemning slavery.
So you're telling me that some hick named "Markwayne" from Oklahoma wanted to settle things with a fistfight? Seems pretty on-brand.
I like to pronounce it "MarKwayne" for fun.
Ooo he probably hates that shit, carry on my friend
This had me lol.
This country is truly descending into a big pile of manure. Such primitive thinking. I saw Trump doing the whole fistfighting thing against Biden, too.
Yeah, we've all seen it. You're real manly men.
This country is truly descending into a big pile of manure.
We just have to get it out of our system is all. That, and finish the Civil War.
(I kid, I kid! Er, kinda.)
Anybody giving odds on this? I'd like to put $50 on the teamster. I would love to see someone put that election-denying, Chuck Norris wannabe on the mat.
The politician who declared “I’m not Rambo” after his much-ridiculed attempt to enter Afghanistan in the company of a private US security team, boasts on his website a 5-0 record as a professional mixed martial arts fighter.
The official record of his short-lived career suggests a different story: a total of three wins, two against the same opponent, and cumulative fight time of less than 10 minutes in under three rounds.
Just stepping in the ring is proof you're willing to take a punch, which puts him well ahead of 90% of people acting like they want to start a fight.
I would pay hilarious amounts of money to watch fuckin Mark Wayne get his shit stomped in the Senate
Yes, he can absolutely kick my ass, but he is still one of the biggest pussies I have seen. Being tough and strong also includes your mind. It is through might that the weak and stupid shall rise to power.
This conduct is unbecoming of a senator!
Now a member of the House of Representatives and now governor of Montana? Feel free to physically assault people with zero consequences.
nobody is rushing to condemn this like they all rushed to pass a law banning hoodies though.
so much for the civility argument.
Mullin, what a giant pathetic ass snowflake.
Ha! Nice try I’m not clicking on some X porno site link
Jesus, it's fucking Middle School bullshit.
Wow, that was pitiful. It's embarrassing that some district elected this bully of a man-child.
A whole STATE, even. Granted, it's one of the ones with the population of one of the more populous COUNTIES and more heads of cattle than humans, but it still counts as an actual state, unfortunately.
That was one of the rare instances where the video was actually worse than the article, jfc.
Come on Bernie, this is pathetic. You should know better than to try to appeal to a Republican's non-existent sense of decency!
/s
Casual Sanders W
Don't they know you're supposed to take it outside or wait for after class. You don't just throw down in the middle of the room.
Dude thinks he's Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising.
GOP Senator: "Uh, so?"
Yeah I'd love nothing more than to see someone floor a stupid GOP senator. God damn it, Bernie!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sen. Bernie Sanders stopped a fight from breaking out in the middle of a Senate committee meeting on Tuesday when a Republican senator stood up from his chair to fistfight a labor leader who was testifying.
The incident occurred during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing titled "Standing Up Against Corporate Greed; How Unions are Improving the Lives of Working Families," where Teamsters President Sean O'Brien and other labor leaders were scheduled to speak.
During the hearing, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma read aloud a post O'Brien previously made to X, formerly known as Twitter, where he called the Republican senator a "Greedy CEO who pretends like he's self made."
In June, Mullin drafted his response to O'Brien's comments onto X, challenging him to an "MMA fight for charity," though the brawl never actually took place.
After reading out the post on Tuesday, Mullins responded to the criticism in person, particularly to the claim that he was pretending to be self-made.
The almost-brawl comes approximately eight months after a previous committee hearing in March where O'Brien accused Mullin of being a "greedy CEO" who "hid money."
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"I'll beach you off right here"
-a U.S. Senator (paraphrased)
Good for Bernie Sanders. Glad to see from him.
I'd rather it happened. A republican senator in jail for assault & battery is a good fucking start.
The Counter Points thoughts on this issue.
Video shows the full conversation and a bunch of background/history.
They can duel outside the committee hearing if they want.
Let them brawl. The rich greedy fucks need to know that we will fight for this. Their safety is not gauranteed.
Pathetic
I'm absolutely pro fighting in Congress. Most MMA fighters would be better politicians than those bozos (beloved Bernie excluded o'course). I'd pay my first pay-per-view for that. Btw: mighty mouse for president!
Most MMA fighters would be better politicians than those bozos
Mullin was a MMA fighter. I wouldn't dare to say he makes a good politician. We have enough reality TV bullshit in DC already.
Looked him up. Welterweight class, 3 wins, 0 losses, back in 2007 ish. 5'8", 170lbs. (So, more than 170lb with water.)
Sean O'Brian has no published stats, and photos usually show him as a bit shorter than the other dudes in the photo.
Andrew Tate was an MMA fighter.
While they may be better, the aftermath of fighters' concussions would still leave something to be desired.
This place and reddit just love jerking this old man off
I think I saw that video on xvideos.
Gee. I wonder why. Could it be that he's one of the only US politicians left that has any actual credibility?
Bernie once again demonstrating that he's the only adult in a room full of children. It's got to be frustrating as hell to be surrounded by these morons constantly.
He's the Chair of the Committee; it is quite literally his job to maintain decorum and everyone else's job to not speak out of turn. Only Mullin was being a child here, no reason to impugn everyone else in the room for doing what they were supposed to be doing and letting the Chair handle it.
And to be clear, mullin is doing this because he got his fee fees hurt by a mean twitter reply.
Who are these others whose honor you are so concerned with? Those chairs are mostly empty. The bums didn't even show up.
Yes morons but Bernie also thought chevez's Venezuela was a good model and was praising them not that long ago. He does not have a good track record.
When Sanders' name appears in a headline, it becomes impossible to distinguish centrists from trumpists. The talking points are identical.
ah yes the ol' completely out of context bullshit generator, way to go moron
Source? I've not heard this before
Once again, people worship the ground Sanders walks on and shit on all the other people in the government working to accomplish things.
The gop are increasingly realizing they can destroy the entire government by doing what they are doing. But there are plenty of Democrats who are still putting in the work and trying to do what they can. And all this "King Bernie" talk does is devalue the work of others. Some of which were actually inspired by Sanders.
Nobody is worshipping Bernie here, nobody said "King Bernie" and this straw man you constructed doesn't exist. He just acted like an adult by calling out immature behavior and was praised for it. That's it. What an odd, overly hostile reaction lol
Is this article about another Democrat speaking up and stopping the fight; or Bernie? Don't gotta get your britches in a twist, now it just looks like you have some weird obsession with taking the guy down.
This has got to be the highest ratio I've ever seen in a single Lemmy comment.
ok
You gotta learn to read before you learn to type, bro
They can't all be Joe Manchin and accomplish everything centrists want.
I love how 279 people took time out their day just to point how ridiculous this comment is
Cool. Turns out, Bernie was the only democrat actually there for this incident. Sooooooo, your comment is super irrelevant.
Tell us what you really think.
Hilary rigged the DNC.
Democrats have been ignoring their constituents to pursue their own personal enrichment since.
The people are still waiting for the leader they elected.