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Senator MarkWayne Letterspacing (R-OK) told Bernie to hold his beer [1]

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Date: 2023-11-15  

“You wanna do it now? You wanna run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here."

Senator Bernie Sanders had to tell him to sit down after ‘threatening to fight’ with Teamster’s president Sean O’Brien.

x Teamsters President Sean O’Brien makes it clear he’s isn’t gonna put up with GOP Sen Markwayne Mullin’s BS #SolidaritySeason pic.twitter.com/RI0x7EndtR — Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 14, 2023

Senator Bernie Sanders just had to prevent GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin from physically fighting a guy during a Senate hearing, perhaps because he didn’t wear a Gym Jordan jacket for Bernie to hold.

x Markwayne Mullin broke a cardinal rule of posting: he admitted he got mad about someone's tweets. He got so mad about someone's tweets that he had them printed out, then tried to fight him.



Senator, you NEVER admit you got mad about someone's tweets. It means you already lost. https://t.co/IuqHJmjYkc — Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) November 15, 2023

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): "And by the way, I’m not afraid of biting. I will bite."

Q: "Biting?"

Mullin: "I’ll bite 100%. In a fight, I’m gonna bite. I’ll do anything. I’m not above it. And I don’t care where I bite by the way."

Pro Record 3-0-0 (Win-Loss-Draw); Career Length 4 months, 26 days…. His first name is a tribute to two of his paternal uncles, Mark and Wayne; his mother put both names on his birth certificate, intending to later shorten his name to one of the two, but ultimately never did.[5][6][7]

x It's a good time to remind people that Markwayne Mullin received almost a million dollars in PPP money WE paid for. Then cries about socialism.



What a hypocrite. 🙄



Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) for $988,700https://t.co/54dXEWpbNs pic.twitter.com/kJDaZvze7I — James Tate (@JamesTate121) November 14, 2023

x Easy to dismiss an MMA fighter-turned senator wanting to start a fight in a hearing. But any rise in violence on Capitol Hill would not be a good sign.

🗞️ 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛https://t.co/PHGLWGwtg2 — Philip Bump (@pbump) November 15, 2023 It is probably not terribly useful to draw sweeping conclusions from Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s demand on Tuesday that a witness at a Senate hearing stand up and fight him. Mullin’s background is atypical for a senator, including a brief stint about 15 years ago during which he did mixed-martial arts fighting. The witness, meanwhile, was the head of the Teamsters Union; his willingness to goad Mullin (R-Okla.) into the challenge was probably also atypical for someone appearing on Capitol Hill. [...] Again, we’re pretty far down a path from the specific “former MMA fighter challenges Teamster leader to a fight" incident that spurred this line of inquiry. But dismissing that specific incident solely as anomalous means ignoring the other patterns that exist around Congress. www.washingtonpost.com/...

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