If you happened to catch the near-throwdown in a recent Senate hearing — you know, the one that made committee chair Bernie Sanders shout "You're a United States Senator!" — here is a photo of Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin that was taken on January 6, 2021, and which has now gone viral.
Mullin may have tried to seem tough going up against Teamsters President Sean O'Brien yesterday, but as you can see, on January 6 he was crouching in fear of the Trump-unleashed MAGA rioters who were storming the doors. He definitely had reason to worry about what the mob would do. But they're the same MAGAts whose pockets he's fleecing with fundraising appeals today.
Yep — he's wasted no time trying to rake in a few bucks for his cringeworthy attempt to "fight" O'Brien. (In addition to crouching, he's been known to stand on boxes so he can appear taller during debates. A Mullin version of Ron DeSantis's shoe lifts, one imagines.)
Odds are that this picture would never have become widely known had Mullin not thrown such a hissy fit yesterday. Nobody knows who the hell he is, even with the ridiculous name of "Markwayne," and no Republican nominee is ever going to pick a running mate from Oklahoma. So what ladders is he hoping to climb? Why make such a scene? Sure, maybe he's raising some money, but is that worth becoming a figure of ridicule? Somebody ask Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's having a similarly bad week. We cats PURR.
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