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.
Only Mullin was being a child here
Really? The guy who challenged him to a fist fight “anytime, anywhere” and then agreed to it in the chambers wasn’t being a child? Only the one who accepted the challenge? How does that work?
I don’t care if those “tough guys” want to slog it out, but the choice of time and place shows such a serious lack of common sense that it would be alarming for a professional fighter, not to mention an elected representative.
The guy thought that, when challenged anytime anywhere, there and then, in Congress, during a hearing would be a good time and place. smh
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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.
Source? I’ve not heard this before
When Sanders’ name appears in a headline, it becomes impossible to distinguish centrists from trumpists. The talking points are identical.
I love when people bring up Venezuela in contexts that have nothing to do with Venezuela, especially when it is clear those people only know about Venezuela as far as it is useful as a bogeyman to hold up and point at to scare us into not getting upset about how we are getting ripped off by rich people here in the US. Like, what do yall actually know about Venezuela as a country, culture and place? Anything?
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
I mean, to be fair, the original comment DID say he was the ONLY adult in a room full of children…
Yea, but that’s a very low bar. If a low bar counts as worship… oooohhhhhh boy
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.
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Sanders has stepped up as a “leader” since he pissed away most of his influence in 2012. That is really good. And that is why he is the one expected to “speak up” in these kinds of hearings and why he gets media coverage.
But a LOT of work happens in the government that doesn’t get media coverage. One could argue that almost all meaningful and productive work falls into that category.
If people want to say “Good on Bernie for telling it like it is” and “Good thing Bernie is there to step up”, I am all for it. But “he’s the only adult in a room full of children” is an active insult to everyone who is trying to make this shitshow work.
And even if you don’t care about actively disrespecting the people trying to attempt to make this country a more bearable place: Sanders is 78. We need to not pin all our hopes and dreams on someone who very likely won’t be in office in 2028.
If people want to say “Good on Bernie for telling it like it is” and “Good thing Bernie is there to step up”, I am all for it. But “he’s the only adult in a room full of children” is an active insult to everyone who is trying to make this shitshow work.
Oh, people who hate Sanders suddenly don’t like it when people are called children?
That’s not what he’s saying
He sure seems pissed off that someone called them children.
My take of his argument is that all of what we see is theater, and that there are actual adults in the background trying to hold everything together, and that labeling all who work in politics as children does nothing but a disservice to a large majority of civil servants
Nobody is calling him “king Bernie” either. Pick your battles.
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This has got to be the highest ratio I’ve ever seen in a single Lemmy comment.
You gotta learn to read before you learn to type, bro
and shit on all the other people in the government working to accomplish things.
They can’t all be Joe Manchin and accomplish everything centrists want.
Tell us what you really think.
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I love how 279 people took time out their day just to point how ridiculous this comment is
301 with my downvote.
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Cool. Turns out, Bernie was the only democrat actually there for this incident. Sooooooo, your comment is super irrelevant.
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.
Not sure why you got down voted, Hilary absolutely rigged the DNC.
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.
!risa@startrek.website is leaking. 🖖
Found Stamet’s alt lol
@teft@startrek.website was around long before I was
Too funny.
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.
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.
It’s not about his actions on Jan 6,which were completely understandable. It’s about his actions on all the other days.
Not disagreeing with you overall, but the image associated with the comment I replied to was a very specific moment in time.
Absolute clownshoes from
TennesseeOklahoma, lmao.Jesus Christ, these Republicans are children.
Oops, my bad. Clownshoes is from Oklahoma.
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.
Shit, man! Oklahoma is even worse!
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.
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.
Its the Wayne-Lee-Ray Conundrum
https://spagreport.typepad.com/the-spag-report/2010/11/a-wayne-lee-ray-conundrum-first.html
What Bernie actually meant is: Fistfights are for European senators. US senators are expected to have a gun fight while an eagle is flying above them smh 😉
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.
I would pay hilarious amounts of money to watch fuckin Mark Wayne get his shit stomped in the Senate
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.
Mullin, what a giant pathetic ass snowflake.
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.
Jesus, it’s fucking Middle School bullshit.
Ha! Nice try I’m not clicking on some X porno site link
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.
Dude thinks he’s Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising.
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.
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
