Republican Senator Says We Should Bring Back Physical Beat Downs In Congress

Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin isn't done trying to start a fight, and he went crying to Fox News saying that maybe we should "bring back" "canings" and other physical acts of violence that have happened on the floor of Congress in the past. For the record, those actions were illegal then, and they are still illegal now, and it is pretty easy for Mullin to call for fist fights when he knows that they aren't going to actually happen. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma is not dropping it. He is not giving up on his very obvious desire to fight Teamster's, uh, leader Sean O'Brien. And so after the incident that took place during the Senate hearing this week, Mark Wayne Mullen, senator from Oklahoma Republican went crying to Fox Business whining about the fact that why are we not allowed to fight people? I mean, that sounds like an exaggeration on my part, but I promise you it's not Mark Wayne Mullen actually made the case that we should just bring back physical beatdowns to the Senate, to the house. Let's just let everybody beat the crap out of one another, you know, so that people can earn respect. So here he is, here is Mark Wayne Mullen on Fox Business Channel, telling us about his grand idea to just let everybody go at it. Take a look

Because Bernie was saying, this isn't how we behave. And I says, you brought the thug in. You know how he behaved? You've seen this, his, his tweets to me, or ex, I dunno what you call 'em, but where he's, he's tweeted at me and, and you've seen where, uh, where he's behaved and you know his past. You're the one bringing this thug in, in front of the committee. So what do you expect's gonna happen? And keep in mind too, this isn't anything new. Andrew Jackson, uh, uh, challenged two people or nine people to a dual when he was president, and he also knocked one guy out at a, at a White House dinner. There's been kaney before in the, in the Senate too. Maybe we should bring some of that back. You know, keep people from thinking they're so tough and make a sit at a table and we can actually work out our differences without poking at each other and, and, and wanting to run to cameras and call people names.

Now, I love the fact that he's like, Hey, people would start respecting each other if they thought they'd get their beat, right? I mean, listen, mark, it's easy for you to sit there in your current position, even during that Senate hearing. I know you stood up and you're like, let's go man, let's go. But you knew you couldn't fight him. You knew nobody would allow it to happen. So you see, it's easy to talk a big game when you know that everybody's gonna stop you and prevent you from getting your beat by a teamsters leader. I don't know if you know anything about the Teamsters, but maybe look into their history a bit. Not exactly the kind of people you want to get on the wrong side of. I'm not saying it's like that anymore, but I also don't know because I'm not a teamster, but just historically, probably the wrong people to pick a fight with.

You know, read a book every now and then. Mark Wayne, I promise you, you will benefit tremendously from it. But he brings up the historical precedence, right? Like Andrew Jackson was challenging people to dues. We had the caning of Charles Sumpter, why don't we bring that back? Do you know why we don't bring it back? Because it was illegal even then. Like those things weren't just allowed. Did you think that there were rules in the Senate at the time saying like, Hey, if you get off, grab your cane, give 'em a couple wax, and then go sit back down. It was illegal. Like there was a big hoopla over that. It was a horrible incident. The caning of Charles Sumpter and then of course the dueling that was not legal. They did it all kind of off the books, you know, but it wasn't allowed to just go and shoot somebody.

So even then it was illegal. And I know you're saying you wanna bring that back, but you're also the guy. I mean, ever since you attempted to fight Sean O'Brien, uh, earlier this week, the photo of you cowering down behind the seats during the Capitol riot, while many of your colleagues were actually physically barricading a door, you weren't involved in that, you were hiding. Like it's the same photograph. Mark Wayne Mullen crouching down alone behind the chairs hiding while his colleagues are trying to protect the chamber. You wanna be the big tough guy..