Markwayne Mullin insults and sorta threatens the dude who'll hold the gavel AT HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING

[Miles Archer]

"Rand Paul’s a freaking snake," Mullin declared. He then added, "I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did," referencing Paul's 2017 attack by a neighbor that left him seriously injured.

The DHS secretary is confirmed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is chaired by Paul.

Trump administration officials were banking on Mullin coasting through confirmation on "senatorial courtesy," counting on his colleagues' goodwill to smooth the process. Mullin, a former MMA fighter with a track record of confrontational theatrics, including challenging Teamsters boss Sean O'Brien to a fight during a 2023 hearing and breaking hand sanitizer stations to fight off Jan. 6 rioters, seemed poised for an easy ride.

But Newell said that calculus got considerably more complicated, as Paul now holds the gavel over his confirmation hearing.

https://www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mullin-2675594144/

[Ilsa]

1. Rand Paul is probably happy to get rid of him. No more

faux Senate courtesy required.

[enigmania]

2. One group among us is

devolving by the minute.

[Lovie777]

3. How refreshing per Fetterman............

per me, Mullin won't last long. Will hurt many people tho.

Republicans don't give a shit.

[Trueblue1968]

4. Mullin is horrible. I hope Sen Paul and the rest of the committee ask the GOPig tough questions

Mullin isn't making friends by calling Rand Paul names.

[Miles Archer]

6. The "If it happens to him, it could happen to me" thing

It's Mullin showing his true colors. Today, Rand Paul is "a freakin' snake," tomorrow, Mullin will "vent" on someone else. And they know it. They also know that if Trump picks him and they don't confirm him, they have to deal with HIS "wrath." A no-win, no matter how you slice it.

[Orrex]

5. This would be a great time for Democrats to present a united front and vote unanimously "no"

[Celerity]

9. Fetterman already said he is an AYE on Markwayne.

https://www.aol.com/articles/fetterman-says-ll-vote-confirm-202546734.html

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has been known to buck his party, said he will vote to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary after President Trump announced Thursday he would select Mullin as Kristi Noem’s replacement.

“As a member of the Homeland Security Committee + Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Border Security: I’m not sure how many fellow Democrats will vote to support our colleague @SenMullin as the next DHS Secretary, but I am AYE,” Fetterman said in a Thursday afternoon post on the social platform X.

In a Truth Social post, the president said Noem had done her job well and would be moving to the role of special envoy for an initiative for the Western Hemisphere called the “Shield of the Americas.”

“I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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[Orrex]

10. I wish him the best of luck as he struggles to recover from his damaging stroke.

[Celerity]

11. I have never seen anything like it in my lifetime (granted that is only 29 years) in terms of high, high level politics.

[Orrex]

13. I actually called out an asshat coworker over it last week

Like so many MAGAts, he always talks as though everyone in earshot obviously agrees with him, and if you contest anything he says, he gets quickly indignant: "Hey, don't make it all political. I'm just talking here."

But he said with clear admiration that the stroke "knocked some sense into Fetterman."

In return, I pointed out that Conservatism is caused by brain damage.

Hey, don't make it all political..."

[0rganism]

7. Is he _trying_ to sink his own nomination in the stupidest way possible? Or is he just that stupid? Maybe both?

Holy shit, this can't be real, definitely fake. This timeline is far too idiotic to actually exist.
It's like we're all falling at terminal velocity into a dark abyss of pure stupid. Uh oh.

[Initech]

8. So he replaced one pile of shit with an even bigger pile of shit.

[Celerity]

12. Quite possibly yes, although Markwayne will have to do some heavy lifting on a broad range of fronts to pass up ICE Nazi

Barbie von Puppykiller on the corrupt fashie fuckstick scale.