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'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in

www.nbcnews.com 'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O'Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.

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1y ago

'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in

www.nbcnews.com /politics/congress/stand-butt-fistfight-nearly-breaks-senate-hearing-bernie-sanders-steps-rcna125140

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What the fuck is going on in America.
Can you please not elect the school yard bully who possibly has an acquired brain injury from the time they were a cage fighter?
- The problem is these people are voted in by states who comprise of residents who have brain injuries, misogynistic views, extremist ideals, and/or a myriad of other skewed thoughts.
  So unfortunately we get stuck with the consequences of other state's resident's decisions
  
  The real problem is over 50% of the voting age population just doesn't vote
  
  And part of that problem is that the aforementioned group of people deliberately make it harder to vote so that it comes down to whoever they can get more outraged. And guess what kind of people get more outraged?
  
  Most recent election in Suffolk County, NY - 1.1M eligible voters. 277K votes cast. Barely a 25% voter turnout. Source: https://www.elections.ny.gov/EnrollmentCounty.html https://projects.newsday.com/voters-guide/results/long-island-voters-guide-november-7-2023-general-election
  
  67% of eligible voters voted in 2020
  
  But much closer to 60% from 2004-2016, and below 60% before that. See turnout statistics. Definitely more than 50% of eligible population typically voting, though.
  
  In presidential elections. Midterms, where people are still elected to Congress, and state and local elections, are also important but see far lower turnout.
  
  2022 turnout was 46%. The last time a midterm election was over 50% was in the 1910s.
  
  I live in Oklahoma, and this is most of the answer.
  The reason for that is it's intentionally difficult to vote if you have a job. A lot of managers won't give you time even if they are supposed to. The polling places are typically churches, or old folks homes. My polling place is a nursing home, and every time I vote, there is a line of people who can barely remember their own name getting ready to vote, and it's easy for them because they live there.
  
  And what make you think that 50% would vote the way you want them to? Remember that people are fucking retarded. End of thought.
  
  The problem is you're lying.
  
  In the last congressional election voter turnout was 46%. The last time a midterm was higher than 50% was in the 1910s.
  
  You said people won't vote, you can't pick and choose when they do vote in higher numbers than you're saying in presidential elections.
  
  So I didn't make the comment that you initially replied to. I was only offering some data that showed there are a lot of national elections where voter turnout was less than half. It's true that presidential elections have a higher turnout than midterm but all of the house and ⅓ of the Senate are voted on in every midterm. They're incredibly important and it's a fact that less than half of eligible Americans turn out for those elections.
  
  Last time I checked, senator Markwayne Mullin was not voted in as president.
- "Jerry Springer Goes To Congress" is what happened. Republican strategists know full well that most blue collar people who vote Republican are stupid, hateful, and eat this trashy shit up with a spoon. It's intentional.
  
  Ironically, Jerry Springer was a pretty good mayor in Cincinnati, but he was also an idiot who got caught when he wrote a prostitute a check.
- Our school systems have failed us and we are finally seeing the results.
  On top of that christian nationalists have taken over the republican party.
  This is your daily reminder to vote responsibly.
- Also, lots and lots of lead exposure.
- American legislatures are surprisingly civil historically speaking when compared to other legislatures. We've had TWO incidents of legislative violence (Sumner slavery incident and 6 January incident). Meanwhile, in Britain, Parliament devolves into a shouting fest every week during Prime Minister's Questions and don't forget how happy Parliament was to send people they didn't like to the gallows in the past. The French legislature did the same.
  Taiwan's legislature turns into a free-for-all fistfight whenever the government presents a controversial bill. Japan's National Diet members will literally eat the paper to prevent a bill's passage.
  
  Taiwan doesn't fuck around lol
  
  Relieved to see that Double Dare is alive and well somewhere
  
  We've had TWO incidents of legislative violence (Sumner slavery incident and 6 January incident).
  I mean I guess it depends on your definition of "legislative violence", but I feel like you are forgetting a certain "states rights" incident here...
  
  Meanwhile, in Britain, Parliament devolves into a shouting fest every week during Prime Minister’s Questions
  Does it?
  
  Yeah, there're even YouTube videos about it that get hundreds of thousands of views on the regular. How many channels that feature Congress Cam can boast the same?
  
  We have several cable channels that live stream the US Congress called C-SPAN (1-3). They’ve existed since the 90s. I think they’re also on YouTube, but I’m not sure.
  People put it on to fall asleep.
  
  Have you got an example?
  
  https://youtu.be/9Ps88fzLMQc?si=3AVRWGoaHBqWzfTq
  1.4 million views
  
  Your definition of shouting is far removed from reality.
  
  They're all literally yelling at and over each other red faced and at the top of their lungs.
  What on the world is your definition of shouting?
  
  No they aren't.
  
  You should try actually watching the video, troll.
  
  I did, but nice attempt at an insult. I also saw it live when it happened.
  
  We're not as bad as the other guys, so we're okay how we are?
  Nonsense.
  
  Nobody said that.
- College football coaches are still good though, right?
  
  Also no.
- A lot of people have chimed in and I'm surprised to not see the main culprit mentioned.
  We have a MASSIVE propaganda problem. We have a press/media system that has COMPLETELY failed in all ways possible, fallen to the typical greed that "ruins" most corporations (quality). We have a population driven to believe that the only people you can trust are people you already agree with so you get your news from Faux News or worse johnny jackass's random podcast with a smattering of Facebook memes and uncle Jimmy's racist rants about Obummer.
  Unfortunately I believe we're absolutely fucked. We're a zombie nation trudging along a path to violence that we will not steer away from. The propagandists are pushing us there and we won't stop them as we have afforded them 1st amendment protections that they absofuckinglutley have taken advantage of and hide behind.
- The people that should lead us want nothing to do with politics, and I don't think anyone can blame them. That leaves the castle gates wide open for wackos.
- Don't tell this guy about how often Congress devolved into fist fights, cane beatings and duels during our countries early years.

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