Alpha? Yeah giant alpha pussy.

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    11 days ago

    These fucknuts work themselves into a panic over their own propaganda.

    That said, I would have much preferred that the author of the article didn’t just mindlessly regurgitate his made up statistics and instead followed up with actual statistics.

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    DC police need to pull him over and give him a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.

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      Probably driving around with no doors on the jeep, wearing flips flops and no seatbelt, talking about ‘I’m afraid of carjackers.’ Just stop with this nonsense MarkWayne.

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      It’s actually incredibly helpful! For the carjackers. They can just pull you out instead of having to threaten you to unbuckle and then pull you out. It skips a whole step!

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      I don’t wear a seatbelt when I’m in DC and I’ve never been carjacked once…I just walk, take the metro and ride an occasional bus to get around.

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        So is not wearing a seat belt a euphemism for not driving? What a weird way to say that statement.

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          Not in the senator’s case. He was talking about how he drives himself, and doesn’t wear a seatbelt in his jeep in case he gets carjacked because he “doesn’t want to be slowed down.”

          Because we’re all familiar with the scourge of carjackings that became murders when people took the 5 seconds to undo their seatbelts.

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          The implication is that I don’t have to worry about any of it because I just don’t drive in DC. Public transportation in DC is perfectly fine when there’s at least one functioning escalator.

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            Oh damn, sorry. I thought you were quoting him rather than expanding with your own experience.

            Still not sure why the Senator in the post doesn’t wear a seat belt.

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    My ex always refused to wear a seat belt in Ubers because it “helps prevent being abducted by sex traffickers”. He was a 6"3" 450lb black man. I don’t think the seat belt would have made much of a difference.

    Apparently it was some nonsense he heard on TikTok. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the same.

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    In his defense, Sen. Markwayne Mullin is — and always has been — a gigantic coward with no respect for US law or his fellow Americans. He is genuinely scared of everything and everyone around him.

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    Used to work with this fool who refused to wear a seat belt, but kept a gun in the glove-box “for protection”.

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    Is it difficult to take off a seat belt? It’s nothing I’ve ever had trouble with. Hell, the fact you’re probably in a sealed bullet-proof car, then jumping out is much more risky. Let alone the statistically higher even of getting in an accident.

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      Yup. That’s why he’s an alpha pussy.

      Once more into the breach,

      Unless you’re a teenage car jacker,

      Then I’ll run like a lil bitch.

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    Apparently, Markwayne Mullin is named after his two uncles. My guess is one of those uncles is actually his dad. I don’t know which one, and neither did his mom.