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Dr. No-No's avatar

markwayne will 💩 and fall backwards into it. He was a 🤥🤡💩, ignorant grifter in the Senate, so it's only logical that's what he is in his current occupation. 🤨

Tessie's avatar

"Do you know why Markwayne Mullin’s name is Markwayne Mullin?"

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Because Mark Wayne Leroy Billy Joe Bob Bob was too hard to spell?

Tessie's avatar

"Do you know why Markwayne Mullin’s name is Markwayne Mullin? It is because his parents couldn’t decide which of his uncles to name him after at the time of his birth, so they put both names on the birth certificate with the intent to pick one later … and then never got around to it."

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I went to school with a boy named William Billy because they asked his mother what to name him while she was still groggy from the anesthesia, and she answered, "William... Billy" -- so that's what they wrote down.

jltympanum's avatar

There is a lot of confusion over the meaning of "sanctuary city". Even MarkWayne (who should know better, bless his [rotten] heart) doesn't get it. It just means a city in which local law enforcement declines to do the feds job for them.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, WaneMark Mullet (I know, fish LIBELZ!1!!11!!!) has never done any plumbing. He inherited his dad's plumbing business, but didn't learn the trade.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Robyn, that is an interesting observation. Is there currently a test for mental health before a person is appointed or approved by Congress to occupy an important job in the federal government? Markwayne Mullin could have brain damage and he still got the job. "Captain, we've lost engine one. And engine two is no longer on fire."

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

Since the now-standard test for high-level government positions involves such things as identifying a camel, drawing a clock, and remembering the names of three items, I'm sure that Mullin, with some coaching, could pass it.

Gregory's avatar

I suspect this is more performative BS to play to the base and remind us peasants who is charge. Dumb plumber who inherited a thriving business is now expected to run an incredibly important job. What could go wrong. Oh, this.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

What exactly is the goal here? It looks like the main purpose is to punish the non-sanctuary cities by increasing the amount of traffic going to them.

Are there even a lot of people entering the country illegally through the airports? And if there are, that sounds more like the fault of the federal Customs Agents than any policies adopted by the host cities. Isn’t it their job to make sure everyone stepping off an international flight has a valid visa?

Permanently Confused@68's avatar

I just arrived in Prague after visiting 4 airports for my 3 plane rides and 2 transfers. Sure. Why not? Airports are such fun places in which to hang out, why not amp-up the joy with having to go through the already fuster-clucked experiences of Atlanta or DFW? At least you don't have to look at Secretary K Krusty Gnome on the monitors anymore. /s

BlueSpot's avatar

DHS Secretary Mullin just wants to increase the airline traffic at smaller international hubs like Tulsa, OKC and Blythville.

Susan Niemann's avatar

JFC. What an absolute nimrod. 🙄

Deborah V's avatar

His first plane ride was probably when he was elected

beb's avatar

Trying to punish sanctuary cities is like trying to punish Iran. They hold all the cards and Trump doesn't.

larry gassan's avatar

Mullin acts like he's never traveled outside of any American bubble [i havent checked, HMU in the comments]. Or maybe that's what Oklahoma exports these days.

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

"On the other hand, it’s good that people know that this is the kind of high-level thinking that goes on in the Trump administration, and also what you get when the person you put in charge of the DHS has a background in mixed martial arts and plumbing. The former, especially, given that there is a much higher rate of CTE in MMA than there is in plumbing, and a serious brain injury is just about the only valid excuse one might have for thinking this might be a good idea."

Wait a goddamned minute. Markwayne Mullin has a brain?

Katherine's avatar

Gosh, the Trump administration really doesn't want international tourists! Just in case the invasive data collection proposal and threats of deportation (or being kidnapped by ICE) weren't enough, now travel is being made harder. Is Trump shorting the travel industry and/or US economy?