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Markwayne Mullin is the dumbest Senator, on par with Tommy Tuberville. Over the weekend he said "the number one expense we have in the United States government right now is payroll". How can you be this stupid? Everyone knows it's entitlements, specifically social security.

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I donтАЩt know if theyтАЩre dumb or they just donтАЩt care about reality anymore. ItтАЩs probably both.

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Is it stupidity, or just reckless disregard for the truth? Does he believe what he's saying, or is he saying whatever is useful in the moment?

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You forgot the Pentagon. CanтАЩt wait to see what the tech idiots do there. I am sure it will be accompanied by news that Trump the idiot king is withdrawing all of our troops abroad and leaving NATO.

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The fact it is called "entitlements" doesn't mean we have to use the term. I paid for 40 years into my "entitlement". Social security is a form of annuity and should be addressed as such.

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No. Embrace the term тАЬentitlementтАЭ. You paid into it your entire life, you ARE entitled to it.

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the term entitlement has been ruined

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'Entitlements' was the term Jonathon Karl of 'This Week' used when he corrected Mullin on the show, of course having no impact whatsoever of the dumb as rock Senator.

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That was true...until they realized they could use the money to jimmy with the budget.

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50 years here. This тШЭтШЭтШЭтШЭтШЭ

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тАЬEntitlementтАЭ is another word the right has successfully besmirched, like тАЬliberalтАЭ. It simply means we are entitled to it. It doesnтАЩt need to have the pejorative taint.

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exactly - makes me writhe when people talk about entitlements as something negative - something they're not really entitled to somehow

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The power of the right wing message machine is amazing. Democrats canтАЩt match it. The right knows to keep messages short, memorable, and repeat them over and over. Democrats get too deep in the intellectual weeds.

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I think he's deeply religious and will do and say anything to advance the theocratic cause.

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You mean like hastening The Rapture?

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I think he's a macho poser that was curled up in a ball and crying on Jan 6th when the mob was breaking into the House and now he won't talk about that

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For real. Like, who here thought he meant it when he said he'd go to the Capitol WITH the mob? LOLOLOL ok big guy. Here's your ketchup. Let's go sit down.

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Did Markwayne volunteer for a pay cut?

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We should stop paying the potted plants in the house and senate. They aren't doing anything anyway.

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