Oklahoma Rep With Rambo Delusion Gonna Beat Taliban To Death With Illegal Piles Of Cash
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Today's episode of "Dear God, Republicans Are Fucking Crazy" has got a little bit of everything. Pallets of cash, secret helicopter rides, the Taliban, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pretending he's never heard of a longtime member of his own caucus you name it. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene may flap her yap threatening to do crazy, illegal shit, but Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin actually does it.
Why, yes, there is a rep from Oklahoma named Markwayne Mullin. And, yes, he is a former MMA fighter who thinks masks are a "political" statement and metal detectors on the House floor are unconstitutional. And, yes, he did try to fly into Tajikistan with a helicopter full of cash in a harebrained plot to rescue an American family trapped in Afghanistan. Because why ever not, right?
The Washington Post reports that Mullin contacted the American embassy in Tajikistan Monday demanding that they help him evade the country's customs laws and allow him to fly into Dushanbe with a large quantity of greenbacks. From there, he planned to hire a helicopter, and jet into Afghanistan to ransom his targets out of the country and become a hero. Let's just do it and be legends, shouted a dipshit plumbing contractor laboring under the delusion that he's Jason Bourne. Allegedly!
It was bad enough last week when Reps. Seth Moulton (D) and Peter Meijer (R) flew into Afghanistan to exercise "oversight" of the evacuation they're both veterans, Moulton is on the House Armed Services Committee, and there were still American troops on the ground when they were there. Nevertheless, the pair were roundly criticized for engaging in a ridiculous stunt which wasted government resources at a time when they were sorely needed for the ongoing evacuation.
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