Markwayne Mullin: "War is ugly. It smells bad. ... President Hegseth has been there"

[highplainsdem]

Markwayne Mullin: "War is ugly. It smells bad. If anybody has ever been there and been able to smell the war and taste it, and feel it in your nostrils, it's something you'll never forget. And fortunately you have President Hegseth -- or Secretary Hegseth ... President Hegseth has been there"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-02T18:17:39.396Z

[Retrograde]

1. Two questions:

Are Republican candidates for office required to take an intelligence test, and disqualified if they pass? And that last statement is a tell - who really is running the country, or are they all taking turns?

[dalton99a]

2. Markwayne Moron Mullin (R-Okla.)

[3catwoman3]

3. What kind of a dumbass name is Markwayne?

I once heard about a woman whose parents couldn't decide between Barbara and Debra, so they named her Bebra. I think I'd have been really pissed.

And President Hegseth? Perish the thought!

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's not war he smells.

Hegseth has been crawling up certain nether-reaches.

[AZJonnie]

5. Kegsbreath is the admin's Token Person who has Actually Experienced Combat

and one doesn't even have to read between the lines with what he says to conclude he was seething with resentment because his commanders in Iraq didn't allow him to murder whoever he wanted to when there

[FSogol]

6. So the guy who famously never washes his hands, smells bad? Markwayne ate too many paint chips as a kid.

[DFW]

7. If members of Congress were required to take the same citizenship test that prospective immigrant citizens must take

And if a failing grade would mean not being seated in Congress, we would have solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress tomorrow.

[Arazi]

8. This jag-off inherited a plumbing business and has never served

🙄

[IcyPeas]

9. Then he went on and said "Iraq"

Markwayne Mullin just did a Fox News hit in which he repeatedly praised "President Hegseth" and then said the president can ask Congress to declare war "on Iraq"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-02T18:22:57.783Z

[jmowreader]

10. PRESIDENT Hegseth?

Let's imagine that the hamburgers polished Trump off this very instant. For Hegseth to become president, they would also have to take care of JD Vance, Mike Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent.

Something like this could happen...

but I really doubt Trump would stoop to eating canned salmon.