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Showing Original Post only (View all)Town Hall Attendee Bursts Out Laughing After GOP Congressman Warns About 'The Ottoman Empire' [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Aug 26th, 2025, 10:39 pm
A town hall attendee burst into laughter on Tuesday after Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) warned about the second coming of the Ottoman Empire and the implementation of Sharia Law in the United States.
During the chaotic town hall which saw Brecheen be booed, heckled, and confronted throughout the congressman claimed:
There is a massacre and a genocide happening by the Muslim Brotherhood and everybodys focused on Gaza, but the same ideology that Israel has to be around and co-exist with, that will come to America. Weve got Sharia Law trying to be set up in America today. Absolutely we do. You have Sharia Law trying to be established in America today. The Muslim Brotherhood the Muslim Brotherhood is the ideology and youve got a Turkey president Guys, we cannot go turning into chaos. Weve been really good to each other today. Turkey has a president who has made statements relative to re-establishing the Ottoman Empire.
A man in the audience burst into laughter as Brecheen continued, And [Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan] wants to be he wants to be the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and so we have to make sure that what is happening in the Middle East, that were not getting focused some place and letting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood play victim. After a woman in the audience began to shout at the congressman, he snapped, Maam, youre being rude. Youre being rude.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/town-hall-attendee-bursts-out-laughing-after-gop-congressman-warns-about-the-ottoman-empire/
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Im now totally freaked out that the Ottoman Empire is coming back to impose Sharia Law on America. I thought the west defeated them outside the walls of Vienna in 1683, but it appears they are back.
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Brecheen: Youve got Sharia Law trying to be established in America today. The President of Türkiye has made statements relative to reestablishing the Ottoman Empire
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9:40 PM · Aug 26, 2025
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Im now totally freaked out that the Ottoman Empire is coming back to impose Sharia Law on America. I thought the west defeated them outside the walls of Vienna in 1683, but it appears they are back.
Acyn
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Brecheen: Youve got Sharia Law trying to be established in America today. The President of Türkiye has made statements relative to reestablishing the Ottoman Empire
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9:40 PM · Aug 26, 2025
This is what happens when you continually spout nonsense in your "bubble world" and then have to go out to the "real world" in front of those who are not as stupid as you are. He forgot that Obama is not currently the President.

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Town Hall Attendee Bursts Out Laughing After GOP Congressman Warns About 'The Ottoman Empire' [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Aug 27
OP
LOL Maybe it's a Mike Lindell startup called MyFootstool that sells lumpy footrests.
Beartracks
Aug 27
#74
He is right about the president of Turkey. But he better check with his boss who is buddies with him lol n/t
Cheezoholic
Aug 27
#4
And apparently the only defense against islamofascist tyranny is christofascist tyranny
unblock
Aug 27
#8
Yeah...and a post on Twitter says he won his district with 74% of the vote last time.
Bengus81
Aug 27
#53
GOP''s radical religious clerics brook little tolerance for other radical religious clerics
Torchlight
Aug 27
#14
As ridiculous as this is, this stupid shit is pretty tame for a modern Republican conspiracy theory.
Karasu
Aug 27
#75
Odds are he's a christian and thus responsible for bringing sharia law to us.
travelingthrulife
Aug 27
#19
Just looked it up on the internet and Oklahoma ranks 50 out of 51 states ...D.C. included .. in education
Botany
Aug 27
#41
It is unbelievable that such an ignoramus serves in our Congress. However our government is controlled by ignorance.
NNadir
Aug 27
#22
His kids are probably begging not to have to go to school and get laughed at.
NoMoreRepugs
Aug 27
#30
The Ocellated Turkey wears a fez-like cap (The fez, traditionally associated with the Ottoman Empire)
Donkees
Aug 27
#49
I simply cannot imagine living in these people's fan fiction version of reality.
chiffondior
Aug 27
#43
There obviously is no limits to how dumb these republican representatives can be. They'll still qualify to run for
SWBTATTReg
Aug 27
#62
By watching RW Youtube videos and reading Reddit posts or reading some insane fascist think-piece online or being told
Karasu
Aug 27
#78
Yeah, in Europe. But I'm Armenian. They killed 1.5 million Armenians, countless Greeks, Assyrians and Kurds
LeftInTX
Aug 28
#90
we do have a 'sharia' law. except its catholic/evangelical. see the end of roe, trying to eliminate birth control. etc.
pansypoo53219
Aug 27
#70
I'm surprised anyone here is surprised by this. This is what happens when modern Republicans actually say out loud
Karasu
Aug 27
#71
"I'm a moron, he's a moron, she's a moron, we're all morons. Wouldn't you like to be a moron, too?"
struggle4progress
Aug 27
#80
And always be wary. ... There may be a third Corinthian lurking, ready to pounce.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Aug 28
#92