Alpha? Yeah giant alpha pussy.

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    These fucknuts work themselves into a panic over their own propaganda.

    That said, I would have much preferred that the author of the article didn’t just mindlessly regurgitate his made up statistics and instead followed up with actual statistics.

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    DC police need to pull him over and give him a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.

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      Probably driving around with no doors on the jeep, wearing flips flops and no seatbelt, talking about ‘I’m afraid of carjackers.’ Just stop with this nonsense MarkWayne.

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      It’s actually incredibly helpful! For the carjackers. They can just pull you out instead of having to threaten you to unbuckle and then pull you out. It skips a whole step!

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      I don’t wear a seatbelt when I’m in DC and I’ve never been carjacked once…I just walk, take the metro and ride an occasional bus to get around.

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        So is not wearing a seat belt a euphemism for not driving? What a weird way to say that statement.

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          Not in the senator’s case. He was talking about how he drives himself, and doesn’t wear a seatbelt in his jeep in case he gets carjacked because he “doesn’t want to be slowed down.”

          Because we’re all familiar with the scourge of carjackings that became murders when people took the 5 seconds to undo their seatbelts.

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          The implication is that I don’t have to worry about any of it because I just don’t drive in DC. Public transportation in DC is perfectly fine when there’s at least one functioning escalator.

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            Oh damn, sorry. I thought you were quoting him rather than expanding with your own experience.

            Still not sure why the Senator in the post doesn’t wear a seat belt.

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    Used to work with this fool who refused to wear a seat belt, but kept a gun in the glove-box “for protection”.

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    My ex always refused to wear a seat belt in Ubers because it “helps prevent being abducted by sex traffickers”. He was a 6"3" 450lb black man. I don’t think the seat belt would have made much of a difference.

    Apparently it was some nonsense he heard on TikTok. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the same.

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    In his defense, Sen. Markwayne Mullin is — and always has been — a gigantic coward with no respect for US law or his fellow Americans. He is genuinely scared of everything and everyone around him.

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      Yup. That’s why he’s an alpha pussy.

      Once more into the breach,

      Unless you’re a teenage car jacker,

      Then I’ll run like a lil bitch.

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      “We need to put the Warfighter first inside the DoD…”

      Votes to confirm a TV personality as SecDef.

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    Apparently, Markwayne Mullin is named after his two uncles. My guess is one of those uncles is actually his dad. I don’t know which one, and neither did his mom.

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    So imagine that he IS car jacked. Someone presumably approaches his car and reveals a gun.

    Does he… draw a gun every time someone approaches his car.

    Draw a gun every time someone approaches his car while black

    Use spider sense to figure out who the car jacker and shoot them first like John WIck

    Have a 99% chance of being in a position wherein the thug has their gun drawn whilst he doesn’t ensuring the act of attempting to draw will result in him getting shot.

    Obviously someone could car jack you with a knife or even just a threat of physical force with their fists if they caught you outside your car but once you are in the car and buckled up I would assume short of a gun you would literally just lock the door and drive. If you are worried about being physically dragged out of your car the seatbelt would actually help.

    Also most car jackings involve the bad guys actually approaching the car. If you DID want to do “something” the something would be shooting them.

    Is he imagining jumping out with his fists of fury and chasing the fleeing thug and anticipating the belt slowing him down?