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2021-09-01 Afghanistan

Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin 'threatened embassy staff' in Tajikistan after they refused to help him with a plan to rescue American family from Afghanistan by helicopter

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 01:33|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Fipping the script and making it about the congressman being in the wrong instead of the depraved heart indifference of the US embassy.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 02:22|| 2021-09-01 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Read another article this am (link down the memory hole, sorry) that says Mullin is missing.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-09-01 07:31|| 2021-09-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 In a pressed plaid shirt tucked into blue jeans that hugged his brown cowboy boots, Mullin was in his element. These were his people. He may have been a member of Congress for seven years now, but you wouldn’t have known it by looking at him. Mullin has all the conservative talking points down about abortion and the dangers of socialism, but what his mostly rural Oklahoma constituents like about him is how rough he is around the edges, in all the right ways. He has cauliflower ear from his days of wrestling and mixed martial arts. He speaks with a thick rural accent and often stumbles over common phrases, coming across as less city and more country. He’s routinely direct and unpolished — some might even say crass, especially when he appears frustrated, like the time in a committee hearing when he told Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico to shut up.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-01 09:07|| 2021-09-01 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The Daily Mail article updated to include that information, Mercutio.

Fascinating, Bertie Crains2651. Personal observation, or are you quoting from something?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-01 09:15|| 2021-09-01 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Oklahoma Rep. Mullin says is heading back to the US after 'going dark' when American diplomatic staff in Tajikistan refused to let him into Afghanistan with a helicopter full of cash to help try and get refugees out

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 15:22|| 2021-09-01 15:22|| Front Page Top

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