GOP Rep Offers Up Own Children In Anti-Trans Senate Campaign Ad - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) is running in the Oklahoma GOP primary for U.S. Senate. To win, he’s taking aim at transgender people, and using his own kids in the process.


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What a disgusting excuse for a human.

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“This is Larra, my daughter. This is Jayce, my son,” Mullin says, with both children labeled as being Oklahoma wrestling champions.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/jenni-carlson/2020/02/27/how-girls-wrestling-is-taking-another-step-toward-inclusion-in-oklahoma/60371953007/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2020/04/21/ossaa-adds-girls-wrestling-championship-for-2020-21/60404695007/

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— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 24, 2022
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The things people do for money.

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These people are Christofascist authoritarian scum.

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Markwayne Mullin = M&M with nuts

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“But, we like to call it rasslin’.”

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I’ve said this before but having been around middle school kids for years being gay or trans is no big deal to them.

The adults are the ones who need to grow the fuck up.

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Kids go “Oh, really? Neat!” and then move on to the next thing.

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Hate and fear. Hate and fear. That’s all they’ve got.

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Old enough to remember when Beth Phoenix n other ladies had to leap through hoops to wrestle in high school.

Mullin just so happy that his daughter is in a segregated sport.

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Funny how when US Women’s Soccer player Megan Rapinoe was growing up she and her sister played on the boys soccer team, because they were that good.

And if Markwayne and his wife are so in to standards and norms why name their girl child Larra, instead the normative Laura?

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Because they’re rebels Dotty.

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His daughter is probably happy that wrestling allows her to spend time away from her father. If not now, then in a few years.

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I’m curious why his daughter is participating an a traditionally male sport, I’d think Daddy would have steered her towards cheerleading.

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Might be reading it wrong, but Oklahoma’s setup is ladies wrestling each other.

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tfw modern day Republicans start saying that they’re into women’s boxing.

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When I was in school there was no girl’s wrestling at all, it would have looked too butch for dainty little girls to be sweating and grunting like little heathens.

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The Horn-Mullin debates are going to be wild.

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