Who are all high fiving his departure.

In the XFL (eXtreme Fighting League), an OK-based regional wannabe UFC outfit.

So you know, he's a FIGHTER!!!

You do know that it is really hard to have a real conversation with someone who is 30 in points lower?

I wondered where it was from. If I ever knew I had forgotten. And it is this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Smedley Butler is one of my heros

I keep hoping there are more Smedley Butlers out there

it is what keeps me going

I knew the name sounded familiar. That I had actually heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

but that isn't just due to a lack of degrees. it kind of bothers me, this elitist viewpoint. lots of really good people including liberals that don't have college degrees. sorry EarlG, can't get behind this one. still love you though.

Especially not right after America has started a war bigger than anything we've seen in the last 20 years.

Speaking as someone who does not have a college degree, it just seems like common sense.

it hit me as ridiculing regular people too and I confess I may be a little oversensitive to that, but to me it plays into the latte sipping, coastal elite stereotype when we call out not attaining law degrees.
making fun of his meager life "accomplishments" and comparing home repair skills to the requirements for heading a huge agency is totally the right thing to do.

It plays into the right wing's claims that experts are useless, which has led us to the shitshow we're in now.

Markwayne Mullin has proven that he's a good plumber -- he inherited his dad's plumbing business, and he grew it and sold it for a profit. He also has an Associate's degree in construction technology.

Meanwhile, the last serious head of DHS was Alejandro Mayorkas. Here's his resume before getting the job:

aren't what makes somebody qualified. some kind of real life experience is a better indication.

my issue wasn't about this particular dipshit.

and what else are we going to get with that asshole in the whitehouse anyway? all the degrees in the world aren't going to change the fact that the only people he's going to pick are idiot ass kissers and plastic faced morons.

aren't what makes somebody qualified. some kind of real-life experience is a better indication."

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This is untrue for most jobs. Whether it's a law degree or the nurse drawing my blood when I go to Quest Labs. There are various levels of jobs and skills out there. Various degrees that train folks for different things. You can't just say "well, I cut my kid's hair at home, so I'm qualified to do anybody's!" No, we have cosmetology programs with a licensing component by state, so folks have some level of expertise for the service they are charging money for.

I think it is really dangerous that republicans have decided to attack education because now we have a lot of folks in this country who are not valuing education and skills at all. Make no mistake, Baron Trump was not homeschooled. He attended elite private schools and decided to do his business degree at NYU. Very wealthy people know full well that education is valuable, they just don't want our kids to have it.

I presume that would be up to the voters.

It's not elitist to expect your Doctor to have gone to school. And it's just as necessary for a position as powerful as a United States Cabinet Appointment.

yes I would prefer better qualifications for a cabinet position but the reality is there are plenty of shitty doctors out there with degrees from good schools. most any repuke in power out there is clear evidence education and degrees don't make dumb assholes into good people.

"Lincoln" bathroom. what a fugly mess they made of that.

from cool 40s art deco to 80s generic casino

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/shutdown-trump-white-house-lincoln-remodel-east-wing

him. BTW,that guy he wanted to fight looks like Butterbean,he would have knocked Mullin on his
ass in two minutes and out in three minutes.

I mean, his business experience is in construction... But of course, since the goal of this regime is to punish the American people and inflict as much pain onto us as possible, I'm sure he'll just take over Kristi's luuv plane and piss on us as he flies over.

...he is remotely qualified to do our "homeland security"?

Do any of these "conservatives" ever even have the thought that maybe--just maybe--they aren't qualified for the job President [REDACTED] puts them up for? (Yes, rhetorical.)

If they took one second to rub two brain cells together it might dawn on them that the reason their predecessor went down in a humiliating ball of career-ending flames was probably because they were also unqualified for the job....

But hey, if [REDACTED] can be President then you can probably figure out how to land a jumbo jet 10 minutes before arrival time.... How hard could anything be?

Because " all 77 districts voted for trump , Oklahoma loves trump" . The only reason mullens got the job was because they won't lose that seat in the Senate, period.

And if he is indeed indigenous he should be mad as hell that ICE has been targeting indigenous people.

PUNCH IT !

so it had MORE POWER and then fed a broomstick down it to demonstrate!

This is just another ignorant drooling Kluxer that needs to be driven out of power and replaced by people who actually have a) a moral compass, and b) a BRAIN and a HEART to act as its North Star.

Markwayne Mullin is completely unqualified to be the head of DHS, but not because the lack of a Bachelors degree. I don’t like this being used as a talking point as it perpetuates the myth that only those with college degrees are qualified for high paying jobs. Trump has a college degree and look where that got us.

Neither my husband nor I have a college degree. Both of us are senior level IT engineers. In fact, my husband is the one his boss calls on when there is a technical problem with a client’s application that no one else on the team can figure out. He’s the least “educated” in the group, many of who have master degrees, but he can troubleshoot the problem like no one else.

The fact that the media is making a high deal out of a lack of a college degree being a huge reason why Markwayne Mullin is not qualified adds to society’s notion everyone must have a degree to be qualified. This adds to the current pressure of our youth feeling the only path to success is a college degree, amassing massive debt in student loans. Markwayne Mullin would have his PhD and still be unqualified. Education, or lack thereof, hasn’t nothing to do with what he isn’t qualified.

If you don’t have the degree, then you cannot call yourself an engineer, only a Designer. I’ve only been able to refer to myself as an engineer because of the engineering degree. I’m not a PE, though. Just my two cents.

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I’m talking about my job category/name from my employer. They categorize the roles as Systems Tech Level 1, Systems Ops Level II, Systems Ops Level III, Systems Engineer Level III, Systems Engineer Level IV, Systems Architect. I’m a Systems Engineer Level IV which is why I “call” myself that. “You can’t call yourself an engineer”… geezus.

My point was that having a college degree doesn’t always equate to being competent. And conversely not having a college degree doesn’t equate to incompetence or less skilled. Steve Jobs, for example, dropped out of college after one semester. Michael Dell (Dell computers) dropped out of college at 19. Your focus on title, “Engineer”, sort of proves my point. There are many who never got the official “title” but ran circles around those who did.

Mikewayne Mullin could have a PhD and still be as unqualified as he is now. That was my point.

At the SOTU address Senator Markwayne Mullin attempted to grab a sign from Congressman Al Green who is 78. The sign was a protest against the recent racist portrayal of blacks as apes. And a very aggressive Mullin rushed at Representative Green nearly assaulting him trying to snatch the sign from him. So he must have been triggered to fight him in defense of that racist meme by being so enraged at Green's protest against it. So he seems quick to favor force over rhetoric. If he becomes head of DHS, we will probably see even more people die under his watch by attacks at the hands of agents of our own country as well as acts of revenge from abroad against Trump's war. If personnel is policy, this regime is fully staffed with bad policy-- both foreign and domestic.

to "work" in the tRump administration is your shit-eating capacity. How much of tRump's "chunky" are you willing to eat, and how much will you thank him afterward for that "privilege?

TypicalTrumper2

an total idiot with an loudmouth aggressive moron. Which by the way can't keep his facts straight when he open his mouth.

I think it was a Jimmy Kimmel monologue the other night that proved that he can't speak for shit. Constantly opens his mouth not knowing what the next word will be. Then has to correct himself.

He tried to get into a fistfight with a union leader on the Senate floor. Bernie Sanders had to intervene.