Senator Truck Nut is up to his old tricks!
Marcuswayne Mullin – Oklahoma’s simpleton senator – is still working hard to reinforce the negative (yet kind of true) stereotype that most Oklahomans – especially those with two first names and a history of childhood head trauma via plumbing pipe – are poorly educated, inarticulate bumpkins.
Here’s the set-up...
Last week, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon – the wrestling lady that Trump put in charge of the Department of Education – appeared before a Senate appropriations committee that includes Marcuswayne to lobby for a 15% funding cut to her agency.
When it was Marcuswayne’s turn to speak, he asked McMahon a set-up question about the definition of insanity – a word Marcuswayne may need to practice with his speech pathologist.
Instead of being honest and saying, “The definition of insanity is people like you and me running the government,” McMahon gave the not-Einstein response:
After that, Marcuswayne asked what the U.S. was ranked in global education in 1979. Paying homage to his Oklahoma public school education, he asked the question in the dumbest way possible:
I don’t know the answer to that question, but it couldn’t be any worser than when Markwayne gone to school!
Seriously, what a moron. Leave it to Oklahoma voters to elect a U.S. Senator who not only has the intellect and temperament of a six-year-old, but the language skills, too. I bet after the committee meeting, Marcuswayne stormed into the Capitol daycare and knocked over some four-year-old’s Magna-Tiles.
Not surprisingly, Marcuswayne’s low verbal skills got the attention of national late-night comedians. Jimmy Kimmel led off a monologue with this bit:
If you want to watch the whole clip of Mark’s grammatically incorrect question in its full, dumb glory, it’s right here:
Shockingly, the dumbest part wasn’t his grammar — it was his lazy reliance on cum hoc, ergo propter hoc, the fancy Latin way of saying “correlation equals causation,” to blame the Department of Education for our country’s decline in rankings.
You know what? Who cares that Markwayne’s argument is just a lazy and regurgitated spin of an unverifiable internet meme?
The U.S. has clearly fallen off a cliff in education, and obviously, it’s the Department of Education’s fault. We know this because Marcuswayne Mullin – a 48-year-old man who can’t conjugate his verbs – says so.
The blame clearly doesn’t lie with decades of underfunding, rising income inequality, standardized testing obsession, conservative culture wars, public school privatization schemes, or the simple fact that most developed nations have dramatically increased their investment in education while we let ours stagnate and fragment.
You’d think he would’ve brought up one of those points, but then again, they don’t reinforce the stereotype that all Oklahomans are stupid brutes who need to speak gooder.
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