CLICK https://x.com/Cjpearson/status/2036830970016416129 [1:03] to hear the unfunny late night television host, Jimmy Kimmel, sneer at the fact that Trump’s new Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, was once a professional plumber.
On the surface, Kimmel’s sarcasm is very much misplaced. Prior to becoming Trump’s new Secretary of Homeland Security, Mullin served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma for three years. Prior to that, he represented Oklahoma’s second congressional district in the House for ten years (aka, five terms).
Mullin is also a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He grew up on a ranch on sovereign lands, just under 30 miles east from Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and, prior to taking his new position, he was the only Native American in the U.S. Senate. If Mullin wasn’t working for Trump, hypocritical lefties would be trumpeting his ethnic diversity creds.
Mullin also has nothing to be ashamed of about his past. When he was 20, his father’s health declined to the point where he could no longer run the family business, Mullin Plumbing, so Markwayne dropped out of college to take over. At the time, the business had 6 employees; Markwayne grew it to where it was the largest plumbing service in the state.
Mullin eventually owned seven other businesses, employing over 150 Oklahomans, making him one of only a handful of legislators who have any experience running a real business. This, despite the fact that their jobs require them to manage the federal government’s $7+ trillion budget and 3+ million strong work force.
Mullin and his wife have six children, three by birth and three by adoption. For a time, hosted a call-in radio program called “House Talk” about home improvement.
In his youth, Mullin had a speech impediment and clubfoot, forcing him to wear leg braces. He overcame these impediments to become a good enough wrestler in high school to qualify for a college wrestling scholarship. He has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He also operated the Oklahoma Fight Club, a jujutsu and mixed martial arts school in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and competed as a professional mixed martial arts fighter for one year, claiming a 5–0 record.
The deeper problem with Kimmel’s unfunny sneering at Mullin’s plumbing resumé is that it goes against what the founders envisioned for our government. They distrusted career politicians who were detached from private life and saw public service as a temporary duty after which one would return to one’s true occupation. They wanted citizen legislators who would live under the laws they passed, not professional politicians who operated as an elite class, who voted for their own salaries and benefits, and who exempted themselves from the laws they imposed on constituents.
As @realBrandonGill wrote about Kimmel’s monologue, “The left fundamentally believes that blue collar Americans are beneath them. They think you are somehow intellectually inferior if you work with your hands instead of sitting in graduate school classes. They prefer to elevate mediocrity to the highest levels of government based on useless credentials then Americans who actually play a role in building our country.”
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