The almost-skirmish was snuffed out, however, before it could even begin by the 82-year-old senator.
    • Enkrod@feddit.de
      91·
      1 year ago

      I don’t care if those “tough guys” want to slog it out, but the choice of time and place shows such a serious lack of common sense that it would be alarming for a professional fighter, not to mention an elected representative.

      The guy thought that, when challenged anytime anywhere, there and then, in Congress, during a hearing would be a good time and place. smh

        • Enkrod@feddit.de
          71·
          1 year ago

          One of those people is not a US Senator. The Senator was the one bringing it up, getting all worked up over a Tweet. The Senator, chose “Congress” as the place and “during a hearing” as the time. Both these decisions are absolutely unfit for a US Senator.

          Go fucking meet the guy behind a 7eleven after work or something like that. But nooo, the Senator said “here is a place, now is a time” because he needed to look like a tough guy in front of cameras.

        • Faera@feddit.nl
          41·
          1 year ago

          I think it’s unreasonable to take the literal meaning od ‘anytime, anywhere’. Like, if he was attending a funeral and the senator turned up and challenged him there, would that still be appropriate? How about if he was visiting a kindergarten? While he’s helping an old woman cross the road? Performing first aid on an injured person?

          There are still times that are appropriate and not appropriate. You could say that the challenge itself was childish and I would agree. But the anytime, anywhere condition doesn’t make it unconditionally ok for the senator to pick this time and place.

            • Faera@feddit.nl
              2·
              1 year ago

              Honestly I agree. I just don’t think that excuses the Senator from actually accepting the challenge at that time and place (or arguably any time and place, but especially that one). Two wrongs don’t make a right…

                • Faera@feddit.nl
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  The choice of time and place is irrelevant when the instigating party said, and I quote, “anytime, anywhere”, and then when their challenge was accepted, stood up, ready to engage in said challenge.

                  In response to people saying that the Senator acted inappropriately. But perhaps I misinterpreted. Are you saying they both acted inappropriately? In which case I agree, but I’d still say tweeting a challenge is less inappropriate than actually accepting that challenge at that time and place.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      One is a senator, one is the president of the teamsters. There’s a bit of difference there. That’s not to mention one was summoned there and the other one works there. Sure, a physical fight is “silly”, but it’s only beneath one of their job positions.

    • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
      31·
      1 year ago

      Let’s not both sides this one. One had great power and one goes to jail for not showing up and smiling.