# Inhofe retiring - Good riddance! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 31, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423 "2022-12-31T18:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/1 "2022-12-31T18:46:03Z")
Idiot asshole hung around way too long. > **[Farewell To The Senate’s Biggest Climate Denier](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-inhofe-retire-climate-denial_n_63a4c721e4b0d6f0b9ec07ec)** > > Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) leaves behind a legacy of climate disinformation, and a small army of pro-industry contrarians. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/2 "2022-12-31T18:54:29Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/deFDXYdF2g4/hqdefault.jpg "Don't let the door hit you on the way out") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deFDXYdF2g4) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/3 "2022-12-31T19:01:15Z")
It’s not surprising he’s anti-climate change given who his donors are. Remember that politicians work for the people… the people who fund their campaigns and lifestyle. You can’t be a senator in OK or TX and be against oil and gas. His livelihood depended on them, as would anyone who wanted to get reelected… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/4 "2022-12-31T19:03:02Z")
I hesitate to say it, but his replacement doesn’t seem to be nearly as nuts as Inhofe. We shall see…(the “former MMA fighter” line in the bio isn’t a plus.) > **[Election 2022: Markwayne Mullin wins race to replace Inhofe in U.S. Senate](https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/election-2022-markwayne-mullin-kendra-horn-head-race-for-unexpired-u-s-senate-seat)** > > Oklahoma's U.S. Senate seat held by Jim Inhofe for decades is up for grabs in Tuesday's election as the longtime politician retires. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/5 "2022-12-31T19:37:04Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > His livelihood depended on them, as would anyone who wanted to get reelected… As in: **[It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It – Quote Investigator](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/)** ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/6 "2022-12-31T19:40:17Z")
That article is a mess. They obviously put it up before the election and then just added information after, leaving in the parts from before the election. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/7 "2022-12-31T21:04:58Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I hesitate to say it, but his replacement doesn’t seem to be nearly as nuts as Inhofe. We shall see…(the “former MMA fighter” line in the bio isn’t a plus.) Markwayne Mullin? Were his parents try to save a penny by eliminating the space? He looks like Cut-Rate Chuck Norris, and from [Ballotpedia.org](https://ballotpedia.org/Markwayne_Mullin): > _At the time of the election, Mullin had represented [Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District](https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma%27s_2nd_Congressional_District) since 2013. He campaigned on making the country energy independent, lowering inflation, and defending the Second Amendment. Mullin said, “I entered the race for Senate because the people of Oklahoma deserve a Senator who will fight for their conservative values. I am a Christian, a family man and a proud supporter of President Trump and I will always fight for the America First policies that Oklahomans have been desperately missing during Joe Biden’s failed time in office.”[[7]](https://ballotpedia.org/Markwayne_Mullin#cite_note-7)_ He sounds like a real winner. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/8 "2022-12-31T21:08:32Z")
Oklahoma. Texas’s dumber younger brother. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/9 "2022-12-31T21:24:10Z")
Nah, Oklahoma is the toady to the main bully who yells insults and threats while standing behind and to the left of his master. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/10 "2022-12-31T21:28:31Z")
I see no conflict between the above two statements. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/11 "2023-01-01T00:30:23Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Nah, Oklahoma is the toady to the main bully who yells insults and threats while standing behind and to the left of his master. Oklahoma is the reason Texas doesn’t drift away into the Gulf of Mexico. Because it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/12 "2023-01-01T17:54:31Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Oklahoma. Texas’s dumber younger brother. > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Nah, Oklahoma is the toady to the main bully who yells insults and threats while standing behind and to the left of his master. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Oklahoma is the reason Texas doesn’t drift away into the Gulf of Mexico. Because it sucks. Inhofe may be a worm but no reason to denigrate an entire state, that’s rude. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/13 "2023-01-01T18:07:05Z")
They elected him, so they get tarred with the same brush. Thems the rules. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/14 "2023-01-01T18:12:59Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Inhofe may be a worm but no reason to denigrate an entire state, that’s rude. Man, you haven’t even heard the opprobrium have for Florida. Next to that, Oklahoma is just the slightly slow kid in the class that thinks he’s clever about stealing from other kids’ lunch boxes while they’re out for recess. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/15 "2023-01-01T18:44:34Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > It’s not surprising he’s anti-climate change given who his donors are. No, no, he’s pro-climate change. The people who are anti-climate-change are the ones who are trying to stop it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/16 "2023-01-01T19:11:17Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Inhofe may be a worm but no reason to denigrate an entire state, that’s rude. You’re right it’s rude. And ideally I’d not engage in rude behavior. I can’t speak for the others. But having lived there for something over a year, I can say there’s a LOT of deliberate backwards ignorance proudly labeled as “standing for time-honored principals”. And a lot of xenophobia, which almost everywhere on Earth is a product of deliberate ignorance and extreme cultural inbreeding. OK also enjoys no small measure of racial and religious prejudice. Which are also products of willful ignorance and narrow thinking. There’s little to admire in any of that. Like most resource extractive states, the tax & job implications of that industry rule almost all public policy and almost all private thought about public policy. Inhofe was a particularly strong exemplar of that breed, but he was one among millions in that state. As I pointed out obliquely in post 11. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/17 "2023-01-01T19:37:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Like most resource extractive states, the tax & job implications of that industry rule almost all public policy and almost all private thought about public policy. Yep, and the same applies in other states that have similar economies, like West Virginia and the backwoods of rural Texas. The difference with Texas is that it’s big enough and rich enough to have diversified industries and major cities featuring things like culture and universities and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/18 "2023-01-02T14:27:36Z")
> **[TLO Caption Contest: Markwayne Mullin - The Lost Ogle](https://thelostogle.com/2021/01/08/tlo-caption-contest-markwayne-mullin)** > > There have been a lot of iconic images making the rounds following Wednesday’s bizarre attempted siege of the US Capitol. From Captain Caveman doing his thing, to the super happy guy waltzing around with a podium, to Generic Trump Supporter Model... Mr. 2nd amendment cowering in house chamber during Jan 6th insurrection. He’s a liar, an uneducated buffoon, and now a Senator. He makes Tuberville-AL and Ron Johnson-WI look smart. When he first ran for house of representatives, he promised to work for term limits and vowed to restrict himself to two terms (that shit passed quickly when he and his wife got a taste of DC). He was big on cutting government waste and contracts as they were “welfare”. He found out the more than 60% of his plumbing contracts/income were the same government “welfare.” Another promise down the drain. Inhofe was a climate drag but often a source of compromise in earlier years between parties. As he aged out, his conservatism hardened into partisan arteriosclerosis. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/19 "2023-01-02T16:44:02Z")
The one good thing I’ll say about Jim Inhofe – he has been a consistent and vocal supporter of the rights of the Sahrawi people. I think it’s sage to say that 99% of his constituents and his donors are completely unaware of the five-decade, illegal Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. And yet he has long used his position to highlight the conflict and advocate for self-determination for Western Sahara. When the Trump Administration reversed long-standing US policy of refusing to recognize the annexation, Inhofe spoke out against the move in strong terms. > **[Inhofe slams Trump administration on Western Sahara policy](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/10/inhofe-slams-trump-administration-on-western-sahara-policy-444459)** > > The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee described the White House’s decision as “shocking and deeply disappointing." ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423/20 "2023-01-02T18:00:00Z")
Why is he so passionate about that specific area? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhofe-retiring-good-riddance/977423.md?page=2)