As only TV personality and host Mike Rowe can, he embodied what makes America great. The American Dream is not just about a certain achievement like buying a home or being promoted to a particular vocation: It's about the opportunity to dream big and aspire to higher things — or just different ones.
Of course, Rowe's incredibly insightful commentary, which he posted to X on Sunday, was born from unfunny comedian Jimmy Kimmel's joke that maligned the fact that a plumber — that would be former plumber, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, and current Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin — is now heading the agency in charge of combating terrorism.
Dr. Ben Carson was a brilliant brain surgeon, but he chose to stop doing that and enter the political space, running for president in 2016, becoming Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Trump administration, and now serving as a special advisor in this second Trump administration. So, is Dr. Carson any less competent at any of these professions because of his choice to aspire to be something different?
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) won her seat in 2018 after working in sales and retail fashion, and then founding her own marketing and event management company that she successfully ran for over 30 years. Blackburn is the first woman to have been elected as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. That's a huge aspiration, and she achieved it. After winning re-election in 2024, Blackburn decided she aspired to become Tennessee's governor, and if the winds hold, she may just achieve this. So, does Kimmel wish to insult her for moving ably from being a successful businesswoman to U.S. Senator, and now potentially a governor?
He really needs to go sit down.
If anything, Mullin is the embodiment of someone who not only aspires to become more, but also to be a person of agility and flexibility. As the adage goes, "Blessed are the flexible, because they'll never be broken." If Kimmel did finally get fired from his gig, he probably wouldn't know how to pivot to anything new or different. He's a small man, and small people only see their little elitist box.
Rowe brings it home beautifully. It's not about a profession or competence in that profession: It's about the American Dream, a dream that you can continue to pursue until you draw your last breath.
Is that not the embodiment of the American Dream? I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life?
Always aspiring to go higher is what the American Dream is all about. People like Mike Rowe, DHS Secretary Mullin, and I get it. Poor souls like Jimmy Kimmel never will.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/03/29/mike-rowe-hits-it-on-the-head-kimmel-didnt-insult-plumbers-he-insulted-americas-aspirational-spirit-n2200767
Kimmel's comment about pulling a rat out of a toilet would probably not pertain to him. I figure Kimmel would be pushing out a gerbil after his typical Saturday night romp thus plugging the loo.
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ReplyDeleteStupid comment. You're a notoriously LOW IQ individual as evidenced by your comments here.
DeleteKimmel is a third rate wanna-be comedian that wasn't even funny on "The Man Show" way back then. He is not funny, interesting or engaging, he banal and irrelevant. I pray when he needs a plumber or an electrician they will snub his ass and tell him to get flucked.
ReplyDeleteAgree 100% ... and I would love for some skilled tradesman to give him a ear full of 'FU'.
DeleteCederq references the Man Show. Not only not funny but JK is also.a misogynist creep. He was a dj for a local hip hop station here fkr many years and he was a POS then too. A true douchebag.
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I only watched the Man Show one time after somebody recommended it. I told them not to recommend any more shows. It truly sucked.
DeleteThe fact that the left and their Hollyweed/media whore accomplices don't like him is a pretty damn good recommendation FOR him.
ReplyDeleteWell, he's made some mistakes and he's said some things but he's climbed onto the MAGA train pretty much for the last couple of years. I want to believe he's gonna toe the line. Sometimes he shows some real fire.
DeleteOur entire form of government was based on the concept that normal people, people from the private sphere, would decide to run for office, serve a few terms, then return to private life again. Sort of exactly what we see with Mullin. The idea that we'd have "career politicians" would baffle and anger the founding fathers. Not only do we need more Mullins, we need term limits and to expel all the career politicians out on the asses. Put that in your "No Kings" pipe and smoke it!! (Not you personally, just riding the wave here).
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%, Don.
DeleteThe founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves if they heard the term, 'career politician.'
Career politician eventually turns into corrupt pos.
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