Town Hall Attendee Bursts Out Laughing After GOP Congressman Warns About 'The Ottoman Empire'

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Source: MEDIAite

Aug 26th, 2025, 10:39 pm


A town hall attendee burst into laughter on Tuesday after Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) warned about the second coming of the Ottoman Empire and the implementation of Sharia Law in the United States.

During the chaotic town hall – which saw Brecheen be booed, heckled, and confronted throughout – the congressman claimed:

There is a massacre and a genocide happening by the Muslim Brotherhood and everybody’s focused on Gaza, but the same ideology that Israel has to be around and co-exist with, that will come to America. We’ve got Sharia Law trying to be set up in America today. Absolutely we do. You have Sharia Law trying to be established in America today. The Muslim Brotherhood– the Muslim Brotherhood is the ideology and you’ve got a Turkey president– Guys, we cannot go turning into chaos. We’ve been really good to each other today. Turkey has a president who has made statements relative to re-establishing the Ottoman Empire.

A man in the audience burst into laughter as Brecheen continued, “And [Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan] wants to be– he wants to be the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and so we have to make sure that what is happening in the Middle East, that we’re not getting focused some place and letting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood play victim.” After a woman in the audience began to shout at the congressman, he snapped, “Ma’am, you’re being rude. You’re being rude.”

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I’m now totally freaked out that the Ottoman Empire is coming back to impose Sharia Law on America. I thought the west defeated them outside the walls of Vienna in 1683, but it appears they are back.
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Brecheen: You’ve got Sharia Law trying to be established in America today. The President of Türkiye has made statements relative to reestablishing the Ottoman Empire
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9:40 PM · Aug 26, 2025

This is what happens when you continually spout nonsense in your "bubble world" and then have to go out to the "real world" in front of those who are not as stupid as you are. He forgot that Obama is not currently the President.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. This is a marketing ploy to sell footstools, isn't it?

Isn't it??

[tanyev]

3. They're coming for you!!!!!

[Martin Eden]

34. Furniture stores are definitely in on the plot.

That looks like Pandora's Box. If you open it, Shariah law pops out.

[Sneederbunk]

26. Remember, Vance started with footstools.

[miyazaki]

39. Which are like, underage furniture.

Sick fucker he is.

[lastlib]

77. DUzy!!

You win the day on DU!

[Seinan Sensei]

82. Ottomans are gateway furniture

To bigger things.
Like couches.

[AZ8theist]

84. It's a gateway couch......

[Cloudhopper]

37. Hence the tariffs it wants to impose on furniture...

It probably thinks we'll be inundated by ottomans being imported.

[sheshe2]

54. We should ask JD; ottomans are probably good for a quickie.

[Beartracks]

74. LOL Maybe it's a Mike Lindell startup called MyFootstool that sells lumpy footrests.

===================

[yardwork]

2. Is an ottoman couch-adjacent?

Asking for the VP.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It IS something that can... ahem...

get in the way!

[Cheezoholic]

6. Ohhhhhh! Nice lmfao n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Fathers! Lock up your divans!

Settees, sofas, recliners...

[Cheezoholic]

4. He is right about the president of Turkey. But he better check with his boss who is buddies with him lol n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Plus they are a part of NATO

(although I know 45 has been trying to get rid of that )

[unblock]

8. And apparently the only defense against islamofascist tyranny is christofascist tyranny

Because when you're living in a fascist tyranny, it's oh so important which mythology the tyrants pretend to subscribe to....

[yardwork]

10. The irony is incredible.

[annielion]

44. That's Great!

Thanks for that.

[oasis]

9. Is this nutjob really a U.S. Congressman?

[the nelm]

40. Where do they dig up these jokers? n/t

[Skittles]

79. what does it say about the people who vote for them

[reACTIONary]

45. I can't believe... But maybe I should.....

.... that there are actually people who voted for this idiot.

[Bengus81]

53. Yeah...and a post on Twitter says he won his district with 74% of the vote last time.

230,000+ voted for him and that shit talk. That State is bat shit crazy.

[thought crime]

55. It's clear that we're living in a nuthouse.

I'm pretty sure Mexico is growing fond of that wall. Canada is going to need one, too.

[JCMach1]

66. Dear Friends, this is MAGA Baseline belief. They believe this idiocy

And way way worse.

For them it's NOT a conspiracy theory, but TRUTH.

[IronLionZion]

11. make Turkey great again is so different from MAGA because?

Because Muslims of course.

I'm pretty sure MAGA is negatively impacting more Americans than whatever is happening in Turkey.

[Paladin]

12. Profound thanks to Oklahoma...

...for its ongoing efforts to make Texas look enlightened, by comparison. Much appreciated.

[democratsruletheday]

16. exactly...Oklahoma is a SHIT hole state

and then some. Clowns galore down there.

[UpInArms]

17. GMTA

[Paladin]

72. "GMTA": "Great Minds Think Alike."

Me and Urban Dictionary have become best friends, in recent days...

[Prairie Gates]

13. A true fucking dunce

[underpants]

48. He's on a crusade....or wants one.

[Torchlight]

14. GOP''s radical religious clerics brook little tolerance for other radical religious clerics

Electing these lowest common denominators to office is a direct result of defunding education.

[UpInArms]

15. Well, it is Oklahoma, after all

The last in education … he is a product of being really stupid

[Ray Bruns]

18. What the actual FUCK?

[Karasu]

75. As ridiculous as this is, this stupid shit is pretty tame for a modern Republican conspiracy theory.

[travelingthrulife]

19. Odds are he's a christian and thus responsible for bringing sharia law to us.

[Old Crank]

20. A little primmer on Shariah law in the US

This is put out by the Zwemer Center for Islamic Studies.

It discusses what can or can't be done with Sharia law in the US.
It looks to be used mostly for family disputes. Anytime the Law doesn't
follow US laws the US law takes precident.

The GOP rep is just using scare talking points to avoid his incompetence
and lack of doing what would help actual constituents.

https://www.zwemercenter.com/the-application-of-sharia-law-in-the-united-states/

[BumRushDaShow]

27. It became a distorted smear attack on President "Barak Hussein Obama"

during both his terms of office, with their "justification" being that he briefly attended a "Madrassa" in Jakarta when he, his mother, and stepfather lived in Indonesia (which has the world's largest population of Muslims), before eventually attending a Catholic elementary school.

Nothing Extreme About Indonesian School Attended by Obama

[GiqueCee]

21. This clown is...

... an irredeemable imbecile. Which says nothing good about the judgement or character of his fellow imbeciles that persist in voting for Republicans despite the mountains of irrefutable proof that they are voting against their own best interests. They just gotta have someone onto whom they can project their own pitiful intellectual shortcomings: Dem dere liberals!

[democratsruletheday]

24. Correct, but remember above ALL that 'R' stands for

Racists. They cling to it deep down.

[Justice matters.]

38. And for them 'D' stands for...

"Devil" or "Demon" because their stupid R's tell them so.

[Botany]

25. Good God in Butter what an intellectual dust bunny. Grammar much?

“We have a Turkey President… “

Instead of, “The President of Turkey who … “

Btw the President of Turkey has a name too. Erdoğan. ( pronounced Ear daa one)

The sad thing is that there are Oklahomans who will listen to him and say, You tell them liberals
the truth.

[GiqueCee]

28. "Intellectual Dust Bunny!"

I like that one!

[Botany]

41. Just looked it up on the internet and Oklahoma ranks 50 out of 51 states ...D.C. included .. in education

I don’t know how solid this list is.

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335

Btw New Mexico is the lowest ranked probably because of the large # of Native Americans.

[Wednesdays]

47. My niece moved from Yukon, OK to Pennsylvania in large part because of that

Her oldest just started 1st grade, and her youngest is starting Pre-K in Lancaster, PA.

[vanlassie]

52. I think they all need a STOOL CHECK.

[NNadir]

22. It is unbelievable that such an ignoramus serves in our Congress. However our government is controlled by ignorance.

The fall of the United States is well underway, now inevitable.

[thought crime]

57. Pretty sure you can use past tense. It already happened.

[NNadir]

58. Point taken.

[GiqueCee]

67. Back when...

... Clinton was president, some asshole senator from Texas, whose name is not worth remembering, proclaimed that, "Bill Clinton never met an education bill he didn't like!" He intended it as a pejorative, but it just served to exposed the Senator as the idiot he truly was.
Republicans hate and fear an educated electorate, because they are far less likely to buy into the simple-minded conservative bullshit malevolently intended to deprive them of the critical thinking skills one needs to survive in a society so grotesquely corrupted by the corporate hive-mind devoted to keeping them stupid gullible, and easy to manipulate.
As Voltaire so sagely noted, "Anyone capable of making you believe absurdities is capable of making you commit atrocities."
The irrefutable proof of that statement now surrounds us.

[NNadir]

68. Well said.

[GiqueCee]

69. Thanx!

[radical noodle]

23. Magas elect deranged lunatics

But I thought Erdogan was one of trump's dictator buddies?

[Attilatheblond]

42. Some folks mix their metaphors, some OK pols mix their megalomaniacs

Pretty sure this clown mixes his religions too.

[patphil]

29. I think he's referring to the Christian equavalent of Sharia Law.

Same shit, different religion.
And it's not the Ottoman Empire, it's the Trumpian Empire they're trying to impose on America.
There are only about 4 million muslims in the US, but I would estimate at least 30 million MAGATS.
So who's the real threat to the United States? A Muslim Brotherhood that has no real power in the US, or the MAGATS who are lead by Republicans who control all 3 branches of our government?

[NoMoreRepugs]

30. His kids are probably begging not to have to go to school and get laughed at.

[Clouds Passing]

31. Evangelcal Christian "Sharia" law is already being implemented here.

[spike jones]

32. Imagine, an entire empire based on putting your feet up.

[Solly Mack]

33. I'd much prefer a Turkey president over Trump.

Noble.

[Donkees]

49. The Ocellated Turkey wears a fez-like cap (The fez, traditionally associated with the Ottoman Empire)

[mjvpi]

50. That is a beautiful bird.

We have a rafter of wild Turkeys that come through our neighborhood. They look like street thugs in comparison. While I stop everything to watch them when they are around, these colorful birds would but t on a whole new level.

[Solly Mack]

61. That's a beautiful turkey!

[Wicked Blue]

59. Agreed. But the turkey has to PROMISE

that he won't pardon the Orange Traitor come Thanksgiving.

[Solly Mack]

60. I agree. :)

[djacq]

35. Reminds me of....

[chiffondior]

43. I simply cannot imagine living in these people's fan fiction version of reality.

[Wednesdays]

46. "He forgot that Obama is not currently the President"

He apparently forgot that Woodrow Wilson is not currently the President, either.


I mean, yeah, there's a dictator in Türkiye right now, but I seriously doubt he will be conquering Greece anytime soon, let alone laying siege to Vienna.

[Figarosmom]

51. Then surely this guy is upset that trump had

Tayyip Erdogan at his home in Maralogo a couple of times for dinner while he was a regular citizen?

[Jilly_in_VA]

56. No, what you've got, Brecheen

is Christian Nationalists like YOU trying to establish YOUR version of Sharia law on the rest of us. Stand down, ya doofus, and go read some real history, not what you learned at Patrick Henry College or didn't learn wherever you went!

[SWBTATTReg]

62. There obviously is no limits to how dumb these republican representatives can be. They'll still qualify to run for

office, a scary thing.

Note to any republicans reading this...do you want such a person legislating laws that could regulate laws surrounding your financials, your daily living habits/anything else, that are still in crazy land?

[calimary]

63. Oh For Pete's Sake!!!

Republicans seem to want to keep the rest of us in a state of constant paranoia or something. The OTTOMAN EMPIRE??? Are You KIDDING ME??? WTF???

[LeftInTX]

64. Umm...the Ottoman Empire was not defeated in 1683! It was defeated in WWI.

When you are trying to show that someone is crazy, it's best to get your facts straight first!


I don't know WTF that congressman is talking about or where he got that thought process.

[BumRushDaShow]

65. I think he is referring to this

Siege of Vienna

Written by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated: Aug 22, 2025 • Article History

Siege of Vienna, (July 17–September 12, 1683), expedition by the Ottomans against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their defeat by a combined force led by John III Sobieski of Poland. The lifting of the siege marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in eastern Europe.

(snip)

Of course it would take almost another 230+ years for WWI and the dissolution of it entirely, along with a whole set of partitions of land that are STILL facing insanity in the Mideast today.

[Karasu]

78. By watching RW Youtube videos and reading Reddit posts or reading some insane fascist think-piece online or being told

by some podcaster/talking head...

After the last decade, who the fuck knows where they get their conspiracy theories anymore. There's such a massive right-wing conspiracy ecosystem that they come from fucking anywhere and everywhere.

[cab67]

88. The Siege of Vienna basically marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.

It was clearly a defeat for the Ottoman Empire, which began to decline.

The close of the First World War was the last of many defeats suffered by the Ottomans.

[LeftInTX]

90. Yeah, in Europe. But I'm Armenian. They killed 1.5 million Armenians, countless Greeks, Assyrians and Kurds

beginning in 1915. They also were part of the axis with Germany in WWI. So, they weren't exactly small potatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_theatre_of_World_War_I

[cab67]

93. Understood.

I was referring to the cessation of expansion - not dissolution.

[pansypoo53219]

70. we do have a 'sharia' law. except its catholic/evangelical. see the end of roe, trying to eliminate birth control. etc.

[Karasu]

71. I'm surprised anyone here is surprised by this. This is what happens when modern Republicans actually say out loud

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the kind of shit they say to fellow conspiracy theorists online.

In fucking 2025, you'd be hard-pressed to find one who doesn't believe something at least as absurd.

[Vinca]

73. Yike. Book another room for a Republican at the happy hotel.

[Skittles]

76. that laugh is priceless

[struggle4progress]

80. "I'm a moron, he's a moron, she's a moron, we're all morons. Wouldn't you like to be a moron, too?"

[BidenRocks]

81. Muslims are bad, why?

Whatever you pick, I can find a white christian american who also did it!

I'll start with McVeigh!

[Warpy]

83. Oh, I just knew it would be a male and he'd be from OK

OK has some of the nicest folks I've ever met, but ye gods and panther tracks, the brain dead church lady garbage they put into public office! Even Florida doesn't grow 'em this stupid and then elect them.

[Mblaze]

85. Let's ask AI

"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and former President Donald Trump have maintained a close personal relationship, which has influenced U.S.-Turkey relations during Trump's administrations. Their partnership has been characterized by mutual interests in regional stability and cooperation, despite underlying tensions in their countries' political dynamics."

[lees1975]

86. When did we get so stupid?

I know there are stupid people like this guy, but goodness, are there so many that he could somehow manage to get elected?

No wonder we are in such trouble.

[sinkingfeeling]

87. Then why does TSF love Erdogan so much?

[cab67]

89. what do you expect from these people - consistency?

[Mysterian]

91. This is a member of our national legislature

A raving moron. Our system has failed when people choose to have morons represent them in government.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

92. And always be wary. ... There may be a third Corinthian lurking, ready to pounce.