Summary
Rep. Virginia Foxx, 81, slipped and fell on the marble staircase outside the House chamber on the first day of the 119th Congress.
She sustained minor injuries, including cuts, and sought treatment from the attending physician.
Foxx has represented North Carolina’s 5th district since 2005 and holds prominent conservative positions, including opposition to the Affordable Care Act and the Respect for Marriage Act.
The incident follows recent falls by other elderly lawmakers, sparking broader concerns about aging leadership in Congress.
Why don’t people strive anymore to be the kind of person who can slip and fall without strangers celebrating it and wishing it had killed them? I mean if I woke up and knew that random people literally wished I would just die and go away for specific reasons related to my actions and not from widespread demonization through propaganda, I’d have a major existential crisis and reconsider a lot of things about my life.
But then again, I have a conscience.
People do. They just don’t become politicians.
Nor do they get the media attention
You would suck so bad at politics.
I take that as a compliment.
*glances at Bernie Sanders*
Maybe not.
You know, there’s that old yarn about Alfred Nobel. That his obituary was accidentally published early and that he was shocked and dismayed to discover that the only thing he’d be remembered for was the invention of Dynamite. So, he went on to create the Nobel Peace Prize, in the hopes of contributing something other than death to the world.
I’m not saying Nobel was a fantastic dude, but at least he cared enough to not be remembered as the guy that made it possible for your son to get blown to peices in a war. He wanted something positive associated with name.
Even that seems too high a bar for these folks. They’ve become so entrenched in their own little world that I don’t think they much care what anyone outside it thinks.
I dont think citizens realize that these politicians either hate the public or think they are convenient idiots.
I mean, I feel for her. Just don’t be in government anymore.