Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is in hot water after he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda early Thursday morning.  According to a transcript written by a page …

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is in hot water after he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda early Thursday morning. According to a transcript written by a page …

  • giacomo
    266·
    2 years ago

    What’s the “news” here? This guy is a dickhead?

    • TenthrowM
      391·
      2 years ago

      I’d say any time you can officially document a politician abusing a child, verbally or otherwise, it counts.

      • giacomo
        324·
        2 years ago

        let me know when he gets charged with child abuse

        • Flying Squid
          283·
          2 years ago

          Does a literal crime have to be committed for it to be significant? This man has no business being in office and that just got proven to the world. I would call that news.

          • RealFknNito
            52·
            2 years ago

            Even if it was a crime, people like them have already showed their playbook. They’ll deny it, call the charges fake, then create some deep state conspiracy as to why the opposing side would do such a thing. The right and their apologists are the definition of ‘no accountability’.

    • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      It’s not “news” in the sense that something extreme happened, but because these “pages” are usually the nephew of the Senator, or the Granddaughter of a supreme court justice, or the son of a CEO of a bank.

      This is a public “Denunciation” of this dude, so the REAL people in charge don’t bite them, when the families go after an “Apology”

      • Pandantic
        21·
        2 years ago

        This is an interesting angle I hadn’t considered…