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 …

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    1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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.

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          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’.