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‘Jackasses,’ ‘little s‑‑‑‑’: GOP congressman curses out teenage Senate pages (thehill.com)

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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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the article:

“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.

From Wikipedia:

Van Orden participated in the January 6th "Stop the Steal" rally[6] and was present at the United States Capitol during the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[7][8]

So let me get this straight- sleeping in the rotunda, bad. Smearing shit on the rotunda wall, good.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

". . . . countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead."

The revolutionary war reenactments at the battlefield near my house always have a pizza truck.

“If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”

If I were a ghost and I saw some poor living person huddled up, taking a nap on my grave, my instinct would be to wish them well. They probably need the respite and I would be charmed to have provided that to the needy.

This offer extends to anyone looting/eating my corpse in whatever future civil war/societal collapse. It's fine by me, shit's hard. Live how you can

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also, Union soldiers died in a shit ton of places and you can't just make them hallowed ground forever because of it. That's the whole point of Arlington.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh yeah, I think it was our 2nd or 3rd line that extended way out several miles from the actual memorial and that area is a bunch of chain stores.

The recorded scope of the actual battle is a little bit hazy, but (not a military buff) I hadn't realized how large the borders were known to be, since the park was already huge.

I think about it every time I pass the Zaxby's now. Someone lost everything at that Zaxby's.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The law abhors dead-hand control of land.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/deadhand_control