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

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          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’.

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      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”