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 …

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    602·
    1 year ago

    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
      29·
      1 year ago

      “. . . . 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

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        26·
        1 year ago

        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.