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Slums, Sodomy, and Your Cash

Old Bathos
@OldBathos
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A staffer for my home state Senator, the terminally mediocre Ben Cardin, filmed himself (the staffer, not the Senator) being sodomized in a Senate conference room and put the video online. He made a lame defense on Twitter about being persecuted for "who he loved". The victim trope failed. He was fired. He also denied harassing a California Democratic congressman for supporting Israel.

Things must have changed more than I thought. Back in my day when I was paid to spend time on The Hill, the idea of a staffer publicly berating a Member--or White House interns objecting to the President's policy--was unthinkable. Illicit office sex was not unknown but done with discretion unless one was Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd.

Perhaps we should expect a mass of sympathetic demonstrators to do something spectacularly disgusting in the Capitol Rotunda in the near future--sodomites for a free Palestine? Irony buried in a giant heap of sheer repugnance?

It would be consonant with the proudest traditions of the modern Democratic Party.

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  • Muleskinner, Weasel Wrangler@Muleskinner
    Old Bathos (View Post):
    Things must have changed more than I thought. Back in my day when I was paid to spend time on The Hill, the idea of a staffer publicly berating a Member–or White House interns objecting to the President’s policy–was unthinkable.

    This has been coming for awhile, see Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. It was published in 1979, but seems to be proved correct with each passing outrage.

  • Banned Member@DrewInWisconsin

    More evidence -- if you needed any -- that Washington D.C. is a decadent cesspit of sex and money and drugs.

    (And people say "Pizzagate" is too crazy to be true.)

    What DC needs is a good meteor strike. I'm not entirely joking.

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