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Related: About this forumRep. Derrick Van Orden (R, WI) who yelled "lies" during the #StateOfTheUnion2024 has a history of crazy outbursts
@MarkPocan
Ok, Ill admit I tweet a lot about @derrickvanorden
, Wisconsins embarrassingly unbalanced US Representative from WI-3.
The following article does a very good job explaining the many unhinged parts of Derrick. Dont know him? Try this quick read.
https://twiitter.com/MarkPocan/status/1766590489640182124?s=20
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.)
The congressman, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) who yelled "lies" during the #StateOfTheUnion2024 has a history of crazy outbursts
https://motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/derrick-van-orden-state-of-the-union-lies/ via @MotherJones
March 8, 2024
The Congressman Who Yelled Lies During the State of the Union Has a History of Crazy Outbursts
Usually directed at teens.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/derrick-van-orden-state-of-the-union-lies/
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) has an obvious problem with anger management. The latest example came on Thursday when the freshman Republican from Wisconsin shouted lies at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union.
The interruption came after Biden criticized Donald Trump for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fellow Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan has demanded that Van Orden apologize for his conduct, saying that Van Orden continues to embarrass Wisconsin and the United States Congress with his constant unbecoming behavior.
Van Orden defended his conduct in a radio interview on Friday in which he claimed that Bidens speech could have been delivered by Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong or President Xi. In some respects, Thursdays outburst was a sign of progress. Unlike two previous incidents, Van Orden was shouting at an adult this time.
Van Orden got in trouble last year for yelling at a group of 16- and 17-year-old Senate pages for lying on the floor of the Capitol Rotunda to take photos. According to a transcript written by one of the pages immediately after the incident, Van Orden said some of the following things to the teenagers:
Wake the fuck up you little shits..........................
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Van Orden never apologized. Instead, he defended taking the teenagers to task for defiling the Capitol and treating the building like a frat house common room. (After losing his first congressional race in November 2020, Van Orden went to the Capitol on January 6 but did not enter the building.)............................
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Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R, WI) who yelled "lies" during the #StateOfTheUnion2024 has a history of crazy outbursts (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2024
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RockRaven
(16,261 posts)1. Also a history of attention-seeking unoriginality, apparently... nt
OAITW r.2.0
(28,361 posts)2. Dumbest people seem to have the least social restraint.
JMHO.
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)3. Reminds me of the discovery of brain damage
recently to a shooter. My guess is that is maybe the case here as well which might make him fairly dangerous.