In the early hours of Thursday morning, republican representative Derek Van Orden
decided to cut out a group of teenage Senate pages.
Now, why did he decide to do this?
Apparently, it's because they were taking a nap after working long hours to help get
the National Defense Authorization Act passed.
Now, that makes Van Orden a massive hypocrite for two really big reasons,
which we will get into in a minute.
But first, let's talk about why he was so infuriated apparently by them napping.
Well, the pages were sleeping in the Capitol rotunda after a long shift
assisting Senate operations.
And when he saw the pages, van Orden said the [LAUGH] following, which is going to
be highly abridged because he said a lot of things that I can't say.
But this is according to a transcript written by the pages just minutes after
the incident.
So from that transcript wake the f up, you little s's.
What the f are you all doing?
Get the f out of here.
You are defiling the space, you piece of s.
And if you thought it stopped there, you would be wrong because he kept going.
So let's keep going.
Who the f are you?
Van Orden asked to which one person said they were Senate pages.
I don't give an f who you are [LAUGH].
Get out, you jackasses.
He added, I love the idea of asking who they are and
then immediately following it up with, I don't care who you are.
Okay, sir, then why did you ask?
But you'd think that he was so
outraged because he must have been really hard at work.
But, no, that wasn't what was happening.
Not according to this tweet.
Let's pull that up from Max Cohen per source.
Here's a photo from last night of a bunch of alcohol in Van Orden's office.
Van Orden and [LAUGH] staff were heard partying loudly before he
cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages and inexplicably or,
maybe explicitly because he's a Republican.
But he refused to apologize for getting drunk and disorderly and
yelling at some poor kids.
And I can't prepare you for this statement.
I just have to read it because I am [LAUGH] still not able to
wrap my head around what he said.
But he did respond in a statement, and he said,
[LAUGH] the Capitol Rotunda served as a field hospital when countless
union soldiers died fighting to free men in the Civil War.
I have long said our nation's Capitol is a symbol of the sacrifice our servicemen and
women have made for this country and
should never be treated like a frat house common room.
And he continues on saying, threatening a congressman with bad press to excuse
poor behavior is a reminder of everything that's wrong with Washington.
Luckily, bad press has never bothered me, and [LAUGH] it's the price I pay for
standing up for what's right.
Then so be it.
And we have a little bit more about Van Orden and why this is so
hypocritical but just on the first face of hypocrisy.
Jank, this is a man who's getting schwasted in his office, and
he has the nerve, one to invoke the Civil War [LAUGH] for some reason, and two,
to talk about defiling the Capitol while he's taking shots with his [LAUGH] staff.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no the two points you made are indisputable.
So he's you are defiling this space.
I don't know if you guys could see the tweet of his office.
If you look at it in the distance is a table just absolutely filled with liquor
bottles, okay?
You see it all the way down there.
Every one of [LAUGH] those is an enormous bottle of alcohol, okay?
And remember, most people are reporting that Van Orden's office was the loud ones.
So he was the one disturbing the ghosts of union soldiers,
not the kids, [LAUGH] okay?
But as Ray said, there's a much bigger hypocrisy coming in a second about that.
But, Ray, you were absolutely right, too.
The first thing that jumped out at me, that quote is, who the f are you?
They tell him, I don't care who you are.
Then why'd you ask, [LAUGH] okay?
Jax >> Speaker 3: That reminds me of the scene
in Other Sopranos when Tony was in the car with Christopher, and
he was like he was scolding.
>> Speaker 2: He's shut up.
And every time Christopher said he asked him a question that Christopher says,
he's shut up.
That [LAUGH] reminds me of that scene right there.
The alcohol bottles on the desk like it's a frat.
Remember, you have them on the top of your refrigerator when
you finish them as a badge of honor.
It's just for any Republican in that position to act as though
they uphold justice or uphold decorum in some type of way.
Mitch McConnell's brain just shut off, literally, in front of everyone.
He's still gonna be there.
Donald Trump's still the reigning champion of the Republican Party.
He's probably gonna get indicted five or six more times before November of 2024.
It doesn't make a difference.
So I think that maybe it's his alcohol binge that caused him to do all that
cursing.
But, Ray, go ahead and fill us in with this extra spicy news about my man.
>> Right, because I mean, this is a guy who's talking about defiling the Capitol,
but Van Orden has a really interesting history with the January 6 coup attempt,
which we would certainly describe, I believe, as defiling the Capitol.
But let's get into this reporting from the Washington post.
Four days after the election, van Orden tweeted,
there is plenty of anecdotal evidence pointing to voter fraud in key states.
Hold fast.
On November 12, 2020, he tweeted about a Trump backed Wisconsin recount effort.
Every legal vote needs to be counted.
We are a Constitutional Republic, not a banana republic.
Van Orden did later ask that his name be removed from a lawsuit seeking to overturn
Biden's victory in Wisconsin, tweeting on December 1st, 2020,
that it was added without his permission, but it doesn't stop there.
On January 6, Van Orden arrived late for Trump's Save America rally on the Ellipse,
his attorney later told the FEC and stayed on the periphery of the crowd.
When the crowd urged on by Trump to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory,
began marching to the Capitol, Van Orden decided to walk down the Mall to
the Capitol and wait for people to march there, he wrote in an op-ed.
As thousands streamed toward the Capitol, Van Orden wrote he and
two friends stood on the parapet that lines the perimeter of the grounds.
Van Orden said he left when it became clear that a protest had become a mob.
He tweeted at 04:35 PM to denounce the riots as unlawful political violence.
However, and here's the kicker a photo published six months later by
the Daily Beast shows Van Orden smiling in front of one of the Olmstead Lanterns,
which the website of the architect of the Capitol describes as being on the Capitol
grounds.
The Daily Beast reported that to get to that site,
Van Orden would have had to go beyond police lines.
So I mean, the hypocrisy is really coming home here, Jank.
This is someone who's upset because people who are working tirelessly for
senators and in Senate offices are taking a nap after working literally all night
while Van Orden was up all-night partying with his colleagues, apparently, but
he was less offended by people literally storming the Capitol, [LAUGH] I guess.
So he really cares about defiling the Capitol.
>> Speaker 2: One of our members on Twitch wrote in Pool Champ 1996, yes,
there's a federal ban on alcohol on federal government building, except for
military bases.
But, guys, the reason I read you that is because I don't care that he was drunk
there, and I wouldn't enforce that ban.
And do we have a problem with alcohol here?
Take a shot of all three of us again and look at what's behind Jackson,
[LAUGH] okay?
Lots of alcohol.
>> Speaker 3: I was talking about that on stream the other day on my politics and
paper stream.
We was talking about all the drinks.
We ain't got a problem with it.
>> Speaker 2: And somebody else wrote in that he's yelled at teens before, so
maybe that's a fetish for him I don't know.
It's weird but that's not the issue, guys.
It's not the issue.
The issue is this guy going union soldiers were died on this hallowed ground.
That's just why I don't like these young kids to working all night and
creating a racket while we're trying to get drunk back there, okay?
And then meanwhile, the riots happen and he's like, yay riots at the capitol.
Come on, dude, come on with your hallowed ground and all that stuff.
Look, I'm glad he backed out of the lawsuit, so he's not as big a hypocrite as
some of the others, but I mean, he was right there, man.
He was past the police lines.
I don't know if it was a genuine moment where he was so
we're beating the crap out of cops and threatening to murder people.
Okay, I'm out or if it was yeah, we're doing that.
That looks pretty cool.
I can't get caught here.
I got to go so I could deny this later.
I don't know which one it is, but
he still definitely doesn't get to talk about defiling the Capitol
when he was right there when it got defiled the most by his side.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't say people don't really understand how big of a deal
it is, but I think that we're just so
steeped in just chaos in this country that we often forget that people really
traveled from all over the country to storm the heart of the nation.
That's no small deal.
Including people who were part of the government, all in the name of a game show
host, a man who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father and
really has done nothing his whole life but be a financial criminal, ripped off
thousands of people, just flat out didn't pay them cuz he didn't feel like it.
All of his bankruptcies were for the sake of putting money in his own pockets.
That's who they stormed the capital for.
That's who they're still in line with, and ultimately, that's the team he's on.
He's giving me Andrew Jackson vibes.
I mean, the whole country right now is giving me Andrew Jackson vibes.
The more you learn about it, the more it lines up with Trump, and
that's one of his favorite people.
But this is just par for the course in America now.