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Micah
@rincewind.run

the tea party was really a seminal shift in how the median congressperson behaved in person you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

My theory that as members of congress are increasingly batshit it will increasingly select for even more batshit people who can tolerate the job is doing pretty well

Micah
@rincewind.run

which, combined with the rise of gridlock and a total collapse of even meaningless bipartisan messaging bills, means you spend all your time trapped in a building with people you would otherwise cross the street to avoid, not getting anything done it's a shit job!

Micah
@rincewind.run

John Boehner once handed out literal checks from the tobacco lobby on the floor of the House and he could not fucking WAIT to quit his job and retire to go drink wine in 2015 it got very bad very fast

Will Code For Pizza@markshatraw.bsky.social

I had a chat with a reporter who had just spent some time with a now-former Congressman and the vibe I got was the guy would've run headfirst through a brick wall to escape. The vibes were foul and this was ~2012

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