This post made me remember an old bit of news buzz that makes the cycles every now and again:
Jason Chaffetz slept in his office: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tpSFMb2_7Lg
Paul Ryan slept in his office: https://archive.vn/SvagN
Then they tried to use Covid 19 propaganda to kick them out (https://archive.vn/jmn6A):
Previous reports have estimated that up to 100 members of Congress — mostly Republicans — live in their offices while in D.C. The last House speaker, Paul Ryan, was one of them. North Carolina Republican Rep. Ted Budd does it now. . . . "Every two years at the beginning of a new Congress, there's a concerted effort by the left ... to try to kick us out of our offices," Budd says.
I don't know if Reoublicans do this just as part of political theater or what. But the housing market in DC is influenced to a greater degree by the occupation of real estate by lobbyists and special interests groups. I can't find it now, but I remember seeing a post in one of these forums about the house in DC that was purchased by Soros backed groups that was housing some 25 year old figurehead of the Black Lives Matter movement. I feel so fucking stupid for not archiving any of this stuff.
(post is archived)