After the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” passed both the House and Senate, one social media user protested, “17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”

Van Orden responded to the post, “YES!”

After he received backlash, the post was quickly deleted, with the congressman claiming he had meant to reply to a different post.

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    Monsters of dark fantasy could never conjure up an atrocity to compete with what these demons do on the daily.

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    it doesn’t even matter. he already voted for the bill. he can say or do whatever the else he wants, because he voted for the bill. you can’t apologize for it.

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    I wish this motherfucker had to live off of SNAP for a month while working a shitty and dangerous minimum wage job.

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      It wouldn’t change anything, might even make it worse because then he could shit talk about “see? I survived!” Folks like this by default see themselves as the exception rather than the rule.

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      YES!

      This is the problem. Conservatives have no empathy. They can’t imagine how bad these policies really are for actual people until it impacts them directly. These ghouls are barely human beings. May they all be required to choke down the fruits of their actions. Unfortunately, we all know that there is no justice for these assholes even if they get voted out of office.

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    "After a journalist suggested that President Donald Trump was the deciding factor in Van Orden’s decision to vote in favor of the controversial “Big Beautiful Bill,” the congressman protested, “No, no, no, I’m not going to allow you to get away with that. The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little removed around here. I’m a member of Congress that represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites. Is that clear?” "

    What a bizarre way to respond to that question.

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      lol. It looks like someone touched a nerve there and triumphed over him and dominated him and had psycho-social buttsex with his prone and defenseless, submissive, conquered bootie.

      I hope they double-down.

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      This is how he responds to everything, including but not limited to librarians, airport security, and answers to questions he has asked someone directly.

      The only setting on his conversational style is angry old white man.