It seems like only yesterday that the most controversial thing to happen in the Senate was Sen. John Fetterman showing lack of decorum while wearing hoodies and shorts in the Senate chamber.
Oh, what innocent times those were.
This week, all decent people were disgusted to learn that a staffer to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) had recorded a sex tape in a Senate hearing room. The staffer, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, had previously earned notoriety for an anti-Semitic rant made at Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio). While the anti-Semitism wasn’t enough to get Maese-Czeropski fired, the sex tape was.
And, as you can expect, Maese-Czeropski played the victim card because he is gay--and the sex tape featured him and another man.
"This has been a difficult time for me, as I have been attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda,” he lamented in a post on LinkedIn. "While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement, I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace. Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated, and I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters."
I wouldn’t exactly call myself old-fashioned by any standard, but I think recording sex acts in a Senate hearing room is disrespecting your workplace. Yet, Maese-Czeropski knew exactly what card to play and how to play it. We’re supposed to forget what he did and focus entirely on his LGBTQ identity. By doing so, we’re supposed to all fall in line and push the narrative that he’s being oppressed and therefore not responsible for what he did in the Senate hearing room.
Nationally recognized legal scholar Jonathan Turley argues that Maese-Czeropski may indeed have broken a law or two with his stunt—namely committing a lewd, indecent, or obscene act in public and the misuse or damaging of government property, amongst other potential violations.
It's truly said to see how leftists invoke identity politics when playing the victim card. It's become a common strategy for leftists. These days, anyone who can claim some kind of minority status will deflect responsibility for their behavior and simultaneously use their identity to garner sympathy from the usual bleeding hearts anxious to blame the white male heterosexual patriarchy for some form of oppression.
Of course, it’s not just Maese-Czeropski who’s using identity politics to twist the situation. Many left-wing media outlets and websites have done their part to paint Maese-Czeropski as a victim of a conservative smear campaign. "Senate staffer alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room is no longer employed,” read the headline at NBC News about Maese-Czeropski’s firing. Really.
To them, the story is about what Republicans did, not what Maese-Czeropski is "alleged" to have done.
Republicans pounce!
But there’s no doubt that Maese-Czeropski is in the video. Turley also argues that Democrats will have a hard time defending him as well.
The pressure on the Capitol police is likely to be considerable in the coming days. Only recently, House members Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Jamie Raskin claimed that house rules were broken by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene showing Hunter Biden and a woman in a revealing picture, though he was purportedly wearing a swimsuit. Raskin objected that it would constitute “pornographic exhibits that might not be suitable for children watching.”
While this was not a public hearing, those objections now seem almost puritanical in light what just occurred over in the Senate hearing room.
Somehow, I suspect they will have less objection to Maese-Czeropski’s stunt for the same reason they’re all for graphic pornography being available to kids in schools: LGBTQ inclusivity. Democrats will always leverage identity politics and victim mentality because it’s their tried and true way to evade accountability.
