I worked in a very old manufacturing plant, and as an engineer sometimes had to cover for night supervisors when they were on vacation. This was in the mid to late 90s.

One night I had to find an electrician, and went into one of the remote locker rooms to find him.

The entire room - walls, lockers, door, and even the ceiling, were covered with centerfolds. Even the tables had them glued to it. I was both shocked and impressed at the amount of work that took.

Even then that was not okay, but I wasnt going to be the one to point it out (and get the union guys mad at me). The place went out of business and was torn down years ago.

Funny what we used to think as normal.

They both literally said that they "compromised" with the lunatic fringe of the party in order to keep them under control, in their opinion. Remember Michelle Bachmann? Old Boehner said that he knew she was nuts but tried to work with her because he was afraid of her growing power.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/546142-boehner-on-bachmann-right-wing-media-made-people-who-used-to-be-fringe/

If they had acted differently and worked with Dems to box in the crazies when they were a minority, maybe things would have turned out differently. People like Ryan and Boehner were worse than the tea party/MAGA people in my opinion. They KNEW there was a problem but decided that the party was more important than the country.

That decision directly led us down the crazy train to Trump and 1/6.

I recommend Kerrygold Butter. Once you have it you'll not want anything else.

Honestly the bar is so low that the lack of a dead body seems like a win.