U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar formally censured for posting violent anime video
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar has been formally censured after posting an Attack On Titan video that showed him killing a monster with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's face

Paul Gosar Photo: Jonathan Ernst-Pool
There was a time, probably circa 2014 or so, where you could make a fairly credible joke about the U.S. Congress not being all that dissimilar from one of the more virulent strains of internet message boards. The parallels draw themselves: The insular culture of established elites, the knee-jerk hostility, the tendency to launch into long, deeply uninteresting monologues that benefited only oneself. At the time—i.e., several years ago—it could have been a fun little chunk of satire.
Anyway: A sitting U.S. congressperson has now been censured by the House Of Representatives for shitposting an anime meme video. There’s no joke there; we just live in it.