Madison Cawthorn isn’t a name you hear a lot anymore. He was elected to succeed Mark Meadows in Congress, when Meadows became Donald Trump’s chief of staff in 2020 — even though neither Meadows nor Trump had endorsed Cawthorn in the primary. That year, Cawthorn became the youngest person elected to the House of Representatives in modern history. For a while, it looked like he would become a major insurgent figure on the Right — sort of like the conservative version of A.O.C., with a few dozen more I.Q. points. But then everything changed. And it changed very quickly.
Starting around early 2022, Cawthorn began saying things that were extremely unpopular in Washington, among both Democrats and Republicans. For one thing, Cawthorn described Ukraine’s government as corrupt, and he suggested that we probably shouldn’t write them blank checks indefinitely. That was a big no-no. Even more alarming to the power centers in the nation’s capital, Cawthorn publicly began talking about what he called, “the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington.” As CNN reported at the time, “Cawthorn claimed that he has been invited to an orgy in Washington and had personally seen leaders in the efforts to curb drug addiction doing cocaine.”‘
Those comments upset House Republicans, who challenged Cawthorn and implied he was lying. Not long afterwards, a coordinated smear campaign began. This was not subtle. It was as obvious as it could’ve possibly been. Within a month, senior political figures in both parties were publicly accusing Cawthorn of insider trading, in connection with his promotion of a cryptocurrency. Politico released embarrassing photos of Cawthorn wearing women’s clothing in college. Reports surfaced that he had been driving with a revoked license. As NPR reported, “Rep. Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from scandals ahead of midterms.” And indeed, the smears worked. Roughly 95% of House members typically win re-election, but in the summer of 2022, Cawthorn was not one of them. He lost his primary.
Even by the standards of Washington, that’s a quick clean-up job. Madison Cawthorn stepped out of line, and within weeks, he was gone. No one really asked any questions about who ordered this hit job, or what they were trying to cover up. Could it be that this freshman congressman is right — and that weird, degenerate sex stuff is happening all the time in the U.S. Capitol, right out in the open? No journalists or politicians seemed to care about the answer to that question. They all took Kevin McCarthy’s word, and assumed Cawthorn was lying.
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But this weekend, it became pretty clear to everyone that yes, Madison Cawthorn was right. The depravity that goes on in Congress is far beyond what most people would imagine. There’s really no way to deny that anymore. That’s because, as The Daily Caller reported, a staffer for Maryland senator Ben Cardin decided to make a gay sex tape inside the Senate hearing room. The Daily Caller posted an excerpt from the sex tape on its website. There’s no doubt that this staffer, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, knew he was being filmed. The man he was having sex with was the photographer. And then, Aidan uploaded this footage to the Internet, noting that it was the same room in which Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor sat for her confirmation hearings. And then when he was exposed, in more ways than one, Aidan put out a statement admitting he was in the video — but saying only homophobes would be outraged by it. Yes, you have to be a homophobe to object to sodomy in the Capitol building. That’s the excuse he went with.
But regardless of the excuse, the reality is that this event is unironically worse than January 6th, by a wide margin. If our democracy is this sacred thing that we are supposed to treat with awed reverence, as Democrats have frequently claimed, then you would think that someone making a gay sex tape inside those hallowed halls of congress would be considered one of the worst acts of desecration imaginable. Now, granted, the American people get screwed all the time on Capitol Hill, so this may not seem like much of a deviation. This is probably not the first time, in that sense, that a Senate hearing room became a Senate rearing room — to steal a joke that a thousand people already made on Twitter/X. Even so, this is still a scandal, and an especially disgusting one.
And yet, if you rely on the corporate media for your news, you may have missed this story entirely. For the most part, media outlets have refused to cover it. And the few outlets that have covered the story have left out a lot of key details. Here for example is how one local Fox station reported on this:
Notice what’s not mentioned in that report. You have no idea who filmed this sex tape, or who’s in it. For all you know, it could be some random tourists. When that report aired, Fox was aware of The Daily Caller’s reporting. They could have worked their sources and tried to confirm it. Instead, they keep it as vague as possible.
This was a common theme over the past few days. Some major outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, simply chose to ignore the story entirely over the weekend. For its part, NBC News decided to blame conservatives for the whole situation. This was their headline: “Senate staffer alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room is no longer employed.” So, they’re making “conservative outlets” the boogeyman in the story, implying that they might be lying — even though this staffer uploaded this footage to the Internet himself. They’re also saying that the scandal is only “alleged,” even though the guy is on video, and he admitted it. He wasn’t fired, either. He’s just “no longer employed.”
Politico, meanwhile, reported that, “Cardin staffer linked to sex tape leaves Senate.” That’s the actual headline they ran. The dude is merely “linked to the sex tape.” That’s the extent of his involvement. And again he wasn’t fired. Instead, he merely “leaves the Senate.” Keep in mind how all of these outlets responded when Lauren Boebert got handsy with some guy in a dark theater. That was treated as a major scandal. A massive violation of congressional decorum and ethics. Meanwhile we have this guy taking off his clothes and having gay sex in the Capitol building, on video, and it is treated as only a minor story, at most.
At this point, you’re probably getting the sense that Madison Cawthorn might’ve been on to something. It’s not just that a depraved sex act took place in a Senate hearing room. It’s also the fact that major media outlets and political figures are blatantly covering it up. They’re intentionally writing their stories so that people reading them won’t have any idea what’s going on. That’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder what else is going on in Washington that you’re not seeing. Maybe, as Cawthorn alleged, there’s a whole lot of degenerate sex stuff happening in Congress. It happened to the Roman Empire in its final days, and now it’s happening to us.
But in reality, that would undersell the problem. To be fair to the late Roman Empire, they at least arrested the pagans. We’re idolizing them. Remember that this was the scene in the Iowa statehouse this week:
As you heard on this show, a Christian military veteran named Michael Cassidy tore this satanic display down. He was arrested for it and charged with “mischief.” On social media, you’ll find a lot of conservatives defending Cassidy’s arrest. They’ll say they don’t like the way this satanic idol was established in the middle of a government building. But they’ll insist that the only reasonable way to remove it is through “the legal process.” They say conservatives should play by the rules of whatever bureaucratic system decided it was a good idea to allow this display to exist in the first place. They’ll suggest that the First Amendment guarantees the right of these cultists to have their little display.
First of all, just as a factual matter, that’s not true. If you showed any of the founding fathers this satanic goat head, they’d destroy it immediately. That’s because satanism was understood, for most of world history, as an anti-religion. Indeed, it was understood that way for most of this country’s history, as well. It was the polar opposite of what the First Amendment respected. It wasn’t until 2019 that the U.S. government decided to recognize the satanic temple as a bona fide religious group. So this is something of a new idea — that “religion” means “whatever degenerates claim is a religion.”
But more importantly, whatever the First Amendment or the founders say, here’s a more important law than even the First Amendment, which is natural law. This goes back to Plato and Aristotle. It’s rooted in Catholic, jurisprudential, and philosophical tradition. And it transcends whatever bureaucracy exists in Iowa that allowed this satanic idol to be erected in the statehouse. It transcends lawfare and endless litigation in federal courts. Natural law builds Western civilization— not bureaucrats in Iowa, or Left-wing district court judges in San Francisco. Satanism is an affront to natural law. It’s maybe the most explicit affront to natural law imaginable. Michael Cassidy understood that.
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The only thing that’s surprising about what Michael Cassidy did is that he didn’t have a lot of accomplices. Why was he the only one who decided to take this thing out? Just to recap, this past week alone, Democrats have put up a satanic altar in one capitol building and recorded themselves being sodomized in another. And none of this is particularly surprising, given what we’ve seen in capitol buildings all over the country this year. A few months ago they were marching through the Tennessee statehouse with bullhorns and barging into other state capitols waving rainbow flags. The White House raised a so-called pride flag. So did several other state governments:
When all of these trans flags went up, we were told it was just about love and respecting one another. It’s not about satanism, they insisted. And if you disagree, you’re a bigot. You want to incite division.
This weekend, Madison Cawthorn tweeted three simple words. He wrote, “I told you.” And indeed, Madison Cawthorn did tell us that degeneracy was on the march. Now it’s all around us. There’s Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing, luggage-stealing “nuclear waste expert.” The guy who had a confessed dog fetish and liked dressing up in leather bondage gear on camera, and yet was given an important position in the Administration along with a high security clearance. Then there’s the trans activist who went topless at the White House, at Joe Biden’s invitation. Then there’s Rachel Levine, the fake admiral and child mutilation enthusiast who makes a mockery of women every time he appears in public. All of these indignities are brought to us by the party that tells us they’re returning “decency” to the ballot. They tell us they care deeply about the inner sanctums of democracy, while they’re filming pornos inside them.
None of this is an accident. Consider the fact that, as Andy Ngo recently reported, the Senate staffer in that porn video, Aiden, has posted a lot of pornographic videos online, going back several years. These are videos where his face is clearly visible, and the accounts are clearly his. None of this was hidden, at any point. But Ben Cardin hired him anyway. And then he kept promoting him. No one thought it was a problem for all that time.
Washington has been Sodom and Gomorrah for a long time. But they’ve never been so brazen about it. And they’ve never been more empowered by both political parties in Washington. That means we’re probably going to see a lot more of this kind of thing. Which is disgusting and nauseating and sickening on many different levels. But at least there’s no denying the truth now. We are a country run by depraved, pervert lunatics. We might as well face the fact. It is hard not to face it, when it is standing exposed right in front of us. Or kneeling on all fours, as the case may be.