On Wednesday, House Democrats decided to threaten Americans with sitting around doing nothing to protest lack of unconstitutional gun control. The threat of elderly overweight politicians sitting on the floor, however, did not achieve its desired purpose. Shockingly, Americans didn’t actually care that people were sitting around in a chamber in which those people normally sit around doing nothing.

Nonetheless, the absurd decision to “sit-in” on the floor of Congress in order to protest Republican unwillingness to gut the Fifth Amendment “due process” clause has picked up steam in the press. According to Joe Perticone of IJReview, reporters spent most of the afternoon asking Democratic Congresspeople just how heroic they were on a scale of moon landing to Normandy: