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Body text: McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn't want my Wikipedia to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'".[[footnote citation] 62]
Rep. McHenry must have been, as he lived on to serve as Acting Speaker during the Republicans' agony in early 2023--I remember video of him announcing yet another failed Speaker vote and striking the gavel so hard from frustration that it flew out of his hand
I would like to personally thank said rabid fox for taking one for the team and purposely infecting itself with rabies in order to bite one of the maga republican politicians.
Well done fox! Well done!
I don't get ppl. If I have a Wikipedia page AND I got bit by a rabid fox....that would be the biggest section. It would be me retelling an epic story of how me and my possum took on a rabid fox and saved the woods.
Is this true? I couldn't find much specific information about fox variants. Do you have a source? My understanding is that if treatment is immediate rabies is curable.
 McHenry was such a powerful speaker of the house during long tenure. But never did he appear to be rabid. So he’s also a master of disguise. Godspeed, RIP Patrick McHenry.
My own Wiki entry was hacked in 2012 - names changed, and I became A42, the name of a road in the UK - and my current entry mentions that I wrote about this "good-naturedly" in the Times Lit Supplement.
Sadly, most elderly people are bitten by rabid foxes in their own homes.
Gen X, Millennial & Gen Z'ers, please learn how to block Fox from your parents' cable setups today.
hey at least we know he's been vaccinated at some point (if he hadn't been, he most likely would not have been bitten by a rabid anything and survived)
He and several other people who were bitten received shots after exposure. My understanding is that rabies has a near 100% cure rate if treated prior to the onset of symptoms and a near 100% fatality rate if symptoms are allowed time to appear.
Because Jimmy Carter wanted to hunt raccoons in Virginia, and the imported raccoons brought in a strain of rabies that has been spreading through the northeast US ever since.
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McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'".[62]"
It doesn't help that he was peeing behind bushes when the fox bit him, or that the fox couldn't be dislodged and the congressman ran about, flailing and screaming: "oh my God, I think it's eating me!"
Representative Ami Bera's page has this delightful quote. This one is notable enough to stay on the page though, because Bera introduced legislation to make the federal government cover the cost of rabies vaccination treatment for people who have been bitten.
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Body text: On April 4 2022, Bera was one of nine people attacked by a rabid fox outside the US Capitol. He said afterward, "I expect to get attacked if I go on Fox News; I don't expect to get attacked by a fox." [[footnote citation] 74]
My daughter had a friend in middle school (also in North Carolina) who got bitten by a rabid fox and when he was interviewed on tv he started crying. 17 years later and it's still what he was remembered for. Crying on tv.
would you consider adding alt text to your future posts? screenshots of text are one of the easiest things to grab the alt text for; you can use sharex on windows or the OCR from screenshot feature of Android or iOS pretty easily. I'm positive there are a bunch of macos things as well.
on ios and android you can get it from taking a screenshot and then the OCR icon pops up is my understanding. Maybe long pressing on a picture in ios; on desktop there are a lot of apps. I have a hotkey for OCR via sharex https://getsharex.com/docs/ocr
Tangent but I found out recently the built in sniping tool screenshot editor on windows can extract text too now if you're on windows 11 (I believe not on windows 10), was added just a few months ago there is a "text actions" button on the toolbar now.
Don't know about the rest of you, but watching a lying felon and adjudicated rapist swear an oath on a Bible that he doesn’t seem to have read, he doesn’t seem to understand or follow isn't going on my bucket list or on my Wikipedia Biography Page either.
At the risk of outing myself as a Wikipedian, biographies of living people have a higher standard for inclusion. Like, not knowing about the fox doesn’t diminish your understanding of McHenry. Check out the John Rose talk page for a good discussion of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Rose_(Tennessee_politician)
The funny thing is I actually kind of agree. There are people who can rock it. Billy Nye can do it. Paul F. Tompkins can do it. I'm just not sure that this guy who looks like John Oliver slowly morphing into the nu-metal guy who goes "OOOH-WAH-AH-AH-AH!!!" can do it.
All of this is, of course, a distraction from the actual point: The fact that this literal grown adult former United States congressman believed that the way you prevent facts about yourself from going on your wikipedia page is to just wait a bit after it happens to talk about it in public.
This might literally be the way that someone I've never met gets introduced to my highly idiosyncratic and experimental body of webcomic work that deals with living under capiltalism, being queer, being autistic and having sexual trauma among other things but looks like Ren & Stimpy lol
NC here. Her local office is right down the street from me at the Gaston County Senior Center. I would really like to meet this old hag and strongly recommend/encourage her withdrawal from NC politics.
Good luck with that, and with the ageist misogyny. She’s been who she is now since she was a youngster. You’d all know that if you’d been alive and interested enough to watch CSPAN.
lol…..Assume much?I’m almost her age…. Only became aware of her when I lived in Oregon and elected Republicans began to take control of my home state and ruin it. Since I moved back here I have regretted that decision almost daily.
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The truth of the matter is that he bit the fox and did n't want his Wiki page to read 'Republican Congressman infects fox with rabies', sounds altogether more plausible.
Apropos of nothing else at all… If you can hear the name Patrick McHenry and not immediately think, “Give me McLiberty or give me McDeath,” you are made of sterner stuff than I am.
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Heading: Personal life
Body text: McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn't want my Wikipedia to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'".[[footnote citation] 62]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rabid-fox-and-her-kits-euthanized-after-nine-people-were-bitten-on-capitol-hill-180979890/
One assumes that those infected, including the Congressman, were treated.
Well done fox! Well done!
fatality rate without treatment (once symptoms have appeared) is < 99%
icymi, 10/2023
Gen X, Millennial & Gen Z'ers, please learn how to block Fox from your parents' cable setups today.
The majority of “elderly” votes went to Harris, indicating that some other demographic is both biting, and being bitten.
“That guy needs bit” said the Fox, amping up on rabies before he made his move.
McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'".[62]"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/many-glorious-bow-ties-cpac/358905/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
he looked like this
Body text: On April 4 2022, Bera was one of nine people attacked by a rabid fox outside the US Capitol. He said afterward, "I expect to get attacked if I go on Fox News; I don't expect to get attacked by a fox." [[footnote citation] 74]
Oh come on.
(otoh, so is paying an editor to do it for him)
and would proceed to get laughed off the site
Not that dude though.
https://bsky.app/profile/mesopholese.bsky.social/post/3leu4gqq2js2l
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/86.168.62.78
It’s sourced, though. So it should stay.
But (depending on your generation) don't forget...
Stan Lee must be so disappointed.
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It was a long time like 24 hours 💋