To be fair to Republicans - they are staunchly against porn, refuse to partake in viewing and stand against it’s availability. And given that, had any Republican been in charge of this competition, they would have immediately recognized the subject and disqualified the miniaturist the moment it was submitted.

Not sure why you added the /s when this line of thinking is quickly becoming the primary line of thinking.

He’s just hiding for 3 days so he can claim to be Jesus… again.

To be fair, the American senate and house were not built to operate under blind fealty to a single party over country. Moving legislation quickly would require a strong majority. Without that it is a slow crawl or entirely unmoving. Holding up progress barely requires anything more than a single person, too. Which sucks entirely for general society which naturally sees progress.