WHINE WEDNESDAY: Van Orden’s Twitter Use Wrapped
Welcome to Whine Wednesday with Derrick Van Orden, America’s fiercest keyboard warrior. We comb through the hundreds of tweets DVO posts during a week so you don’t have to. Grab a glass and join us for Whine Wednesday!
MADISON, Wis. — Van Orden has had quite the head-spinning week as evidenced by his 122 tweets. From incoherent attempts at disses to lying about saving BagderCare again, you can find all the highlights (or lowlights) of Van Orden’s online presence this past week below.
DVO’S DADDY OF THE WEEK: Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert’s show ended last week, and Van Orden, of course, had to get in on the discourse. It is widely believed that CBS cut Colbert’s show because they were afraid of getting sued by Trump which is definitely a good thing for free speech am I right?
Van Orden is also clutching his pearls about Colbert’s vaccine sketch, which reminds us of this tweet.
But seriously, as we wrote about last week, Van Orden is a part of the exact same crowd that has been crying about cancel culture for the last 10 years, but he seems to be fine with whining about someone who expresses different political beliefs than him. God forbid someone pokes fun at the President of the United States, aka one of the world’s most well-known public figures.
WORST TAKE: How Dare Minneapolis Honor George Floyd
Always one to engage in fake outrage when he thinks it will get him more than 4 likes on a tweet, Van Orden denounced the Mayor of Minneapolis (and the city as a whole) for honoring George Floyd on the 6th anniversary of his murder. Van Orden spent Memorial Day engaging with posts that called Floyd a criminal and said the city of Minneapolis was “loathsome” for remembering Floyd, but let’s rewind to Van Orden in 2020: 
Now, this seems to be a complete 180 from the stance Van Orden is currently taking, and what do we think could be the difference? Perhaps the fact that he has an uphill battle reelection campaign to focus on, and this follows Van Orden’s go-to campaign playbook of doubling down on extreme takes to offend more potential voters.
In all seriousness, Van Orden using Floyd’s death as an act of political theatre is incredibly disrespectful to Floyd and his family and is especially disheartening because he moved to the 3rd CD in 2019 and was there to see how much Floyd’s murder impacted our neighbors in Minnesota.
WAYBACK WEDNESDAY: Grifting since day 1
In case anyone needed more evidence that running for Congress was Van Orden’s backup plan for attention seeking, look no further. In addition to being a failed actor, a failed author, and trying to clout-chase off his famous “friends” (like disgraced actor Jon Voight), Van Orden is also a failed screenwriter. In 2016, Van Orden tweeted that he finally finished his second screenplay! 
RELEASE THE DVO SCREENPLAY FILES! But seriously, this just paints a bigger picture of Van Orden’s grift. Couldn’t make it as an actor, so he wrote a book. The book flopped, so he wrote a screenplay that also flopped. It looks like the second screenplay also went absolutely nowhere, so obviously the next logical step for this dude was to move to the 3rd CD and run for Congress to get his 5 seconds of fame. It is pretty obvious to see why Van Orden’s career in the entertainment industry failed; he is such a bad actor, he can’t even pretend to care about the people in WI-03.
DELUSIONAL DERRICK: “I Saved BadgerCare!”
The age-old question of “Is Van Orden stupid or does he just think his constituents are?” is back at the top of our minds this week. Van Orden once again claimed that he “saved BadgerCare,” which brings us further to the conclusion that Van Orden is most likely living in a state of delusion. Need we remind you of this headline?
Van Orden just keeps digging himself into a deep hole with these claims because two days before claiming that he saved BadgerCare and secured extra Medicaid funding, he admitted that he voted to cut funding. 
If Van Orden wants to keep claiming he only voted to cut fraud while his constituents speak out and literally point to the real life impacts the cuts are having on them, that is fine by us. We wonder if he’d be willing to look this op-ed writer in the eyes after vowing to protect her ailing mother’s Medicare and tell her he went back on his promise because her mother was committing fraud.
“POINT ON THE DOLL WHERE I HURT YOU SUGAR”: Huh?
Listen, as someone who has been following DVO since he first ran for Congress in 2020, it is a bit hard to leave this Whine Wednesday editor speechless when it comes to this dude, but he finally managed to put me at a loss for words. In response to someone calling Van Orden out for sexually harassing women, Van Orden’s gotcha was “Please point on the doll where I hurt you, sugar.” 
We hate to admit that this isn’t as shocking as it should be. Van Orden praises Trump on a daily basis, and we wouldn’t exactly call Trump a champion of survivors. The worst part is that Van Orden really thought he ate because he tweeted this two more times, all to get a whopping zero likes on all the posts.
English is Hard: “This is enemy more stupid that your normal posts.”
Yup, “STFU, Tubby. This is enemy more stupid that your normal posts,” is a real tweet from a real congressman. 
That is what Van Orden had to say on twitter to someone when they called him out on his (2026) reaction to George Floyd’s murder. Can someone please decipher what this means and what he is trying to say? Totally unrelated but we are leaving these resources below for absolutely no reason at all:
Sincerely,
DVO’s Whine Club
