(7s) Longest Serving U.S. Senators #7 - Senator Thad Cochran (Republican Duke of Mississippi)

William Thadaway Cochran was sworn in as a United State Senator on December 27, 1978 (after previously serving as Mississippi Representative in Congress since January 3, 1973), and the one thing of note I find in his wikipedia biography is he also was an Eagle Scout. Of course, being a paranoid conspiratologist, I automatically on a Monday morning as I write this have my head swim through clusters of thoughts about sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, the Finders cult in Florida, that homosexual prostitute guy who got press credentials during the 21st Century Bush Presidency, how it all probably connects, and I wish Hunter S. Thompson had smuggled his text on the subject out before he was suicided by the government as a known immediate threat (as opposed to cancering someone as more of a long-term threat). Thad Cochran is a creepy looking white dude, like the human version of what would be the cartoon drawing of an evil government ruler on a late 1980s metal album cover with a theme along the lines of "what a corrupt world, why won't it just blow up, yet I still enjoy the comforting folds of vagina."
I am thankful to be done with this Senatorial list. I had meant to look up the #1 songs in America when these dudes took office, but didn't feel like bothering since it was often stupid shit no one would remember. But for the sake of the argument, the #1 song in America on the day Thad Cochran was sworn into the Senate was "Le Freak" by Chic, an old disco song that eventually becames an early hip hop breakbeat, then disappeared, and has resurfaced multiple times as a throwback sample. So the #1 song in America has been turned into a derivative three or four times over, and the same dude is still a Senator from Mississippi. Funny thing is, Thad Cochran probably hated that song the day he was sworn in, as some negro tomfoolishness polluting kids with disco drugs. And then society moves further into the abyss, and I'm sure ol' Thad's busted a couple lindy hops to "Le Freak" at ultra-white weddings at ultra-exclusive spots in the many years since then.