Crazy eyes
More on Greene’s playful harassment of Ocasio-Cortez and her staff:
During a February 2019 visit to congressional offices at the US Capitol with associates who include a man who would later enter the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, Greene — then a conservative activist — can be seen taunting Ocasio-Cortez’s staff outside the congresswoman’s locked office by talking through a mailbox slot urging her to come out.
In the video, from a since-deleted Facebook Live of Greene’s that was saved by CNN’s KFile, Greene tells Ocasio-Cortez to “get rid of your diaper,” referring to the congresswoman’s office as a “day care.” Greene repeatedly indicates throughout her stream that security has been called on them.
“We’re going to go see, we’re going to visit, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Crazy eyes. Crazy eyes. Nutty. Cortez,” Greene says to the camera on the way to the congresswoman’s office, mispronouncing “Ocasio.”
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“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I’m an American citizen. I pay your salary through the taxes that you collect for me through the IRS because I’m a taxpaying citizen of the United States,” Greene says, noting elsewhere in the video that members of Congress are “employees” who “work for us.”
“So you need to stop being a baby and stop locking your door and come out and face the American citizens that you serve,” she says. “If you want to be a big girl, you need to get rid of your diaper and come out and be able to talk to the American citizens. Instead of having to use a flap, a little flap. Sad.”
It’s true that legislators are paid by the citizens, but it doesn’t follow that citizens can just show up and force the legislators to chat with them face to face that very moment. If that were the case, how would legislators get anything done?
The video is from February 22, 2019 — the same day that Greene visited the Capitol and brought to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office a petition to impeach the California Democrat for treason, and suggested she should be executed or imprisoned for her “crimes.” On social media in 2018 and 2019, Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing other Democratic politicians, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and FBI agents.
Greene also visited Rep. Maxine Waters’ office that day, where she said the California Democrat was “just as guilty” of treason as Pelosi. She also went on to visit the offices of then-freshman Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, during which she falsely claimed the first two Muslim women elected to Congress weren’t “official” because they had been sworn in on the Quran.
Ignorance and threats: ideal for a member of Congress.
With Greene at the Capitol that day was her close ally Anthony Aguero, a former El Paso congressional candidate and conservative livestreamer who was captured on camera inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection.
As they leave Ocasio-Cortez’s office, Greene says, “Bye. Bye. Bye, AOC. Ocasio-Cortez. Bye, bye, baby. Bye-bye, baby. Bye-bye, little baby girl. Ocasio-Cortez– she went and hid. She couldn’t take it,” said Greene, mispronouncing Ocasio-Cortez’s name again.
She’s both infantile and abusive, yet she is now actually in the House. It’s embarrassing as well as dangerous.
Greene’s disruptive visit is not the first time she’s interacted aggressively with members of Congress. As a congressional candidate in September 2020, she posted an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib and encouraged going on the “offense against these socialists.”
And by that she means “let’s you kill them.”
The righteousness of her cause absolves Greene of anything done in pursuit of her goals. She missed her calling as a trans activist.
I’m scratching my head in wonder at how this person is allowed to be in the same workplace as the women she has targeted with abuse and threats. Anywhere else, HR would have security in her office escorting her off the premises within the day.
Of course, she was elected, and they can’t just undo that election.
Maybe they could come to some sort of a compromise, and move Green’s office a little farther away – say, to a trailer in the parking area – and prohibit her from accessing the hallways with the offices of women she has threatened. Sounds fair. Or have her only present with police escort, for the safety of others.
I’d like to say it’s odd that she hasn’t threatened men in the same way, but it isn’t, not really.
They did try, but they didn’t have the votes. But yes, it’s just a horrible situation.
Jesus, she’s like a middle aged Harley Quinn…
Raising VERY serious questions about security for elected officials. Just who was on watch when these thugs besieged AOC’s office in 2019? Can any lunatic who doesn’t have a Trumpist License just walk up to the door of a Congress member’s office?
Yes, I think so. It’s the door to the outer office, of course. There may be weapons checks for entry into the building though. But I think it’s pretty accessible, for obvious reasons – they don’t want to look as if they’re hiding from The People, walling themselves off, etc etc.