Hey Alexandria
Wait who is the terrorist in this one-act play?
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confronted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday and falsely accused her of supporting “terrorists,” leading the New York congresswoman’s office to call on leadership to ensure that Congress remains “a safe, civil place for all Members and staff.”
In other words somebody please instruct Greene to act like an adult, and make it stick.
Two Washington Post reporters witnessed Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.
“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”
She did the same thing to David Hogg, the Parkland survivor and gun control activist, before she was [shudder] a member of Congress. She’s a belligerent bully, just like her hero Trump.
Before walking away, Greene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals.
“She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”
She sounds like every school bully and street corner punk.
Earlier this year Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) accused Greene and her staff [of] accosting her in a tunnel beneath a House office building after [Bush] asked Greene to wear a mask “out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress, and their congressional staff.” Greene denied the allegation and accused Bush of “lying” and of leading a “terrorist mob” because Bush supported Black Lives Matter.
The incident prompted Bush to ask Democratic leadership if she could move her office away from Greene at a time when the Georgia congresswoman was already under heavy scrutiny for her rhetoric and behavior.
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Since asking earlier this year to debate Ocasio-Cortez, Greene has confronted her one other time on the House floor, when she approached the New York congresswoman last month to try to schedule a date for a debate over the Green New Deal, a set of environmental policies intended to combat climate change. In a video posted to social media a day later, Greene criticized Ocasio-Cortez for not debating her.
“If she chickens out, then she shows who she really is: a scared little girl that is pretty stupid and doesn’t know anything about the economy or economics,” Greene said.
In other words Marjorie Taylor Greene is trash.
Indeed.
She is also against transgender activism and the belief that gender should replace sex. This has been presented as a slam-dunk argument that the gender critical feminist position is trash.
Yeah, Sastra, it’s a problem when people think you cannot agree with one thing someone says without agreeing with everything they say. Having a nuanced opinion and a brain that doesn’t think in memes is definitely something to gain distrust these days.
Sastra and iknklast:
Yep, and these arguments are made by the same people who spent decades decrying ad hominem attacks. Perhaps they still do, I no longer pay any attention.