Ocasio-Cortez Rails On McCarthy For Imposing 'No Consequences' On White Supremacist Sympathizers In The House
By: Zoe Richards (TPM)
There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence.
No consequences for racism.
No consequences for misogyny.
No consequences for insurrection.
And no consequences means that they condone it.
Everyone's favorite Representative at work!
After all, they have Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) listens to testimony by Michael Cohen,
former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, before the House Oversight Committee
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Wednesday that "white supremacist sympathizers" sit the heart of the House's GOP caucus and that their increasingly extremist views have gone unchecked with "no consequences" from House leadership.
"It increasingly seems, unfortunately, that in the House Republican caucus, Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress, not the other way around," Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC's Chris Hayes in an interview Wednesday night.
The comments come after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested that he would talk to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) in light of reports that the newly-elected lawmaker had expressed support for assassinating leading Democrats in social media posts.
The threatening social media posts, first reported by CNN, included calls for the execution of senior Democrats as well as conspiracy theories linked to QAnon.
Ocasio-Cortez said on Wednesday that the top House Republican hadn't gone far enough in taking seriously the threat of such behavior because it was a "core animating political energy" for the GOP base.
"When I hear that Rep. McCarthy is going to pull a member aside who has made white supremacist-sympathizing comments, the thing I think is: What is he going to tell them? Keep it up?" she said.
"Because there are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. There's no consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it. It means that that silence is acceptance," Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez was among the lawmakers who sheltered in place when a mob of former President Trump's supported stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
Days after the deadly riot, the New York lawmaker described thinking she "was going to die" during the Jan. 6 attack and feeling unsafe among " white supremacist members of Congress" who she feared might disclose her location and allow her to be hurt or kidnapped.
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Days after the deadly riot, the New York lawmaker described thinking she "was going to die" during the Jan. 6 attack and feeling unsafe among " white supremacist members of Congress" who she feared might disclose her location and allow her to be hurt or kidnapped.
Self absorbed drama queen
Of course, she is, what's hiding out in a locked room when there are thousands attacking the capital, breaching it, and running amuck screaming ''Hang Pence''. The tough guys sit behind their computers and call other drama queens.
Have you ever had a mob hunting for you?
Don't talk about your orange god that way.
Cortez is correct, there aren't any consequences.
The GOP dare not act in the interest of America or The Constitution because of it's fear that the SVR will rat them out.
AOC is bringing it lately. The young shall lead the way.
Ah, for the days of yore in 2020 when a sitting Senator could be surrounded by a mob and have his police escort attacked while trying to walk down the street and have progressives claim it's no big deal because the Senator himself wasn't struck by anyone and he was a drama queen for making a big deal about threats from a mob, since he wasn't actually physically attacked by the mob.
Why,.by 2021 standards, he could demand AOC be arrested for inciting a crowd to trying murder him. You don't even need to see the mob these days to almost be killed.
As if AOC hasn't been demonized by the right to the point she gets multiple credible death threats daily!
how many times has she been physically attacked and shot at?
"Ah, for the days of yore in 2020 when a sitting Senator could be surrounded by a mob and have his police escort attacked while trying to walk down the street and have progressives claim it's no big deal because the Senator himself wasn't struck by anyone and he was a drama queen for making a big deal about threats from a mob, since he wasn't actually physically attacked by the mob."
The only 'attack' that asshole Rand Paul endured was harsh language. What whiny little pussy ass bitches these republicans are. Comparing domestic terrorists taking over the Capitol led on/incited by the former 'president' to a few harsh words against a whiny little puke like Rand Paul. FFS.
Just the response dismissing a mob harassing a Senator and attacking police I expected. Almost like I scripted it myself.
The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is you forgot to blame "out of towners" and "white supremacists"
There was no attack on the police or the whiny little bitch pussy Rand Paul.