Rep. Greene aggressively confronts Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, causing New York congresswoman to raise security concerns
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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.”
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?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her hands in the air in an exasperated motion. The two reporters were not close enough to hear what the New York congresswoman said, and her office declined to discuss her specific response.
“Representative Greene tried to begin an argument with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and when Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tried to walk away, Congresswoman Greene began screaming and called Rep. Ocasio-Cortez a terrorist sympathizer,” Ocasio-Cortez spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said in a statement. “We hope leadership and the Sergeant at Arms will take real steps to make Congress a safe, civil place for all Members and staff — especially as many offices are discussing reopening. One Member has already been forced to relocate her office due to Congresswoman Greene’s attacks.”
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.”
Greene has been a controversial figure since her 2020 campaign, and Democrats voted to strip her of her committee assignments earlier this year because of extremist statements. Greene has made a number of incendiary and false statements in recent years, among them that Black people “are held slaves to the Democratic Party,” that Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — the first two Muslim women elected to Congress — represented “an Islamic invasion into our government offices,” and that Jewish megadonor George Soros collaborated with Nazis.
She has also expressed support for the radical ideology of QAnon, a sprawling set of false claims that have coalesced into an extremist ideology that has radicalized its followers, some of whom participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Her behavior toward Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday was similar to her effort to confront young gun-control activist David Hogg — who survived the 2018 mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school — as he walked around the Capitol grounds amid a lobbying push in 2019 for new gun laws. Greene shot cellphone video of the incident.
Greene has also been an outspoken defender of former president Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Earlier Wednesday, House Republicansvoted to removeRep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her leadership position for repeatedly speaking out against Trump’s falsehoods, saying she had become a distraction from the party’s efforts to win back the House in the 2022 midterm elections.
This is not the first confrontation Greene has had with a Democratic member of Congress that has caused them to raise safety concerns.
Earlier this year Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) accused Greene and her staff foraccosting herin a tunnel beneath a House office building after she 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.
In February, Greene also got into a confrontation with the office of a neighboring congresswoman over transgender rights. After Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) hung a transgender pride flag outside her office in honor of her transgender daughter to push back against Greene’s opposition to legislation that would extend civil rights protections to the LGBTQ community, Greene hung up a poster across the hall that read: “There are TWO genders. MALE & FEMALE. Trust the Science!”
“Thought we’d put up ours so [Newman] can look at it every time she opens her door,” she said in a video.
Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) called Greene’s poster “sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel.”
Greene has been a headache for Republican leaders at times, but they have not taken any punitive steps in response to her actions and they decried Democrats voting to take away her committee assignments.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spoke to Greene before she was removed from her committees and after Republicans started to complain about her attempts to delay routine floor actions, but neither those nor other conversations resulted in punishment.
“Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference,” he said in a statement released during the debate over her committee assignments. “I made this clear to Marjorie when we met. I also made clear that as a member of Congress we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard than how she presented herself as a private citizen. Her past comments now have much greater meaning. Marjorie recognized this in our conversation. I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward.”
Since asking earlier this year to debate Ocasio-Cortez, Greene hasconfronted herone 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 avideoposted 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.
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Greene's Facebook account in 2018 and 2019 expressed support for the execution of leading Democrats, including Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, as well as support for the execution of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. For example, when another poster asked in April 2018: "Now do we get to hang them?? Meaning H & O???", Greene's account responded: "Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off." Greene did not deny the authenticity of the reported content, instead responding that the CNN article was "focused on my time before running for political office", that "teams of people manage my pages", and that CNN had reported on content that "did not represent my views"
Ain't she a peach? She needs to head back to Milledgeville so she can enjoy the best part of her life, which she claims 'is being a mother and spending time with her family.' Source
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More like a pit ! Family / Pfttt she's a serial adulterer.
House members need to start carrying bear (er pig) spray to keep this bitch in check.
The basis for this is obvious. Marjorie Taylor Greene is jealous of people who get more media coverage than she does and tried to start some shit with AOC to get her name in front of the public again.
Greene is a female version of Trump , minus any entertainment value. A birdbrain, buffoonish, cartoonish figure overflowing with bluster and ignorance. Without any committees to go to she has to wander the halls of Congress trying to pick fights.
Pretty much, she just wants headlines a Fox News appearances. Again, it’s been obvious from the start she doesn’t want to actually do any work.
She does a whole lot of chasing people around and yelling at them while her 'staff' gleefully capture all the special moments on their phones...like her words are important. It reminds me of someone...but I can't remember who... Wait, yes I can:
(Fun fact: Second guy from the right was executed for not holding his pad up with pen poised.)*
What in the world could she be saying that the world would want to hear? "AOC is a sissy because she won't meet me on the playground after school and fight me."? or " Now do we get to hang them?? Meaning H & O???"..."Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off."
Whatever, Marj.
*I made that one up. But I wouldn't be surprised if it really happened.
Excellent work Sis.
The state of the Republican party is well represented by Greene.
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meh, I'm looking forward to the stupid look on her face, while she's doing a fish out of water impersonation, with part of her skull missing. aka, the last dance of sedition.
Certifiable Q bat shit crazy. Does this poor excuse for a woman ever act like an adult?
Representative Ocasio-Cortez is ubiquitous here in The Bronx. It seems she is always feeding the poor, helping to clean up a blighted block or planting a community garden. Unfortunately, because she has been so falsely demonized by rightwing zealots (Fox News) her security is becoming more and more of a problem. She now receives multiple credible threats every day. We love her here because she really cares about her district and its voters. Underestimate her at your own peril...
Green is out of her mind. This is not the playground and adults do not call each other out.
So says the teacher.
Ah ... no wonder the other side is tossing squirrels hither and thither this morning.
Watch out lady! ZAP!!!!!
I forgot about that freaky revelation!
Greene sounds like she belongs in a High School hallway & belongs to the Mean Girls. Grow up Greene. You are supposed to be an adult & yelling down a hallway at someone is childish.
Can't find her tweet, but MTG really screwed the pooch when she said that she would debate AOC on the GND, "AFTER", she reads it....
So she was challenging AOC on a bill that she had never even read?
Translation: "No matter what your propose, even if I agree with it, I am going to bash because the GOP masters will praise me if I do so."
She's an idiot.
This coming from the 'Jewish Space Laser' lady. Did she suddenly forget that whole, "Freedom of Religion" thingy?
Also, why would Soros, (a Jew), collaborate with nazi's?
MTG is living proof that some people will just spit out BS without even bothering to see if it's remotely believable.
I am shocked that someone laid wood to that thing resulting in children.. SMDH. She should be the poster child for condom use.
It should be standard Democratic Party policy at this point that the only words to be spoken to Greene are “fuck off.”
Regardless of what comes out of her mouth, respond with that. I mean it isn’t like she is going to say anything important or even slightly constructive, so fuck off seems like the appropriate response.
Who would want to debate a lunatic. It would be like debating donald. All bullshit and innuendo.
Yep, the old wrestle with pigs phenomena....
And then she would lose her cool and start screaming.
And I don't believe another poster would think it was ok if AOC had told Large Marge to fuck off. I think that poster would have plenty to say about it.
Ol large Marge is a living caricature.
If it looks like a cave woman and acts like a cave woman, it’s a goddamn cave woman.
The resemblance is uncanny. In all seriousness, she might have been born with higher-than-average testosterone levels. It could certainly explain her inappropriate and bullish behavior and her masculine features.
Maybe she’ll use that as a defense when she finally takes it too far and ends up in front of a judge facing prison time.
I was going to say she looks like she takes testosterone. Look at the neck on that woman!
Check out her arms also. I will bet that she has won more than one arm wrestling contest.
She may have committed tax fraud it has been discovered, so a judge may be in her immediate future.
So this isn't the first time she's harassed AOC.
Go to the eight minute mark. This woman is certifiable and has no business being a member of Congress. Some of the footage almost looks like 1/6/2021
What about all the Trump officials who were accosted by leftists? Where was their security?
I don't recall anyone going to the ethics committee over Maxine Waters.....It's so strange, isn't it?
How did you fail to notice that Kirstjen Nielsen had Secret Service protection at the restaurant in the video?
Well gee Vic, did Waters tell them to 'accost' them in the Capitol? Hint: NO.
So thanks for a perfect example of an utterly false equivalency. Nobody does it better.
The video of Waters' comment is posted above your comment Tex. It's pure desperation to post comments that lie about the content of her statements when it can be so easily refuted with FACTS.
No Tex. Desperation from the right to post false equivalencies which pretend that Waters and others made comments that somehow justify the vitriol on the right is just juvenile deflection.
You seem intent on holding anyone left of center responsible for what YOU think they mean vs. what they actually say. Conversely, you also seem intent on giving anyone right of center a pass for what the actually say by claiming that isn't what they meant.
It drips with hypocrisy.
It's also off-topic
I don't recall anyone going to the ethics committee over Maxine Waters.....It's so strange, isn't it?
The ethics committee is a joke. They collect a pay check for doing nothing. So it is no stranger than why they have not gone after Cruz, Gaetz (sp), and Moscow Mitch.
Well since Jackie Walorski from Indiana is the ranking member, I can't disagree with you.
BTW, the comment you block quoted isn't mine.
I apologize for my goof.
I don't condone her behavior but it is not justification to let Greene do what she is doing. The old "Well little Johnny/Susie is doing it too." is for 10 year olds, not grown women.
told people to accost Trump officials wherever they encountered them
"If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them," DJT the idiot
You probably cheered when he said that. If you won't condemn one statement of proposed violent actions, you don't get to with the other.
Your goof only proves that it happens to the best of us...
Maxine Waters talking smack into a microphone...
vs.
...Marj Greene with her meaty face all up in your personal space, following you around screaming nonsense at you while you are trying to do your job.
That's the reason why you can't recall anyone going to the ethics committee over Maxine Waters.
That's pretty funny since the Republicans can't even stand up to the truthful statements of their own members. They have censured over a dozen of their own, all while decrying 'cancel culture'.
Still trying to derail this seed to bolster your fizzled out seed I see.
gee, compared to a year ago, it really sucks being an impotent trumpster now...
so you agree with devangical...?
yes, yes i will, as i thought you were taller, didn't realize how much actually flies over your head and in the face of reason, when you fall into a mid summers eve and tri to spring out like a snowbound winner of comprehensive comprehension uncomprehended, cause the checks unbalanced as it bounces like a body dropped from a height where as it took 320 seconds to hit the grounded wire fence suspended mid air, like my thoughts expelled, cause they sometimes spell more than a riddled with bullet tin bored through the wood width nothing to do, except maybe wright with the wrong one chalked up to experiencing finger nails on the board and back, scraping the grisled bacon ?
Will she do it for me?
It sucked even back then.
Do what?
blow him kisses?
drop the "kisses " part
you're bad...that's why I like you
She was never afraid to kick out a rowdy drunk when she was a bartender.
Yep. He fits in.
Replaces kisses with up.
Nothin' but net!!!!!
Things have just gotten way out of hand here.
Where?
All the various comments above.
And if I had, how would you know? Far as I know that's privileged info only to Perrie and the moderators.
Actually, anyone can see who votes up a comment. Just thought I would let you know.
Click on the number next to the "thumbs up" and up pops the avatars and monikers of those that did.
Yep... here's an example:
Then I was mistaken. M thanks.
I was not accusing you of anything. I was merely asking a question.
How? That screen shot does not show me how to do it.
See where the little arrow is pointing? Click on the little number.
That only resulted in me voting the comment up not who the other two who voted it up were.
Right next to the green thumbs up icon is a number, that number shows how many people voted it up. If you click on that number it will show you who voted it up.
Thanks Kav.
That worked. Thanks to you and MsA for tolerating a puter challenged person.
I deal with engineers all day. You're a piece of cake!
You know my pain
Did you also know that you can un-thumbs-up a comment when you accidentally hit the thumbs-up? Just hit the thumbs-up again. You can even do it days later.
I just learned how to do it. Any member here can.
As did I.
"I haven't noticed." (Michelle Myerlink/Real Genius)
Children are kicked out of school for that kind of behavior, imagine if that had been a teen harassing a teacher or a principal.
No job on earth would allow that kind of unhinged behavior to go on. Can a person of color behave that way and get away with it in any circumstance? No way.
This woman is clearly lost in her hatred and lost in her self created victimhood, allowing it spill over into her job and public career. She is not actually grasping the reality that she is no longer a private citizen, but a politician being paid with taxpayer dollars to represent her state. It reflects poorly on her state and poorly on her parents who brought up a person that thinks that kind of behavior is acceptable in her job and in her new role as a representative.
It is too bad that AOC can't get a restraining order against that bitch. At least it would be one way to get her out of Congress.