Confrontation Btwn. Members of Congress Goes Viral

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Footage of an extraordinary confrontation between two members of Congress, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, from Georgia, and the Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz, continues to spread widely online.

The exchange happened yesterday, during a House oversight committee hearing about the governance of Washington DC which grew contentious amid Republican attacks and questions about crime and, in particular, public urination.

Moskowitz said: “Do you think parents in this country, as they’re putting their young kids into pajamas at night and are tucking them into bed, you think they’re worried about public urination in Washington DC? Or do you think they’re worried about sending their kid to school and their kid not coming home?”

Referring to the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday in which three children and three adults were killed, Moskowitz said: “Mass murder in schools is crime. That’s crime. You want to talk about 1,300 cars being stolen? 550 people have been murdered in school. Who cares about the cars? What about the kids? No hearing for them.”

Greene said children could be made safer by arming more people in schools.

Growing angry, Moskowitz said: “You know, there are six people that are dead in that school [in Nashville] including three children because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. Because you guys made it easy for people who don’t deserve to have weapons, who are mentally incapable of having weapons of war, [to be] able to buy those weapons and go into schools.

“Did the good guys with the gun stop six people from getting murdered? No, but you know what? AR-15s, you ever seen what those bullets do to children? You know why you don’t hunt with an AR-15, with a deer? Because there’s nothing left. And there’s nothing left of these kids when people go into school and murder them while they’re trying to read.”

Moskowitz then referred to widespread Republican moves to ban books about race, sexuality, gender and other culture war issues from public schools. “You guys are worried about banning books,” he said. “Dead kids can’t read.”

 

[Dee]

MTJ is the poop stain on America's underpants. She is vile, malicious, and snake-like. The vitriol spewing from the hole in her face is despicable and she needs to be ignored. The more she shrieks and spews venom, the more people pay attention to her. This is just one of the issues she is sorely uneducated and wrong about. People like her should not be in control of our government. It's terrifying.

 

[Webster]

You know why you don’t hunt with an AR-15, with a deer?

I'd love for Rep. Moskowitz to go to Alaska and talk to hunters who've used AR-15-style weapons for hunting purposes....(a) they're not hunting deer with them and (b) they'd likely tell him to take his words and shove them.