Rep. Marjorie Greene (R-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) escalated their long-running feud this week with pointed online exchanges.
The New York Democrat declared Speaker Kevin McCarthy appointed people to committees that were worse than Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, whom McCarthy removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
CNN reporter John Berman, filling in for Anderson Cooper on the network’s program “Anderson Cooper 360,” interviewed Ocasio-Cortez Friday.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) posted an anime video to Twitter last November that featured an anime representation of him taking a sword to an anime version of Ocasio-Cortez. The NY Democrat responded shortly after the Gosar video, which he had captioned “My teamwork’s creativity is off the hook,” was posted.
“A creepy member I work with who fundraises for Neo-Nazi groups shared a fantasy video of him killing me,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a November interview with The Verge.
Gosar and Occasio-Cortez were seen speaking animatedly with each other on the House floor in January. They agreed that Kevin McCarthy should not be elected Speaker of the House. That shared goal opened a line of communication between them.
Ocasio-Cortez added that, while she worked with Gosar to achieve their common goal, she was “uncomfortable” serving with Gosar and other MAGA-identifying members of Congress because they engage in “stochastic terrorism” against her.
The New York Democrat disparaged other Republicans in a House floor speech about Omar’s lost committee seat. Bouncing in rhythm with her words that adopted the cadence of a televangelist preacher, she denounced Gosar, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) and Taylor Greene. Her floor remarks were emphasized as she swung her right arm out and up, similar to a spirited preacher asking, “Can I get an Amen?”
Ocasio-Cortez also spoke against Republican colleagues in her CNN interview.
The New Yorker alluded to Taylor Greene’s December 2021 remarks about Jewish space lasers funded by the Rothschild family shooting down Santa Claus.
Taylor Greene did not appreciate Ocasio-Cortez seeming to accuse her of antisemitism in public remarks. The Georgia Republican fired back with a Twitter post challenging the Democrat darling to debate her.
“@RepAOC I have repeatedly asked you to debate me, but you have been a coward and can’t even respond,” Taylor Greene remarked in her Twitter post. “But you go on @CNN and lie about me. When are you going to be an adult and actually debate me on policy instead of run your mouth like a teenage girl?”
Taylor Greene also fired off some snarky tweets challenging Ocasio-Cortez to explain some controversial New York policies.
“[email protected] can you explain to the American taxpayers why your communist state leaders decided to abuse $9 billion in Covid cash for “staff development” on privilege and equity warriors?” Taylor Greene questioned her NY colleague Thursday on Twitter. “Asking on behalf of Americans strapped for cash and chained in $31 trillion in Gov debt.”
The online onslaught continued Friday with another zinger from the Peach State.
“Can you explain why $100 million dollars in Covid relief went to whatever the hell is “tree equity” is?” asked Greene. “I’m from Georgia @RepAOC. None of our trees are crying and throwing funded protest about tree inequality. But a lot of our businesses got shut down because of a bioweapon.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Taylor Greene’s debate challenge Friday.
“Hey there! In case you forgot, we sit on the same committee, which debated for the first time this week,” she remarked. “I don’t blame you if you forgot. You spent almost no time there. In the few minutes you did show up, you claimed one elementary school got *$5 billion dollars* to teach CRT.”
Taylor Greene gave it right back to her northern neighbor.
“Yeah it’s busy in the majority remember that?” asked Taylor Greene. “So can you explain why you sickos in NY abused Covid relief funds for things like Drag Queen story time? Was it a good time to brainwash kids and lie to them about gender when your state forced them to stay home from school?”
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