When she’s not warning people about the government ‘zapping’ people for eating meat, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene uses her webcast, MTG: Live, to discuss other, totally made up issues facing the nation.
During a recent episode, Greene sat down with her GOP colleague Matt Gaetz, who harshly criticized Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin on the basis that he can’t properly do his job in Congress because his son died by suicide.
The anti-LGBTQ lawmakers were discussing the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, which includes Raskin, when Gaetz said:
“No one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide, and as a human being our hearts go out to him. I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress in such an interwoven way that he’s unable to do the Congressional experience outside of the dungeon of that personal trauma.”
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Gaetz added that he thinks Raskin’s loss makes him “look at everything in these very dark and severe ways” and that it “clouds his judgement.”
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“The country shouldn’t have to go through all that with him,” Gaetz, who is currently under FBI investigation for sex trafficking minors, said.
As Gaetz gave his unqualified hot take on trauma, Greene nodded and “mmhmm’ed” in approval before calling Raskin a communist.
Raskin has served in Congress since 2017. He lost his 25-year-old son, Tommy, to suicide in 2020. When he explained his decision to serve as an impeachment manager for former President Donald Trump‘s second impeachment in 2021, he said: “I’m not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021.”
A few lawmakers jumped to defend him after Gaetz’s comments circulated online:
“@RepRaskin is a greater statesman, Congressman, human being than most of us,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. “History will remember him. Tommy was a remarkable person and testament of his parents’ love.
She added: “Gaetz is a bad haircut in a cheap suit, a feat of mediocrity given that he’s here on papa’s money. Bye”
.@RepRaskin is a greater statesman, Congressman, human being than most of us. History will remember him. Tommy was a remarkable person and testament of his parents’ love.
Gaetz is a bad haircut in a cheap suit, a feat of mediocrity given that he’s here on papa’s money. Bye ?? https://t.co/3S2cX40nO1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2022
“@RepRaskin is a wonderful father, a selfless public servant and an American hero in every sense of the word,” added Rep. Jerry Nadler. “Matt Gaetz should strive to be even half of the patriot and kindhearted human being that Mr. Raskin is.”
@RepRaskin is a wonderful father, a selfless public servant and an American hero in every sense of the word. Matt Gaetz should strive to be even half of the patriot and kindhearted human being that Mr. Raskin is. https://t.co/jj7H1NqjAO
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) June 9, 2022
stanpaske
These are the last two people who should being pointing to someone for not being able to do the job – a teen rapist and an insurrectionist. Say pot, have you met kettle?
johncp56
Ditto, scummy entitlement
drmiller
Okay so Raskin is too wrapped up in his son’s suicide to serve, but you idiots aren’t too wrapped up in your religion to serve? Ummmm pot, meet kettle please.
bachy
Two zits on the asshole of the American body politic.
jt1990
@bachy Agreed. BUT so you know, the pedo moron and the moron who’s married to a pedo, are not the face of the Republican Party. Go ahead and keep laughing at these two worthless imbeciles, I’m not here to defend them by any means. But when you vote in the primaries this fall, just remember: where the GOP has a few clowns the Left is a whole dam circus of killer clowns (America is the intended victim). And if you fail to remember that, just think of the gas prices!
PS I mean no offense to actual clowns (unless your name is John Wayne Gacy).
abfab
American white trash X 10
CNY1983
i wonder who’s been caught in that teen sex REPUBLICAN COCAINE ORGY spider web. not gonna be real pretty for sure.
johncp56
We all know who the top is, the scumminess of those two