Is there some kind of competition among Democrats in which they try to outdo each other by saying the dumbest thing that comes to mind at every moment?
If so, California Governor Gavin Newsom just threw his hat in the ring with a recent military-grade Hall of Fame entry, suggesting that Marjorie Taylor Greene was trying to get Jamaal Bowman killed using rhetoric. “dangerous”.
It all started Thursday with an incident in which Rep. Bowman and his slightly less intelligent colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, got into a minor run-in with the Georgia Republican.
Greene argued with Bowman over several issues before it became quite clear that he was not intellectually equipped for battle. AOC would eventually we must intervene and let out a “She’s not worth it, bro.”
Like children who meet at the mast to settle accounts after school.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who heckled George Santos in the middle of Santos-gaggle moments ago, in a tiff with MTG outside the steps of the Capitol.
AOC returns at the end: “She’s not worth it, bro” pic.twitter.com/R5L20WvhFK
— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) May 17, 2023
Bowman’s Aggressive Behavior
Although the exchange was heated, it seemed relatively unremarkable. But Marjorie Taylor Greene let Bowman have it at a press conference when asked about the incident, saying the New York Democrat had a ‘history of assault’ that she is ‘very concerned about’ .
“Scream, scream, raise your voice. He is aggressive – his physical ways are aggressive,” she said. “I think there is a lot of concern about Jamaal Bowman, and that worries me. I feel threatened by him.
Much of what she alleges is fairly well documented. Bowman made a habit of accosting Republican lawmakers inside and outside the Capitol, yelling, swearing and flailing wildly like a wayward preteen.
Republicans won’t SHIT when it comes to gun violence, but try telling me to calm down.
NO.
We cannot calm down. People are dying every day while we wait. pic.twitter.com/38mYYW9cgs
— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) March 29, 2023
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And he did it several times with Greene (R-GA).
In April, he approached her vehicle as she was leaving a protest in New York in support of former President Donald Trump, and began shouting for her to ‘get the hell out of here’ and demanded that she “don’t say a word in our goddamn town.”
These are threats. This is aggressive behavior. And if she had done these things to Bowman, or any other Republican, they would immediately be labeled a racist.
Gavin Newsom accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of trying to kill Jamaal Bowman
Luckily for Bowman, he has a ‘Get Out of Acting Stupid Free’ card due to his skin color. And naturally, Democrats have rallied behind him in suggesting that any criticism of his clearly aggressive behavior is racist.
Gavin Newsom took that blind rebuttal, as Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel might put it, down to eleven. He accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of being the equivalent of the white woman whose accusations against Emmett Till, a black teenager, Democrats say led him to be lynched in 1955.
“It’s the kind of dangerous rhetoric that led to the death of Emmett Till,” Newsom falsely claimed. “Everyone should call it what it is: blatant racism.”
“His physical ways are aggressive…I feel threatened by him.” — Marjorie Taylor Greene describing Rep. Bowman
It’s the kind of dangerous rhetoric that led to the death of Emmett Till.
Everyone should call this out for what it is: blatant racism. pic.twitter.com/sbPGVP69Tv
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 18, 2023
Everyone should call Newsom’s comments for what they are: blatant stupidity. It’s almost like, like Ron DeSantis once saidNewsom’s “hair gel” depletes his “brain function”.
Newsom was not alone, of course. Ilhan Omar, far-left member of “Squad,” must have had the same arguments, though ironically she wasn’t as brazen as Newsom in trying to suggest that Bowman might be lynched:
There is a centuries-old history of characterizing black men as “aggressive” and “threatening” to sow racial fear and terror.
Jamaal Bowman shouldn’t have to defend his humanity as a congressman and everyone should call it what it is: blatant racism https://t.co/L9sHqQEeQ9
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 18, 2023
There’s a surefire way for Bowman to avoid being called too aggressive and threatening. Stop being too aggressive and threatening. Especially towards women who are half his size.
Greene retweeted a comment from former acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, slamming Newsom for “explaining” what women should feel when accosted by a much taller man.
Shame on you, @GavinNewsom.
When women say they feel threatened, you shouldn’t blame them. https://t.co/xYvNz0vNWI
—Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 18, 2023
Newsom is not capable of “mansplaining”. The first syllable dictates that the word cannot apply to him.
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