Ilhan Omar actually decided to speak a little more candidly about just
how toxic Congress really is.
During a recent podcast episode called the new abnormal representative.
Ilhan Omar weighed in on the toxic nature of Congress which seems like
one of the worst places to work to be honest with you now,
if you want to consider fundraising and theater work.
Yes, it's one of the most toxic workplaces in the country.
And Ilhan Omar did not hold back.
She said quote,
I think it's probably one of the most toxic environments I've ever been in.
It's just like high school.
It's very click driven.
Now she had more to say about the environment there but
I want to provide a specific example that just happened recently.
It involves Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty and
a Republican representative by the name of Hal Rogers.
So what happened here?
Well Beatty took to twitter to call Rogers out on the way he treated her
recently saying today while heading to the house floor for votes.
I respectfully ask my colleague Representative Hal Rogers to put on
a mask while boarding the train.
He then poked my back demanding I get on the train.
When I asked him not to touch me, he responded kiss my ass.
Mhm, wow, kiss my ass.
First of all, don't put your damn hands on anyone, okay, and
telling a woman a colleague.
Anyone really to kiss your ass, after they ask you politely to do something
that will prevent the spread of a super contagious virus is just really that's
the kind of person anyone would want representing them in this country.
I mean, it's just like so callous doesn't care about anything but his own feelings,
what he wants, his own freedoms, whatever story he's telling himself in his mind.
Beatty continues to write,
this is the kind of disrespect we have been fighting for years and indicative
of the larger issue we have with GOP members, flaunting health and yeah.
Flaunting health and safety and safety mandates designed to keep us and
our staff safe.
And she calls for an apology later saying representative Rogers when you were
ready to grow up and apologize for your behavior, you know where to find me.
Now I'm guessing calling him out publicly led to enough pressure that he
did actually apologize according to him on twitter.
He says this afternoon,
I met with Representative Beatty to personally apologize.
My words were not acceptable and I expressed my regret to her first and
foremost.
But this is what politics has become in this country, right?
I mean, something as simple as a mask is now a culture war symbol.
Everything has devolved into some sort of culture, war,
education, culture war, COVID, culture war,
anything you can imagine anything involving a new movie coming out.
Culture war, culture war that's all they want you to focus on.
And what does that culture war do?
Oftentimes by the way manufactured culture wars.
Culture wars that are based on absolutely nothing.
Like you see all of these red states signing bills that are meant to
prevent transgender athletes from competing in the sports that they
identify with competing with, the gender that they identify with.
As if this is like this huge problem in the country,
then you ask those Republican lawmakers in these red states.
Okay, cool.
You just passed this bill.
Governor just signed.
It must be a real problem.
Can you name one transgender athlete that inspired this legislation?
And they can't name one.
They can't name one?
You know why?
Cuz it's manufactured garbage meant to distract.
So you have the manufactured culture wars and what does it lead to,
nonstop fighting, nonstop conflicts, combativeness within Congress.
Remember these are not negotiating.
These aren't heated negotiations about fixing our health care system.
These are childish juvenile fights over something as simple
as wearing a damn mask when you're entering a train.
It's so pathetic.
It's embarrassing really.
It's embarrassing that I look at members of Congress and
I see Children, I see people who embarrass me, who make me feel shame.
It's just, I can't, I can't take it anymore.
Let me give you more.
So let's get back to Representative Omar because she had other statements in regard
to Congress.
She says, everybody sort of talks to their core group and
those who wanna screw people hang around together.
Those who want to help the American people are huddled in their own quarters,
those who, don't think the constitution can evolve are in.
I don't know, they're hanging out on the roof or something.
They're like the real crazies who don't recognize that it actually took
an amendment to the constitution for them to serve Congress.
And then there's like the rest of us listen Marjorie Taylor Greene today,
was trying to make a point about something, fear monger about something.
I don't even know the context.
I don't even care.
But she wanted to refer to the Gestapo and she used the word Gazpacho,
which two very different things and it's embarrassing.
She's not my representative.
She's not even in my state, but it doesn't matter because that's the face of America.
That's what we see in America right now.
Endless, empty fearmongering about whatever BS culture war,
manufactured culture war and that just leads to more fighting over nonsense.
Less and I hate to use the word civility because I'm not like one of these people
like mm hmm, we need civility in Congress.
No, I like it when people get passionate
when they get heated when they're debating real substantive policies.
I love that.
I love to see it.
But that's not what we've got in Congress.
We've just got a bunch of like theater and
like play fighting that sometimes devolves into real physical fighting.
Or touching or in the case of the capitol riots rioting, it's just,
we're never gonna get anything accomplished in this country.
If we keep feeding into whatever manufactured culture war narrative,
politicians throw at us, we got to reject it.
That's my take on it.