One of the disgusting legacies after 9/11 has been the targeting and
racism against Muslim Americans throughout the United States of America, and
this is an extension of that legacy.
Consistency, there is nothing consistent with
the Republican Party's continued attack, except for the racism and
incitement of violence against women of color in this body.
I had a member of the Republican caucus threaten my life, and
the Republican caucus rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee
assignments in this congress.
Don't tell me this is about consistency.
Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks
when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish
space lasers and an entire amount of tropes.
And also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in
this body.
This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.
Don't tell me, because I didn't get a single apology-
>> Time is expired.
>> When my life was threatened, thank you.
>> It's a great defense of Representative Ilhan Omar by
Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez there, pointing out the two decades of
rampant Islamophobia has become totally normalized in America.
No one in the the Republican Party, no one on Fox News, or
independent Republican media feels at all worried at all about trafficking in
the worst sorts of Islamophobic hate and all of that.
When it comes to Representative Ilhan Omar, they got what they wanted yesterday.
Representative Omar was kicked off of a committee that
the Republicans say that she's not qualified to be on because she dared to
criticize the Israeli government which isn't allowed.
That's a part of cancel culture that they're perfectly happy with.
You will be canceled if you criticize this foreign government, or
a particular politician, or a particular party inside of it, you can't do that.
And interestingly, when talking about qualifications,
they think that she's not qualified to be on that.
I think that AOC did a great job in pointing out that someone like
Marjorie Greene is on Homeland Security.
It is designed to protect the homeland and its security and all of that.
And yet she says things like, there's space lasers that are starting wildfires.
How is she qualified to do that?
Now, she hates when you bring this up.
She said in response to it, there's people that think that I said a phrase called
Jewish space lasers, a phrase that I never said.
As a matter of fact, it was created and
invented in a story that a bunch of people read in the news.
I don't hold any beliefs like that at all.
Now, it is true that she did not literally say the three words Jewish
space laser back to back.
But you can go, and
we'll bring up this, you can see her Facebook rant that she went on.
She said back in November of 2018,
there are too many coincidences to ignore with the wildfires.
And she repeated theories about, quote, lasers or blue beams of light causing
the fires in a conspiracy being linked to the Rothschild banking dynasty.
So she did not, in fact, say Jewish space laser.
She just said there are lasers in space and it's the Jews who are shooting them.
But even if it wasn't anti-Semitic,
how riddled with parasites does your brain need to be to believe that
the most likely cause of wildfires is a space-based laser system?
Even if she wasn't anti-Semitic, which she definitely is, she is in no way qualified
to evaluate, let alone deal with threats to our homeland security when she's
getting her advice on what to watch out for from 1980's James Bond movies.
What do y'all think?
>> [LAUGH] Well, look, it's weird that I'm not more animated about this one, and
I get animated.
And my background is Muslim.
I guess I'm less animated because I just find all this to be so obvious.
So we're talking about how Ilhan Omar was too anti-Semitic,
because she did a tweet saying,
it's all about the Benjamins, when referring to lobbyists.
[LAUGH] To be fair though, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
maybe she meant not Jewish space lasers, but
Jewish bankers firing blue beams from space.
Could be, vould be.
[LAUGH] Okay, how about Donald Trump, the glorious leader of the Republican Party?
He had Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, two guys who have both
said how much they admire Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, over for dinner.
We're having a conversation about saying that lobbyists are interested
in money being equivalent to that?
Are you insane?
So, no, no we're not having this.
I'm not even angry about it, it's so dumb, right?
So I almost don't wanna engage in this.
Republicans are obvious liars, even debating it dignifies it too much.
I just go on TV and say, if you think that every Republican isn't
an enormous liar, you do a joke of a show.
I'm not even interested in that debate.
Anyone who compares Ilhan Omar to Marjorie Taylor Greene or
Donald Trump is lying by definition.
I mean, no one in their right mind could possibly think those two
things are equivalent, Max.
>> Well, I think now that Marjorie Taylor Greene is Kevin McCarthy's puppet master,
she's trying to run away from all these things she said, but I agree with you.
I mean, I let Republicans have this fight for me.
Just a month ago, Lauren Boebert called Marjorie Taylor Greene out for
being anti-Semitic.
I mean, when members of your own party are calling you out for
your Jewish space laser insanity, there's not really much we have to do.
But I think AOC got to a larger point here, which is that these Republicans,
when they show up at all, show up to make clips for Fox News.
They disrupt proceedings.
They're trying to do their best to break government, so
they can sell to their voters that government is broken.
They're not a productive presence, they're, if anything,
the hardest part about keeping government running right now.
And AOC, I think, was great to say that.
>> Yeah.
>> Can I just say a thing on the Muslim issue?
Are we having a conversation about whether Republicans hate Muslims?
Look, if you're a Republican out there, you know you hate Muslims.
And you'll say, no, no I'm not really so bigoted, I mean, but
Muslims are different, man.
Their religion is really violent, man,
having never read the Old Testament, let alone the New Testament.
[LAUGH] Even Sam Harris on the show who despises Muslims admitted,
yes, out of all the religious texts,
by far the most violent is the Old Testament in the Bible, right?
[LAUGH] But it doesn't matter, they've never read anything.
They've never read a children's book, let alone the Bible, let alone the Quran.
So the idea that Muslims are not bigoted against Muslims, no, I'm sorry,
Republicans are not bigoted against Muslims is absurd.
Of course they are, and in that case, it's not a small number.
A giant number, the great majority of Republican voters hate Muslims.
Anyone who denies that is being insane and absurd.
I'm not having that debate.
>> 100%, and by the way, while I think she rightly focused on
the explicit Islamophobia, in that AOC also went on CNN later on in the day.
We don't have time to play the tape, and
explained how much of this is about the often unspoken rule that you just do not
criticize a particular right wing party or leader inside of Israel, that you do not.
If you make any criticism whatsoever of specific policies or specific rhetoric,
then they're going to refer to it as anti-Semitic.
It was very clear.
We make that point very often, you don't often hear it made by politicians.
I just wanna end with, Marjorie Greene got mad obviously at what AOC had said.
So she tweeted, Representative AOC, I have repeatedly asked you to debate me, but
you have been a coward and can't even respond.
But you go on CNN and lie about me.
Even though, again, we've already pointed out, it's true.
You can see her messages up there.
It's not even the craziest thing she believes.
When are you gonna be an adult and
actually debate me on policy instead of running your mouth like a teenage girl?
So first of all, I don't want to see them debate.
I don't wanna see Marjorie Greene legitimized in that way.
But if you're going to have a debate about the merits of whether there are lasers in
space, I guess that could be at least a little bit interesting.
And AOC points out, in case you forgot, we sit on the same committee,
which debated for the first time this week.
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 to teach CRT.
Because, again, Marjorie Greene doesn't know anything,
she doesn't care about being involved in governance.
She went there to make her little prepared remarks and then she left,
because she's not interested in accomplishing anything.
>> Okay, I just gotta say, first, I wanna give tons of credit to AOC.
It was a good fiery speech on the floor of the house, excellent and
courageous points on CNN not often made, especially about Israel.
But I'd love that last tweet, because here's two members of the House,
one challenges the other to a debate.
Hey, good news, you're in a body that is supposed to debate for a living.
[LAUGH] You go and debate her on the floor of the House on every issue.
You wanna debate on $15 minimum wage?
Great, let's introduce a resolution on a $15 minimum wage or Medicare For All,
and then you guys can debate it all day long in the House.
Nope, nope, yeah, it's not gonna get me the clicks online, I need the clicks.
Who cares about policy?
By the way, so far, what have they done?
Socialism bad, these are the two things, and Ilhan Omar bad, and
then by the way, Schiff and Swalwell too.
>> If we weaken the ethics committee, that's good.
>> Weaken the ethics committee.
Are you guys ever going to introduce a resolution,
Republicans, about the American people to help them?
I know you're planning to cut Social Security and Medicare,
that doesn't help them.
And by the way, again, every reporter in this country sucks.
Does anybody wanna ask the Republicans are you ever going to introduce a bill that
helps the average American?
Ever, ever, you've never talked about it, not once, not once.
Isn't that amazing?
Hey, Republican voters, you schmucks, why don't you ask your representatives,
hey, when are you gonna help me and my family?
I get it, I hate Omar too [SOUND] Muslims, I hate them.
I'm sure you agree with that.
But when are you going to move on to helping your actual voters?
Go ahead, I dare you to ask them, cuz every Republican is gonna go,
I'm helping you by owning the libs, [LAUGH] losers.