Congressman posted an anime video where he “kills” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – VG

U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, representing Republicans from Arizona, posted an anime video on Twitter on Sunday where he takes the life of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most prominent members of Congress among Democrats.

In the bizarre video, the faces of Gosar and other colleagues are edited into scenes from the Netflix anime film “Attack on Titan”. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face is placed on a large monster that Gosar kills.

In the anime video, President Joe Biden is also attacked with a sword.

– Sick behavior

– This is sick behavior from Congressman Paul Gosar. He tweeted the video in which he kills Ocasio-Cortez from both his official account and his private account. In any workplace in the United States, an employee will be fired if he or she made an anime video in which the employee kills another employee.

Twitter has hidden the video behind a text that says it violates the site’s guidelines on hateful content, but the video becomes visible if you click on it because Twitter believes that it is in the public interest that it is available.

Ocasio-Cortez’s party colleague Eric Swalwell is among those who react strongly.

– These bloodthirsty losers are more comfortable with violence than choice. Keep exposing them, Swalwell said via Twitter.

NORCE researcher Hilmar Mjelde believes that both gender and ethnicity are part of the explanation for why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is so often attacked from the right – in addition to the fact that she is the political opposite of the Republicans who are furthest to the right.

– She is in a way the personification of the political and cultural changes in the US that the trumpeters are fighting against – and she is confrontational and provocative herself. She is always very on the offensive in social media. Therefore, she triggers intense resistance, including proposals that are completely unacceptable, such as Gosars, says Mjelde to VG.

Has the family against it

She became the summer of 2020 harassed by Congressman Ted Yoho on the steps of Capitol Hill. He is said to have called her “disgusting” and said “fucking bitch”.

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has also verbally harassed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – repeatedly.

Now it was Paul Gosar’s turn.

– Gosar’s proposal is symptomatic of the political intolerance and aggression that characterizes today’s radicalized, Republican party. It is those who oppose the trumpeters who are disciplined by the party, such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Outer right-wing politicians such as Gosar, Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Madison Cawthorne get as much as they want, Mjelde states.

Gosar is otherwise known in the United States for having nine brothers and sisters who all distance themselves from him. according to Los Angeles Times none of them have spoken to him in several years. They describe him as racist, corrupt, stupid and hateful, the newspaper writes.

In 2018, six of the siblings spent money on advertising campaigns against Paul Gosar. Several of them are trying to get him fired from Congress.

– We feel that it is our moral duty. We have to say no, we have to try, says Dave Gosar.

Magazine: Promised pardons

Congressman Gosar is in bad weather in several areas at the moment.

The Rolling Stones magazine recently reported that Gosar was involved in the planning of the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on the same day as the January 6 attack on Congress.

According to the magazine, Gosar guaranteed the protesters pardon even before the attack.

– Our impression was that this was already clear … That he had talked to the president about it in the Oval Office … In a meeting on pardons where our names were mentioned, says a source.

At least three of the organizers behind the January 6 demonstrations, according to the Rolling Stones, are cooperating with the House of Representatives committee of inquiry, alleging that several members of Congress were involved in the planning phase.

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