 This goes without saying I am a very opinionated person and chances are if you're watching this You're also a really opinionated person. So when it comes to politicians in Congress, there's nobody who's perfect There's nobody who I align with 100% I align pretty closely with some individuals in Congress But even if I align with them 100% on policy, I maybe disagree with them with regard to strategy having said all of that Alexandria Ocasio-Gortez is doing a damn good job at representing me and even if I don't necessarily agree with everything that she does or I dislike a vote that she casts I will never deny that she is genuinely trying her best and she actually wants to affect change and She has a command of policy details that people who have been in Congress for decades still lack She's doing a phenomenal job. So it really is disheartening to me to see all of the attacks lobbed against her I mean the minute she won her primary she was public enemy number one for Republicans They tried to demonize her smear her dishonestly and it is truly heartbreaking and you know all of this that AOC Experiences, I mean, it's not even a fraction of what Ilhan Omar faces but still when you have so many members of Congress taking corporate money representing only their donors to see all of the H would be directed to people who are actually trying to make a difference it Pisses me off. It really pisses me off So when I heard that a Republican verbally accosted AOC at the Capitol I I really took it personal it it angered me because he took issue with something that she said and the response was to basically have a meltdown to her rather than trying to be an adult and Vocalize his disagreements Like a grown-up like this is such a weird story So as Mike Lillis of the Hill reports tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on issues of crime and policing in an unusual and decidedly personal Confrontation on the Capitol steps Representative Ted Yoho was coming down the steps on the east side of the Capitol on Monday Having just voted when he approached Ocasio-Cortez who was ascending into the building to cast a vote of her own in a brief But heated exchange which was overheard by a reporter. Yoho told Ocasio-Cortez She was quote-unquote Disgusting for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment are driving a spike in crime in New York City during the coronavirus Pandemic you are out of your freaking mind. Yoho told her Ocasio-Cortez shot back telling Yoho He was being rude the two then parted ways Ocasio-Cortez headed into the building while Yoho joined by Representative Roger Williams began descending toward the house office buildings a few steps down Yoho offered a parting thought to no one in particular Fucking bitch. He said that kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me ever She said I've never had that kind of abrupt disgusting kind of disrespect levied at me approached a few hours later Yoho declined to discuss any aspect of the exchange. No comment. He said. Yeah, so as a millennial I Have had that kind of like disrespect lobbed at me from older people who think oh well just because you're younger You know, that doesn't mean that you have the wisdom that I have, you know You don't know about this or you're naive. You're insane to suggest this or that You know, so I kind of like I took the attack that he lobbed against her personally because that condescension is something that I've personally Experienced but on top of that, let's play a game here Let's assume that the roles were reversed and AOC approached him Because he said something about Medicare for all that it's a government takeover something stupid about Medicare for all He attacked it and she approached him and confronted him and she called him a fucking asshole or a fucking dickhead Could you imagine the outrage? That we'd hear from Republicans I mean Fox News would cover it and cry about there being no civility or decorum Donald Trump would tweet about it and demand that she apologize on a lot of Republicans Mitch McConnell Ted Cruz would tweet about this and say that she's disgusting for saying that and being disrespectful They would be calling on Nancy Pelosi to remove her from committee assignments I mean, we know exactly what Republicans would do because we've seen the way that they've reacted when Rashida Tlaib for example said we're gonna impeach the motherfucker. They lost their minds They lost their minds But here when a Republican congressman calls one of his colleagues a fucking bitch I mean nothing all of that talk about decorum and civility and respect goes out the window It goes out the window, right? Chuck Grassley isn't taking to the floor to denounce this lack of civility We're not going to see Fox News call out Yoho here for what he said Nothing because there's a double standard. They are allowed to treat us with no respect They're allowed to openly disrespect us and you know Vocalize their contempt for us and that's fine. That's to be expected But at the shoes on the other foot, well, they're entitled to our respect. I mean this is um This is infuriating to me now AOC later tweeted about this saying I never spoke to representative Yoho before he decided to accost me on the steps of the nation's capital yesterday Believe it or not, I usually get along fine with my GOP colleagues We know how to check our legislative sparring at the committee door, but hey bitches get stuff done So I mean you need this to say I think that she handled it a lot more responsibly and mature than I would have I would have fired back and called him a prick Um something like that. It's just you know, this is only acceptable if um It's being done to the left or to someone who is younger Because there's this assumption um this ageist assumption That young people don't know any better someone like AOC to suggest something That he disagrees with that's just outrageous um, it's just it's so infuriating that you see this um and will Her colleagues in the democratic party come to her defense I mean, maybe you get a couple of them, but we'll Nancy Pelosi call for civility Will Chuck Schumer speak out against this lack of decorum lack of mutual respect among colleagues Probably not But I mean this is uh, no surprise That doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't talk about it And uh shame people who uh are hypocrites here