 So, even though some individuals, such as Mitch McConnell, has condemned Marjorie Taylor-Green, the new QAnon Republican within their ranks, without mentioning her, you know, other Republicans, their response after being at least seemingly embarrassed by her is not kind of just eh. Because a Republican leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, has decided to not take action against her when it comes to stripping her of her committee assignments, and on top of that, reportedly half of the Republican caucus gave her a standing ovation when she stood up to speak during a closed door meeting, so this party has gone full mask off. They're literally embracing someone now who liked a Facebook post threatening to kill Nancy Pelosi, someone who is openly hostile and vicious and wants violence against her own colleagues, Republicans are like, sure, so if you were wondering like what it would be like if Roy Moore was elected, a pedophile, or if a KKK member or someone who self-identifies as a Nazi was elected, how would the Republican Party react? And I think that the answer would be, meh, but behind closed doors, they'd be pretty excited about it. This is the Republican Party. They are absolutely insane. Now it's funny, the way that they're defending themselves, rather than running away from Marjorie Taylor Greene, which is kind of what they were doing at first, now they're embracing her and they're using whataboutism to defend themselves. So now they're saying, okay, well we have Marjorie Taylor Greene, she might be a little bit out there, but what about Ilhan Omar? So that's what's happening now. Fox News and Republicans are drawing this false equivalency, trying to compare a Cuban on conspiracy theorist who wants other members of Congress murdered to a Muslim woman who is progressive, yeah. So in an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Ilhan Omar responded to this and what she said was great because not only did she shoot down this bizarre idea that she's comparable to Marjorie Taylor Greene in any way, but she said what we're all thinking about the Republican Party, it's nice to hear someone who's elected to Congress actually say this. Representative Congresswoman, did you expect that you would be pulled into this because you have become kind of a go-to figure in these moments for the Republican Party? Sadly, this is the Republican playbook. We saw it with Donald Trump that any time they are faced with consequences for their actions to undermine our democracy, they blame Muslims, they blame immigrants, they blame black people, they blame women, I just happened to embody all of these identities and I just want to make sure, Chris, that we are clear on this. This is not about me and it should not be about me. This is about a member of the Republican caucus who has repeatedly incited violence and Republicans can't just wave a magic wand and attack the black Congresswoman. It was notable that there's been a fundraising effort using you, that the fundraising of he complained, the Democrats are trying to expel me from Congress and it was interesting the Democrat behind her there is you, not Speaker Pelosi or House leadership. I think everyone understands what that's about. I guess my question is this, there's this dynamic that functions now where she will use this attention and this sort of oppositional defund rays, do you think about breaking out of this cycle and how to do it if there's any way out of it? No, I mean, you know, the Republicans truly have lost their way. Their party is destroyed. Their base now is conspiracy theorists, it's cowards, it's opportunists, it's grifters and sadly, they're becoming the loony tunes. You know, these are people who we can't take serious. They're not here to do the people's business. They are here to just be obstructionists and make a mockery of not just our government, but our country. There is, of course, this individual Congresswoman who is the subject of this question today in this House Rules Committee attracted attention she ran because of this ad with her with a gun next to you and other Democratic lawmakers. And you know, it just seems to me that there and you tweeted about this about feeling like this sense of threat or menace Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talked about this. We saw it embodied in January 6th. This is not theoretical, but just the degree to which the idea of physical intimidation that the threat of violence of menace of armed people has entered into the oxygen, the atmosphere of the building and the place you work that should be a question of sort of debating politics. Yeah, I mean, and so many people have asked, you know, could there be violence, could this lead to violence? And, you know, they seem to forget that five people have already lost their lives on in the events of January 6th, including a capital police officer. Hundreds more people could have. We currently have members of Congress who are moving their offices away because they fear for their lives. You know, Alex talked about the trauma that she's living with and has lived with since January 6th. I sent a text message to my ex-husband and told him, you know, if I don't make it out, please make sure you tell my children I love them. This is not a joke. This is not a game. These people are threatening to our environment. They are threatening our ability to do our work. They are really making it hard for people to survive and exist in a free democracy where debate and discourse is supposed to be celebrated. We are now living in a situation where every single caucus conversation, it's about, you know, where can we find resources for security? How are we supposed to check if our panic buttons are working? You know, can we body up and walk the hallways because we are afraid of our own colleagues? This is insane. No other work environment that is this toxic would sustain itself and we can't sustain ourselves as members of Congress in this situation. I don't envy the position that they're in. I mean, the individuals who relentlessly attack them on social media and, you know, call for them to be hung and assassinated, those individuals have infiltrated Congress. They're now their colleagues. So how do you how do you deal with that? Like, how does that body function when you have folks in there who literally want to see violence be committed against the opposite party? Like, it's just such a weird thing to see. Now, I love that Ilhan Omar said the Republican Party, they've lost their way. They're becoming the Looney Tunes. Now, she's wrong because the Republican Party, they never had any sense whatsoever. They have always been lost because conservatism is an inherently morally bankrupt ideology. But to say that they're becoming Looney Tunes, that's absolutely correct. Because this isn't just like the party who brazenly looks out for the rich and gives them tax cuts. This is the party of absolute psychopaths, folks who believe not just like conspiracy theories that are a little bit kooky, but like the most dumbest conspiracy theories, not even interesting conspiracy theories, literal QAnon conspiracy theories. A five-year-old would probably have more sense than to think, well, maybe I shouldn't believe that like one random person on the internet is giving us all this inside insight to what the Trump administration is doing. Like the dumbest of the dumb, like that's what they've embraced. This is their brand now. But guess what? There's a demand for it. Hence why folks like Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert are becoming increasingly popular, because there is enough Americans who think that way. So what's an issue in America that we all have to kind of think about long term is how do we de-program people, get them to not believe outrageously stupid and idiotic conspiracy theories, get folks to embrace science and logic and rational thinking. A lot of folks operate using emotion. And that's true for all human beings. But how do we get them to just have some basic level of common sense? Once again, like, I don't know if it's possible so long as the Republican Party props up people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. I don't know. Now, Ilhan Omar is correct that, you know, this is kind of the Republican Party's go to playbook. They always point to marginalized communities as the scapegoat. It doesn't matter what the situation is. I mean, the Republican Party, their entire critique is the issues that you are experiencing as a working class American. It's not because of our economic system. It's not because of capitalism. It's not because of our corrupted institutions. It's because of these little guys with no money and no power. You didn't lose your job because of greedy corporations who are outsourcing your job or who are paying you slave wages. You lost your job because an immigrant came in and took your job. This is always their go to. It's always. So, of course, it makes sense that they'd replicate that at the congressional level and say, well, you know, it's not actually Marjorie Taylor Greene was the issue. It's Ilhan Omar, this other member of Congress, because she looks different. She's brown and she wears a hijab. So blame her. That's what they do. Like this party is the party of white supremacists. And I'm not saying that all Republicans are racists, but if you are racist, you're almost certainly going to be a Republican. And you may even think that they're not racist enough for you. Hence why there's this sudden need to create the Patriot Party, because that's what Donald Trump wants. Like he wants this little group of sick of fans and cultists who all really believe the same thing and nobody is willing to question their beliefs to like form this political force because their Republican Party, even it can't contain the craziness. Like they're trying to. They're trying to like be somewhat respectable, but they can't any longer because it's like the mask has come off fully. Now, I do have to say that part of the problem is that Democrats have enabled this attack on Ilhan Omar either wittingly or unwittingly because they never come to her defense when she smeared. Like how many times has she been attacked by Republicans who claim that she is pro-terrorist or pro-911 because they disingenuously take her out of context, take something that she set out of context. Where she's basically making a point about how racial profiling is a thing that happens to Muslims because of the 9-11 terrorist attack. They take that, they clip it out and they say, oh, well, she said because some people did something, she's downplaying it. She supports terrorism. Or if she criticizes Israel, the government of Israel, not the Israeli people, not Jewish people, but if she criticizes the government of Israel, who currently is doing a genocide against Palestinians, doing a modern day apartheid. Well, that's anti-Semitic and Democrats never have her back. They target her as well. So look, I don't think that we really need to even entertain this equivalence between Marjorie Taylor-Green and Ilhan Omar. One of them is completely off her rocker. And the other says things about politics that is politically incorrect. She says things about the Israeli government and the American government, US imperialism that a lot of folks don't want to hear. So because she's politically incorrect, they'll equate her with someone who is batshit and sane, who should probably quite literally be in an insane asylum. And I'm not saying that to, you know, use crazy as a pejorative. I'm saying that because she genuinely needs help. She's not mentally fit to be in Congress. I think that's that's pretty obvious.