You put on your Sigmund Freud pants, Matt, to explain to us laypeople why Jamie Raskin must retreat from the public scene: Now you want Jamie Raskin out of Congress-you know, for his own good. No slur, no lie, no amount of hateful falsity in your public past can match your soulless verbal mugging of Congressman Raskin, a man of rare high character and rarer courage who just now is performing the definitive public service of his life: holding to account the moral miscreants like you who thought, on January 6, 2021, that it would be a good idea to follow Donald Trump’s goading and vandalize the United States Capitol building in Washington. To an appalling extent you’ve succeeded.Īnd now you have broken new mud. Your horde has pumped these rancid values into the public discourse over the last decade you’ve done your best to normatize them. You know these levels, Matt, because they are where you and your fellow congressional cretins live like feral cliff-dwellers. There are levels of character destruction, of barbarism and bullying, of abusive self-degrading malice. The thrust of them was that Jamie Raskin was no longer able to discharge his congressional duties. Marjorie sat mooing with approval at your side as you spoke, occasionally belching out a supportive comment of her own.ĭo you recall those remarks, Matt? I do. The podcast was hosted by your spirit animal, Marjorie Taylor Greene. They were aimed at the bereaved Congressman Jamie Raskin, whose son Thomas, on New Year’s Eve 2020, committed suicide. I think I’ll call you “Matt.”) You voiced them during a podcast on June 8. (I can’t bring myself to call you “Congressman” Gaetz, because “Congressman” is an honorific, and I have never discovered anything in your character that suggests honor. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Well my goodness, it's a horrible thing, what he went through, but it doesn't change the fact of, uh, his political beliefs," she said, "and I believe he's a communist and I believe what he's doing on the January 6th Committee is completely wrong.Matt Gatez. Greene then stated the quiet part out loud. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him." "And I do think it clouds his judgment and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about, but it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had," Gaetz proclaimed. "And we want to vindicate the rights of our citizens and we want to champion their causes and battle their dislikes," Gaetz remarked. "We're not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. "Well and we love this country," Gaetz added. "We're here to serve the people," Greene interjected. "You know, we try to come to the job to uplift people," Gaetz resumed. But I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress to such an interwoven way that he's unable to do the congressional experience outside of just the dungeon of that personal trauma," Gaetz continued, "and I think it makes him look at everything in these very like, dark and severe ways." "As human beings, our hearts go out to him. And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," said Gaetz. "When people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. Now, with just 24 hours remaining before public hearings revealing what the bipartisan congressional commission has found begin, Gaetz and Greene have launched a new and unusually cruel offensive against Raskin. Raskin also sits on the Select Committee investigating the attack, which was triggered (at least in part) by Republican lawmakers refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election at Trump's behest. Raskin served as the House of Representatives' manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment for inciting the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection. United States Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) appeared on a recent edition of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)'s podcast and suggested that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is unable to do his job because his son committed suicide. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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