Creepy Rep. Gosar: Family Knows Best

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist 

In what some view as a sort of elaborate threat against a sitting member of Congress, and others see as at least incitement to violence,  US Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, a Republican, has posted  an anime (Japanese cartoon) on Twitter that he says was created by his staff, which shows Gosar killing a fellow member of Congress, liberal Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, by slicing through the back of her neck.  Rep. Gosar was so taken with the video that he posted it twice on Twitter, both to his official account as a congressman, and to his personal account.  He also posted it to his Instagram account.

Twitter is declining to take down Gosar's violent tweet at this time, deciding that keeping it up might be in the public interest.  It is drawing quite a bit of public scrutiny and comment.

Representative Gosar, a six-term member of Congress, is no stranger to controversy.   He has been openly supportive of the events of January 6th and has downplayed the insurrection as little more than a normal public visit to the Capitol.  He also uses "execution" to describe the death of Ashli Babbitt, a protestor at the Capitol on January 6th who was shot and killed by Capitol police, and he is an active promoter of Donald Trump's big election lie.

Gosar, who grew up as one of ten children in a Wyoming family, has had six of his siblings come to Arizona to campaign against him because of positions that he has taken, beginning with his support of the white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and extending through the attempted insurrection earlier this year.  Those six siblings have also been vocal in calling on congressional leadership to expel their brother from the House of Representatives.

To Gosar's limited credit, his mother is apparently still politically supportive of him.

For her part, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the victim in all of this bad political theatre, had this to say - in a tweet:

So while I was en route to Glasgow, a creepy member I work with who fundraises for Neo-Nazi groups shared a fantasy video of him killing me And he’ll face no consequences bc

@GOPLeader

cheers him on with excuses. Fun Monday! Well, back to work bc institutions don’t protect woc

And yes, AOC is right:  institutions, and particularly the US House of Representatives, do not seem focused on protecting "woc" - women of color.    But a white dentist, good ol' boy with subversive ties?  Well, boys will be boys!

And sometimes creepy people really are dangerous.

Twitter and Instagram both need to scrub themselves clean of Rep. Gosar's trail of slime - and they should bar him from their platforms - and Congress should give him the boot.   There are still plenty of teeth that he can drill and fill in Arizona, and rocks that he can sleep under, but Gosar's time on the national stage needs to come to a screeching halt.

Family knows best!