In another embarrassing meltdown, Rep. Jasmine Crockett disrupted proceedings during a House Oversight Committee meeting, making a string of inflammatory statements towards Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and becoming increasingly hostile towards the other Republican representatives in the room, which led to a hilarious roast of the leftist politico on X.
For context, during a House Oversight Committee meeting on May 17, 2024, tensions rose when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in response to Greene’s comment about Crockett’s fake eyelashes. Crockett responded with a string of personal attacks, including describing Rep. Greene as racist.
During the meeting, Rep. Crockett rhetorically described Rep. Taylor Greene as having a “beach blonde bad-build butch body,” asking if using such an insult would be considered “engaging in personalities.” In response, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said, “A what now?” After laughter broke out on the House floor, Rep. Comer added, “I have no idea what you just said.”
In response to Rep. Crockett’s insults, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said, “We’re not going to do this,” prompting an explosive response from Rep. Crockett, who shot back, yelling, “I’m trying to get clarification…this is what y’all do.” Rep. Luna responded, “Calm down, I can’t hear you with your yelling.” Undeterred, Rep. Crockett screamed, “Y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it. If I come and talk sh– about her, y’all gon’ have a problem.”
According to coverage from CNN, Rep. Crockett responded to the incident by standing her ground and refusing to be held accountable for escalating tensions in the House Oversight Committee meeting, saying, “I’m not apologizing,” and adding, “[Greene] is racist. I mean, I don’t have any questions about that.”
Continuing, Crockett went off on “MAGA America,” saying, ” lot of times when I would go viral, instead of them trying to address the things that I laid out in a very factual way, what they would try to do is say, ‘Oh, look at her hair,’ or ‘Look at her nails,’ or ‘Look at her lashes,’ and they would all then associate anything I do as a form of beautification with being quote-unquote ‘ghetto.’”
In response to the blowup, Rep. Greene shot back at Rep. Crockett on X, throwing in a searing callout of AOC for good measure. Rep. Greene began her post by calling out hypocrisy in the House, saying, “Every single committee hearing. Every single floor speech. Democrats attack, smear, and hurl personal insults against President Trump.”
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Refusing to back down, Rep. Greene concluded, “How ridiculous is it that the Speaker runs his mouth about decorum when our opposition refuses to follow it at all. AOC isn’t intelligent. Jasmine Crockett has fake eyelashes. These aren’t attacks on personalities. These are just facts.”
Watch Rep. Crockett’s explosive freakout:
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