A congressman tweeted out an altered video depicting him killing AOC.

What other workplace would allow this?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readNov 11, 2021
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Of all the lawmakers in the democratic party who might frustrate people on the right and their legislators alike, few earn their ire more than Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Recently however, the anger and rhetoric took it to another level when a fellow congressman shared an altered anime video that depicted him literally killing AOC.

Representative Ted Lieu tweeted a screen grab of the video that had been shared by Paul Gosar’s personal as well as his professional account, writing:

“This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar. He tweeted out the video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez from both his official account and personal account. In any workplace in America, if a coworker made an anime video killing another coworker, that person would be fired.”

I mean, of course this is true.

Where else would this be acceptable? Where else would someone be able to do this to their coworker and get away with it? Where else would someone be expected to go to work with someone…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx