Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has mocked her Republican colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene for complicated the Nazi secret police Gestapo and a chilly soup often known as gazpacho.
“At the very least she leads by instance. She clearly banned all books from her home years in the past,” the New York Congresswoman mentioned in a tweet.
“For actual although while you see how the GOP overtly embrace and leverage fascist members of their get together vs how a lot some Dems run away and body their very own base mobilisers as ‘simply as excessive’ it’s not onerous to see how that asymmetry/false equivalence has contributed to the place we’re.”
The feedback from Ms Ocasio-Cortez, also referred to as AOC, got here after the Georgia consultant confused the soup and the German secret police whereas hitting out on the Home Choose committee probing the Capitol Hill revolt.
Talking on “Actual America with Dan Ball”, a present of the right-wing channel OAN, Ms Greene mentioned on Wednesday: “Not solely do now we have the DC jail, which is the DC Gulag, however now now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress.”
“Spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our workers, and spying on Americans that wish to come speak to their representatives.”
The Republican Accountability Undertaking, which tracks proper wing media misinformation, famous in a tweet: “Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish chilly soup.”
Ms Greene was extensively mocked on social media for not understanding the distinction between the 2.
“No soup for individuals who illegally spy on Members of Congress, however they are going to be thrown within the goulash,” she mentioned in a self-depricating tweet, referring to ‘gulag’ as ‘goulash’.
Ms Greene is thought for spreading baseless Covid conspiracy and QAnon theories and misinformation concerning the 2020 elections amongst others.
Final month, she was banned by each Fb and Twitter over Covid misinformation. Her official Congressional Twitter account stays lively.
