Posted on 09/30/2021 1:24:21 PM PDT by lightman
Politico’s co-congressional bureau chief berated a group of maskless Capitol tourists who turned out to be the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who lost her life during President Joe Biden’s failed Afghanistan withdrawal.
“Masks requirement in the House. Tours not allowed. Yet here we are — group of 9, only 2 in masks,” Politico’s Heather Caygle tweeted with a photo of the group in the wide-open Capitol on Thursday.
“Instead of immediately being a tattletale, maybe ask some questions first. If you did, you would learn that this is the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, getting a tour from their Congressman Tom McClintock,” replied one Twitter user, Steven D. Smith, urging her to consider deleting the tweet.
Instead of admitting her insensitivity and removing the post, however, the bureau chief doubled down on her Karen-style mask shaming.
“How does that exempt them from wearing a mask?” she fired back.
Politico’s congressional reporter Katherine Tully-McManus also jumped in to lament the fact that Capitol Police can’t also be mask police when it comes to members of Congress and their escorted constituents — only then to later add the “clarification” that this was in fact Gee’s family, but no apology.
Rep. Tom McClintock’s office confirmed to The Federalist that the group in the photo is the congressman with Gee’s family.
Gee, who was only 23 years old, had been assigned to aid in evacuation efforts in Kabul, specifically with civilian women and children as they fled the Taliban takeover. On Aug. 20, Gee posted on Instagram a photo of herself cradling an infant in her arms with the caption, “I love my job.” She was killed just six days later when ISIS-K bombed the Kabul airport.
“How her last breath was taken doing what she loved—helping people—at HKIA in Afghanistan,” fellow Marine and Gee’s roommate Sgt. Mallory Harrison wrote in a Facebook post. “Then there was an explosion. And just like that, she’s gone.”
Families of the fallen service members have reported multiple instances of feeling deeply disrespected in the wake of the tragic deaths.
Family members of the late Rylee McCollum, a 20-year-old Marine lance corporal, blamed President Joe Biden for his death with everyone but his wife, Jiennah Crayton, walking out of a meeting with the president in protest, while Crayton reportedly felt “disappointed” by how the meeting went.
“It struck the family as scripted and shallow, a conversation that lasted only a couple of minutes” according to the Washington Post, with what one of Rylee’s sisters called “total disregard to the loss of our Marine.”
The fathers of two of the fallen Marines also reported feeling disrespected by the president when they said he repeatedly checked his watch during the “dignified transfer” of their remains ar Dover Air Force Base.
“In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn’t happen just once. That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They’d release the salute, and he’d look down at his watch — on all 13 he’d look down at his watch,” Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, told Fox News’s Sean Hannity.
What’s the over/under on when this thing is seen without a facecondom? Three days? Two?
Here's an antidote:
I know it is against the teachings of Jesus Christ, but I have really come to hate liberals. I was berated by an acquaintance the other evening about how she went to Williamsburg and couldn’t stand seeing all the MAGA types there. I replied that, well, I am one and she walked away, cussing in the wind. If I never see her again, it will be too soon.
I know it is against the teachings of Jesus Christ, but I have really come to hate liberals. I was berated by an acquaintance the other evening about how she went to Williamsburg and couldn’t stand seeing all the MAGA types there. I replied that, well, I am one and she walked away, cussing in the wind. If I never see her again, it will be too soon.
She’s definitely got a “face for radio”....
ICK!!
I’d wear a mask all the time too, if I looked like that!
Typical elite leftist SNOTBAG!
Classic liberals are open to dialog and value true diversity of ideas.
What we are encountering are ideological leftists and fascists.
Nothing “classic liberal” about them!
Well detest liberalism then those that live in that life.
Sniff...
Sniff...
His body language there is almost actionable.
If he had a female family member of mine caged like that,
I would not be a happy camper.
That ship has sailed, with the Gov of CA and the mayor of SF partying with naked faces.
The blood of these fallen is already on their hands. But to them advancing an agenda is more important than a fallen patriots life.
RIP
Will anyone with a twitter acc’t please call her a POS for me? I don’t twit
I don’t twit but if I did I’d call her the north end of a southbound horse.
I suspect she knew it was a GOP congressman. Nothing would have been said about a Rat congressman.
And the liberals are not only evil in themselves but they are intent on inflicting evil on the innocent and good.
It is not even unknowing evil but conscious and planned evil.
It is not bad to hate such things and the actions of such people. What you need to guard against is letting it consume you and your soul. To not dwell on them and to knowingly make your mind instead dwell on things that are good, right, happy and Godly.
This takes some major effort.
Heather has a face like a dog’s ass, and the matching haircut to boot...
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