Republicans lose some power in assaulting Titan death threat

Nine days after that Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a now deleted attack on Titan-Themed video of himself and his Republican colleagues who killed MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden, the House of Representatives agreed to Gosar. to blame and remove him from both of his House appointments. This marks the first time that a member of the House of Representatives has been censored for over a decade.

On Tuesday evening, House Rules Committee Democrats proposed removing Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the House Committee on Natural Resources. The vote on the censure took place today. The House of Representatives mostly voted according to party lines, with only two Republicans voting for censorship. The decision to censor Rep. Gosar will significantly reduce his influence in these policy areas.

According to Rep. Gosar, he deleted the original video from his Twitter account out of pure kindness:

I stand up today to address the misrepresentation and allegations made by many on this panel that the cartoon from my office is dangerous or threatening. It was not. And I categorically reject the false narrative. I don’t help anyone violence. I never. It wasn’t my intention to upset anyone. I took the cartoon off willingly, not because it was a threat itself, but because some thought it was so. Out of pity for those who generally felt offended, I censored myself.

Since the video of the Democratic MP represented Gosar as a hostile titan, MP Ocasio-Cortez considered the vote to be justified.

“In response to the Republican leader’s remarks when he said this action is unprecedented, what I think is unprecedented is that a member of the House of Representatives from either party is unable to incite violence against a member of that body condemn, “she said.

In the debate leading up to the no-confidence vote, Republicans mostly argued that the United States was facing more pressing problems than the content of an anime video. Well-known Weeb rep Andy Biggs from Arizona tried to explain why Gosar’s controversial video wasn’t a death threat by citing his deep familiarity with Japanese culture and anime:

I have lived in Japan for several years. I speak japanese. I read and write Japanese. This is an anime Shingeki no kyojin. Very popular, stylized to demonstrate the alienation that people, especially young people, feel in their culture. Does anime have violence? Yes sir. It’s hyped violence. It is not intended to induce violence into people.

The Democrats disagreed.

“We know where the glorification and promotion of violence leads,” said Steny Hoyer, the Democratic majority leader. “We have seen this year, in previous years, that piercing tweets turn into sharp knives. Fiery words bring out deadly guns and killing cartoons leads to real bloodshed. ”

The vote on MP Gosar’s vote of no confidence ended with 223-207-1 plus three abstentions.