TWIBS: Nancy Mace Wants to Fight Jasmine Crockett
At a House Oversight Committee meeting, Nancy Mace willfully misinterpreted the words of Representative Jasmine Crockett and then… ask her to step outside? If a handshake nearly took her out, I’d hate to see what an actual fight would do to her!
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Folks… I think I might have a new hate-favorite. I’m so sorry, Riley Gaines… JK Rowling… not Ben Ryan… you’re being supplanted by the most persistently problematic sack of shit in the House of Representatives: Nancy Ruth Mace, the certified wannabe antebellum queen of North Cackalacky and Representative from South Carolina’s first congressional district. You may remember her from two prior incidents I reported on, the first being when she hauled ass to joyously segregate a bathroom like any self-respecting southern belle would, and the second being when every bone in her body was liquified and she was turned into a pasty smear on the floor by a single bombastic shake of the hand.
Those events were true Hallmark moments… but her latest bit of public drama might just be her worst yet.
In a rather heated exchange in the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, while supporting an amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas’ 30th congressional district accused Mace of virtue signaling for her party and constituents by obsessing over transgender people as a means of filling her “campaign coffers.” When Crockett said the word “chile,” Mace—who is, we must recall, whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost—misconstrued a common AAVE word to mean that she was being called a child.
Mace responded with immediate furor, her voice quaking and her lower lip presumably trembling as she insisted to Crockett that she was a big girl, a grown woman even. Shouting over Crockett, Mace said, “I am no child, do not call me a child, I am no child, I am a grown woman, I am 47 years old, I have broken more glass ceilings than you ever will.”
Wrapping up her incoherent yelling, Mace challenged Crockett with, “If you want to take it outside, we can do that.” I don’t know who exactly Nancy thinks she’s fooling since, as previously mentioned, she was recently taken out at the knees by an enthusiastic handshake. The row ended as committee chair James Comer called the meeting to order. When Crockett resumed speaking, she stressed that the existence of trans women were not a concern in her district: “I can tell you that, at least in the … 766,000 constituents I represent … I have not had a single person in my district tell me that they were concerned that they may be raped by a trans person.”
Representative Maxwell Frost questioned whether the remark was violent in nature, but Comer ruled that “Mace’s remark had not been a call to violence, saying she could have been asking Crockett to go outside to 'have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer.”
Crockett’s spokesperson, Chloe Kessock, makes no bones about the violent intent in Mace’s words: “It’s clear that Rep. Mace was threatening physical violence against Congresswoman Crockett as part of her performative, ridiculous meltdown in the House Oversight Committee room. Her slur-ridden screed exemplifies exactly why the House Oversight Committee needs to pass Congresswoman Crockett’s amendment to reinstate the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.”
Both Crockett and Mace tweeted about the incident, as politicians are wont to do in this, the information age. Crockett accused Mace of being an “attention seeking loser,” and pointed out that Republicans cannot both “incite violence from the highest level of government” and claim to be the party of law and order. Mace, meanwhile, insisted that she would always “hold the line” for victims of sexual assault. It is currently unclear what direct relevance that has to any part of this situation. She also linked to her own ranting speech from that afternoon, in which she suggests that Democrats cannot define what a woman is (we have been over this so many times, Nancy) and explicitly states that trans women will film cisgender women in bathrooms for some inconceivable purpose. Oh, and she says the t-slur a lot, because she’s a massive wailing bigot.
Personally, I appreciate Representative Crockett for calling a spade a spade on our behalf, and shutting down Nancy Mace’s buffoonery quite expertly. And for what it’s worth, I’m absolutely certain she could take Mace in a fight any damn day of the week.
Alyssa Steinsiek is a professional writer who spends too much time playing video games!
