Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) has issued an official complaint that a few members of Congress were not wearing their masks in elevators, but did not list them directly by name.
She put forth the argument that their refusal to wear their face coverings was “intolerable” in a workplace, “undermining our democracy,” and was the exact same threat level as committing the same acts as participating in the Capitol Hill riots back on January 6th.
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“This is where the lack of civility has come to in the United States Congress,” started the congresswoman. “And I think it is a massive problem. It undermines our ability to get work done, and it is intolerable in a workplace where we are going to work to do the work of the American people.”
“And also, let me just remind your viewers that this was about wearing a mask, which is mandated in the Capitol. It is mandated in the Capitol, and it is to protect our safety — our collective safety, the safety of our staffers,” continued Jayapal. “And so the idea that — and this has happened to me — where you would get on an elevator and people refuse to wear a mask, and your choices are to either get off the elevator or to get on the elevator and to tell them to wear a mask.”
“That should not be a problem in the United States Congress,” she stated, and then went on a weird tangent where she tried to compare those who were creating that problem to the rioters who rushed Capitol hill back on January 6th, 2021.
“I really believe that our colleagues who refuse to even adhere to the basic norms of civility are undermining our democracy, and of course we’re seeing it in all kinds of even more serious ways like the January 6th insurrection is just part of that and part of the attempt to take down a legitimate democracy from functioning in the way it should,” she concluded.
Buck Sexton, a radio host, issued a response to these statements from Jayapal on Monday, highlighting the fact that Washington, D.C., was already taking steps to tone down the mask and vaccine mandates, with a few exceptions, and mocking the congresswoman for her overly dramatic and even dangerous comparison
That was a member of Congress. That was Congresswoman Jayapal, just so you understand. These are the things that Democrats say now. “When you refuse to mask up you’re destroying this democracy!” You heard her there which is fascinating on so many levels because this is, as I’ve said so many times, all evidence of a serious anxiety disorder. These anxiety disorders are very difficult, very difficult.
But you need to deal with them and not expect everybody else to cater to your anxiety disorder. You have to deal with your anxiety disorder even if you’re a member of Congress. But this is fascinating as well because, Clay, the member of Congress here is saying if you don’t mask up when you got you get on an elevator with somebody, you are a… Just to be clear, you’re “undermining our democracy” is what she said, if you don’t mask up on elevator.
She’s going to restaurants and bars and I’m sure parties and whatever else. No one’s got masks on. But when you step on an elevator with me, sir, without a mask on for that 20-second ride, you’re undermining our democracy. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., has announced just today they are getting rid of the indoor mask mandate in two weeks. They’re getting rid of it everywhere except — get ready for this — schools and some other locations.