As a resident of Houston, I would like to apologize to the rest of the country for some of the ridiculous things our Congressional representatives have recently done.
Yesterday the liberal media told everyone there was going to be an attempted insurrection by right wing extremists at the US Capitol.
It never happened.
But that didn't stop Houston's Representative Al Green (D) from taking a comical publicity photo and sending it around to news outlets (See photo below).
In case you don't keep up with fake liberal news outlets and their farfetched conspiracy theories, here's a quick recap: for the past couple of days left-wing talking heads have been filling up airtime on cable news channels by discussing a rumor about a possible attack on the Capitol by the QAnon boogiemen. Lawmakers canceled all their hearings and took the day off from work after Capitol police claimed they had evidence of a "credible threat" that extremists would be storming the Capitol on March 4th.
They were wrong.
But Rep Al Green, another known conspiracy theorist, couldn't let a fake tragedy go to waste. So he had one of his staff members take a photo of him bravely facing an angry mob of right wing extremists. But the right wing extremists weren't available for the photo-op. It didn't stop him from taking the photo.
You may recall last year when a CNN reporter stood in front of a burning city and said, "This is a mostly peaceful protest." Rep Al Green's stunt was basically the exact opposite of the mostly peaceful protest.
Representative Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, speaks virtually during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on a laptop computer in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Robinhood Markets and Citadel, central players in the GameStop Corp. saga that riveted markets last month plan to deliver a unified message to U.S. lawmakers that conspiracies swirling in Washington, that they worked together to harm retail investors are categorically false. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images