cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29614051
Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram after the Department of Homeland Security suggested they may pursue arrests of three Democratic lawmakers who partook in a protest outside of an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) all attended the protest.
If they lock up a member of Congress, dems will fold faster than a house of cards.
They have no teeth except when there’s a person with mildly center left policies or a middle eastern country that’s not giving them unlimited access to their oil
deleted by creator
We already had a problem, the democrats could’ve figured this out when they started arresting students and teachers during the Biden admin. They were too busy navel gazing and tut-tutting to understand the A to B. You’re correct, they will absolutely fold, they stand for literally nothing.
Her and Sanders didn’t even have the courage or wherewithal to head down to El Salvador to back up Garcia, had to leave it to some no-name centrist Senator
Fair weather ass pretenders
AOCIA showing she only cares to do photo ops and social media stunts, not enough to actually do ANYTHING else
“Oh I know, I’ll vote ‘present’ on this measure that everyone with a soul is against”
“Garcia who??? I have to arm Israel sweety”
She couldnt even wear a dress that says “eat the rich”, like she toned it down. If you do social media stunts as your “revolutionary” tactic at least have it a bit more confrontational.
What’s funny is that was still too far for the reactionaries. People were flipping the fuck out, both gala attendees and chuds on social media.
If you try to compromise and your opponents still think your milquetoast outfit is leftwing terrorism, then you should have just done the leftwing terrorism.
Yeah of course you arent going to “win” if you are a oppressor centred person. They will never play fair with you, let you speak or let you outsmart them or trick them into letting you do communism unopposed.
Maybe she knew she wouldn’t get a
photo op
is this a bit?
Unfortunately no
I’m warning you right now that we may
in future elections
lmao, the fuck is she going to do? write a strongly worded letter? make a frowny face at them?
Cry outside their jail cell in front of cameras while wearing all white and high heels
Shows their position but not in the way they intended 🙈
deleted by creator
“The Democratic party is working tirelessly to get our colleagues released from prison”
This is the most important election of our lives. If you stand with the #Resistance, donate $5 to the Democrat Resistance Fund today.
Will you also chip in $5 to actBlue to cover the cost of this campaign?
It’s clearly petition* time!
*The ghoulish art of giving people a false sense of agency by asking them to sign one.
She’ll make a really sarcastic TikTok and then do a goofy GenZ dance
She’s gonna insta but do it really, really sternly.
I will cut a frowny face in their chest
little wench I’m unmentionably fresh I’m a mensch get correct
I will walk into a court while erect
screaming yes I am guilty motherfuckers I am death
Nice to know she and the rest of Congress draws the line right before themselves. “Representatives”, my ass.
That’s actually kind of interesting. Will the Dems call their followers to violence if their own lives are on the line? The capitol riot may have traumatized enough of them
They’ll flee to Ottawa, form a government in exile, and wonder why they aren’t getting NED money
Will the Dems call their followers to violence if their own lives are on the line?
A guy shot up a pizza parlor he thought was a secret Democrat base. Another dude tried to kill Nancy Pelosi with a hammer, but she wasn’t there so he tried to kill her husband.
The answer is “No. Dems will do absolutely fuck all if they get Sumner Cane’d.” They will cling to civility and decorum even as bullets from ICE stormtroopers go out the back of their skulls.
Even if they weren’t, the narrative behind those attacks were “lone wolf” attacks
State violence against senators is a different thing
I think their commitment to the West Wingification of American politics and their oligarch donors would have them putting “decorum” above calling for violence no matter what happens.
If they can’t learn from repeated election losses, they aren’t going to learn how to save their country any other way, either.
Please, trump could lock the doors to the House of Representatives and start shooting dems one by one and these useless fucking ghouls would be voting for him to shoot other dems before them
dream scenario
[removed by Reddit]
Baath Party Congress of 2025
I would vote for a 3rd term
that’s exactly what person who doesn’t want to do resistance nonsense would say
I can excuse rounding up average citizens but if they touch politicians we’re going to have a problem.
“If you tie me to that chair I’m gonna be so pissed!” ~ they said as they willfully followed the guy with rope to the chair.
dems take the house, AOC becomes speaker
aoc kills trump and vance, then pardons herself as president
Fam, if you’ve found a door to
Narniathe timeline chuds imagine we live in, tag us in
I remember how badly January 6th scared her out of a legitimate concern that they would kill her. She also became even more complicit with the Dems after that. Chances are she would fold as well.
People love to insist she was grown in a CIA lab to be a bartender or whatever, but I think AOC’s behavioral evolution is pretty much what you’d expect from a normie DSA lib who’s spent every waking hour for most of the last decade in an isolated bubble composed entirely of the worst people alive. The more time people spend in the imperial congress, the more they can’t help but start to see other congresspeople as their only peers and normal people as a vague abstract mass that can only be understood through op-eds, poll divination, and campaign strategists.
Word, same thing happens to me when I spend too much time in the suburbs. I start to develop mildy reactionary takes that I then have to remind myself that they are reactionary
She is an IR graduate who spend her final semester in Mauritania, MAURITANIA.
And imaginary friends.
Just thinking back to how Rashida Talib was treated when she was trying to bring attention to the Palestinian genocide and how none of her peers backed her up.
But now that Trump is president its a good time to stand up for peers since bad things only happen when there’s a dang Cheeto in the White House.
She’s right. Congress would have a problem.
I won’t do anything about anyone else, but if you come for me, I might try to stop you.
Yes, you… a member of the Democratic Party… will have a problem when the Republican Party starts locking up members of the Democratic Party. You will be in jail, prison, or disappeared to places unknown.
glad to hear we don’t yet have a problem
What are you going to do? Impeach him like you all did before? Hexs comitting genocide same as
. You had years of 
and 
to unfuck the PATRIOT ACT which all this shit is a derivative of but just made it worse. Your party made Trump as a STRATEGY.
