21h ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Trump Admin If They ‘Lay a Finger’ on Members of Congress ‘We Are Going To Have a Problem’

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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.

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3h ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Trump Admin If They ‘Lay a Finger’ on Members of Congress ‘We Are Going To Have a Problem’

www.mediaite.com /politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warns-trump-admin-if-they-lay-a-finger-on-members-of-congress-we-are-going-to-have-a-problem/

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You should already have a problem.
- How many red lines have been crossed now? I like AOC but the Democrats and Congress aren't going to do shit if they haven't already.
  
  Seven red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular. Some with green ink and some with transparent.
  
  Trust me, I'm an expert!
  
  5-D chess requires red surfaces and a few lines.
  
  The problem is the old fart democrats and a few DINOs combine to make it so there just isnt enough of a voting block to actually make anything happen. It sucks right now but the whole point of congress is to require a majority consensus in order to pass legislation. Frankly the fact is it was structurally designed to be slow because the founders of the constitution were tired of King George and now we're bearing witness to what happens when we need it to respond.
  
  and shes like only 1 person, other than crockett, and maybe tim is doing anything different. all the other dnc do not want to lose thier seats, and or the grift train the gop has been living off of.
  
  Nah, fuck this sentiment. Force a vote and be loud about every law that they break. If there's a contingency of congress that are going to be obtuse about resisting fascism, then they can face the disgruntled mass of voters in the next election. If Dickhead Durbin hadn't already decided he's not going to run for reelection I'd be voting him and Tammy Duckworth out for compromising on Republican policies. Instead I'll only get the pleasure of voting against Tammy in the primaries.
  
  I used to like her, but she's seemingly going career politician and is voting with lobbyists instead of advocacy groups and all her public statements are just talk. She's becoming what she got into politics to prevent..
  
  Not left enough for you?
  Who is?
  
  You say that like it's a trap card.
  Nobody in office right now is. The system will not tolerate it, and is built to keep them at the fringes.
  
  No it’s what makes progressives impotent they spend more time purity testing each other instead of doing anything.
  
  No, what makes progressives appear impotent is they are fighting an asymmetric war against a much more well funded opponent.
  
  Yet MAGA was able to take over the GOP.
  It’s sad when MAGA is better funded and organized then the progressives and they bitch less to boot.
  
  I'm not saying you're lying, or wrong, but could you provide examples?
  
  The "Take it Down" act. She voted with the party line despite warnings.
  giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk.
  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws
  https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congress-moving-forward-on-unconstitutional-take-it-down-act/
  https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll104.xml
  
  This is one of the few valid criticisms I can think of. Like, I can get why she'd consider the legislation, considering the myriad of deepfakes made about her (which has got to feel…particularly violating on top of the non-sexual harassment and attention people have put on her since she, basically, first got elected) but there are really valid concerns about the legislation, particularly in the context of this administration.
  And I don't remember her, at least, even addressing those concerns and potential abuses of the law.
  
  I'll say they're lying and wrong for you.
  
  She started losing me a few years ago, when claiming to be a socialist & pro-union, she voted to make it illegal for railroad workers to strike. Pro-union until their collective action might make life a little inconvenient, then knock their teeth out for the capitalists.
  I haven't really kept track of her since then.
  
  I heard her talk about immigrant labor and the joy if it being cheap for cheap products and realized she wasn't on our side but money's.
  She's just young, female and talks occasionally to the populace like she gets it and agrees that things are bad so she's given a lot more leeway than the other members of the party. Its all fundraising though.
- They do. They can’t do anything through Congress, but they’re helping the ACLU get the cases through the courts. If they go after a member of Congress, that member can personally press charges on the administration. That is her point.
  
  And then it gets escalated to the fascist Supreme Court and dismissed.
  Law is a dead end.
  
  That’s far from the norm. SCOTUS has upheld far more lower court rulings than overturned.
  https://archive.is/2025.05.08-094244/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-lawsuits-against-trump-administration/
  
  The ones that don't matter to the regime are upheld so Democrats keep thinking the Courts will save them and they keep wasting time in legal battles instead of organizing in other ways. The ones that Trump actually cares about are overturned.
  
  No, doomerism is
  
  I believe in the power of organized strikes combined with mass protests. That's what works and what forces Courts rule in our favor. That's hardly being a doomer.
  You just don't want to have to do anything.
  
  But they're totally thinking of planning to maybe someday look into building a guillotine!
  
  Nah, they're going to call everyone else not doing that an enemy while continuing to do nothing at all, of not actually helping MAGA like they did during the election!
- It's a figure of speech. She's aware.

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