9h 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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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.

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1d 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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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.

Keyboard warrior princess Alexandria

We had our chance to give Ilhan Omar a Gundam.
She didn't blow that chance. We did.
- But the Gundam is the symbol of a neoliberal hegemon using child soldiers to bash a colony back into compliance.
  
  Yeah but have you considered...big robot cool???

I am sure the trump admin is shaking in its boots

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

The majority of Dems in Congress would vote to allow the president to kill other Dems in Congress as long as they weren't one of them. lol. What? Trump could strangle her on live TV and nothing. Nothing at all, would happen. The US is cooked.

She's right. Congress would have a problem.

- is this a bit?
  
  Unfortunately no

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
- Maybe she knew she wouldn't get a
  photo op
- 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"
  
  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.
  
  "Garcia who??? I have to arm Israel sweety"

I won't do anything about anyone else, but if you come for me, I might try to stop you.

What's she going to do? Write a strongly worded letter?

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
- 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.
- Dems will immediately censure the first Dem senator to be arrested by the Trump admin

I hope Trump does a Saddam-style purge on the entire Congress

Okay what problem?

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.

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
- "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.
- It's clearly petition* time!
  *The ghoulish art of giving people a false sense of agency by asking them to sign one.
- 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
- She'll make a really sarcastic TikTok and then do a goofy GenZ dance
- She's gonna insta but do it really, really sternly.

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
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  They'll flee to Ottawa, form a government in exile, and wonder why they aren't getting NED money

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.

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.

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 ~~Narnia~~ the timeline chuds imagine we live in, tag us in

glad to hear we don't yet have a problem

we were supposed to be above the 'rules based law and order'!
fuck i'm tired of rich people concern trolling about the kinda stuff working class people experince everyday

Mass deporting people to prisons without trial is an acceptable political disagreement, but god help you if you touch a Dem I guess.

i hate her
- I'm with her
  (we're in the same concentration camp)

The problem: a bunch of posts on Instagram with mildly strident language.

Crying from the other side of the fence

Awwww what are these politicians gonna do? Fillibuster on a meeting? File a complaint? Yell on social media? Oh wait they are already doing that one.
Call me when they do something actually useful.
"We are going to have a problem" should mean guillotines. The tried and true means of getting rid of tyranny.

What because touching the political brahmin class is unconstitutional?

uh huh

:punished-aoc:

She and rest of the democrats are going to wear more matching coloured clothing and SLAM the white house? or some other nonsense gesture that democrats love to perform?