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
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.
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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?
uh huh
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.
She is an IR graduate who spend her final semester in Mauritania, MAURITANIA.
And imaginary friends.
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
Okay what problem?
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
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Baath Party Congress of 2025
I would vote for a 3rd term
She’s right. Congress would have a problem.
glad to hear we don’t yet have a problem
What because touching the political brahmin class is unconstitutional?
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.
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Yeah but have you considered…big robot cool???
Mass deporting people to prisons without trial is an acceptable political disagreement, but god help you if you touch a Dem I guess.
I’m warning you right now that we may
in future electionsis this a bit?
Unfortunately no
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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.
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.
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
