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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[–] 135 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 100 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    lmao, the fuck is she going to do? write a strongly worded letter? make a frowny face at them?

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Cry outside their jail cell in front of cameras while wearing all white and high heels

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    [–] 75 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Nice to know she and the rest of Congress draws the line right before themselves. "Representatives", my ass.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    that's exactly what person who doesn't want to do resistance nonsense would say soviet-hmm

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    lathe-of-heaven

    dems take the house, AOC becomes speaker

    aoc kills trump and vance, then pardons herself as president

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    She's right. Congress would have a problem.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    glad to hear we don't yet have a problem

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    What are you going to do? Impeach him like you all did before? Hexs comitting genocide same as DaBiden . You had years of brandon and obama-drone 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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    I am sure the trump admin is shaking in its boots

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Keyboard warrior princess Alexandria

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

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

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    Crying from the other side of the fence social-democracy

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We had our chance to give Ilhan Omar a Gundam.

    She didn't blow that chance. We did.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    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.

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