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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    Americans in a literal fascist state be like: This is literally fascism

    they’re trapped in a Cassandra‑like tautology: forewarning what has already come to pass

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    Tell me, did she also sLaM him? I’m fucking sick of this posturing, do something already

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      I was about to write they need to make an offense first.
      But you are right, they already did that, by preventing legal oversight.
      That shouldn’t be allowed to pass.

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        And 1000 other things. It’s long past time for them to “have a problem”. Put up or shut up AOC.

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      Ugh there’s so much of this obnoxious shit on YouTube. “Person A DEMOLISHES Trump in front of Setting B!” And then the video is literally just someone saying the same shit everyone is saying and Trump isn’t even there. Or like “Watch Republican mortified as they realize they screwed themselves by electing Trump” and there’s literally zero self reflection or regret.

      There are so many videos and headlines that are literally just feeding on the clickbait potential of people waiting for a substantial response to this complete mess. Hypothetical dunking on people who aren’t even in the room or don’t react at all isn’t the victory people seem to like to advertise it as.

      And then they like fully miss an actual town hall in a Republican district booing the shit out of some MAGA toolbox.

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    If the trump admin goes after congress members, they’re going after the Squad first so most democrats will be on board.

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      Democrats are the Leopards Eating Faces Party, Republicans are Let Leopards Run Free Without Regulation Party.

      Every time they give Republicans an inch, they’ll take a mile. And then publicly cry “Giving them a mile was a mistake, we wanna walk back a foot!”

      If AOC is targeted, wanna bet enough Democrats vote yes to remove/arrest her in appeasement of Trump, thinking they’ll be saved?

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        And they never undue what was done just keep the status quo. So the US marches ever towards the right.

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          Never have, never will. I’ve become disillusioned with the platitudes that the DNC sells the public. If they want to win, give them something that makes them not consider fascist lies of how they’ll make everything better.

          But instead its means tested, racist, classist solutions that only major revisions to laws and the way a government operates could fix. And no politician wants that.

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    You can discuss all you want, they can be members of Congress or what ever but unfortunately we don’t have a Congress and we are already in a dictatorship, even if you brand it as fascism. I saw the video posted by Hasan Piker. If you listen carefully the question he was asked to answer by customs agents it shows we’re in a dictatorship.

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      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.

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              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!

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            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.

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              Weird things to say to someone that you don’t know anything about. You aren’t spying on me because you wouldn’t say that, so I’m going to chalk it up to unfounded accusation, maybe to try and feel better?

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                You clearly want to wait around for the Courts to solve everything so you don’t have to do anything. I don’t know you, but I know your type. The only political actions you have ever taken are voting, signing petitions, and maybe donating. All stuff that requires no effort and carries no risk.

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                  I’m amazed how much you depend on ESP for your clarity and your willingness to loudly tell everyone how you make conclusions based on unfounded basis… If you only knew how wrong you were, you would be embarrassed

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            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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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        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…

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            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.

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              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.

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            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

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              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.

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            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.

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                No, what makes progressives appear impotent is they are fighting an asymmetric war against a much more well funded opponent.

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                  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.

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    there already is a ton of problems. she’s toothless and a moron. her party is nothing more than republican-light these days anyway.

    we need actual changes.

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      I’ll admit she phrased this poorly but she’s one of the best representatives we’ve got on our side. What’s your plan?

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        My plan is to vote for folks who are not democrat or republican; as they both support exploitation, financial instability, genocide, and general capitalist concerns.

        All things that are destructive to working class people. Some more than others, of course.

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            yes, she’s also tacitly approved them, waited until she could test the waters, and all of that before “coming out.”

            which says to me she had no real opinion other than “that which fits within the overton window of today.”

            the same with RFKJR, “switching” parties. the same with Biden, claiming to be pro union… yet making it illegal for those rail workers to strike…

            democrats are evil obfuscated. republicans are evil without obfuscation.

            the problem is not the party. it is the system.

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    That’s a good threat, but what happens when nobody backs it up? You just know that establishment Dems will sit it out and people are not going to do anything. So what then?

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    After watching that video, there already is a problem. Assaulting an elected official is a felony and the ICE officer that did this needs to be up on charges.

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    Hold up - they participated in the protest? Or they showed up and required a tour of the facility, which is their right as federal lawmakers?

    What I saw indicated only the latter? Did they actually participate in the protest?

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      I have no idea but whether they did or not is irrelevant.

      Protesting is constitutionally protected speech even for lawmakers, and has no bearing on their rights as elected officials to tour those facilities.

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    except you got enablers like schumer and hakeem bending the knee to the megadonors.

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      They are behaving exactly like controlled opposition, at this point I could care less about how much they actually are or aren’t controlled opposition, what matters is their action or rather lack of it is catastrophic.

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        pretty much are dinos at this point, alot of them wouldnt get voted otherwise.

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    She said, he said…Just storm the capitol, easy! 4 years of US politics with trump killing freedom. Please nooo.