Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came to the defense of lawmakers this week by warning Trump administration officials they could soon be having "a problem" with her.

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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    698·
    3 days ago

    If you come for my constituents, stop no…

    If you come for our mayors, that’s unfortunate.

    Threaten our governors? So sad, horrible, can nothing be done?

    Come for me? We’re going to have a problem.

    None fo the Dems are going to do shit until they come for them directly, a year after it’s too late to do shit.

      • DrDickHandler@lemmy.world
        40·
        3 days ago

        The oligarchs have the population exactly where they want them to be: poor, unhealthy, divided and unable to mount a concrete unified resistance.

        • MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee
          303·
          3 days ago

          the whole US population has been indoctrinated to believe non-violent action is effective and the only thing thats acceptable. fucking strange for a country that is so hardcore 2a.

            • MBech@feddit.dk
              28·
              3 days ago

              Which is cool and all, but fascism has never been beaten in a peaceful manner. Fascists don’t give a shit about how peaceful or honorable you are. They’ll strip you of your rights, imprison anyone who disagrees, and murder the people they don’t like.

                • MBech@feddit.dk
                  83·
                  3 days ago

                  I’m not american, so thankfully I’m not in a position to, but either you lay down, and let them do whatever they want to do like the ordinary germans in the 1930’s, or you stand against it, because freedom and democracy is worth dying for. If democracy isn’t worth dying for, then you won’t ever be able to have it.

                  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    22·
                    3 days ago

                    If democracy isn’t worth dying for, then you won’t ever be able to have it.

                    Democracy sucks ass and directly lead to the problems we have now.

            • hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              9·
              3 days ago

              What makes you think you have to kill people? Why not just sink their yachts, burn their planes and homes? Dox them. Shut down airports with drones – nationally. Burn their warehouses, datacenters, factories. Hack their computers and steal their money. Etc… etc…

              Americans are so indoctrinated that they think killing is the natural next progression of peaceful protests.

              Humiliating them is much more damaging to their stupid movement.

            • IceFoxX@lemm.eeDeutsch
              4·
              3 days ago

              Republicans successfully storm the Capitol and split the country Extremely successful. Trump’s fascist approach and his supporters are also very successful.
              You so " how do you think something like that is successful! Peace Dude here some flowers please be nice again or I’ll go on a peaceful protest… that’ll show you what’s up!"
              His false claims of election tampering succeeded ( clearly even if no election fraud could be proven Trump had achieved what he wanted ).
              Your so “we accept the election… We don’t even think about the Republicans rigging the election or anything else… we’ll let the Republicans do it easier… how we want to protect our democracy? Here’s some flowers!!!”