'Do I Look Like I Care?': AOC Shreds Trump's Border Czar In Blunt Free Speech Reminder

Please stay safe, AOC
Homan, when asked about Evers’ guidance outside the White House on Thursday, answered, “Wait ’til you see what’s coming.”
These absolute fucking ghouls. Homan needs to be put against the fucking wall.
- What's more, Pam Bondi is probably the one orchestrating and advising on political prosecutions that are almost certainly implied by "what's coming."
  But I really hope my other intuition is correct and they have not yet fully staffed the DOJ with fascist sycophants. I am hoping there are enough decent people that they have been and will derail the worst of it, at least in the short term.
  
  I feel like the recession and threat of joblessness will sway a lot of those decent people to "just doing my job" their way into being okay with it.
- Mod here: We’ve received several reports from this comment thread. If I had the power to lock just this thread, I would because I can see how this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.
  I would encourage people to reread what each other has said, and rather than immediately thinking of a rebuttal, read it a second or third time until you can interpret what the other person said a different way than you initially read it.
- Mod here: We’ve received several reports from this comment thread. If I had the power to lock just this thread, I would because I can see how this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.
  I would encourage people to reread what each other has said, and rather than immediately thinking of a rebuttal, read it a second or third time until you can interpret what the other person said a different way than you initially read it.
  
  this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.
  Why is some unproductive discourse a problem? Why is it so severe that a (hypothetical) thread lock is needed?
- Please stay safe, AOC
  No, don't. The opposition playing it safe is how the fascists are winning.
  
  You know what I meant.
  
  bro doesn't know the difference between "stay safe" and "play safe"

Arresting AOC would be the biggest mistake the MAGA Nazis could make. It would virtually guarantee that she will be the leader in post-MAGA America.
- But it is absolutely the kind of mistake they would make.
- Post-MAGA America is what they're trying to prevent through their fascist attacks on the rule of law and the judiciary.
  Every day I'm more convinced that those of us on the left needs to stock up before they start adding registered Democrats to the NICS database to keep us from buying weapons.

She’s always been such an action hero. Even now as the conservatives are emboldened. Tell me who’s gonna lead the god damn revolution.
- By the looks of it, her being imprisoned is what might America stand up, or not. Most of Republicans are racist pieces of shit with no moral compass or compassion to the extent that it is guaranteed they all go tell hell if they are Christians for eternity, all to suck an orange mans cock for a few years. Talk about people hurt by being closeted.
  
  Bernie and AOC are the only two representatives that have ever gotten me so fired up that I'm signing up for phone banking & door knocking even though that's like the last fucking thing I wanna do in my free time.
  I am even hate calling my state representatives and telling them to just do what AOC says because clearly she's got the biggest balls in the room and actually understands what her job is-- fighting for the people she represents, not corporate interests.
  
  Only thing they we'll make Americans stand up is if they turned off the internet. But then they'd probably just go to tv again.

I love her gumption, but I really fear she's underestimating her opposition. They've already shown they care nothing about the rule of law, so counting on that to "protect" you is a losing bet in the long term.
- Well, she can either cower in fear and comply in advance, or fight to the limits of what she can do. They are coming for her either way.
  I think she is what the Democrats should be. She is doing her job. TBH electing her president would restore a lot of the public image Trump lost the US.
  
  We need politicians to push back on the fascists. If they go after AOC too aggressively it will make her a martyr to the cause and give the rest of us someone to aspire to.
  If the limp Democratic opposition continues to do nothing, and we will all feel abandoned to the Red-hats, it only gives trump more power.
  
  They are coming for her either way.
  This is the most important lesson for everyone. There is no safety in complacency. There is no peace after appeasement.
  You fight today, or you die tomorrow. They might not come for you first, but they will come for you. By the time they do, who will be left to speak out?
  
  electing her president would restore a lot of the public image Trump lost the US.
  i think this is not true… a large portion of what the US has in reputation was stability: trump as proved that the systems in place on the US can be bent and abused in ways nobody thought possible… the only way to fix that is systemic change
  4 years of AOC won’t change that the same thing can happen again at the end of her term
- No.
  She understands the risks, and she's willing to die and be a martyr if that's what's necessary.
  
  We shouldn't be talking like this regardless. Don't normalize any ideas they might have. If you make what's next expected, they're more likely to do it and more likely to get away with it.
  
  I like AOC, but I feel you may be overestimating her political will.
- I think she’s doing what’s right and good, and there’s not a lot of that going around right now. I stand for and with her. Bring it if they want to mess with her.
- I'm sure AOC knows what she is up against, and she still chooses to speak out because she is brave and these things need to be said.
- I love her gumption, but I really fear she’s underestimating her opposition. They’ve already shown they care nothing about the rule of law, so counting on that to “protect” you is a losing bet in the long term.
  I love how difficult it is to determine which party is her opposition.
- It's terrible, but what we need is the final layer of the mask to come of ASAP. Right now the US population is a slowly-boiling frog, and to get regular people to act we may need the heat to get turned up to 11.

Finally, a brave Amarican standing up

Homan is a Pakled.

y'all gonna have to give me a 'blunt free speech reminder' after I go non-verbal when I finish smoking that shit.

She should pull her shirt up to cover her head, hold her arms out like a cactus, and say “Are you threatening me?”
Edit: Since there seem to be many of you who are missing the reference.
- I think people think you're trivializing her opposition, but honestly, derisive comedy is one of the only ways to truly undermine fascism. Fearing them may be wise after they are established, but it does only make them stronger.
  Also, anyone not watching the new Beavis & Butthead series is missing out, it's really good.
- I am the great Cornholio!
  (I got it, even if goobers thought you were insinuating she she flash her chest.)
  
  When I saw all the downvotes, I suddenly realized that Beavis and Butthead are "for old people" now.

Carry on AOC, just do not forget about the American people, even the asswipes supporting Krasnov.

Homan, when asked about Evers’ guidance outside the White House on Thursday, answered, “Wait ’til you see what’s coming.”
🧐

I with you OP. This is the right way and the right attitude.

Context from the article:
The congresswoman — as part of a town hall-style event in New York City — claimed that Homan threatened to refer her to the Justice Department after she gave a “Know Your Rights with ICE” webinar to those concerned about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

It’s gonna be GreenE, MTG vs AOC in ‘28
(Assuming there will be an election)
Edit: GreenE
- Greens are in bed with Putin, same as the GOP. They never attempt any campaign that can have a positive impact. They're not leftists or worth support from anyone who is remotely left of center.
  
  Sorry, GreenE. Marjorie Taylor Greene
  MTG v AOC

Here's another free speech reminder:
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/

all she needs now to be taken seriously is to leave the sold-out Democrat party
- I think I'd rather she stay. We all wish there were an alternative, but historically third parties have not done well. Easier to get her in as the head of the thing and clean it up that way.
  
  If we could pass Ranked Choice voting, those third and more parties could actually do something. In neighboring Idaho, there were signs trying to prevent RCV on the grounds that it was "confusing". Propaganda gonna propaganda.
  
  Will never happen though, sadly.
  
  Easier to get her in as the head of the thing and clean it up that way.
  Uh... What makes you think that's ever going to happen?
- How does that help anyone? That would just be performative
  The Democratic party is right there, and it stands for nothing. It has all the infrastructure set up already. So let's take it.
  Let's tea party the Democratic party and force them left, kicking and screaming. Let's build a large enough faction of actual progressives and leftists that Democrats are forced to come to the table. We flip red seats and take vacant ones. Then we primary incumbent Democrats who don't get with the game plan
  That's what the whole fighting oligarchy tour is about
  
  The Democratic party is right there, and it stands for nothing.
  That'd be nice, but no. The Democratic Party stands for keeping leftists out of power and, if possible, keeping neoliberals in power. It's a shit platform, but it's there and it means they'll fight you tooth and nail (or simply kick you out, as they're trying to do to David Hogg) if you try to bring even center-left politics to the party.
  
  LOL
- America has FPTP—she loses any practical chance of influence if she does that. Unless you vote for one of the main two parties, you create the same outcome as if you voted for the party you like least.
  The better bet is to push her up to the top of the party and drag it kicking and screaming leftward. Then frankly, start pushing for voting reform to fix this problem
  
  There is no reforming a right wing party or pushing politicians left. The only influence in DC is money, they don't give a flying fuck what we think
- Is congresswoman
  Is subject of article
  Is one of the best known democrats
  A nobody says she should leave the party to be taken seriously
  lol okay. And I’m a nobody too, that’s why I have a Lemmy account
- agreed, the Dems are beyond redemption. Hard to stomach all the replies here, implication being that after enduring 4 more years of Trump we’re faced with another neoliberal smiley gladhand who will say some of the right things but work only to maintain the status quo and corporate hegemony. But alas, we can’t have meaningful change until people come around to the reality of what the Dems and Repugs have been doing since the 1970s.
  Wake up you fucking jackasses, Dems are not going to save you.
  
  It's just mass delusion at this stage if anyone believes the democrats will embrace leftism.

She's a Zionist. US needs a better opposition leader, it's not her.
- Fuck off person who led to trump
- Don’t you belong with your god over on truth social? How did you get here?
- Lol aoc is too good for americans, shes a smart person who actually worked to get where she is. No wonder those idiots dont like her
- Oh? This you? Portuguese twat who's never been to the US thinks AOC is a Zionist?
  MF sit the fuck back down and learn how to operate a power grid.
  
  She's been seen many times supporting Israel.
  You're lack education and manners.
- Wait how is she a Zionist??
  
  well unfortunately @o_arguido@lemmy.world is the sole world authority on who is or is not a zionist so unfortunately if o_arguido said she's a zionist then well nobody can countermand the zion-lord sorrryyy
- And here we see a sighting of one nature's truly disgusting creatures.
  The internet troll.
- I am so sick of people basing their entire political opinion on what happens in the middle east. News Flash: Many people dont understand what is even happenning. Most of us don't care.
  
  A politician being fine with bombing civilians somewhere simply means that they are fine with bombing civilians.
  And I cannot say that I'm surprised by an American not caring about the rest of the world.
  
  That's why most of the world despise Americans. Keep it up. Fucking murderers. It's your bombs you fucking idiot
- You're a moron. Lemme needs better users, it's not you.
- What the hell are you on about? Zionist? Use English. Ain't no one knows what the fuck that means unless you are some neck bearded troll.
  
  I speak 4 languages. That comment is so fucking American.
- Oh, I offended their gf.