Yesterday most mainstream media outlets reported that a number of Democrat representatives — including "Squad“ members were arrested outside the Supreme Court following protests against their recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Rep
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y aka AOC was among those arrested for blocking
traffic. Reps. Barbara Lee of California, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Cori Bush
of Missouri, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Nydia Velazquez of New York, Madeleine
Dean of Pennsylvania, and Andy Levin of Michigan was among the other
legislators arrested.
The
Capitol Police said they had arrested 35 people, including 17 members of
Congress, for "crowding,
obstructing or incommoding." Law enforcement officials said they had
despite warning demonstrators refused to vacate the street, hence they made
took action.
Rep.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, tweeted a video of the
arrests.
So
what’s the truth?
The
Oxford dictionary defined ‘arrested’ as “the person is taken to a police station and kept there
because the police believe they may be guilty of a crime”
However, none of the individuals were taken to the police
station and no force was used. The protesters were merely escorted to a containment
unit nearby where they weren’t being a nuisance to the public. They were let go
after that. AOC was back on Instagram in the evening.
The right word to describe what happened is 'detained'
The
‘arrests’ would have been a great opportunity for Democrat lawmakers to get
some easy visibility. Alas for them the publicity pirana AOC was there. She
extracts all publicity for any occasion faster than a piranha fish can stip
flesh from a bone.
Many news outlets reported the incident with headlines that read ‘AOC and Other Lawmakers Arrested for Supreme Court Protest” with photos of AOC with her arms behind her back and wrists close to one another. It almost appeared she was handcuffed.
But social media users exposed her pathetic stunt.
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1549448414072643585
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1549449970583015424
What
matters is that most US-based news agencies
such as CNN, NBC News, Axios, etc reported it as an
arrest. Even agencies overseas such as the UK Guardian, the BBC, France 24, ABC in Australia, and numerous
others reported it as an arrest.
Perhaps she may claim to be arrested, handcuffed, and even
assaulted in her memoirs.
Following the January 6th protests, AOC even implied she was
in the Capitol Building and was in immediate danger because the protestors were
demanding to know where she was and were even banging on her office door. It
was eventually revealed that AOC wasn't even in the building during the
incident.
She also did a comparable border stunt in 2019, wearing white, posing in front of a chain link fence, pretending to cry over "caged" migrant illegal border crossers, and then being found out from other pictures that she was "crying" in front of a parking lot for the cameras.
Now she's doing something right out of her own well-practiced playbook around the issue of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Back to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
This
wasn’t the only protest that AOC conducted in the wake of the recent Supreme
Court ruling.
A few
weeks ago, AOC informed her 8.6 million followers on Instagram that she was
going to ‘redo her nails’ to display her commitment to the ‘resistance’.
https://twitter.com/johnrobertgage/status/1543090165912141824
AOC claimed she grew up in a socially conservative and
religious environment where women wearing red nail varnish and red lipstick
were frowned upon”, hence the use of red was her way of protesting in
favor of abortion rights.
So does AOC care about abortion or the overturning of Roe V Wade?
Emphatically not.
So what does she care for?
AOC claims to care for the downtrodden but her action suggests
otherwise
She had no time
for the exploited Amazon workers in New York who were attempting
to unionize.
She supports extreme gun control laws and defunding the
police for regular citizens but for herself, she spends thousands
of dollars and has armed
bodyguards.
When the NYPD was arresting "defund the police" protesters,
AOC was just yards away attending the ostentatious MET
Gala where tickets are priced at $35,000 per head.
There are myriad instances of blatant hypocrisy.
The only cause that AOC passionately cares about is AOC herself.
Nothing else matters.
AOC has found a shortcut to success in politics.
She doesn’t waste her time authoring or co-authoring bills or working at the grassroots. She
doesn’t engage with her colleagues to convince them to vote for progressive
laws or the green news deal.
For AOC every occurrence, irrespective of its graveness, is an
excuse to seek publicity by making a spectacle of herself. She knows the
footage is captured all over by cameras and will be broadcasted all over. When
she isn’t on other people's cameras, she is on her own web camera on Instagram
‘connecting with her followers’.
Gone are the days when people allowed their work to speak for
itself.
For the likes of AOC, words are a replacement for work.
In a recent TV appearance, AOC urged Biden to create abortion clinics on federal land. She also
demanded the impeachment of Supreme Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Amy Coney
Barret because she claims they misled the Senate about their positions on Roe
v. Wade during their confirmation hearings.
Both ideas are absurd and impossible to achieve but AOC said it anyway since she knows her audience will conflate her words with actions.
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1541058147892305920
She is aware that when she bloviates about minority rights, the environment - green new deal, racism, sexism, and transphobia during her Instagram sessions or TV interviews her voters think that she really means those words. She knows that few care to evaluate the actual steps she took to bring any change.
AOC understands that being in the public eye is all that matters. Congressman Hal Roger from Kentucky has been an elected House member since 1981. He has served for more years in the House than AOC has lived yet few beyond his district will recognize him while AOC has national recognition, perhaps even global recognition.
AOC has enough clout that her reluctance
to endorse Biden for 2024 causes headlines.
She may be an object of derision among some, but she does have a
base who adores and worships her.
She is like an actor, who plays the part of a kind, compassionate,
empathetic progressive. It almost starring in her own biopic or perhaps it is a
reality show.
What is surprising and disappointing is despite her obvious
charades she not only gets elected but is likely to be reelected for as long as
she wants to.
AOC could someday become Speaker of the House.
But he prospects aren’t limited to Congress, perhaps she becomes Senator,
there was a buzz last year that she
may challenge Chuck Schumer for his seat. While that will not happen now,
it could happen some years later.
In a decade, she could become Governor of New York, all she has to do
is knock out her rivals in the primary by virtue signaling and empty talk. It
is unlikely she will be held accountable for her sub-par performance in the
House. If she is, she will claim to be a victim of sexism and racism and the
liberals of New York will fall for it.
AOC could even aim higher than that and aspire to the executive branch.
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