“And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?” AOC added

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a “conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the” bill only to walk out with “signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill.”

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      Just forget it. Us Americans are too comfortable/scared/tired to do jack shit. We should’ve been out striking and rioting like the French day after day when ICE first started to make their move. At this point we pretty much deserve what’s coming to us because of the election results and us not objecting loud enough.

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        Comfort has nothing to do with it. If you don’t show up at your work, you don’t have income anymore. There’s no fallbacks by design. They keep you in line by forcing you to work. And they made sure the cost of living was high enough that most people have to work a 2nd job, so protests can’t even be held after work hours.

        You’ve been set up for this after decades of preparing.

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        You should have revolted as a society when you started committing a live steamed genocide. If no one cares about children being literally shredded to pieces with their taxes, why would they care that someone 20 minutes away is “getting deported”.

        They’re not scared, they’re amoral. People voted for this, you forget.

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          Yawn. Germany sells a fuck ton of weapons to Israel but you give them a free pass because you don’t care about dead Palestinians, you care about crushing the US. You’re a hypocrite ML.

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      Because ⅔ of the country asked for it. The remaining third have recessed into their happy place and refuse to come out. There’s really no one left to riot.