Just read some of the things Representatives Ocasio-Ortiz and Pressley are trying to sell to the public as a result of having to shelter in the Capitol Building. This is plainly nothing more than opportunists taking advantage of a situation to playact for attention and to score political points, but it is stunning in its snowflakiness and in its pathetic whimpering for attention:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she feared GOP lawmakers would lead rioters to her: ‘I thought I was going to die’ . . . .
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As the pro-Trump rioters streamed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers were told to take refuge in a protected “extraction point.” But Ocasio-Cortez said she did not feel safe doing so “because there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera.”
“So I didn’t even feel safe around other members of Congress,” she concluded. She did not say where she took shelter instead.
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Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez and one of a handful of Black women in Congress, said that she had similar reservations about the sheltering plan. “The second I realized our ‘safe room’ from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited,” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
Ocasio-Cortez told her Instagram Live viewers that it was “not an exaggeration” to say that many members of Congress were “nearly assassinated.” She described what she called “acts of betrayal” by some members of the U.S. Capitol Police who appeared to side with the mob, saying that to run for safety and “not know if an officer is there to help you or harm you is also quite traumatizing.”
Ocasio-Cortez reserved particular anger for Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for challenging the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory, saying that they “do not belong in the United States Senate” and should resign if they are not willing to accept the results of a democratically conducted election.***
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Throughout the live broadcast, Ocasio-Cortez spoke candidly about the toll that the violence at the Capitol took on her mental health, and said that she will probably seek counseling to help process the trauma.
“My body and my brain have been out of work,” she told viewers, adding that for two days after the riots, “I just slept a lot more than I usually sleep, and that to me is telling me that my body is going through something and my brain is trying to heal.” (emphases supplied)
***It should be noted that according to the Boston Herald, Unity, schmunity – Dems want payback for GOP dissent (bostonherald.com), this “is not the first time objections were raised during the vote certification process. Democrats objected to George Bush’s electoral votes in Ohio back in 2004. More than 30 Democrats voted against certifying results in states Trump won in 2017. But that was then — when despising then-incoming President Trump was a badge of honor in the halls of Congress.”
So the fact that there were Republicans who challenged the electoral votes of some states is hardly some remarkable precedent-shattering event that the Democrats make it out to be. The word “hypocritical” comes to mind. Of course, there’s nothing new about a politician of any stripe being hypocritical – it’s actually more or less the norm.
In any event, the self-interested attention-seeking reaction of these women is stunning. If they are simply play-acting for attention, then shame on them, though we are not aware of any politician in the country who knows what shame is or has ever felt it. And if they really believe these statements and had these “feelings,” then one has to question their rationality and psychological ability to govern.