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AOC and Ilhan Omar coordinated Supreme Court arrest stunt with Soros-funded dark money group | Washington Examiner

  

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Via:  texan1211  •  2 years ago  •  72 comments

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AOC and Ilhan Omar coordinated Supreme Court arrest stunt with Soros-funded dark money group | Washington Examiner
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the 15 other Democratic lawmakers who were arrested Tuesday outside the Supreme Court coordinated the stunt with a progressive dark money group funded by billionaire George Soros.

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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the 15 other Democratic lawmakers who were arrested Tuesday outside the Supreme Court coordinated the stunt with a progressive dark money group funded by billionaire George Soros.

Getting arrested was the whole point of the stunt, Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. She said organizers of the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund asked her and her colleagues to "submit themselves for arrest in front of the Supreme Court."

The New York lawmaker insisted in the post what she and her colleagues did was "very different than a 'publicity stunt.'"

Omar spokesman Jeremy Slevin tweeted about 30 minutes before the lawmakers hit the street that a film crew with the dark money group would be on the scene live streaming the event.

"Members of Congress, including [Omar] will be participating in a civil disobedience at the Supreme Court, potentially including arrests, shortly," Slevin tweeted before the lawmakers began illegally obstructing the street outside the Supreme Court. "@CPDAction is live streaming it. Follow along!"


Members of Congress, including @IlhanMN will be participating in a civil disobedience at the Supreme Court, potentially including arrests, shortly. 1 PM ET/12 PM CT.
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) July 19, 2022

Andrew Friedman, the co-executive director of CPD Action, told the Washington Post in 2018 that the group and its sister organization, Center for Popular Democracy, receive over $1 million a year from Soros's Open Society Foundations.

As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, CPD Action isn't required to disclose the identity of its donors.

Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Getty

CPD Action said its leaders were among the 18 nonmembers of Congress who were arrested alongside Ocasio-Cortez and the other Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday.

"Moments ago, leaders from CPD Action network organizations, members of Congress & more participated in a powerful civil disobedience demonstration & got arrested to protect our RIGHT to SAFE & LEGAL abortions," the dark money group posted on Facebook Tuesday afternoon.

"This is a clear message to SCOTUS and lawmakers that #WeWontBackDown until ALL pregnancy-abled people are treated as full human beings with the autonomy to make decisions about OUR OWN bodies," the group added.

CPD Action linked to a fundraising page in its Facebook post that urged activists to "continue acts of civil disobedience," such as the one it coordinated with the 17 arrested members of Congress on Tuesday, to secure access to abortion across the country.

Ocasio-Cortez was widely mocked by conservative commentators for creating the impression that she was handcuffed by police during her arrest. The New York lawmaker was filmed crossing her hands behind her back while she was being escorted off the scene by police. She then pumped her fist toward a crowd of supporters while still detained by police.

Ocasio-Cortez insisted she wasn't pretending to be in handcuffs during her arrest.

"No faking here," Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet on Wednesday. "Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest. But given how you lied about a fellow rape survivor for 'points,' as you put it to me, I don't expect much else from you."

A Capitol Police spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that nobody arrested outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday was handcuffed.

"As is standard for peaceful, planned protests, those who were arrested were ticketed and released on site," the spokesperson said. "Nobody was handcuffed, as is standard for a noncustodial arrest. Everyone was arrested for Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding (DC Code § 22-1307). They have up to 15 days to pay a $50 fine or they can have a hearing."


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Texan1211
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1  seeder  Texan1211    2 years ago
"This is a clear message to SCOTUS and lawmakers that#WeWontBackDownuntil ALL pregnancy-abled people are treated as full human beings with the autonomy to make decisions about OUR OWN bodies," the group added.

Pregnancy-abled people?

Wouldn't it be far easier to type "women"?

The New York lawmaker insisted in the post what she and her colleagues did was "very different than a 'publicity stunt.'"

I would love to meet anyone dumb enough to fall for THAT line of bullshit!

A freaking film crew was on hand for the completely coordinated event!

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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1.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Texan1211 @1    2 years ago

Good Lord! Woke up to see that picture of AOC and it darned near scared the bejeezus out of me! One should never have to wake up and have that be the first thing they see on NT...

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @1.1    2 years ago

Well, while the photo of AOC is a little startling, I wanted people to be fully awake while discussing the publicity stunt.

Sorry!

LOL!

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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1.1.2  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.1    2 years ago

Speaking of publicity stunts and photos................

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JBB
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1.1.4  JBB  replied to  Have Opinion Will Travel @1.1.3    2 years ago

I have met AOC in person a few times. The first time was when she was first running for Congress. In person she is absolutely stunning. Admittedly, her "Cum Laude" honors degrees "plural' in economics and International Studies from Boston University do pale in comparison with Lauren Bobert's GED from Trailer Trash U...

Those denigrating AOC for her wretched ugly looks should post pics of your wives, mothers and daughters and then we can all vote on who is ugliest. You guy's Moms, or The Madonna of the Bronx?

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Texan1211
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1.1.5  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @1.1.4    2 years ago

What turns me off of AOC is her damn drama, and her idiotic policies.

I don't give a fuck what the hell she looks like. I damn sure don't want to sleep with her, despite her thinking so many want to.

 
 
 
Gazoo
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1.2  Gazoo  replied to  Texan1211 @1    2 years ago

“Pregnancy-abled people?”

Hmm, they stopped using “birthing units”? Did that suddenly become a racist term or something?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.2.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Gazoo @1.2    2 years ago
Hmm, they stopped using “birthing units”? Did that suddenly become a racist term or something?

Who knows?

It is damn near impossible to keep up with.

It changes nearly daily, and who bothers to keep up with their daily whims?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2  Jeremy Retired in NC    2 years ago
"Moments ago, leaders from CPD Action network organizations, members of Congress & more participated in a powerful civil disobedience demonstration & got arrested to protect our RIGHT to SAFE & LEGAL abortions,"

That's a long winded way to say publicity stunt.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2    2 years ago

I am left wondering how protesting a Supreme Court decision is somehow "protecting any rights to a safe and legal abortion".

Not all of us are gullible sheep, believing anything the left spews out.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1    2 years ago

What is really does is display that they really have no idea what the decision is about.  

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1.2  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.1    2 years ago
What is really does is display that they really have no idea what the decision is about.  

If they had an ounce of common sense amongst them, they would be protesting at state capitols that have outlawed abortion instead of at SCOTUS, which has already spoken and won't be visiting it again anytime soon.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.3  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1.2    2 years ago

But that would force them to acknowledge that they elected garbage into office at not only the federal level but at the state level as well.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3  Vic Eldred    2 years ago

I like the picture. It captures everything about her.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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3.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @3    2 years ago

It IS rather theatrical, isn't it?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3.1.1  Vic Eldred  replied to  Texan1211 @3.1    2 years ago

It reminds me of the time some guy overdosed at a Fenway bar. People kept saying "look at his eyes!"

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.2  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @3    2 years ago

The photoshopped image did that.  

 
 
 
Hallux
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4  Hallux    2 years ago

Ah, has the perennial dust bunny Soros come out to play? He's a commie pinko Jew who sold out his ethnic comrades to the Nazis ... Run away, run away! /S

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @4    2 years ago

Soros-backed group planned and coordinated this theatrical stunt.

It is right there in the article you might not have read.

 
 
 
Hallux
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4.1.1  Hallux  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1    2 years ago

I not only read the articles I comment on but I also go to the embedded links and if they have comment sections read those also. I have mentioned this many times ... please keep up ... thanx!

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.2  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @4.1.1    2 years ago

Then that makes your comment all the more strange.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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4.1.3  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.2    2 years ago

And irrelevant perhaps.

 
 
 
Hallux
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4.1.4  Hallux  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.2    2 years ago

So, just where did you grab the photo of AOC from? It's not from the article. From some Twitter nut called digitalfarmer? I note that a similar photo of Adam Schiff was used yesterday and from the same character.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.5  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @4.1.4    2 years ago
So, just where did you grab the photo of AOC from?

The internet. The image from the article itself was not able to be used, so I typed AOC images into my search engine and magically, images of AOC popped up. I picked one out.

If looking at her disturbs you, I recommend looking away.

Perhaps this image is more appealing to you?

260619aoc.jpg

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.1.6  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @4.1.4    2 years ago

I thought photoshopped images weren't allowed.

 
 
 
Hallux
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4.1.8  Hallux  replied to  Tessylo @4.1.6    2 years ago

It's not photoshopped, there appears to be a trend of sorts to malign people with large eyes as if they are crazy. Reminds me of a book I came across while doing a gig at Montreal's Train Museum, it was all about the shape of noses and who to avoid while travelling.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.1.9  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @4.1.8    2 years ago

Whatever it is - they made sure to find the most unflattering image and go with it.

Whatever!

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.10  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @4.1.8    2 years ago
It's not photoshopped

Precisely!

Despite claims (unfounded) that it was!

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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4.1.11  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.5    2 years ago

Let me get this straight.  The fetch option wouldn't use the of AOC pic from the article about AOC.  So you just googled AOC and picked a photo of AOC and people are getting their panties in a wad?

Some people will bitch just for the sake of bitching.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.12  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @4.1.11    2 years ago
Let me get this straight.  The fetch option wouldn't use the of AOC pic from the article about AOC.  So you just googled AOC and picked a photo of AOC and people are getting their panties in a wad? Some people will bitch just for the sake of bitching.

That pretty much sums it all up nicely!

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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4.1.13  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.12    2 years ago

The stupidity of some of these people is enough to make one start day drinking.

 
 
 
Freewill
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4.1.14  Freewill  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.5    2 years ago
so I typed AOC images into my search engine and magically, images of AOC popped up. I picked one out..

Why didn't you use this one?  jrSmiley_82_smiley_image.gif

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Ed-NavDoc
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4.1.15  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Hallux @4.1.8    2 years ago

No, there are people just stupid enough to put themselves in situations where they get photographed in dumb or compromising situations.

 
 
 
Gazoo
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4.1.16  Gazoo  replied to  Freewill @4.1.14    2 years ago

The eyes aren’t wacked out enough and the face lacks donkey like features. But it could work in a pinch.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.17  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Freewill @4.1.14    2 years ago

LOL!

Can you even IMAGINE the angst I would have created using THAT pic instead of the one I did use?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.18  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @4.1.13    2 years ago
The stupidity of some of these people is enough to make one start day drinking.

Hell, if THAT was all it took, many of us would be raging alcoholics by now.

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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4.1.19  Mark in Wyoming   replied to  Ed-NavDoc @4.1.15    2 years ago

or dumb looks on their faces , even if screen grabbed from video...

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.2  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @4    2 years ago

The lies about Soros have come out I see.

 
 
 
arkpdx
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4.2.1  arkpdx  replied to  Tessylo @4.2    2 years ago

I saw no lies about soros. Point them out

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.2.2  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  arkpdx @4.2.1    2 years ago
I saw no lies about soros.

Of course you didn't. You just lack that very special ability to see what isn't there!

 
 
 
Tessylo
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6  Tessylo    2 years ago

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Texan1211
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7  seeder  Texan1211    2 years ago

Lest anyone forget, the TOPIC here is AOC and others participated in an orchestrated 'demonstration' with the goal of getting 'arrested', all filmed by an organization with ties to Soros funding.

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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7.1  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Texan1211 @7    2 years ago

That's why I posted the picture of AOC superimposed on Jussie Smollett's head up above.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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8  Tessylo    2 years ago

Lies about Soros.

All some have obviously.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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8.1  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @8    2 years ago

Who are the some?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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8.1.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    2 years ago
Who are the some?

Probably the same folks who think lies are being told about one of their heroes.

 
 
 
Hallux
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8.1.2  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    2 years ago
Who are the some?

Those who you refer to as 'many' or 'most'.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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8.1.3  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @8.1.2    2 years ago
Those who you refer to as 'many' or 'most'.

What lie in the article, the links, or comments have you managed to document regarding Soros?

 
 
 
Hallux
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8.1.4  Hallux  replied to  Texan1211 @8.1.3    2 years ago

The right uses Soros as a boogeyman just as the left uses the Koch brothers. Capiche?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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8.1.5  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @8.1.4    2 years ago

way to avoid giving an answer to what you were asked!

 
 
 
Hallux
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8.1.6  Hallux  replied to  Texan1211 @8.1.5    2 years ago

You directed your question to the wrong person. Note that we both replied to Vic.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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8.1.7  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Texan1211 @8.1.5    2 years ago

Obfuscation perhaps.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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8.1.8  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Hallux @8.1.6    2 years ago

 I asked YOU a specific question in 8.1.3, not Vic, but hey, nice try at deflecting.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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8.2  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Tessylo @8    2 years ago

What lies are those? Examples please.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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8.2.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @8.2    2 years ago

It will be when Hell freezes over when anyone can tell what lies in the article were about Soros.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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8.2.2  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Texan1211 @8.2.1    2 years ago

Yep. Not like I really expected an answer anyway.

 
 
 
arkpdx
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10  arkpdx    2 years ago

I am betting the "cops" in the pics were fake also. I would like to have been an arresting officer though. The cuffs would have gotten an extra ratchet or two and she would have been led off by holding and twisting the links between the cuffs. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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10.1  seeder  Texan1211  replied to  arkpdx @10    2 years ago
I am betting the "cops" in the pics were fake also.

Naw, they are real enough. 

Just goes to show you that even though the event was entirely staged by the  organization that got a couple of members of Congress to go along with the stunt, they didn't plan on no cuffs and didn't even bother to bring zip ties they could have used on each other!

What a bunch of goobers!

 
 

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