Yesterday, the US House passed a bill providing for anti-missile defense systems in Israel. Very few opposed it. Some voted present. One voted no, then present. That was AOC.
Here is how the Walter Duranty New York Times reported it:
Minutes before the vote closed, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez tearfully huddled with her allies before switching her vote to “present.” The tableau underscored how wrenching the vote was for even outspoken progressives, who have been caught between their principles and the still powerful pro-Israel voices in their party, such as influential lobbyists and rabbis. (A spokesman for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez declined to comment on her change of position.) source
I don't care about the merits of this. But the NYT unceremoniously memoryholed this. It now reads:
Minutes before the vote closed, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez tearfully huddled with her allies before switching her vote to “present.” The tableau underscored how wrenching the vote was for even outspoken progressives, who have been caught between their principles and the still powerful pro-Israel voices in their party. (A spokesman for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez declined to comment on her change of position.) source
No update notice. Just memoryholed. Never existed. Where would we be without archives?
This is the only article covering it. It is from Fox News. I made it a self post so that I could link to the articles in question.
AOC famously said congress should never vote present -
https://rumble.com/vmw3nn-two-questions-for-aoc-about-her-present-vote-on-funding-israels-iron-dome.html
The squad are quite pointless
Well they do have a point, Glenn Greenwald wrote about it awhile back. It's basically to keep the crazies in the Democrat party in line. Pelosi owns AOC, and tells her what to do. So she goes and attacks people like Andrew Yang, who has no power at all in government. And of course she attacks every Republican everywhere. Her followers eat this stuff up and do exactly what they are all told. It's amazing, the sheep they truly are but think they are rebellious.
Controlled opposition?
Loose cannons that have had their powder dampened.
They let them have just enough spotlight to think they were actually going to challenge the establishment, then they got taken out back at some point and laughed at.