Shot in the Dark

Red Carpet Walk

There was a “civil disobedience” action in DC yesterday.

For those who need a refresher: “civil disobedience” means breaking the law, and accepting the consequences of that action, to illustrate what one considers a wrong.

Rep Omar was among “several female members of Congress” “arrested” yesterday.

And when I say “arrested”, I mean…

Well, watch the video below. Representative Omar walks across the area in front of the cameras, hands seemingly cuffed behind her, until second :17 – the last second of the footage:

And then, when she’s out of frame…

She raises her right arm.

The “Handcuffs” weren’t even theatrical. They were nonexistant. She pretended to be cuffed when she walked across the PR equivalent of a red f****ng carpet.

Not much in the way of consequences, was it?

The social media uproar was such that even Omar’s semi-official PR flak, Esme Murphy, had to point it out:

Now – if we had some sort of institution in this country, perhaps with transmitters and printing presses, staffed by some self-styled monastic searchers for institutional fact and truth, someone might ask Omar how it is she managed to get “arrested” without ever getting handcuffed.

If only.

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18 responses to “Red Carpet Walk”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    This nails it and it’s funny.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-sits-in-invisible-police-car-awaiting-transport-to-invisible-jail

  2. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    How can a woman be a full citizen, with bodily autonomy, in one state, and not a full citizen when she crosses a state boundary line? Have we already become something other than a country?

  3. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Carefully staged photos are a thing with The Squad. Like protesting treatment of illegal aliens by having your photo taken crying at the fence of . . . an empty road.

    Oh, the humanity!

  4. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    11:37 threadjack

  5. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    ^ Does a woman’s biology work differently in different states?

  6. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    If we’re honest or at least not ignorant, we admit that journalists, the college educated misnomer for reporters, have never been “self-styled monastic searchers for institutional fact and truth”. Ever.

  7. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    So were they pretending to be handcuffed, or is it possible that the police told them to put their hands behind their backs. and then didn’t handcuff them, but they still needed to keep their hands behind their backs, because thats what they were told to do. I would think
    you want to figure this basic aspect out.

    It’s also weird when you are worried about them being handcuffed or not, the message was why they are protesting — not whether they meet your standard of arrest or not.

  8. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Fake arrest. Fake news.

    I thought stealing the election from President Trump was supposed to end all that?

  9. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Probably the most appalling thing is that “the squad” and their hangers-on figured that the press wouldn’t call them on this nonsense, and that the press proved them right. A press that really cared about the truth would have pointed out that they had a perfectly legal place to demonstrate, but they walked into the street so that the police would have to arrest them not for demonstrating, but for obstructing traffic.

    We are not talking about Dr. King’s march on Selma here, to put it mildly.

    Emery, one note here is that bodily autonomy stops where another person’s body starts. That’s been the debate from the beginning, and your cheap shots don’t change that.

  10. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    Historically “The Squad” has been with us for over 300 years initially consisting of;
    Betty Parris,
    Abigail Williams,
    Ann Putnam,
    and Elizabeth Hubbard

    Thriving as they do on public hysteria you would be mistaken to think the current “Squad” would quail at the notion of public hangings for those who afflict them.

  11. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    They identify as handcuffed and media respects their truth.

  12. Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Doin’ the perp walk. Gotta love it.

  13. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    I wish some Republicans would call them out for the traitors they are. They wish to overthrow the United States government. They should be in custody.

    Just protesting? No. You don’t get to protest a judicial proceeding. If you don’t like the outcome, you amend the Constitution. By refusing to follow the amendment process, demanding we ignore the highest court’s rulings on the constitution, they are effectively demanding we overthrow the government.

    Arrest them, put them in D.C. jail, hold their trials right after the January 6th political prisoners are done.

  14. Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Emery on July 20, 2022 at 11:57 am said:
    ^ Does a woman’s biology work differently in different states?

    Of course not. That is why abortion should be illegal everywhere.
    Emery is really, really bad at doing the whole “forming a rational argument” thing.

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  16. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    How can a woman be a full citizen, with bodily autonomy, in one state, and not a full citizen when she crosses a state boundary line?

    I agree with Emery, why do different places have different laws? It’s so silly.

    For instance, when I was 18, I had to drive to Wisconsin to drink beer. Dumb. Why couldn’t Minnesota be like Wisconsin?

    Just a few years ago, I had to drive to Iowa to buy beer on Sunday. Dumb. Why couldn’t Minnesota be like Iowa?

    I still can’t buy whiskey in a gas station. Dumb. Why can’t Minnesota be like California?

    To be fair, Emery was not talking about liquor laws, but about laws affecting women. So why do women have to wear bags over their heads in so many Muslim countries and be treated horribly there. Why don’t we send in the army and make them follow our laws?

    And again, why different laws in different places.

    Why don’t we have One World Laws?

    Hey, I got an idea for this One World Law thing, why not adopt the laws of Cuba, Venezuela, China or some enlightened place like that (where they got abortion on demand) and then we will all be free.

    It’s all so silly.

  17. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    This just in from the Babylon Bee:

    “AOC still handcuffed, as police look for invisible key.”

    Classic!

  18. Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Ultra Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    It kind of makes sense that the political party that believes that male and female are not biological categories would also claim the magical ability to tell when a developing child becomes a human being.

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