I think the Israel lobby found something to blackmail her with
It doesn't have to be even that dramatic. It could be "If you vote 'No' then we're carving $10B out of the infrastructure bill for Green Energy initiatives" or something equivalent. Do this performative vote or we gut policy you actually care about.
AOC probably ran around asking how they can even do that, realized the degree to which the whole system was beholden to a handful of assholes, and cracked up over it.
It doesn't have to be even that dramatic. It could be "If you vote 'No' then we're carving $10B out of the infrastructure bill for Green Energy initiatives" or something equivalent. Do this performative vote or we gut policy you actually care about.
AOC probably ran around asking how they can even do that, realized the degree to which the whole system was beholden to a handful of assholes, and cracked up over it.