Political activism involves having ten percent care for the thing you’re concerned about and about 90 percent utilizing that cause to enrich yourself.

The “defund the police” movement that happened alongside the Black Lives Matter movement during the 2020 elections convinced a lot of blue-state leaders to “reimagine” what policing looked like in their city. Criminals didn’t go along with “reimagining” what being a criminal looked like and many of the cities descended into crime-infested hell holes with high homicide rates. It was so bad that even the bluest of the blue cities, San Francisco, began to reverse course and demand their police force back.

Among those trumpeting the “defund the police” grift were members of “the squad” including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. As it later turned out, she and other members of the squad were very guilty of attempting to lessen the public protection for you but utilizing your taxpayer dollars to increase private security for her.

There was one voice that was louder than hers when it came to defunding the police, and that was fellow squad member Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and just like AOC, while Pressley was demanding police be robbed of the funding necessary to protect the people, she was using your taxpayer dollars to hire private security to protect herself.

According to The Daily Caller, new information shows Pressley spent thousands on private security for herself:

According to the new Statement of Disbursements of the House records, Pressley spent $63,000 of her Member Representational Allowance (MRA) on “security service” in 2021 — spending $28,000 between Oct. 1, 2021 and Dec. 31, 2021 and $35,000 between May 2021 and August 2021.

The payments show the money was directed to Alisa Tatarian, who is a Financial Administrator at the U.S. House of Representatives. It is not clear how that money was finally spent. The Daily Caller contacted Tatarian as well as Pressley’s office several times about the money that was spent on “security service,” to which they did not respond.

“The Member’s Representational Allowance (MRA) is intended for individual member offices’ expenditures and receipts during a single legislative year. The MRA is funded through fiscal year appropriations and authorized annually by the Committee on House Administration (CHA). It is non-transferable between legislative years,” the House government website states.

“Ayanna Pressley and her fellow Squad members have repeatedly called for our police to be defunded while simultaneously paying top dollar for their own private security with taxpayer funds,” New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told the Daily Wire. “All while violent crime rates are surging across our cities. Pressley and the rest of the Squad want police for them but not for us. Democrats are the party of elitist hypocrites and defunding the police. The American people know this, and that is why this November there will be a red tsunami.”

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a Democrat politician, especially a hard leftist, that was pounding the table for a change, wanted to not have to deal with that change herself. Among many of the movements that have sprung up from the left, be it the Women’s March or Climate Change activism, the activist wants you to have to suffer the downsides of their demands but doesn’t want to deal with it themselves.

Wanting less security for others while using their money to hire people to protect you might be one of the more egregious examples of “for me but not for thee.”

That is the nature of the grift and grifters are everywhere.

One of the largest grifts in recent history is the Black Lives Matter movement, which dominated everything from headlines to football fields during the 2020 election cycle. Not too long after, we learned one of its founders, Patrice Cullors, had become very wealthy and purchased several homes in rich California neighborhoods.