US "The Squad" Megathread - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib Derangement Syndrome

I honestly only know about American politics from what I read on the Internet but since we all love shitting on leftists I figured we'd get a kick out of this. Also it's trending on Twitter so you know it's important.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...irect=on&noredirect=on&utm_term=.960552c9ba53

NEW YORK — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old political novice running on a low budget and an unabashedly liberal platform, upset longtime U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley on Tuesday in the Democratic congressional primary in New York.

The surprise victory by the community organizer in a district that includes parts of the Bronx and Queens came after an energetic, grassroots campaign that mustered more than enough support in a low-turnout race that many had expected to be an easy win for Crowley, a member of the Democratic House leadership.

“The community is ready for a movement of economic and social justice. That is what we tried to deliver,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who has never held elected office and whose candidacy attracted only modest media attention.

She told The Associated Press after her victory that she didn’t have enough money to do polling in the race, but felt in her gut that her message had a chance to connect.

“I live in this community. I organized in this community. I felt the absence of the incumbent. I knew he didn’t have a strong presence,” she said.

Crowley has been in Congress since 1999 and hadn’t faced an opponent in a primary election since 2004, when Ocasio-Cortez was just a teenager. He was considered a candidate to become the next House speaker if Democrats win the majority.

“It’s not about me,” Crowley, 56, told his supporters at a campaign party following his loss. “It’s about America. I want nothing but the best for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I want her to be victorious.”

He later played guitar with a band at the election night gathering, and dedicated the first song, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” to Ocasio-Cortez.

Crowley represents New York’s 14th Congressional District, where he is also the leader of the Queens Democratic party.

Ocasio-Cortez was outspent by an 18-1 margin during her race but won the endorsement of some influential groups on the party’s far left, including MoveOn, as well as the actress Cynthia Nixon, who is running for governor. She defeated Crowley by 15 percentage points.

Born in the Bronx to a mother from Puerto Rico and a father who died in 2008, Ocasio-Cortez said she decided to challenge Crowley to push a more progressive stance on economic and other issues.

She attended Boston University, where she earned degrees in economics and international relations, and also spent time working in the office of the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy.

After graduating, she returned to the Bronx where she became a community organizer. In the 2016 presidential campaign she worked for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Among her issues is expanding the Medicare program to people of all ages and abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. She recently went to Tornillo, Texas, to protest against policies that have separated parents from their children at the southern U.S. border.

Ocasio-Cortez gained some internet attention for a campaign video called “The Courage to Change,” a two-minute spot for which she wrote the script and featured footage from her own home.

Crowley is chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the fourth-highest ranking position in Democratic leadership in that chamber of Congress.

His loss drew the attention of President Donald Trump.

“Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!” he tweeted.

The Republican candidate for the office, Anthony Pappas, is running unopposed and had no primary. Pappas teaches economics at St. John’s University.

She was a Bernie campaigner, is supported by BLM, and wants to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Also this was in a solid-blue Congressional District so you know she's a shoo-in for next Congress.

But hey, we did get to see Trump laugh at Crowley on Twitter.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I love how AOC isn’t even in office yet, and she already has a megathread on here!

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Once upon a time, perhaps. They've pigeonholed themselves at this point though, all they've got are people to furiously clap and hate-laugh at terrible jokes about trump. They can't alienate that audience, they're all they have left.

EDIT: Also, the last time they did a sketch that supported a conservative position, the DNC and Soros made them change it for re-airings. And that sketch was hilarious, Bush 2, Barney what'shisface, and uh... you know... whats her name there with the democratic party... they all got made fun of.

It was a sketch about the housing crash, at one point there was a caption: "George Soros: Owner of the DNC"

The re-aired versions had this caption removed.

I got you Famwich.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Nice. I'm so glad there are so many kiwis so much less lazy than myself.

 

[Splendid]

I demand that the subtitle be changed to Occasional-Cortex, because it's a hilarious political nickname.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Have any nudes of this bitch surface yet? You know she’s enough of an airhead to send sexts over to her (dozens of) Tinder dates.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

I demand that the subtitle be changed to Occasional-Cortex, because it's a hilarious political nickname.

In my head, I call her AoA: Age of Apocalypse. Yours is better.

I got you Famwich.

Well done on pulling that up! If they tried that now, the dangerhairs and soyboys would eat New York to feast out of the skull of Lorne Michaels...

Edit to ask the question: Was the woman supposed to be Feinstein? I can't think of who else....

 

[breadandcircuses]

Replace 100% of our power with renewable energy? Do we even have enough land available, and how much (foreign) land will be rendered to moonscape to harvest the materials?

Make a burner twitter account and link her to Solar Roadways.

The idea of someone pushing actual government funding to that tchotke would get DoE and DoT hating her.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Have any nudes of this bitch surface yet? You know she’s enough of an airhead to send sexts over to her (dozens of) Tinder dates.

Probably for not a while. A congresswoman elect is a ballsy target for a Fappening and I'd bet on whoever posts them doing the utmost to secure themselves first.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

No nudes but here's a stupid dancing video from Sandy's BU days (go to :11):

I feel like nudes are imminent.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Replace 100% of our power with renewable energy? Do we even have enough land available, and how much (foreign) land will be rendered to moonscape to harvest the materials?

We sure do have enough land, if you want to carpet most all the government land in the southwest in solar panels and carpet the plains in windmills. Then build a fuckton of new electric infrastructure in the middle of nowhere, like out by La Zorra, California and shit. The question is finding a couple trillion dollars to do this and pissing off a lot of Cliven Bundy types in the process by taking their land. We'd also have to gut the EPA and the rest of the eco/environmental shit to let us mine and process all the shit to make those panels and windmills, and don't forget the pollution caused by producing solar panels either. Plus we could build all those hydro dams the Sierra Club made us cancel in the 70s. We could actually make a lot of jobs if we did this (although it isn't a responsible way to spend trillions of dollars if you want to make jobs), but you know the Green New Deal crowd is expecting this shit to come from China, India, Santa Claus, whoever and actually be totally green.

 

[Splendid]

In my head, I call her AoA: Age of Apocalypse. Yours is better.

Not mine, someone else in the thread came up with it earlier.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

We sure do have enough land, if you want to carpet most all the government land in the southwest in solar panels and carpet the plains in windmills. Then build a fuckton of new electric infrastructure in the middle of nowhere, like out by La Zorra, California and shit. The question is finding a couple trillion dollars to do this and pissing off a lot of Cliven Bundy types in the process by taking their land. We'd also have to gut the EPA and the rest of the eco/environmental shit to let us mine and process all the shit to make those panels and windmills, and don't forget the pollution caused by producing solar panels either. Plus we could build all those hydro dams the Sierra Club made us cancel in the 70s. We could actually make a lot of jobs if we did this (although it isn't a responsible way to spend trillions of dollars if you want to make jobs), but you know the Green New Deal crowd is expecting this shit to come from China, India, Santa Claus, whoever and actually be totally green.

Well of course we wouldn't do the mining here. That's like, dirty and stuff. It's not dirty as long as it's some shithole on the other side of the planet you're fucking to hell with pollution to get your "green" tech.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

‘Welcome to our world’: Donald Trump Jr. backs Ocasio-Cortez’s complaints about ‘false’ news

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took to Twitter on Tuesday to eviscerate a Politico story about her that she argued contained “false information.” On Wednesday, an unlikely ally emerged: Donald Trump Jr.

The president’s eldest child, who has been an outspoken critic of the newly elected congresswoman’s democratic socialist views, appeared to set aside his political differences to commiserate with Ocasio-Cortez over her outrage at the media. On Tuesday, the 29-year-old slammed Politico for writing stories about her that lacked “a SINGLE named or verifiable source,” adding, “My dad had a name for junk articles like this: ‘Birdcage lining.’”

“Welcome to our world ...” Trump Jr. tweeted, referencing Ocasio-Cortez’s original Tuesday tweet. “You think that’s bad? Imagine what it’s like when they actually hate you.”

Trump Jr. has adopted his father’s anti-mainstream media rhetoric, often using the phrase “fake news” in social media posts. President Trump has also repeatedly referred to members of the press as “the enemy of the people."

The Politico story that drew Ocasio-Cortez’s ire was published early Tuesday morning and reported that she was working to recruit a primary challenger to unseat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in 2020. The story cited unnamed sources, one of whom was quoted saying Ocasio-Cortez is “going to go all out to take him out,” referring to Jeffries.

In November, Ocasio-Cortez voiced support for a national movement spearheaded by Justice Democrats, a progressive political action committee, that aims to replace incumbent Democrats, the Hill reported. Justice Democrats backed Ocasio-Cortez, who pulled off one of the biggest upsets during the primaries when she unseated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in June before winning the general election last month.

But Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, denied the claims, telling Politico that the incoming congresswoman had not recruited what the news site described as “an anti-Jeffries candidate.”

“We’re not looking at recruiting people to run campaigns, we’re looking at building a congressional staff,” Trent said.

On Twitter, roughly 12 hours after the story had been published, Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at Politico, writingthat “one disappointment about DC is the gossip that masquerades as ‘reporting.’”

“For the record, this is the second @politico article about me in a short period of time with *0* named sources to back claims containing false information,” she wrote in follow-up tweet. “It’s really unfortunate.”

For the record, this is the second @politicoarticle about me in a short period of time with *0* named sources to back claims containing false information.

Their articles are printed + distributed to **Congressional offices** - w/ no named sources.

It’s really unfortunate.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio201 December 18, 2018
Brad Dayspring, Politico’s vice president of marketing and communications, told The Washington Post in an email Wednesday, “We stand by our reporting.”

“It’s unclear what the Congresswoman-elect believes is inaccurate, as she doesn’t specify in her tweet and neither she, nor her staff, has asked for a correction,” Dayspring wrote.

A spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to a request for comment late Wednesday.

As The Post’s Paul Farhi reported in 2013, the use of anonymous sources has only increased in recent years, and the practice is especially commonplace in stories about politics, where sources often can’t speak to media without risking retaliation.

“The fact is that many companies, government agencies, and institutions of every type do their best to make sure people with knowledge won’t speak publicly,” Martin Baron, The Post’s executive editor, told Farhi. “They apply pressure and, at worst, fire people. At other times, people who speak openly can suffer recrimination. Or they are bound by policies that prohibit use of their name. As unpleasant as anonymity may be, very often the alternative is no information whatsoever."

As The Post’s then-executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee found out during the pre-Watergate and “Deep Throat” years, relying only on named sources frequently meant the paper was unable to report important news stories, Farhi wrote. At one point, Bradlee had attempted to ban stories that depended on anonymity, according to Farhi. The result?

“The Post’s competitors, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, published important news stories that The Post did not have,” wrote Ben Bagdikian, who was an assistant managing editor at the time. “The paper’s readers were deprived of significant information.”

Bradlee’s policy lasted two days, Bagdikian wrote.

Still, even with the prevalent use of unnamed sources, many non-journalists question their credibility. In 2017, Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan highlighted anonymous sourcing as “one of the least-understood” mysteries of journalism, pointing out that many news consumers are unaware of the thorough vetting process most major newsrooms go through before allowing such a source to be quoted.

“A lot of people seem to think that when we use anonymous sources, we don’t even know who they are — that they’re anonymous to us,” Post reporter Wesley Lowery told Sullivan.

President Trump recently slammed unnamed sources, tweeting in August, "When you see ‘anonymous source,’ stop reading the story, it is fiction!” (In response to the tweet, several reporters pointed out that in the past, Trump had been a background source for New York publications, the Hill reported.)

Many social media users, including CBS News reporter Grace Segers, were quick to point out that Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter outburst mirrored President Trump’s criticism of the media.

In response, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “It cuts both ways - if all an article contains is anonymous sources for gossip (as opposed to whistleblowing) how can readers tell the difference between rumor and fact?”

https://archive.is/nlrTA

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Well done on pulling that up! If they tried that now, the dangerhairs and soyboys would eat New York to feast out of the skull of Lorne Michaels...

Edit to ask the question: Was the woman supposed to be Feinstein? I can't think of who else....

No, not feinstein, Pelosi.

And they didn't need the soyboys because apparently the dems can just call up lorne and ask him to edit his satirical comedy show because it made Soros sad or something.

I mean, we laugh at Trumps idiocy with SNL, but the democrats actually got so butthurt they had it changed after the fact. Of course, nobody reported on it except conservative sites, and they're all run by hitler...

 

[Zaryiu]

She's a mud person appropriating someone's culture.
Everyone knows that Jews darker than Jesus are about as Jewish as Warren is native American.

:late: What about Ethiopian Jews who are descendants of the Jewish Diaspora?

 

[Autopsy]

In response, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “It cuts both ways - if all an article contains is anonymous sources for gossip (as opposed to whistleblowing) how can readers tell the difference between rumor and fact?”

That's adorable, she thinks "whistleblowing" by anons and gossip aren't the same thing.
You can't point to a single effective public expose that was done by this style of journalistic "whistleblowing". Historically, anonymous sources provide documents or physical evidence of a specific incident, not their own utterly unverifiable word. These aren't the only successful cases, and their documents mean much more with their own identity attached, but they are by far the most substantial group.
Who has given their word and little else to blow that whistle? Frank Serpico. Linda Tripp. Coleen Rowley. Thomas Drake. Edward Snowden. Names, all of these are people with names and occupations that allowed the public to scrutinize them and determine that they were, in fact, telling the truth.
You would hope that Ocasio-Cortez might have possibly somehow learned a valuable lesson from all this scrutiny, but all she got out of it was "slander for mine but not for thine," or at least, "it's different when they do it to a political figure (who isn't me)."

edit: It occurs to me that she might not think of herself as "a political figure" and that's all the more reason she never should have been elected in the first place.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Not mine, someone else in the thread came up with it earlier.

I use it a lot but I didn't come up with it. I want to say Ace of Spades (the blogger) used it first, but hell, I dunno.

All I know is that it's funny, and the stupid little chiquita probably got some of her degree by shaking her money maker.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

She encapsulates every thot who has been told she's smart by guys who are trying to fuck her.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

Her first minor brush with reality in her new yob and she responds with a twitter meltdown.

Calling it now, she’ll graduate from this thread to her own subforum.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Acockinyo Whoretez in "Seizing the Means of Seduction"