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

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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.
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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.
 
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AGreatDipAtAFairPrice said:
If 53 percent of people knew who Omar was, and 9 percent of those people had a positive view of her, that would be a 4.77 percent A/B score, with A knowing who she is and B liking her.

So President Trump dunked on a scrub that has a less than 5 percent known and positive rating. Shitting on this basket case cost him nothing. Now, plenty more people know who she is now, but do they have positive opinions of her? She's a snotty, affected weirdo who can't point blank deny being a communist and snap condemn Al Qaeda. No, the people who just learned who she is don't have a positive opinion of her, because she absolutely fucking sucks.
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Right, that's what I meant by polling even lower.

Omar is a disgrace. She's openly pro-terrorist. I think anyone who supports her is suspect.
 
Political Offense said:
I don't see even the political point to this beyond maybe getting a couple of people on your side? Does AOC think there will suddenly be all these congressmen who now think Trump IS a racist (when they didn't before) and somehow they care? At least from Drumps POV he can make politically positive moves while engaging in the drama, whereas for AOC and even the democrats as a whole, everything grinds to a halt to call Trump the worst thing ever, and even if he really was, nobody seems to care, so I just don't get their angle.
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At this point, 99 percent of what the woke do is about signaling how morally pure they are. They don't seem to give a shit if it actually accomplishes anything. Ragging Trump for his racism is meant to prove how non-racist wokesters are; getting Trump out of office or somehow making him feel bad is beside the point.
 
Ashy the Angel said:
I'm being completely serious. If you don't like opposing viewpoints you could always hit the Ignore button. Gotta keep that echo-chamber nice 'n secure, I know.
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Everyone was roasting the unironic white nationalists praising Tarrant in the megathread. You are such a sperg on the other side that everyone has united in making fun of you. And you must think you're on reddit if you think anyone's going to ignore you instead of continuing to make fun of you.
 
AGreatDipAtAFairPrice said:
This week, Ilhan Omar will introduce legislation in favor of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement. I'm fine with that, but the timing is a skosh off.
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Moldbug called it. Can’t wait til they start using his proposed arguments, word for word. Won’t be long now.

I call them “his proposed arguments” but they are rather easily deduced as the next logical step, given the premises that have already been adopted wholesale. I’m almost surprised it’s taken as long as it has, but this too he predicted: Cathedral has to get ppl ready.

Basically analogous to racism: arguments are framed in “happen to be born a different skin color through no fault of your own”. “Happen to be born in a different geographic location, through no fault of your own”. Illegal to deny ppl things on race, soon on immigration too.
 
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AGreatDipAtAFairPrice said:
This week, Ilhan Omar will introduce legislation in favor of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement. I'm fine with that, but the timing is a skosh off.
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Omar: Well, since I've got everyone's attention...

While I do believe Trump thought his gamble would pay off, he could have hardly expected this kind of jackpot.
 
www.foxnews.com

Ocasio-Cortez gets new 2020 challenger: a Republican immigrant from Jamaica

Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fox News has learned.
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EXCLUSIVE -- Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fox News has learned.

In a phone interview, Murray, 38, confirmed her intention to run for the New York congressional seat as a Republican.

TRUMP FIRES BACK AT SQUAD, CHALLENGES HOUSE TO ‘REBUKE’ THEM FOR ‘FILTHY AND HATE LACED’ LANGUAGE

“There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC,” Murray told Fox News. “And instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon New York deal.”

Murray, who was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was 9, is officially launching her campaign Wednesday with an introductory video that takes sharp jabs at the 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez.

“Your representative in Washington chooses self-promotion over service, conflict over constituents, resistance over assistance," Murray said in the video. "Queens and the Bronx needs someone who will create jobs instead of turning them away."

Asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s brand of Democratic socialism, Murray said, “I think it’s far, far to the left and it is not connecting with everyday Americans.”

As for "Medicare-for-all," which Ocasio-Cortez has embraced, the Republican said: “Medicare-for-all, I think a lot of people are happy with their current health insurance.” And on the Green New Deal, the left-wing proposal to address climate change pushed by Ocasio-Ortez, she said: “We know that it certainly will kill jobs.”

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Murray joins four other Republicans who have filed to run for the seat: former police officer John Cummings, medical journalist Ruth Papazian, construction contractor Miguel Hernandez and entrepreneur Antoine Tucker.

No Democrats have yet announced a primary challenge to Ocasio-Cortez, though there's been speculation that establishment Democrats could rally behind a primary challenger. Ocasio-Cortez shocked the political world in 2018 by defeating longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary.

Whichever Republican candidate emerges from the primary field will face a steep uphill climb in the overwhelmingly Democratic district. But Murray and others are looking to paint Ocasio-Cortez as more of a celebrity than a lawmaker, while stressing their ability to work across party lines.

Murray's new campaign video, which doesn’t mention President Trump or the Republican Party, portrays Murray as a bridge-builder. She is a former state committeewoman of the New York State Republican Party.

Asked during the interview if she considers herself a Trump supporter, she said “yes.” She said she is in the process of talking with national Republicans about her campaign, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a prominent black Republican in Congress.

She expressed disgust over the recent spat between Trump and Ocasio-Cortez and her allies. Trump has taken heat for telling Ocasio-Cortez and other minority progressives to "go back" to where they came from – provoking accusations from Democrats that Trump's comments are racist.

“I think it’s disgusting, to be quite honest,” Murray said of the controversy, without specifying which part of it disgusts her. “I think we are missing the point of why we’re elected to public office: to legislate on policy, to deliver results to those kitchen table issues that are affecting everyday Americans.”

Murray later clarified her thoughts on the back-and-forth, saying of Trump's tweet, "Is that how I would have worded it? No. Do I think the president is a racist? No." She added, "But I want to get back to the core of why we’re even talking about this – there is a crisis at our border."

Murray, who grew up in Southeast Queens and worked for the city’s Jamaica Bus Depot as a teenager, founded a television production and advertising company called The Esemel Group in 2004. She said her business generated employment for minorities in New York City. She said she no longer works for the company and is now a full-time mother.

The GOP primary will take place in June 2020.

Winning a general election in New York’s 14th congressional district would be a long shot for any Republican: In 2018, Ocasio-Cortez’s GOP opponent, Anthony Pappas, won just 14 percent of the vote.

But Murray still insists a Republican could win – even in a Democratic-controlled district – because of dissatisfaction with Ocasio-Cortez.

“A Republican can win the district,” she said. “There is an absolute path to victory when you look at a general election campaign.”
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There's a few videos I couldn't link directly due to format.
 
>a WoC immigrant running against AOC
>As a Republican
My sides are in orbit. It's very obviously a deliberate tactic having her run, but AOC can't use the ol' "he's a fucking white male" argument. Still, having so many Republican challengers might cause her district to vote for her out of recognition, complacency and feeling that maybe she is embattled, so who knows.
 
She also worked at a bus depot when younger, before starting her own company, so even that bullshit about AOC being working class can't be held up over her.

This will be glorious.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
She also worked at a bus depot when younger, before starting her own company, so even that bullshit about AOC being working class can't be held up over her.

This will be glorious.
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Maybe someday we'll get an answer for why she lied about that. She owes her earliest supporters an explanation at the very least.

In the meantime holy shit this has turned into quite the spectacle. If she had done this all on purpose I'd give her a standing ovation, but this was all done unironically.
 
Nobody is going to vote for a Republican in AOC’s district. If someone is going to knock her out, it’s going to have to come from the inside.

Same goes for Omar. The bulbheads who are infesting Minneapolis are going to vote for her unless another bulbhead runs to challenge her.

That’s the problem: we imported too many hostile non-whites to get rid of these losers unless you find a slightly less retarded version of them to replace.
 
NeoGAF Lurker said:
Nobody is going to vote for a Republican in AOC’s district. If someone is going to knock her out, it’s going to have to come from the inside.

Same goes for Omar. The bulbheads who are infesting Minneapolis are going to vote for her unless another bulbhead runs to challenge her.

That’s the problem: we imported too many hostile non-whites to get rid of these losers unless you find a slightly less exceptional version of them to replace.
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The point isn't to get rid of them, the point is to continue to destroy the Dem's power base by destabilizing it via internal power struggles
 
@It's HK-47 is 100% correct. Trump's bait tweets now force Pelosi to stay her hand against the poor little woc congresstokens instead of bringing their insanity to heel like they need to be. Keep proudly standing up against whites and true poor Americans and every other group you need to vote for you, Democrats.

NeoGAF Lurker said:
Nobody is going to vote for a Republican in AOC’s district. If someone is going to knock her out, it’s going to have to come from the inside.

Same goes for Omar. The bulbheads who are infesting Minneapolis are going to vote for her unless another bulbhead runs to challenge her.

That’s the problem: we imported too many hostile non-whites to get rid of these losers unless you find a slightly less exceptional version of them to replace.
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I live in Omar's district and did not vote for her. When I mention that to anyone, stranger or friend, their immediate reaction is to sigh and roll their eyes. She is absolutely a token here. If you didn't vote for her it must be because you hate Somalis and muslims. You know who I did vote for? A write-in black guy whose campaign was all about closing the education gap for black school students. Sounded great to me because then they could stop being victims their whole lives. He got less than 1,300 votes but at least I was one of them. But try telling any of these Koran cheerleaders that they are racist for not supporting that and you'll just get confused dismissal. Hell, try asking any of them if Omar is so great, what is she actually doing so far? The best answer you can hope to get is "she's standing up to Trump's bigotry" or something along those lines. Meaning they truly believe that being a victim is an "accomplishment" of hers. I don't know what to do with these people.
 
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