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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Ped Xing said:
It's possible I don't know what this BDSM thing is all about.

Are local GOVERNMENTS boycotting Israel? That's A) not their place and B) yes, schizophrenic diplomacy

But saying individuals and private corporations have to play nice with our allies is the tail wagging the dog.
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Local and State governments, specifically. At least from my understanding.

The bill expressly states
The fact-sheet declares that HRes246 does nothing to limit free-speech. “Any individuals who want to express themselves in any way—by criticizing a government or country, or by choosing to purchase or not purchase a product—are absolutely guaranteed that right under the First Amendment,” it says.
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Here's the text of the proposal itself:

(a) State And Local Measures.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State or local government may adopt and enforce measures that meet the requirements of subsection (c) to divest the assets of the State or local government from, prohibit investment of the assets of the State or local government in, or restrict contracting by the State or local government for goods and services with—

(1) an entity that the State or local government determines, using credible information available to the public, knowingly engages in an activity described in subsection (b);

(2) a successor entity or subunit of an entity described in paragraph (1); or

(3) an entity that owns or controls or is owned or controlled by an entity described in paragraph (1).

(b) Activities Described.—An activity described in this subsection is a commerce-related or investment-related boycott, divestment, or sanctions activity in the course of interstate or international commerce that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial relations with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or Israeli-controlled territories for purposes of coercing political action by, or imposing policy positions on, the Government of Israel.

(c) Requirements.—A State or local government that seeks to adopt or enforce a measure under subsection (a) shall meet the following requirements:

(1) NOTICE.—The State or local government shall provide written notice—

(A) in the case of a measure relating to divestment or investment, to each entity to which the measure is to be applied; and

(B) in the case of a measure relating to contracting, of the restrictions imposed by the measure to each prospective contractor before entering into a contract.
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As I read it, it seems to say that it means the government won't do business with contractors or other government entities who are participating in a boycott of Israel. That's it.

You could argue this is about preventing government money being spent on a partisan cause, which a boycott of israel certainly is. So uh... actually the law seems fairly reasonable, although again, I don't see why it has to be specifically about israel...
 
Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
As I read it, it seems to say that it means the government won't do business with contractors or other government entities who are participating in a boycott of Israel. That's it.

You could argue this is about preventing government money being spent on a partisan cause, which a boycott of israel certainly is. So uh... actually the law seems fairly reasonable, although again, I don't see why it has to be specifically about israel...
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Because exceptional dune coons can't ever do anything political, without eventually reeing about Israel. It's like a weird Godwin's Law thing, where the longer you observe a Muslim at large, the closer to 1:1 the likelihood that they'll starting sperging about (((those people))).
 
My favorite part about this weird fetishization of the Gang of Four is how hard the narrative of a sea change in the DNC is being pushed when reality is literally the opposite. The vast majority of seats the Dems won in 2018 were with moderate candidates in somewhat purple districts and with traditionally conservative voting constituencies.

That's why the fucking Gang of Four stick out so much. But there is this need by the so-called progressive wing to push this narrative that far left idpol, economic, and spending policy are what won the Dems seats in 2018 ergo the party should put its weight behind Sanders and maybe Warren (though they are turning on her a little) instead of Biden.

Not that I care for Creepy Uncle Joe "Commit a felony with your Fudd gun because self defense is scawwy, oh and I wrote the Patriot Act" Biden.
 

A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar in Minnesota has been charged with a felony after allegedly stealing from stores.

Danielle Stella was arrested twice this year in Minneapolis suburbs over allegations that she shoplifted items worth more than $2,300 from a Target and goods valued at $40 from a grocery store. She said she denied the allegations.
Stella, a 31-year-old special education teacher, was reported this week to be a supporter of the baseless “QAnon” conspiracy theory about Donald Trump battling a global cabal of elite liberal paedophiles.
This week Stella also described Minneapolis as “the crime capital of our country”. She has in the past complained that local police were “overworked and overburdened” and said that, if elected, she would work to reduce crime.
In a series of text messages, Stella said: “I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law.”
She added: “If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides.”
An attorney for Stella, Joshua London, declined to comment.
Stella is accused of stealing 279 items valued at $2,327.97 from a Target store in Edina, to the south-west of Minneapolis, on 8 January this year. She was arrested for the alleged theft after security staff called the police.
A criminal complaint filed to Hennepin county district court alleged Stella was seen leaving the store without paying for most of her haul, after “scanning only a few other items” that were valued at about $50.


The complaint said Stella told police in a statement she “remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else” due to post-traumatic stress disorder, and that she “normally she goes to Target with someone because of anxiety around people”.
Stella has said publicly that she was the victim of a severe violent assault in 2008. She is charged with the thefts under her former surname, which the Guardian agreed not to report because she said it could endanger her safety.
She is charged with felony theft over the incident at Target and faces a punishment of up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if convicted, according to court filings.
Police and court records said a warrant was put out for Stella’s re-arrest for alleged contempt of court on 4 April, after she failed to show up for a court hearing.
Officers in nearby Bloomington then arrested Stella on 28 April after she was allegedly seen by security staff at a Cub Foods grocery store stealing a bottle of tick spray for cats, and placing other items “under her purse so that they could not be seen”.
When they checked her identification, police officers discovered the open warrant for Stella’s arrest over her failure to appear in court for the earlier alleged shoplifting, their incident report said.
The report said Stella was arrested for alleged misdemeanour theft for taking “cat merchandise” and cat food valued at $40.46. She was issued with a citation and given a date to appear in court. It was not clear whether authorities would pursue the contempt of court allegation.
Stella’s candidacy has attracted interest from the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, which broadcast an interview with her this week. Stella laughed and nodded as the host, J Owen Shroyer, called Omar “a witch” and said: “Everything about her is a fraud.”
Describing Minneapolis during the interview as America’s “crime capital”, Stella falsely claimed that crime in the city had risen by 80% over the past year. According to Minneapolis police data, there has been a 10.7% uptick in serious crime year-on-year, following a 16.5% decline in 2018.
The rightwing commentator Todd Starnes promoted Stella in an interview earlier this month on Fox News’s streaming service Fox Nation. “We certainly wish Miss Stella the very best,” Starnes said, adding that he hoped for a “significant change in representation” in Omar’s district.


Last month Stella officially registered with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for the Republican nomination in Minnesota’s fifth congressional district. She later spoke at the “Demand Free Speech” rally in Washington.
She has accused Omar of being a criminal for advising immigrants how to avoid agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said in a tweet that any representatives who fail to “uphold the rule of law” should be ejected from office.
Court records say that in 2009, Stella pleaded guilty to driving while impaired from alcohol and fleeing a police officer. The latter charge was prosecuted as a felony but later classified as a gross misdemeanour as part of Stella’s plea.
 
Stealing things while saying she's going to stamp out crime all while making excuses for it? Yeah she's politician material alright.
 
supporter of the baseless “QAnon” conspiracy theory about Donald Trump battling a global cabal of elite liberal paedophiles.
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>baseless [...] cabal of elite liberal pedophiles
hold on, you're telling me the elite isn't full of pedos? Isn't that the whole Epstein shitfest that's going on?
Or maybe it's just the Trump bit that's baseless, but in that case there's a lot of basis to what they're claiming, they're just wrong on who's fighting it.
 
RetardedCat said:
>baseless [...] cabal of elite liberal pedophiles
hold on, you're telling me the elite isn't full of pedos? Isn't that the whole Epstein shitfest that's going on?
Or maybe it's just the Trump bit that's baseless, but in that case there's a lot of basis to what they're claiming, they're just wrong on who's fighting it.
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It's not fair to say something is part of qanon, because literally anything ever is part of qanon. It's like a grand unified conspiracy theory of everything.
 
Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
It's not fair to say something is part of qanon, because literally anything ever is part of qanon. It's like a grand unified conspiracy theory of everything.
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I honestly don't even know what the fuck qanon is supposed to be but the fact that the media keeps bringing it up tells me it's some random alex jones tier shit the media hates for no logical reason
 
madethistocomment said:
Keep digging that hole, ladies!

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Dumb asshole won't even compare it to South Africa. She had to go full anti-semite and compare Israel to Nazi Germany.

You can make some very strong comparisons between Israel and South Africa. Afrikaners also essentially penned black South Africans in open-air prisons and violently cracked down on any protests, even non-violent ones. But anyone with a brain can see that Israel is not operating like Nazi Germany, which means this idiot is undermining her own cause.

Even Tlaib talks about this as a free speech issue. Omar's IQ has to be lower than 70.

Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
Here's the text of the proposal itself:



As I read it, it seems to say that it means the government won't do business with contractors or other government entities who are participating in a boycott of Israel. That's it.

You could argue this is about preventing government money being spent on a partisan cause, which a boycott of israel certainly is. So uh... actually the law seems fairly reasonable, although again, I don't see why it has to be specifically about israel...
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I'd need to see a detailed definition of "contractor" to support (or even just not care about) this law, because the first time I heard about anti-BDS state laws, a Palestinian teacher's contract wasn't renewed because she wouldn't promise not to boycott Israel. If a teacher is a "contractor" under this law, then this absolutely shits on the first amendment.
 
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