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.

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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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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.
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I hope she's a one-termer who gets ousted not by the status quo but someone even MORE liberal and insane than her. With a few rounds of that, we conservatives can purge out the neo-cons and neo-libs and return to traditional values that made this nation great.
 
I don't know why people think she'll be ousted from the House at some point. Everyone will eventually just start ignoring her for the most part and she'll sit in the House for the next 30 years. The Congressional Black Caucus is full of people as stupid and crazy as her and there are plenty of religious right whackjobs who fly under the radar. The only difference is she is enjoying a media boom that will evaporate as soon as the new congress is sworn in and there are other things to talk about.
 
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I don't know why people think she'll be ousted from the House at some point. Everyone will eventually just start ignoring her for the most part and she'll sit in the House for the next 30 years. The Congressional Black Caucus is full of people as stupid and crazy as her and there are plenty of religious right whackjobs who fly under the radar. The only difference is she is enjoying a media boom that will evaporate as soon as the new congress is sworn in and there are other things to talk about.
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Obviously you've never heard of "hoisted by your own petard", huh? She's bitching we're not left enough. We're gonna Lee Atwater her ass if we can and get someone even more extreme.

Shit, it'll make Lee Atwater's shit look like a god damn PBS fundraiser marathon. We're gonna get dirty as fuck to beat those god damn commies. I didn't serve this country so the fucking reds can take over and rape us with their idiotic commie ideas and taxes.
 
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I don't know why people think she'll be ousted from the House at some point. Everyone will eventually just start ignoring her for the most part and she'll sit in the House for the next 30 years. The Congressional Black Caucus is full of people as stupid and crazy as her and there are plenty of religious right whackjobs who fly under the radar. The only difference is she is enjoying a media boom that will evaporate as soon as the new congress is sworn in and there are other things to talk about.
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Correct. Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and other idiots have been at it for decades since they serve in complete safe districts. AOC will leave her seat in the House when she's elected to another office (yeah right), in a body bag (give it 40-50 years), or when she's hauled off to prison for corruption (most likely IMO). Occasional Cortex is smart enough to avoid getting nailed for blatant corruption--the other blatantly corrupt morons in Congress will teach her the ropes on how to skirt the law.

Occasional Cortex will be ignored once her handlers (basically her tard wranglers) feel she's detrimental to their cause. This will be soon, since she's so utterly stupid without smarter people whispering in her ear she can only work against it. If I wanted to oppose what AOC stands for, I'd support AOC since she's so ignorant. The left needs a Palin, a Bachmann, etc. We have to balance Republicans like Louie Gohmert after all, and why not pick some random thot for this?

She'll make the news a few times in 2019 and 2020, but give it a few years and the next time you'll hear of her is when she's referred to the House Ethics Committee, or when she says something beyond idiotic, or when she gives into her pride and goes totally corrupt and gets sent to prison.
 
I've said it in the thread on her about not having the money to move to DC, and I'll say it again here. She's going to be caught living with a boy/girlfriend who "happens to be" a lobbyist, most likely a short amount of time after she starts showing up to work wearing about half a jewelry store.
 
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Correct. Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and other idiots have been at it for decades since they serve in complete safe districts. AOC will leave her seat in the House when she's elected to another office (yeah right), in a body bag (give it 40-50 years), or when she's hauled off to prison for corruption (most likely IMO). Occasional Cortex is smart enough to avoid getting nailed for blatant corruption--the other blatantly corrupt morons in Congress will teach her the ropes on how to skirt the law.

Occasional Cortex will be ignored once her handlers (basically her tard wranglers) feel she's detrimental to their cause. This will be soon, since she's so utterly stupid without smarter people whispering in her ear she can only work against it. If I wanted to oppose what AOC stands for, I'd support AOC since she's so ignorant. The left needs a Palin, a Bachmann, etc. We have to balance Republicans like Louie Gohmert after all, and why not pick some random thot for this?

She'll make the news a few times in 2019 and 2020, but give it a few years and the next time you'll hear of her is when she's referred to the House Ethics Committee, or when she says something beyond idiotic, or when she gives into her pride and goes totally corrupt and gets sent to prison.
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I think it's more likely she gets primaried in two years by another Democrat who actually remembers to campaign instead of whatever the fuck Crowley was doing.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Committee Is Winning Even In Defeat
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Democratic leaders all but killed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s push for a select committee on a Green New Deal on Thursday, essentially returning to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s original plan to appoint a party stalwart to chair a revived global warming panel.

Activists said Thursday they’d continue the fight. But the announcement seemed to signal an end to weeks of protests and political bird-dogging by activists who had quickly garnered support for a resolution establishing a Green New Deal select committee from more than 40 incoming or sitting House Democrats and nearly a half-dozen senators, including three likely presidential contenders.

In that, the congresswoman-elect from New York can claim victory.

The push forced a sea change in climate politics, pushing the policy debate from stagnant, wonky and dubious solutions centered on market tweaks to sweeping, dramatic policies that scientists say could actually make a dent in surging greenhouse gas emissions.

For years, the Republican Party’s unabashed embrace of the oil, gas and coal industries established its outright denial of the near-universally accepted science that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change.

That freed the Democratic Party, beholden to its own donors in the industry, to take a wishy-washy stance, righteously assuming the mantle of “the party that believes in science” without having to advocate for policies that would seriously affect deep-pocketed interests.

In 2009, when Barack Obama was president and the party controlled both houses of Congress, Democrats’ big legislative push on climate was a cap-and-trade bill, a relatively conservative greenhouse gas policy first devised by Republican economists.

When the bill failed in the Senate ― reportedly because the White House urged party leaders to prioritize health care reform and retreat ― Democrats went adrift on the issue. Climate change barely came up during the 2016 presidential election, despite huge difference between the Democratic primary opponents and a gaping chasm between nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, who dismisses climate change as “a hoax.”

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Trump’s election during one of the hottest years on record helped ignite a new political fury over runaway greenhouse gas emissions. The Trump administration’s aggressive rollback of regulations to curb climate change and decision to install fossil fuel executives and industry allies in key environmental posts hardened the Republican Party’s stance on the issue and gave Democrats an easy avatar around which to rally.

Ill-fated proposals to deal with climate change started to roll in.

In April 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced a bill to effectively end fossil fuel use by 2050. In July of that year, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) proposed a carbon tax bill alongside companion legislation by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.).

The following September, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) introduced the Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act, mandating 100 percent renewable energy throughout the country by 2035, ending all subsidies to drilling, mining and refining companies, and providing funding to workers to transition into new industries.

Yet by early 2018, the party had failed to rally around any of the legislation, even ignoring climate change altogether in the party’s State of the Union rebuttals in January.

Then came Ocasio-Cortez.

In June, the avowed democratic socialist won a shocking primary victory against Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), one of the most senior Democrats in the House and a powerful deputy of Pelosi. Her campaign platform called for a Green New Deal, at the time described vaguely as 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 and 1940s-style economy-wide mobilization. It was essentially a clarion call to go to war against fossil fuel emissions.

Adding to the urgency of her plan was the report in October from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found that, to avoid cataclysmic warming beyond 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit, world governments needed to halve global emissions in just 12 years. When the Democratic National Committee’s decision to backtrack on a ban on fossil-fuel corporate donations in August, the party’s rift on climate change became apparent.

The 28-year-old former bartender from the Bronx became an overnight celebrity. She cultivated allies.



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By the time Ocasio-Cortez cruised to an easy victory in the Nov. 6 general election, roughly half a dozen other insurgent Democrats who won were campaigning on a Green New Deal.

Their campaigns served as rallying points for the Sunrise Movement, a progressive climate justice group focused on young people. After Pelosi made it clear that Democrats’ primary plan to address climate change was to revive a defunct select committee to study the issue, the group ― buttressed by the left-wing group Justice Democrats ― planned sit-ins in the party leader’s office.

Late Thursday, the Sunrise Movement vowed to continue pushing for a Green New Deal committee.

Evan Weber, the Sunrise Movement’s political director, said in a statement: “Nancy Pelosi has the power to determine whether or not the Select Committee for a Green New Deal lives or dies. Sunrise Movement’s position is and will continue to be that it’s not over until she makes it clear that it’s over.”

Ocasio-Cortez joined the demonstration, garnering headlines and astounding a Washington establishment accustomed to new lawmakers who politely pay dues to the party elders. To streamline the effort around a specific goal, she produced a draft resolution to establish a select committee on a Green New Deal ― a counter-proposal to the Pelosi plan.

As it picked up support from dozens of Democrats, it seemed likely at one point to come to fruition. But by this week, it became clear Pelosi and her allies were putting up roadblocks, stripping the hypothetical select committee of subpoena and legislative powers. On Thursday, Pelosi’s decision to tap Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to lead the restored select committee on climate change confirmed the Green New Deal resolution’s demise.

It’s unclear what comes next. Last Friday, more than 300 state and local officials announced their support for a Green New Deal in a widely publicized open letter. Hours later, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) became the third likely 2020 presidential contender to offer his full-throated support for the Green New Deal. On Monday, a new poll showed an eye-popping 81 percent of registered voters supported the policies outlined under the Green New Deal resolution ― including 64 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of self-described conservative Republicans. So the direction is apparent.

Just ask Castor.

“The Green New Deal is full of very promising ideas and passion and energy,” she told HuffPost on Thursday evening. “I think they’re going to breathe life into a select committee on the climate crisis.”

This article has been updated with a statement from the Sunrise Movement that it plans to continue to fight for a select committee.
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Please oh please let them run on this message. Also lol at how they phrased that question in the poll, all fucking biased positivity. "Jobs, economy, clean, upgraded energy grid, buildings. and transportation infrastructure." All in 10 years to boot.

If these fucks wanted a "green" energy grid, they'd be promoting nuclear energy. All one has to do is look a France to see that nuclear power is both reliable and extremely safe, shit just look at the US Navy. We could have had it, but nope, hippies and faggy politicians denied us a kick ass nuclear grid. So now they try for "green" energy through extremely inefficient sources, like solar and wind. Just look at Germany and their shit green power plan. Higher energy costs for consumers as well as still having to buy gas from Russia, good shit to follow.
 
Green energy is the perfect thing for AOC to promote. It's the political equivalent of running for student body president by promising to get better vending machines and more school dances. Everyone will say that it's a great idea and then everyone moves on to actual business.
 
It's quite possibly the most disingenuous platform ever, but people still fall for wind and solar will fix everything. Ignore the cost, ignore the horrible compactness, ignore all the pollution generated from gathering the matetials for a billion solar panels and batteries.

What? Modern nuclear plants generate almost no waste and the fuel will last practically forever? Fuck that, here's a handful of disasters including some from a half century ago.
 
Being fond of atomic energy is probably the most frustrating thing on Earth.
 
Pebble-bed reactors are the safest goddamn power source in existence; there's no reason not to have one, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand. But nope, "NUKULAR = SCARY, BAD Say Top Soyintists 'Come on sheeple don't you remember when we had that massive meltdown and only brave Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas covered it on the news?'"
 
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Please oh please let them run on this message. Also lol at how they phrased that question in the poll, all fucking biased positivity. "Jobs, economy, clean, upgraded energy grid, buildings. and transportation infrastructure." All in 10 years to boot.

If these fucks wanted a "green" energy grid, they'd be promoting nuclear energy. All one has to do is look a France to see that nuclear power is both reliable and extremely safe, shit just look at the US Navy. We could have had it, but nope, hippies and faggy politicians denied us a kick ass nuclear grid. So now they try for "green" energy through extremely inefficient sources, like solar and wind. Just look at Germany and their shit green power plan. Higher energy costs for consumers as well as still having to buy gas from Russia, good shit to follow.
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Our energy grid and our infrastructure in general is a laughing-stock of the West, and it is all because boomers didn't want to invest in them for a laundry list of reasons, many of which are environmental. The hippy observation is absolutely correct.
 
I for one hope that she hangs around and doesn't really learn the job well, so she can become the poster child of why everyone without a massive hole in their head shouldn't vote for Democratic Socialist.
 
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