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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FierceBrosnan said:
See that just makes it a challenge. The only way to change her filthy commie way is to get in there and seize her means of reproduction with a hefty load of capitaljizm until she's deep into Preganomics.
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I have a solution, a final one, for that.
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TowinKarz said:
AOC was always a power-hungry idiot who felt self-assured she was destined to rule the world. Telling the "little people" to sit down and shut up while she outlines a plan that would cost more money than exists in the world right now is how she always was, just nobody heard her back then.
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One of the founding principles of SocJus is that all of the Good People have already decided how the world Should Be. Of course, there's a few problems with this:
  1. The Good People are a small minority that are overwhelmingly middle-class, college-educated, liberal white Americans.
  2. There's no plan for getting from where where are now to where things Should Be.
  3. The rest of the hoi polloi who didn't agree to this decision get to vote too.
 
Wallace said:
One of the founding principles of SocJus is that all of the Good People have already decided how the world Should Be. Of course, there's a few problems with this:
  1. The Good People are a small minority that are overwhelmingly middle-class, college-educated, liberal white Americans.
  2. There's no plan for getting from where where are now to where things Should Be.
  3. The rest of the hoi polloi who didn't agree to this decision get to vote too.
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Alex has a plan for the hoi polloi though, she's going to screech at them on Twitter until they either stop having children or she's voted out of office, whichever one comes first.
 
Wallace said:
One of the founding principles of SocJus is that all of the Good People have already decided how the world Should Be. Of course, there's a few problems with this:
  1. The Good People are a small minority that are overwhelmingly middle-class, college-educated, liberal white Americans.
  2. There's no plan for getting from where where are now to where things Should Be.
  3. The rest of the hoi polloi who didn't agree to this decision get to vote too.
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The plan is to tax or murder the rich then something magical happens and we all live in utopia or some shit.

You’re right, they really have no logical plan that goes from A to B to C. It’s we want X, we will tax the rich, then Y happens...and all trannies turn into beautiful women.
 
CatParty said:
To quote Alan Moore: "None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re locked up in here with ME.”
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Ok, Alan Moore didn't say that, he wrote it for a character that was insane and violent.

CatParty said:
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You know how in boxing or martial arts some people have a tell, something that they obviously don't want expose as a weakness or a handicap?
Look, she has big hips, a waist... but no breasts, just nothing, no hint of decolletage. Because that's a no-no in woke comics it seems.
Not to mention that both pictures are the exact same.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Ok, Alan Moore didn't say that, he wrote it for a character that was insane and violent.



You know how in boxing or martial arts some people have a tell, something that they obviously don't want expose as a weakness or a handicap?
Look, she has big hips, a waist... but no breasts, just nothing, no hint of decolletage. Because that's a no-no in woke comics it seems.
Not to mention that both pictures are the exact same.
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I was thinking the same thing about her comic persona- a disappointing no-boobs stick that looks more like a skinny troon than AOC who, although thin, has a visibly female figure with plenty of boob. SocJus folks really hate women lol
 
AlexJonesGotMePregnant said:
I was thinking the same thing about her comic persona- a disappointing no-boobs stick that looks more like a skinny troon than AOC who, although thin, has a visibly female figure with plenty of boob. SocJus folks really hate women lol
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Yeah it's the fatties being mad men don't look at them like they do with hot chicks. HAES is just missing the "T" in the middle.
 
Maxliam said:
Yeah it's the fatties being mad men don't look at them like they do with hot chicks. HAES is just missing the "T" in the middle.
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fatpeoplehate was my early days of shitposting, it completely blew my mind that HAES was a real thing that people were spending a lot of money towards for political lobbying- and it was working.

i have a feeling everyone in this pathetic attempt of political propaganda for an insane, fast-failing junior politician will end up looking like
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AlexJonesGotMePregnant said:
fatpeoplehate was my early days of shitposting, it completely blew my mind that HAES was a real thing that people were spending a lot of money towards for political lobbying- and it was working.

i have a feeling everyone in this pathetic attempt of political propaganda for an insane, fast-failing junior politician will end up looking like
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You know it's bad when even Whoopi is telling you to sit down, shut up, and learn the ropes.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Ok, Alan Moore didn't say that, he wrote it for a character that was insane and violent.



You know how in boxing or martial arts some people have a tell, something that they obviously don't want expose as a weakness or a handicap?
Look, she has big hips, a waist... but no breasts, just nothing, no hint of decolletage. Because that's a no-no in woke comics it seems.
Not to mention that both pictures are the exact same.
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Exactly, I find it hilarious she used a quote from a misogynistic, homophobic, conservative character who you're supposed to realize is a deranged asshole. She hasn't read Watchmen, she heard it floating around in the realm of pop culture and thought it made her sound badass.
 
Maxliam said:
I have a solution, a final one, for that.
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Too ⏰. That's her actual platform.

Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez right to ask if the climate means we should have fewer children?

On Instagram, the congresswoman said millennials are choosing to be childless because of the climate crisis. But that approach risks overlooking systematic factors

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, freshman congresswoman and social media sensation, has taken time out from baiting Donald Trump and establishment members of her own party to raise a profound moral question for us all: in light of the escalating climate emergency, should we still be having children?

During a recent Q&A live-streamed on Instagram, apparently shot while she was pottering in her kitchen, the rising star of the Democratic party – and one of the few frontline politicians to get the scale of the environmental emergency – pulled no punches in telling viewers that unless we take urgent, radical action on emissions, there is no hope for the future. “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult, and it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”

With this one question put to her 2.5 million Instagram followers, Ocasio-Cortez has stumbled into a highly contentious area. Population has long been a controversial factor in the climate change debate; one recent study said the most effective thing individuals can do to address the crisis was to have one less child.

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Ocasio-Cortez is not encouraging people stop having children. And as the leading advocate of the Green New Deal plan – which aims to radically transform the US economy by 2030 – she is one of the few politicians to be working on a plan that might just offer a way to avoid the worst impacts of this crisis.

But perhaps she is raising a more profound issue. Faced with a future of social and political breakdown, flooding, deadly heatwaves and food shortages – and a world full of politicians in various states of denial – why shouldn’t young people question whether bringing children in the world is a good idea?
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There's more of this bullshit, but the takeaway is both the jewess and the journo Matthew Taylor (who should be learning to code) are quintessential libs. "Millennials" aren't having children not because of some faraway disaster, they aren't having children because they're (relatively) poor and don't feel like they can do right by the child. Why make a new person if you're going to have less input into his or her upbringing than pajeets who post Farting Elsa cartoons on youtube? But it is an uncomfortable problem to raise. It doesn't sit well with the lib establishment (who'd have you working as a day laborer every waking moment) or the miff-marfing faux-commie (wo)manchildren parasites in need of their own babysitters.

Ocasio-Cortez says poverty is a virtue and a choice, with the not-so-subtle implication she'll do everything in her power to preserve your virtue. If it was anyone else, twitter hammersickles would be reaching for their slicey boi memes. Instead, she gets a "no no, this is totally not what it looks like" damage control column in the grauniad.
 
House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.

House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.
In a closed-door session, a frustrated Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at about two dozen moderates and pressured them to get on board. “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, according to two people present but not authorized to discuss the remarks publicly.
But Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the unquestioned media superstar of the freshman class, upped the ante, admonishing the moderates and indicating she would help liberal activists unseat them in the 2020 election.
Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, said she told her colleagues that Democrats who side with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”
“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Triggering the blowup were Wednesday’s votes on a bill to expand federal background checks for gun purchases. Twenty-six moderate Democrats joined Republicans in amending the legislation, adding a provision requiring that ICE be notified if an illegal immigrant seeks to purchase a gun.

That infuriated liberals who have railed against ICE’s role in conducting mass deportations and embarrassed Democratic leaders who couldn’t keep their members in line on a high-profile bill.
The Democratic infighting reflects a fractured caucus and diverse freshman class, with dozens of moderates elected in districts that President Trump won in 2016 at odds with hard-charging liberals. The split has exposed divisions among Pelosi and her top lieutenants, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) and Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), over the party strategy to keep its newfound majority.
Republicans have capitalized on the divide, using legislative tactics to split politically vulnerable moderates from the party leadership. In the coming months, votes on health care, the environment and spending bills could cause more extreme breaks in the Democratic ranks.
While the party’s left wing has gotten outsize attention for its aggressive moves to push Democrats in their direction, the splinter faction is made up of the party’s moderates — many of them freshmen taking their first congressional votes.
They insist they are not going to be dissuaded from voting with their districts, and many are warning that majority control is at stake.
“It’s this class of members that got elected that are the reason we have the majority,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a co-chairman of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition. “Many of them come from these [moderate] districts, and their promise to their constituents was that they were going to put people over politics.”
Inside the Democratic meeting, one of those freshmen — Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (N.M.) — reacted sharply to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments and rose to urge her colleagues to respect the political reality of representing a swing district, according to multiple people present. A spokesman for Torres Small did not respond to a request for comment.
Several are also pushing to reform or eliminate the procedural tactic that has prompted the uproar — the “motion to recommit,” which essentially gives the minority party one final opportunity to amend a bill moments before it comes up for a final vote.
Pelosi trained much of her closed-door frustrations on veteran lawmakers, noting that some held seats on coveted committees. “What is this?” she asked, according to the aides.
Later, when one lawmaker talked about the peril of persistently voting with party leaders on these motions, Pelosi responded that the party stood ready to help team players: “We have a massive MASH operation and, frankly, it should be there for those who have the courage to take the vote.”
Publicly and privately, Pelosi has urged members to treat the Republican motions as procedural feints that should be routinely ignored. “Vote no — just vote no,” she told reporters Thursday, “because the fact is, a vote yes is to give leverage to the other side.” But Hoyer and Clyburn believe that is untenable when Republicans stand ready to use those votes as political cudgels against vulnerable Democrats.
Republicans, during their past eight-year majority, maintained remarkable discipline on these procedural votes. Democrats did not manage to pass a single one from 2011 through 2018. But Democrats have already lost two this year, and during their previous majority from 2007 through 2010, they lost roughly one in every five.
“The fact of the matter is, it didn’t affect our ability to pass substantive legislation that was very positive and had a positive effect on the American people,” Hoyer said, recalling the last Democratic majority and playing down the importance of those votes.
But others say routine Democratic defections threaten to have more serious consequences when the party considers more sensitive bills — and perhaps has a Democratic Senate and president to pass them into law. Already some said they are fretting about the possibility of more Republican mischief.
“People need to be aware that coming down the road will be ‘gotcha’ amendments that actually gut the bill, and if we want to be able to move legislation forward, we’re going to have to figure out a way to deal with it,” said House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.).
The philosophical differences between the three leaders have frustrated some incoming freshmen, who are already bewildered by the practice of voting on the surprise Republican amendments. Members typically have only a few minutes’ notice before having to cast votes on motions that, in recent practice, are crafted to be as politically uncomfortable as possible for the majority party.
“We hear lots of different things from lots of different members of our leadership about their views on this issue, and they should get together and figure it out,” said Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
A few Democrats said Thursday that the motion to recommit should be jettisoned entirely. “It’s archaic, it’s ridiculous, and it only shows our stupidity that we still have it,” Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) said.
But others in party leadership were more wary of eroding one of the few tools handed to the minority in an institution where the majority typically enjoys absolute power. “What goes around comes around — you have to keep that in mind,” McGovern said.
Hoyer has offered support for changing the procedure surrounding motions to recommit, giving members more time to review the minority amendment. But Democratic leaders have made no final decision about whether to pursue that, and lawmakers left Washington on Thursday saying only that there would be further conversations about it.
Republican leaders, meanwhile, warned against any changes. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters Thursday that changes “would be a nuclear option” and “would leave a stain on this majority just two months in.”
“Never once did we discuss, did we bring up the option or even entertain the idea,” McCarthy said about the GOP’s past majority. “Less than 60 days into a majority, they want to silence a minority? That is wrong.”
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"Pick my side or else!" No dummy, that's not how it's supposed to work. You vote for what you support. Get outta here with the hivemind. If I wasn't one of the guys in the room watching her before, I'd definitely be doing it now.
 
JosephTX said:
www.nationalreview.com

AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP | National Review

She told lawmakers she plans to provide progressive activists searching for primary targets with a list of Democrats who work across the aisle.
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How long before she commits suicide off the balcony of her luxury apartment?
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More like she's going to suddenly find herself getting challenged in the next primary and the DNC funneling a shit ton of money to her challenger.
 
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