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.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

She's a cancer that's destroying the DNC.

It's wonderful, and I seriously don't think they can cut her out.

What possible benefit does Cortez give to the Democrats? Her victory was an accident.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

What possible benefit does Cortez give to the Democrats? Her victory was an accident.

She brings wokeness AKA cancer.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

She and her kind are useful idiots for the DNC. At least they were, but now they're getting increased appeal because people are dumb as fuck and fall for that free shit for everybody rhetoric.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

There's probably enough material at this point to give her her own "SJW or Stormfront?" game except it could be "AOC or a five year old."

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Holy shit, it's almost like our government system encourages compromise. Anything you do to run roughshod over the opposition will only be used on you later.

This is why we compromise, nobody is left feeling super fucked and vindictive.

She's just high off of her own popularity and is acting like a celebrity twat rather than a politician in any way. It'll take some time but I really doubt she'll stay in power for very long, especially if she continues to embolden the republicans and alienates the party moderates who have become more and more willing to vote red.

There's probably enough material at this point to give her her own "SJW or Stormfront?" game except it could be "AOC or a five year old."

There was a show something like "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" that I'm almost certain she would fail at. Then again, I suspect a lot of the house of representatives would. I'd pay good money to see Maxine Waters take any sort of intelligence test on live stream.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

She and her kind are useful idiots for the DNC. At least they were, but now they're getting increased appeal because people are dumb as fuck and fall for that free shit for everybody rhetoric.

Pelosi and the skeleton crew are strangely a blessing, because they're the ones holding Cortez and her clique back. All it's going to take is one major fuck up for Pelosi to either isolate her in a dead end committee or just outright purge her.

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

The plan is to tax or murder the rich then something magical happens and we all live in utopia or some shit.

Basically, the Left's playbook since the eighteenth century.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

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.

http://archive.li/bsMwG

"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.

I wonder if this latest authoritarian burst is yet another failure of democracy to the socialist twit.

 

[Vorhtbame]

So the socialist proceeds to manipulate loopholes in the law to avoid accountability. She gets a PAC to hand off cash to her boyfriend, and sets her staff's wages at a level where they don't have to declare their income--including gifts, benefits, and considerations.

 

[RodgerDodger]

So the socialist proceeds to manipulate loopholes in the law to avoid accountability. She gets a PAC to hand off cash to her boyfriend, and sets her staff's wages at a level where they don't have to declare their income--including gifts, benefits, and considerations.

Her shady Chief of Staff/Wealthy Underwriter/Money Launderer knows the loopholes and structured a way that her office can be openly bribed and sell access without having to report anything.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Another thought that makes me chuckle about AOC and her whole we gotta save the environment guys position.
Has she ever actually not lived inside New York city? I find it highly ironic when someone who complains vehemently about the need to save the environment right now and cut down emissions and pollution but has never lived in a place where one needs to drive to get anywhere to, orders takeaway food, uses plastics, lives in a high class apartment, and wouldn't know a thing about energy efficiency if it hit them in the face, other than the people around them need to use less.

I can't remember where I read it so forgive me Kiwis but it was a scientist commenting on the whole global warming crisis and his point was that people like AOC are reactionary and would have the economy retarded and ground to a halt in order to meet some carbon or emissions goal, while it wouldn't reduce world pollution because in terms of industrial pollution, western nations contribute relatively little compared to developing nations.

So what do you do? Expect people in first world nations to live a hermetic lifestyle, which they would be forced to do in order to make these zero emissions goals, literally grinding them into a form of energy poverty, or do you deprive by force the rights of the developing nations, because it would have to be forced upon them either in the form of either excessive trade sanctions or open threat of military force to have them retard or forcibly make them upgrade their industries to the point where they were also making less pollution?

Either reform that you push through it going to be incredibly expensive to the host societies and carries a myriad of additional cost and accusations depending on where the forced reform is going to come from.

 

[Vorhtbame]

So what do you do? Expect people in first world nations to live a hermetic lifestyle, which they would be forced to do in order to make these zero emissions goals, literally grinding them into a form of energy poverty,

Yes. And when the native population won't stand for it, you import millions of people who are used to living like that and won't be too much against it.

I swear, when I watched Elysium, I thought it was hilarious that they were trying to say it was Republicans who would bring about that future (by not providing universal healthcare or letting William Fichtner own a business, I don't know).

 

[RodgerDodger]

Another thought that makes me chuckle about AOC and her whole we gotta save the environment guys position.
Has she ever actually not lived inside New York city? I find it highly ironic when someone who complains vehemently about the need to save the environment right now and cut down emissions and pollution but has never lived in a place where one needs to drive to get anywhere to, orders takeaway food, uses plastics, lives in a high class apartment, and wouldn't know a thing about energy efficiency if it hit them in the face, other than the people around them need to use less.

I can't remember where I read it so forgive me Kiwis but it was a scientist commenting on the whole global warming crisis and his point was that people like AOC are reactionary and would have the economy exceptional and ground to a halt in order to meet some carbon or emissions goal, while it wouldn't reduce world pollution because in terms of industrial pollution, western nations contribute relatively little compared to developing nations.

So what do you do? Expect people in first world nations to live a hermetic lifestyle, which they would be forced to do in order to make these zero emissions goals, literally grinding them into a form of energy poverty, or do you deprive by force the rights of the developing nations, because it would have to be forced upon them either in the form of either excessive trade sanctions or open threat of military force to have them exceptional individual or forcibly make them upgrade their industries to the point where they were also making less pollution?

Either reform that you push through it going to be incredibly expensive to the host societies and carries a myriad of additional cost and accusations depending on where the forced reform is going to come from.

Well she did go to Boston College. So she is clearly well educated in all the different environs of America!

There is a great piece floating around today from one of the lead "renewable energy" guys, who admits it is not actually possible. And that renewable sources such as Wind and Solar are actually far far worse than fossil fuels because of how low they are in energy density. He says the only way to actually meet the goals of the Global Warming Greenies is to start building nuclear plants. Which fools like AOC would never allow.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

And that renewable sources such as Wind and Solar are actually far far worse than fossil fuels because of how low they are in energy density.

Not to mention the material costs to build them.

 

[The Assyrian]

the only way to actually meet the goals of the Global Warming Greenies is to start building nuclear plants

The fact that AOC is making such a huge deal out of such a dumb fucking plan is, shockingly enough, part of the reason why they want to get rid of her.

She's also just plain nuts and seems to literally be incapable of understanding that as a Democrat, she shouldn't be spending the majority of her time attacking other Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in fact a teamkilling fucktard.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Not to mention the material costs to build them.

His main realization was the land use and deforestation required for the renewables was obscene. Wind Farms have a far far bigger negative impact on the environment than cow farts, and provide less energy per square meter.

 

[FA 855]

https://www.dsausa.org/ AOC is a member of this website "Democratic socialists of America".
A highlight from the website.
"Capitalism pits us against each other and workplaces are fundamentally authoritarian unless workers can self-organize and build collective power. This is why people build unions, and why employers undermine them. It is also why the capitalists as a class constantly work to undermine unions and promote narratives about unions that frame them as unnecessary, undemocratic or ineffective. We are forming a national project to fight back and build power in the economy, since outside of Wall Street, workplaces are the place where the owning class extract resources from the working class. Click here to learn more about the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission."
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/statu...rldnews.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-scandal/
Evidence of corruption, placing her boyfriend as a "staffer" to draw additional income.

AOC Goes Nuts: Accused Of Alleged Money Scandal With Her Boyfriend

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been allegedly involved in a huge money scandal with her boyfriend, Riley Roberts. The former bartender was confronted this week by a conservative investigative reporter when he noticed her boyfriend had his own congressional email address. Only paid staffers are...

madworldnews.com

 

[cuddle striker]

I like her dumb ass. I like a bartender being in Congress. actually I think all politicians should be pulled from the profession of bartenders. they know how to shut shit down and how to light shit up. I'm left of center though so the nonsense talk doesn't bother me.


we all know nothing gets done.

 

[JambledUpWords]

She's also just plain nuts and seems to literally be incapable of understanding that as a Democrat, she shouldn't be spending the majority of her time attacking other Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in fact a teamkilling fucktard.

I never thought I’d say this, but Nancy Pelosi seems far more sane. I thought Nacy Pelosi was bad, but Ocasio-Cortez is far worse. She’s one of the worst things to happen to the Democrats as far as I can tell. Her policies will only further divide the party and her insistence on doubling down on the GND is one of the most exceptional things I’ve seen. She’s the youngest person elected to Congress and it shows. She has little to no understanding of economics, picks fights across the aisle or within her party, and her plans are so ideological to a point that they could not be implemented in practice without driving the US into a nearly 100 trillion dollar debt. On top of this, she is hung up on identity politics the rest of her party espouses and in turn, alienates almost everyone, except liberal college students,in the process. On the flip side, for how disastrous she is of a politician, she’s one of the best things to happen to the Republican Party. She’s the kind of person people hang around with to look smarter by comparison.

 

[Maxliam]

Basically, the Left's playbook since the eighteenth century.

They didn't call the period after the French Revolution the Reign of Terror because they invented thrash metal. The Salem witch trials look like a bloody tea party compared to the people that took out.

Another thought that makes me chuckle about AOC and her whole we gotta save the environment guys position.
Has she ever actually not lived inside New York city? I find it highly ironic when someone who complains vehemently about the need to save the environment right now and cut down emissions and pollution but has never lived in a place where one needs to drive to get anywhere to, orders takeaway food, uses plastics, lives in a high class apartment, and wouldn't know a thing about energy efficiency if it hit them in the face, other than the people around them need to use less.

I can't remember where I read it so forgive me Kiwis but it was a scientist commenting on the whole global warming crisis and his point was that people like AOC are reactionary and would have the economy exceptional and ground to a halt in order to meet some carbon or emissions goal, while it wouldn't reduce world pollution because in terms of industrial pollution, western nations contribute relatively little compared to developing nations.

So what do you do? Expect people in first world nations to live a hermetic lifestyle, which they would be forced to do in order to make these zero emissions goals, literally grinding them into a form of energy poverty, or do you deprive by force the rights of the developing nations, because it would have to be forced upon them either in the form of either excessive trade sanctions or open threat of military force to have them exceptional individual or forcibly make them upgrade their industries to the point where they were also making less pollution?

Either reform that you push through it going to be incredibly expensive to the host societies and carries a myriad of additional cost and accusations depending on where the forced reform is going to come from.

That's why Yankees from mega cities are despised by others. New yorkers are especially annoying because they don't shut up about NYC. I would rather live in an rv in the west Texas desert before living with that many people around.

Yes. And when the native population won't stand for it, you import millions of people who are used to living like that and won't be too much against it.

I swear, when I watched Elysium, I thought it was hilarious that they were trying to say it was Republicans who would bring about that future (by not providing universal healthcare or letting William Fichtner own a business, I don't know).

Honestly republican policies for the most part are a lot tamer than the media is going on about. Those old media fags are still dredging up bible thumper Jerry Falwell silent majority types when the right had gotten much more sophisticated. The left is becoming regressive and dumb. They keep doubling down on the stupid.

Well she did go to Boston College. So she is clearly well educated in all the different environs of America!

There is a great piece floating around today from one of the lead "renewable energy" guys, who admits it is not actually possible. And that renewable sources such as Wind and Solar are actually far far worse than fossil fuels because of how low they are in energy density. He says the only way to actually meet the goals of the Global Warming Greenies is to start building nuclear plants. Which fools like AOC would never allow.

They don't see the irony it is environmentally and economically viable to go nuclear. The Simpsons and the China syndrome have made a few generations of retards terrified of nuclear power.

The fact that AOC is making such a huge deal out of such a dumb fucking plan is, shockingly enough, part of the reason why they want to get rid of her.

She's also just plain nuts and seems to literally be incapable of understanding that as a Democrat, she shouldn't be spending the majority of her time attacking other Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in fact a teamkilling fucktard.

I bet good money the Republicans are trying to keep her around so she can keep crippling the Democrats. She's a god send to the republicans.

His main realization was the land use and deforestation required for the renewables was obscene. Wind Farms have a far far bigger negative impact on the environment than cow farts, and provide less energy per square meter.

I believe wind farms in West Texas were found to hurt bats because it affected wind currents and screwed up their echolocation.

I never thought I’d say this, but Nancy Pelosi seems far more sane. I thought Nacy Pelosi was bad, but Ocasio-Cortez is far worse. She’s one of the worst things to happen to the Democrats as far as I can tell. Her policies will only further divide the party and her insistence on doubling down on the GND is one of the most exceptional things I’ve seen. She’s the youngest person elected to Congress and it shows. She has little to no understanding of economics, picks fights across the aisle or within her party, and her plans are so ideological to a point that they could not be implemented in practice without driving the US into a nearly 100 trillion dollar debt. On top of this, she is hung up on identity politics the rest of her party espouses and in turn, alienates almost everyone, except liberal college students,in the process. On the flip side, for how disastrous she is of a politician, she’s one of the best things to happen to the Republican Party. She’s the kind of person people hang around with to look smarter by comparison.

You go with the devil you know. There's probably someone more extreme left than her ready to take a shot at bringing her tard ideas to Congress.