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.

 

[Collections Agent]

@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.


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.

I think it's sunk cost fallacy tbh. They've already probably sung her praises so much when she was getting elected, to publicly say she's shitty at her job would make them look exceptional at this point to their friends and family

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I think it's sunk cost fallacy tbh. They've already probably sung her praises so much when she was getting elected, to publicly say she's shitty at her job would make them look exceptional at this point to their friends and family

It's mob physics too I'm sure. No one wants to be too early at calling her out so long as that person is still surrounded by a critical mass of racist progtards who will ice them out for the crime of critical thinking. If you're in a group of 10 people, how many do you have to feel confident share your belief before you'll voice it? 2, 3, 5? Whatever the number, I've met more than a few people who clearly are worried that number isn't reached for them.

 

[Collections Agent]

It's mob physics too I'm sure. No one wants to be too early at calling her out so long as that person is still surrounded by a critical mass of racist progtards who will ice them out for the crime of critical thinking. If you're in a group of 10 people, how many do you have to feel confident share your belief before you'll voice it? 2, 3, 5? Whatever the number, I've met more than a few people who clearly are worried that number isn't reached for them.

Tbh it must be horrifying to be in the progmob and have different opinions, knowing if you voice them you'll be immediately disowned and harassed indefinitely

 

[Far Queue]

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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.

Someone should ask this loony bitch that if she feels the country belongs to everyone, why she was making such a big stink about supposed Russian interference in the election. Was it just the fact that they didn't cross into the country illegally first that makes it different?

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.

Ask them if they're incapable of REEEings on Twitter for their own selves and need the government to do that for them too.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Tbh it must be horrifying to be in the progmob and have different opinions, knowing if you voice them you'll be immediately disowned and harassed indefinitely

The most horrifying thing is that by very nature of mob mechanics, it's very difficult to determine where a thought originated. All you know is you'll get punished for dissent by people who also likely fear being punished for dissent. But one among you might be an actual cause leader watching you so you have to keep fearing and keep obeying. And that in turn means any blind lemming might accidentally become a leader with real power without warning because in that group merit is given to whoever can be the loudest and whiniest at any given moment. To paraphrase the Walking Dead comic, it's like a herd of zombies all moving in a direction because they're imitating each other, every one of them following a noise they've all long since forgotten.

Someone should ask this loony bitch that if she feels the country belongs to everyone, why she was making such a big stink about supposed Russian interference in the election. Was it just the fact that they didn't cross into the country illegally first that makes it different?

Russians are white, so they're acceptable targets. Progs claim to hate bigotry but racial divide is so important to them that the temptation to be bigoted is irresistible, all they can do is direct their hatred at whatever target they think won't get them flak. That's all there is to it.

 

[heyitsmike]

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.

Patience, young grasshopper. AOC and Omar have only been in office six months. They've fucked up so much already it just seems longer. Let's see how they feel in July 2020.

 

[Terrorist]

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.

The one good thing she did. My only problem is that the right doesn't get in on the hot BDS action. Where are the paleocons when you need them? All those antiwar.com columns from 2006, lost like tears in the rain...

 

[Wargarbl]

The good thing about Omar, Cortez and Tlaib is they have no idea how to politic. As Pelosi herself has pointed out, no one, and I mean NO ONE, votes with them. They may get 100s of YAAAS KWEEEEENs on Twitter, but if they try to mount an opposition, they sway their own 3 votes and no others other than possibly Pressley (is that how she got in this mess?). 4 votes don't mean shit. No one cares, no one is negotiating terms with them for their individual votes, and they're not even guaranteed to hold firm together.

So let them go screeching about whatever the topic du'jour is. They'll get 1000 likes on Twitter and 1 million more average Americans that know them well enough to hate them. They may keep their seats due to their dark blue districts, but they're a joke politically and have only trended downward with more exposure.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Tbh it must be horrifying to be in the progmob and have different opinions, knowing if you voice them you'll be immediately disowned and harassed indefinitely

A sentiment echoed by many in the Soviet Union, not just general dissent but it was dangerous to be right at the wrong time.

Someone should ask this loony bitch that if she feels the country belongs to everyone, why she was making such a big stink about supposed Russian interference in the election. Was it just the fact that they didn't cross into the country illegally first that makes it different?

Isn't foreign influence in general a problem? Weird seeing as she met and had a panel/townhall with the mayor of Barcelona to talk American politics as part of her campaign.

 

[Collections Agent]

I find it telling this entire situation is Trump saying they suck at their jobs and hate America and their response is to completely derail the entire branch of government they are majority in over mean words on the internet

 

[Terrorist]

Alexandria Ocasio "Age of Consent" Cortez

Alan Dershowitz : "Well, I'm really more of a centrist, but at least somebody's talking about the issues"

 

[Matthew216]

I imagine that come 2020, we’ll find that Lexy here has somehow managed to campaign in every district of New York except her own.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

Patience, young grasshopper. AOC and Omar have only been in office six months. They've fucked up so much already it just seems longer. Let's see how they feel in July 2020.

I know! It's been really eye opening.

In theory a reasonably attractive woman offering government handouts should be fairly popular. She has really worked to fuck this up as badly as she has.

 

[CheezzyMach]

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.

When this Progtard nonsense finally burns out in a few years I have a feeling deep blue states are going to end up in the same place deep red states like Alabama are now.

Still deep in the Fundie/ID Pol nonsense but considered a joke by the rest of the country that no one listens to not even their party.

 

[BR55]

When this Progtard nonsense finally burns out in a few years I have a feeling deep blue states are going to end up in the same place deep red states like Alabama are now.

Still deep in the Fundie/ID Pol nonsense but considered a joke by the rest of the country that no one listens to not even their party.

Dude Alabama and Kansas don't have much national influence.
Just by virtue of size New York, Illinois and last but certainly not least California will continue to fuck with the rest of us for years to come.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Illinois

@Kiwi Jeff, it's time for Wyohioming to RISE....

 

[Vic Viper T301]

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.

I live in Omar's district and I see Somalis nearly every time I leave the house. At work, at restaurants, at Target, walking down the sidewalk; they're everywhere.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

I live in Omar's district and I see Somalis nearly every time I leave the house. At work, at restaurants, at Target, walking down the sidewalk; they're everywhere.

Why Minnesota of all places?

 

[heyitsmike]

I live in Omar's district and I see Somalis nearly every time I leave the house. At work, at restaurants, at Target, walking down the sidewalk; they're everywhere.

I have a sick sense of humor but I find it hilarious that the original owner of the Minnesota Twins chose to move the team there from DC because he heard there were only 15,000 black people. I bet he's rolling in his grave right now lolz.

 

[HoneyBadgersOfOats]

Do American men have such low standards they consider this horse face hot? I see comments all over the place about her being good looking. The only socialized program this country needs is government issued eye glasses for millennial men.