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.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

No one wants the Palestinians.

Gypsies of the middle east.
It has also been said that the only thing that is keeping the Palestinians alive is the existence of Israel, as long as Israel exists they are useful.

 

[Stoneheart]

Right. Democrats are associated with more government services. You cannot overcome that association's primacy no matter how hard a Republican might try.

NYC is pretty fucked and AOC is hated in her district. this is the best chance you can have to win a deep blue seat.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

I don't think Nancy's gonna run for reelection. She's gotta be like 'I don't need this shit in my life. I'm almost 80 years old. It's time for me to retire. I'm old enough to be these brats' grandmother. Fuck this I'm done. I am so done.'

Nah, people like her crave power too strongly. She'll never retire. They'll have to carry her corpse out of Congress in a body bag, probably after propping it up for one last vote.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Nah, people like her crave power too strongly. She'll never retire. They'll have to carry her corpse out of Congress in a body bag, probably after propping it up for one last vote.

She has delusions of grandeur because she’s amassed a ton of social media popularity. After her stint in the house, she’ll most likely attempt to run for senate if the timing is good (ie. she wants to be a cunt and attempt to unseat someone not true progressive).

She doesn’t realize she’s hit her peak and once Trump is out, this liberal outrage will grow tiresome to the public.

 

[It's HK-47]

I should also add that the notion that "Send her back!" is racist and some horrible thing that should never be said is hypocritical on its face anyways, considering that when Trump was in the running and to this day people on the Left were screaming about him going back to Germany since that's where his family came from originally, and to this day people still refer to him as Drumpf. It's completely acceptable to constantly insist that he and his family go back to a place that they were never born in and to consistently refer to him by a name that he never had, but if he tells some off-the-chain Somali that she's welcome to leave, it's suddenly horrible and racist?

Yeah, I don't buy that, sorry.

 

[Stoneheart]

I should also add that the notion that "Send her back!" is racist and some horrible thing that should never be said is hypocritical on its face anyways, considering that when Trump was in the running and to this day people on the Left were screaming about him going back to Germany since that's where his family came from originally

Fred C. Trump was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria and not germany, he migrated from the german reich.
We could make a deal, we take trump back if we get the rest of the reich back and are allowed to be a monarchy under the hohenzollern once again.
that would also solve the problem with to little defense spending.

 

[Foxxo]

She has delusions of grandeur because she’s amassed a ton of social media popularity. After her stint in the house, she’ll most likely attempt to run for senate if the timing is good (ie. she wants to be a cunt and attempt to unseat someone not true progressive).

She doesn’t realize she’s hit her peak and once Trump is out, this liberal outrage will grow tiresome to the public.

You were responding to a post on Nancy Pelosi, not AOC. xD

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

You were responding to a post on Nancy Pelosi, not AOC. xD

I would very dearly love to see Pelosi take a swing at Kamala Harris but I'm not going to hold my breath

 

[Tasty Tatty]

See, this why people like Paul Joseph Watson are cunts, though. That absolutely did happen but that's not why the journalist went to Somalia at all--it had nothing to do with Omar and trying to rope her into it is just blatantly trying to misrepresent a story in the reader's mind. She wasn't trying to say that the country was completely safe, only that it wasn't as bad as people think that it is. The fact that not even two months later she wound up exploding is just the universe deciding to be a jovial dick.

I agree on PJW being a disingenuous dick, but he's not wrong here. Going to a country to prove it's not "that bad" is something you can apply to, dunno, certain low-profile South American countries like Bolivia or Paraguay. At most, you can be robbed, especially if you're a tourist and don't know how to handle yourself around dangerous areas, but the chance of a car suddenly blowing up is very rare. Somalia ain't like this. The whole place is shitty and a terrorist attack can happen at any time. Saying "it's not that bad!" is being in absolute denial. The place is completely bad.

Gypsies of the middle east.
It has also been said that the only thing that is keeping the Palestinians alive is the existence of Israel, as long as Israel exists they are useful.

I kinda agree. The only times I hear of Palestine in the news, Israel is also mentioned.

I should also add that the notion that "Send her back!" is racist and some horrible thing that should never be said is hypocritical on its face anyways, considering that when Trump was in the running and to this day people on the Left were screaming about him going back to Germany since that's where his family came from originally, and to this day people still refer to him as Drumpf. It's completely acceptable to constantly insist that he and his family go back to a place that they were never born in and to consistently refer to him by a name that he never had, but if he tells some off-the-chain Somali that she's welcome to leave, it's suddenly horrible and racist?

They've also mentioned many times Melania's origin.

Of course, they're white so it's ok.

 

[PN 801]

No one wants the Palestinians.

There is no such thing as Palestinians. Just Arabs.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I want AOC to go back to the Connecticut suburb she came from. Has anyone ever heard this skank speak a word of Spanish? I bet she couldn't carry on a convo in Spanish if her life depended on it, so much for "muh woman of color" probably couldn't even name the ingredients in arroz con pollo.

 

[Sped Xing]

There is no such thing as Palestinians. Just Arabs.

There is no such thing as Yoopers. Just Michiganders.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

There is no history of Palestinian or any kind of nation. In fact you may argue none of these muzzies understand the concept of nation.

It's a tribal society. In Iraq we had to actually teach them the concept of patrotism in order to train them to become... I refuse to call them soldiers.

No concept of democracy either. You do what your grandfather wants, or you're risking your life

 

[Sped Xing]

There is no history of Palestinian or any kind of nation. In fact you may argue none of these muzzies understand the concept of nation.

Sure, but there were muzzies in Palestine

A lot of them left so the Jews could be reholocausted, and when that didn't work they got mad.

 

[CheezzyMach]

She has delusions of grandeur because she’s amassed a ton of social media popularity. After her stint in the house, she’ll most likely attempt to run for senate if the timing is good (ie. she wants to be a cunt and attempt to unseat someone not true progressive).

She doesn’t realize she’s hit her peak and once Trump is out, this liberal outrage will grow tiresome to the public.

Wasn't there a poll that said the Democratic base want the party to move more to the center?

 

[heyitsmike]

I want AOC to go back to the Connecticut suburb she came from. Has anyone ever heard this skank speak a word of Spanish? I bet she couldn't carry on a convo in Spanish if her life depended on it, so much for "muh woman of color" probably couldn't even name the ingredients in arroz con pollo.

I'll bet her Spanish is awful. I remember listening to sorority chicks in class when I was in college. ::shudders:: 'Yo, like, me llamo Candy. Me gusta, like, ir a la playa.'

Spanish in her New York Valley Girl accent must make you want to take a pencil and poke your eardrums out.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Some of them will complain about the plight of Palestinians, but tend to get cagey when you ask them what the solution is. Many people who are anti-Israel flat-out want Israel and Israelis to fuck off, which is why all but the most blatant anti-Semites won't admit what their plan is to make things better for Palestinians. Their plan involves all Israelis being forced to move elsewhere at best or being slaughtered by Palestinians and neighboring Arabs at worst.

What's especially absurd about this whole debate is that most Arabs fucking loathe Palestinians. Palestinians are traditionally more "progressive" than their neighbors since they don't force their women under bedsheets 24/7. They also tend to be better educated than their neighbors, and Palestinians living in other Arab countries often work in high-paid professional jobs, especially in the oil industry, which leads to standard "they took our jerbs" whining from the rabble. The only reason other Arabs pretend to give a shit about Palestinians is to stick it to the Jews.

Palestinians are the Jews of the Muslim world. No one wants them, they only want to unleash them on other people they also don't want.

 

[Matthew216]

See, this why people like Paul Joseph Watson are cunts, though. That absolutely did happen but that's not why the journalist went to Somalia at all--it had nothing to do with Omar and trying to rope her into it is just blatantly trying to misrepresent a story in the reader's mind. She wasn't trying to say that the country was completely safe, only that it wasn't as bad as people think that it is. The fact that not even two months later she wound up exploding is just the universe deciding to be a jovial dick.

I remember reading an article written by P.J. O'Rourke during the Clinton-backed Somalia "food disaster." Basically there are two major groups there. One is split into various tribes who are constantly genocidally warring with each other for reasons that go all the way back to ancient times, and probably have their origins in stolen sheep. the others are the farmers, who are treated as less than bugs by the tribes.

All food that was brought to the country had to be changed into "proper" Somali food, or the people suffering from starvation would not eat it. When asked what a good solution was for the country's problems, an American soldier basically said: "Give them better weapons, and close the borders."

 

[Collections Agent]

When asked what a good solution was for the country's problems, an American soldier basically said: "Give them better weapons, and close the borders."

I hope that guy got promoted

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I remember reading an article written by P.J. O'Rourke during the Clinton-backed Somalia "food disaster." Basically there are two major groups there. One is split into various tribes who are constantly genocidally warring with each other for reasons that go all the way back to ancient times, and probably have their origins in stolen sheep. the others are the farmers, who are treated as less than bugs by the tribes.

All food that was brought to the country had to be changed into "proper" Somali food, or the people suffering from starvation would not eat it. When asked what a good solution was for the country's problems, an American soldier basically said: "Give them better weapons, and close the borders."

A Yemeni was telling me about the demographics of his country and he said Somalis were constantly flooding into Yemen illegally. I asked what they were like and he said "They're like the black people here (US), they don't like to work". I hope the civil war put a stop to that but I bet there's a Somali at the front of the line whenever free food is being given out and then complaining it's not proper food.