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.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

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Huh. The 'Suicide Squad'

Seems appropriate.

Well, it's good to see occasionally that despite the clownishness of the world, it still is sometimes possible to discern reality from parody.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

You know, it's not that weird to see a person with some out there opinions on things. It's just weird the DNC made you their chief strategist.

She's playing the long game.

If Trump were a more standard president she would just be sitting there the same as she always was, stealing money from hard working pedophiles in Hollywood.

>some random twitter loon posts made up meme stories about politicians

>this is somehow worth writing an entire article about

That seems more like a fake news primer for liberals.


I just completely adore how sad poor Alexandria looks.

 

[queue-anon]

Nike is considered one of the best marketing companies in existence. The public questioned why they would give a protesting backup former QB a marketing deal. The answer is, they're well aware they have abusive labor practices and every time some supervisor beats a woman into a miscarriage while she's paid a quarter a day to work in a facility without air conditioning in a blazing hot part of the world, they can have soy QB go out and be their shield.

Since he's a greedy asshole with a room temperature IQ who doesn't understand what it means to make sacrifices and protest injustice, he gladly dances to their tune. In what was practically the only interview he ever had since he started his protest, the guy wore a fucking Che shirt and told the reporter he hates America. After that, BLM decided it was best he was held up as a symbol instead of a voice for the cause. Nike waited until the movement successfully made him a symbol, then gave him some money to be their minstrel. Notice he's never interviewed, he only speaks when there's a script and it's never live. They just give him some vaguely inspirational "be yourself no matter what the cost" message.

Nike has to be loving it. They pay a few million to an imbecile, they get endless praise from the very people that should be stomping them on social media for abusing labor, specifically female labor. I wonder what horror they inflicted on one of their workers when they started the "Kaepernick nixes the flag shoe" diversion?

What's especially interesting about this phenomenon is how these companies are using conservative backlash to get more business. It used to be that companies would tell outraged conservatives to pound sand, but weren't necessarily looking to profit from that. There were a few attempts to boycott Microsoft, for example, because of its support for LGBT causes, but everyone collectively ignored it.

But now corporations are benefiting from backlash. Captain Marvel and the craptastic female Ghostbusters probably wouldn't have sold half as many tickets if it hadn't been for MRA backlash. Ghostbusters got a lot more goodwill than it deserved because of it, and I have some friends who still won't admit how terrible that movie was, even in retrospect. Nike saw sales go up after conservatives started burning their Nikes.

I guess it remains to be seen how profitable liberal outrage in response to conservative outrage will be in the long run. I'm sick of outrage culture in general, so it can't end early enough for me, but a lot of people on both sides seem to live off it.

 

[Sped Xing]

Why not try to outrage liberals instead? Conservatives have more money.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Why not try to outrage liberals instead? Conservatives have more money.

I think we need another Cosby moment. I can't recall the comedians name... Hannibal burres maybe? The guy who pointed out bill Cosby was a rapist and it took off.

He needs to make a comment like "Hey, so has anyone noticed these progressives are really fucking racist?" Or "Is anyone else tired of being preached at by amoral international conglomerates?"
Except, you know, in his voice and also funny.

I feel like we're just waiting for the huge majority who don't enjoy hypocrites lecturing them to realize they're a huge majority.

Then, and I realize this is wishful thinking on my part, I hope people keep a long memory of who jumped on the bandwagon.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

No, seriously, what the hell is this "Squad", and why does it feel like they're being astroturfed harder than Ghostbusters '16 and Mia Khalifa combined?

Because it is. No one called them "the squad" until allied news agencies created the label and pretended it was widely accepted. Much like how no one but a few nobody private individuals on twitter made fun of AOC's dancing video, yet the narrative quickly became that all conservatives were bashing a beautiful young progwoc for not being a white man and expressing her culture.

 

[Sped Xing]

The huge majority thinks Hypocrites is the giy who invented medicine

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

The huge majority thinks Hypocrites is the giy who invented medicine

I'm usually just being an ass when I insult the electorate but it is sad that it took 30 ~ 40years for people to realize that nothing was getting fixed

 

[TowinKarz]

Because it is. No one called them "the squad" until allied news agencies created the label and pretended it was widely accepted. Much like how no one but a few nobody private individuals on twitter made fun of AOC's dancing video, yet the narrative quickly became that all conservatives were bashing a beautiful young progwoc for not being a white man and expressing her culture.

Where have we seen THAT before?

Nobody called themselves "Alt-Right" until the media insisted anyone with views right of Stalin was an "alt-righter" and a "dangerous extremist looking to get violent" which triggered attacks by leftists on moderate-conservatives and efforts to deplatform them for "hate speech" when such was simply garden-variety disagreement, which resulted in street brawls and meme wars with cries of "See? WE TOLD YOU!" from the left as the backlash against the smear campaign was spun as proof of inherent violence to which some people genuinely said "Okay, I'm alt-right, then, let's see you try that ANTIFA shit on me a second time!"

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Where have we seen THAT before?

Nobody called themselves "Alt-Right" until the media insisted anyone with views right of Stalin was an "alt-righter" and a "dangerous extremist looking to get violent" which triggered attacks by leftists on moderate-conservatives and efforts to deplatform them for "hate speech" when such was simply garden-variety disagreement, which resulted in street brawls and meme wars with cries of "See? WE TOLD YOU!" from the left as the backlash against the smear campaign was spun as proof of inherent violence to which some people genuinely said "Okay, I'm alt-right, then, let's see you try that ANTIFA shit on me a second time!"

When is Obama going to be called out on very vocally opposing gay marriage when he ran in 2008? I know the excuse is "well he had to play ball with moderates to get into office" (nevermind that people outside the tribe are never granted that understanding or benefit of the doubt), but considering 5,000 trannies die every time you say the words "Y chromosome", how many LGBT were burned alive in ovens on a daily basis every day that Obama waited and didn't campaign for them?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

When is Obama going to be called out on very vocally opposing gay marriage when he ran in 2008? I know the excuse is "well he had to play ball with moderates to get into office" (nevermind that people outside the tribe are never granted that understanding or benefit of the doubt), but considering 5,000 trannies die every time you say the words "Y chromosome", how many LGBT were burned alive in ovens on a daily basis every day that Obama waited and didn't campaign for them?

Being for gay marriage became mandatory the moment the Democrats in question embraced it. This allows Hillary and Obama to decide it's good at different times while also being protected from cries of bigotry. But Nixon didn't support gay marriage because he was a bigot.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

When is Obama going to be called out on very vocally opposing gay marriage when he ran in 2008?

When I mention this to the die-hard libs I know, I mostly just get denial that it ever happened, so I guess it's just memory-holed.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

When I mention this to the die-hard libs I know, I mostly just get denial that it ever happened, so I guess it's just memory-holed.

Generally I get a very reasonable response of "he had to play the hand he was dealt and work with the world he was in to achieve change even if he couldn't get everything done". The problem is, like I said, they don't give this benefit of the doubt to the out-group.

 

[BubbleButt]

Curious: Is there any truth to the meme that Omar married her brother to get him citizenship? I'd love to rub that shit in people's faces.

 

[Sexyphobe]

When is Obama going to be called out on very vocally opposing gay marriage when he ran in 2008? I know the excuse is "well he had to play ball with moderates to get into office" (nevermind that people outside the tribe are never granted that understanding or benefit of the doubt), but considering 5,000 trannies die every time you say the words "Y chromosome", how many LGBT were burned alive in ovens on a daily basis every day that Obama waited and didn't campaign for them?

Never now as it'll be quickly shut down with people commenting "WHATABOUTISM".

I guess because in 2008, it wasn't that big of a deal? Sure it was to gays themselves, and was a popular single-issue topic, but to the population at large it was "It'd be nice, but I'd rather we focus on X first". It was certainly back when LGBT was more sane and respectable, before the crazies jumped full on board.

Or better yet, much like the NSA stuff at the time, people found ways to blame the government as a whole, rather than specifically Obama. Also possible that it was 2008 and not a real notable opinion to have, so it got forgotten about amongst the other issues at the time like the recession and wars.

 

[Absolutego]

Where have we seen THAT before?

Nobody called themselves "Alt-Right" until the media insisted anyone with views right of Stalin was an "alt-righter" and a "dangerous extremist looking to get violent" which triggered attacks by leftists on moderate-conservatives and efforts to deplatform them for "hate speech" when such was simply garden-variety disagreement, which resulted in street brawls and meme wars with cries of "See? WE TOLD YOU!" from the left as the backlash against the smear campaign was spun as proof of inherent violence to which some people genuinely said "Okay, I'm alt-right, then, let's see you try that ANTIFA shit on me a second time!"

I disagree, "alt-right" gained a lot of initial traction as a term in the early 2010's for Republicans who were socially libertarian to distance themselves from the Moral Majority types. Around late 2014 the media began to associate it with white nationalists to win an internet fight and the white nationalists jumped on board for the publicity, which resulted in a lot of the aforementioned Republicans distancing themselves from the label.

 

[TowinKarz]

Generally I get a very reasonable response of "he had to play the hand he was dealt and work with the world he was in to achieve change even if he couldn't get everything done". The problem is, like I said, they don't give this benefit of the doubt to the out-group.

Isn't Trump talking to North Korea and having troops deployed overseas because congress is fighting his plans to draw down the number "playing the hand he was dealt, otherwise nothing could be done about world peace?"

NO! A real President doesn't talk to dictators and he's a warmonger!

 

[Sped Xing]

So many people in 2016 told me they were scared Trump was "going to start a new war" as why they couldn't vote for him. Three years later, he's a bad guy for not starting new wars.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

So many people in 2016 told me they were scared Trump was "going to start a new war" as why they couldn't vote for him. Three years later, he's a bad guy for not starting new wars.

I've said this before but this is a fantastic example of how revealing the Trump era has been about just how much of the American left's supposed belief structure is built not on actual principle, but purely on opposition to the right. Like the right certainly isn't immune to it, but it isn't so all-consuming as it is for the left. The closest thing they have to a consistent value is "racism BAD" and even with that they don't actually believe it, they just say it. Constantly. About everything.

 

[Sped Xing]

Principles require value judgements, and only nazis make value judgements.