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.

 

[frozenrunner]

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!"

Hillary Clinton actually redefined "alt-right" in a campaign speech, which was essentially the same thing as giving the MSM its marching orders. (But we also know the DNC, in the pockets of the Clintons, was literally colluding with MSM outlets like CNN thanks to the Wikileaks emails.) And they all fell in line.

Also, periodic reminder that "fake news" was not a Trump invention at all but a MSM trending term after Hillary lost, used to attack non-mainstream news sources that helped Trump get elected. Trump merely turned "fake news" back on them... and now they pretend he made it up.

Everyone pushing falsehoods in the press deserves to lose their jobs and be exiled from the news business forever.

 

[CatParty]

AOC: People Have No Choice But to Violently Riot

.02/22/2020 14:35:32PM EST.

townhall.com

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condoning violent rioting in order to reach political goals.

During an interview with New York's Hot 97 earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez argued "marginalized" communities have no choice but to riot against their so-called oppressors.

"I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized...once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn't have to be that way. I'm not even taking about Palestinians. I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I'm talking about Latin America; I'm talking about all over the world," she said.

Two weeks ago Ocasio-Cortez was asked if she condemns the violent domestic terror attack carried out by an Antifa member at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center in Tacoma, Washington. She refused to give an answer.

The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Saturday sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote "I am Antifa," and was being lionized by members of the leftwing group as a "martyr."

The group Seattle Antifascist Action described assailant Willem Van Spronsen a "good friend and comrade" who "took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma" and "became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism."

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

She's the most powerful lolcow in NYC

This amuses and terrifies me

 

[Barnard]

Or you could form a nationwide movement that achieves meaningful change through mass popular support and pressure. Maybe it won't work in every part of the world, but in the US it just might.

 

[thismanlies]

"I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized...once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn't have to be that way. I'm not even taking about Palestinians. I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I'm talking about Latin America; I'm talking about all over the world," she said.

People weren't rioting because they didn't have access to clean water. They were rioting because Saint Dindu of Nuffin was shot by the police while he was preaching the world of God to the homeless.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

People weren't rioting because they didn't have access to clean water. They were rioting because Saint Dindu of Nuffin was shot by the police while he was preaching the world of God to the homeless.

Attributed to the preacher right before he died:

 

[BR55]

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!

Well you see Obama needed more flexibility, preferably after an election, and this information was transmitted to Putin.
Oh wait dictators are bad now. Disregard.

 

[queue-anon]

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.

While part of it is undoubtedly due to political tribalism, I think it's also due to the liberal attitude toward war being completely disorganized and hypocritical. Liberating third world shitholes from dictators is bad, unless the American left hates the dictator. Removing Saddam Hussein from power was bad, but Assad needs to get got.

Part of the inconsistent, hypocritical attitude toward Syria is also due to Putin. Putin is bad and "stole" her turn, therefore, his sensible measures in propping up Syria's secular government is bad. Better to hand the country over to fucking ISIS.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

"Squad"? When did it become acceptable for journalists to use colored jive?
I miss the days when people got their news from printed newspaper and not Tumblr, facebook, YouTube, and twitter .

The internet age (since 1994 I'd say) and the "democratization of ideas" has pushed mainstream media (tv and newspapers) even further left in order to try and compete with alternative media like young Turks and vice, which is where people turn to news first today.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

We got to search somewhere else to found Ilhan Omar Achilles' Heel before she found the GOP Achilles' Heel.

Ilhan Omar Exposes the GOP's Achilles Heel

Republicans are at risk of losing seats in both the House and Senate in 2020. Like Achilles, they will fall with victory in sight.

www.americanthinker.com

July 31, 2019
Ilhan Omar Exposes the GOP's Achilles Heel
By Taylor Day
Homer's Illiad hero Achilles gained fame with his reckless attacks. He was able to be so reckless because his vulnerability was small when compared to his giant frame. While the GOP continues to enjoy its strong base and enthusiasm, it also has an Achilles heel: its lack of effective opposition research.
Governor Northam exposed this weakness back in February when pictures of himfrom his medical school's 1984 yearbook emerged naming him as a figure either dressed in KKK garb or in clichéd and racist blackface. The pictures were first uploaded to 4Chan and then picked up by a local paper before hitting national headlines. Governor Northam had just won the gubernatorial position in 2017. Why did his opponent, Ed Gillespie, and his campaign fail to expose this before the election?

If I ever campaigned for public office, regardless if it was against a man that I knew went to school in the Deep South in the '70s and '80s, one of the first places I would look for anything incriminating on an opponent would be a school yearbook. These pictures, which were available in a public library, timed before the election, would have devastated Northam, who ran a campaign pandering for the black vote.

Ilhan Omar's recent national headlines also expose this failure of the GOP to conduct sufficient research into those candidates they're competing against for important positions.
I reached out to Patrick Coolican, a writer for the Star Tribune (Minnesota's largest liberal newspaper), which first published the documents that support the claims that Omar was married to her brother and also participated in immigration and tax fraud. Additionally, documents show that she used congressional lawyers to fix her fraud with the IRS. Coolican says he first wrote about the allegations back in 2016, shortly after the DFL primaries.

So why did her Republican opponent not run a brutal campaign exposing Omar and these allegations? The rumors were already established, yet the evidence wasn't uncovered until photos of her marriage license hit the internet earlier this year. Instead, the attacks seemed baseless; were written off as Islamophobic; and had no sway on the election, where Democrats maintained a three-seat majority for Minnesota in the House.

I also spoke with Mike Cernovich, the journalist whose painstaking work exposing Jeffrey Epstein helped turn Lolita Express conspiracy theories into actual charges, about the exploitation of Rep. Omar's growing popularity. Cernovich believes that it is actually in the GOP's best interest to have someone like Ilhan Omar filling Minneapolis's seat in the House.

"Ilhan Omar is a far-left wing extremist," Cernovich says. "Democrats would never have appointed her as their spokeswoman. Trump and the GOP did to Democrats what they never would have chosen to do themselves." He's right. Democrats have been battling internally on whether or not to defend Rep. Omar when her statements or actions are widely criticized. The turbulent freshman congresswoman is no asset to the DNC when she receives so much controversial media attention.
"Republicans built Omar's brand by giving her direct attention, which in our media system leads to a defense of her from Left-wing media," Cernovich adds. "The GOP believes, rightly in my view, that giving Omar attention will make her a de facto spokeswoman for the Democrats. Because Omar is far left, Middle America will be concerned by the far-left-wing pivot Omar will take the party to."

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

We got to search somewhere else to found Ilhan Omar Achilles' Heel before she found the GOP Achilles' Heel.

Ilhan Omar Exposes the GOP's Achilles Heel

Republicans are at risk of losing seats in both the House and Senate in 2020. Like Achilles, they will fall with victory in sight.

www.americanthinker.com

She's too fucking stupid to find her own Achilles' heel. Let alone the Achilles' heel of her opponents.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

She's too fucking stupid to find her own Achilles' heel. Let alone the Achilles' heel of her opponents.

So the achilles heel of the GOP is that they're not showing how scummy the dems they run against are?

That's a strange take...

 

[thismanlies]

So in other words, the GOP is weak because they heard a rumor that sounded so outlandish they took a step back and said "Will we look like a bunch of retards if we run this story?"

Not that this would have stopped any of their political opponents.

 

[tehpope]

AOC: People Have No Choice But to Violently Riot

.02/22/2020 14:35:32PM EST.

townhall.com

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condoning violent rioting in order to reach political goals.

During an interview with New York's Hot 97 earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez argued "marginalized" communities have no choice but to riot against their so-called oppressors.

"I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized...once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn't have to be that way. I'm not even taking about Palestinians. I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I'm talking about Latin America; I'm talking about all over the world," she said.

Two weeks ago Ocasio-Cortez was asked if she condemns the violent domestic terror attack carried out by an Antifa member at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center in Tacoma, Washington. She refused to give an answer.

The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Saturday sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote "I am Antifa," and was being lionized by members of the leftwing group as a "martyr."

The group Seattle Antifascist Action described assailant Willem Van Spronsen a "good friend and comrade" who "took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma" and "became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism."

In that same interview, AOC kept implying that people who Criticize her and the squad are "right wing"

Timestampped for relevant clip.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

So in other words, the GOP is weak because they heard a rumor that sounded so outlandish they took a step back and said "Will we look like a bunch of exceptional individuals if we run this story?"

Not that this would have stopped any of their political opponents.

Pretty much. This is pretty revealing of something I've come to call "the villain moment". It's when for all of someone's pretensions about being the one who's morally justified, they formulate a plan or strategy that actually hinges on their opponent being more moral than they are. The supposed righteous crusader takes innocent hostages because he knows that the people opposing him are too morally upstanding to just blow the hostages away with him, that sort of thing. It says that on some level this person knows they're the villain because their entire plot hinges on their opponent being more moral than they are.

So basically this is bragging that they're the bad guy, because they found something damaging the GOP won't use against them, while there's absolutely nothing, real or fictional, no matter how personal or outlandish, that they won't use against the GOP. This is Omar's villain moment.

 

[Gar For Archer]

So the achilles heel of the GOP is that they're not showing how scummy the dems they run against are?

That's a strange take...

The headline is so fucking backwards. The entire article is literally about how Omar and people like her are the Democrat’s Achilles Heel.

Also, ironically, by *not* immediately releasing evidence the right is actually making their position resonate more with the masses. When people see that these cases do eventually turn up evidence backing them up, that’s what they’re gonna remember - not the countless other theories that turn out to be complete nothingburgers. And in the future they will be more likely to believe in similar theories on the assumption that evidence will turn up like it has in the past.

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

So the achilles heel of the GOP is that they're not showing how scummy the dems they run against are?

That's a strange take...

I was saying Ilhan Omar doesn't know her own Achilles' heel, should've clarified further.

 

[heyitsmike]

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?

Judging by the second night of debates, maybe pretty soon. It's open season on Obama for the radical left.

 

[Weppers]

American Thinker was melodramatic a decade ago, and it's probably still melodramatic today. Right, sometimes, but always damned dramatic.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Ocasio-Cortez's embattled chief of staff leaving post after controversies
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/report-ocasio-cortez-chief-of-staff-to-leave (http://archive.fo/wVy5O)

Saikat Chakrabarti, the embattled chief of staff for freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is leaving his position following series of controversies that contributed to public divisions within the House Democratic Caucus.

“Saikat has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with [nonprofit group] New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez director of communcations, told The Intercept Friday.

“We are extraordinarily grateful for his service to advance a bold agenda and improve the lives of the people in NY-14. From his co-founding of Justice Democrats to his work on the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and in the official office, Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help the larger progressive movement, and we look forward to continuing working with him to do just that," he continued.

Chakrabarti's last day was Friday, the news site reported. His departure had been rumored around Capitol Hill for days.

Chakrabarti, who helped manage Ocasio-Cortez’s upstart 2018 campaign, drew the ire of Democrats last month when he publically criticized party moderates during policy spats between progressive members and party leadership.

In June, he tweeted that Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, enabled a racist system after she voted in favor of a Senate border bill not backed by progressives.

“Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?” the House Democratic Caucus' official account tweeted last month. "Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice," the House Democrats added. "She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue."

"Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth," the tweet concluded with interspersed emojis of clapping hands.

In July, Chakrabarti described centrist Democrats who blocked a liberal-backed emergency border bill as the "new Southern Democrats."

They “certainly seem hell bent [sic] to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s,” he tweeted in a now-deleted post.

Tensions within the party were reflected when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took a swipe at Ocasio-Cortez along with Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts -- whom she called "four people" who don't have any following.

Ocasio-Cortez said they were singled out because they are newly elected women of color, further deepening divisions within the party. Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, asked Ocasio-Cortez to fire Chakrabarti in an attempt to start over.

Chakrabarti has also been at the center of legal controversy. In April, he and Ocasio-Cortez were named in a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing them of overseeing a "shadowy web" of political action committees (PACs) that allowed them to raise more cash than they could have legally. The complaint also alleged that a limited liability company (LLC) was created to avoid federal expenditure requirements by offering Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic candidates political consulting services at a price so low that the company apparently shut down before the election was even over.

The complaint centers on Brand New Congress LLC, a now-defunct company owned by Chakrabarti that aimed to recruit up to 400 left-wing candidates for national office. Dan Backer, the conservative attorney behind the complaint, said Brand New Congress LLC was guilty of providing campaign contributions known as "in-kind" expenditures by only charging candidates for a portion of the total cost of the service. Essentially, Backer claimed the company operated at a loss to provide its approved candidates with campaign services on the cheap.

Backer said Chakrabarti “was on all sides of the scheme.” He owned Brand New Congress LLC, sat on the board of the Justice Democrats PAC and co-founded the Brand New Congress PAC — all while serving as Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign manager.

The previous month, Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti were removed from the board of left-wing activist group Justice Democrats after previously holding “legal control over the entity" in late 2017 and early 2018. Documents obtained by The Daily Caller indicated that the two were only officially removed from the board on March 15 of this year, almost eight months after attorneys had said she was removed.

Another FEC complaint filed in March accused Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti of apparently violating campaign finance law by funneling more than $885,000 in contributions to the Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC to the Brand New Campaign LLC and the Brand New Congress LLC -- companies controlled by Chakrabarti that, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures. The PACs claimed the payments were for "strategic consulting."

Ocasio-Cortez has denied any wrongdoing, telling reporters in April: "It's conservative interest groups just filing bogus proposals."