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.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

I think the reason there are black people against the idea of reparations stems from the simple knowledge that once given, they’ll have so many members of their community coming back for more. There are some black people that are still wary of “slavery by another name” and see the trap for what it is.

I do wish that the topic of reparations would go back to being mostly a joke like in the old days, instead of the favored strategy of politicians needing votes.

 

[Radical Cadre]

I think the reason there are black people against the idea of reparations stems from the simple knowledge that once given, they’ll have so many members of their community coming back for more. There are some black people that are still wary of “slavery by another name” and see the trap for what it is.

Don't forget also that they'll never be able to use the issue for votes, persuasion and power again. Ever.

 

[TowinKarz]

Don't forget also that they'll never be able to use the issue for votes, persuasion and power again. Ever.

It's why they keep calling for "common sense" gun laws and "healthcare reform" but never actually pass it, the hope of it happening someday is what they campaign on, not actually delivering it.

You wonder if letting O-care die or not pushing through something more drastic even with full control of the legislative and executive branches was because they didn't want to not be able to whine about "Muh unafforadable medicine" on the campaign trail any more? Or have to defend their "solution"?

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

You wonder if letting O-care die or not pushing through something more drastic even with full control of the legislative and executive branches was because they didn't want to not be able to whine about "Muh unafforadable medicine" on the campaign trail any more? Or have to defend their "solution"?

Eh I think they were all-in on wanting it to succeed, and by succeed I mean do what they intended it to do which was crash the entire medical industry so that the government seizing control of it was the only available solution. They just bought into Hillary's inevitability so thought they could move ahead with it under her, I think her sheer unelectability tanked a lot of plans.

But in the aftermath I have no doubt you're right, they let it be dismantled because then they could go back to campaigning on it and also blaming Trump and the GOP for any problems that occurred in the meantime. But I disagree with the notion that they never want to get that sort of thing passed ever... any time it would give the government more power and control, they're almost certainly sincere about wanting to make it happen. They're just really fucking incompetent at it. The reparations though, yeah, I think you're 100% right there, because it would provide them absolutely no extra power or control and they're fully aware that the black demographic is one of the most fickle and short-memoried ones around and one election after reparations it'd be "Buh wuh yuh dun fuhs me lately?"

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

The last domino falls here
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The Battle of the Bronx has begun

Chamber of Commerce backs AOC's primary challenger

The business advocacy group will raise money for Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor.

www.politico.com

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera raises $1 million in bid to topple AOC

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenger Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has raised $1 million in her bid to topple the lefty superstar in the June 23 Democratic primary, her campaign said Wednesday. Carus…

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After the corona scare, the citizens of NY would be literally retarded if they reelected AOC........oh wait.

 

[CheezzyMach]

It's why they keep calling for "common sense" gun laws and "healthcare reform" but never actually pass it, the hope of it happening someday is what they campaign on, not actually delivering it.

You wonder if letting O-care die or not pushing through something more drastic even with full control of the legislative and executive branches was because they didn't want to not be able to whine about "Muh unafforadable medicine" on the campaign trail any more? Or have to defend their "solution"?

Daily reminder that Joe fucking Biden of all people had to strongarm Obama into giving gays marriage...one year before he left office.

 

[wopirish]

i dont know how many of you have been around shitty reservations. but when the checks come every month they have every family member, relative, and friend come out of the woodwork asking for some money. by the time everyone is done asking they are out for the month

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Caruso-Cabrera, former Hispanic NBC host, already raised $ 1 million for campaign against Ocasio-Cortez in New York

The controversial NY rep is known for being a fundraising powerhouse Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, former Hispanic presenter of CNBC, announced that it already has $ 1 million dollars raised in its camp…

news.en24.news

Interesting news! Caruso-Cabrera is formerly Hispanic so don't worry. I guess she's just human now.

Oh hey it's this guy

"Oh um, well you know..."
A winning explanation
So basically she voted for it and now these birds are flocking together to make up a story

 

[queue-anon]

There were also those that nope'd out of it after seeing the place. A freed slave finally returns to Africa where they will establish their own nation, quickly 180's and sneaks back to the place where he was a slave.
American blacks with a huge Africa boner is about as phony as nutty white European rastafaris.

I visited Africa a while ago, and there was a black American family living in the town where I was staying. The multiple wives were wearing niqab even though, despite the country being majority Muslim, almost none of the women even wore hijab. It was pretty obvious that the dad moved them out there so he could have multiple wives and live like a king, but the problem is, he died several years after moving out there. He got sick late at night, the town doctor told the family to fuck off when they woke him up to help, and the dad died on the way to the nearest mid-sized city.

 

[thx1138]

Here's a fun logical syllogism you can throw down to people talking about REPA-RAYSHUNS

"Okay why do I, someone who never owned a slave nor was related to anyone who owned a slave, owe reparations to someone who was never a slave?"

"Because this whole country benefited from slavery!"

"Let me stop you there. Benefited from slavery, you say? The southern US was destroyed precisely because they attempted to keep benefiting from slavery. The North waged war against the South for many different reasons but abolition was part of that campaign: to ensure that the South could not benefit from slavery. Now, since the Union held and the North won, mission accomplished. No-one 'benefited' from slavery, q.e.d."

"But the Southern states continued to hold slaves until 1864."

"And many Northern states were free states, starting as early as 1780. They abolished the practice before the United States had even begun to cool on the window-sill. Then, the Union and the Confederacy engaged in a war, a mere eighty-five years later, to settle the debate among other things, once and for all. As a result of the war, the South's infrastructure was utterly destroyed. The North, led largely by Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, engaged in a war of extermination against the South, leveling whole cities, tearing up railways, dynamiting bridges, burning farms, salting farmland. The South had to engage in nearly a century of reconstruction that to this day still resonates in terms of economic opportunity, education, and so on. And, the South had to do so without any slave labor. The time period that the South benefited from slavery, a mere 85 years, was very brief and its 'benefits' were utterly erased. What precise benefits can you, oh reparations seeker, point to, that the South either benefited from that were not destroyed by the Civil War? Can you name any? A single solitary one? No? Then fuck off."

(and of course we all know the answer will be I AIN'T GOT TIME FO' DAT!)

 

[Absolutego]

Caruso-Cabrera, former Hispanic NBC host, already raised $ 1 million for campaign against Ocasio-Cortez in New York

The controversial NY rep is known for being a fundraising powerhouse Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, former Hispanic presenter of CNBC, announced that it already has $ 1 million dollars raised in its camp…

news.en24.news

Interesting news! Caruso-Cabrera is formerly Hispanic so don't worry. I guess she's just human now.

I love grammatical Freudian slips like this. Structuring the sentence so Hispanic is part of the job title sure is an interesting insight into the mindset of the author.

 

[Sped Xing]

Is it a Freudian slip? Or is it illiteracy?

 

[soy_king]

Here's a fun logical syllogism you can throw down to people talking about REPA-RAYSHUNS

"Okay why do I, someone who never owned a slave nor was related to anyone who owned a slave, owe reparations to someone who was never a slave?"

"Because this whole country benefited from slavery!"

"Let me stop you there. Benefited from slavery, you say? The southern US was destroyed precisely because they attempted to keep benefiting from slavery. The North waged war against the South for many different reasons but abolition was part of that campaign: to ensure that the South could not benefit from slavery. Now, since the Union held and the North won, mission accomplished. No-one 'benefited' from slavery, q.e.d."

"But the Southern states continued to hold slaves until 1864."

"And many Northern states were free states, starting as early as 1780. They abolished the practice before the United States had even begun to cool on the window-sill. Then, the Union and the Confederacy engaged in a war, a mere eighty-five years later, to settle the debate among other things, once and for all. As a result of the war, the South's infrastructure was utterly destroyed. The North, led largely by Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, engaged in a war of extermination against the South, leveling whole cities, tearing up railways, dynamiting bridges, burning farms, salting farmland. The South had to engage in nearly a century of reconstruction that to this day still resonates in terms of economic opportunity, education, and so on. And, the South had to do so without any slave labor. The time period that the South benefited from slavery, a mere 85 years, was very brief and its 'benefits' were utterly erased. What precise benefits can you, oh reparations seeker, point to, that the South either benefited from that were not destroyed by the Civil War? Can you name any? A single solitary one? No? Then fuck off."

(and of course we all know the answer will be I AIN'T GOT TIME FO' DAT!)

To play devil's advocate, would it make sense instead if these morons instead demanded reparations for Jim Crow laws? That seems to me to be a stronger argument than reparations for slavery.

 

[Absolutego]

Is it a Freudian slip? Or is it illiteracy?

When the slip reveals they actually do view these jobs as token avatars of <insert group here> despite all their clamor about it not being tokenism, illiteracy is way less entertaining of an assumption.

 

[Sped Xing]

To play devil's advocate, would it make sense instead if these morons instead demanded reparations for Jim Crow laws? That seems to me to be a stronger argument than reparations for slavery.

That would require an awareness of recent history.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Democrats really don't want people looking at who implemented Jim Crow Laws and fought to keep them, considering how heavily they rely on "the parties switched".

 

[soy_king]

Democrats really don't want people looking at who implemented Jim Crow Laws and fought to keep them, considering how heavily they rely on "the parties switched".

the parties were "switched" in antebellum times too. Democrats were the slave party

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

the parties were "switched" in antebellum times too. Democrats were the slave party

Thus why it's very important never to look very closely at actual policies and who implemented what and when. The whole Party Switch Fallacy relies on extreme vagueness of precisely when the supposed switch occurred to work, because the simple fact is that any time Democrats did something the woke consider bad they were Actually Republicans, and vice versa. I guarantee you that in a few decades, Bill Clinton will be declared an Actually Republican for implementing DOMA.

 

[TowinKarz]

I guarantee you that in a few decades, Bill Clinton will be declared an Actually Republican for implementing DOMA.

They're already airbrushing him out of existance because he's seen as a dreaded moderate compared to modern DNC policy.... and you know what they say about moderates? They're the traitors who hold back glorious space luxury troonism..... might as well be Republicans.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

The male version of Ana Kasparian has a few things to say

Speaking of men who behave like women,

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/true-blue-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-judges-ru-pauls-drag-races-madonnathemed-episode-025110341.html

It was time for the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 to strike a pose and express themselves Friday, when they starred in an homage to the Queen of Pop herself called Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical. And also representing was “queen from Queens” and “ray of light in the U.S. Congress,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who served as a fierce guest judge — giving good face and good advice.

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