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.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

I often asked myself what the Left hoped to gain by open borders and endless immigration. Then I realized the answer. An endless underclass of slaves/not-slaves that would be eternally grateful to their masters, and never dare to question and turn on them like those uppity blacks did.

Now you know why the mass importation of people from countries with no history of civil rights is happening. It's so that they won't even have any expectations of freedom.

 

[Sped Xing]

I can't wait to see these Limousine Liberal's faces when the beaners establish a Latin American dictatorship and seize all their wealth.

It will make it all worthwhile

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I often asked myself what the Left hoped to gain by open borders and endless immigration. Then I realized the answer. An endless underclass of slaves/not-slaves that would be eternally grateful to their masters, and never dare to question and turn on them like those uppity blacks did.

A compliant base of mass consumers who have no idea that words like “rights” or “unions” exist. Just a brown mass of unthinking shit who is too dumb to figure out how much they’re getting fucked over. That’s the ideal base that the left and neoliberals want.

 

[Barnard]

You gotta love how her response to pretend-racism is actual racism. Also, isn't her claim statistically untrue, in that black people actually hold the high score of murder per year in the United States? I mean, if we're gonna get racist, we may as well be accurate with our racism.

There is a Vox article which claims this is a smear and literally fake news, because she didn't really mean what she said. Instead, she was merely pointing out a double standard: that people who are afraid of Muslim extremists aren't afraid of white extremists who are responsible for more deaths. To prove this point, Vox cites the 2018 Anti-Defamation League Report, which I have already covered to some extent in another thread. They say the report proves that "right-wing extremists were responsible for every documented killing by a political extremist in the United States in 2018".

So what's funny about this? Oh, just that Vox failed to notice that 2 out of 50 killings covered by the report were perpetrated by a Muslim. That's 4%. I've seen the total percentage of Muslims in the United States estimated anywhere between 0.6% to 1.1%. Someone's a tad over-represented, and that's on a calm year.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when I initially saw the outrage over this interview, because people overreact to headlines all of the time.

I was like, "Well, maybe she's making a point by saying this to highlight that racial profiling is bad altogether?"

Then I saw the interview. She actually means what she's saying. Bitch is crazy, and I legitimately think she's dangerous, too.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Some scary white man should use his God-given second amendment rights and shoot her in the head. You know, prove her right.

Contrary to popular belief, the 2nd amendment does not legalize murder.

 

[Fcret]

I've never understood where the idea that the US has some huge vein of untapped socialism comes from. Support for things like medicare-for-all tank when you go into more detail than "do you like free shit?"

They spend too much time on twitter.

Given that Pelosi was actively trying to shuffle them around to different committees so they'd stay the fuck out of the spotlight, and how Trump seems keen on dragging them right back under it, i'm guessing they both see how poisonous they are for swing districts. Unfortunately for Pelosi, there's no easy way to deal with the problem without alienating a small but decisive section of her voting base, especially after the Bernie/Clinton shitshow.

I must respectfully disagree on one point - these people don't vote. What they actually do is throw gargantuan public tantrums when their 'enlightened' whims aren't catered to which makes the democratic party look bad. By making enough of a commotion, they can make it look like "the Squad" have way more popular support in the democratic base than they actually do which alienates independents.

 

[Bob's Ghost]

Those crazy socialist ladies works too.

Brother Fucker and Friends.

 

[The Final Troondown]

What, Pelosi's responsible for a bunch of colored, REEEing bitches? What fucking sense does that make? She's not their fucking mother.

If it's anything like British politics, whips and senior party leaders would be responsible for dropping hints that the current path is not ideal for securing party advancement or use of campaign machinery and it would be more helpful if you focused on xyz

Of course its entirely possible they have been told this and just decided that muh idealism would win the day, which is a recipe for losing your seat and/or becoming a backbench indifference

It's sort of how 'of course we' re only OFFERING our security services, just this area has a VERY HIGH crime rate and our customers tend to do much better'

 

[MrTickles]

Then we wouldn't get rid of her as any politician and leftie would use her murder as a cudgel against anyone that dares go against their ideas and policies. They would laud her as a martyr even if everyone else knows she's an advocate for ruin and idiocy.

But hey, better sacrifice your country before being racist.

That's when you pop a bullet in lefties skull too.

 

[Sped Xing]

They're a fire team at most, anyway, not a squad.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

You gotta love how her response to pretend-racism is actual racism. Also, isn't her claim statistically untrue, in that black people actually hold the high score of murder per year in the United States? I mean, if we're gonna get racist, we may as well be accurate with our racism.

Exactly. Obviously she's referring to white males that shoot up schools and such, but those are only news because it's considered exceptional and outrageous when white people commit gun crimes. Black people shoot other black people every day and that's not in the news because the woke have decided that's just normal.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Exactly. Obviously she's referring to white males that shoot up schools and such, but those are only news because it's considered exceptional and outrageous when white people commit gun crimes. Black people shoot other black people every day and that's not in the news because the woke have decided that's just normal.

Reminds me of the time Chicago police would not release CCTV images from subway station muggings in order to not appear racist or Seattle police turning a blind eye to certain crimes based on the skin of the suspect.

Better be incompetent than racist, filthy whitey.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

A compliant base of mass consumers who have no idea that words like “rights” or “unions” exist. Just a brown mass of unthinking shit who is too dumb to figure out how much they’re getting fucked over. That’s the ideal base that the left and neoliberals want.

It's what the globalists want, they used to be firmly on the side of the capitalist right and the left/far left saw them as their enemy. Then it switched, now the left/far left is strongly supporting globalist interests like that. ATTAC used to be a hot anti-globalist organization full of leftists and far-leftists but they have almost shriveled away over the last 10 years.

 

[Nick Gars]

Or maybe, just maybe, keep your genocidal sand nigger religion out of my fucking country, you stupid bitch?

 

[PN 801]

And then one day, for no reason at all, people voted Hitler into power.

I prefer hitler over this fucking backward savage.

 

[PN 801]

It's really something how everyone wants to live in the violent scary racist white people countries, huh.

These fucks who think muhwhitepeoplebad need to move the fuck back. By force.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Most immediately the mass importation of illegals is about inflating EC votes and representatives in mostly blue states and areas, but yes I'm sure the long-term goal is to cultivate a new subject class that's more likely to shut their mouths, mow their lawns, and know their place than the current subject class who has a tendency to get "uppity" with them, especially when given power.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

>whitey is so sensitive they'll vote for genocidal maniacs when they get insulted
lmao @ yt

Aren't you white yourself?

 

[Duke Nukem]

Aren't you white yourself?

You must be new here, he posts that kind of thing all the time.