Yeah. I question even the squad's long term support. AOC in particular has changed her tune since early on, but the fact she never apologized for conflating Pro-Palestinian protest with anti-Semitism doesn't sit right with me. Just makes it feel like she'll flip her position again as soon as it's politically expedient.
AOC seems to have completely abandoned anything beyond performative progressivism. She's got her eye on working her way up through the party and nothing else.
you just know she's justifying it by telling herself that at the next rung up, she can stop worrying about positioning and be her true progressive self
until she gets there, and the rung after that is in sight, and if she triangulates for just one more cycle...
It does seem like that, which is funny because there's no way in hell she's ever going to be allowed any truly 'important' positions. She had far too many 'problematic' opinions early on
That seems to be the catch with all these so-called "progressive" #FrauDSquAd members.
Don't talk about foriegn policy. You can critique domestic, but defer to on foreign policy. Replace your grassroot staff with DNC corpo-rats and remove that foreign policy tab from your campaign page to reveal and obvious missing piece in an otherwise fairly symmetric 4+4 grid of policies so now it's 4+3. Don't worry they won't notice (or care)
I'm sure she will tearfully vote "present" again when it's time for congress to decide whether or not to invade Syria/Iran/whatever winds up happening with this conflict.
All I actually know about Tlaib is she is anti-Zionsim. I'll take that to mean she's probably as "good as it gets" by US standards on other policies.
So, she's de facto the best politician in the US at the federal level. Ilhan Omar is number 2.
Says a lot that the list basically is two people long and Omar has an off/on record with anti-Zionism. She had basically the entirety of US congress riding her ass over saying Israel (not Jews. She never said or implied Jews broadly speaking) "hypnotized the world" and some comments about Israeli lobbies funding a shit load of US campaigns being why the US unconditionally backs Israel, which is objectively definitely part of why random white dudes in congress think Israel is so amazing. And the hypnotized thing she's, again, correct. People want to read into anti-Semitic tropes around Jews being puppetmasters, but she said it about Israel the state, she's never expressed any sort of racism or anti-Semitic sentiment other than comments pieces of shit (actual literal Nazis) take out of context and lie about to strip her of power to further fund Israel. Very obvious what they did when she was removed immediately from the group that, in part, decides US funding to foreign states in Feb this years after Rs got the house back. Hey, odd how 8 months after that, the president is out calling for Israel to openly and freely do a genocide. Almost like.... the thing Omar was saying... is... correct? Hmm.
Anyway, I'm setting these two as the bare minimum bar for all democrats to hit if they want a shred of a vote or support from me. Since I don't have a coffer full of billions of dollars, they probably won't care.
Ilhan Omar is not that bad, tbh, but you've already said that. There's also Corey Bush. But these politicians are few. I'm sure you can find more, but they're so far the minority, though there are some others I like in my area.
This is gonna get like 5 yes votes. It's a nice thought but the result is gonna be depressing. Only way this passes is if they tag on an Iran war resolution lol
Ah, Rashida Tlaib.
Makes sense.
But I think that the halls of government are crammed with people that just want to destroy Palestine.
Yeah. I question even the squad's long term support. AOC in particular has changed her tune since early on, but the fact she never apologized for conflating Pro-Palestinian protest with anti-Semitism doesn't sit right with me. Just makes it feel like she'll flip her position again as soon as it's politically expedient.
AOC seems to have completely abandoned anything beyond performative progressivism. She's got her eye on working her way up through the party and nothing else.
you just know she's justifying it by telling herself that at the next rung up, she can stop worrying about positioning and be her true progressive self
until she gets there, and the rung after that is in sight, and if she triangulates for just one more cycle...
It does seem like that, which is funny because there's no way in hell she's ever going to be allowed any truly 'important' positions. She had far too many 'problematic' opinions early on
The rest of the "squad" is fine domestically, but AOC sucks domestically in comparison as well.
That seems to be the catch with all these so-called "progressive" #FrauDSquAd members.
Don't talk about foriegn policy. You can critique domestic, but defer to
on foreign policy. Replace your grassroot staff with DNC corpo-rats and remove that foreign policy tab from your campaign page to reveal and obvious missing piece in an otherwise fairly symmetric 4+4 grid of policies so now it's 4+3. Don't worry they won't notice 
(or care)
Sadly enough.
She remembers getting hammered a year or so back when she teased voting 'No' on sending arms to Israel (eventually voted 'Present').
She cares about keeping her seat above all else.
I'm sure she will tearfully vote "present" again when it's time for congress to decide whether or not to invade Syria/Iran/whatever winds up happening with this conflict.
where are my goddamn emojis do better lemmygrad
AOC shouldn't even be considered int he squad at this point she's just Pelosi's intern.
All I actually know about Tlaib is she is anti-Zionsim. I'll take that to mean she's probably as "good as it gets" by US standards on other policies.
So, she's de facto the best politician in the US at the federal level. Ilhan Omar is number 2.
Says a lot that the list basically is two people long and Omar has an off/on record with anti-Zionism. She had basically the entirety of US congress riding her ass over saying Israel (not Jews. She never said or implied Jews broadly speaking) "hypnotized the world" and some comments about Israeli lobbies funding a shit load of US campaigns being why the US unconditionally backs Israel, which is objectively definitely part of why random white dudes in congress think Israel is so amazing. And the hypnotized thing she's, again, correct. People want to read into anti-Semitic tropes around Jews being puppetmasters, but she said it about Israel the state, she's never expressed any sort of racism or anti-Semitic sentiment other than comments pieces of shit (actual literal Nazis) take out of context and lie about to strip her of power to further fund Israel. Very obvious what they did when she was removed immediately from the group that, in part, decides US funding to foreign states in Feb this years after Rs got the house back. Hey, odd how 8 months after that, the president is out calling for Israel to openly and freely do a genocide. Almost like.... the thing Omar was saying... is... correct? Hmm.
Anyway, I'm setting these two as the bare minimum bar for all democrats to hit if they want a shred of a vote or support from me. Since I don't have a coffer full of billions of dollars, they probably won't care.
Ilhan Omar is not that bad, tbh, but you've already said that. There's also Corey Bush. But these politicians are few. I'm sure you can find more, but they're so far the minority, though there are some others I like in my area.
This is gonna get like 5 yes votes. It's a nice thought but the result is gonna be depressing. Only way this passes is if they tag on an Iran war resolution lol
So true about the Iran war crap.