Countering the Squad: new House GOP members who grew up under socialism/Communism
These new House members know whereof they speak, and Nicole Malliotakis wants them to join her in countering the Squad:
I can tell you here in NYC, and I assume in cities across America, people were really fed up with the direction the Democrats were trying to take us,” said Malliotakis, who will represent New York’s 11th District, which covers Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn.
Malliotakis added that political figures like New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had moved the city “so much to the left.”…
…I will be the only Republican representing our city in Washington and it is a much-needed voice and perspective.”…
“You have AOC and the socialist squad, now we have individuals who come from very diverse backgrounds — many of whom fled communism or socialism themselves or are like me, a daughter of a Cuban refugee — to be those messengers to say why socialism is bad and to push back and to make sure that we fight to preserve our freedoms and liberties and we reopen our economy, we keep the capitalist system that provides jobs and opportunity.
Preach it sister, preach it.
A Republican Representative from New York City is not really as much of a change as you might think it is, because Malliotakis’ district of New York had been a Republican one:
Prior to [her predecessor’s] win, the 11th District had been held by Republicans since 2013 and was the only New York City congressional district won by President Trump in 2016.
And won by Trump even more handily in 2020 (it’s behind a paywall, but I managed to see it for a few seconds): in Staten Island, Trump got about 101K votes in 2016 to Hillary’s 74K, but in 2020 Trump got about 110K votes to Biden’s 67K.
Now Pelosi is on record begging her people not to take positions in a Biden administration. She’s afraid of losing her majority being 9 confirmed down now with maybe more to come.
And make 2022 even easier for her to lose her grip on the House.
That would be hilarious but doubt it would happen since she’s already fired the warning … DON”T DO IT!
These ladies are smart, articulate, young and photogenic. They provide a good counter balance to the Squad. Can you imagine Sandy Cortez trying to match wits with Nicole Malliotakis. Let’s face it, the only reason that Sandy is getting so much time is that she is photogenic. The MSM will try to downplay them but if McCarthy is smart he will seed these ladies in the same committees where the squad resides.
Imagine the dichotomy of a conservative woman of color taking Ihlan Omar to task over her racist utterances and pointing out how she made it in the land of opportunity too. How Talib can be challenged by a woman about Sharia law and the status of women.
What I really look forward to is what the impact of the pistol packing mama from Colorado, Lauren Boebert will be. The stories just write themselves. All of these ladies are accomplished outside of politics. Bartending is not on their resume unless restaurant owner qualifies as such.
The election of Elise Stefanik was a harbinger of what could come. Now she has reinforcement of pro-life, pro-family credentialed women. The narrative is going to really get bent I believe because this Republican Party knows how to fight.
The Republican Party can establish themselves as the party of opportunity and equality while the other side is one of group identity and grievance. I think that is a winning combination.
Legal immigration brings new blood and vitality to America and the Tree of Liberty! Furthermore, legal immigrants often seize economic opportunity not available in their native lands through industry and entrepreneurship. Perhaps they will save Congress from what it has become.
The election of Elise Stefanik was a harbinger of what could come. Now she has reinforcement of pro-life, pro-family credentialed women.
Elise Stefanik is preferable to a standard-issue Democratic office-holder, but she’s a troublesome figure from at least two or three angles, one in re some of her substantive views and one in re her preparation for public office. New York’s North Country can do better and Elise (like AOC) should be devoting her youth to other things. Ideally, members of Congress would all be somewhere between 40 and 75 years of age with at least 30% or so past 60. Ideally as well, rotation-in-office rules would prevent them from serving more than 8 years or perhaps 12 years at a stretch.
Shocker! as Democratic party cow-pucky is being tossed around fast and furiously and the lies and falsehoods continue to flow unabated:
‘ “Higher minimum wage, universal health care and free tuition “are commonsense ideas that the majority of the American people support,” Bernie Sanders declared Sunday.’
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/left-biden-marketing-effort-begins-make-socialism-look-mainstream
H/T Blazingcatfur blog
Yep, the more they mouth it the more the mendacious believe it is actually true.
File under: Buyer beware!
“…outright oppression and theft.”
https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1328362413410967553
Do Americans really think I would let them steal the election like this? That Trump was blindsided? That Q is a LARP?
Sighs.
AOC and The Squad (all of whom should be immediately deported to Cuba, Somalia, the West Bank and Africa; and toss in the Brooklyn communist Bernie Sanders) will still get all the free TV air time and have every one of their ignorant , hateful and detestable utterances broadcast all over the air waves.
The only way this will not happen is if Bidet gives the order to the propagandist media to stop covering “the squad;” the media – the propaganda arm of the demokrats – will immediately follow these orders.
The new Korean and other “conservative” females elected will get ZERO air time. They will remain essentially unknown; they will be invisible. The propaganda machine that is the media will make sure of it. The media will not need to be instructed to act this way. They know how they must behave.
And to where should Pelosi be deported??
I would suggest to a tent on the sidewalks of SanFran and provided an unlimited supply of drugs, needles and booze; but no ice cream of any sort. In this manner she can experience first hand the consequences of the policies she supports.
AOC and The Squad (all of whom should be immediately deported to Cuba, Somalia, the West Bank and Africa; and toss in the Brooklyn communist Bernie Sanders) will still get all the free TV air time and have every one of their ignorant , hateful and detestable utterances broadcast all over the air waves.
The immigration policy that saddled us with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib is certainly insane. The other two are American born and bred.
The problem with these four is that they have no vocation whatsoever. AOC had over a period of a decade a string of hourly jobs of the sort you have when you’re a student (and presumably the rest of them did as well when they were students). That aside, their entire employment history consists of elected office, political staff jobs, and working as NGO functionaries. You really ought to call them the Zero-Marginal-Product quartet. Their lives outside of public office have been truncated or scandalous. AOC has never married or had children; there’s a rather patient man who has been appended to her for about 10 years with whom she should have been building a family, but did not. Presley married quite late in life (at 40) and has no children (her husband has one child). Omar’s matrimonial life has been gruesome. Tlaib is the one who comes the closest to normal (she’s divorced with two children).
And just about everything they advocate is irrelevant or injurious to the welfare of ordinary people. Democrats don’t give a rip about impecunious people per se. They care about generating employment for social workers, school administrators, and miscellaneous mid-level public sector functionaries and they seek to seize assets from social groups they despise in order to transfer them to their client groups.
“Trump got about 101K votes in 2016 to Hillary’s 74K, but in 2020 Trump got about 110K votes to Biden’s 67K.”
For the most part Biden under performed HRC’s votes in 2016 and Trump had more votes than in 2016. But the dems and MSM want us to believe Biden received more votes than both HRC & BHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oijbr1i79tA
The new Korean and other “conservative” females elected will get ZERO air time. They will remain essentially unknown; they will be invisible. The propaganda machine that is the media will make sure of it. The media will not need to be instructed to act this way. They know how they must behave.
What media? They are almost at check mate and gonna expire soon.
Ymarsaka @ 12:05
“What media? They are almost at check mate and gonna expire soon”
Don’t think so.
We have been hearing for several years now how the NY Times and TV “news” divisions are losing money or not making money and how this cannot continue.
Well, it has and it will.
Apparently there are enough uber-liberal progressives that are wealthy enough to either keep losing money or accept minimal profits provided they can keep bombarding the the air waves and print media with their left wing propaganda.
They obviously believe their expenditures are worth it.
Perhaps they consider this a sort of a charitable contribution to their cause.
Soros and his bunch have no qualms about tossing millions of $$$ here and there to promote their causes. When you are worth billions, a few million $$$ here or there is pocket change. Of course, he attracts other deep pocket folks and contributions from lefty “foundations” and other very deep pocketed advocacy groups.
And don’t forget the billionaires of silicon valley; they can fund losing business entities as long as they wish. Just watch as Bezos or other silicon valley billionaires begin buying up newspapers and TV stations.
The left has just effected their coup d’etat – via voter fraud – and there is no way they intend to end their propaganda efforts now. If anything, they will double down until their lock on power is unassailable. They just ensured the freedom of the Russia-Trump coup d’etat plotters – who should all be hanging by the neck in gallows – as a result of Bidet’s “victory.”
Get ready for a few dozen executive orders from Bidet to get around an uncooperative Congress. Bidet’s administration will be like an Obama’s on steroids, crack cocaine and methamphetamine’s all rolled into one.
Bidet will employ the ENTIRE federal bureaucracy – the CIA, IRS, FBI, DOJ, EPA, FCC, DHHS, Border Patrol, FEC, etc etc. to DESTROY all “enemies of the state” and empower all those entities that will support his policies.
And most of it will be “legal” (even without a packed SCOTUS).
Think Stalinist Russia.
Conservatives ALWAYS underestimate the resolve and determination of the enemy (the enemy being the socialist and neo-communist demokrats and their para-military wing, ANTIFA and BLM).
This has always puzzled me because ever since Woodrow Wilson and especially FDR, the left has made inexorable strides – in fits and starts, but mostly starts – in turning the USA into a socialist state.
And they just eliminated Trump – and “legally” too!!
The ends justifies the means.
You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.
New York State 2020 data (Dave Leip’s Election Atlas– NOTE: Blue=GOP, RED=Dems — Dave has been around for longer than that switch, made in 2000 back when “red=socialist=bad” so the merdia swapped the colors so the Dems would not be the “reds”. Yes, they’ve been completely in the tank for them for THAT long)
NT State — hover over it for county-level data. Note the vast array of blue. As usual, “flyover” areas are all Trump supporters. State governments are always filled with Dems. Go figure. And THIS is why we have an Electoral College, folks. NYC dominates the politics of the state. It, and other cities like it, would also dominate the presidency.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2020&fips=36&f=0&off=0&elect=0
Richmond county (Staten Island) data:
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2020&fips=36085&f=0&off=0&elect=0
Yes, Staten is the only NYC borough that went for Trump.
If you are not familiar with Dave Leip’s site, it is probably the best source for basic election data there is, and it is readily available and well-presented. He has historical data going back more than 150y for some elections. It’s fascinating to explore.
Ever wonder how the States broke for Lincoln?
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1860&off=0&elect=0&f=0
How about JQ Adams and Jackson?
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1824&off=0&elect=0&f=0
Great story being written here! But another is being missed.
How many House Republicans lost their seats? Try zero. Think about that… out of all the House Republicans, Trump’s coattails swept along every one. Every. Single. One.
And picked off a dozen-odd more Democrats, to whittle down Nancy’s majority to very low single digits!
The history of “coattails” is well understood in the 200+ years of American elections. When they are that strong, is the coat-wearer ever defeated? Doesn’t happen!
My idiot SIL was convinced when I told her this that it proved how toxic Trump was – that Republicans were appealing, but all Americans hated Trump! Right.
Then I asked her – if this was true, how come NPR et al have kept this story under wraps, if it fingered OrangeManBad himself as the source of his own defeat?
No answer.
I’ll tell you why, my Sophie, it’s because it does no such thing… it fingers the Democrats and the media as the biggest criminal fraudsters in American history!!
OBloodyHell – the color change actually went back to 1992, in my recollection, when Clinton wanted to ‘triangulate’ and move the Dems as they were at that time away from the old-style leftish perception. 2000 was an inflection point, to be sure, but not for everything.