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Offline Fishrrman

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Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« on: December 30, 2020, 03:05:24 pm »
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/29/aocs-squad-expands-platoon-far-left-gains-leverage/

Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the next Congress will be “a little less lonely” when “The Squad” of young far-left lawmakers expands into a platoon.

At least four newly elected Democrats in the AOC mold will make advancing their progressive agenda “a little bit lighter work,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Times.

The Squad’s growing ranks give its members outsized leverage given the Democrats’ historically thin majority in the House, with just a handful of defections needed to sink bills put on the floor by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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For the past two years, critics dismissed the Squad as a handful of votes with more social media influence than actual political power. In a 2019 interview on “60 Minutes,” Mrs. Pelosi brushed them off as “like five people” and not representative of the party’s left wing.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s response, given to The Daily Beast in June: “All right, let’s go get more.”

And she did.

More at URL above...

The new platoon members:
- Marie Newman, Illinois 3rd District
- Cori Bush, Missouri 1st District
- Mondaire Jones, New York 17th District
- Jamaal Bowman, New York 16th District
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Re: Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2020, 03:08:17 pm »
These people aren't going away.

They represent the new "almost-fully-uncloaked" leftist/communists who are poised to take over the party formerly called "democrats".

There are going to be more and more of them "elected", and their power will increase.

And remember that often "the real power" may be "behind them", with strings pulled by others we don't see much of or at all...
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Re: Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2020, 03:18:09 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on December 30, 2020, 03:08:17 pm
These people aren't going away.

They represent the new "almost-fully-uncloaked" leftist/communists who are poised to take over the party formerly called "democrats".

Poised??? Where the hell have you been @Fishrrman?  They did that ages ago.
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Re: Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2020, 04:29:58 pm »
 The emergence of The Squad for the GOP...
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Re: Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2020, 04:37:38 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on December 30, 2020, 03:18:09 pm
Poised??? Where the hell have you been @Fishrrman?  They did that ages ago.

You got that right.  They have always been socialist, its just now they are admitting it.

Good thing I have no power.  I'd resurrect tbe McCarthy hearings, and deal with these little twerps accordingly.
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Re: Far left gains leverage as AOC's 'Squad' expands into platoon
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2020, 04:48:31 pm »
Bigun wrote:
"Poised??? Where the hell have you been @Fishrrman?  They did that ages ago."

Well, I was being "reserved" about it.
If you've been reading my posts lately, you know where I stand and what I believe on the matter of communists infiltrating our government and other institutions.

So once again, I'll put this up for you:
The American Timeline:
2019: USA -- United States of America
20??: USSA -- United Socialist States of America
20??: USSSA -- United Soviet Socialist States of America
20??:  ?????

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