The Squad reaction

[George K]

@89th said in The Squad reaction:

These calls for deescalation are so brave and new.

Stunning too.

I'm almost tempted to say "I stand with Israel" on my FB profile.

[George K]

He's a "squadder", right?

[George K]

Another squadder....

Omar...

[Copper]

I wish our congresspeople could read and write English.

[Mik]

There isn’t a morally pure way to respond to this incursion. There just isn’t.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th said in The Squad reaction:

These calls for deescalation are so brave and new.

Yes. I think we should also send our thoughts and prayers.

That, combined with your statement should be enough to bring things to a peaceful end.

[George K]

Read the thread...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1711468660345254061.html

She has the actual BALLS to complain of war crimes.

And never calls for the release of the human shields hostages.

[LuFins Dad]

[Renauda]

Useful idiots but all the same, fanatics in their own idiocy . Plain and simple.

[George K]

For decades, I've heard the story of how the Israelis have oppressed the Palestinians who live "under Israeli occupation." How Israel has created an apartheid state, and is committing genocide.

Where do they get this stuff?

[Copper]

@George-K said in The Squad reaction:

Where do they get this stuff?

From American politicians, who send them money.

They send hundreds of millions - on pallets.

You remember

[jon-nyc]

AOC:

“The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday were unacceptable and harmful in this devastating moment. It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/aoc-pro-palestine-nyc-rally-00120684

[taiwan_girl]

Response from White House to the "Squad" comments

"I've seen some of those statements this weekend, and we're going to continue to be very clear. We believe they're wrong, we believe they're repugnant, and we believe they're disgraceful," Jean-Pierre said when asked for the administration's reaction to comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.

"Our condemnation belongs squarely with terrorists who have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped hundreds, hundreds of Israelis. There can be no equivocation about that. There are not two sides here. There are not two sides," she added.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-roasts-squad-democrats-repugnant-comments-brutal-hamas-murders-disgraceful

[Horace]

That's impressively unequivocal. It's even possible the messaging came from Biden himself, rather than his handlers.

[Jolly]

Biden is a political hack. He knows which way the wind is blowing...

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in The Squad reaction:

Biden is a political hack. He knows which way the wind is blowing...

Either way it's the right call. I'll take it.

[taiwan_girl]

https://apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-don-samuels-minnesota-representative-election-11eeae5c91fedaac8b949319a7acf3eb

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar got a prominent Democratic primary challenger Sunday when former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced he’ll try once again to unseat her after coming close in 2022.

Omar, a charter member of “the squad” of progressive House Democrats, won reelection twice despite making comments in her first term that were widely criticized for invoking antisemitic tropes and suggesting Jewish Americans have divided loyalties. But Omar — a Somali American and Muslim — has come under renewed fire for condemning the Israeli government’s handling of its war against Hamas.

“Our congresswoman has a predilection to divisiveness and conflict,” Samuels said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of his official announcement Sunday morning on WCCO Radio.

[Jolly]

Let's hope her money dries up.

[taiwan_girl]