Any group of grown women calling themselves ‘the squad’ don’t belong in Congress. They belong in junior high, grow up. In addition, they are trouble makers and need to go. The ones I mentioned on the Republican side, add Jim Jordan to the list of trouble makers and oust him too. We need government, not Barnum and Bailiey or 90210 high school drama.
Clearly that’s the case. One doesn’t even have to know their names to conclude this. You know, the one from MI is certainly up to some shady shit. Whatever their name is.
There may (will?) come a time when being a Republican is grounds for being deemed anti-American. It won’t be fair, but it will be deserved.
Defending anything to do with MTG is not my thing. However, this isn’t really accurate as a general proposition is it because you can’t be an effective congressperson and only work on sitting days?
I fully understand that “effective” and “MTG” are generally not found in the same sentence but I think your comment is incorrect in principle.
So you don’t like the name? If they threw in a “caucus” (like the Freedom people did), would they somehow be more to your liking?
Go on!
Do they shut off the lights when others are trying to use the bathroom?
Do you touch all the food at the buffet line?
Maybe they are like Japanese kids and think it’s funny to poke you in the butthole!
Or, do you have some specific speeches or bills or something in mind?
I agree with very little of what “The Squad*” advocate for, but every time I hear them talk, they are intelligent, passionate, informed, erudite, and poised.
And then you have the equivalent fringe bunch on the right side of the aisle.
And they’re just “Honey Boo Boo (or the Duggars) goes to Washington.”
I feel like – since TFG took office – we should impose a strict moratorium against drawing equivalents where no equivalent actually exists. I’ll agree to some kind of sunset provision, but … we aren’t there yet.
*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan)
Alright.
Any elected representative who places so much emphasis on empty symbols over substantive issues that they wear a flag pin on their lapel should likewise be barred from office.
Your turn.
[tossing in a /s for clarity]
I get the reference to the OG squad, but you may be interested to know that it’s grown over time
Well, crap.
Truly grateful to be brought into this decade, but now I’ll have to go find clips from each of the newbies to see if my basic premise about erudition and eloquence can remain as is 
Gibbs’ rule #8: never take anything for granted
What would you call them? “The four horsewomen of the apocalypse”?
Flag pin? That’s so 2020. We’re into AR-47 pins now.
Cori Bush (D-MO) represents the bright blue area of the city of St Louis. The other bright blue area is in KC, and kind of purple around Columbia, a college town. I had no idea she was a member of the Squad. I hope this redeems MO a bit, we definitely have a problem here and need all the help we can get. As for the Squad members being controversial, well so the the MTGs and Bobos…and worse than controversial, those righties are damn dangerous. That is the difference to me, the Squad wants to improve America, the right wings want to tear it down and replace it with something terrible.
The Squad should rename themselves the New World Order just to own the fundies.
And when they have a disagreement, they should split themselves into nWo-Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac to own the wrestling fans too.
That link is interesting, as it explains that the term “squad” was initially just a throwaway caption on a picture of 4 women, newly elected to congress, with a common ideology. It wasn’t originally some formal name they gave themselves; it was the equivalent of posting a picture with some colleagues and calling them your friends.
It was the opposition to these 4 that then derisively called them the “squad”, which they leaned into and embraced.
But these women didn’t come to congress and announce that they were the “squad”. So criticizing them for the term is nonsensical.
That criteria would eliminate more Congresspeople than the Martians did in Mars Attacks.
Did “The Squad” coin that name for themselves?
Bc I thought RWM gave them that name as a pejorative, and they (the squad) just sort of made it their own.
According to the wikipedia article it was first used by AOC in an Instagram post. Which seems pretty casual usage.
Reason 1,426 why politicians should ditch their social media outlets.
ETA: Although I actually have no objection to the label “Squad”
Exactly. It’s pretty … (I’ll be diplomatic) … questionable to criticize the appellation “The Squad” as that’s what was flung at them from the right and the media because of one casual caption on a photo. It’s like if I put up a photo of my like-minded friends and captioned it “homies” and all of a sudden, we’re “The Homies” and apparently unfit for Congress because we call ourselves that. It was a friendly little caption, not a formal autonym.
I guess that running the long con pays pretty well, then. From Wikipedia.
Not exactly what I would have thought of as high-paying positions. Oh, she and her husband (now ex) owned a construction firm they bought from her father. That’s (obviously) where her money is coming from.
Hey, Madge, you do realize that 90%+ of the country makes less than $174k / half-year. If that’s all you care about, go back to (not) running a construction firm and grifting the rubes in your district.