Has AOC made a statement on Saikat Chakrabarti yet?

[ripcord]

Between his idiotic comment about the Democrats who voted for the relief bill and his asinine move to wear a shirt with the picture of a nazi collaborator on it she needs to issue a statement, preferably saying he is gone. If there is no statement at all I will have assume she supports his actions.

[AncientGeezer]

1. Not a peep that I can find

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Crickets

I suspect either nothing or "we discussed the issue"

[Ponietz]

3. Why didn't you just check for yourself?

I’m not taking the bait on a narrative Drumpfuck is pushing on a Friday afternoon.

[ripcord]

4. So are you saying it never happened?

Saikat Chakrabarti didn't compare the majority of House Democrats to segregationalists? Maybe he didn't really wear a shirt with the image of Subhas Chandra Bose on it, that'sounds all a Jewish conspiracy right?

[Ponietz]

6. It's easy to check whether a MOC has issued a statement

That was the question you posed in the header for your OP, unless I misread it, in which case I would be happy for your feedback on that point. Otherwise, please have a nice day!

[jberryhill]

8. Your mouth must be pretty full

...given the number of words our friend has stuffed into it.

[DFW]

21. I checked with Munich

MOC has not issued a comment. MOC is a convention center in the Freimann district of München, Bavaria (Germany).

Any chance you meant AOC?

[myohmy2]

26. +1

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[geardaddy]

5. Not just a Nazi, but an Axis collaborator.

When things didn't work out for Bose with the Nazis, he enlisted the help of the Japanese.

[jberryhill]

7. We will inform her of your assumptions

[malaise]

9. Divide and rule

by low numbers - not biting.

[nycbos]

12. So it doesn't matter that her chief of staff wore a shit with a image of a nazi collaborator?

[Celerity]

14. oh, unfortunately it is only getting started

I might wager that all 4 of 'The Squad' see primary opponents.

Rashida Tlaib was already primaried in 2018 via a sore loser run by Brenda Jones, who she eeked out a win over in the main election (Jones had barely beat her in the special election to fill the vacancy after Conyers stepped down over sex harrasment allegations). I think Jones will try again in 2020, if not her someone else.

Rashida Tlaib Won a Primary This Week. She Also Lost a Primary This Week.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/us/politics/rashida-tlaib-brenda-jones.html


Jones riles Democrats with independent run

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2018/10/29/brenda-jones-independent-tlaib-congress/1808027002/



Ilhan Omar could also be primaried in 2020

Will a Democrat try to make history against Ilhan Omar in 2020?

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2019/03/will-a-democrat-try-to-make-history-against-ilhan-omar-in-2020/


Democrats upset over Omar seeking primary challenger

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/433970-democrats-upset-over-omar-seeking-primary-challenger


How Democrats Can Get Rid of Ilhan Omar

It’s going to take a primary opponent, but not just any primary opponent.

https://thebulwark.com/how-democrats-can-get-rid-of-ilhan-omar/



Michael Capuano might try to take back his seat from Ayanna Pressley (it is one of the bluest in the nation). Or someone else could try.



and finally

AOC

she is probably untouchable now (althogh Crowleys poltical family I am sure are strategising how one of them or their allies could do it)

BUT

(unless Schumer is paranoid about an ousted AOC running against him)

watch New York try and redistrict her out, post 2020 (after the new census)



Tlaib and Omar are the most vulnerable atm.

If Pelosi wants all 4 gone, I would be shocked if there are not huge behind the scenes actions to make that happen (AOC will be the hardest by far, it will probably have to come via a redistrict action)

[Dorian Gray]

22. I don't think Schumer would be vulnerable to her

I don't even think Gillibrand would be.

NY enjoys that Schumer is the Senate Minority leader. I don't think the entire state would vote for her. If it were a state-wide battle rather than a district-wide battle, it's a different thing entirely.

[Celerity]

25. If that is the case (and I suspect you are right) then I think they might try to redistrict her out

Cuomo hates her, so he will be all down to do the dirty dirty.

My biggest fear is that (if it is handled in a really bad way) it might really suppress the under 40 vote for us nationally, and will (this I say with more certainty) quite possibly set up an all-out schism that will lead to the AOC/Bernie left (and there are multiple millions of them) just going straight-up scorched earth out of vengeance and play open (and covert) pure wreckage games.

[question everything]

31. I doubt that Omar can be defeated. Her district is very liberal with many Somalis

[Hortensis]

33. Her district is very liberal, but hardly Somali-dominated.

That Obama settled many tens of thousands of Somalis there, enough to stack the electorate for a Somali candidate, is a RW lie.

MN 5 is heavily white, and Omar was endorsed by the DFL and elected primarily by their white liberal Democrats because they're typically liberally open and inclusive, and of course because she's pretty and charming. Liberal doesn't exactly mean a district full of far-left extremists -- those are mercifully only fringe elements virtually everywhere.

I've read the mood there, including among many of her Jewish constituents, is liberal tolerance rather than the hair-on-fire reactions pushed by the media, so that's definitely on her side. But she needs to watch her behavior and not do anything to change their image of her.

[myohmy2]

27. +1

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[jberryhill]

10. Hey, here's a question for you

Has he had anything to say about the shirt, or is allowing one the ability to defend oneself against accusations no longer a liberal value?

[nycbos]

11. He can't.

A nazi is a nazi. Nothing else matters.

[jberryhill]

13. Oh, okay

And if she’s got nothing better to do on a Friday evening, then she’s a Nazi too.

Got it.

Keep plugging away at the evil Democrats, folks. It never fails.

[nycbos]

16. If she doesn't fire him then she it okay with it.

There are many on the far left that are okay with antisemitism.

[grossproffit]

18. Thank you for speaking up.

[nycbos]

19. Of course

I worked on my first campaign when I was 13 and have worked in six states. It isn't hyperbole to say I have spent much of my lie in the service of the Democratic Party.


I am also Jewish and have watched how antisemitism has become more and more acceptable in on the far left.


I look in terror at what has happened it the Labour Party in the UK and am worried about the same thing happening to the party I have spent my life in service of.

[Dorian Gray]

24. This is how I feel, too

I think ignoring it is placid acceptance of it.

[Trumpocalypse]

20. That's not what he said

Don’t dishonestly put words in his mouth.

[myohmy2]

29. +1

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[Dorian Gray]

23. Has he said anything about it?

I'd love to hear his reasoning.

And I'd love to hear his response to people who truly find it problematic.

[mcar]

15. She needs to lose this guy

Wearing a shirt with a Nazi sympathizer on it is not a good look. Neither is insulting Democratic reps.

[Cha]

17. I read chakabarti deleted the tweet.. but

it lives forever.. and he needs to be held accountable.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[myohmy2]

28. -1

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[Cha]

30. Yes, Chakabarti made a gross error

in judgment. AOC is Wrong to have him as her COS.

[question everything]

32. Is that's it? What about the "climate thing" a guise for changing the entire economy?

AOC’s Chief of Change

On a Wednesday morning in late May, emissaries of two of the strongest political voices on climate change convened at a coffee shop a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), was there to meet Sam Ricketts, climate director for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), who is running for president almost exclusively on a platform of combating global warming. A newly released plank of Inslee’s climate change agenda had caught the attention of Chakrabarti and his boss, who had tweeted that Inslee’s “climate plan is the most serious + comprehensive one to address our crisis in the 2020 field.” Pleased by the positive reception from the demanding Green New Deal wing of the climate struggle, Ricketts had set up this meeting with Chakrabarti to establish a personal connection and share approaches to climate advocacy.

(snip)

Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change

[The Mouth]

34. Sweet screaming Jesus on a pogo stick

this guy couldn't be a bigger gift to the Republicans if he was a plant (not that a lot isn't wrong with the economy, but saying something that so perfectly plays into their paradigm that all talk of anthropogenic climate change is actually a one world conspiracy for controlling populations, a la Agenda 21)

he needs to STFU and go away.