Illhan Omar Megathread

[OSR stands with Israel]

Just as I thought people on the left have already started to come out and defend her comments . I mean it’s one thing to defend her but it’s a far different thing to defend her comments

Please explain how the tweet in this article is an attack. I'm serious.

She implied that American soldiers committed a terrorist attack in that tweet . Showing context in this case makes her comments even worse not better

[Zaybay]

I think we should make a megathread for this kinda faux-outrage against Omar. This is like, what, the 5th thread about Omar that is detached from reality?

[Zaybay]

Probably should make this a "Progressive Democrats" discussion thread. Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, etc. all kinda do the same thing.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

I think we should make a megathread for this kinda faux-outrage against Omar. This is like, what, the 5th thread about Omar that is detached from reality?

Perhaps, she needs to attach herself to reality on the many that had died in 9/11 or Black Hawk Down or the nature of Anti-Semitism in this world...then threads like these would stop. 

[DrScholl]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .

Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

You are the ones making things up. You are saying she attacked troops and that's not even remotely what was stated.

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

I haven't personally sent her death threats, so I'm good. By "flack" I meant "criticism". None of my comments even equate to inciting violence. Calm down; It's a forum.

You said "she deserves every flack she gets". Seems quite clear what you meant.

[Arturo Belano]

There is literally NOTHING WRONG with her comment. The dude she replied to was high-key ignoring the civilian loss of life during the Mogadishu operation. If you get offended when people point out civilian casualties from American military operations, then you must be absolutely butthurt when people tell you that over 1 million Iraqis died as a result of the 2003 invasion and subsequent American occupation. Save the faux outrage and hand-wringing for another time.

[fhtagn]

If Omar had even half a brain she'd know to just stop talking. It's a shame that Democrats lack the backbone needed to put her in her place.

Anyone who criticized Steve King but defends Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite. She is no better than he is.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .

Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

You are the ones making things up. You are saying she attacked troops and that's not even remotely what as stated.

She implied that US soldiers committed a terrorist attack in that tweet, so yes that is a clear attack on our troops.

[Kevin]

If Omar had even half a brain she'd know to just stop talking. It's a shame that Democrats lack the backbone needed to put her in her place.

Anyone who criticized Steve King but defends Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite. She is no better than he is.

[ProudModerate2]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .
Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

Surprise.
Old School Republican wakes-up in Atlas once again.
His obsession with Omar is incredible. Any chance to bash Islam and Muslims and he is on it, like flies on sh*t.
Post after post after post.

[ProudModerate2]

OP: Please fix the title thread.
There is no such thing as Black Hawk Dawn .... it's Black Hawk Down.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .
Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

Surprise.
Old School Republican wakes-up in Atlas once again.
His obsession with Omar is incredible. Any chance to bash Islam and Muslims and he is on it, like flies on sh*t.
Post after post after post.

So you cant defend her comments so you instead decide to personally attack me instead .

[ProudModerate2]

I think we should make a megathread for this kinda faux-outrage against Omar. This is like, what, the 5th thread about Omar that is detached from reality?

Perhaps, she needs to attach herself to reality on the many that had died in 9/11 or Black Hawk Down or the nature of Anti-Semitism in this world...then threads like these would stop. 

Should we also "attach reality" to the comment that "thousands and thousands of Muslims were celebrating in the streets immediately after 9/11" in the New York/New Jersey area?

[HillGoose]

She clearly is one of the most hateful Congresspersons alive. She and Steve King need to go...yesterday.

[ProudModerate2]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .
Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

Surprise.
Old School Republican wakes-up in Atlas once again.
His obsession with Omar is incredible. Any chance to bash Islam and Muslims and he is on it, like flies on sh*t.
Post after post after post.

So you cant defend her comments so you instead decide to personally attack me instead.

I just want to know more about your obsession with Omar.
Any time there is a thread on her (that you more than likely started), you post like 5 thousands times in it. Repeating the same thing over and over again.
You wait and see ... there will be many more posts from you.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .
Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

Surprise.
Old School Republican wakes-up in Atlas once again.
His obsession with Omar is incredible. Any chance to bash Islam and Muslims and he is on it, like flies on sh*t.
Post after post after post.

So you cant defend her comments so you instead decide to personally attack me instead.

I just want to know more about your obsession with Omar.
Any time there is a thread on her (that you more than likely started), you post like 5 thousands times in it. Repeating the saying the same thing over and over again.

You guys on the left post countless threads about terrible comments made by a idiotic Republican member of a state legislature or some hateful and terrible thing a random Trump support did and then you use that to smear the entire GOP.

Omar is a member of Congress not a random member of a state legislature so yes her comments should make the news more.

[ProudModerate2]

If Omar had even half a brain she'd know to just stop talking. It's a shame that Democrats lack the backbone needed to put her in her place.

Anyone who criticized Steve King but defends Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite. She is no better than he is.

If you took the time reading the article, you would know that comment was made in 2017 (not recently).

[PSOL]

Probably should make this a "Progressive Democrats" discussion thread. Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, etc. all kinda do the same thing.

This is a response to all the threads made about the Justice Democrats disproportionately to everyone else.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The real name for Justice Democrats is the TYT Caucus in Congress

[Figueira]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .

Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

You are the ones making things up. You are saying she attacked troops and that's not even remotely what as stated.

She implied that US soldiers committed a terrorist attack in that tweet, so yes that is a clear attack on our troops.

Literally nowhere in her tweet did she imply that. She simply pointed out that thousands of Somalis died.

You don't get to pretend that a benign (and true) comment is outrageous and start getting outraged at anyone who thinks otherwise. And I say this as someone who doesn't even particularly like Omar.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Didn’t every single Justice Dem/JD backed candidate in remotely competitive GE races lose in 2018?

Their endorsed incumbent congressmen + safe D primary winners like Pressley and AOC were their only successes iirc.

[fhtagn]

If Omar had even half a brain she'd know to just stop talking. It's a shame that Democrats lack the backbone needed to put her in her place.

Anyone who criticized Steve King but defends Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite. She is no better than he is.

If you took the time reading the article, you would know that comment was made in 2017 (not recently).

It must be nice pretending she doesn't have a history of not keeping her mouth shut.

[HisGrace]

Some of the attacks against her having bigoted motivations shouldn't 100% shield the fact that she's still a twit.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The obsession with Omar is creepy and dangerous not to mention crazy. Like Byron Looper and Julia Van Orden crazy.

Perhaps, she can stop aligning with enemies of democracy. Her comments have continually shown themselves to be creepy and dangerous. She deserves every flack she gets.

Again, the obsession is creepy and dangerous. Nothing she has said warrants death threats and if you believe that then you need to be visited by the police...

Um nobody said it did , stop making stuff up .

Attacking her for comments she made are fair game

You are the ones making things up. You are saying she attacked troops and that's not even remotely what as stated.

She implied that US soldiers committed a terrorist attack in that tweet, so yes that is a clear attack on our troops.

Literally nowhere in her tweet did she imply that. She simply pointed out that thousands of Somalis died.

You don't get to pretend that a benign (and true) comment is outrageous and start getting outraged at anyone who thinks otherwise. And I say this as someone who doesn't even particularly like Omar.

She was responding to a tweet about the worst terrorist attack in Somali history.

[Zaybay]

Didn’t every single Justice Dem/JD backed candidate in remotely competitive GE races lose in 2018?

Their endorsed incumbent congressmen + safe D primary winners like Pressley and AOC were their only successes iirc.

That is correct, though the sample size is a bit small. They nominated candidates for 2 competitive races, NE-02 and CA-50, both of which were GOP holds.