Illhan Omar Megathread

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

It given me really bad vibes to read terms such as "anti-American" being used when describing an immigrant. You can strongly criticize Omar without going that awful path.

Wait wait wait....you can't be an immigrant while still hating America? Because there are some students who graduated Montebello High School about a decade back who you ought google if you think that's the case.

The fact is, Omar regularly expresses a deep contempt for American life and in particular Jewish Americans, and this is deeply troubling. America has wronged Somalia. There is no question about this. The Battle of Mogadishu was a horrible misadventure, one of George HW. Bush's (RIP HP) many, many foreign policy blunders. And while Omar has been a refreshingly reliable critic of our foreign policy, the place where these criticisms originate is deeply suspicious to me.

For example, I do not believe AOC or Tlaib "hate" America. I think they "hate" a lot of things about America, and some of those critiques are valid.

I find myself agreeing with this, both in regards to Omar and to American policy.  I'm not quite as charitable toward Tlaib as Sanchez is, but I'll agree with him on AOC.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

It's times like this I think that MAYBE the mods will step in?

Why?

Because the Echo Chamber has been disrupted, and he can't stand the dissonance.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

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.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1121400808342478849?s=19

LOL at pretending Joe Biden would support segregation and opposes same sex marriage. He endorsed the latter publically even before Obama.

Biden never supported segregation.  He was part of a wave of young liberals that opposed the Vietnam War when he was elected.

Biden opposed forced school busing solely for the purpose of achieving a court-ordered racial balance.  This is hardly supporting segregation, and the Justice Democrats (many of whom are flat-out liars) know this.