Ilhan Omar: Boebert is a ‘buffoon’ and ‘bigot’ for ‘made up’ anti-Muslim story
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Ilhan Omar: Boebert is a ‘buffoon’ and ‘bigot’ for ‘made up’ anti-Muslim story
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T he Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar called the Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert a buffoon, a bigot and a liar for claiming to have joked about terrorism when sharing an elevator in Congress.
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“Fact,” Omar wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “This buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.
“Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny and shouldn’t be normalised. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.”
One of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, Omar is also a member of a prominent “Squad” of House progressives.
Boebert is a first-term far-right Trump ally who consistently seeks controversy. Her connections to the deadly attack on the Capitol on 6 January remain under investigation .
She made the comments about Omar in her home district over the Thanksgiving break.
“Actually I have an Ilhan story for you,” Boebert told an audience, to laughter. “So, the other night on the House floor was not my first ‘Jihad Squad’ moment.
“So I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. You know, we’re leaving the Capitol and we’re going back to my office and we get an elevator and I see a Capitol police officer running to the elevator. I see fret all over his face, and he’s reaching, and the door’s shutting, like I can’t open it, like what’s happening. I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar.
“And I said, ‘Well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.’
The audience laughed and applauded.
“We only had one floor to go,” Boebert continued. “I said, ‘Oh look, the Jihad Squad decided show up for work today.’”
The audience whooped and applauded again.
“Don’t worry,” said Boebert, “it’s just her staffers on Twitter that talk for her, she’s not tough in person. So … there’s a little bit of interactions with these folks.”
The remarks raised calls for Boebert to face formal censure – as recently did Paul Gosar of Arizona, for tweeting a video which depicted him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, another prominent progressive, and threatening Joe Biden.
Boebert’s reference to “the other night on the House floor” was to remarks in support of Gosar in which she called Omar “the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota” and repeated rightwing conspiracy theories about her.
In response to those remarks, Omar called Boebert an “insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert”, a reference to Boebert’s husband, who in 2004 pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure and spent time in jail . Omar also said Boebert “shamefully defecates and defiles the House”.
In a statement on Friday, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council for American-Islamic Relations ( Cair ), called Boebert’s remarks “digusting” and “merely the latest symptom of the anti-Muslim bigotry that has plagued the Republican caucus in the House for years” .
“Leader [Kevin] McCarthy should repudiate Representative Boebert’s remarks,” Mitchell said, “and call on all Republican members of Congress to treat their American Muslim colleagues and constituents with the respect and decency everyone deserves.”
Boebert later tweeted an apology “to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Representative Omar”.
She also said she had “reached out to her office to speak with her directly. There are plenty of policy differences to focus on without this unnecessary distraction.”
Omar retweeted support from another member of the “Squad”, Cori Bush of Missouri .
“Capitol Hill is a toxic work environment for Muslim members and staff,” Bush wrote, “when bigots routinely spew racist, Islamophobic vitriol unchecked and with no consequence.
“Congresswoman Omar, we love you, and we pray for your well-being and protection from this despicable abuse.”
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Boebert lied about Ilhan to her constituents. Boebert needs to be censured as well as Gosar.
These people are on the forefront of the Trump takeover of the Republican Party. This is what they are trying to force on America.
I’d like her to describe her sexual adventures with her brother while she was married to him…
That's not true. Not surprised you brought up that nonsense/lie. Also pretty disgusting.
You're disgusting
You might not care about the integrity of this site, but I do. Keep your sexual proclivities to yourself, or better yet, start a private group with your like-minded friends. You can be as disgusting as you want there.
One kook calling another kook a kook ...... yawn
It sounds like McCarthy is finally taking this shit seriously.
Good, then he’ll be ready to shit-can Omar as well
Sounds like McCarthy is acknowledging wrongdoing on the part of his member.
Sounds like Sparty can't acknowledge wrongdoing when it is a Repub
Having trouble understanding my post #2 are you?
Why don't the Democrats ever apologize for all the hateful and untrue things they say about Trump, his supporters, and Republicans in general
So you support the incestuous bitch from Minnesota.
Not a single conservative reply to this story acknowledges its biggest point -- Kevin McCarthy has admitted one of his members went over the line.
AOC should tell Boebert to fuck off, but she would not lower herself to B's level.
That is the usual MO for magats.
Omar will have no congressional committee assignments in a little over a year
Too bad Pelosi never does that with any of her members
AOC would have to climb my Everest just to get close to Boeberts esteemed level
Doubtful. He allows these idiots and criminals to get away with everything.
"Why don't the Democrats ever apologize for all the hateful and untrue things they say about Trump, his supporters, and Republicans in general"
Nothing to apologize for - especially since they were all true.
I've got no problem with that.
Wonder what her constituents think about it?
Omar better wear a bullet proof vest.
Now that's one of the more ridiculous statements you have made. AOC actually has an education, which includes a Master's Degree. Boebert is a high school dropout who failed her GED 3 times.
Sounds to me like Lawless Lauren would have to start digging upward out of that hole she's in before she could even approach AOC's toes
blowbert couldn't carry the county she lived in last election and she's been arrested multiple times. she's currently under investigation by the FBI in 2 separate cases and under investigation by congress for her part in the 1/6 insurrection. her dad was a professional wrestler that impregnated her then groupie and now Q-nut mother, and still denies being her father after buying off the DNA tester that was convicted of selling negative results in paternity cases. 15 years ago she was working the drive-up window at McD's in rifle colorado. she's a religious wacko too.
Are you sure she's from Colorado and not from Arkansas?
FYI -
Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics.
No Master's degree.
thank-you for the correction
You're welcome Ma'am - have a Great Day.
you, too
Whatever - Bacherlor's or Masters - she's not a high school dropout criminal whackjob crazy bitch.
College degrees can be overrated and they regularly are when it comes to politicians.
Still...are you going to listen to a high school dropout who failed a GED 3 times? Or someone who actually learned something about political science? What are the chances that Lawless Lauren could actually pass a Citizenship exam?
I'm not defending Boebert's ignorant comments. Far from it.
I'm just saying in my 40+ years of dealing with college grads, i've found some of them to be the dumbest, most ignorant people i've ever met.
You've been around the block a bit and aren't stupid. I suspect you know exactly what i'm talking about.
Actually, I do. My dad was very smart but only graduated high school. I work with people with PhD's and they are dumber than a box of rocks.
My point is that Lawless Lauren has no room to talk about other people. She needs to just sit her skinny ass down and color. AOC has said some really dumb things, too, but she can at least add 2 + 2
I figured you'd understand. College educated know it alls are everywhere.
Mine too and at a very rural HS at that so his HS education was nothing like what we got. Amazing how much he did with so little education.
But don't get me wrong, I'm proud of my degrees but they really mean jack-shit until they are applied in some meaningful way. I had a great first boss who showed me the light and i listened.
Keep your mouth shut and eyes/ears open and you will go far he would say. People like Boebert and AOC don't know how to keep their mouths shut enough IMO. And don't take that as misogynistic because it's not. That kind of arrogance/ignorance is completely gender neutral in my experience.
You know what my dad told me when I graduated college? "Another college educated idiot loose on the streets" He said that to remind me where I came from and not to get too big for my britches
Lol ... sounds familiar.
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Lauren Boebert Apologizes to Muslims for Remarks About Ilhan Omar
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W ASHINGTON—GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized to Muslims on Friday for a joke casting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar as a possible suicide bomber that drew heavy criticism, with the top Republican in the House stepping in to try to tamp down the controversy.
Relations between the two parties have become increasingly contentious in the past year. Last week the Democratic-led House censured Rep. Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) over a violent anime-style video that depicted the murder of a Democratic colleague.
The Boebert controversy emerged on Thanksgiving Day. In remarks to supporters that circulated on social media, Ms. Boebert said she was getting into an elevator when a Capitol Police officer ran toward her with “fret all over his face,” but the doors closed before he could get there. The Colorado lawmaker said she saw Ms. Omar was next to her in the elevator and thought: “Well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.” She said she then said to Ms. Omar: “Oh look, the Jihad squad decided to show up for work today.”
Ms. Boebert issued an apology on Friday and said she had reached out to Ms. Omar to speak with her directly. “I apologize to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Rep. Omar,” she tweeted. “There are plenty of policy differences to focus on without this unnecessary distraction.”
Ms. Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, said the story fueled anti-Muslim bigotry and endangered her personally, and she called on Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to take appropriate action.
“Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout,” the Minnesota congresswoman tweeted. “Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.”
Mr. McCarthy said he talked to Ms. Boebert on Friday. “She has apologized for what she said and has reached out to Congresswoman Omar to meet next week,” he said in a statement.
Mr. McCarthy said he also spoke with Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, “to help facilitate that meeting so that Congress can get back to talking to each other and working on the challenges facing the American people.”
Democratic leaders including Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Hoyer released a statement Friday night calling on Ms. Boebert to fully retract her comments and refrain from making similar remarks in the future, saying, “Targeted Islamophobic comments and actions against another Member of Congress, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, are both deeply offensive and concerning.”
The Democrats also criticized Mr. McCarthy and GOP leadership, saying top Republicans’ “repeated failure to condemn inflammatory and bigoted rhetoric from members of their conference is outrageous.”
In the previous controversy, Mr. Gosar was censured and lost his committee assignments after he tweeted an animated video of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and threatening to slash President Biden. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, like Ms. Omar, is a member of the progressive “squad” in Congress and a regular target of conservatives’ criticism.
At the time, Mr. McCarthy said Democrats were overstepping their bounds in punishing a member of the opposite party and warned that a future GOP majority could target Democrats in a similar fashion.
When is Omar going to apologize to Jewish people for all her anti Semitic comments in the past?
You beat me to it.
“Anti-Jewish bigotry isn’t funny and shouldn’t be normalised. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Jewish tropes get no condemnation.” says me about Omar.
Omar is not a suspected suicide bomber, yet that is what Boebert said about her, in a speech to Boeberts constituents for gods sake.
Omar's remarks about Israel and Jews have already been addressed. What about this one Buzz?
I don't give a damn what Boebert has to say. So many lawmakers are saying so many ridiculous things it's all part of the mix. However, the house PROTECTED Omar, they stroked her lovely fur. Did they remove her from the Foreign Affairs committee? NO. Does she hate Israel? YES Do I admire the antisemitism of "The Squad"? NO Are you supporting Omar? YES Did you submit answers to the Western Movie Quiz? NO.
What Boebert said is the point of this article.
Bobert is conservative and must be held accountable ..... as it should be. Omar is liberal and gets a free pass to be a anti semite and bigot whenever she wants. As it shouldn’t be
Now you are beginning to realize the malfunction that is the liberal mindset of some.
Who she said it about and why is also the point of the article.
I have no loyalties to any American political party, and IMO the malfunction and decline of the USA is the fault of both major parties.
Yes, spoken from a Republican Trump water carrier, just like the House and the Senate, willing to forgive ANY and EVERYTHING 45 ever did, while baseless accusations fly out non stop about Biden and the Dems. Talk about the height of hypocrisy, as the Repubs lower the bar till inn order to get a drink, one must avoid the stairs from the onlookers and hookers, who've must of bought it with the fishy lines as they sinkers to new lows every damn day, with the bullship they do constantly utter lee ridiculous, but i believe you know this and just refuse to acknowledge do to spite, and spite reminds me of Spirits,ore maybe some Sprite, with VODKA and a splash of Cranberry on the Rocks, sounds like a plan fella, Sparty on now, ya heaqr...?
Blah, blah, blah .... deflection from a clueless, TDS ridden ridden partisan. Never answering any questions ..... only pushing gibberish.....
Let me know if you ever want to have a serious conversation. I’m still waiting.
As bad as the USA may be, it’s many many, factors better than countries like China. You would agree if you were Muslim I promise you that.
It was just a joke.
I would agree if I were Muslim? If I were a Muslim who was not a terrorist I would not.
How do you explain that of the approximately 32 million Muslims living in China, including Uyghurs, that around 31 million of them live in China in absolute peace, pray in their mosques, buy food from their Halal butchers, carry on their businesses (their lamb specialties in their non-pork restaurants are my favourite places to eat), educate their children in the same schools as every other faith or non-faith (when I was teaching in a very expensive private high school here some of the students were Muslim but nobody would have been able to tell the difference), celebrate their festivals, live anywhere they wish? I guess it's because of the propaganda that is spread in the USA about genocide, torture, rape, slavery, to fuel the hatred and demonization of China in order to deflect Americans' attention from their own problems, and don't think I dislike Biden any less than I disliked Trump now that he is pro-Palestinian and encouraging their hatred of the Jews, now that he is FURTHERING Trump's demonization and provocations against the Chinese with yet more multiple bans against Chinese industries, politicising universal international sport where being ABOVE politics is the rule, weaponizing trade and sport to demonize, spreading nuclearization around China with his AUKUS, pressuring the "5 Eyes", and other organizations of nations and even amassing all democracies to pressure and contain China from advancing and progressing because there is a possibility that China just might depose the world's number one "exceptional" nation from being number ONE.
Biden won't ease up on his demonization of China because if he does, since so much hatred of China has already been established in the USA, the Republicans would be able to use it as a slander against Biden, such as calling him soft on China or a China pawn, in order to defeat him and the Democrats is future elections. Oh, American politics is so transparent it's a world-wide joke. And in my opinion, all it is doing is hurting the American people more than it is the Chinese, except for the Chinese and Asian people in the USA who have had to deal with the increased violence against them.
What a great argument. To Bad John Wayne Gacy didn't think of that. Who really cares about the dozens of kids he molested and murdered? There were millions of kids he didn't murder!
Approximately 1.5 million of 12 million Uigers are currently detained in concentration camps.
I get it though. Genocide is hard to spin, keep at it and maybe you will stumble upon a non monstrous argument.
Before religious extremists and separatists were sent to re-education camps, and terrorists were sent to prisons (which you call concentration camps) there were acts of terrorism carried out in China and peaceful citizens were not safe. Now the only such acts (and they are reported here or I wouldn't have known about them) have been two cases of deranged old men breaking into schools with cleavers or a couple of knife attacks. So crime in China is dealt with in order to maintain the peace. And are people not incarcerated in the USA when they break the law? Doesn't America have the highest incarceration rate in the world? People in glass houses......etc.
And by the way, Sparty On spoke of Muslims in both countries GENERALLY, and that was what my reply addressed. He did not make a comparison with an individual criminal like you did, trying to make a totally false and irrelevant ridiculous argument.
Oh my goodness. I took this photo on the street here. Amazing, isn't it, that she hasn't been thrown into a concentration camp, beaten, raped, sterilized, and forced to pick cotton, but actually walks feely on the street here in China.....
China bans burqa in biggest Muslim city | CNN
No surprise to me that they would be banned in Xinjiang where the government is trying to quell religious extremism. My photo was taken in Zhengzhou, also a big city in China. The burqa has been banned in the whole countries of Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Congo, Chad, Gabon, Bulgaria and Latvia as well. Switzerland even bans mosques from having minarets, but China doesn't.
With absolutely no due process. Call em what they are. Re-education camps. God knows what they are doing to people in there.
Maybe so, and since that is so, it's easy to make up all kinds of stories about it, isn't it.
Minarets ok, crosses not. Typical CCP hypocrisy and doublespeak
In the western democracy free world we call it what it is, genocide.
Whatever those you include in your "we" want to call it doesn't matter to me, because whatever the CPC has done, it has stopped the rampant terrorist murders of innocent men, women and children by the Uyghur terrorists more than four years ago. I feel pretty safe. Do you? Only two gun shootings killing people in America reported by Microsoft Bing News today - a slow day I guess. To me, daily gun murders and accidental gun deaths in a nation where guns in private hands outnumbers cars, is genocide. But notwithstanding America's incarceration rate is the highest in the world, Americans like to point elsewhere, don't they. At least your gun violence and your incarceration rate are "exceptional".
The minarets have a function, a purpose, but the crosses have not had a purpose other than advertising and protecting people from vampires since the Romans stopped crucifying people on them.
I'm sure it is but China's civil rights record isn't the best now is it? So it's believable, very believable.
Unlike people thinking more rural America is just like more urban America in crime, etc when nothing could be further from the truth.
I agree that China's civil rights record has not been the best, nor has America's, or there would not have even been a BLM protest there, would there? Rural America isn't another country. Urban America, rural America - believe it or not, it's ALL America, isn't it.
Look no further than the mass exodus from a lot of bigger cities like New York and Chicago for your answer. It’s no aberration. People are leaving in droves to more rural areas to escape the chaos being sown by big city liberal policy.
Same country but drastically different conditions.
Drastically.
IMO it has nothing to do with liberal policy, it's the nature of the demographics of a big city. Toronto has had its problems as well, and it has nothing to do with governance, and in fact both the mayor and the Ontario provincial governing party are Conservative.notwithstanding that Trudeau's Canadian government is Liberal. Are the Republicans/conservatives blaming Biden and the Democrats for the "atmospheric river" that's causing so much flooding damage as well?
And you would be wrong.
Take NYC for example. Compare 1990 NYC with todays more "progressive" NYC. Welfare reform, more aggressive policing, tougher criminal sentencing and generally a greater concentration on city wide quality of life reforms brought NYC out of the crime infested nightmare it became after the "cultural revolution" of the 60's and 70's. That, is indisputable. Now, because of more liberal/progressive policy, they are headed in the wrong direction once again. That is also indisputable.
It's like deja vu all over again.
Really? That sounds a little bigoted don't you think?
Ridiculous hyperbole is not really all that helpful in this discussion Buzz.
<snicker...vampires and crosses>
What is the function of a minaret? I know I could go look this up...but you always indulge me when I ask a question
The ancient traditional Muslim call to prayer 5 times a day has continued noiwithstanding more recent electronic and technological reminder methods. Before all that modern stuff was invented it was required to be broadcast to the surrounding area in the most effective way, and calling from a place high above was required to do that. Let us compare that with Big Ben in London. Everyone has a watch or a cell-phone clock so is it necessary to bong out the big bell every hour? It's tradition. The call to prayer is not considered advertising.
Bigoted? It's bigoted to accuse me of stating a reality. I relate facts and you accuse me of bigotry?
The first thing a person needs to do is comprehend the meaning of the word "demographics".
Does your town have an "inner city", homelessness, abject poverty, crowded conditions?
Now and then, out of frustration, I do tend to get a little sarcastic, sespecially when I see something posted that makes me shake my head.
First of all, i didn't "accuse" you of anything. Read it again please. And related to the meaning of Demographics. I understand the meaning just fine. And i quote:
Dynamic balance of a population. As in the mix of nationalities, race, etc. I get the Density interpretation but it is not the only definitional competent of Demographics.
So yeah, i'm watching homelessness, abject poverty and crowded conditions at play in some bigger cities right now where smash and grabs are happening. As the smash and grabbers hop in their get away cars after they have lifted their booty. /S
Fair enough, just don't get mad when someone else does the same to you.
Thanks, Buzz! So it's basically a large bull horn. Minaret is a nicer name
I said: "it's the nature of the demographics of a big city."
You replied to that: "Really? That sounds a little bigoted don't you think?"
Your "That" did not refer to a word, it referred to what I said. The word "demographics" is not bigoted nor can it be said to be bigoted so you damn well meant me.
Or were you just KIDDING, eh? It's okay, Sparty On, As Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) said to the boy in Schindler's List who couldn't erase the ring in the tub, "I pardon you" (then he shot him). Damn, I love the movies.
Nope but thanks for telling me what i meant.
That is always a nice trick
If the members of NT weren't so damned polarized and cliquey, I'd call for a vote on what they thought you meant, but I think it's better to just call for an end to this discussion, i.e. agree to disagree.
I speak my mind and i tell the truth. Always! That said I could give a shit what anyone here thinks about that.
I've already told you that i wasn't calling you out on it but nobody tells you anything Buzz.
That much is true as well, very true.
IMPASSE
Boebert is an extremist, and a creep. She has no business being in Congress.
Bobert’s constituents disagree with you, which in the end is all that really matters
She was elected by a fairly slim majority. We will see if her constituents approve of her idiocy enough to re-elect her. If they do, the disgrace is all theirs.
So, what’s your excuse for Omar’s public bigotry?
Crickets are chirping...
Ridiculous comment. Her bigotry is what it is and I don't make any excuses for it. You excused Boebert's bigotry ("Bobert’s constituents disagree with you, which in the end is all that really matters"), so that must mean you also excuse the lunatic Greene's bigotry, and the fascist Gosar's bigotry.
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Wrong but try another lie and see if manages to take.
The only lie is pretending that your comment wasn't an attempt to make an excuse for Boebert's bigotry. A failed excuse.
Wrong again. One more lie that doesn't take.
Nothing i've said here can be remotely defined as a defense of anyone's behavior.
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She's actually losing support. Have you read thedoctorisinthehouse article yet? He has a few words about Lawless Lauren
As it should be if she isn't representing here constituents well and proper.
Politicians on both sides tend to have that problem. They forget they aren't representing themselves but their constituents.
More problematic to me is that politicians like Omar AREN'T losing support as radical as she is.
"Boebert is an extremist, and a creep. She has no business being in Congress."
Same as Taylor-Green, Gaetz, Cawthorn, Gosar - any of today's gqp/alleged conservatives.
Does that mean you think the Squad and others on the hard core liberal left of their ilk are totally innocent of the same and pure as the newfallen snow?
And, their shit doesn't stink, either!
SMH
Got that right!
Don't presume or assume. Like you said - you know nothing about me, so take your assumptions and presumptions somewhere else.
I did not presume or assume anything. I simply asked you a question.
Of course you deny the obvious - it was a presumption/assumption.
You just have to have the last word.
At least I had something meaningful to say.
Meaningful? How so?
and she sleeps with a pervert....lol
Well, at least Boebert wasn’t talking about Omar’s husband this time - not her brother husband, the other husband.
Omar and her good bud Tlaib are the two biggest bigoted anti-Semites in office in DC and routinely get a free pass from Pelosi and their liberal left colleagues, especially from their fellow "Squad" members.
Sounds like a lot of people here defending what she said.
You aren’t listening very well. People are just pointing out the liberal double standard and hypocrisy at play here.
Show me seeds coming from the usual sources here that post this sort of stuff on conservatives, that calls out Omar’s persistent and public bigotry.
Good luck ....
All you are saying is whataboutisms...
Yeah, that is a marginally good excuse to cover for a steaming pile of hypocrisy but that dog don’t hunt with thinking people.
Try again.
What pile? I don't make excuses for The Omar woman just like I would never excuse this woman.
Your look over there bullshit is falling flat.
You have done nothing but troll this seed endlessly about someone else.
That's all some have to contribute.
Nah, i point out cogent points to the article in question and you try to gaslight it as trolling. SOSDD
People who don't call out Omars chronic bigoted behavior have no high ground to call out Boebert. None at all.
That said, i don't see anyone defending Boeberts behavior here. Certainly not me. Including Boebert herself who has apologized for it.
That's just more lies of many that get told here daily.
No, we're simply not having silly hypocritical fits about it.
Omar and the other loony subversive anti-Semitic "Squad" members deserve all the criticisms they receive.
Then have a seed about them.
I am so tired of these two wrongs making a right argument.
Lauren Boebert was wrong to make that joke. It's not funny, it's hateful and bigoted and she is supposed to be a representative to all her constituents.
Omar is a raging antisemite and who makes comments not even trying to be funny to hide her hate.
They both should be censured for this kind of behavior by their parties.
It's not any more complicated than that.
My dogs better than your dog, my dogs better than yours...
Spot on.
I’m tired of people here trying to put words in other peoples mouths simply to push their crazy narratives.
I just wish they would all shut up about their opinions and do their jobs. Their job is to try to run this country and represent their constituents. I don't want to hear the "free speech" argument. They can voice their opinion on THEIR time & dime not mine.
In my opinion, Boebert is as much a racist bigot as Omar. Boebert just happens to be the opposite end of the political spectrum from Omar, but a racist bigot is still a racist bigot, and neither one deserves to be elected officials in DC.
Spot on Doc, spot on.