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“Insight” from Democrat Congressperson
Holy Toledo. This woman serves in The United States House of Representatives. She’s not somebody’s drunk aunt, or a wild eyed drug-addled conspiracy-screaming homeless person, or even a Sociology professor.
She’s a congressperson. Holy Toledo. I don’t even know how to respond to this. The police engage in government funded murder. Because America is inherently racist. So no more police, and no more jails. Right. Ok. That should go well. Brilliant idea.
The Democrat Party has serious problems.
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Forget Tlaib’s mind; what does that say for the brains of her constituents? (Never mind; it’s a rhetorical question.)
You assume they voted for her. It’s more likely the election was stolen for her. I now have a hard time believing any Democrat gets elected legitimately.
Possibly, but when I look at the district she represents, the old saying of “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” comes to mind…
The members of the so-called squad represent overwhelmingly Democratic congressional districts. They cannot be beaten in a general election, unless we have an Alaska type of Ranked Choice Voting. The only way to get rid of her is in the Democratic primary. I respectfully suggest that my fellow Ricochetti help fund her primary opponent this cycle. I did so last cycle to seek to defeat both her and Omar.
At the same time, we have our share of deranged Republicans, such as Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA). We need to clean up our own side of the street. (I voted for Paul Gosar before he went off the deep end. He has since moved to a different congressional district.)
And please take everyone who agrees and thinks this way with her….
If you can find a better country, Move Already
Before Thalib, her constituents elected John Conyers, over and over again, ever since 1965. Until he resigned over a misunderstanding about using taxpayer money to settle a sexual harrassment claim.
Rep. Tlaib is uniquely malignant. It is ideological intoxication that no longer cares if it devolves into stupid.
I live in Omar’s district. I’m not sure I would try this again unless there is a big change in circumstances.
Could you make a post about what you don’t like about these guys?
I like all of them except for Green.
If it were up to me, Mo Brooks and Trump advisor Steven Miller would be president and vice president. The country would improve so fast you couldn’t believe it.
Sort of reminds me of Georgia’s 4th District. When Cynthia McKinney retired, Hank (“Is Guam sinking?”) Johnson took over. Would love to know what the average IQ is of voters in that district.
Or . . . not.
It’s better when he doesn’t throw spaghetti on the wall.
On the contrary. They have learned very well. By rushing to judgement, and promoting the initial narratives ( Hands Up Don’t Shoot, I Cant Breathe, Say Her Name etc) they set in stone the public debate, the premise that these are all symptoms of Systemic Racism, And make the facts that inevitably come out destroying that premise impotent. Last night I watched rioters in Minnesota on YouTube chanting “Hands Up Don’t Shoot”, even though we all know it was a lie.
The battle is not about facts and truth for them it’s about emotion and mobilizing the masses to help them destroy the existing order.
Not less. she says, she wants it gone. Give it to her.
It’s not spaghetti.
It’s better if he makes a cogent argument.
You can’t make this up. They fired the city manager because he said the officer was entitled to due process. This city counselor went along with it simply because she didn’t want to get harassed by the mob.
#VoteDemocrat
Unfortunately, it’s not just the squad. I think that among the 3 stupidest statements in the last decade or so from a congressman there were a predominance of real gems from the Dems- such as:
1) Hank Johnson: “My fear is that the whole island…will tip over and capsize” referring to Guam and plans to add more marines there.
2)Shiela Jackson Lee: visiting the Johnson Space Center-asked if the Mars Pathfinder took pictures of the flag Neil Armstrong planted.
3) Gerry Connolly- asking Greenspan (and hoping for a no) “is it actually possible to spend too much money?”. Unfortunately for Gerry, Allen said yes.
Great point. Cops should only carry weapons when criminals are going to resist arrest. Or threaten someone else. Or something.
From now on, I’m only going to wear my seatbelt when I intend to have a car crash that day.
This is quite a discussion, if you click into it.
G K Chesterton: paraphrased “ the world is divided into progressives and conservatives. Progressives exist to make errors. Conservatives exist to make sure the errors don’t get fixed”
And supposedly ‘Principled’ folks on the ‘Right’ confuse these segments badly. Sad.
What the hell is QAnon? Never heard of them until Jan. 6. Not too many in California. Is it a cleaner group of Proud Boys? Younger KKK types whose grandads Hoover wiped out in 1967? Are there more than 15?
Supposedly = Self-proclaimed. And they can never muster those ‘principles’ to criticize Biden. Sad.
This comes from the mandate (I no longer remember from where, a judicial decision perhaps?) that there have to exist majority-minority districts. Anyone with a pulse on the (D) ticket will win. That’s where you get the true crazies in the House.
No.
This. Such evil people do not get into Congress unless there are a lot of evil voters.
That is the rhetoric but the intention is to replace proper police with a totally politicized police–Gestapo, Stasi, etc.
The shooting of Duante Wright was an accident. What was not an accident was Duante Wright’s choice of a life of vicious crime.