There are only 4 of them in the group…
But they increasing losing favor among their own party members , black lawmakers and now Trump….
But Trump’s comments fit with Trump’s anti-immigrant actions ….
Of the four?
Only one , Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), was born outside the country….
And she’s been a citizen for over a decade ….
Not that it should matter…
Sounds like a variation of Trump’s embrace of the Brick Obama ‘birther’ political smearing…
President Donald Trump on Sunday called out progressive Democratic congresswomen in xenophobic terms, saying: “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Trump‘s tweets were seemingly intended to exploit tensions with the House Democratic Caucus, though they drew a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has been at odds with some of the most liberal members of her caucus.
While the president didn’t mention them by name in his tweets, it appears he was attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a native of Somalia, and possibly Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), whose family is Palestinian. Both have been outspoken when it comes to Trump’s administration and the conditions of migrant detention centers on the border.
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” the president wrote on Twitter.
Tlaib was born in the United States and Omar, whose family fled war-torn Somalia when she was a child, is an American citizen.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” he added. “Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”…..
image…CNN.Com
See the discussion already begun at:
https://politicaldog101.com/2019/07/house-democrats-will-fund-homeland/
This post is up now….
This is vintage Trump….
And shows his biases
EVERYBODY here now had family for SOMEWHERE ELSE…..
Yes….
The group IS talking off the wall stuff that has NO CHANCE….
But this IS America…
People have the right to say their piece…
It plays well to the group’s base, there are only 4 of them, but is increasingly isolating them among their party members….
The birther issue did NOT stop Obama….
It’s won’t hurt these 4 in their home districts ….
But my House district guy Meeks is warning of primary challenges against them….
Meeks crushed a similar effort against him last time….
I just realized how wrong I may have been ; — |
The President must have been mindful, having just stood before the Lincoln Memorial last week, of the words spoken to 100,000 people (speak about crowd counts) on Wednesday, August 28, 1963, by the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. But instead of saying “Go back to Mississippi” he is advising Rep. Omar to go back to Mogadishu.
“… I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed [cheering], and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!’ …”
https://ourlutherking.com/i-have-a-dream-speech-text/
[Just reading that and hearing his words in my head still stirs up my emotions. The current President’s words stir up emotions of a rather different kind.]
Dr. King’s message is something that goes on EVERYDAY….
And?
Because a black/mixed race President came to be?
Donald Trump is in office today…
The fight will NOT stop….
In places in the south former slave owners descendants have something…
And even if we have a crooked President…
The majority of America KNOWS this and there are continual efforts to stop his efforts screw America up….
But?
Dr. King was right…
We MUST work together as a collective one to grab power…
THEN?
Exert our will….
Democrats MUST come together to climb the hill….
Without this?
We could have this snake oil salesman slit into ANOTHER four years in office…
I’m the descendant of Southern slave owners.
A LOT of people are…
George Washington had slaves…
He inhered them…
He also set them free in his passing…
This point of view makes Harris’s attacks even more stupid….
Biden was a US Senator…
His job was to get things done…
In doing so?
He had to make compromises…
EVERY lawmaker does ….
Trump on the other hand ?
He looks down his nose at those who are not his skin colour…
He demonised them as he has done most of his adult life…
Few know his and his fathers real estate discrimination history…
He has NOT changed….
Slaves….
Waves of migrants from Europe
Asia…
And even the Middle East have brought knowledge, strength, diversity and so many other things that make America so Great WTF before Donald J Trump arrived on scene and will assure us that they will KEEP coming, risking their lives too do so…
Trump , Miller and even Cuccinelli will be gone….
And they will still come until America loses it majority of Anglo-Saxon’s…
And you know what?
It will STILL be Great Place….
Straight from his Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Donald J. Trump
July 13
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior leader than was Lame Duck Speaker Paul Ryan. Tougher, smarter and a far better fundraiser, Kevin is already closing in on 44 Million Dollars. Paul’s final year numbers were, according to Breitbart, “abysmal.” People like…..
….Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party. Weak, ineffective & stupid are not exactly the qualities that Republicans, or the CITIZENS of our Country, were looking for. Right now our spirit is at an all time high, far better than the Radical Left Dems. You’ll see next year!
@realDonaldTrump
Jul 14
Friday’s tour showed vividly, to politicians and the media, how well run and clean the children’s detention centers are. Great reviews! Failing @nytimes story was FAKE! The adult single men areas were clean but crowded – also loaded up with a big percentage of criminals……
…..Sorry, can’t let them into our Country. If too crowded, tell them not to come to USA, and tell the Dems to fix the Loopholes – Problem Solved!
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, “RACIST.” Their disgusting language…..
…and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!
When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said. So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!
If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.
“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they’re calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin’s,….
…they are Anti-Semitic, they are Anti-America, we don’t need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies. I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting, that the American people will reject……
….What does it mean for America to have free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants, no criminalization of coming into our Country – See how that works for controlling Immigration! They talk about Israel like they’re a bunch of thugs, not victims of the entire region. They wanted…
….to impeach President Trump on DAY ONE. Make them the face of the future of the Democrat Party, you will destroy the Democrat Party. Their policies will destroy our Country!” @LindseyGrahamSC Need I say more?
We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country….
…They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, “some people did something.” Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more….
…They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, “some people did something.” Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more….
….Detention facilities are not Concentration Camps! America has never been stronger than it is now – rebuilt Military, highest Stock Market EVER, lowest unemployment and more people working than ever before. Keep America Great!
The Dems were trying to distance themselves from the four “progressives,” but now they are forced to embrace them. That means they are endorsing Socialism, hate of Israel and the USA! Not good for the Democrats!
¶ So the Party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass (which opposed lynching and lambasted the Democratic Party as the party of the Ku Klux Klan for 90 years) is now showing its anti-slavery origins this way:
@realDonaldTrump
Jul 13
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94% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, an all time high. Ronald Reagan was 87%. Thank you!