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America Has Gravely Disappointed Ilhan Omar
Posted at 8:30 pm on July 07, 2019 by Bonchie
Omar’s short time on the public scene has been filled with one controversy after another. Whether it’s her consistent habit of delving into antisemitism, the evidence she committed marriage fraud, or just the general way she conducts herself as a lawmaker, Omar has managed to find herself in the news over and over and rarely for positive reasons.
Despite plenty of issues at play, because she’s a Democrat, that means she gets puff pieces in The Washington Post. This latest one caught my eye.
We’ve all disappointed her.
There’s a certain arrogance to Omar’s time in the United States that tends to rub people the wrong way and that’s on full display as The Washington Post dives into one of the puffier pieces you’ll read about a D.C. politician. Take this anecdote for example.
Five years earlier, Omar told the students, she was working for a Minneapolis city councilman who asked her to report back on problems with the courts. There, she recalled encountering a “sweet, old . . . African American lady” who had been arrested for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her “starving 5-year-old granddaughter.”
After spending the weekend in jail, the woman was led into the courtroom and fined $80 — a penalty she couldn’t pay. “I couldn’t control my emotions,” Omar continued, “because I couldn’t understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.”
“Bulls—!” she recalled yelling in the courtroom.
Omar, perhaps because of her lack of background with American ideals, seems to not understand that prosecution for criminal activity, even supposed “crimes of desperation,” are what help hold society together. It’s a short walk from arbitrary decriminalization to the anarchy of her home country of Somalia. There’s also the fact that the story she told, much like her entire career, is likely complete nonsense.
Omar’s story echoed the plot of “Les Miserables.” If true, it is also probably embellished. City officials said that police aren’t allowed to arrest people for shoplifting unless there’s a likelihood of violence or further crime. Typically, shoplifters are sentenced to attend a three-hour class.
In an interview, Omar said she may have flubbed some facts. “She might have had a prior [arrest],” Omar said. “I’m not sure. . . . The details might not have all matched, but that’s what I remember.”
As we witnessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s slanderous claims about Border Patrol last week, this new generation of leftist politicians rely on exaggeration and outright falsehood to push their narratives. It doesn’t matter if what they say is actually true, only that it paints a moralistic picture they feel can advance their goals.
Omar goes on to call America a “broken promise.”
In Omar’s immigrant story, America wasn’t a “city on a hill,” a haven for grateful masses fleeing war and oppression. Rather, it was a broken promise. “I arrived at the age of 12 and learned that I was the extreme other,” she often said. “I was black. I was Muslim. I also learned I was extremely poor and that the classless America that my father talked about didn’t exist.”
While I can sympathize with the idea that her expectations may have been unrealistic, perhaps not being in a war-torn country, being offered government assistance, and being part of a society that allows a refugee to become a Congressional member should count for something. No one actually promised Omar utopia. What America has always been is a promise of opportunity and she, even though she’ll never admit it, proved the inclusiveness of that promise by attaining her current position.
One particularly jarring passage from the piece involved Omar giving this description of U.S. military combat veterans.
At times, she struggled to see the humanity in her opponents, dismissing a paralyzed Gulf War veteran’s suggestion that the presence in Congress of more combat veterans, who have experienced the costs of war, might produce a more cautious foreign policy and improve veteran care.
“I’ve been in rooms with people who have served who say the most horrendous things, who have complete disregard for life,” she said. “I would love for that statement to be true, but it isn’t in most cases.”
The article keeps going from there, but the essential point is that America has failed to live up to Omar’s demands throughout her time here.
In Omar’s version, America wasn’t the bighearted country that saved her from a brutal war and a bleak refugee camp. It wasn’t a meritocracy that helped her attend college or vaulted her into Congress. Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a place that had disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees and minorities like her.
I’ll give the author credit for tacitly countering some of her claims, i.e. him pointing out above that this country helped pay for her to go to college and gave her the pathway to attain almost anything, including becoming a U.S. House member. Still, if the United States has been such a grave disappointment to refugees and immigrants, there’s always the option to not come here. The truth is, the United States, while not perfect, is still the greatest country on earth. Some semblance of gratitude from Omar would go a long way, yet she chooses to show absolutely none.
America Has Gravely Disappointed Ilhan Omar
Posted at 8:30 pm on July 07, 2019 by Bonchie
Omar’s short time on the public scene has been filled with one controversy after another. Whether it’s her consistent habit of delving into antisemitism, the evidence she committed marriage fraud, or just the general way she conducts herself as a lawmaker, Omar has managed to find herself in the news over and over and rarely for positive reasons.
Despite plenty of issues at play, because she’s a Democrat, that means she gets puff pieces in The Washington Post. This latest one caught my eye.
We’ve all disappointed her.
There’s a certain arrogance to Omar’s time in the United States that tends to rub people the wrong way and that’s on full display as The Washington Post dives into one of the puffier pieces you’ll read about a D.C. politician. Take this anecdote for example.
Five years earlier, Omar told the students, she was working for a Minneapolis city councilman who asked her to report back on problems with the courts. There, she recalled encountering a “sweet, old . . . African American lady” who had been arrested for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her “starving 5-year-old granddaughter.”
After spending the weekend in jail, the woman was led into the courtroom and fined $80 — a penalty she couldn’t pay. “I couldn’t control my emotions,” Omar continued, “because I couldn’t understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.”
“Bulls—!” she recalled yelling in the courtroom.
Omar, perhaps because of her lack of background with American ideals, seems to not understand that prosecution for criminal activity, even supposed “crimes of desperation,” are what help hold society together. It’s a short walk from arbitrary decriminalization to the anarchy of her home country of Somalia. There’s also the fact that the story she told, much like her entire career, is likely complete nonsense.
Omar’s story echoed the plot of “Les Miserables.” If true, it is also probably embellished. City officials said that police aren’t allowed to arrest people for shoplifting unless there’s a likelihood of violence or further crime. Typically, shoplifters are sentenced to attend a three-hour class.
In an interview, Omar said she may have flubbed some facts. “She might have had a prior [arrest],” Omar said. “I’m not sure. . . . The details might not have all matched, but that’s what I remember.”
As we witnessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s slanderous claims about Border Patrol last week, this new generation of leftist politicians rely on exaggeration and outright falsehood to push their narratives. It doesn’t matter if what they say is actually true, only that it paints a moralistic picture they feel can advance their goals.
Omar goes on to call America a “broken promise.”
In Omar’s immigrant story, America wasn’t a “city on a hill,” a haven for grateful masses fleeing war and oppression. Rather, it was a broken promise. “I arrived at the age of 12 and learned that I was the extreme other,” she often said. “I was black. I was Muslim. I also learned I was extremely poor and that the classless America that my father talked about didn’t exist.”
While I can sympathize with the idea that her expectations may have been unrealistic, perhaps not being in a war-torn country, being offered government assistance, and being part of a society that allows a refugee to become a Congressional member should count for something. No one actually promised Omar utopia. What America has always been is a promise of opportunity and she, even though she’ll never admit it, proved the inclusiveness of that promise by attaining her current position.
One particularly jarring passage from the piece involved Omar giving this description of U.S. military combat veterans.
At times, she struggled to see the humanity in her opponents, dismissing a paralyzed Gulf War veteran’s suggestion that the presence in Congress of more combat veterans, who have experienced the costs of war, might produce a more cautious foreign policy and improve veteran care.
“I’ve been in rooms with people who have served who say the most horrendous things, who have complete disregard for life,” she said. “I would love for that statement to be true, but it isn’t in most cases.”
The article keeps going from there, but the essential point is that America has failed to live up to Omar’s demands throughout her time here.
In Omar’s version, America wasn’t the bighearted country that saved her from a brutal war and a bleak refugee camp. It wasn’t a meritocracy that helped her attend college or vaulted her into Congress. Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a place that had disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees and minorities like her.
I’ll give the author credit for tacitly countering some of her claims, i.e. him pointing out above that this country helped pay for her to go to college and gave her the pathway to attain almost anything, including becoming a U.S. House member. Still, if the United States has been such a grave disappointment to refugees and immigrants, there’s always the option to not come here. The truth is, the United States, while not perfect, is still the greatest country on earth. Some semblance of gratitude from Omar would go a long way, yet she chooses to show absolutely none.
Nope. Paperoute at 10. Caddied at 13. Washed dishes at 15. Never stopped working. Got rich by working hard, being smart, and not having my real estate foreclosed on by the bank (which is probably Huli Huli Boi's problem...)
Try again!
Trump economy - almost as good a O'Bummers...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckj...t-1-million-jobs-short-vs-obama/#5117599e8caa
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckj...t-1-million-jobs-short-vs-obama/#5117599e8caa
No ....old man..You regurgitate Lies.
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Trump shares fake Ronald Reagan quote suggesting Reagan predicted Trump’s election — in 1987
Trump shares faux Ronald Reagan quote suggesting Reagan predicted Trump’s election — in 1987
President Trump on Monday shared on Twitter a post that claimed late President Ronald Reagan predicted in 1987 that Trump would someday be president. The post included a real photo of Trump and Reagan shaking hands, but the quote appears to be false.
The tweet shared by the president was posted by a Twitter account called the Reagan Battalion in February 2017, about a month after Trump’s inauguration.
President Reagan shakes hands with Donald Trump at a reception at the White House in 1987. (Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum/Zuma Press)
It chided “weak” conservatives for doubting Trump’s electability and included a photo of Reagan shaking hands with Trump and the made-up quote attributed to the 40th U.S. president.
“For the life of me, and I’ll never know how to explain it, when I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with a president,” the quote reads.
“Cute!” Trump exclaimed while sharing the faux Reagan quote.
President Trump shared on Twitter a fake quote attributed to former President Ronald Reagan. (Screengrab: realDonaldTrump via Twitter)
According to the Reagan Library, the photo was taken at the White House on Nov. 3, 1987, during a reception for the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies Foundation, of which Trump was a member.
But fact checks conducted by the Washington Post and Snopes.com found no evidence Reagan ever said he felt that way about meeting Trump.
The Reagan Battalion account, which had around 300 followers, was suspended a few hours later by Twitter.
The president, though, wasn’t done with lavishing himself with praise.
Trump retweeted five more tweets from a different Reagan Battalion account showing a large crowd and fireworks display from his Salute to America celebration on July 4.
“A massive crowd that Fake News & some Dems didn’t want to Report!” the president wrote.
He then thanked Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary under former President George W. Bush, for a tweet applauding Trump’s July 4 address.
“That was the best speech Donald Trump has ever given,” Fleischer tweeted. “Wonderful tribute to the USA.”
QUOTE="Friesland, post: 273901, member: 1715"
Nope.
1. Paperoute at 10.
2. Caddied at 13.
3. Washed dishes at 15.
Never stopped working.
Got rich by working hard, being smart, and not having my
real estate foreclosed on by the bank
(which is probably Huli Huli Boi's problem...)
You've seen his bank statements/real estate balance sheets....
I don't think so...
Try again!
You've tried........
/QUOTE
Ok....I'll buy the first " Three "....the rest of it is BS..
You try again !
Nope.
1. Paperoute at 10.
2. Caddied at 13.
3. Washed dishes at 15.
Never stopped working.
Got rich by working hard, being smart, and not having my
real estate foreclosed on by the bank
(which is probably Huli Huli Boi's problem...)
You've seen his bank statements/real estate balance sheets....
I don't think so...
Try again!
You've tried........
/QUOTE
Ok....I'll buy the first " Three "....the rest of it is BS..
You try again !
Sheriff Joe
DA
Yikes!
Census Bureau Data: Non Citizens Earn $9K More Per Year Than Black Americans
Posted at 9:00 pm on July 08, 2019 by LaborUnionReport
Importing cheap labor, documented or undocumented, has a real economic cost and it is black Americans who are the most harmed.
Anyone who has a basic understanding of economics knows about the Law of Supply and Demand, which essentially states
This dynamic played out recently at a large bakery in Chicago that supplies buns to McDonald’s. Some 800 immigrant laborers, most of them from Mexico, lost their jobs last year after an audit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Cloverhill Bakery, owned by Aryzta, a big Swiss food conglomerate, had to hire new workers, 80% to 90% of whom are African American. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the new workers are paid $14 per hour, or $4 per hour more than the (illegal) immigrant workers.
While the fact that blacks earn less than non-citizens or Hispanics should not be construed as “anti-Hispanic,” in terms of economics, it does explain how immigration affects the Law of Supply and Demand.
Further, if politicians are truly concerned about erasing income inequality, the easiest thing to do would be to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Census Bureau Data: Non Citizens Earn $9K More Per Year Than Black Americans
Posted at 9:00 pm on July 08, 2019 by LaborUnionReport
Importing cheap labor, documented or undocumented, has a real economic cost and it is black Americans who are the most harmed.
Anyone who has a basic understanding of economics knows about the Law of Supply and Demand, which essentially states
This dynamic played out recently at a large bakery in Chicago that supplies buns to McDonald’s. Some 800 immigrant laborers, most of them from Mexico, lost their jobs last year after an audit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Cloverhill Bakery, owned by Aryzta, a big Swiss food conglomerate, had to hire new workers, 80% to 90% of whom are African American. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the new workers are paid $14 per hour, or $4 per hour more than the (illegal) immigrant workers.
While the fact that blacks earn less than non-citizens or Hispanics should not be construed as “anti-Hispanic,” in terms of economics, it does explain how immigration affects the Law of Supply and Demand.
Further, if politicians are truly concerned about erasing income inequality, the easiest thing to do would be to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Oh my.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Oh yeah.
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Lesbians rule.
Nonononono
PREMIER
Porno Lesbians rule.
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Ah yes, lil joe the fetish boy.
Hysterical. Undocumented non-citizens earn less than citizens because the employers don't have to pay them the legal wage.
It would also work to simply jail the employers of those without working papers - like Nunes and McCarthy's agro-biz friends. But somehow that doesn't happen...
This is the reality: many, many, many Repubs (and Dems - many employers) want a porous border, but want to crack down on undocumented so the ones here live in fear and don't speak up about the terrible work conditions. Why do you think Trump properties hired so many "illegals?"
If there were a more fair, consistent and easy work-visa process the pay would go up, tax revenue would go up... and agro-biz, meat packing, chicken slaughter profit would go down...
But now they are going to bring in "merit" based immigrants, so the low paying jobs go to American minorities and the good paying jobs to lower-wage immigrants? Like tech, or engineering? Awesome. That's a great idea.
It would also work to simply jail the employers of those without working papers - like Nunes and McCarthy's agro-biz friends. But somehow that doesn't happen...
This is the reality: many, many, many Repubs (and Dems - many employers) want a porous border, but want to crack down on undocumented so the ones here live in fear and don't speak up about the terrible work conditions. Why do you think Trump properties hired so many "illegals?"
If there were a more fair, consistent and easy work-visa process the pay would go up, tax revenue would go up... and agro-biz, meat packing, chicken slaughter profit would go down...
But now they are going to bring in "merit" based immigrants, so the low paying jobs go to American minorities and the good paying jobs to lower-wage immigrants? Like tech, or engineering? Awesome. That's a great idea.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Q.E.D.Still no price increase visible --
Bruddah IZ
DA
Sure does. Hereʻs a tissue.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Canʻt wait till 2020.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Agree.