MTG's behavior is much worse than Steven King's ever was. That's my judgment, based on objective reality.
It is inappropriate for you to try to skate away from your nebulous comments with unfounded opinions of what I am willing or unwilling to do.
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ive given you a ton of opportunities yourself to skate away from Omar’s offensive remarks yet you repeatedly refuse to do it, which is in and of itself shockingly offensive. All it takes from you is an admission. I’ll even write it for you: “ I don’t know what antisemitism is, and you’ve refused to define it, but yeah her comments were bad, but I appreciate her apology”
again I don’t care whose remark was worse. That’s not my point. If your point is the rs should have stripped her I’d say ok, but I think the ds should have stripped Omar too. But my point was the majority party making this decision for the minority party is a bad idea because it’s going to be used a lot now because once the principle is set that bad can lead To a strip when the minority party refuses to do it there’s a lot of bad in Congress on both sides of the aisle. You can’t have a limiting principle in a knife fight that something is uniquely bad because uniquely bad is In The eye of the beholder, as you seem to be confirming by your refusal to call out Omar.
