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7/30/2019

Ilhan Omar Shares Tweet Mocking Vicious Attack on Rand Paul

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:38 am



So Rand Paul recently shared this sentiment regarding Ilhan Omar, supporting Trump’s “go back where you came from” rhetoric:

In the Trumpy landscape, you respond to nastiness with way more nastiness. So Omar retweeted this ugly tweet from Tom Arnold:

Omar Retweets Tom Arnold

Let’s remind ourselves about the injuries Rand Paul suffered in the attack in question:

The force of the landing with his neighbor on top of him broke six of Paul’s ribs and punctured one of his lungs.

The injuries left Paul breathless. Another blow to his back, and he might die, Paul thought.

Excellent fodder for some yuks, no?

And you wonder why I find nothing to support (or really even discuss) in national political discussion these days.

Regardless of what Paul said about Omar, this is unacceptable. She should be censured. But of course nothing will happen. The story is 19 hours old and as far as I can tell it has already been forgotten.

[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]

49 Responses to “Ilhan Omar Shares Tweet Mocking Vicious Attack on Rand Paul”

  1. The press has treated Rand Paul’s neighbor very unfairly. There were good people on both sides of that dispute.

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  2. She likely committed criminal fraud she sticks up for al Shabaab terrorists, which have been bombing targets in Somalia sponsored by qatar.

    Narciso (72d34b)

  3. And Ms. Omar’s preceding tweet said:

    “Remembering the unfathomable cruelty an pain experienced by so many of our ancestors and how far we have come as a nation. We will not allow those filled with hate to drag us backward. We must continue our march forward.”

    A few tweets earlier, she exhorts her following to “Stay woke!”

    And, earlier, knowing this would please our gracious host, she declared:

    “The death penalty is a heinous, toltalitarian practice often used against innocent people”

    Let us congratulate Ms. Omar on finding a residence in an irony free zone. Spots in those neighborhoods are hard to come by, and it is imprtant to be able to live in a spot where your worldview can be so unchallenged.

    Appalled (d07ae6)

  4. A dispute between neighbors is understandable, Manotaur, but blindsiding and physically assaulting a neighbor is not what a good person does.

    DRJ (15874d)

  5. Remember how the daily beast and other places were trying to put the blame on rand, daily news Bezos post et al.

    Narciso (72d34b)

  6. 1. Unfairly, eh? What was he ever charged with? I don’t remember. If he got the book thrown at him, it wasn’t reported by the press.

    Gryph (08c844)

  7. I think #1 is engaging in a little parody of Trump at Charlottesville.

    Appalled (d07ae6)

  8. 7. Spot on, I flubbed the line though, it should have been “very fine people”. On a serious note, politics is no longer about policy or cooperation. Now it’s about delivering sick burns to the opposition and pretending to be outraged by everything they say. Any actual offense is drowned out by the sea of fake tears.

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  9. This… all of this:
    https://ricochet.com/657505/dems-media-keep-handing-the-narrative-to-trump/


    What’s odd is that the Democrats and the media are helping Trump to control the news cycle. If Trump’s a rageaholic, the Beltway left are his enablers.

    In the middle of an ugly Pelosi vs. Squad grudge match, the Donald praised the former and insulted the latter. DC Republicans wondered why he would step into a red-on-red battle. But establishment Democrats immediately tied themselves to their socialist wing, with Pelosi going so far as to sanction a GOP get-out-the-vote photo for the ages. Their feud might be papered over today but it boils just beneath that rictus grin.

    Then, Trump mocks Baltimore, which everyone knows has been a tragic mess for years. All of a sudden, Dems and journalists insist Charm City is an urban paradise rather than the setting for “The Wire.”

    By Monday, the political-industrial complex was praising the nobility of antisemitic grifter Al Sharpton. After all, if Trump doesn’t like someone or something, they must be beyond reproach.

    Quick question: Do they know an election is coming up?

    Love or hate his methods, Trump has assured that all the media focus is on him. The ~143 Democratic candidates are utterly starved of oxygen, unable to promote their latest plan to spend your money or viralize their sweaty workout video.

    It’s not a strategy that would would want a President to partake… but, you cannot deny the effectiveness.

    whembly (51f28e)

  10. Ms. Omar is a bad girl for her approval of violence against an elected federal official, and Mr. Paul is a bad guy for doing Putin’s bidding.

    Paul Montagu (35419a)

  11. A Congress to be proud of.

    nk (dbc370)

  12. It’s not only the White House that Trump has defiled.

    nk (dbc370)

  13. Manotaur, I get it now.

    DRJ (15874d)

  14. germany would freeze without nordstream, who is run by the stasi liason, putin met in Dresden,

    narciso (d1f714)

  15. Stop.
    Using.
    Twitter.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  16. So if you told a kid enamored of communism in the 70’s (who had parents who had emigrated from the USSR) to go back to the USSR and see what it was like, it was racist? So similar to endorsing a physical attack on someone, you just couldn’t tell the two apart?

    Harcourt Fenton Mudd (6b1442)

  17. well there used to Hollywood squares for the likes of tom Arnold, yes the left encourages violence, like with the moveon spokesman, I know it’s MSNBC, that was what the Alexandria shooter fed on, the Gilroy one was enamored of late 19th century anarchists texts,

    narciso (d1f714)

  18. The neighbor was lucky Rand wasn’t a country boy.

    mg (8cbc69)

  19. I’ll vote for the first Dem that starts a “Lock him up!” chant at their rally. In the primary, anyway.

    nk (dbc370)

  20. I’m no fan of Rand Paul, but I don’t think what he said was bad. He wasn’t calling for Omar to be deported; instead, he was suggesting she take a trip there and see what a mess that country is, hoping that when she returned to the USA, she’d have a different perspective.

    Chuck Bartowski (a2c25f)

  21. “she’d have a different perspective”

    What perspective would that be? You can’t call for a change if someone somewhere has it worse off?

    Davethulhu (fab944)

  22. “If he got the book thrown at him, it wasn’t reported by the press.”
    Gryph (08c844) — 7/30/2019 @ 8:25 am

    He was charged with “something”, as in “someone did something”.

    Munroe (0b2761)

  23. I’m unclear why she would specifically go to Somalia. What is she supposed to learn there? As far as I know it’s not a mess due to socialist policies, so what’s the appeal? If it’s such a great place to learn to appreciate America shouldn’t more people be offered plane tickets?

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  24. it’s the place, her parents patrons, the siad barre regime, were thrown out of, where the ishaaq massacre killed thousands of peoples, where Qatar is waging a proxy war against the uae,

    narciso (d1f714)

  25. “As far as I know it’s not a mess due to socialist policies, so what’s the appeal?”
    Manotaur (2129bb) — 7/30/2019 @ 11:15 am

    For her, the appeal would be the distinct lack of Benjamins.

    Munroe (0b2761)

  26. And has Ilhan Omar ever said any of that was a good thing? I’d understand if she had said that the US should be more like Somalia, but to me it seems like she’s just being told to go back because she was born there. I can’t recall any other foreign born members of congress being told to go back to their birth country to “learn to appreciate America” why do you think that is?

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  27. What a nasty, horrible comment by Omar.
    The fact that it’s in response to a nasty comment by Rand Paul doesn’t really redeem it.

    Time123 (441f53)

  28. she supported the Salvadoran guerillas (the ones who have been funding ms 13) then, the Venezuelan government now, she’s effectively more a Russian tool in those areas, and she supports policies that will turn us into these places, as someone whose parents escaped the bread lines, the bloc committees I take that kind of seriously,

    narciso (d1f714)

  29. ‘I can’t recall any other foreign born members of congress being told to go back to their birth country to “learn to appreciate America” why do you think that is?’
    Manotaur (2129bb) — 7/30/2019 @ 11:32 am

    Yeah, all those other anti-Semitic members who downplayed 9/11 and RT’d a justification of violence against a fellow member weren’t told to go back. Clearly some discrimination going on there.

    Munroe (0b2761)

  30. an irony, is rand is probably as sincere a non interventionist, for good or ill, but that means someone or something eventually fills the vacuum, and his criticism of the Libyan intervention at the time, was more muted then it later became,

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. 28. Great! I appreciate that you do not like her policies and oppose them, I’m not a fan or her either. But pretending that telling her to go back to Africa isn’t racist is silly, even if you try to justify it by pretending you want it to be some kind of fact finding mission.

    I think what I most despise about politics today is all the cognitive dissonance required to believe that everything you team does is just and correct, or at worst misunderstood, while your opponents are evil monsters who want to enslave the poor, kill the elderly, and turn America into a gulag.

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  32. well the democrats from biden on, were siding with the soviets then, was he merely a fool or a knave, you decide, he is objectively a tool of the Chinese, and by his actions an enabler of the Russians but smooth talk covers a lot of ground, you’re really not serious,

    narciso (d1f714)

  33. 23… Somalia is one of those s-hole countries we’ve heard about. It has been one for decades.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  34. “I think what I most despise about politics today is all the cognitive dissonance required to believe that everything you team does is just and correct, or at worst misunderstood, while your opponents are evil monsters who want to enslave the poor, kill the elderly, and turn America into a gulag.”
    Manotaur (2129bb) — 7/30/2019 @ 11:52 am

    Classic.

    You despise reducing opponents to monsters… and, BTW, Trump and Paul are racists. LOL

    Munroe (0b2761)

  35. 34. I never said they were racists. I said they said something racist and are pretending it’s not. I don’t believe they’re monsters, but let’s not pretend they’re not saying what they’re saying.

    Manotaur (2129bb)

  36. us liberals are an interesting breed
    a two minute hate is what we need
    ask any lib and they’ll say
    “only white people talk that way”
    she’s a racist he’s a racist they’re all racist
    we’re all racist wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?

    https://youtu.be/gQPN3UKQM-U

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  37. 23. Manotaur (2129bb) — 7/30/2019 @ 11:15 am

    What is she supposed to learn there? As far as I know it’s not a mess due to socialist policies, so what’s the appeal?

    I suppose the argument is: If you think the United States has abad government, go try some other places, like the place your family escaped from. It doesn’t make all that much sense. A better question could be what;s she doing defending, or half defending, Al Shabab? (at least to the extent of trying to see that the United States of America and.or other western countries is the real culprit, in some way)

    https://alphanewsmn.com/ilhan-omar-blamed-united-states-after-al-shabaab-terror-attack/

    In 2013 a Muslim jihadist terror group Al-Shabaab committed a brutal attack on a Kenyan shopping mall. Four terrorists stormed a mall killing 70 people and wounding 200.

    In a video unearthed by Fox News, Ilhan Omar and controversial Twin Cities PBS talk show host Ahmet Tharwat discuss how the terrorist attacks are “byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people’s affairs”

    Sammy Finkelman (7cd5f4)

  38. 23 continued

    If it’s such a great place to learn to appreciate America shouldn’t more people be offered plane tickets?

    Of course. But they could get killed there.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hodan-nalayeh-canadian-somali-journalist-killed-terrorist-attack-mourned-big-n1029671

    Rand Paul isn’t sincere about this at all. I don’t think he really wants her to risk death,.

    Sammy Finkelman (7cd5f4)

  39. She’s not going to be censured because the Liberal/Left doesn’t care. All their outrage is Fake and designed as a tool to win them power. That’s why the never-trumpers do noting but help the D’s. When David French attacks the R’s (which he does constantly) or tries to shame other R’ into “Disavowing” some Republican – it just helps the Liberals. Because the Liberals will never follow suit and attack their fellow D’s.

    People like David French couldn’t be more helpful to the D’s, then if they were members of the party.

    rcocean (1a839e)

  40. She’s not going to be censured because the Liberal/Left doesn’t care. All their outrage is Fake and designed as a tool to win them power. That’s why the never-trumpers do noting but help the D’s. When David French attacks the R’s (which he does constantly) or tries to shame other R’ into “Disavowing” some Republican – it just helps the Liberals. Because the Liberals will never follow suit and attack their fellow D’s.

    I think Former Senator Al Franken would disagree with you.

    Time123 (36651d)

  41. Franken will be rehabilitated, just give it time.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  42. “She’s not going to be censured because the Liberal/Left doesn’t care.”

    She’s not going to be censured because what she did wasn’t censurable. I remember a couple years ago when Republican rep Greg Gianforte actually assaulted someone, he wasn’t censured.

    Davethulhu (fab944)

  43. “She’s not going to be censured because what she did wasn’t censurable. I remember a couple years ago when Republican rep Greg Gianforte actually assaulted someone, he wasn’t censured.”
    Davethulhu (fab944) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:19 pm

    What’s censurable is for Congress to decide, and only members of Congress are censured.

    Gianforte was not a member of Congress when he committed assault. Get your facts straight. He apologized and paid the legal price. What more do you want?

    Munroe (0b2761)

  44. “What more do you want?”

    Less hand wringing and pearl clutching?

    Davethulhu (fab944)

  45. “And you wonder why I find nothing to support (or really even discuss) in national political discussion these days.”

    Well, when you spend all your energy on equivocating things that really can’t be equivocated (comparing Rand Paul, Libertarian fanboy and son of perhaps the most decent man in Congress, to Ilhan Omar, , Other-fangirl and related to, married to, or both of some of the nastier Somali warlord types,) you barely have any energy left to take sides or suggest realistic options for the here and now.

    Guess keeping yourself above it all is a full time job.

    But seriously, this type of lazy deconstruction discussion and “oh aren’t criminals really just the same as the rest of us!” narratives are exactly the way liberals all talked in college and a sure sign that you’ve been hanging around with them for too long.

    Cato the Toddler (73b272)

  46. Not a surprise that Ms. Omar stepped out on her husband.

    Paul Montagu (35419a)

  47. In the Sahara, the other women of the tribe would stone her for that. Not to death, except by accident. The husband and the boyfriend would remain aloof from the proceedings.

    It’s got to be true. I read it in a book.

    nk (dbc370)

  48. 46, what if he’s Jewish, that’s laugh out loud irony.

    urbanleftbehind (8c0984)

  49. Well. “She fights.” This is what we’ve normalized.

    JRH (52aed3)


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