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Omar the Thankless


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2019 Mar 9, 3:15pm   868 views  12 comments

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Less noticed—and apparently even less troubling to her party—is the hostility Omar shows in public statements about her adopted country. Omar was born in Somalia, which she fled with her family at age nine, during the country’s civil war. She spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya until the United States rescued her and her family in 1995. It’s not surprising that she has made her remarkable experience a centerpiece of her political campaigns and public life.

What is surprising is the extent to which her narrative consists of complaints about the intolerance, racism, inequity, and filth that she found when she came to the United States, and since. Gratitude, for the country and the people who saved and welcomed her family, is largely absent from her telling. Interviewed on the popular Pod Save America podcast, Omar explained that when her family was preparing for resettlement in America, they watched orientation videos “about the life that they are to expect once they arrive here . . . happy families, and dinner tables where there is an abundance of food, images of happy young children running off to their school buses . . . images of a country where people are happy and leading a life that is prosperous. You are really looking forward to life as you see it on that screen.”

Life in American was not like the images she saw in the welcome video, Omar insists. “When we landed,” she recalls, “I saw panhandlers on the side of the streets, there being trash everywhere, and graffiti on the side of the walls.” Omar asked her father why America fell so short of what she had been promised, and he told her to “hold on, we will get to our America.” Omar has still not arrived in the America she was promised, though she has now been elected to Congress. We continue to disappoint her. “The current reality that people live in . . . an America where you can’t access the justice system equally because you are born with a different race, or a different gender, or are born into a different class, that isn’t the America that I heard about, that isn’t the America that I watched.”

Omar told a similar story to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, saying that she noticed “a disconnect between the ideals of America and the actual reality.” This is a constant theme. She did not expect, she has said, to “go to school with kids who were worried about food as much as I was worried about it in a refugee camp.”

America is not only as deprived as an East African refugee camp, the country is also filled with people who don’t recognize how lucky they are to admit people like Ilhan Omar. Unlike our violent and unpredictable natives, including the notorious “ISIS bride,” whom Omar makes a point of noting is “not an immigrant, but an American born to a family of diplomats,” immigrants like her “went through years of vetting and went through the process of becoming citizens. I mean we have been fingerprinted, tested, more than any American has ever been who’s born in this country.” Like many on the left, Omar believes that America’s purpose is to admit immigrants and make them feel welcome. To the extent that Americans “make room” for the next wave of immigrants, they fulfill the American dream; to the extent that they fail to be welcoming, they betray it.

Omar’s colleague in the House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has arguably become the Democrats’ domestic-policy leader, just as Omar now appears to be their leader on foreign policy, holds this view as well. “Those women and children,” she told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, referring to illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America, “trying to come here with nothing but the shirts on their back to create an opportunity and provide for this nation, are acting more in the American tradition” than opponents of open borders.

The American Dream once referred to the aspirations of Americans to provide better lives for their children. For the Left, that idea has come to mean the intentions of anyone, anywhere, who wants to come here. From this perspective, the people who now live in the U.S. are superfluous to America and the American idea. We are placeholders, keeping things together until tomorrow’s Americans—more deserving, though apparently less appreciative—get here. Meantime, we can try to survive this hellish existence until they arrive to bail us out.

https://www.city-journal.org/ilhan-omar-immigration

It really is ridiculous to even compare Detroit to Somalia or an East African Refugee Camp, much less Saint Paul or anywhere else.

She is a Islamist America-hater.

Reminds me of the Universal Insurgency Mantra:
"Make the Enemy your Quartermaster"

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1   RC2006   2019 Mar 9, 5:09pm  

About the same as that store clerk last year that was defrauding ebt and when busted went all fuck America.
2   RWSGFY   2019 Mar 9, 5:27pm  

#deportherass
3   Ceffer   2019 Mar 9, 6:14pm  

Strange, but Putin made statements warning us about letting these kinds of Muslims in. Russians have a lot of experience with their own nether regions. I guess he finally realized we were too stupid to take good advice, and deserve the perpetual strife and bloodshed.
4   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Mar 9, 7:08pm  

I was always surprised of the disdain liberals have for America. Media on the left just pours shit on our nation.
5   RWSGFY   2019 Mar 9, 7:08pm  

Ceffer says
Strange, but Putin made statements warning us about letting these kinds of Muslims in. Russians have a lot of experience with their own nether regions. I guess he finally realized we were too stupid to take good advice, and deserve the perpetual strife and bloodshed.


Except they keep freely admitting tens of thousands of Muslims per year. This is Moscow
on Ramadan:


6   Ceffer   2019 Mar 9, 11:35pm  

Hugolas_Madurez says
Except they keep freely admitting tens of thousands of Muslims per year. This is Moscow
on Ramadan:


Heh, Heh, I think that's why he was giving us the warning. ButtKrakistanians give him a headache.
7   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Apr 1, 10:03pm  

Something else I just thought of re: Omar.

Her parents were Civil Servants under the Siad Barre regime. What kind of government did the Barre regime have, prior to it being overthrown and "refugee former government workers" fleeing to Kenya?
8   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2019 Apr 2, 7:22am  

She's going to end up in jail. She spend campaign funds to run her brother marriage immigration scam.
The whole affair from soup to nuts is illegal. She faces like 5 to 10 separate charges that are all Federal crimes and punishable in prison up to 10 or 15 years each.

Spending campaign funds for the divorce was the real clincher.
Marrying your brother, so you can circumvent immigration laws, was just the start.

Between her and AOC you're going to see a lot of bad news kicking their teeth down their throats over the next two years. They wont be reelected and this will be the last we hear of them. Now to get Talib the Shit Finger Fat Ass Muzzie that screamed "LiLiLiLiLILiLiLI" and yelled "Aloha Fuckbar!" in congress.
9   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 2, 9:01am  

That woman straight up hates America
10   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Apr 2, 12:15pm  

She's both an Islamist and a Socialist, both.
11   Bd6r   2019 Apr 2, 12:28pm  

Tenpoundbass says
She's going to end up in jail.

will be pardoned just like Smolett
12   RC2006   2019 Apr 2, 12:54pm  

People like her are needed to wake the west they are no longer cowering in the shadows let hubris do them in.

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