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Rooo sez BISH PLZAnne Branigin
3/07/19 12:12pm
@IlhanOmarMN is Right – from Someone Who Was Inside AIPAC
https://medium.com/@raegandavis/the-way-we-talk-about-palestine-is-downright-mccarthyist-181868eb6534
We Have Racist GOP Ranking Members Meeting with Holocaust Deniers, But Pundits and (D) Leadership MicroPick At Ilhan Omar Even When They Don’t Really Know (Or Refuse to Acknowledge) What She Meant
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  yilichiyaoRooo sez BISH PLZ
  3/07/19 12:18pm
  Wow. That is incredibly accurate. Thank you.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZyilichiyao
  3/07/19 12:26pm
  It’s all right there (especially the part tied to Rep Omar’s committee assignment, and how they keep trying to remove her, and TRE45ON keeps yelling about it because they want to start another war in Venezuela, and she’s standing in their way) — but you have to want to look both for it and at it (in order to root it out).
  Anybody who would rather close their eyes to institutional sexism and racism and U.S. foreign policy as it relates to AIPAC money is not going to see it, because they don’t want to.
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badphairyAnne Branigin
3/07/19 10:48am
All those bigoted-ass white men like Steve king, but the little brown woman trying to actually make a substantial point has to go.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZbadphairy
  3/07/19 12:18pm
  Exactly this.
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JonsLegionAnne Branigin
3/07/19 11:05am
It’s nice to see that House Dems stepped up to the challenge instead of just sinking to shitty attacks that the GOP were trying to goad them into.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZJonsLegion
  3/07/19 12:19pm
  I’m disturbed that there appear to still be those in (D) leadership who are still trying that, and this tangled conflagration of reasons is why they seem to be.
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  HuskyBroRooo sez BISH PLZ
  3/07/19 1:46pm
  Tell'em!
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BrwnskngurlAnne Branigin
3/07/19 11:09am
Good on Ayanna, Kamala, Elizabeth, AOC, Sanders and others. Finally! Folks finding their collective voices.
“There is no hierarchy of hurt. We must have equity in our outrage.” Thank you, Representative Pressley.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZBrwnskngurl
  3/07/19 12:17pm
  I wish the rest of (D) leadership weren’t taking their line of “argument” from antiSemitic GOP hypocrites.
  It’s like they’re completely blind to how it makes their sexism and racism stick out and SCREAM to the rest of us — not like we didn’t know it wasn’t there already, but when we insist there are those on the left deaf and blind to their own sexism & racism who like to scapegoat it off onto the more nakedly sexist & racist TRE45ON supporters, it’s like their behavior is echoing Ross Douthat who declared (and Dean Baquet let him declare) in the op-ed pages of the NYT that he liked his white male supremacy (and racist imperialism, for let’s not forget that Mike Pompeo is trying to shove Elliott Abrams, whom Ilhan Omar was questioning in committee, to pull all this together for those playing the Connect-the-Dots home game) quiet and polite, the way the Bushes used to do it.
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  Treize13Rooo sez BISH PLZ
  3/07/19 1:05pm
  This ! Why the resolution against Ilhan Omar then? Why didn’t Nancy push for this when Steve King was saying racist things in the 16 years she was in Congress? Why hasn’t Nancy Pelosi called Republicans anti-Semites in a House resolution for the way they talk about George Soros?
  The reason is AIPAC wanted to silence the young black Muslim woman. They don’t care about anti-Semitic politicians saying things about Soros. This is 100% about silencing young black Muslim voices because people like Ilhan Omar can make the best case against Israel. Nancy did the bidding of AIPAC because she is corrupt . Maybe she doesn’t froth at the mouth with hate for people like Omar but she doesn’t care if the rich and powerful silence them either. That’s racism.
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Kyo Soma A.Anne Branigin
3/07/19 11:27am
I am probably going to be considered awful on this topic but why are still on this? I moved on like months ago. I feel there are more pressing matters to deal with. All of this looks like the GOP is trying to act as it cares about the Jewish / Israel community. I just don’t buy it. Omar apologized with more sincerity for her mistake on discussing a policy issue which upon first glance, let’s be honest, it totally looked like an anti-Semitic statement. Her apology on learning from her mistake is more genuine than anything the GOP ever claimed to apologize for. We whitenessed (not a typo) precisely how the GOP really cares about race and using people as a prop last week. With no apology at all. They don’t give a shit about anti-semitism. This is just grandstanding to play cate to their base. And once again use someone for cannon fodder.
Fuck GOP’s half-baked bullshit, fake, anti-Semitic diatribe, cause it’s not sincere. The GOP does not care about the interest of Israel, or it’s citizen and netanyahu is a terrible construct to the people of Israel and the Jewish community. Israel and the Jewish population deserve better, and they have people who are better and are not allowed to be pushed into the light for others to see. The people of Israel and the Jewish community rightfully deserve someone who actually respects the history of their country, the sacrifices their people made, and the remembrance of respecting human rights and not destroying human life. I usually do not get involved in this quagmire of a discussion but this is really really getting on my nerves
Side note: off topic but let’s not forget that the GOP allowed now accused bribe and fraud netanyahu to come before the Congress and allowed that fraud to lambast and embarrass our last normal standing President with some kind of fucked up speech. Without even notifying the former administration. That has never happened before in the history of the US. That’s the kind of people the GOP are. I will probably not respond back to anyone since I need to do things (like work), but I just needed to say this and move the hell on.
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8130977/netanyahu-speech-explained
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/israeli-palestinian-conflict-101/
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  Great Wall of my Favorite ThingKyo Soma A.
  3/07/19 11:56am
  My take away from this has nothing to do with the GOP, and very little to do with the Middle East. What has me hopeful is an apparent paradigm shift inside the Democratic Party. Old school moderates were going to follow the pattern of chastising Omar to distance themselves from perceived anti-semitism, thus legitimizing the false outrage by the GOP. Progressives said nope. They instead shed light on what Omar really said, and called bullshit on that process. To me this looks like a break from the old status quo, and does legitimize real dialogue about US/Israel policy that has been untouchable for decades.
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  Kyo Soma A.Great Wall of my Favorite Thing
  3/07/19 12:40pm
  As I say “not responding” lol. You are not wrong, at all. I am just really over this whole topic, why are we still discussing this tweet?! This is just silly. I am happy we are bringing a real dialogue about US / Israel policy but this is redic that people are still asking for apologies and sending death threats.
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whatamithinkingAnne Branigin
3/07/19 11:37am
I have been big on Ayanna Pressley from the start.
“there is no hierarchy of hurt”. Of course there is, and it’s based on who’s being hurt. If the person or group targeted has power & better access to the instruments of propaganda, their hurt will matter more.
“We should have equity in our outrage.” We should, but it’s wishful thinking, especially in terms of politics. Ms Omar, a black Muslim woman, is being beaten down because she advocates for justice for the Palestinian people, and dares to challenge the power of Israel’s lobby in American politics. Plain and simple.
Strangely enough, a few weeks ago Ayanna Pressley herself was forced to apologize to some Jewish groups for tweeting the headline of Alice Walker’s book “Hard times require furious dancing”. And so the madness continues - it’s all about power.
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HuskyBroAnne Branigin
3/07/19 2:27pm
Rep. Jahana Hayes stepping to Mother Nancy Pelosi and saying that she shouldn’t have to hear about what’s going on among the Dem Caucus on MSNBC, not giving nary AF getting flustered after Nancy got in her feels and stormed out and then saying that she knows that Dem leaders could change the bullshit ways they do things was AWESOME!
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HypestylesAnne Branigin
3/07/19 3:13pm
Defend Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and others who are targeted!
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volcanoislandsAnne Branigin
3/07/19 8:15pm
Omar compared Israel’s lobby to that of “the NRA, or fossil fuel industries or Big Pharma.”
She’s damn correct in this assertion. Israel gets so much US money - it is hurtful.
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MarcelineAnne Branigin
3/07/19 11:13am
“We must have equity in our outrage.”
Sorry but I’m all out of outrage. You do you, babe.
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