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Trump has met his match: The Squad
CNN ^ | June 16, 2019 | Jill Filipovic

Posted on 07/16/2019 8:17:24 PM PDT by EdnaMode

President Donald Trump may have finally met his match: The Squad.

The famously foul-mouthed President on Sunday launched yet another Twitter tirade, saying that the four congresswomen, known as The Squad -- US Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib -- should "go back" to the countries they came from. All four are US citizens, and three were born in the United States (Omar is a refugee from Somalia who spent part of her life in a Kenyan refugee camp).

But the women haven't backed down. Nor have they responded with platitudes or undeserved tact. Instead, they've called the President what he is ("racist") and his language what it is ("white nationalist"). Unlike the many politicians and public figures previously attacked by Trump, these four women can fight him on his own turf: Ocasio-Cortez, in particular, is social media savvy and understands the particular patois of Twitter. They also have youth on their side; next to them, Trump seems like the grumpy, racist grandpa that he is.

And, more importantly, they have the moral high ground. It takes some real mental jiujitsu to twist Trump's comments into anything other than straight-up racism. How else do you explain someone telling four American citizens to "go back" to foreign countries? What the President really means is that nonwhite Americans have a less legitimate claim on this nation than white ones. Two of the President's three wives, after all, have been immigrants themselves, and he doesn't seem to suggest that they should "go back." The "go back" assault is fundamentally racist and cruel.

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To: EdnaMode

CNN is really getting desperate.

How are those ratings going CNN?

ROTFLOL


61 posted on 07/16/2019 8:51:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MuttTheHoople

You forgot to include Jeff Flake, Dead Man MCCain, and Lil Bob Corker.

They sure kicked Trump’s @ss, they gave him a whooping he’ll never forget!

LMAO.....SNORT!


62 posted on 07/16/2019 8:52:12 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: EdnaMode

Everybody go,
To a Go-Go.
It doesn’t matter if you’re black
It doesn’t matter if you’re white
https://youtu.be/PPMAuv_O750


63 posted on 07/16/2019 8:52:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Congratulations to the USWNT on winning the World Cup! America is proud of you all!- President Trump)
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To: Jane Long

I used to be acquainted with a few people who watched commie news nitwits...used to be. What morons .


64 posted on 07/16/2019 8:54:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Ping to great link in #7.


65 posted on 07/16/2019 8:56:53 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: EdnaMode

oh, yeah. They got him now. /s


66 posted on 07/16/2019 8:57:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: EdnaMode
Has anyone been keeping track of how many times CNN has said, over the last 3 years, that Trump was only hours from destruction?

I've lost count...

67 posted on 07/16/2019 8:57:46 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: seastay
So how is it Americans are lectured about being dependents descendants of Europeans [...]

What I think you meant to write...

Regards,

68 posted on 07/16/2019 8:57:59 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EdnaMode

69 posted on 07/16/2019 8:58:10 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: The Pack Knight
Not even close. Trump’s tweet was dumb, but it doesn’t come close to the day-in-day-out idiocy of those four.

Yes, the president's tweet was inartful, and oversimplified the situation...

But that should not be equated with racism.

Regards,

70 posted on 07/16/2019 9:00:35 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EdnaMode
we got him now!!!”

Right, the President is going to get rolled by spirit cooking, freshman minority bitches led by some pissant white girl from Westchester who’s pretending to be some PR . CNN is truly jumping the shark here

71 posted on 07/16/2019 9:00:38 PM PDT by atc23
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To: EdnaMode

I wonder if, in a few years, this too will be credited to Russian trolls?

After all, that’s Warren’s take on the whole kneeling during the anthem thing. Not news media and sports media breathlessly telling us every instant of the event, with detailed follow ups on future games..

Nope, nope, all the fault of Russian trolls.


72 posted on 07/16/2019 9:03:34 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: EdnaMode
"Trump has met his match"

And he'll strike that match, and make it burn, baby burn!!!

73 posted on 07/16/2019 9:05:08 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: EdnaMode

Hey CNN! Seriously? Trump got you, the Democrat Party and the rest of the MSM to side with 4 anti-American Communists. Trump wins! BIGLY!!


74 posted on 07/16/2019 9:05:26 PM PDT by upsdriver (WWG1WGA)
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To: EdnaMode

Pelosi came in, stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
She said, Don, you’ve met your match.
But Nan, its only a scratch.
And I’ll be better, I’ll be better
Just as soon as I am able.


75 posted on 07/16/2019 9:08:34 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: kingu

says ultra FakeNewsJill:

Wikipedia: Jill Filipovic
Originally from the Seattle area, Filipovic earned a BA degree with dual majors in Journalism and Politics from New York University (NYU) and a JD degree from the NYU School of Law in 2008...
She was hired by Cosmopolitan...Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian and, since 2005, a blogger at Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs. She has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Time magazine, and been a commentator on CNN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Filipovic

31 Oct 2016: Time: How Men Behaving Badly Have Held Hillary Clinton Back
By Jill Filipovic
The first woman is just days away from (probably) being elected President of the United States...
https://time.com/4551478/hillary-clinton-bad-men/


76 posted on 07/16/2019 9:10:47 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: EdnaMode

BWA_HA_HA_HA_HA_HA_HA!!!!!!!!!!!!


77 posted on 07/16/2019 9:23:46 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: alexander_busek

“Yes, the president’s tweet was inartful, and oversimplified the situation...”

I cannot underway everyone fro Dan Bongino to Tucker find it necessary to state this.

Fist place I don’t know what it means

Trump said what people are thinking

The result is Nancy Pelosi, The speaks tod the House, is defending this fascists

Aligning herself with them. Democrats will all have to line up, as they always do, as fascists do ( it’s the definition) together. They will find themselves falling behind those with the strongest personalities the most charismatic emotional stars of the party

Where will that leave the party?

Why does Trump have to be like Lovey Howell? In addition to being perfect in every way, in his past, in his dealings?

What is that?


78 posted on 07/16/2019 9:25:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: The Pack Knight; alexander_busek

The President’s tweet created that disaster you saw in Congress today. Today was a disaster for the Dems and it quite simply would never have happened without Trump’s tweet. There was nothing dumb about it. It was a body shot to the dems as it forced Pelosi and other ‘moderates’ to embrace the four nut jobs just when they were trying to distance themselves from them.


79 posted on 07/16/2019 9:29:17 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: EdnaMode

It’s amazing that CNN is so stupid that they don’t understand that President Trump deliberately provoked the media into promoting the Four Horsewomen of the Democrat Apocalypse as the new face of the Democrat Party ...

President Trump WANTED their hate-America, hate-Israel, anti-Semitism, pro-socialism, whiny narcissistic self-victimhood, pro-illegal-alien, and total lack of any concern for the well-being of regular U.S. citizens and the things we ACTUALLY are concerned about to be front and center ... President Trump wants the entire Democrat Party to be forced to own these four and everything they stand for ... President Trump wants these four to BE the Democrat Party!

President Trump is in the process of setting the 2020 election stage so that ALL Senate and House elections become national referenda on his “America First” philosophy vs the Democrat’s “America Last” philosophy ... no more of this “all elections are local” bullshit leftover from the 20th Century ...

President Trump is once again completely defining the rules of national politics in 2020 just like he did in 2016 ... and to me, it’s hilarious that the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia dinosaurs and their junior partner Democrat Party dinosaurs have no more ability to adapt to President Trump’s new rules in 2020 than they did in 2016 ... And just as in 2016, the President Trump comet will once again obliterate the gigantic, brainless, and plodding Mediasaurus and Democrat Partyaurus dinosaurs ...


80 posted on 07/16/2019 9:30:07 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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