So this picture is all you need to know as to why she said this.
Posted on 01/19/2024 9:25:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Barbara Lee: “I was walking to the Capitol and a man stopped me, a white guy, and told me I could not get into the members’ elevator…He told me it was for members only. I said, 'Sir, I’m a member of Congress' and showed him my pin. And he said, 'Whose pin did you steal?'" pic.twitter.com/RGhOpfTMjM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 19, 2024
If you believe the event happened as described, you are an idiot.
No Capitol Security officer would treat even a potential Member of Congress in this manner, and if they did so, they would be fired on the spot. Members of Congress are given deference to the extent that they don’t even have to go through security, and security officers are encouraged to memorize the faces of members for this reason.
Further, if a security pin were stolen it would be reported quickly for this reason–they are meaningless if there are lost ones in the wild. And if the Security guy thought it was stolen he would have detained her.
Blah blah blah. You can come up with a million reasons not to believe that this happened, but two stand out: 1) it is inconceivable that such an event happened and the American public didn’t hear about it, especially from Barbara Lee, who is a race-baiter extraordinaire; and 2), most examples of shocking racial incidents turn out to be hoaxes. It is almost axiomatic these days.
That’s not to say that racism has disappeared in America, or anywhere else for that matter. People are tribal by nature, and race is one of many things that can trigger a negative tribal reaction, just as it can trigger an unreasonable positive reaction in some people. The celebration of “people of color” these days as some special group is just as absurd as thinking that having less melanin in your skin makes you special.
But people are people. In my family, the prejudice is aimed more at Southerners than racial groups–my father freely admits, now that I have pounded him for it, that he has an instinctive bias against Southerners. A lot of Black people distrust Whites, and vice-versa. And all reasonable people are prejudiced against the French.
But events like the one Barbara Lee described don’t happen in modern America. Overt racism is so taboo that, generally speaking, you can only exhibit it against White people. You can hate Whites for being Whites all you want, but otherwise, you are socially punished (and legally, often) for disparaging others’ races.
This is not secret knowledge. It pervades our society, and in an environment where a door pull can become a noose at the whim of a Black man, no Capitol Police officer is going to insult a Black congresswoman like that.
In the annals of things that never happened, this is the one that happened the least.
Verdict: she is a bald-faced liar.
You expect a politician to tell the truth?
This one is a Rat playing the race card. It’s what they do.
Saw a video of this earlier today. She’s lying.
I knew she was lying half way through her lies.
Kaitlin Collins is a vicious Commie front hole..
So this picture is all you need to know as to why she said this.
You mean she didn’t give them a ...
Don’t you know who I am???
It wouldn’t prove pervasive institutional racism if it were true.
Of course that didn’t happen. It’s just a convenient mechanism for her to carp about race, like they always do. Never happened.
When the supply of victimhood exceeds demand it becomes necessary to manufacture it.
You can discriminate against me all you want, at your risk.
I’m a WASP and I don’t take shit from idiots.
Just a normal lying Demonrat. Ho hum.
There are cameras everywhere around and in the capitol, as we know from the January 6th insurrection hoax.
All she has to do is supply a time and place and we can identify the racist.
Why, it is just as true as Pelosi’s tale about the Tea Party Protesters screaming “Nigger” at John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver etc.
Just as true as Bubba Wallace’s noose and Jussie Smollet’s assault in Chicago’s “Trump Country”.
Yep. She didn’t demand his name? She didn’t demand the name of his supervisor? She did not seek the help of anyone else nearby, especially security people? Pure bullshit that goes unchallenged.
The camera footage would definitely show the racist. Barbara Lee.
twenty Pinocchio’s
Reparations. That’s how they look at it. Truth or legality has nothing to do with it.
“Memebers Only” elevators and trams have been part of the Congressional Cabal for all of my adult lifetime—and I am in my seventh decade.
They are “our betters”
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Pretend for a moment that it did happen and she didn't do any of that.
That means she is too stupid and too weak spined to be left to babysit her own grandchildren ... much less be a House Rep.
It's either that or the truth, she's a baldfaced lying piece of garbage.
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