Posted on 12/05/2025 6:53:18 AM PST by Rummyfan
If we pretend that America was built by people and cultures that quite literally could not have built America, then we aren’t just misremembering our past, we are losing the future that our actual ancestors secured for us.
My eleventh-great grandfather Thomas Rogers arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower. He signed the Mayflower Compact, which affirmed the right of free men to establish a government they would all be subject to.
John Quincy Adams later called it “perhaps the only instance, in human history, of that positive, original social compact, which speculative philosophers have imagined as the only legitimate source of government.”
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But on Thursday, Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., informed me that it wasn’t ancestors like mine who built this nation. No, it was Somalians, Indians, and immigrants from Latin America and Africa.
“The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party, know that immigrants from all over the world — Somalia, India, wherever they’re from, Latin America, Africa — that immigrants have built this country and make this country what it is today,” Jayapal said on MS Now.
But if Somalians, Indians, or immigrants from “wherever they’re from” “built America,” why didn’t they just “build” their own version of America in their native country?
Because immigrants from Somalia, India, Latin America, Africa or “wherever they’re from” did not and could not have built this country.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
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Is it a requirement to be a dumb-a** America-hating (and ugly!) moron to serve as a Dem in Congress?!
I tired of these ignorant retards. FO!
She doesn’t really believe what she says, she just knows there are enough idiots out there who will believe it.
She’s got a little Jack Elam action going.
Pramila Gorilla is the head of the Party of Death’s “Fight Club”. I wish somebody would shove one of the “Fight Club’s” bars of soap up her butt. The ho isn’t even an American. I’m offended when foreign scum run away from their own country and sneak into America to screw up our country. Deport this Socialist piggy.
She needs to drop all of her cultural appropriation of Wipeepo IP and return to her tribal roots and language.
Kudos to the fools who orchestrate that.
A single digit I.Q. gorilla. She likes to “fight. Fight, Fight, Fight.” “Fight.” Woo Woo.
“Is it a requirement to be a dumb-a** America-hating (and ugly!) moron to serve as a Dem in Congress?!”
It would seem so. Sadly, there are plenty of equally hateful, greedy, and ignorant morons to support them.
DEMOCRATS ARE PURE EVIL AND STUPID.....and FUGLY!
Good Grief! That face belongs on a Totem Pole, not TV
Ditto for Somalis, who need only look to the violent, ungovernable Somalia to see what their ancestors built:
Stephen Miller is right when he says:
"We've achieved everything we have as a country. And somehow over 250 years, we've gotten where we are without the help of Somali refugees!"
It’s TOO LATE....WE ARE ALREADY GONE !
Just start calling these people lying retards and move on. She’s a liar or stupid, simple as that. They cant back up anything they say with facts.
Amazing isn't it?!
Well in some areas it was Blacks and Whites who built America, it’s just that the Blacks weren’t paid for their efforts.
Money quote, coupled with DJT's (paraphrased):
"They can just go back to where they came from and improve their own country."
Can we just be honest about who created this country and developed it into the greatest country on the planet. A country that has accomplished incredible things leading to a better world overall. Europeans with Judeo-Christian values. They did not come here expecting handouts and special treatment. They either won their fight for survival or they did not. Many wanted freedom instead of being subject to a king. They fought a superpower and won.
Sorry Pramila, I’m hard pressed to think of ANYONE from Somali who has made this country successful and historically significant. Same for many other countries, little or no significant contribution. Not everyone, or every country. is entitled to a participation trophy.
Stopped reading at “Pramila Jayapal thinks” When the premise of the article is false not need to go on.
Well, if so, they helped build AMERICA. Not pockeestahn 2.0 or “new slumalia” or Brazil 2.0. 😠
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