Trump has met his match: The Squad

CNN ^ | June 16, 2019 | Jill Filipovic

[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.

[caww]

The CNN author of this article... Jill Filipovic hates men, and is encouraged by the anti-male “rage” she celebrates as “a healthy reaction” because she interprets this as evidence that her own man-hating ideology has now become mainstream.

[so_real]

Such good comedy when CNN believes itself to be the arbiter of the "moral high ground" on any topic. A broken clock is correct more often.

[Altura Ct.]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[mbrfl]

No problem :)

[jonascord]

Thanks! This time, fur shure?

[oldenuff35]

BS, these four anti-american morons are the death of the democrat party and insure Trump’s reelection and the republican majority in the house in 2020.

[Hildy]

What time does the movie start on CNN?

[Luke21]

The idiots and fools at this joke of a network.

[Vendome]

I was told, effectively, just as I was when Barack was president, that I am a racist.

Well, this whole presidency has turned into an idiotic civil war , with one side sonconsuked by their contrived self righteousness, that they are unwilling to discuss anything but, their conceited and invented realtit , that it a friendship tonight.

I will not be squared off agaisbt supposed friends, wjk dare to call me a racist, misogynist or anything other bogus claim about me.

This isn’t going to be like the last the civil war where friends and family reconciled.

This is sheer madness on their part and I want nothing to do woth anyone who has revealed themselves in this manner and thinks I am their inferior.

That cleared out half the contacts in phone the last monthand now this friendships has ended with extreme prejudice.

[McGruff]

You beat me to it.

[McGruff]

[Vendome]

These morons can’t see they’ve been trolled by one side amd played by the other, and having their souls excised for others vanities.

I really cannot believe how people can’t see what is really going on here.

Trump trolled these antisemitic, America hating losers, turning their anti-American acts and utterances into imbecilic arguments that have zero basis for existing.

America is so hypocritical and has done so much bad in the world.

They are selling “The Mathew Lesko” program: Free Givernment Cheese.

Trump rightly called them out and they decided their position was so indefensible that it could only be defended by claims of racism.

No one can defend their positions but, racism? Yeah. They even lost their own message by going there.

Now, they are no longer talking about their agenda.

How dumb are they?

The question answers itself...

[caww]

.....”I was told, effectively, just as I was when Barack was president, that I am a racist”....

Your not alone in that. Any political conversation now with friends and even family members ends up your a racist when they cannot justify let alone qualify their positions with facts.

I had one family member rip me up one side and the other for his (snowflake) wife being offended. She said I was racist...THAT was the last time I ever let another hurt me using the word racist....and they never will again.

(sidenote...they are now divorced)

[caww]

Good post!

[Vendome]

These morons can’t see they’ve been trolled by one side amd played by the other, and having what the other side just does not understand is their vain attempts to use shame, with baseless accusations, to manipulate others into changing their opinion isnt working.

In fact, it is working agaisnt them.

They are turning off people who would be sympathetic to their opinion, with their over the top craptastic actions.

I don’t know who they think they are influencing but, they don’t realize how many people see through this BS and as such, their voice and vote is being suppressed or they will vote in opposition for the unfairness of it all, just to make it right.

It’s just gotten crazy...

[Vendome]

Fuck em

And yeas, Fuck is the appropriate answer to absurdity...

[Vendome]

This whole thing is asinine

I cannot believe erstwhile intelligent people can’t see the game.

Then againz these morons can’t play dominoes or a simple game of of poker without contriving that a pair beats three of a kind...

It’s fookin math, idiots.

Hell, they can’t understand why in that same simple game Inalways win.

It’s a game of mathematical probabilities and what is leftover on the deck, and the likelyhood of what card will be turned next...or next...

[joseburr]

The traitorous squad may be plague infected tics or Malaria infected mosquitoes but they could live a trillion years and never be a tic’s itch worth of a challenge to TRUMP’s sleepy yawn.

[metmom]

The four of those harpies put together couldn’t match his toe nail clippings.

What a joke!!!!!!!!!

[grey_whiskers]

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.

Hey Jill: Isn't Detroit a hell-hole run by the Dems for decades? Didn't Tlalib come from there? Shouldn't she cut her teeth on fixing Detroit before moving to the big leagues?

...and AOC was only a bartender until less than a year ago. So much for the vaunted Economics Degree from Boston College. (Or was that job more of Obama's wonderful economic success?)