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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; Maris Crane; DesertRhino; morphing libertarian; warsaw44; basalt; Ken H; ...
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:32:33 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
To: bobrlbob
😂😂😂😂😂🐂💩 Well, if cnn says so.........
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:34:55 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: EdnaMode
83
posted on
07/16/2019 9:38:55 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: EdnaMode; Maris Crane; DesertRhino; morphing libertarian; warsaw44; basalt; Ken H; ...
84
posted on
07/16/2019 9:41:09 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
To: EdnaMode
Tell ya what: if The Squad is the end of Trump then I’m ready to go to...
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:42:09 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: The Pack Knight
The tweet was not dumb.It accomplished exactly what he wanted it to do.Look at the infighting going on in the rat party because of it.LOL Nasty has lost control of the party.
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:43:45 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: AzNASCARfan
How many times can they possibly be wrong and still have any viewers??
A whole lot. Perry Mason ran for nine years, and in almost every single episode Hamilton Burger made similar assertions. People still watched the show.
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:43:50 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
To: EdnaMode
Jill, you ignorant slut....
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:44:03 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: warsaw44
The broad squad? Thats a keeper.
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:45:05 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: EdnaMode
CNN and the communists scream racism ...
and I literally give no fraks.
Democrats have uttey destroyed the meaning of that word.
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:45:34 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Coming in from the cold .... been a LONG while.)
To: Jane Long
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07/16/2019 9:46:16 PM PDT
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HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: EdnaMode; Maris Crane; DesertRhino; morphing libertarian; rktman; Jim Robinson; warsaw44; basalt; ..
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:46:57 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
To: mbrfl
Thank you for posting that.
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:50:04 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: 4Liberty
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:51:20 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: EdnaMode; Maris Crane; DesertRhino; morphing libertarian; rktman; Jim Robinson; warsaw44; basalt; ..
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:52:28 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
To: Jane Long
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posted on
07/16/2019 9:52:41 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: bobrlbob
These people have no clue what is happening.
To: jonascord
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posted on
07/16/2019 10:04:53 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: EdnaMode
The author (another Hillary spawn) Jill Filipovic is an unhinged rabid man-hating feminist (prone to hysteria) who has said forcing a woman to complete their pregnancy should require men, having “a half inch cut off from their penis with every pregnancy!.... She once asked American women to “divorce [their] Republican husbands” during the Kavanaugh debacle.......
Consider the source...
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posted on
07/16/2019 10:05:12 PM PDT
by
caww
To: EdnaMode
Anti-Semites NEVER have the moral high ground.
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posted on
07/16/2019 10:06:37 PM PDT
by
Berosus
(I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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