So they should be proud to be called The Jihad Squad.
Posted on 07/18/2019 4:57:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
For years, conservatives have been complaining about the liberal bias on late night shows and Saturday Night Live. “They always attack Republicans and never go after Democrats,” the criticism goes. But this week brought forth the possibility that maybe it’s not bias, maybe it’s something else. It’s possible, judging by what we’ve just witnessed, that comedy writers don’t mock liberals because they have already become a parody, and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to parody a parody.
Make no mistake, that’s what the Gang of Four, who call themselves “The Squad,” are: a parody. They’re like a Pavlovian experiment gone wrong – whenever anyone challenges them or their assertions, or does not immediately capitulate to their every demand, “RACISM!” is cried. For the first time in my life I have some pity for Saturday Night Live writers because how do you mock that?
You could have them act rationally in a skit, but that wouldn’t work. For comedy to be truly funny it has to be based in reality. And the Gang of Four don’t live in reality.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley are the de facto leaders of the Democratic Party now. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to retain control by being mildly critical of their temper tantrums and condemning the anti-Semitism of Omar, something echoed and cheered by the other members, but switched this week to full Neville Chamberlain mode after a brief skirmish over whether or not the Speaker was a racist.
This charge, which used to be serious and taken seriously by serious people, has become as common as exhaling. It holds no power, outside of progressive drum circles and college campuses. Yet the Gang of Four throw it around like it’s an Olympic event and they’re going for the gold.
The favorite phrase of the Gang is “women of color,” which is usually proceeded with some variation of the word “especially.” The subject of the discussion is irrelevant, everything comes back to race with the Gang.
Rashida Tlaib, one of the Gang members with a history of close relationships with people deeply marinated in anti-Semitism and terrorist sympathies, was asked by CBS News whether or not she’d sit down to talk with Pelosi. Her answer, naturally, went to race.
“The fact of the knowledge is, and I’ve done racial justice work in our country for a long time, acknowledge the fact that we are women of color,” Tlaib said, “so when you do single us out, be aware of that, and what you’re doing. Especially because some of us are getting death threats. Because some of us are being singled out in many ways because of our backgrounds, because of our experiences and so forth.” (Emphasis added.)
What does their skin color have to do with criticism from the Speaker? Pelosi’s remarks, which led to this latest “outrage,” had nothing to do with race, they were about the failure of the Gang to garner any support to stop a border funding bill. Ocasio-Cortez had accused the Speaker of “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.” On what planet is the pointing out someone’s inability to get votes opposing a bill about their skin color?
But to the Gang, everything is about skin color. Wrapping themselves in the “especially women of color” blanket insulated them from having to explain themselves. White liberals would immediately cower and drop any challenge when it was unveiled, and conservatives immediately got defensive because they lived in fear of the liberal mob’s rage. Not Donald Trump. And not anyone else anymore.
The accusation of racism was an effective weapon against having to explain yourself or your policies. All liberals used it. But like a heroin addict who constantly needs to up their dose because they’ve built up an immunity, overuse has rendered the charge a joke.
“AOC actually thinks the unemployment rate is low because people have multiple jobs!” “You’re only saying that because I’m a woman of color.”
“Omar said Jews have ‘dual loyalties’ and control people with money.” “How dare you smear an immigrant, especially a woman of color, and a Muslim. You’re a hatemonger.”
Where do you go with that?
Pressley told NetRoots Nation, the annual progressive conference that has become the modern Nuremberg rallies, that if you are from a “marginalized community” and toe the progressive line, shut up and go away. “If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come,” Pressley said, “because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice.”
She’s calling everyone who happens to be “a person of no color” and straight, and who is not a radical leftist, the equivalent of an Uncle Tom. Based on their skin tone, their religion, or sexual orientation, you have to think like a leftist or you are not welcome in progressive America. Ask Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, or Tim Scott about how tolerant progressives are of free-thinking individuals.
It’s unclear how this is a winning electoral strategy. “You’re a racist, now vote for me,” doesn’t seem like an effective campaign slogan. But that’s where the Democrats are.
The original Gang of Four enforced the Cultural Revolution in communist China, which led to untold horrors and countless deaths. The current Gang of Four fight for many of the same ideals, and demand the same absolute loyalty. Pelosi now plans to meet with AOC soon to discuss their issues, but it might as well be a passing of the torch. This is AOC’s party now; this is the Gang’s party. You can’t rationalize with an irrational person.
The Gang truly believes the American public is with them because their world is so insulated against different opinions that they don’t know they exist. Pelosi can’t talk sense into that. She can’t instill patience in a group of Veruca Salts, they want their golden goose and they want it now! If you were trying to destroy the Democratic Party I’m not sure how you could do it more effectively. The Gang of Four is on a suicide mission, only they don’t know it. Sit back and enjoy the show.
So they should be proud to be called The Jihad Squad.
The product of the democratic party, they now are eating their own, keep it up , more popcorn please!
The ‘of color’ gang lack self-awareness but never more so than stereotyping themselves and then claiming stereotyping is bad.
Their faces says it all. Reminds me of the moochie wookie.
Married to your Brother. That’s a novel way of getting into the US. Of course she lied about it, so it’s a felony for which she can be deported. Now that would be funny.
My Dad and I were discussing a Kurt Schlichter column via email the other day. This is my response to Dad when he said “not all Dems are like this”:
Dear Dad,
I’m loathe to make the comparison but not all Germans were Nazis in the 30s and 40s. But that didn’t matter much. The ones in charge were and that was enough to start a war that literally set the world on fire and claimed more than 70 million lives.
When the Bolshevik Revolution started there were a comparative handful of them. Yet in less than a decade they’d consolidated an iron grip on power that lasted for 70 years, enslaved all of Eastern Europe, and orchestrated the murders of millions of people.
In the late 1960s the Khmer Rouge were a tiny fraction of the Cambodian population. By 1975 they’d overthrown the government and went on a spree of mass murder that left 25% of the population dead in what came to be known as The Killing Fields. All that horror happened in less than 5 years after they took power.
Also in the late 1960s the Weather Underground, led by a couple of committed Communists named Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers went on a 3 year spree of robberies, bombings, and murder. Ayers openly spoke of needing to kill off about 25% of the US population in order to bring their sick vision to reality. These days they’re both professors at the University of Chicago and live a couple of blocks away from Obama’s house. Ayers is alleged to have ghost written Obama’s book and was a frequent guest in his home.
When asked Obama said “he’s just some guy who lives in my neighborhood.” Because we all hang out with folks who robbed armored cars, set off bombs that killed cops, and stuff like that.
Are all Dems as outhouse rat crazy as the ones running for President? Of course not. But Sam Nunn, Zell Miller, and JFK couldn’t win a primary election as Dems these days. And that’s the fact. They probably couldn’t win as Republicans. Joe Biden is the most “reasonable” one running and he’s being savaged for being too old, too conservative, and worst of all too white.
One of them, some nutball from California (where else of course) actually said out loud that nuclear weapons could be used against American gun owners who wouldn’t turn in “bad” guns. Well Dad, I fit that description. Thankfully that particularly odious creep has dropped out. But the rest of them are all on the same page even if they aren’t saying it out loud. Not yet anyway.
In the 40s, 50s, and 60s the Democrat Party had the KKK as their armed wing who were busy killing uppity black folks who wanted to vote. They set dogs on them, used fire hoses, beat the crap out of peaceful demonstrators, and killed more than just a few. Today they’ve updated their goon squad and call themselves Antifa. Instead of white hoods they wear black masks but the goals and tactics are pretty much the same.
Back then George Wallace and Bull Connor let the Klan have the run of their streets. These days the mayors of Portland, Seattle, and Chicago are doing the same with Antifa. They wear black masks, carry rifles and clubs, attack cops, beat conservative journalists to the point of hospitalization, all in broad daylight as the cops stand by.
History doesn’t repeat itself verbatim but it sure does rhyme. And us “normals”, as Colonel Schlichter calls us, damned well better be paying attention because these people mean what they say. They’re after the most powerful drug ever created; political power.
The New York Times is running editorials in favor of not serving people in restaurants because they support the President. And while they don’t condone spitting in their food they can “understand why it happens”. Really? Really?
Sorry to drone on like this but we are living in some scary times. We came within an eyelash of having a lawfully elected President driven from office over a lie concocted by the Democrat Party and no small number of high government officials. And they haven’t given up yet. They’re not going to, either.
So we have two basic choices. We can either defeat them at the ballot box in 2020 so thoroughly that they’re driven to minority status for the next 20 years or we can get complacent and let them win. If that happens they’ll make damned sure that no President Trump ever happens again. I don’t care if you think he’s uncouth, undignified, or whatever. He won, fair and square.
He may not be the President we wanted. But he’s just the President we need. To paraphrase President Lincoln “we can’t spare this man. He fights.”
L
These are faces of privilege. Each of these girls grew up in privilege. They are entitled because they wrap themselves in the oppression their class had caused. They are not women of color. They are spoiled brats insisting upon their personal superiority. It is critical to notice there is not one wit of humility among them.
They are the ones doing the singling out by constantly referring to themselves as "women of color", which is obviously Leftist codeword for "untouchable"...
Here’s to them being front and center right up till their gone for good.
“...came within an eyelash...”. They won’t miss next time. Which is why Trump is the Last President. If they thought they were something big enough to not accept an election they really aren’t gonna like it when WE don’t.
My walls are white. I am Caucasian and a person of that color. Asians and Hispanics I know are lighter than me and I am very light for someone of mostly Italian origin. This whole person of color, thing is just so much Bull Flop.
Well said, brother... well said.
Oh, American women — woe unto you.
Brought upon you by women like these.
“American woman, stay away from me.
American woman, mama let me be.
Don’t come a hangin’ around my door,
I don’t wanna see your face no more.
I got more important things to do,
Than spend my time growin’ old with you.
Now woman, I said stay away.
American woman, listen what I say.”
Like an episode of the early seasons of "Homeland", we see a 'woke' Army Sgt., sympathetic to Mohammedism, strap on a vest and infiltrate the inner workings of Washington. Like Sgt Brody, let's hope that the 'virtual vests' of their destructive intentions worn by the Socialist Spice Girls fail to work to deadly effect.
Reminds me of this.
If you liked that you’ll love this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3764827/posts?page=19#19
Enjoy your day.
L
They are women of color. That color is RED.
Actually, Omar is the current leader. Tlaib is second, fighting for top dog. AOC and the other forgettable nitwit just follow Omar. Just watch and see.
“Women of color”??? What divisive racist bull sh**. These commie nitwits should have their citizenship stripped and be deported/exiled to somalia to live out their worthless lives. Only in that worthless “culture” could they thrive in their idiocy. That said...did they all have their clitori lopped-off? Is that what makes them so perpetually angry and offensive? Just askin’...
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