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The Melting Pot Myth Is Destroying America (Ilhan Omar is proof).
Spectator ^ | March 19, 2024, 11:18 PM | Nate Hochman

Posted on 03/20/2024 4:19:19 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for the nation of America.

A few months ago, controversy broke out surrounding comments Omar made during a speech about Somalia (delivered to a predominantly Somalian crowd in Minneapolis): “We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims,” Omar thundered, according to the English-translation subtitles. “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.” In a shockingly candid admission, Omar openly bragged to the crowd about her ambition to serve the interests of a foreign nation while ostensibly representing American voters in the U.S. government: “The U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do,” she boasted. “That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis.… For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”

“Us,” of course, did not refer to the United States. No serious observer of politics could ever imagine the congresswoman describing America in such terms.

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US foreign aid tax dollars to Somalia is approximately $3 billion.

Overall, U.S. security assistance tax dollars to Somalia and to its peacekeeping operations
amounts to approximately $3 billion tax dollars over the last decade.

Somalia is among the most significant recipients of
US security aid tax dollars in sub-Saharan Africa.

(Noted Mar 20, 2023)


21 posted on 03/20/2024 5:46:11 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

thanks to collectivism, and Marxism, the melting pot ideal, once a beacon of hope and unity, has been replaced by a society that thrives on division and exclusion, and group warfare.


22 posted on 03/20/2024 6:34:15 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

There is no melting, they coagulate.


23 posted on 03/20/2024 6:34:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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24 posted on 03/20/2024 6:48:43 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Ex-Con777

Possible.....very possible.


25 posted on 03/20/2024 6:54:40 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The melting pot cooled off and solidified long ago. This country is now The Balkanized States of America.


26 posted on 03/20/2024 6:58:19 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”


If you are wondering what she is referring to here, several years ago a part of Somalia broke away and declared its independence as the Republic of Somaliland. Britain controlled it both before and after WWII. It functions as an independent nation, although no other nation reorganizes it.

There has been some talk of Somaliland granting a port to Ethiopia in exchange for recognition and, of course, money. Somalia (and Omar) are not happy about this.


27 posted on 03/20/2024 7:25:09 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

In the 70s, my college History prof said it isn’t a melting pot but a tossed salad.


28 posted on 03/20/2024 7:41:55 AM PDT by bgill
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THAT b*&ch wouldn’t melt in ANY pot


29 posted on 03/20/2024 8:11:01 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Putting turds in a punchbowl is not like putting ice in it. Ice melts and enhances the drink. Turds do not. They pollute and make it completely undrinkable.


30 posted on 03/20/2024 10:25:34 AM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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