We need to have a conversation about Omar.

[LuFins Dad]

Not sure we should have a sitting Congress critter referring to a foreign head of state as “Our President”

[Horace]

It's odd that she's remarkably beautiful. I would have expected her to look like Rashida Tlaib.

[George K]

You think she’s pretty? You should see her DNA. I’ve heard that there’s only one other that’s even close.

[Horace]

@George-K said in We need to have a conversation about Omar.:

You think she’s pretty? You should see her DNA. I’ve heard that there’s only one other that’s even close.

haha

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

Presuming the captions are accurate, she also says "Somalia is our home." WTF

I'm not obtuse, I get what she's saying... but she needs to NOT say that as a US congresswoman

[Renauda]

Politicians such as this Omar should be seen and not heard.

[89th]

Just as I said earlier that I presumed the captions were inaccurate (she's claiming they aren't), here's what she "really" said:

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We Somalis are people who love each other. It’s possible that we might sometimes have disagreements but we are also people who can rely on each other. We are people who are siblings. We are people with courage. We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim. We are people who support each other.

So when I heard that people who call themselves Somalis signed an agreement with Ethiopia, many people reached out to me and said I needed to talk to the U.S. government. They asked, what would the U.S. government do? My answer was that the U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do. That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis. We live in this country. This is the country where we pay taxes. This is the country that has elected a woman from your community. 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. So feel comfortable Somali Minnesotans that the woman you sent to Congress is aware of this issue and feels the same way you do.

I want to tell President Hassan Sheikh that we are happy with the great work that you have done. We are happy that you have made the people of Somalia and those who live everywhere feel that no matter how difficult our current situation, we are people who have power and who believe in their country.

I want to congratulate Somalis living in Minnesota and elsewhere for being united, for standing with our president because he needs our support. Somalia is Somali. Somalia is one. We are siblings. Our land will not be divided. God willing we will seek to return our missing territory and will not allow the territory we have now to be divided.

I want to thank you for how you have welcomed me. May peace be upon you.

[89th]

Now if you ask me, this isn't any better. Maybe worse.

It clarifies she sees herself as "living in the US" but that she is "Somali". Now compare that to how Arnold Schwarzenegger would talk when he was Governor of California. Or any other foreigner who now holds US citizenship and office. Heck, I forgot Ted Cruz is actually Canadian!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_politicians

[Renauda]

Cruz was only Canadian by right of birth. His parents were Americans here under a work and residency permit in the energy industry. He renounced his Canadian citizenship around the time of the 2016 election.

[Doctor Phibes]

Cruz is Canadian in the same way that BoJo is a Yank.

Neither country is missing much by their leaving.