comment: >
  
  You would think that after 12 years the islmaphobia would have clamed down, just a smidge, you would be wrong.
context: She’s one of the worst. She constantly gets sound-bites to sound moderate but has never once followed it up with action. She’s a fascist like all of them, but she tries to convince morons that she’s moderate >
  
  Mace was on Bill Maher's show a few weeks ago spouting her moderate nonsense to look cool for the libs who don't do their homework, then she pops up and votes against Omar. Two-faced. >
  
  Bill himself was kissing up to her on that show and someone pointed out how he had previously labeled her "traitor for the corner office" on a previous show (one she wasn't on) because of other hypocrisy she had demonstrated. >
  
  It's almost like Maher's show is a breeding ground for unserious political discussion from attention-seeking hacks >
  
  Uh…NEW RULE. Stop saying that >
  
  "NEW RULE... I should probably stop thinking that liberals breathlessly defend the absurd shit I say do to sound like I'm taking a hard stance against the hard left in the culture wars." >
  
  I always assumed that Omar's comment was about Benjamin Netanyahu which would be more a statement about Israel's government than about Jewish people. Maybe it was a double entender? >
  
  No, the comment is correct, according to Omar herself. She was talking about how if any politician says something bad about the Israeli right, AIPAC will fund their opponent. >
  
  Which isn't anti-Semitic, it's literally pointing out it's all about money.
  People want to argue it's the greedy jew trope, but it's not. >
  
  It falls into the "Jewish conspiracy for power" that the Jews are some how "in control". That's why it's anti semetic. I am Jewish, just like the POC community, don't define what racism looks like for these groups. Illhan is an anti semite and her "apology " was hollow >
  
  That's literally not what was being said...
  To deny that AIPAC money, and other PACs for that matter, isnt problematic is just blind.
  "It's all about the Benjamin's" is literally a line popularized by Puff Daddy about money and what people do for money.
  I understand why people see her statement as anti-Semitic, hence her apology. We can't always know the effect our words will have.
  That said, she was in no way attempting to be anti-Semitic. She was pointing out the power of money in politics from places like AIPAC. >
  
  She received funding from CAIR. Is that not problematic? 
  I also love that I'm being down voted for my assertion about defining anti semitism. Why is that you think? >
  
  Yes it is. All PAC funding for politicians is.
  You didn't define anti-Semitism. You continue to call her anti-Semitic and we disagree. >
  
  Why is it you disagree? What does anti semitism mean to you? 
  My comment about defining anti semitism was pointing to the fact that folks who aren't Jewish don't get to say what is and isn't anti semetic. As a Jewish person, I find her comments racist. If I was a Muslim trying to define islamaphobia, would you say the same thing? >
  
  Can someone please explain to me the justification the majority has to throw out chosen minority members? Isn't that a misjustice of the representative democracy? >
  
  Damn! Agreed with you, kudos to her for not holding back and just going right at the GOP with that. >
  
  Look at the ass clowns in her replies >
  
  "Why is she jumping up and down so much?  Cringe."
  
  That one got me good. >
  
  Rep. Ilhan Omar's ouster from the committee isn't surprising but a good indication that the current GOP majority has started its revenge tour. Next up is worthless impeachments and subpoenas. None of these will help American people. The very next vote after Ilhan Omar's ousting was denouncing socialism like wtf. There is not one single policy resolution passed by the GOP house and there is no indication they will do so in future. Of course we elected jokers and now we are seeing the circus. >
  
  “We” didn’t elect jokers. The brain dead morons in the south/mid-west elected the brain dead morons >
  
  Don't put it all on them. McCarthy is a Californian. >
  
  And NY sent us the clown king Santos so there is that >
  
  I’d like to put in as a NY stater that it was one single county on a portion of Long Island that put Santos in there🥲🥲🥲🥲 >
  
  Stefanik is also from NY, as was the first US Rep to endorse Trump in 2016 (who was then convicted of insider trading a couple years later and subsequently pardoned by Trump).
  There are morons everywhere. >
  
  You’re thinking of Chris Collins, he was from Buffalo. If only he would’ve stayed in jail >
  
  I'm definitely thinking of Chris Collins. He was my Rep for a few years while I still lives with my parents. >
  
  Oh man, people over at r/conservative are going to be furious over Omar being cancelled like this. We all know how much they hate how people can be punished merely for speaking their minds. >
  
  They’re elated and think she got what she deserved. Ridiculous >
  
  The GOP continues to invent new ways to show how bigoted and racist they are. >
  
  When Democrats take the house next year, it's time to start ousting shitbag Republicans from committees. 
  Just keep removing them until they have no committee assignments. Scorched fucking Earth >
  
  It doesn’t matter they’ll just violently burst into committee hearings like this one related to national security. >
  
  You know what would happen at work if I "stormed" a meeting I wasn't invited to?
  Not only would I be fired, I'd be escorted off the site in handcuffs and sued into the dirt. >
  
  You'd get sued eventually, right after you got out of jail. >
  
  Thankfully laws are only for poor people who don’t have connections :) (mostly) >
  
  Talk about cancel. Repubs are the worst >
  
  This from the same McCarthy who wouldn't vote to eject George Santos, because he wanted to "respect the will of the voters?"
  McCarthy is a lying shit, and a hypocrite. >
  
  Stop telling my about the fictitious "reasonable Republicans", okay? Because this is just petty vindictiveness and has nothing to do with anything "reasonable". The GOP is just a party of internet trolls only interested in power and owning the libs. They are unworthy of the modifier "reasonable". All of them. >
  
  ‘Hate’ is such a strong word and should not be used lightly. 
  I fucking hate Republicans and all the things they stand for at this moment. >
  
  Only motherfuckers I can straight up say I hate >
  
  Oh boy I can't wait for the ever increasingly partisan shit show! ^pls ^god ^help ^us ^all >
  
  bro please don’t bring god into this that’s how we ended up where we’re at >
  
  yeah no shit, god made the universe the way it is, and made us the way it is, and put us in here, and look where we ended up!
  Praise the Lord! >
  
  When does Jewish space laser barbie loose her seat? >
  
  Ilhan is my rep. I voted for her. 
  It sucks that my representative to my government is denied peer equality because she makes the old white men uneasy and mad. >
  
  She's a good rep.  She can serve as a reminder to everyone what the GOP really is. >
  
  Is pedophile Matt gaetz still on committees? >
  
  You know it. Being a pedo is the sign you successfully rushed the fraternity. >
  
  Have they settled the score like kids and now can they start active liking like adults? >
  
  Let’s me honest this should shock nobody it’s all about revenge for the GOP >
  
  Let's call it what it is, a racist anti Muslim act to appease the racist anti Muslims the base.
  We're really ramping up the Speedrun to the Christian Taliban everyone. 
  If we can't fully acknowledge the problem, we can never fully prepare to fight back >
  
  Brown
  Woman
  Muslim
  Foreign Sounding Last Name
  Wears a scary head thingy
  Brown
  Woman
  Young
  Immigrant
  Definition of the American Dream
  Brown
  Scary, scary stuff here that will get you labeled a RINO if you weren't afraid. >
  
  Yep. This is why the GQP ran Shukri Abdirahman. Because they hate brown women with hijabs but just wanted to hide that fact by running one. Their racist tricks never end. They also typically hate women in power so they run women to conceal that fact. >
  
  Ah, the “I have a black friend” defense to being a supporter of white supremacy. >
  
  I heard a few of them have BET on their cable channels list. >
  
  Let me guess, replace her with someone who is not qualified and ties with russia. All the GOP needs now is the nazi flag symbol and they are officially the nazi party >
  
  She gets replaced by another Democrat no matter what. >
  
  Give her some Groucho Marx glasses and a mustache and say her name is Representative Milhan Momar just to fuck with them. >
  
  Worked for George santos technically >
  
  Good, good, cite precedent, someone write that down. >
  
  Listening to Rep Omar's speech before the vote made me realize that immigrants seem to have a clearer grasp about what America's values are than people born here. >
  
  Immigrants literally have to study as adults and pass a test to become American citizens.
  Many come from places where they didn't have many opportunities.
  Of course they believe in the American dream and understand this country more than most of the people who live here and take the country for granted. >
  
  Doesn’t that prove her original point, however inartfully it was stated? >
  
  Can the truth ever be inartfully stated? its the truth.
  The only reason she recieved blowback from the Dems in the first place is that they take the money too. >
  
  Fuck the GOP. >
  
  Criticizing Israel and its shitty policies is not anti semitism. What a joke >
  
  And the excuse falls flat when people like MTG are being given committees >
  
  "Okay, Republican party. How much racism would you like?"
  "Yes." >
  
  The GOP is engaging in revenge politics. 
  I dunno. I don't think they over the fact that Obama got elected. They are still mad about that. 
  This is just so stupid. >
  
  They’re still mad over Nixon >
  
  Republicans are okay with Russian spies in their midst but they draw the line at American citizens who are Muslim. >
  
  The GOP is literally the party of racist, anti-poor, anti-rights, and culture wars. >
  
  It amazes me how US politicians can criticize their own country, but they can't criticize Israel. >
  
  Ilhan is one of the few members of the House I actively respect.
  GOP is a scourge on humanity and can get f***ed. >
  
  Has the world been hypnotized by Israel?
  NO.
  Most of the world sees the actions of the state of Israel in the West Bank, Gaza and the Occupied Territories for what it is, illegal.
  A self declared ethno state, a settler colonialist, apartheid state.
  Jewish or not has no bearing on those facts. >
  
  "whatever man" said Rep Omar "I'll just make my own committee. With hookers!!! And blackjack!" 
  As of the date of reporting, rep Omar's new committee has 12,459 members. >
  
  You know what?!  Forget the committee! >
  
  McCarthy on MTG and Jewish space lasers: She's learned her lesson since then and has proven to be a valuable member of Congress.
  McCarthy on Ilhan Omar: She has a funny name, she's a woman, she wears a head covering, she's a foreigner, and she's not white. How many more ways can I point out why you can't trust her? >
  
  Please be satire please be satire please be satire... >
  
  Great example of false equivalencies. If we're going off what Republicans have previously said, Marjorie Taylor Greene had calls for the House speaker to be killed. She \~literally\~ told her constituents that Pelosi was guilty of treason, and treason is a crime punishable by death. She denied doing so under oath, but when caught with proof of her lie she changed her answer to say she did not recall.
  Further, MTG said if she led the January 6th riots that her people would've been armed and they would've won. I am not sure if that means they would've killed Mike Pence, Pelosi, or that Trump would still be president, or perhaps some combination of these things.
  So yes, while Representative Omar made some blatantly wrong and awful comments about Israel- she took them back and apologized for them.
  Republicans on the other hand are repeatedly and unapologetically threatening to kill Americans they disagree with. Some of their constituents are actually taking their advice (see: Pelosi's husband, New Mexico, Michigan, etc).
  The two parties are not the same. >
  
  Can’t they just go back to being unable to elect a speaker bc the entire party is just a competition over who can be the most insane and the winners didn’t think McCarthy could hang? >
  
  American politics now isn’t about solving problems, it’s theater and inflicting as much pain as possible on people you don’t like. >
  
  Give me a list of Charleston, SC businesses I can stop supporting from here in the Twin Cities.
  Please and thank you. >
  
  Wish I could say I’m surprised but… >
  
  Her skin tone makes republicans livid. >
  
  The point is to draw some equivalence between both sides.
  Like when they inevitably impeach Biden over BS, they will pretend that it is the same a Trump getting impeached for his role in a terror attack on the Capitol or extorting a geopolitical ally.
  "Both presidents were impeached, so there is no difference." >
  
  Because we would not want anyone on a committee that could actually add something productive. >
  
  Are you blaming Israel on this…? >
  
  This is disgusting.  Not the America I love… >
  
  The intellectual equivalent of junior high jocks are in charge now. >
  
  Absolute bullshit, GOP is rotten to its core! >
  
  When Democrats are back in control they'll be absolute fools if they allow any Republican to sit on these committees. >
  
  you already know they will in the name of "bipartisanship" and "bringing the country back together". 
  bold idea except it doesn't work when the other party repeatedly spits on you and slaps you in the face the moment they assume control. >
  
  I hate that I know you're right.  LOL >
  
  When Dems take the House back in 2024 I think Jim Jordan and a few of his friends need to be very worried. >
  
  I'm not even going to read the article because without a doubt the reason is both sexism and christofascism. >
  
  And the Dems will still be hapless and unable to use this to their advantage >
  
  Republicans cannot govern. So, they pick tribal battles like this to stir up their uneducated, ill-informed, racist base in hopes they can garner enough support in their gerrymandered districts to stay in power a little longer. They're trying to win any battle they can in their supporters eyes, because they know they are losing the war. Breaking the rules and shattering the norms in order to stack the SCOTUS has afforded them a few more years but won't stop the inevitable. It's gonna be so much sweeter in 2 years when she is reinstated and we get to drink up all those conservative wacko tears. >
  
  The real cancel culture >
  
  Racists are currently in the lead. >
  
  Israel is a welfare state. I thought the GOP hates “handouts” . Israel need to pull out itself by the bootstraps and stop relying on free handouts. >
  
  As stated about, the next motion by the Republicans was to denounce socialism, while our policy on Israel is basically transactional socialism. Hypocrites. >
  
  I don't recall anything she has said about Israel or the US that was untrue. >
  
  Saying something that is "true" does not exclude you from being a bigot. If some idiot made some remark saying the higher rates of incarceration for African Americans follows the rate of birth out of wedlock, that would be condemned and named racist, even if graphs were provided showing similarity.
  She did tweet this about Israel:  Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel
  Not cool. That is an antisemitic opinion for a Congressperson to be sending out. >
  
  Israel is a state.
  Judaism is a religion.
  She criticized Isreal. I realize Republicans see them as one in the same, but they are not. >
  
  Cmon dude.  How many Jews are in Israel?
  What a weak point, even for Reddit. >
  
  So to confirm, any criticism of israel is antisemitic? >
  
  Point out where I said that. >
  
  The part where you dismissed the distinction between a nation state and individual adherents to a religious culture. >
  
  My question is, does he genuinely think that we can't understand his extremely obvious inference because hes profoundly stupid, or is he a bad faith POS who knows exactly what we know and is playing dumb anyway? >
  
  Next- remove all the Christian zealots. >
  
  Meanwhile George Santos. Totally fine with that. But they say democrats are evil. Wtf >
  
  You know he's not on any committees right? >
  
  I think you understand my point though, right? >
  
  The racism train keeps moving along. This country is infuriating. >
  
  She still gets to speak on the floor.   BTW, she did apologize and just 
  signed on to the resolution against anti-semitism  which is more than 
  the insurrectionist, Nazi-loving, white supremacists among the GOP have 
  done. >
  
  When you are in the klan you have to vote with your klandom or they will call you a blanklover.... And god forbid that ..they would threaten you your family burn your house down... These people who changed their minds just let me know that the Kkk is alive and kicking. That's who the republican party is... >
  
  You know who invented the klan? You know you voted every time to keep black people down? Democrats and there was no big switch they just hide their racist ways. Also you know who is on record saying racist things and went to a klansmans funeral? Biden not trump >
  
  What a bunch of racists pigs the Republicans are >
  
  All this shit is just petty, childish revenge. >
  
  Fucking racist. She’s done nothing to justify this action >
  
  I really wish Democrats had a spine for a real fight. When one side blatantly supports Nazism and sedition, the gloves need to come off at that point. “Oh, you want to kick me off your precious committee? (Lays a 9MM on the table) Fucking try it.” >
  
  The hypocrisy of the GOP knows no bounds. >
  
  From the party of grievance, hate, fear and revenge.
  That is todays GOP platform. >
  
  No plan other than retaliation >
  
  How about some J6 charges to neutralize that majority. Sure would make the next two years easier. >
  
  We all knew the pigs were going to do it eventually. No surprise here. >
  
  She must have been their best one. Replace expertise with loyalty, isn't that the GOP way? >
  
  This is some bullshit. The GOP are being complete assholes. >
  
  Oh because they didn’t like a few of her tweets????  Have the GOP ever read their own tweets???  The reasoning is laughable for anyone paying just a little bit of attention to anything beyond the Fox News. 
  Clowns. People voting for these people are nuts. >
  
  What are the comments from Omar the GOPs been referring to? >
  
  Any negative comments on Israel >
  
  Nancy Mace, R-SC(1), flip-flopped under party pressure. She’s such a coward. >
  
  How low can you go ? >
  
  I wish newscasters would start using plain language about moves like this. I'd love to hear somebody on TV say something like, "This is further evidence that the current GOP is a party led by bigots and liars." There are other ways to classify them like "power for power's sake", "unprincipled", etc. But I am tired of sophisticated, subtle charactarizations and explanations.
  And emphasize "led by" so those Republicans who remain sane and actually have morals and believe in democracy will continue to be invited to wake up and leave that party. >
  
  It's revenge for bobert and MTG >
  
  We are going to have to endure two years of the GOP circus and hope the world doesn’t come to an end. >
  
  Racist bastards. >
  
  I thought the GOP said cancelling people people who have a different opinion was wrong? >
  
  Based on game theory, Democrats should tit-for-tat immediately in the Senate. >
  
  The craziest thing is in the past 4 years more Muslims have shifted to the Republican Party >
  
  Removed because she is not sufficiently loyal to the Zionist government of Israel >
  
  She'll be back on committee in 2024 when Democrats retake the House. It's whatever. 
  Republicans have accomplished nothing >
  
  not sure the odds of that are to good, but I hope so. >
  
  Dems are currently favored in all GCB polling and have incumbency advantages in 2024. It's probably more likely than the opposite >
  
  So much for freedom of speech and a fervent stance against censorship, suppression and cancel culture. 
  Remember that Republicans are more than willing to abandon their so called "values" if it's in the name of spite or preserving their culture war. If it's for the sake of thwarting the radical left's depraved and subversive agenda, they'll find any justification for it. In fact, Republicans spend a considerable amount of their time and energy doing just that, finding ways to justify their inherently discriminatory or suppresive measures. 
  They'll disguise it as some noble achievement or some counterrevolutionary effort, thus indulging their voter's sense of "patriotism", but a vast majority of the time it's either a double standard, or it's part of some "stick it to the libs" vindictive crusade, both steeped in a deep-rooted sense of entitlement and a growing right-wing chauvinism. 
  This is all while they have the audacity to feign the victim, to claim how they're one of the most persecuted groups in this country. I don't think they'll be happy until they're made a protected class. To them, a demand for accountability or a call for justice is persecution, to them, equality is discrimination, their world is turned upside down by these challenges that ask for a more equitable society. 
  When they see someone like Ilhan Omar, in her position,  expressing views that are radically opposed to the party line stance their obligated to take, it threatens the whole paradigm, and their fragile egos of course. >
  
  Another strong Democratic voice silenced and canceled >
  
  There was never any doubt. I'm surprised they have not just decided to bounce all Democrats out of committees. >
  
  She’ll come out of this fine. She’s a class act. I’m proud of Her as a Minnesotan >
  
  Big Tent party
  You misunderstood, It’s a big tent because we are fat not for people who don’t look like us, don’t think like us. >
  
  They removed her for (rather blatantly) racist reasons and appointed who instead ? Yep, this is why the house gop was removed from the info loop, lol. They're too busy playing discrimination and racist dogwhistles instead of actually doing their job , so not even their own party trust them with it, at that point. No point in even attempting to work with ku klux klan hate wannabes. No, you're not getting anything she would have, and raising your arm and shouting "heil donny" isn't gonna cut it either. >
  
  They unanimously voted her INTO the committee yesterday, then passed legislation today removing her.
  It's all for show. >
  
  2a exists exactly to combat what the GOP has become. >
  
  Not a serious governing party. It's a group of trolls who have a basic set of goals which include enriching the wealthy and elite class further while making the middle class and poor suffer and being petty partisan hacks and hypocrites with their actions.  
  It's an absolute joke.  Our nation is doomed if we allow this broken 2 party system to continue because if you don't like the Democratic party you only have one option. And the corporate Democrats make it very difficult to like them. >
  
  AOC and Ilhan Omar gave very powerful speeches.. calling out the hypocrisy of republicans, the racism and the anti Muslim rhetoric that they continue to push. AOC even called out old marges “Jewish space lasers”. I love seeing dems fight back against the fascists! >
  
  Is that fighting back? That’s stump speeches. Fighting back will be removing them if/when we retake the house. >
  
  This. Remove all Jan 6th backers remove all MAGA from committee.  Democrats can easily take it back in 2024. >
  
  Do not criticize Israel. The AIPAC controlled Congress will come after you. >
  
  She can go hang out with Kanye now! >
  
  GOP is too busy gagging on Netanyahu's balls to take their job seriously. >
  
  It’s all about the Benjamin’s. >
  
  It's all well and good to be upset about this. Just remember that there is only one thing you can take action on today.
  Plan to vote. Look up local, state, federal elections and vote these scumbags out and replace them with better options.
  Vote every time. Make it a priority. It sucks but take a day off work to do it if you have to. 
  I make it a personal holiday. Vote in the AM then go do something fun. 
  Vote. >
  
  GOP are scum >
  
  Of course she was.
  What a pile of small, smelly dicks . >
  
  Is this unexpected? A hard right GOP has taken power in congress and I assume they’d kick everyone like her out of every committee. >
  
  She made a comment the republicans couldn't respond to. So the republicans want to get rid of her. >
  
  If the Republican Party actually cared about antisemitism Gosar and Greene would not be on any committees either >
  
  I wonder if the Dems will learn from this and take decisive action when they control the house and there are undesirables to be removed. 
  The GOP has shown that a good reason is no longer needed to remove committee members so hopefully the Dems don’t waste time trying to decide whether to remove GOP members who should be removed because they are afraid of how it looks. >
  
  How much of Ilhan Omar's speech will be regurgitated when the shoe is on the other foot and some GOP stooge is whining that their own fascist views are being branded un-American?
  She is speaking truth to power, but I can see the same talking points being reused in bad faith by genuinely un-American Republicans in the not-too-distant future. >
  
  So? They always lie. That doesn't mean we should stop advocating for good things. >
  
  She had to know there would be a price to pay for all the anti Israel speech. >
  
  I just figured that the foreign affairs committee only ever had 100% pro Israel people on it, and that’s why America is 100% pro Israel no matter what. >
  
  Republicans think saying anything bad about Isntreal is worse than saying fellow members of Congress should be killed. >
  
  
  Isntreal
  
  That’s really not helping. >
  
  Zionist is the new dog whistle for jews. Don’t say jews control Hollywood just say zionists control Hollywood and the banks >
  
  Shit hole country. >
  
  Yes, it has long been established that she is, indeed, an immigrant from a shithole country. >
  
  Unless you are Jewish, Don't try and define anti semitism. Illhan has made racist comments and her being removed was the right thing to do. Her apologies are hollow as she continues to make anti semetic dog whistle comments. >
  
  The GOP needs to be seen as racist as possible to get those losers to vote for them. >
  
  Well just like Reps Greene and Gossar Rep Omar also directly threatened the lives of an individual congressperso..oh wait only the GOP does that shit >
  
  She didn’t just criticize Israel. She is a huge anti semite and anyone who supports her I believe supports anti semitism. I hope she will be out of politics all together soon. >
  
  Now do half the GOP. >
  
  If she was a Zionist she could be as anti-Semitic as she pleased. >
  
  And a black person can use the N-word as much as they like…what’s your point >
  
  not around my god loving ears 😤 >
  
  The right-wing hates us now in Minnesota with our progressive policies towards gay rights, the new PRO laws our governor just signed securing abortion rights (the first so far in the country). Minnesota is becoming the new California in terms of progressive policy & the right wing hates it. Any of our politicians are now targets. >
  
  I’m not American but enjoy watching the soap opera that is American politics. But this is fuckin insane! >
  
  I’m hearing she’s heading to another committee.
  the relative affairs committee