Rand Paul's pathetic attempts to belittle Ilhan Omar

By SJ Otto

The latest publicity stunt by Rand Paul is condescending to the max. He really let his ignorance show with his latest stunt. He is raising money to offer Rep. Ilhan Omar a trip to her homeland Somalia. This whole episode is ridiculous for so many reasons it defies anyone’s sense of logic.

Omar can probably afford a trip back to Somalia, if she really wants to go. She left the country when she was a child. I will bet she remembers the nation she left and why she and her family left it. She comes from a district with other Somalians and it is highly likely they know why they left that country and came here.

According to Salon:

"I'm not saying we forcibly send her anywhere," Paul told Breitbart News. "I'm willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia. I think she can look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia." Paul told Breitbart that Omar is "ungrateful," given that she and her family received US assistance when they moved from Somalia to the US when Omar was a child.

Omar "might come back and appreciate America more" after visiting her native country, which has "no capitalism, has no God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years," said Paul.

 Paul’s statement is wrong on so many levels it begs the question; “What does Paul actually know about Somalia?”

As for as “God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution,” he sure isn’t talking about the right to an abortion. Under Republican rule, abortion rights don’t exist. As for the right to health care for all people—once again that does not exist under the rule of President Donald Trump. Republicans don’t believe that health care is a right. There are a lot of “God-given rights” that Republicans don’t want to support. Traditionally the social conservatives of the Republican Party opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage. The writer Hunter S. Thompson once said: "I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth." In my opinion, after my 64 years of life, I agree with this. So how many of these so called “God given rights” can we really attribute to political parties of the US political system?

And Paul said of Somalia there is “no capitalism.” Really?! No capitalism?! Just what kind of political system does Paul believe exists in Somalia?

So I looked up the history of Somalia on Wikipedia and found that the country has gone through almost every kind of government that was tried on this planet. For a time Somalia was a fascist country. Then a few decades later it was a Marxist communist country. For some time after that the country made agreements with the Soviet Union and then the US. According to Wikipedia:

“All in all, Somalia's initial friendship with the Soviet Union and later partnership with the United States enabled it to build the largest army in Africa.”

And early in 1990s, the country achieved what Wikipedia called a “failed state,” status.

“In the early 1990s, due to the protracted lack of a permanent central authority, Somalia began to be characterized as a "failed state." Political scientist Ken Menkhaus argues that evidence suggested that the nation had already attained failed state status by the mid-1980s.”

So if the country had no capitalism then why did the US sell it weapons? It seems unlikely that the US, which takes such a hard stand on Cuba for being Marxist and socialist, would sell a different Marxist or socialist government military weapons. And since the nation is classified as a “failed state,” what does he think Omar will learn that she doesn’t already know about her home country?

Maybe it is Paul who needs a lesson. Much of Africa today falls into the category of “failed state.” Part of that is due to years of struggle between the US and USSR over control and influence of all of those countries. Today the cold war is over and no superpower is rushing in to try and develop those nations that are terribly under-developed. The failed state and underdevelopment are probably major reason that Omar and her family fled that country. I doubt seriously if she and other refugees from that part of the world have forgotten why they left Africa.[1]

According to Att.net:

“He (Paul) accused Omar of calling the US a "terrible country," echoing a previous assertion of his that she called the US a "rotten country." However, Snopes did some checking and finds no record of Omar saying that.

She has frequently criticized policies of the Trump administration, but Snopes rates the claim that she has called the US itself "rotten" to be false. Similarly, President Trump has accused Omar of hating the US, though he has not provided evidence of her saying that, per the Washington Post.

This article originally appeared on Newser: Rand Paul Floats Controversial Idea for Ilhan Omar.”

Omar has criticized US support of Israel and a variety of other US foreign policy disasters (and such criticism is long overdue). But she has not claimed that the US is a terrible country." Such statements are a fantasy of the Trump administration. Trump and his chumps, including Paul, would love to find evidence that Omar and the other members of the so called "the Squad" would make such statements. The Squad includes the new left-leaning Democrats of congress, including the four newer more politically astute members.

These new members of congress are not the usual stodgy conservative, cautious politicians that have dominated the US political system for the last 30 years.

Up until now, conservatives in both parties felt safe that their system would not have to deal with any real opposition. Such opposition is being dealt with by Trump and his chumps as “anti-American,” “American haters” and other ridiculous labels that only demonstrate how frightened these conservatives are of any opposition to there system.

Omar does have some celebrity supporters, including actor Tom Arnold. He tweeted:

"Imagine being Rand Paul's next door neighbor and having to deal with @RandPaul lying cowardly circular whiney bullcrap about lawn clippings. No wonder he ripped his toupee off," Arnold wrote Monday. He was referring to an incident in 2017 when a neighbor tackled Paul from behind and broke his ribs over an apparent landscaping dispute.” 

We can only wait and see what kind of non-sense we will see next from Trump’s Chumps, such as Paul. These folks, such as Paul, are out of step with modern youth today. Paul and the other chumps are outdated relics of a time gone by. Their twisted philosophy becomes more and more exposed as the nonsense it really is. These conservatives have wealth and power that comes from that wealth. When people realize that such political figures are just parasites, they will lose their political power and loose the respect they never really had. Their time has come and GONE!  

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[1] See Wikipedia—History.