Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Rep. Ilhan Omar Challenges Confessed Criminal, Explained" video.

Frederic Bastiat The American history of intervention in South and Central America was a murderous disgrace. To this day the people and the governments there do not trust or want America involved in determining their fates. We maintain control in Columbia because of our military bases and assassinating leaders there, for a phony drug war. And now that Venezuela has major issues the bad faith in American is actually preventing any action being done - because they know the typical way America behave and that we speak lies and use dirty tricks. So you better bone up on your history and tone down on your BS.
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Brian Gann Thanks for explaining the Republican thought-process and arguments in favor of murdering people in Central America, I knew you guys would not let us down. You and the Republican party cannot understand or justify the actions that were taken during the Reagan administration, so you act like an idiot and use profanity ... typical.
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Here is something from "The Atlantic" about Abrams. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/ilhan-omar-elliott-abrams-and-el-mozote-massacre/582889/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo --- Omar’s questioning of Abrams was not artful, and Abrams wasn’t unreasonable in viewing it as a personal attack. But she was right to suggest that he had sought to diminish or even cover up the massacre by calling it communist propaganda. Nor was she wrong to question whether Abrams was ethically qualified to assume a high government position, with the mission to oust the Venezuelan dictatorship and promote democracy. --- But in her lack of preparation and incompetence none of that came though. Congressperson is a job you have to be prepared for, have good judgement about, and take seriously and be very tone senstive. Ilhan Omar has not been on many accounts. You cannot just hide under your hijab and the impossibility of criticizing ... NOT ISRAEL- BUT MUSLIMS these days. Democrats should realize with friends like Ilhan Omar they do not need enemies.
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Look at this video and see how many times they had to cut it up to make what Ilhan Omar said make any sense? She could barely get the words out, and she did not know what they meant or how to pronounce them. This is the big league, either do your job and let someone else in who can. Go look at the real continuous video of her time cross-examining Elliot Abrams. Omar has got to do better, and she has got to stop sucking up other people's time and credibility to explain what she meant of apologize for her. 1:09 & 2:37 --- Here is what she was trying to explain ... why could she not do that herself? BUT who should really be watching that clip from Bernie's staff is Republicans, but they only get the opportunity to see Ilhan Omar screw up, not be here on this Bernie Sanders video and watch this explanation. It matters, get it together Ilham Omar and stop embarrassing the party you idiot.
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Brian Gann That is just Republican BS talking points. The FSLN came to dominate the junta, Robelo and Chamorro resigned, and in 1981 Ortega became the coordinator of the Junta.[28] As the only member of the FSLN National Directorate in the Junta, he was the effective leader of the country. The FSLN embarked upon an ambitious programme of social reform upon attaining power. 5 million acres of land were redistributed to about 100,000 families, a literacy drive was launched, and health improvements were carried out which got rid of polio and reduced other diseases.[29] The Sandinista nationalization efforts mostly affected banks and industries owned by the Somoza family.[30] More than half of all farms, businesses, and industries remained in private hands, as the revolutionary government still wanted to preserve a mixed economy and support private sector investment.[30] The Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) opposed the Sandinistas’ economic reform.[31] The main organization of Nicaraguan big business was composed of prosperous families from the Pacific coast cities, who dominated commerce and banking.[32] Ortega took a very hard line against opposition to his policies: On February 21, 1981, the Sandinista army killed 7 Miskito Indians and wounded 17.[33] Forced displacement has also been documented to have occurred with the native population: 10,000 individuals had been moved by 1982.[33] Thousands of Indians took refuge in Honduras and 14,000 were imprisoned in Nicaragua. Anthropologist Gilles Bataillon termed this "politics of ethnocide" in Nicaragua.[34] The Indians formed two rebel groups – the Misura and Misurasata. They were joined in the north by Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) and in the south by former Sandinistas and peasantry who under the leadership of Edén Pastora were resisting forced collectivization.[33] The US likes to play to both ways, they go in and murder, bomb and disrupt countries and kill civilians and then when the local democratically elected rebels take over and have to defend their country from American trained guerillas and thugs, they start talking like they care about civilian lives.
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yeah, in fact they do, but in fact what happened with Ilhan Omar is that somehow by unpreparedness and acting like an idiot she made herself look worse than the Criminals. What a great asset she is to the Democrats ... or maybe the Republicans. I don't like to be judgemental or too quick to judge, but she can take down the whole party with a few stupid thoughtless words. She gives the worst of the Republicans ammunition to attack Democrats ... if she cannot be a player for the Democratic team - she should either study on things, remain silent or get the fuck out of the job.
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@gfyGoogle - You are just as bad as Republicans when you mistake your opinion for sense and opinions you disagree with as making no sense. That is why you might as well be on the Republican side of things, because that kind of ignorance helps their side. Or maybe you are just an unthinking right-wing troll-bot?
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if she is so intelligent, she should quit making herself and the Democrats look bad when she makes public statements that are constantly misinterpreted and that she has to explain or apologize for. This idiotic women actually got Donald Trump out there criticising her, and because of her poor wording and optics made Donald Trump look like he had a point, which he didn't. Very bad ... and Democrats do not need someone on their team that does that chronically.
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Bernie ---- you better think long and hard about whose wagons you want to hitch your campaign to and how it makes you look. Omar's clueless demeanor makes her look bad and by extension the Democrats, Eliot Abrams a guy who I have disliked and deserves utter contempt like Ollie North for his actions during the Reagan administration - as does Reagan, he came off looking sympathic because of Omar's unpreparedness, iunability to pronounce English words and poor phrasing. I cannot believe you took the side of forcing Al Franken to resign and your defend this clueless woman. Very disconcerting to me to see this.
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@AtheistEve I don't care, make your own judgements.
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@AtheistEve > Abrams is a war criminal and should be kept away from Venezuela. You are just stupid. I never said any different ... so you must be just an idiot to make up stuff. The point is that it doesn't help for Ilham Omar to weigh in on things in ways that bring negative attention to her and the Democrats and that are misunderstood. Clearly, you don't care what the result is of what she says, you just blindly support her ... that makes you are an idiot on a par with Trump supporters.
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@AtheistEve You know, you keep coming back at me with the stupid fucking dumbass quotes ... you know what we are are talking about here ... American media ... their is almost no substance in it at all, no truth, and very little to be gained by watching it ... so ... if a politician actually wants to be heard, to get some information out, they have to have a strategy and a point, and a way to deliver it. This lady did not. What I am saying is not only a legitimate complaint about IO, it is the truth, and your response ought to be, gee, i did not think of it that way, you are right, unless she learns from her mistakes she will not make a good congressperson, or a good media model for a muslim. Of course, now that we have been through this cycle one or two times with Ilhan Omar in the media, it doesn't appear that learning or changing is her thing - she seems programmed to always make anti-Israel statements, and attack American history and policy. If I take the time to figure out what she is saying and allowing for her poor communications skills, and uncontrolled emotions, on the issues critical of America she is not far off. There is plenty of criticism that can be made of America and Israel, if you baseline it to what goes on in the world and allow for history - which she does not. She is not the person to make these kinds of statements, there is no point and she ought to see what it is she can get done in Congress besides be the anti-semitism lightning rod. This is the last time I am going to dignify your floundering comments with a response ... you can tell how I feel and why in the comments I have already made, anything more you say can just be trolling.
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he purpose there was to ask questions of make statements ... her incoherent performance and unfamiliarity with the history of Reagan's involvement in Central and South America did not help make a point, it made a criminal look sympathetic.
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True ... but unless you really bend over backwards and give her multiple benefits of the doubt ... she did not really do that, she made herself the issue. I am thinking she is really looking like an incompetent flake that is going to damage the party that is trying to do the best they can to help her.
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it was not much of a statement either ... she could not even pronounce the names and words she was attempting to use ... there was so much other true stuff she could have said to make Abrams look bad ... it would not have taken much, but she fucked it up and made herself the issue. If she really cannot do the job ... then what?
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@Yanaschaf Yeah, he is bad yet he can explain himself and she looks stupid and everyone is talking about her, not him. That is a failure if you cannot really understand. I lived through that era and I followed the history of it. He and Oliver North should be continually called out, but she could barely pronounce the words she was trying to say. If she cannot do the whole job then better to shut up. Get someone who knows to write a statement ... whatever her job was, she failed at it.
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@Yanaschaf Your English and writing is horrible ... and if she cannot do the job of Congresswoman without making Democrats look bad and have to explain for her - then she should either come up to speed on her job or shut up, or get out. This is the big leagues and we need to get Trump out of office, not make it appear as if Trump has a point and knows what he is talking about.
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@ZedNebuloid Thanks, I edited it.
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Eddie Chavis You have a bit of a point there ... the problem is that she did it poorly and half-assed, without researching and really understanding the history. You seem to respect that while I ... not so much.
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maybe it takes a representative who knows and can pronounce the words and names of that history, not some one who gives a half-assed job that even an idiot like Trump can attack. that is not helpful.
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There are a lot of complex and nuanced issues around it that Americans should understand ... do you think Ilhan Omar helped that or hurt it? I am not really sure, but I noticed she did not seem to know or understand that history, or be able to pronounce the words she was trying to explain. I think she is better off saying nothing than to get the statements wrong or look like a bully worse than Abrams. Americans who are ignorant of this history surely did not learn much about it from Ilhan Omar. Why should Bernie have to put his credibility on the line to bail out someone who should know better?
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Well, Bernie speaks English well enough to ask the question in a way we can all understand ... not quite the case with this lady, she just looks bad no matter how you translate her comments and give her the benefit of the doubt. She should have at least taken the time to come back and explain why she asked the questions she did in the way she did instead of expecting Bernie to save her ass ... she is a big girl now in the major leagues, and she better start acting like it or get the fuck out.
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Bernie, I support you for President, but the way this women behaved while Abrams testified to Congress was very peculiar. There are many other ways she could have made an actual point, but she behaved in a way that brought a lot of negative attention on her and the whole Democratic party. I don't know if she deserves the criticism she got since she had a point about Elliot Abrams, but in her either incompetence or unpreparedness she made herself the issue, not him. Just watching her performance whatever point Ilhan Omar had to make was superseded by her bizarre look and behavior - and that stuff matters. I don't know what to do about that, and her other comments about Israel where in fact she is not merely critical of the Israeli government, and her innocent apologies have been repeated now several times. It is nice to be patient with people who are new, but it has been a number of years now for her. What do you do next time in the middle of the debates, the primaries or even the general election when she utters some other provocative statement that needs to be ignored? I hope you are correct about her and I hope you are careful.
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@ykalon Then you did not watch her questioning or you are making a mistake in trying to overinterpret what you think she said.
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@AtheistEve >> Although it ought to be obvious to anyone that he should be kept well away from Venezuela. As should the entire US government. That is the point ... you are being driven by confirmation bias. Things are not that black and white. I was a supporter of Hugo Chavez for many years against USA intervention. Today the entire problem is different. Chavez either did not know how to or just could not get the economy of Venezuela diversified enough to survive a drop in prices and the whole country collapsed. I still have major problems with American intervention and do not support it, but the current leadership is not working and the situation is getting worse. Omar's comments had no nuance and I undestood what she was talking about. My other point was that she was not prepared and the statements or not a questions she asked did not really educate anyone who did not have an opinion on all of this. She accomplished nothing but preaching to the choir, you, and drawing fire on herself and the Democrats.
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@myramick4456 I hate to agree with Republican/Conservative pundits, but he has it right. Omar could have challenged and made clear and factual statements as to why it was a travesty to have Elliot Abrams as envoy to Venezuela and won the day, instead she took herself down and caused another wound to Democrats. Instead of making an objective moral argument against Abrams and US support of the Contras and other Right-wing groups, she liked and twisted the history and make herself the object of ridicule. That kind of incompetence should not be supported or rewarded - on top of her regular attacks on Jews and Israel, which I can overlook because appareently she doesn't know any better.
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I definitely support making it known to the American people what was happening in the 80's under Reagan with Iran and Central America, but Ilhan Omar was certainly incompetent in doing that. She did not seem to understand how to pronounce the names involved or be able to explain the history she was trying to discuss. She was also rude ... like it is her job to act like an incoherence idiot in Congress. It was a poor performance and in the balance it made her the issue, not him. She would not have done that had she prepared for the interview, and considered how she was going to be perceived. If this lady doesn't get her shit together she is going to drag the Democrats down with her, and no one needs that.
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@gfyGoogle Really, who did I insult and how? You don't "know better", you merely have a different opinion that you either are not smart enough to articulate or cannot logically defend.
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@danunderwood6240 You have no idea what my politics are and are attempting to attack me by some kind of twisted limp-noodle association with a bad group. No, I don't support or encourage fascists, and just because someone is concerned about Islamic fundamentalism taking hold in the US does not make them a fascist or fascist supporter. What you did in saying that is far worse. Just for the record I am a Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren Democrat who happens to be more realistic and pragmatic and more than a little skeptical about how general Muslim intolerance is going to fare in American society. We can all hope for the best, but the issue is open as to how competently Ilhan Omar will be able to serve in the US House.
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@danunderwood6240 You realize that assigning guilt because something I say sounds like something a right-winge would say is a logical fallacy. That is on you, not me. I like Bernie and see why he is trying very hard to get along with Ilham Omar, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with him or say he is right. I don't do blind obedience. Do you?
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@danunderwood6240 > you sound like a right wing xenophobe. You are an idiot. I am not attacking her, I am criticizing her very specifically which you are mischaracterizing, calling me names and judging me - fuck you! It is not that her English is not good ... it is that she did not really rehearse or prepare, and she sounds bad when she does that, and opens herself and the rest of Democrats up with the kind of misinterpretation that you are pulling on me. you are so blind and stupid I am not going to spend any more more time on your troll nonsense.
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When will Democrats learn that when they bully a witness, even a war criminal like Elliot Abrams, they make themselves the issue, not the witness? Ilhan Omar has done this, as well as Kamala Harris ... they try to grandstand and appear mean, and they make themselves look bad with incoherent comments and rude behavior.
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