Waiting expectantly for the reaction that is not going to happen.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/waiting-expectantly-for-reaction-that.html

The sitting President of the United States just referred to an elected member of Congress from Minnesota as "garbage." By now, this, of course, is not news. By now, what this should have been is an outrage, an unacceptable, unAmerican, unpatriotic, anti-Christian statement that should have generated immediate and forceful censureship from the Republican Party, because he claims to be one of them. From them, silence, which is to be expected, given their moral bankruptcy and their lack of patriotic American values.

So, too, should there have been immediate condemnation and rebuke from the pulpits of mega church conservative Evangelicals who love the focus of cameras and publicity on them, because such a statement is a direct contradiction of the whole of the Christian gospel, an indictment that can draw support from every word of Christ's sermon on the mount, and every apostolic principle found in the New Testament. It's a statement, directed from one human being to another, that demonstrates the very principle of "anti-Christ [see I John 4:1-3]. From them, too, unfortunately, there is silence, also to be expected, given their apostasy from the Christian gospel and their unprincipled selfishness.

It's pretty obvious that Omar has gone well beyond expectations in contributing to the progress and good will of the United States. Her appreciation for what she has received from being a citizen of this country is recognized by her gratitude, shown by the sacrifices she makes and work she performs for its protection and its prosperity. Her work has been affirmed by her constituents,, who have elected and re-elected her to serve four times, each time by margins which go far beyond the capability of the numbers of the former Somalians who have earned American citizenship and live in her district to produce.

Name-calling is one of the most petty behaviors in which politicians indulge. It reveals their character, or lack of it, revealing frustration over the fact that the facts do not support their own contentions and they can't win the argument with their opponent. What makes this particular name-calling by Trump especially disgusting, petty, and also ads the elements of being anti-American and anti-Christian to the mix, is that his basis for using the term has to do with Omar's ethnicity and religion. In American idealism, true patriots who understand the reason for this country's existence, and its constitutional democracy and the freedom it protects, do not openly demonstrate such bigotry.

[Beartracks]

1. "patriots who understand the reason for this country's existence...

... and its constitutional democracy and the freedom it protects" -- Sadly, that rules out most all Republican "patriots" these days. They do NOT understand the founding principles of America, and do not appreciate or really have any use for democracy at all.

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[msongs]

2. repub party hates women nt

[lees1975]

3. My guess is that Trump just assured that Omar wins a fifth term, by a larger margin than she has won in the past.

Way more votes than he will ever get out of Minnesota 5.

[Deuxcents]

4. Whether it's Omar, a reporter or past presidents, his belittling should be met instantly with condemnation

The House should stand up for Omar, the reporters should have each others backs and past presidents should break their silence and respond with a few facts that TSF has mangled. In my active Union days, it was one for all, all for one and we stood in solidarity. Would love to see some resemblance of that comradery again instead of silence and not holding him to account or acting presidential.

[usonian]

5. Every accusation is a confession.

You project who you are, for better or worse.

Creeps project themselves mainly through him, having no substance of their own.

[Figarosmom]

6. What I dont get is that it was the Mormons

That helped bring the Somalis here, so why aren't they speaking up? Aren't most Mormons Republicans?

[lees1975]

7. I doubt the Mormons provided much help. They are mostly bigots whose doctrine promotes white supremacy.

It's only been recently that their "revelations" have opened up their church to blacks, they once claimed blacks could not participate or be part of the priesthood because black skin was the mark of Cain. They dropped that to avoid criticism, and to expand their fundraising outreach. They are after political power, so whatever is expedient becomes part of the revelations their prophets get every year. They remain as bigoted and prejudiced against people of color as their white Evangelical counterparts are.

[lees1975]

8. The Somali community in Minnesota is neither a disgrace nor garbage.

It's prosperous, energetic, enthusiastic in its investment in this country, contributors, and apparently have an astoundingly low crime rate. Go figure. About a third of the community was born in the US, and the citizenship rate is pretty high, even so, their numbers don't account for much more than 4-5% of the vote Ilhan Omar would get in an election, if, in fact, all of those who were eligible voted for her. She has obviously earned the respect and support of the people of her district, which happens to be majority white. She's far more of an American Patriot than Donald Trump is.