Or not...Unless you think saying "America is only for Americans" is the same as saying "America belongs to all Americans (i.e., not merely some Americans)"

Minnesota Star Tribune Fact Check

A Somali speaking reporter verified that the following "more accurate" transcript posted on X, to which the Congresswoman's office directed the paper, was accurate.

Abdirashid Hashi

@AnalystSomalia

For those seeking an accurate and verbatim translation of what Congresswoman

@Ilhan

said, here it is:

[The context is: she was addressing her Somali-American constituents, who were alarmed by Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed’s announcement of his intention to assist a region/province in Somalia in becoming a sovereign state. Additionally, he stated he will acquire land and sea l for his landlocked country through this province. Somalia, the African Union, the USA, the European Union, the UK, and the global community stand with Somalia, stating that dismembering Somalia and annexing its land is unacceptable]

Here is what the Congresswoman said:

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“We Somalis are people who love each other. It is possible that some of us are rough with each other, but when the going gets tough, we are people who have each other’s backs. We are sisters and brothers, supporting each other, people who know they are Somalis and Muslims, coming to each other’s aid and aiding their brothers and sisters.

And the other day, when we heard that some Somalis, or those who say they are Somalis, entered an MoU with Ethiopia, many people called me and said, “Ilhan, you should talk to the US government; what is the US government going to do about this?”

My response was: the US government will do what we ask it to do. We should have this confidence in ourselves as Somalis. We live in this country. We are taxpayers in this country. This country is one where one of your daughters sits in Congress. While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea. The United States will not back others to rob us. So, do not lose sleep over that, O Minnesotans. The lady you sent to Congress is on this, and she is as cognizant of this interest as you are.

I would like to tell President Hassan Sheikh that we are impressed with the great work you have done. You have made it known to those living in Somalia and other places that, in spite of the many challenges we face as Somalis, we are nonetheless competent people. People who believe in their country and will not allow it to be endangered.

Thus, I want to congratulate the Somalis in Minnesota and everywhere on how united you are. How you all stood by our president, because he needs our solidarity. Somalia belongs to all Somalis. Somalia is one. We are brothers and sisters, and our land will not be balkanized. Our lands were taken from us before, and God willing, we may one day seek them, but what we have now will not be balkanized.

I thank you all for how you always welcome me and honor me; may the Lord honor you. Peace and blessings of God be with you.

@matsusachiki: No problem. I played one of the sequels (Knytt Underground) on the Vita (it's also on PC, PS3, and Wii-U), it had a nice sense of exploration for a 2D platformer.

@matsusachiki: Knytt Stories?

@kalpitvishnoi: Anka

If a scientist said the wrong thing in the briefing room, they went "poof" in a cloud of smoke, canceled and never to be heard from again. My own state's health director was chased out of town during a pandemic with threats against her family, replaced not by a doctor, but a lawyer. At the federal level, the White House always had a crowd of Political Commissars standing watch over the scientists during the briefings, they were being watched. Always watched.

A republican official gets on the wrong side of the orthodoxy, here comes the death threats, the rape threats (if a woman), the anti-semitic threats about ovens (if a jew), and they come in legion, dwarfing anything similar we've seen in politics in the modern era, so save whatever BS whataboutism you're about to engage in.

The response of the right to the Capitol attack was to threaten, and threaten more, and then threaten (If you take any action against Trump you'll make "them" mad, if you let twitter operate itself you'll antagonize "them", if you announce a war on white supremacists' you're attacking the right according to Tucker? Why, does he identify as a white supremecist?).

But you want to talk about shallow BS cancelling, not the heavy shit...OK. Every time in the last four years the right so much as whiffed the scent of political correctness on something they tried to cancel it. A video game has a black or fully clothed female character as default, an action film with a female lead and a gay supporting character...not on your watch, amirite? SJW nonsense I...must...review...bomb...

Leftists brought us Trump? Republicans gave him the megaphone, the right offloaded their sins onto a sick man to use him as a weapon and made sure he had the support he needed to keep going no matter how unfit he proved to be day in and day out. You're now going to abandon your hero? Of course you are, that was always his destiny, it's just sad and pathetic no one ever let him in on the joke.

As for the OT, many of those who self-identify as Anarchists and Marxists, but not all of them, same as always. A fraction of those who identify as Socialists. A subset of those who identify as Antifa, and obviously a lot of these overlap. Are you going to bring spray paint or bricks to the next G8 meeting...then I'm thinking you're an extreme leftist.

The use of grant money to aid in election infrastructure from the Center for Tech and Civic Life has been adjudicated and found to have not violated any laws before the election.

The Wisconsin drop boxes were installed after guidance from the state, with security cameras aimed at them 24/7. There was NO fraud, nor have you posted any evidence of it, nor was any claimed in court. One ballot box for Menominee County with it's 4,232 people and one ballot box for Milwaukee County with its 950,000 people, that's your idea of equal. Georgia alone shut down 214 polling places in mostly black and brown areas after the Robert's court gutted the Voting Rights Act, where was your equal protections spiel then?

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/14/judge-oks-cities-use-private-grants-stage-elections/3654110001/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Griesbach <----Republican Judge, appointed by Bush 2 (who incidentally, voted to uphold Wisconsin's GROSS gerrymandering), made the decision about the legality of the Facebook grant.

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2020/12/03/trump-lawsuit-claims-green-bay-illegally-installed-ballot-drop-boxes/3808002001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/12/report-court-ruling-caused-mass-voting-place-closures-southern-u-s/2272866001/

Huh? This isn't about "more" regulatory laws, the Republican leadership in the Senate is trying to exempt corporations FROM laws that already exist, and holding Covid-19 relief hostage to achieve that goal.

I never stop looking for the bad in people, and am never not disappointed when I find it, which is ridiculous and wasteful; but a human, being misanthropic, always is ridiculous and wasteful.

I never stop looking for the good in people either, I'm just always pleasantly surprised when I find it, which I find pretty hopeless.

@SUD123456:

You're underestimating the insanity of Trump.

He believes he won the election, but knows he lost the election, and bilks wherever possible regardless.

Any lines in the sand society has drawn, be they laws or norms, are there to unfairly descrimihate against him and everyone breaks them anyways, so why shouldn't he. And because everyone unfairly targets him he's really just pointing out their hypocrisy with his actions anyways, so he's a truth-teller it's plain to see. Because he is on the side of truth, and he is a leader he must be the most honest and least crooked, and the most honest and least crooked would never bilk anyone, so therefore he never has.

@techhog89: Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus