Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hit back at Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) on Wednesday night after he attacked her for saying the volatile situation with Iran triggered her PTSD.
Repubs have a propensity to tell others how they should, or should not, “feel.” Donnie does the same on a daily basis.
Something smells awful around here. Me thinks Rep. Banks has been kissing the racist orange anus-faced liar on the lips.
Support ALL the troops. Not just the guys with a hard on to go blow something up.
Or more precisely, a hard on to send someone else’s kid to go blow something up
Today’s GOP: War criminals good. Victims of war annoying.
I’m really glad Rep Omar is in Congress to be a voice for survivors and refugees. The impact of war on ordinary people is not given enough weight.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear. Plus she’s kind of a badass. A future Auntie Maxine.
These guys are fueled with self righteousness. It is the ambrosia of the Right anywhere in the world.
Do we lose to them because they shout more, is that it? That and untold billions of dark money?
In his favor, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) successfully managed to avoid
“I survived war as a child…idiot.”
Good for her! These big brave men that feel the need to tell women HOW to think and WHEN to think need to be slapped back.
In the last 23 hours Jim Banks has tweeted 17 times, and retweeted many others’ tweets, as well. He’s one Republican congressman that works as hard as our Republican president.
Go JIM!
Research has demonstrated that empathetic people tend to gravitate towards more liberal political parties, while those with little desire to express empathy lean to conservative politics.
Banks epitomizes the right’s lack of empathy to a T, especially given that Omar is not within his ‘tribe.’
"I survived war as a child and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder — much like many who have served or lived through war,” she tweeted.
How dare she compare her experience to the true horror of bonespurs and avoiding STDs!
More like “stampede to”…
I was almost seven years old and living with my family in Santa Clara, Cuba in December, 1958 where the last battle of the Cuban revolution took place. It lasted five days.
Our neighborhood was strafed several times a day by government planes, a few bombs were dropped on the city, our dentist was killed by a sniper, our maid was shot in the ankle when she decided she had to leave our house. Bad enough, but nothing compared to what children go through in places like Somalia or Syria. I don’t have PTSD, but for years, low flying planes made me nervous. Civilians in war zones can suffer psychological and physical damage just like soldiers.
Once before, different context, I heard a guy who’d been complaining about street people collecting cans mock a neighbor (to me, stranger to him) with “Go home and take care of your PTSD.” “Who the frocking who uses PTSD as an insult? What a bozo!” I thought at the time. Well now I know.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN): born in Columbia City, IN.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): born in Mogadishu, Somalia.
I wonder who had the more challenging, character-building childhood.