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The 'Reach Out' Phone Call Between Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar Did Not Go Well

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Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have been in a running battle on social media and in person ever since Boebert took to the floor of the House a couple of weeks ago and dropped some inconvenient truths about the hypocrisy of Democrats including Omar who were calling for Rep. Paul Gosar’s (R-Ariz.) committee assignments to be stripped over an anime video Gosar posted showing him supposedly “killing” Omar’s Squad buddy Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Their war of words escalated in a big way when Omar responded in kind to Boebert’s comments, which in turn prompted Boebert to further unload on Omar during a speaking engagement, seen below:

Not surprisingly, Omar’s fellow Squad members, other Democrats, and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) had a collective meltdown where demands for an apology were issued followed by calls for Boebert to get the Gosar treatment. Perhaps seeking to quell the controversy, Boebert apologized for offending anyone with what she said.

“I apologize to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Rep. Omar,” she tweeted a day after the video surfaced. “I have reached out to [Omar’s] office to speak with her directly. There are plenty of policy differences to focus on without this unnecessary distraction.”

In an update to this story, the “reach out” has taken place. To characterize the phone call between the two as “unproductive” would be putting it mildly. Here’s Omar’s version of what was allegedly said:

Here’s Boebert’s version:

“I had reached out to her Friday and three days later I was able to connect with her on the phone because I wanted to let her know directly that I had reflected on my previous remarks. Now as a strong Christian woman who values faith deeply, I never want anything I say to offend someone’s religion. So I told her that. Even after I put out a public statement to that effect, she said that she still wanted a public apology, because what I had done wasn’t good enough.

So I reiterated to her what I had just said. She kept asking for a public apology. So I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric. She continued to press, and I continued to press back. And then, Representative Omar hung up on me. Rejecting an apology and hanging up on someone is part of cancel culture 101 and a pillar of the Democrat party.”

Boebert went on to state that people should “make no mistake,” that she would “continue to fearlessly put America first, never sympathizing with terrorists.” Though Omar, Boebert said, “can’t say the same thing, and our country is worse off for it.”

Watch:

I’m pretty much with my colleague Jeff Charles when it comes to calling for apologies from people who say things that others find offensive. Because most of the time when those apologies are put forth, they come across as forced and/or insincere no matter who on either side of the political aisle makes them:

The answer is to stop giving a rip about what either side thinks. Anyone who sincerely feels they made a comment they should not have made should refuse to listen to those who would tell him not to make an apology. Conversely, the individual who made controversial remarks, and stands by them, should not issue a false apology to appease the masses.

To put it simply, people should stand on their own convictions rather than listening to the peanut gallery on either side of the issue.

Indeed, and then let the chips fall where they may, although with Democrats of course the political consequences (“chips”) are often non-existent considering their fellow party members, and the MSM usually circle around the offending party and guard them a la Fort Knox from criticism until the controversy blows over, which has the intended effect of making the issue go away.

In any event, since the phone call (predictably) did not go so well, we can expect the war of words to continue to between the two until one or the other is either defeated at the ballot box or is gerrymandered out of office, which sounds like what is getting ready to happen with Boebert.

Stay tuned.

Flashback: ‘Progressives’ Make a Claim so Bogus About Lauren Boebert That Even CNN Steps in to Correct Record

Will “Wrong Gun” Plea Work In Daunte Wright Case?

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Once again, a police officer in the Minneapolis area is going to go on trial for killing a black man. Once again, we expect to see a lot of media attention focused on a trial–there’s a lot of that going around right now–and we’ll likely see the armchair experts opine on things they know little about.

But is the death of Daunte Wright manslaughter, as the prosecution alleges?

Or, will the officer’s claim that she made a simple mistake actually hold water?

When a suburban Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in April, her reaction on body-camera video seemed to instantly establish the key facts of the case: “I grabbed the wrong (expletive) gun,” Kim Potter said. “I’m going to go to prison.”

But legal experts say a conviction for Potter, who says she meant to pull her Taser, isn’t as certain as it might seem — at least on the most serious charge she faces, first-degree manslaughter. Jury selection begins Tuesday.

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Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting, says she made an innocent mistake when she reached for her pistol instead of her Taser. But prosecutors, including the leader of the team that got Chauvin convicted for murder, say Wright’s death was manslaughter and that Potter, an experienced officer who was trained to know better, should go to prison.

The big questions for the jury will be whether Potter’s actions rose to recklessness or culpable negligence, as the law requires. Defense attorneys also argue that Wright was responsible for his own death because he tried to drive off from a traffic stop and could have dragged an officer to his death if Potter hadn’t intervened.

“What we have basically is an innocent mistake,” defense attorney Earl Gray said in a preview of his arguments. “That she wasn’t culpably negligent and that she didn’t cause the death of Mr. Wright. He caused his death himself.”

The argument is that Wright endangered officers by trying to escape arrest after Potter and another officer pulled him over for an expired tag and learned of an arrest warrant for Wright over a weapons charge.

And that may well be true. After all, the video of the incident makes it clear that Wright was trying to get away by getting back in his car, a potentially lethal weapon.

However, the video also shows that Wright didn’t appear to be trying to hit any of the officers–though that may have changed–and that Potter clearly didn’t intend to deploy her firearm.

As the above-linked article notes:

Prosecutors allege that Potter committed first-degree manslaughter by causing Wright’s death while committing a misdemeanor crime, namely recklessly handling a gun, when death was reasonably foreseeable. The second-degree manslaughter count alleges that she acted with culpable negligence. Neither charge requires the intent to kill.

The fact that she pulled her gun instead of her taser may well rise to the level of culpable negligence.

After all, there’s a reason many departments require tasers to be worn in a completely different manner than firearms. The idea is to prevent this from happening. It’s unclear if Potter’s department had such a policy in place, but since we’ve not heard one way or the other, I’d imagine it didn’t. That doesn’t absolve Potter, though.

Honestly, I don’t see Potter walking away on this one. Yes, Daunte Wright was a wanted criminal who was caught during a routine traffic stop. Yes, he screwed up by the numbers by trying to get away from the police when they were trying to arrest him. But should he have died from that?

We’ll have to see how the case actually goes once it’s in court.

The Left Goes Bonkers Over Lauren Boebert's Hilarious Mocking of Anti-Semite and Terrroist-Simp Ilhan Omar

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Yesterday, Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert was back in her home district meeting with constituents. During what appears to be an extemporaneous speech, Boebert takes aim at Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar.

Omar is a particularly vile individual. She is a terrorist simp who hasn’t found an Islamic terror group she can’t condone (Ilhan Omar Proves President Trump’s Point When She Refuses To Say She Does Not Support al Qaeda; DISGUSTING. Ilhan Omar Refers To US Troops During the Black Hawk Down Battle As Satan; Ilhan Omar To Be Keynote Speaker at Fundraiser for Terrorist Linked Organization).

This goes as far as referring to the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, as a day “some people did something.” Her support for jihadi violence against Israel and her bone-deep anti-Semitism is likewise well established (Pelosi Dodges, Ducks, Dips, Dives, and Dodges Question About Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Statements; Nancy Pelosi and the Left Close Ranks to Defend Nutbaggery and Anti-Semitism).

In her personal life, she entered into an incestuous marriage with her brother (Allegations Regarding Omar’s Curious Marriage ARE Credible (That’s Why You Haven’t Heard Much About Them))…hopefully, for the purposes of immigration fraud…married a couple of more times…and just a year ago, she ditched her husband for a new boyfriend, a ‘political consultant’ to whom her campaign had steered several hundred thousand dollars; he simultaneously kicked his wife to the curb. See Ilhan Omar Named as “the Other Woman” in What Promises to Be a Very Ugly and Entertaining Divorce.

This is what Boebert had to say:

The other night on the House floor I had my first “Jihad Squad” moment.

I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. He and I are leaving the Capitol and going back to my office and we get in an elevator. And I see a Capitol Police officer running, running to the elevator. I see sweat all over his face. He’s reaching…the door’s shutting, I can’t open it. What’s happening? I look to my left, and there she is, Ilhan Omar. And I say well, she doesn’t’ have a backpack, we should be fine.

So naturally, the left is screaming racism:

And the look-down-your-nose-at-those-people “conservatives” got all huffy and puffy about “we’re better than that” because that is just how they roll.

Actually, Boebert is the “good guy” here. Mocking Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC and the rest of the America-hating “Squad” is something that should be done by every GOP member of Congress, every day. Boebert’s joke is absolutely on target, given Omar’s egregious support for Islamic terrorism. If you are going to take the side of people who are literally trying to drag this country down to Third World status just to feel good about yourself, maybe you shouldn’t feel good about yourself.

Ilhan Omar is not laughing. On Twitter, she responded:

Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout. Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.

Yep. She’s heading back to that safe refuge of incestuous terrorist sympathizers, claiming that her behavior is typical of all Muslims and that making fun of her is anti-Muslim.

Make no mistake about it. Omar is a vicious bully, in addition to her other attributes. She was one of the prime movers in the effort to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments (House Democrats Move to Boot Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committee Assignments and GOP Pretends to Retaliate). On social media, the little fascists of the left are demanding that Boebert be stripped of her committee assignments because she gave Omar a sad, and there is little doubt the House Democrats will do just that.

If Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans meekly go along with punishing Boebert, just as they went along with punishing Marjorie Talyor Greene and Paul Gosar, then they have forfeited any right to ask us to support them (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, 2022, and the Chicago Way).

The Left Goes Bonkers Over Lauren Boebert's Hilarious Mocking of Anti-Semite and Terrorist-Simp Ilhan Omar

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Yesterday, Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert was back in her home district meeting with constituents. During what appears to be an extemporaneous speech, Boebert takes aim at Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar.

Omar is a particularly vile individual. She is a terrorist simp who hasn’t found an Islamic terror group she can’t condone (Ilhan Omar Proves President Trump’s Point When She Refuses To Say She Does Not Support al Qaeda; DISGUSTING. Ilhan Omar Refers To US Troops During the Black Hawk Down Battle As Satan; Ilhan Omar To Be Keynote Speaker at Fundraiser for Terrorist Linked Organization).

This goes as far as referring to the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, as a day “some people did something.” Her support for jihadi violence against Israel and her bone-deep anti-Semitism is likewise well established (Pelosi Dodges, Ducks, Dips, Dives, and Dodges Question About Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Statements; Nancy Pelosi and the Left Close Ranks to Defend Nutbaggery and Anti-Semitism).

In her personal life, she entered into an incestuous marriage with her brother (Allegations Regarding Omar’s Curious Marriage ARE Credible (That’s Why You Haven’t Heard Much About Them))…hopefully, for the purposes of immigration fraud…married a couple of more times…and just a year ago, she ditched her husband for a new boyfriend, a ‘political consultant’ to whom her campaign had steered several hundred thousand dollars; he simultaneously kicked his wife to the curb. See Ilhan Omar Named as “the Other Woman” in What Promises to Be a Very Ugly and Entertaining Divorce.

This is what Boebert had to say:

The other night on the House floor I had my first “Jihad Squad” moment.

I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. He and I are leaving the Capitol and going back to my office and we get in an elevator. And I see a Capitol Police officer running, running to the elevator. I see sweat all over his face. He’s reaching…the door’s shutting, I can’t open it. What’s happening? I look to my left, and there she is, Ilhan Omar. And I say well, she doesn’t’ have a backpack, we should be fine.

So naturally, the left is screaming racism:

And the look-down-your-nose-at-those-people “conservatives” got all huffy and puffy about “we’re better than that” because that is just how they roll.

Actually, Boebert is the “good guy” here. Mocking Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC and the rest of the America-hating “Squad” is something that should be done by every GOP member of Congress, every day. Boebert’s joke is absolutely on target, given Omar’s egregious support for Islamic terrorism. If you are going to take the side of people who are literally trying to drag this country down to Third World status just to feel good about yourself, maybe you shouldn’t feel good about yourself.

Ilhan Omar is not laughing. On Twitter, she responded:

Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout. Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.

Yep. She’s heading back to that safe refuge of incestuous terrorist sympathizers, claiming that her behavior is typical of all Muslims and that making fun of her is anti-Muslim.

Make no mistake about it. Omar is a vicious bully, in addition to her other attributes. She was one of the prime movers in the effort to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments (House Democrats Move to Boot Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committee Assignments and GOP Pretends to Retaliate). On social media, the little fascists of the left are demanding that Boebert be stripped of her committee assignments because she gave Omar a sad, and there is little doubt the House Democrats will do just that.

If Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans meekly go along with punishing Boebert, just as they went along with punishing Marjorie Talyor Greene and Paul Gosar, then they have forfeited any right to ask us to support them (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, 2022, and the Chicago Way).

The Left Goes Bonkers Over Lauren Boebert's Hilarious Mocking of Anti-Semite and Terrroist-Simp Ilhan Omar

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Yesterday, Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert was back in her home district meeting with constituents. During what appears to be an extemporaneous speech, Boebert takes aim at Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar.

Omar is a particularly vile individual. She is a terrorist simp who hasn’t found an Islamic terror group she can’t condone (Ilhan Omar Proves President Trump’s Point When She Refuses To Say She Does Not Support al Qaeda; DISGUSTING. Ilhan Omar Refers To US Troops During the Black Hawk Down Battle As Satan; Ilhan Omar To Be Keynote Speaker at Fundraiser for Terrorist Linked Organization).

This goes as far as referring to the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, as a day “some people did something.” Her support for jihadi violence against Israel and her bone-deep anti-Semitism is likewise well established (Pelosi Dodges, Ducks, Dips, Dives, and Dodges Question About Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Statements; Nancy Pelosi and the Left Close Ranks to Defend Nutbaggery and Anti-Semitism).

In her personal life, she entered into an incestuous marriage with her brother (Allegations Regarding Omar’s Curious Marriage ARE Credible (That’s Why You Haven’t Heard Much About Them))…hopefully, for the purposes of immigration fraud…married a couple of more times…and just a year ago, she ditched her husband for a new boyfriend, a ‘political consultant’ to whom her campaign had steered several hundred thousand dollars; he simultaneously kicked his wife to the curb. See Ilhan Omar Named as “the Other Woman” in What Promises to Be a Very Ugly and Entertaining Divorce.

This is what Boebert had to say:

The other night on the House floor I had my first “Jihad Squad” moment.

I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. He and I are leaving the Capitol and going back to my office and we get in an elevator. And I see a Capitol Police officer running, running to the elevator. I see sweat all over his face. He’s reaching…the door’s shutting, I can’t open it. What’s happening? I look to my left, and there she is, Ilhan Omar. And I say well, she doesn’t’ have a backpack, we should be fine.

So naturally, the left is screaming racism:

And the look-down-your-nose-at-those-people “conservatives” got all huffy and puffy about “we’re better than that” because that is just how they roll.

Actually, Boebert is the “good guy” here. Mocking Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC and the rest of the America-hating “Squad” is something that should be done by every GOP member of Congress, every day. Boebert’s joke is absolutely on target, given Omar’s egregious support for Islamic terrorism. If you are going to take the side of people who are literally trying to drag this country down to Third World status just to feel good about yourself, maybe you shouldn’t feel good about yourself.

Ilhan Omar is not laughing. On Twitter, she responded:

Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout. Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation.

Yep. She’s heading back to that safe refuge of incestuous terrorist sympathizers, claiming that her behavior is typical of all Muslims and that making fun of her is anti-Muslim.

Make no mistake about it. Omar is a vicious bully, in addition to her other attributes. She was one of the prime movers in the effort to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments (House Democrats Move to Boot Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committee Assignments and GOP Pretends to Retaliate). On social media, the little fascists of the left are demanding that Boebert be stripped of her committee assignments because she gave Omar a sad, and there is little doubt the House Democrats will do just that.

If Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans meekly go along with punishing Boebert, just as they went along with punishing Marjorie Talyor Greene and Paul Gosar, then they have forfeited any right to ask us to support them (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, 2022, and the Chicago Way).