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Jan. 30, 2024 - Candace Owens
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Don't Make Me Defend Ilhan Omar
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Representative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
She is in some hot water.
She's being accused of being treasonous.
That's a big word.
And there are now calls for her to be removed from Congress as she faces fierce opposition for a speech where she allegedly and unapologetically declared that she is Somalia first.
Now, I am sure that you probably saw this clip circulating on social media.
If you haven't, I have it for you here.
Here is, by the way, I don't even know who created this video, First of all, I'd like to ask you, Ilhan, what do you think about the U.S.
government and the U.S.
government's stance on the issue?
My answer is that the U.S.
government's stance on the issue is the same as the U.S.
So far we have seen the progress of the Somali people.
So essentially what is being called into question is that she allegedly said this sentence, sleep in comfort knowing that I am here to protect the interest of Somalia from inside the United States system.
And obviously that would be treasonous if she said it.
She instantly hit back at her critics and said that this was just more propaganda.
She tweeted this.
It's not only slanted, she's referring to the interpretations, the subtitles.
It's not only slanted, but completely off.
But I wouldn't expect more from these propagandists.
And when I saw this circulating, everybody that was hitting her, obviously conservatives, jumps on this.
I said, look, I will not cover this until I am able to confirm whether or not she said What they are alleging that she said and whether or not it is even in its proper context.
That was why I didn't report on the story yesterday because I tasked someone with my team with finding an AI program that could accurately translate Somalian.
And when that team member got back to me, it did look like she did not actually utter that sentence.
The sleep in comfort knowing that I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the US system.
Now, there's another person that jumped to her defense, and they are also saying that this appears to be a hatchet job of people trying to first take her out of context and also claim that she said something that she simply didn't.
And he says that what she actually said was this.
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 U.S.
government.
What is the U.S.
government going to do about this?
My response was the U.S.
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.
The country is one where one of your daughters sits in Congress.
While I'm in Congress, no one will take Somalia Sea.
The United States will not back others to rob us.
So don't lose sleep over that, oh Minnesotans.
Okay?
You get the point.
Well, first off, just to give you some context, what they were talking about was the potential annexation of some Somalian land.
These were the concerns that her Somalian constituents in Minnesota had, and they wanted to know if she was going to bring this issue to the U.S.
government, to which she responded that, while I'm here, essentially, there's always going to be a Somalia voice that's represented.
Not necessarily her saying that it's Somalia first.
I could not find that in the AI tech.
I could not find that.
It more closely matched what that person said, that she said.
And I'm going to tell you why I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon of slamming her.
Because there's so much that we can slam her over.
There's so many things that Ilhan Mar actually has said that has been terrible.
And we routinely dunk on her on those points.
I don't think it helps when we lie.
Right.
I don't think it helps to become a propagandist just because you're like, well, it's Ilhan Omar, so I'm just going to go with this and demand that she steps down.
Here's the thing, the overarching picture.
There are tons of issues in Congress which we routinely cover of people that seem to care more about what's happening in countries overseas and about America.
And that is a problem left and right, Democrat and Republican.
I mean, we had Republican Presidential candidates that were on stage wearing pins as
they were debating for other countries, you know, they're wearing Ukraine. They're wearing Israel
They're running for president United States. Where do they do this at? It's completely ridiculous, you know, and you
have her She's obviously concerned with what's going on in Somalia
So she's going to try to you know Use her platform as a congresswoman to make sure that no
harm can be brought to Somalians overseas That in up itself is a problem with tons of Congress
members that we have and I'm willing to have that discussion
But I won't do a cheap dunk because cheap dunks had been done on me in the past most notoriously
I would probably say was when I woke up to people trying to insinuate that I had anything to do with a mosque
Shooting in New Zealand and I wrote back on Twitter like lol. Are you insane? And then the headline said Candace Owens
laughs at Muslims being shot in a mosque in New Zealand
So dishonest, completely lacking the context.
I was obviously laughing at the absurdity that some homicidal maniac in New Zealand writing a manifesto that included me, Spiral the Dragon, and Nelson Mandela should be taken seriously.
But this is what people do when they hate somebody, when they hate somebody like me or they hate somebody like Ilhan Omar, is that they will take cheap shots and they just don't care.
They just want this person to be gone.
Like I said, I think it ultimately is not something that's necessary because there's so much that she's given us, so many more reasons that I don't think that Ilhan Omar should be a congresswoman.
Many of these reasons that we have covered extensively on this show, that I've covered extensively across my social media feeds.
This doesn't feel like that.
So I hope you guys can accept the fact that I will never partake in it because I think it drives me crazy when people do it to me.
There's so much stuff I say on this show.
There's so many things you can hate me for.
You just don't have to make stuff up.
And usually I will double down on whatever it is I say on this show.
Actually, I always double down.
Alright guys, moving on.
This is hilarious.
Taylor Lorenz, you know the journalist, she's written for tons of bar-leading publications.
We covered her a couple of weeks ago because Taylor Lorenz hasn't gone to Christmas in like five Christmases because she says that COVID is there and she can't believe that you guys are not still masking up.
Yeah, she is totally deluded, but she is the gift that keeps on giving.
I'm happy that Taylor Lorenz has a platform, and recently she has taken to Take a listen to her.
the internet to lament the fact that so many media companies are just having to conduct
these mass layoffs.
Like nobody is listening to mainstream journalists anymore.
Take a listen to her.
She's quite, quite upset.
The entire journalism industry is basically in a freefall.
Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees.
They wiped out their entire D.C.
bureau in an election year.
They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams.
They killed their entire tech and business section.
They laid off breaking news writers, social media editors.
The list goes on.
But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.
In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.
Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations.
Time Magazine also just laid off a ton of people and, oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week.
Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out.
Yeah, so you get it.
She doesn't know why this is possibly happening.
And I asked the question, Taylor, Lorenz, have you guys considered telling the truth?
I mean, I'm just throwing it out there.
It sounds crazy.
But maybe what's happening is people are no longer reading the mainstream media news because you just routinely lie.
And people have woken up to the fact that it's entirely propagandist, and they just do not want to waste their time reading things that they know is essentially coming to them from the state.
It feels like the CIA says, say this, get them to support Ukraine, get them to support the fact that we're going to bomb Iran, and you guys just get out there and start being emotional.
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