Sen. Warren: The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman--

[demmiblue]

The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It's disgusting. It's shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.

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[demmiblue]

1. Buttigieg's comments:

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After 9/11 we all said we were changed. That we were stronger and more united. That’s what “never forget” was about. Now, a president uses that dark day to incite his base against a member of Congress, as if for sport. As if we learned nothing that day about the workings of hate.

That day, some people did this: killed thousands of Americans in order to try to make us smaller, more divided and less free. To weaken us by distancing us from our own values through fear and anger. This is the function of terrorism.

I served overseas, at risk to my life, in the struggle against such terrorism. But it can only be fully defeated if we have leaders at home who defuse its capacity to sow hate—hate against Islam or against any number of “others.”

The president today made America smaller. It is not enough to condemn him; we must model something better.

The threats against the life of @IlhanMN make clear what is at stake if we fail to to do this, and to beat back hate in all all its forms.

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[olegramps]

4. When I awake, I make coffee and turn on the news to hear if the merciful God has called Trump home.

This is an absolute nightmare. I hope that when I awaken it has just been that darn spicy sausage that tasted so good. This can't being happening. God isn't that cruel. We must have done something to really bad to piss Him off this time. The Great Flood, plagues in Egypt, now its the Trumpitis plague twisting the minds of millions into a caldron churning with blind hatred.

[Penn Voter]

5. God won't call him home

it will be up to Satan. What is taking Satan so long?!

[marylandblue]

6. Study history. God is that cruel. This has happened in other times and other countries.

You can't defeat it without first acknowledging the harsh realities of life. But you also can't give into the hate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. You're not the only one. I wake up and think, Will this be the day the Big One gets him?

If God calls Trump "home," that new home will be even warmer than Merde-a-Loco in July.

[PatrickforO]

20. From a fellow 'gramps,' you just made my day with that tag line.

...if the merciful God has called Trump home.

Still chuckling.

It isn't funny, though. We live in 'interesting' times - dangerous yet rife with opportunity. The old Chinese curse, you know.

I'm a big believer in Karma, but that it happens over many lifetimes. When a certain Karma based on something you did at some point in your existance ripens, then you get the opportunity to work through it.

When I was a kid, the social contract was that you'd do good in school, keep your nose clean and get as much education as you could. Then you'd go to work and make your career at one company - and that company would take care of you - healthcare, pension and so on, until you retired, then you'd have Social Security, your pension and Medicare.

Unfortunately, like most Americans our age, I kept my nose to the grindstone and didn't really worry much about who was in power, because I had faith that no one would do anything too insane. Or at least I hoped.

I woke up in 2000 when Bush stole the election from Gore. I began to be active in 2004, when Bush stole the election from Kerry. I was active in 2008 and subsequently - in my local Democratic party, on social media, calling my US Senators and Representative regularly about issues, writing them, signing petitions, donating money and so on.

But I have to go back and reference something you said that just hit me. You said, "God isn't that cruel."

When I read that, as a student of history and of politics, my mind was drawn back to slavery, the genocide against the Native Americans, Vietnam, Argentina's dirty war, in Chile under Pinochet - the list goes on year after cruel year, where we have literally destroyed whole other peoples for the sake of greed and 'business interests.'

Was God cruel to the people of those civilizations the Northern Europeans, and then the North Americans destroyed? The millions of Native Americans - Aztecs, Incas, Arapahos, Cheyenne, Iroquois? The millions of Vietnamese? The 350,000 Iraqis, Afghans and Pakistani civilians who have died since 911 at the point of the American sword of war - in our initial 'shock and awe' campaign and then the surge, the drone actions?

I fear our hands are quite bloody, and selfishly, I hope that the chickens don't come home to roost. These white nationalist Trump supporters - they are the kind of people that cheered as whole peoples, whole civilizations died under the lash, at the tip of the bloody bayonet, on the ground under the carpet bombs.

It may be that we can still recover IF we get rid of Trump, get good people in office and hold them accountable, then begin having conversations around reparations and coming to terms with the darkness in our past, then perhaps we can become the light on the hill, the world leader in saving the planet from the depredations of capitalism and the primacy of the shareholder.

So, you think enough of us will be noble in our hearts and step forward to end the American Empire, save the American Republic and reshape that Republic to what it CAN be if we just do it?

Or, will we remain just a bunch of lemmings and run off the cliff to end up as little more than a footnote in the great scheme of cosmic creation?

[pangaia]

9. Pete, don't tweet. CALL THE FBI !!!!

[tymorial]

2. Hear hear

[Ohiogal]

3. YES

Trump is the meanest, dumbest, asshole on earth.

[backtoblue]

7. Truth

[pangaia]

8. Elizabeth, Don't tweet..... CALL THE FBI !!!

[artislife]

10. All of congress should be issuing such a statement.nt

[demmiblue]

12. Inslee, O'Rourke, Sanders & Klobuchar:

President Trump's inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric towards Ilhan Omar is jeopardizing her safety. He is deliberately putting her and all Muslim Americans in harm's way.

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We are stronger than this president’s hatred and Islamophobia. Do not let him drive us apart or make us afraid.

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Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.

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Someone has already been charged with a serious threat on Congresswoman Omar’s life. The video the President chose to send out today will only incite more hate. You can disagree with her words—as I have done before—but this video is wrong. Enough.

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[artislife]

17. Great responses

There should be hundreds more, but Amy has risen in my eyes because of this tweet. Jay is my Governor so I know who he is and Bernie was my choice last election so I know who he is. Beto is young so he SHOULD be saying this, if we believe in evolving species!

[Nanjeanne]

13. Saw Sanders' tweet first and was glad to see Warren's almost immediately after. Good for them

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We need the Dem leadership to have the courage of Sanders and Warren to lead in this matter.

[BlueFlorida]

14. K&R nt

[demmiblue]

15. Hickenlooper, Yang, Castro & Williamson:

President Trump's personal attack against Representative Omar is vile and shameful. It's not just below the office, it's dangerous and dishonest.

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I was in New York on 9/11. I remember walking uptown away from the WTC in a crowd of thousands. Remembering 9/11 does not mean inciting hostility toward Muslim-Americans who are just as American as anyone else. As President I would bring us together. We are all one country. 👍🇺🇸

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I am grateful for @IlhanMN's courage and leadership and I stand with her - and with others targeted by the President's anti-Muslim rhetoric.

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Whether it was President Trump walking menacing behind Hillary Clinton during their televised debate or his menacing behavior toward @ilhanMN now, his subtly violent behavior against women will not go unnoticed in the next election. I stand with her.

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[artislife]

18. Thanks for adding these responses

I am getting a better feeling about our side. The words are straight forward and strong.

[PatrickforO]

16. Lots of Republican trolls on Warren's twitter thread.

Their strategy seems to be stating they used to be Democrats, but since all we do is slander...blah, blah, blah, they are now Republican. One even said the 'scales' had fallen from his eyes.

I wonder if they get a nickel a pop, or if that is just an urban legend.

[dalton99a]

19. Kick

[demmiblue]

21. Harris:

For two years, this President has used the most powerful platform in the world to sow hate & division. He's done it again. Putting the safety of a sitting member of Congress @IlhanMN at risk & vilifying a whole religion is beyond the pale. I'll be blunt — we must defeat him.

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So far, no comments from: Biden, Booker, Delaney & Gabbard