Well, apparently, weāre supposed to just shrug and move on.
Charlie Kirk is assassinated. Ilhan Omar gets on a podcast and essentially blames him for his own murder. And Speaker Mike Johnson? He gives a nice little soundbite on Fox News and then retreats behind the same old āletās turn down the rhetoricā routine.
Are you kidding?
Letās back up. Charlie Kirk, a conservative voice with a massive reach, is gunned down in broad daylight. Tragic? Absolutely. But for Ilhan Omar, itās not a moment to grieve, reflect, or show some basic human decency. No, she jumps on the Mehdi Hasan podcast and immediately shifts into attack mode. Not against the shooter. Against Charlie.
She says people claiming Kirk just wanted civil debate are āfull of sh-t.ā She accuses him of spewing dangerous rhetoric. Hasan chimes in, agreeing enthusiastically ā because of course he does ā and together they paint the picture: Charlie Kirk basically had it coming.
And then Omar goes further.
She accuses Trump ā surprise, surprise ā of inciting violence. She claims that Republicans are happy to see people like Kamala Harris killed. Thatās right. She went there. She said ā on the record ā that conservatives donāt mind if Vice President Harris is assassinated.
Read that again.
But Johnsonās big response? āThatās not helpful language.ā
Really, Mike? Thatās the best youāve got? Omar goes on national platforms and implies the conservative movement is responsible for Kirkās death ā and youāre worried about tone?
Itās more than tone. Itās incitement.
Letās flip the script. Imagine a Republican congressman said a left-wing activist deserved to die because of āstochastic terrorismā or was āfull of sh-tā for defending their beliefs. You think MSNBC would be hand-wringing about ārhetoricā? No. Theyād be calling for resignations, criminal investigations, social media bans, and 24/7 coverage.
But Omar? She gets a pass. Again.
And this isnāt new. This is the same Ilhan Omar who once accused Jewish students of being āpro-genocide.ā The same one who said āIsrael has hypnotized the world.ā The same one who plays identity Politics like a sport and then cries victim when anyone pushes back.
She was already removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee last year ā a move she celebrated like it was a badge of honor. And now sheās right back at it, spewing the same toxic vitriol with zero accountability.
At some point, this stops being about Omar. Sheās not going to change. This is who she is.
The problem now is Republican leadership.
Because if Mike Johnson ā the Speaker of the House, the guy with the power ā canāt even muster the spine to strip her of committee assignments after this, then what exactly is he doing?
Why is it that the base has more guts than its elected leaders? Why does it take grassroots pressure and public outrage to get Republicans to act like⦠Republicans?
Buddy Carter just introduced a resolution to boot her from two committees. That shouldāve come from Johnsonās office before breakfast. Instead, we get vague platitudes on Sunday talk shows while Omar reposts videos celebrating Kirkās death and calling him a āstochastic terrorist.ā
One video Omar reposted even said, āCharlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein, and his monster shot him through the neck.ā Thatās the rhetoric sheās aligning with. Thatās what sheās amplifying to her followers.
This is not normal.
This isnāt just some āspirited debateā over Politics. This is a sitting member of Congress echoing, amplifying, and justifying the murder of a fellow American ā because he held the wrong opinions.
And Johnson? He shrugs.
If Republicans canāt find the courage to expel someone openly condoning political violence, then weāre already losing the fight ā not because of the left, but because of our own cowardice.
The American people are watching. And theyāre not just watching Ilhan Omar.
Theyāre watching the Speaker of the House.
And so far, what theyāre seeing isnāt leadership. Itās appeasement.
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