Quote (Ghot @ May 13 2019 01:43pm)
Ofc there is, and I would bet money that after Tlaib and Omar, and the lessons we've learned from them... so far, I seriously doubt that any more middle eastern folks will be winning any elections without some really serious vetting.
As to how they could cut their losses, in a more timely manner, I'm not sure they could, until the next elections for those seats. I doubt they could pull off a "kicking them out of Congress" move without serious repercussions. :(
I just don't get it
Keith Ellison has been in politics for a good long time and managed to avoid major fuck-up's and his only scandals came from journalists digging up the dirt from his more radical associations in his youth and his attempts to suppress those links to this day. And beating his girlfriend, that too. It was never about Keith Ellison spouting Farrakhan lines and echoing neo-Nazis and engaging in blood libel, it was just old fashioned skeletons in his closet he couldn't keep buried.
But then the insane fuckers in the democratic party advanced a woman who literally married her own brother and a sharia-law apologist and they both spout anti-semitic stuff on a weekly basis.
There are millions of muslims in the US, surely they could have found someone more competent