Rep. Ilhan Omar Sprayed During Town Hall

[ProfD]

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g-s1-107625/ilhan-omar-sprayed-town-hall

 

Some wacko sitting on the front row of a Town Hall in MN jumped up & sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar with an unknown substance. 

 

The man was immediately tackled by security but if he had a firearm or some other weapon, the outcome could have been a lot different. 

 

The current political climate is highly charged. Politicians & public servants are talking reckless. Citizens are protesting & acting out.

 

This 2-party political system is part of the problem in having people divided & choosing sides. Ridiculous.

[aka Contrarian]

With the murder of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital in Minnesota, who ICE  agents riddled with bullets when he went to the aid of a female protestor they were wrestling to the ground, the tense situation in this country has really escalated.

Social media is blowin up as Retrumpicans and Dems go at it,  with MAGAs labeling Pretti as a gun-carrying domestic terrorist, and Dems describing him as a Good Samaritan who was brandishing a phone not the gun he was licensed to carry and had on him. ICE supporters argue that all of this could've been avoided had Alex Pretti not interfered with federal troops doing their duty while Pretti is being turned into an angel of mercy and martyr by the Left, much to the chagrin of Right wingers who defend the reckless overkill by who the Left refer to as masked, poorly-trained bullies!

The camera accounts taken by those on the sideline do seem to contradict the Trump Administration's accounts of Pretti being a threat, and It's Charlie Kirk all over again as the lines are being drawn and the nation becomes more polarized than ever, with Blacks continuing to distance themselves from the conflict, preferring to remind that what happened to Alex Pretti has always gone on in their neighborhoods. 

 

As much as I hate MAGAS and ICE, and agree that the camera proves that Homeland Security head, Kristi Noem, is lying,  I wish the Liberals would stop the over-the- top aggrandizing of Alex Pretti because it's so obviously hyperbole. 

 

Now it has been revealed that Pretti was previously arrested for intervening in another protest and that he was under investigation by ICE officials who were out to get him. smh. One thing for sure is that ICE is bad news and its members who are rumored to be heavily drawn from right wing militias like the Proud Boys, are trigger happy unprofessional storm troopers who need to be dismantled and sent back down their rabbit holes!

They have caused nothing but trouble and are a menace to American society. 

[ProfD]

This situation is an example of how the polarization caused by politics is leading to people being unalived. 

 

IMO, there's no reason for ICE to be patrolling cities like bounty hunters. They normally execute enforcement actions quietly. 

 

Riding around like storm troopers & throwing tear gas canisters at protesters is not a part of their job description.

 

The DHS hiring a bunch of right-wing nut-jobs is definitely a huge part of the problem.

 

It had been all fun & games until people started being unalived. Especially *innocent* white folks. No stupid prizes will be handed out.

[Troy]

18 hours ago, ProfD said:

The man was immediately tackled by security but if he had a firearm or some other weapon, the outcome could have been a lot different. 

 

Yeah I just heard this on the radio.  They wanded people as they entered the venue fortunately.  She could have been sprayed with acid!

 

@aka Contrarian Tension are rising, but does the mid 2020's come close to rivaling 1960's America?    

 

 

[ProfD]

12 minutes ago, Troy said:

Yeah I just heard this on the radio.  They wanded people as they entered the venue fortunately.  She could have been sprayed with acid!

Exactly. That would have been awful for her or anyone else to be hurt, harmed or killed over political beliefs.

 

[Pioneer1]

The problem is when there is so much hate being spewed at her not only online but from the Whitehouse and Congress, ofcourse some nuts are going to feel emboldened to try something.
MAGA is inciting this type of violence.

I like how our petite little sista balded up her fists and charged at the fool like she was ready for some action.

.....then called him ugly, lol.


 

 

[aka Contrarian]

3 hours ago, Troy said:

@aka Contrarian Tension are rising, but does the mid 2020's come close to rivaling 1960's America?    

Yes, this era does come close to 1960s America, but - I guess it does not exceed what went on during the civil rights movement and anti-war protests.  

Yet, - somehow, things didn't seem so dystopic then; - like the future of America, as we know it, was at stake.

Back then, there was more a feeling of hope rather than despair. Hard to explain. 

And as bad as he was, Nixon was nowhere near as narcisstic and ignorant as Trump. He was a text book Conservative, and an adherent to the Constitution, not a Retrumpican renegade.

To me, today's spectre of fascism and returning to the past is more scary than yesterday's struggle to  achieve democracy for all.