Let me preface this by noting that there are no shortage of stupid lawmakers in Washington. In fact, if you removed every elected official who isn’t as smart as they should be, there is a question as to whether you could get a quorum in either chamber of the legislative branch.
That caveat duly noted, few stupid lawmakers throw stones around their glass House of Representatives quite so often as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Quality Learing Center).
She calls reporters stupid. She calls Republicans stupid. She even calls Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, stupid.
Therefore, it’s newsworthy when an unearthed clip shows a woman who serially calls her opponents stupid calling World War II “World War Eleven.”
Yes, the clip might have been from January of 2025, when Omar and other Democrats were speaking about repealing theAlien Enemies Actof 1798, but it’s just making the rounds now — coincidentally at the same time Omar is ranting about the “stupidity” of anyone with the temerity to ask how her stated net worth went from the tens of thousands to the tens of millions to the tens of thousands again all in a span of just a few years of asset declaration forms.
So, to get to the viral clip: As you may remember, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was very much in the news at the time, as the nascent second administration of Donald Trump was planning on using it to deport non-citizen members of gangs and other organized criminal organizations.
Omar was chosen to lead the presser, which was not a great decision.
“First, I want to thank my partner in this, Sen. [Mazie] Hirono, for her leadership in this work to repeal the outdated and dangerous Alien Enemies Act of 1798,” Omar said.
“The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War Eleven.”
To be fair, Omar corrected herself immediately, but the damage was done. There are some mistakes an American lawmaker is not supposed to make. Referring to World War II — the cataclysm that shaped the modern world and catapulted the United States into the role of global superpower — as “World War Eleven” is one of them.
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