Ilhan Omar And Nancy Mace Are Beefing Big Time, And Their Back-And-Forth Truly Must Be Seen To Be Believed
Things got hairy, to say the least.
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We all remember the Twitter beef of the century between President Donald Trump and a jilted Elon Musk.
Well, it looks like two congresswomen from each side of the aisle are giving them a run for their money. Ilhan Omar is a Democrat representing Minnesota in the US House of Representatives, while Nancy Mace, a Republican, represents South Carolina.
It all started with a tweet from Mace on Monday afternoon about a resolution to strip Omar of her committee assignments because of her remarks about Charlie Kirk, which Mace called “disgraceful.”
Then, on Tuesday afternoon, Omar tweeted a response saying that Mace “is trying to censure me over comments I never said” and that “Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.”
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Then, on Wednesday morning, the two got into a swift back-and-forth on X. On her personal account, Nancy Mace shared a screenshot of a 2022 tweet by Omar about the potential consequences of using your freedom of speech. Mace said it was “time to live by it” and again mentioned the move to censure Omar and strip her of her House committee assignments. “If you celebrate murder, maybe Somalia can take you back,” Mace wrote.
Omar fired back, saying Mace isn’t “well or smart” and that Mace couldn’t get rid of her.
Mace responded to THAT and said, “We’d [presumably she and her fellow MAGA House Republicans] love to see you deported back to Somalia next.”
After Mace tweeted she’d be leading the floor debate on the proposed censure that evening, calling her “Somalia Ilhan Omar,” Omar asked whether her “ridiculous censure” was about her being born in Somalia. “Because that’s just as crazy as you are,” she wrote.
Mace really clung onto the Somalia thing. She also tweeted that there was a “One-way ticket to Somalia with your name on it, Ilhan Omar.”
Then Omar replied that she was going to her home country soon anyway and that Mace could drop off her ticket at her office next door. How sweet!
And in response to the Mace’s call for her deportation, Omar said she’d love to see Mace “get the help you need next. You belong in rehab, not Congress.” Oop!
Mace has continued her tirade into the void all day, tweeting repeatedly from her official government account about the conspiracy theory popularized by Trump and Fox News that Omar had married her brother to help him with US citizenship. She’s also been tweeting stuff like this:
Here’s some context to clear all of this up. Mace’s resolution included a list of things Omar had reposted about Charlie Kirk after his death, but no actual quotes from her. Mace made the news shortly after Kirk’s shooting for calling the then-unidentified shooter an anti-trans slur; people also said that she changed her tune about the suspect after the alleged shooter turned out to be a cisgender white man.
As for the whole Somalia thing: Omar, an American citizen, was born in Somalia and fled violence there as a child with her family. She’s also called the rumors about marrying her brother “absolutely false and ridiculous.”
I think that about clears everything up. We’ll see how this one shakes out, folks!