# Ilhan Omar - A thread about her marriage and immigration history. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347 "2019-07-20T12:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/41 "2019-07-22T19:27:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > What is the reason for the obsession with this one member of Congress, not just on the part of the OP but also Fox News and others? The Authoritarian Party needs to create a “Goldstein” so they can focus their Two Minutes Hate. Orwell seems to have been quite good at predicting the future. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/42 "2019-07-22T19:30:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I suspect because she’s the only one of “The Squad” that Trump told to “go home” that actually immigrated into the US. There’s no point in making the others “poster children” for anti-immigration hate, because they were born here. But telling her to “go home” sounds less insane than telling the others to do so. Since when did the Trumpsters ever believe in the sanity clause? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/43 "2019-07-22T19:48:25Z")
You know, I didn’t realize that this thread was already a couple of days old. I fear that it may be another few years before Annoyed returns to expound on this story. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/44 "2019-07-22T19:51:18Z")
The OP’s profile says “Cell activated, 7/20/19”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/45 "2019-07-22T19:56:37Z")
Over a year and a half between join date and first post? Apparently not long enough. No need for a second post. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/46 "2019-07-22T20:17:36Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > And then, for whatever reason, Omar decided that she didn’t like the prospect of the free money that she could get by suing their assess. I don’t think you have a very clear understanding of the concept of “free”. Things that you have to make an effort to obtain are not free. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/47 "2019-07-22T20:35:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Over a year and a half between join date and first post? Apparently not long enough. No need for a second post. You’re just scared. The OP cited some dickhead with a blog and a random asshole on Twitter. Gotcha libtards! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/48 "2019-07-22T21:08:49Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You’re just scared. The OP cited some dickhead with a blog and a random asshole on Twitter. Gotcha libtards! Well if you can’t trust some dickhead with a blog and some random guy on twitter over a Member of Congress and the entire monolithic fake news complex, just who can you trust? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/49 "2019-07-22T21:40:24Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The alternative is that a few right-wing bloggers were able to falsify a fairly prodigious quantity of screenshots, learning Somali along the way, at a much higher level than their graphic abilities would seem to indicate. And then, for whatever reason, Omar decided that she didn’t like the prospect of the free money that she could get by suing their assess. > > . I’ve gotta ask, **Sage Rat** : How do you feel about the fact that a shitty troll, possible sock is taking up your cause with a drive-by, single question JAQ-off of a post? I mean, you seem to be pretty pleased with it so far. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/50 "2019-07-22T23:56:49Z")
How do we know it isn’t his sock? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/51 "2019-07-23T00:33:34Z")
I used to wonder why so many users ended up Banned. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/52 "2019-07-23T00:52:32Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I used to wonder why so many users ended up Banned. I mean, I still do, but I used to, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/53 "2019-07-23T01:19:46Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > Your assumption is incorrect. > > [Link](https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-us-citizen-sponsor-half-sister-half-brother-green-card.html) Good to know. That would certainly make the odds lower that the brother hypothesis is correct, though it still doesn’t explain how it came to be that Omar ended up cohabiting with two husbands at the same time. And it is still peculiar that one of the two would have the name Dad Jr., though that does happen sometimes by happenstance and could simply be a happenstance. I have not endorsed that the theory is true, merely that there’s sufficient evidence that _something_ funny was going on that it would probably be unwise for the Democrats to rest their political fortunes on Omar. Trying to make her a political star, because Trump attacks her, is unwise. It should also be pointed out that her grandpa worked at a fairly high level in the Somali government during the period of its executing a genocide. There may be other reasons that the family doesn’t want people looking too hard into their past. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/54 "2019-07-23T01:21:26Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I mean, I still do, but I used to, too. How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/55 "2019-07-23T01:27:24Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? I’m for ‘em. Join the club! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/56 "2019-07-23T01:32:00Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I’m for ‘em. Join the club! _jabs **JKellyMap** with frilly toothpicks_ ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/57 "2019-07-23T01:37:28Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I’m for ‘em. Join the club! The club is formed! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/58 "2019-07-23T01:42:00Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Good to know. That would certainly make the odds lower that the brother hypothesis is correct, though it still doesn’t explain how it came to be that Omar ended up cohabiting with two husbands at the same time. And it is still peculiar that one of the two would have the name Dad Jr., though that does happen sometimes by happenstance and could simply be a happenstance. > > I have not endorsed that the theory is true, merely that there’s sufficient evidence that _something_ funny was going on that it would probably be unwise for the Democrats to rest their political fortunes on Omar. Trying to make her a political star, because Trump attacks her, is unwise. > > It should also be pointed out that her grandpa worked at a fairly high level in the Somali government during the period of its executing a genocide. There may be other reasons that the family doesn’t want people looking too hard into their past. Ah, an interesting, albeit rare, sighting of an embryonic Gish Gallop. In any event, there’s clearly Something Funny going on. Something Funny. Won’t someone please ring up Bill Barr and get him to investigatin’? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/59 "2019-07-23T01:42:22Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > It should also be pointed out that her grandpa worked at a fairly high level in the Somali government during the period of its executing a genocide. There may be other reasons that the family doesn’t want people looking too hard into their past. Wow. You buy tinfoil in bulk don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/60 "2019-07-23T01:44:19Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? I like to pretend they’re little arrows. If I can get a handful of them at dinner I’ll stab them all into my meat and pretend it was a wooly mammoth brought down by tribal hunters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347.md?page=4)