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Rep Omar talks about her PTSD - RWers act like the monsters they are (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
OP
A long time ago, I asked my Somali girlfriend about her experience as a refugee...
ck4829
Jan 2020
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Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)1. I don't know who said it first, but it's true
When people show you who they are, believe them.
tblue37
(65,358 posts)2. Maya Angelou. nt
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)4. The debased base needs constant feeding. nt
ck4829
(35,077 posts)5. A long time ago, I asked my Somali girlfriend about her experience as a refugee...
She didn't talk a lot about it, she said "I saw people die in front of me" (When she was a child) and that was it. I didn't press it, it clearly bothered her.
These tools won't give Rep. Omar the same courtesy.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)6. And taking a break from not caring about veterans to pretend to care about veterans? Really, Jim?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)7. I know for a fact what war can do to a child
my mum, freaking out at the smell of rubber in the shoe department of a store, because it reminded her of the gas mask she wore during air raids in England, FIFTY YEARS AGO....she had asthma and had a hard time breathing