Over the weekend, Ilhan Omar grabbed about 12 more shovels and got to work digging her grave a few hundred feet deeper:

This country was founded on the ideas of justice, of liberty, of the pursuit of happiness. But these core beliefs are under threat. Each and every day. We are under threat by an administration that would rather cage children than pass comprehensive immigration reform. — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 13, 2019

Aside from the fact that she’s clearly talking out of her butt, she’s also apparently hoping that the rest of us haven’t been paying attention to the horrible things she’s said. As tweeter @neontaster points out, Ilhan Omar’s position on our country’s greatness is somewhat … flexible:

This country was founded on whichever principles are convenient for me at the time. pic.twitter.com/HUS9iIM6Jh — neontaster (@neontaster) April 15, 2019

We’re going to go out on a limb and suggest that she hasn’t so much evolved on the issue as she’s trying to pretend she doesn’t hate what has made America a country worth fleeing to.

One is an idea, one is a crime that happened in pursuit of those ideas. — bulk buys (@conjectures) April 15, 2019

This seems like an incredibly generous interpretation based solely on which preposition she used. Hard to argue that you hold those values dear if you think they were built on evil. — neontaster (@neontaster) April 15, 2019

Exactly.

Absolutely brutal. — Mike McD (@MickGMick) April 15, 2019

Hope @neontaster is prepared for the wrath of Omar’s minions:

Quotation is incitement! — JoggingWithBurritos (@JoggingBurrito) April 15, 2019

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