Rashida Tlaib threatens to not support President Biden in 2024

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. She proves

her ignorance every time she opens her mouth.

[Lovie777]

2. Fine...................

[tritsofme]

3. It's time for Leader Jeffries to seriously talk about stripping her of committee assignments

This is not acceptable, she has no place in our caucus.

[rollin74]

6. absolutely

[TheRealNorth]

15. No

I think she is being dumb, but I that sort of response is going too far IMO and would make me question our party's commitment to free speech and democracy.

[tritsofme]

18. She is choosing to leave the Democratic Party. She has called our president a genocide supporter

and will not support his reelection, which would lend her implicit support to Trump.

Tlaib is no longer a Democrat.

[Chi67]

39. Agreed

Since this war started, a lot of people on this site seem to be fine with shutting down free speech.

[tritsofme]

40. As we frequently remind racist righties, speech can have consequences.

Tlaib can say whatever she wants, it doesn’t mean the Democratic Party needs to associate with her.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

41. I won't go so far

As to say boot her from committees or the caucus, but this not a free speech issue. Like everyone else, she has free speech, but with that right comes potential consequences.

Freedom of speech is related to the government not being able to criminally punish you for what you say…it doesn’t mean you face no consequences.

[TheRealNorth]

45. And thats why AIPAC and othr organizations.....

Will throw a lot of money against her at the next election. Those are the consequences.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

47. I hope so n/t

[dem4decades]

52. Her freedom of speech has not been infringed, but speech is not protected from consequences.

[brush]

31. Agreed. I think Rep. Jeffries will take care of it.

She such a loose cannon...blurts out emotional outbursts before getting the facts.

I still remember her booing Hillary into a mic.

[JohnSJ]

4. I doubt she ever supported President Biden, even before the current middle east crisis

and while I can understand her personal attachment to this situation, why she wouldn't try to outreach to the President privately about her concerns, instead of going to social media, is not the brightest move.

[DemocratInPa]

5. Isn't she from Palenstine??

I mean I get the outrage from her, watching her people being slaughtered.

[tritsofme]

10. Does that give her a free pass to make vicious slurs against President Biden?

Is there no lie she could tell which wouldn’t be excused?

[DemocratInPa]

14. Of course not, but..

I understand her outrage, but there is a better way to handle it..

[EX500rider]

23. She's from Detroit

The eldest of 14 children, Rashida Harbi was born on July 24, 1976, to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit. Her mother was born in Beit Ur El Foka, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The name Rashida means "righteous". Her father was born in Beit Hanina, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

[Cha]

25. THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE GETS TO MAKE STUFF UP..

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She Never Has Taken Down THIS Tweet of hers....

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[mcar]

36. Has she said anything

about Israeli’s being slaughtered by the govt of Palestine?

[kelly1mm]

53. No. She is from Detroit Michigan, USA. nt

[Ninga]

7. I've learned at my advanced age and hard knocks

experience, that one can not walk with one’s mouth if they haven’t walked in the other’s shoes.

[TheRealNorth]

8. She is a moron

If she wants to support a primary challenger, that's one thing. But it's not like having a Republican in the WH would improve the situation for the Palestinians.

[Calculating]

9. Has she said a single thing condemning Hamas?

...

[Jedi Guy]

17. Not that I've heard or read about, no.

As far as I know, she never took down that tweet accusing Israel of "bombing the hospital", either. I can only interpret that, and this fresh threat not to support Biden, as doubling down.

[dembotoz]

19. have you ever said anything against nutty yahoo?

sharp knife cuts both ways

[Mossfern]

58. I have

I've also spoken out against Likud and the illegal settlements in the West Bank.

[themaguffin]

11. I wonder what her voters think. I bet there will be a Democratic voter who supports the party will primary her

[ificandream]

16. I understand her frustration with the current situation, but the alternative on the GOP does not deserve her support.

[themaguffin]

72. I meant in terms of a possible primary.

[Jedi Guy]

21. Possible, but I doubt they'd be successful.

I'm pretty sure her district includes at least parts of Dearborn, if not most/all of it, and Dearborn has the highest concentration of Muslims per capita in the country. Tlaib has also won resoundingly in the last couple elections, so there's also that.

I'd say the odds are good many of her constituents are on the same page she is.

[NCWilm]

71. Indeed

Pathetic indeed Jedi.

Have fun at the lake buddy

[LiberalFighter]

12. I'm sure many of my German ancestors in America supported defeating Hitler back then.

I sure don't support Hitler or any of his supporters.

Yes there were many Germans in Germany that did not support Hitler.

[LiberalFighter]

13. She likely has limited information to base her view on the situation.

[tritsofme]

20. No, she's a US congresswoman, she has more information than anyone, but chooses to lie

and spread vicious slurs against President Biden. It is disgusting.

[PTL_Mancuso]

29. Living as we do in a propaganda state. . .

. . . I don't doubt that WE continue to receive severely filtered and/or BAD information. The endless flood of garbage coming from the folks with the MEGA-phones threatens to drown us all. And I fully include MSNBC in that bunch. I used to have hope for a "liberal" TV news outlet but Truth and Facts just don't sell anymore.

Over the years, so, so many lies from our state dept. and Israel (and so many others) too many times to believe anything issuing from them.

I'm sure that you have, at least, heard of, and possibly read, Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States? So, you would know that IT happens here quite a little bit.

[DemocratInPa]

22. BTW, She threatened not to support him..

I guarantee she will support him..

This is all theater to try to get the President to condemn the bombing of Gaza.

[Cha]

38. Baloney. nothing can be "garaunteed .. Especially Not when anyone

is acting in bad faith.

Link to tweet

She Never Has Taken Down THIS Tweet of hers....

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And Yes I know I posted this Twice.

[OilemFirchen]

24. Ever so slightly off-topic...

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(My emphasis).

Bless their pointed little heads.

[betsuni]

68. My brains are confused by this. "Capitalist" probably has a new meaning, like a lot of words these days.

[Army Brat]

26. Is there a link to the video?

Just snipping out two or three words smells of click bait. I wonder what she exactly said.

[brooklynite]

34. Here

[questionseverything]

50. You have to sign in to see it

[brooklynite]

54. No you don't

Just click on “Watch on YouTube”

[questionseverything]

61. It says you must sign in as not appropriate for all ages

[brooklynite]

63. That's if you're watching it embedded here

Just click the YouTube link.

[questionseverything]

65. Well it wasn't that easy at all

I got hubby to help and the video i saw showed thousands of young people protesting in several different cities and only a sentence or two from the rep

The guy whose tweet stated all this is intellectually dishonest… the actual video should be posted

[brooklynite]

66. She chose to add her comments to the video...

Does she agree that Israel is on “stolen land” and that Palestine should be “from the river to the sea”?

[questionseverything]

67. I'm actually not 100% sure we are talking about the same video

I only see her say a couple sentences, nothing I found terribly offensive but I wall say, the tens of thousands of young protesters seem to have the same attitude about Israel as the young people I have raised…. My kids think the Israeli government are bullys and are pissed the United States pays for so much…. Obviously du doesn’t agree but du is much older

We ignore the youth at our own peril

[brooklynite]

70. In the lead up to her comments...

There are clips of protest with those comments highlighted.

[muriel_volestrangler]

73. Are you sure that's the video, and that she was part of making it?

Note that hardly anyone has seen that video - 1,200 views, about 24 hours after it went up (for comparison, this thread has had over 1,800 views). She is edited into it, but it's not clear that she has anything to do with the shots of the demonstration or its claims, as you say in another reply.

What she has said was:

"To my president, to our president ... I want him to know, as a Palestinian American and somebody in Muslim faith, I'm not going to forget this. And I think a lot of people are not going to forget this," Tlaib said.

"President Biden, not all Americans are with you on this one and you need to understand that. We are literally watching people commit genocide and killing the vast majority just like this, and we still stand by and say nothing. We will remember this," she warned.

https://news.yahoo.com/rashida-tlaib-doubles-down-blaming-221821213.html

[questionseverything]

27. I want to see the video

I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and condemn her off what someone on the net says she said


And it’s pretty discouraging that so many duers just believe random sources

[budkin]

28. Cannot stand her

For real.

[greatauntoftriplets]

30. That doesn't leave her a lot of choices then.

Drumpf? Some other puke? RFJ, Jr.? Dean Phillips? Some other third party type? All those choices are bad.

[tritsofme]

35. She announcing her implicit support of Trump.

No other way to look at it.

[LexVegas]

32. DINO. nt

[Snackshack]

33. Manchin

Does this all the time no one ever calls for him to be expelled.

[Ocelot II]

42. I don't think he ever accused Biden of genocide.

[Elessar Zappa]

55. Um yeah, he never said Biden supported genocide.

That’s an extremely vulgar slur to level at someone.

[FHRRK]

37. Link?

Some Twitter feed from some uknown dude doesn’t cut it.

Google search for Tliab threatens gets me nothing other than some Jesse Watters Fox bullshit.

That being said Tliab is not one of my favs, kind of a tool in my book.

Main point, many are reacting to critical Israel posts with the same “link” response at best along with some very uncivil comments.

Flame away! But when you have a you a guy like me that is wholly behind destroying Hamas, yet have some criticisms of Israeli leadership and tactics, then log in and see some horrifically insensitive comments regarding Palestines, well you ain’t winning hearts and minds.

[brooklynite]

44. Upthread at 34.

Took me two minutes to find it (used "last 24 hours" )

[FHRRK]

56. Lol, was at El Pollo Loco, reading on my iPhone

Had a Double Avocado Salad, very good and filling for fast food and only 350 calories.

That being said, I only spend one minute searching, which will be one more than I spend next time.

Another example of winning hearts and minds.

[Tomconroy]

43. Tlaib's loss is Biden's gain

[Freethinker65]

46. Her vote, her choice.

Evidently she is a single issue voter.

For many, her statement will be seen not as supporting Palestinians, but as supporting Hamas. After this, few politicians would even want her endorsement.

[NowISeetheLight]

48. Condemned?

Has she ever condemned Hamas or Hezbollah for their terrorist activities in the past?

[The Grand Illuminist]

49. Don't tell me she is the next Sheila Jackson Lee.

[lapucelle]

69. Don't worry. I don't think anyone will be telling you that she's the next Sheila Jackson Lee. N/T

[walkingman]

51. Talk is cheap - I just hope that issues like this do not end up throwing the election to TFG.

The damage that would do to America and the Democratic Party is almost unimaginable.

[pinkstarburst]

59. Then if, God forbid, we do not win in 2024, and Trump does

every horrible injustice he commits against Muslims and Arab Americans will be on her hands. She is using her platform to incite and divide, to encourage her supporters to vote against Biden, or to not show up at the polls, and in a swing state, no less. That's pretty dangerous, especially when you consider some of the things Trump is already proposing doing to Muslim and Arab Americans. Does she actually think that Muslims and Arab Americans (or Palestinians in Gaza for that matter) will be better off under a Trump presidency? Is she actually that stupid?

[Aristus]

60. I suppose this means she's prepared to take her chances with Trump and his Muslim ban

again.

[617Blue]

62. Cenk is looking for a Veep. Go for it please.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

64. The Just Us Democrats are out supporting this effort

I really dislike the Justice Democrat group.