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In reply to the discussion: Did Rep. Tlaib [View all]bigtree
(85,917 posts)...they blocked me this morning for calling them out on this bullshit propaganda.
The tweet is worthy of the worst of our opposition. You took a made up smear at face value and catapaulted the propaganda here, having admitted you didn't even watch the speech.
Tlaib is accused of threatening the Democratic party, but she actually promoted the president's agenda and advocated for more. It's really stunning to see so many completely uninformed posters attacking this Democrat.
This one with a false tweet claiming Tlaib said she wants to 'take over the Democratic party.' Nothing Tlaib said is working as hard at that than this effort by some to divide this lifelong Dem from the party for making an innocuous political speech.
Weird that with the speech available for hours that critics haven't found one quote they can bandy about, like their false claims about it yesterday.
We have 'Blue Dogs' and 'Problem Solvers' Democrats who are actually working to keep major planks of the Democratic party and president's agenda from being enacted. Are they trying to 'take over the party?'
Rep. Tlaib threatens zero provisions of the Biden agenda, her vote basically inconsequential to their passage, even given her support for basically ALL of it, even the infrastructure bill, which Tlaib did NOT threaten with her protest vote against it with her very astute observation that Manchin would vote against BBB if they were decoupled.
Rep. Tlaib doesn't threaten any of the President's priorities, not in committee where Manchin and Sinema demanded cuts in legislation they didn't intend to vote for in the end, and not on the House floor at voting time.
You just can't say that about 'Blue Dogs' or 'Problem Solvers' who cozy up to republicans, like Manchin sitting on the republican side last night at the president's SOTU. That's a picture of real opposition, not made up propaganda.