Biden and The Squad's Tlaib stage heated confrontation on tarmac in Detroit
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President Biden and Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib engaged in a tense, roughly eight-minute conversation on the airport tarmac Detroit after Biden's arrival there Monday.
Tlaib refused to say what she and the president discussed, but at one point Biden patted the congresswoman's shoulder. Later, during a speech in Dearborn, he lavishly complimented her.
"I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people. And it's from my heart," Biden said later of Tlaib during his speech at the Dearborn Ford factory. "I pray that your Grandma and family are well, I promise to do everything you see that they are in the West Bank."
"You're a fighter," he added, though he mistakenly referred to her as Rasheed. "And God, thank you for being a fighter."
Tlaib has been fiercely critical of Biden and the State Department's handling of the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel.
"If you support a cease-fire, then get out of the way of the U.N. Security Council and join other countries in demanding it," she said in a tweet directed at the president and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
"Apartheid-in-chief Netanyahu will not listen to anyone asking nicely," she continued. "He commits war crimes and openly violates international law."
Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, has called on the U.S. to recall funding for Israel, alleging the weapons provided are used to "kill children and families."
"Enough, President Biden," Tlaib said in a Monday interview with MSNBC. "You will not do this on our watch. You have to speak out against this violence in a very aggressive way that holds Netanyahu and his leadership accountable."
Israel and the Palestinians have engaged in conflict since last week.
The attacks have resulted in at least 213 Palestinians killed, including 61 children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israel has reported 12 people killed, including a 5-year old boy.
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Gee, I wonder what is was all about?
Is her name Rasheed or Rashida? It's so confusing. What day is it?
Trump and his supporters are off topic
I am off topic.
junior congresswoman berating her President?
I am glad she is a Democrat, along with the rest of the Squad.
bunch of idiots will help Republicans win.
Screw Hamas. Palestinians have refused every offer. let them pound sand..
They've been leading him around by his nose.
I am glad she is a Democrat, along with the rest of the Squad.
Oh, It makes me so proud to be a Republican!
bunch of idiots will help Republicans win.
Yep, just give the country a taste.
Screw Hamas. Palestinians have refused every offer. let them pound sand..
And stop giving them money and Iran money!
couldn't agree more. giving Palestinians money is basically funding terrorism.
Money for rockets to be fired on Israel.
As much as I think Biden is an idiot, I hope he told Tlaib to go fuck off.
I suppose there is a first time for everything.
EXCLUSIVE - The Senate GOP reelection arm is taking aim at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over his relative silence the past couple of days regarding the fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas.
In a new TV ad shared first with Fox News on Tuesday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) charges that Schumer, the senior senator from New York and the top Democrat in the chamber, is keeping quiet over concerns that progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may challenge him next year when he’s running for reelection.
Schumer, who is Jewish and typically one of the most ardent defenders of Israel on Capitol Hill, has been fairly quiet the past two days as the attacks between Israel and Hamas forces based in the Gaza Strip have continued to rage. When asked about the Middle East flare-up at news conference Tuesday afternoon, Schumer gave a boiler plate statement before deferring to fellow Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
While there is uniform support for Israel’s ability to defend itself from attacks by Hamas among congressional Republicans, a growing number of progressive Democrats in Congress are questioning Washington’s support of conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Many Democrat leaders are siding with the terrorists," the narrator in the NRSC spot charges.
The commercial then uses clips of Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a fellow member of the group of diverse and progressive congressional Democrats known as the "Squad," speaking out on the House floor against the Israeli aerial attacks on Gaza.
Well, that's pretty typical of them, eh?
Schumer: "I want to see a ceasefire"
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Monday he wants to "see a ceasefire reach quickly and mourn the loss of life."
That's a fair arrangement. A terror group attacks a democratic nation and in return gets a "ceasefire!"
That's a white supremist picture.....
The white guy gets an ice cream cone....
The little black girl has none.
Loon liberal reasoning....
The white guy is a white supremist.
I have the feeling that either the ice cream cone in the picture was for the little girl or they were making her one when the photo was taken. She looks pretty happy.
Strike three you're out Bugsy.
Nope
To most liberals, it has nothing to do with context. It's all about what is in front of them that moment.
The white guy has an ice cream cone..the black girl does not.
The white guy is a white supremist
Liberal logic conclusion
Joe Biden is a white supremist.
And liberal logic also dictates that if you defend the white guy in the picture, you, too, are a white supremist.