Rashida Tlaib Should Run For President!

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    How did government prevent her from speaking? She was censured for what she said because it embarrassed the congress. She can say it again if she wishes. Government doesn't prevent libelous speech but can provide a process for a lawsuit because libelous speech is illegal. You don't seem to understand what freedom of speech is. Freedom of speech is freedom from government censorship not freedom from the consequences of what you say.
     
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    Is there a point to this revelation? The 13 colonies took the territory from the King by force. The U.S. took Texas from Mexico by force as well. I assume you are aware that all wars are fought over territory.
     
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    Conservatives say the same about your side.
     
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    He can’t run either. The was true for people who got excited about Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was Governor of California.
     
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    To expand in this, who is preventing Tlaib from speaking? In Colorado the state Supreme Court has barred Trump from the ballot despite the fact that he yet to convicted. I don’t care for Trump, but why should politicians in black robes, who are supposed to be impartial, get to preempt the voters?
     
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    But crooked Trump is allowed to be elected, even though he's revealed himself to be an enemy of the American voter. :(
     
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    President of what? Some renewal of Nazi Germany?
     
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    non responsive. it's humorous watching an American woman fluffing a society where she would be treated as no thing more than a brood mare
     
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    which American voters-the ones who are here illegally?
    the ones sucking on the public teats
    the ones who want honest Americans disarmed while Soros backed prosecutors let violent criminals run free
    the ones who cannot figure out what public restroom to use
     
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    One could say the same for Biden.

    Your side thinks the courts should be empowered to decide for whom the American voters are allowed to choose.
     
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    Agreed.

    Rashida Tlaib has not yet declared but in many ways she'd be the ideal Democratic nominee. She has risen from being dirt poor to Congress. That's great in itself. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has that quality but sadly is too young to run. She's a bit too young.

    Tlaib checks off the following identity boxes:
    1. Female
    2. Young
    3. Minority
    4. Progressive
    5. Single mother (divorced)
    6. Rashida Tlaib becomes first Muslim woman to preside over House floor
    7. For Rashida Tlaib, Palestinian Heritage Infuses a Detroit Sense of Community
    She hates what America has become, loves what it can be. She can help expand the glorious diversity of the future of America and shuck the hidebound ideology of its past, which correctly led the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright to express negative views on America before the Obama presidency (link to source, and here's a transcript) :
    Tlaib can, in short, absorb the disaffected of America, and make them into equal citizens.

    Another aspect is that unlike Trump she is a calm person, soothed, even by events in which others find only horror. She can find the positive in anything, take lemons and make lemonade as it were.
     

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