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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) late last week decried as racist a cartoon that lampooned her history of supporting terrorism against Israel. The cartoon, by Henry Payne, was published Thursday in National Review. It showed Tlaib sitting behind her desk as her pager exploded. “Odd,” Tlaib says in the cartoon. “My pager just exploded.” Cartoon: Tlaib Pager Hamashttps://t.co/wdwWCbCgmj pic.twitter.com/8AF3kA8Llk — Henry Payne (@HenryEPayne) September 19, 2024 The cartoon was a reference to Israel detonating pagers that it secretly manufactured and sold to Hezbollah, and detonated once they were in terrorists’ hands. The operation killed dozens of terrorists, and wounded thousands more. “Our community is already in so much pain right now,” Tlaib posted on X. “This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism.” Numerous far-left members of Congress attacked the cartoon, calling it “racist” and “Islamophobic.” But Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said that there was “nothing racist” about the cartoon. “This cartoon is against Tlaib for her support of Hezbollah and Hamas,” he said. “Tlaib represents some Arabs and Muslims in America and her own opinion, but NOT all Arabs and Muslims in America, many of whom vehemently oppose her views.” “To lump all Arabs and Muslims in American into one person —Tlaib — is racism,” he added. “We, Arabs and Muslims, are — like all other races and religions — diverse and have clashing views, and no one person embodies or symbolizes all of us, unless you think we all look and think the same.” Tlaib has long shown support and sympathies for anti-Semitic extremists, terror groups, and attacks on Israel, and has been photographed with an alleged Hezbollah supporter. Israel banned Tlaib from entering the country in 2019, after they learned of her plans to meet with extremist groups dedicated to “harm[ing] Israel and increas[ing] incitement against it.” Tlaib has called for the elimination of the state of Israel following Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack, in which terrorists murdered 1,200 people. She was censured by Congress for supporting genocide against Israel by lying about how Israel has conducted itself in its war with Hamas. She has since spoken at an event that has connections to Islamic terrorist groups. Let’s discuss the @detroitnews cartoon and how everyone who attacked it was racist. Had the woman behind the desk been depicted as a generic Arab or Muslim man or woman — for example with a hijab or a male headdress — and without her name in front of her, while showing a blown… pic.twitter.com/cBTZOG6Wzj — Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) September 21, 2024 Tlaib refused to condemn Hamas for raping Israeli women, and would not condemn Hamas’ beheadings of Israeli babies.

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The Regime Media, over the course of the past several weeks, have aided and abetted the Kamala Harris candidacy by enabling her refusal to engage in interviews, town halls, or anything that might put her at risk of facing a tough question. And even they seem stunned at the rate to which this strategy has paid off. Watch this portion of the panel discussion at NBC’s Meet the Press, and listen to Kristen Welker’s joyful astonishment: NBC MEET THE PRESS 9/22/24 10:37 AM KRISTEN WELKER: One of the other big headlines is that Harris is up by nine points when we asked, “Who is the change candidate?” She is currently in The White House! She’s the current Vice President and she’s… AMY WALTER: So it's extraordinary that she's made this argument.  WELKER: What's behind that and what are your key takeaways… (unint)? WALTER: My key takeaways is that she's been able to change this from a race that was a referendum on Joe Biden to a race that is a referendum on Donald Trump. And what's remarkable to me beyond the favorable numbers: when you look at the questions of “Who do you think can serve as Commander-in-Chief?” “Who do you think will be capable and effective?” She has not only been able to not just move into the positive column there, but she’s- on the issue of “competent and effective”, she’s seen- she’s moved 23 points from where Biden was. I mean, this was a big advantage for Trump going into the election when Biden was the nominee.   The poll in question is the most recent NBC News poll, which shows Harris ahead and the web article of which NBC has helpfully titled Poll: Newly popular Harris builds momentum, challenging Trump for the mantle of change. Harris shows an advantage on the change candidacy, Commander-in-Chief, competence, and right direction questions but lags on immigration, the economy, crime, and inflation. The media essentially went with Harris’s remaking of the campaign into a change candidacy, the campaign’s “Plexiglass Basement” strategy wherein Harris is visible but inaccessible, and Harris’s refusal to undergo a meaningful interview or press conference. Now, just weeks from the election, the media exult over the strategy’s success. Welker could barely contain herself! For the rest of us, what we have before us is yet another instance of media interference, via willful misfeasance, in a presidential election.  

On Thursday’s PBS News Hour, anchor Geoff Bennett seemed bugged that the large and influential Teamsters union (representing truckers) wasn’t falling in line with other unions and endorsing the liberal Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Anchor Geoff Bennett began: "One of the nation's largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says it won’t make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election, choosing not to throw the union’s support behind either Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump. It’s the first time the union has skipped an endorsement in a presidential race since 1996, having supported the Democratic nominee in each election since."  The PBS anchor interviewed Teamsters president Sean O'Brien and instantly took up for the Biden Administration. Bennett: So you said one of the reasons why the Teamsters are withholding an endorsement is because neither candidate was able to make serious commitments to your union. There are Democrats who will look at what the Biden/Harris administration has already done, including directing a $36 billion bailout to rescue union pension plans, Teamsters’ pension plans. from insolvency, and wonder, what more of a commitment do you need?   O’Brien brought up Democratic-backed trucking deregulation from the 1980s. O’Brien: ….President Biden and his administration did fix 300 pension funds that were critically in declining and on the verge of insolvency. But there’s a backstory to all this. In 1980, in the Teamsters union, we had 400,000 Teamster truck drivers in the freight division. Democratic legislation led by Senator Ted Kennedy and signed off by Joe Biden in 1980 passed trucking deregulation. And we lost 400,000…. Bennett: You were invited to address the Republican National Convention back in July, the first time a Teamsters leader had ever done so. Why are you withholding an endorsement from President Trump? Bennett kept probing for weaknesses in the Trump-Teamsters pseudo-alliance (though the Teamsters have not endorsed Trump either). Bennett: You were pretty critical of Donald Trump after that interview he did with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, where Mr. Trump advocated for firing striking employees. Was that a breaking point for you? O’Brien: It certainly didn`t help…. Bennett pressed on:  Bennett: Following the national Teamsters' non-endorsement, local Teamsters unions, as you well know, in the key battleground states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, announced their support for Harris, and there are nearly a dozen Teamsters locals and the Teamsters` national Black Caucus all supporting Harris. Do you risk looking out of step with the union rank and file? Except the Teamsters took internal polls and found their membership clearly favors Trump over Harris, so they decided to not endorse. O'Brien mentioned this after Bennett weirdly claimed he was out of step. There was no speculation over how the Democrats, the purported “party of the people,” managed to lose the trust of the Teamsters Union. Instead Bennett’s sole focus was on how the Teamsters were cynical holdouts while all the other unions falling into line behind Harris. Bennett: The Harris campaign has picked up the endorsement and the support of other unions, the United Auto Workers, the AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers. What do you say to those who make the case that the Teamsters, in not endorsing at all, are trying to play both sides, trying to have it both ways? This segment was brought to you in part by Raymond James. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 9/19/24 7:20:03 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: One of the nation's largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says it won't make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election, choosing not to throw the union's support behind either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. It's the first time the union has skipped an endorsement in a presidential race since 1996, having supported the Democratic nominee in each election since. We're joined now by Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien. Thanks for coming in. We appreciate it. Sean O’Brien, General President, Teamsters: Thank you very much, sir. Geoff Bennett: So you said one of the reasons why the Teamsters are withholding an endorsement is because neither candidate was able to make serious commitments to your union. There are Democrats who will look at what the Biden/Harris administration has already done, including directing a $36 billion bailout to rescue union pension plans, Teamsters' pension plans from insolvency, and wonder, what more of a commitment do you need? Sean O’Brien: Well, listen, that's a great point. President Biden and his administration did fix 300 pension funds that were critically in declining and on the verge of insolvency. But there's a backstory to all this. In 1980, in the Teamsters union, we had 400,000 Teamster truck drivers in the freight division. Democratic legislation led by Senator Ted Kennedy and signed off by Joe Biden in 1980 passed trucking deregulation. And we lost 400,000 jobs. Companies went bankrupt. And that caused a huge strain on pension funds that just kept — each year, it kept getting worse and worse. And, yes, they fixed the problem, but that problem was created by the people that fixed the problem, and they don't want to recognize that. And I appreciate it. My members appreciate the pension being fixed. But I always tell people, I broke my mother's window playing street hockey in 1980, and for 40 years she's been asking me to fix it. I finally fix it. Should I look for praise for fixing a problem that I helped create? Geoff Bennett: You were invited to address the Republican National Convention back in July, the first time a Teamsters leader had ever done so. Why are you withholding an endorsement from President Trump? Sean O’Brien: I went to the RNC not with an agenda other than to — an endorsement. I went there to talk about American workers, talk about our struggles, talk about what both parties need to do to win back the support of American workers and how valuable American workers are. That — speaking out at the Republican National Convention, we asked both the Democratic National Convention and the RNC at the same time, and we only heard back from the RNC. I would have gave the same speech at the DNC had we been given the opportunity. Geoff Bennett: You were pretty critical of Donald Trump after that interview he did with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, where Mr. Trump advocated for firing striking employees. Was that a breaking point for you? Sean O’Brien: It certainly didn't help. Look, I will never, ever allow people to fire workers for exercising their right to strike or organize, and I will call balls and strikes like I have done all along. And former President Trump was out of line with his comments, and I expressed my feelings to him, but it resonated with our members, and that was one of the reasons that the international couldn't endorse President Trump either, amongst other reasons. We didn't get a commitment on vetoing national right-to-work. And, conversely, with Kamala Harris, we didn't get a commitment on protecting our members' right to strike under the Railway Labor Act. So there were a lot of mitigating factors on why we didn't endorse nationally. And, look, by the polling alone that we did, our members sent a clear message to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. We are getting attacked from the far left because we didn't make an endorsement, and the far right is not happy that we are working with some Republicans to try and get some things done. So this is an opportunity for both parties, Democrats to reestablish their commitment and look back and say, something must be broken. Instead of looking to blame the leaders or the members, they should look in the mirror and say, how do we fix this? We were the working people party at one time. And it's an opportunity for Republicans, who claim they want to be the working people's party, it's an opportunity for them to prove it, support a version of the PRO Act, support bankruptcy reform, support issues that actually affect working people. And our system is broken, and it needs to be fixed. And the name-calling, the finger-pointing, it's got to end. Geoff Bennett: Following the national Teamsters' non-endorsement, local Teamsters unions, as you well know, in the key battleground states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, announced their support for Harris, and there are nearly a dozen Teamsters locals and the Teamsters' national Black Caucus all supporting Harris. Do you risk looking out of step with the union rank and file? Sean O’Brien: No, I definitely don't look out of step, because, remember, we represent Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And, clearly, half of our membership Democrats and half are Republicans and some are independents as well. So we have got to represent everybody equally. The local unions, they're autonomous. We're not a top-down organization. We're a bottom-up organization. Our members, the leaders, have the ability to put boots on the ground and support the candidates that they want to support. The international, we just couldn't make that decision. And we have a very, very qualified general executive board of leaders around the country, and the non-endorsement was overwhelmingly supported. Geoff Bennett: Donald Trump is claiming this as a win. Here's what he told supporters at a rally last night in New York. Donald Trump, Former President of the United States (R) and Current U.S. Presidential Candidate: Earlier today, I was honored to receive the endorsement of the rank-and-file membership of the Teamsters. I love the Teamsters. But this hasn't happened in so many decades. We won the overwhelming majority of the local chapters and the members, and as a result, the national organization has refused to endorse the Democrat candidate for the first time in many, many decades. Geoff Bennett: So is what he said, is that accurate? Sean O’Brien: No, we released polling data that showed that he was ahead in the poll. It was an opinion of the members that actually took the time to poll. It wasn't an official endorsement of the membership. But the polling would suggest that people are favorable in voting for Trump, just as well as they may be favorable for voting for Vice President Harris. Geoff Bennett: The Harris campaign has picked up the endorsement and the support of other unions, the United Auto Workers, the AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers. What do you say to those who make the case that the Teamsters, in not endorsing at all, are trying to play both sides, trying to have it both ways? Sean O’Brien: We're certainly not trying to play both sides. Look, those unions have their own policies, procedures. Most of those unions — you mentioned the AFL-CIO. They jumped out in January for President Biden, some a little bit later in March. We have a system. We did something that we have never done before by polling our members. We did three major polls. We did a straw poll. We did a Q.R. polling of 1.3 of our million members, electronic poll, and then we also did research-based polling. And the straw poll, narrowly, President Biden won. And the other two polls that were participated by our rank-and-file members showed that President Trump, former President Trump, was leading in those polls significantly.

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