Rashida Tlaib will not endorse Biden, will work to elect him

[Morning in Atlas]

Amazingly enough, I don't think this is huge of a deal. If you read the actual interview, she's pretty clearly in our corner. With her status and the controversies surrounding her, it's probably best that she doesn't anyway.

For full context, from an unbiased source:

He hasn't directly called me or anything, but, no, right now I'm focused on my election, my constituents and my residents. One thing that I know is I'm going to be really focused on turnout in the fall. When I focus on turnout, we will deliver Michigan to Joe Biden. Trump only won Michigan by 10,000 votes. When I turn out my folks and my district, we'll be able to take back the state. When you focus primarily on getting people out to vote in a district like mine, [Biden] wins.

Because I don't want to get into a debate with my residents. Residents come up to me and say, "Rashida, I don't know. I hear Joe Biden this, Joe Biden that." I say, "Listen, do we need another four years of Trump? No. Then what I need you to do is go out there and focus on that." If the ultimate goal is to get rid of Donald Trump, that doesn't have to involve me actually endorsing Biden. My constituents don't need to be bogged down in, "Is he the best candidate?" That's not what you have to convince my residents. They need to come out in droves and be inspired by something. And that is going to be a vote against Donald Trump.

Let's not try and fall for right-wing psyops. Keep our eyes focused on November and we can't lose.

[Morning in Atlas]

Hopefully Brenda Jones ousts this vulgar loudmouth.  Omar can go take a hike too.

Weren't you literally going to vote for Trump if Bernie or Warren won the nom?

[Morning in Atlas]

A lot of people telling on themselves here. Says a lot about them when they'd believe a smear from a right-wing rag than her actual words.

[Morning in Atlas]

A lot of people telling on themselves here. Says a lot about them when they'd believe a smear from a right-wing rag than her actual words.

Once the GOP goes under these will be the "Democrats" who branch off with the remnants to try and protect colonialism and capitalism for another generation. But, Rashida would agree that at least they're gonna vote out Donald Trump so they're fine with me for now

Reminds me of the time James Monroe decided to bring up his lie about Bernie "wanting to cut Social Security" way back during the Sirota/SocSec debate. Ostensibly, Monroe saw on his Twitter that because Bernie campaigned on "making adjustments to Social Security", that he wanted to cut it and it was equivalent to Biden pushing C-CPI.

I confronted him with the actual bill Bernie proposed after he got elected, which used was a different adjustment system, CPI-E, which would expand benefits. At the very least, it tracks CPI for the elderly, as opposed to all urban consumers. Changing to CPI-E would be an expansion of benefits compared to CPI-U, as it doesn't factor in the fact that most urban consumers are employed.

Monroe's response was basically "I reject your reality and substitute my own" and "I trust my secondhand article more than your primary source". He continued to blatantly lie about Bernie wanting to cut it further after being called out, because his Twitter feed told him differently.

Just shows how Twitter and clickbait headlines have rotted people's brains.

[Morning in Atlas]

Y'all know that if Tlaib endorsed formally, every single person here complaining would be hand-wringing about how it would hurt Biden.