Rep. Tlaib is an intellectual thug. When one sees these loud, rude disrupters at a Trump speech - not a raucous rally, mind you, but an ordinary speech - or at a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, one tends to think of them as intellectually small, rank-and-file types who refuse to make better use of their talents, and not as U.S. Congress material. Regrettably, standards have fallen in adult politics.
And it's not just the intellectually vacuous, undignified screaming and yelling that makes Tlaib a rude, thoughtless little pig. See the linked youtube video starting at 1:08 where she disgraces herself by gratuitously pulling the race card and smearing a fellow member of the committee. Only when she is called out does she walk back her disgraceful commentary, but you can imagine how she conducts herself when she isn't called out.
Here she is explaining why she disrupted Trump's speech. Quoting part of it:
Courteous behavior can’t be reserved for someone who labels hardworking Mexican immigrants who have come to pursue the American Dream as “rapists.”
Correcting this stuff coming from "progressives" has grown tiresome. A basic requirement of intellectual honesty in debate is to put one's opponents' positions and statements in the most favorable light one can, and then attack them. It turns out here that - as in many other cases - one can attack Trump on his casual relationship with the truth. So why degrade oneself by attacking a strawman, crying-racism-yet-again version of Trump's claim? Doing less than steelmanning (opposite of strawmanning) the opponent's position is intellectually lazy, the pursuit of a cheap win. The only thing Tlaib does here is to confirm the suspicion that she is unable to achieve on a level field of intellectual play: that she is a coward, a weakling, a bum. On this count, she throws herself in with almost the entire lot of Democrat pigs these days who could sure use philosophy boot camp to clean up their shameful and easily discreditable act.
So basically what we have here is someone who insists on assuming the worst about her political opponent, and on that basis decides to rudely interrupt that opponent's speech as though that were an acceptable and normal way of doing things. All it shows is intellectual dishonesty and poor judgment.
I'm not sure who's more of an intellectual pig, Tlaib or her "squad" mate AOC. They are both leftist scum, absolutely convinced of their righteousness, who in a more enlightened age would have no business being in the U.S. Congress.
[Addendum: It is after I post the above that I learn that this hubristic, reckless idiot ups the ante on the minimum wage, proposing $18-20 instead of the $15 just passed by the House Democrat majority. As I asked in the other linked post, why stop at $15? But with this rude thoughtless little pig, the question now is: Why stop at $20? The next obvious question is: Will AOC up the ante yet further? The higher the number, the more virtue being signaled, yes? The next question after all this, is: At what minimum wage level do they begin to acknowledge negative employment effects? And then the next obvious question: Is there any such level they would acknowledge? And: How much economic illiteracy and hatred of freedom/capitalism are they willing to openly reveal, exactly? Surely there's some threshold limit? Would they stop anywhere short of Cultural Revolution-level madness if they had the run of the place? (Nope.) And finally: At what point do the left-wing media begin to get concerned enough to hold the "squad" accountable for all this willful ignorance and hate? At what point, exactly, do they begin to seriously entertain the thought that not even Trump is as awful as this? "Calling Mexicans rapists and Nazis very fine people" vs. $20 minimum wage, is what these mediots are now reduced to comparing/contrasting as a sanity check, when those with common sense have figured out the answer some time ago.]
