⬆️ @pamela6591
>> No one is holding Vice President #Harris or President #Biden hostage over the war between #Israel and #Palestine.
I agree with most of what you say except for the #hostage keyword.
I thought I had provided enough context for it, but perhaps not. So, I will try to clarify:
US Elections since 2020 have been VERY close.
#HillaryClinton lost in 2016 due to #ElectoralCollege misses in WI, MI, PA.
Small margins in battleground states are enough to sway an election.
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⬆️ @pamela6591
>> Small margins in battleground states are enough to sway an election
#Tlaib knows that MI is a battleground. She has not condemned #Hamas for #Oct7. She also knows that #Trump will be WORSE for #Muslims and her own #Palestinian / #Arab-American constituents.
YET, she is threatening to withhold votes in a crucial battleground, effectively threatening to throw #Election2024 unless US makes more #Hamas- and #Palestinian-friendly concessions.
So she's holding #Harris #hostage
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⬆️ @pamela6591
>> You won't get the straight poop by confronting people on the Internet
I don't communicate with #Tlaib directly.
As for the Jewish people I mentioned, I have been communicating with them for MONTHS and had nothing but friendly relations with them.
I did not set out for confrontation. I asked him what part of #KamalaHarris' meeting with #Netanyahu he had linked to did he find so objectionable that he felt compelled to attack #Harris.
He's well-educated & respectable, but
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⬆️ @pamela6591
>> He's well-educated & respectable, but…
…I have seen a pattern of dog whistles in his posts. Yet I followed him -- He just blocked me today, #HitAndRun.
He is influential, has a large following, and he FREQUENTLY posts about how #Independents hold the key to #US #Election2024.
Almost ALL of those posts are dog whistles that suggest unless #UnitedStates gives #Israel the tools necessary to #finishTheJob quickly, then independents like him will deny Dems a vote. Hence #hostage
Ramesh #NotGoingBack