Justine Bateman Rips Rashida Tlaib After Profane ‘Slavery and Genocide’ Speech
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is facing fresh backlash after a fiery clip of her remarks spread across X, and actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman did not hold back.
The Michigan Democrat has built a reputation for loud, combative speeches aimed at America’s institutions. This latest clip was no different. In the video, Tlaib attacks the political structure of the country and uses profanity while speaking to the room.
TheBlaze shared the clip with this quote from Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf******. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.”
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That kind of talk may fire up the far left. But it is also wearing thin with a lot of Americans who are tired of hearing elected officials speak as if the country they serve is the enemy.
Bateman, best known for her work in film and television, is not typically described as a conservative firebrand. That is part of what made her response stand out. She reacted to the clip with a blunt message that accused Tlaib and others like her of building their identity around hostility toward America.
Bateman wrote: “These people are ridiculous.
They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to ‘fight tyranny.’ They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else.
None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some ‘hero’ in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country.
She is an infant.
She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it’s time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known.
Myself, I have a limit to tolerance.
I have a limit to patience.
I know there is a limit to free speech.
If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech.”
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Bateman’s response landed because it said out loud what many voters have been thinking for years. There is a big difference between criticizing government policy and treating the United States itself as something rotten that must be torn down.
Tlaib’s defenders will likely call the criticism overblown. But the video speaks for itself. So does Bateman’s response.
When someone outside the usual conservative lane reacts this strongly, it is a sign that the patience of ordinary Americans is running out.