Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a proud member of the far-left “Squad,” is the perfect example of how today’s progressives operate under their own twisted version of Animal Farm politics — where, under their ideology, “some animals are more equal than others.”
According to Fox News, campaign finance records show that Rep. Rashida Tlaib spent more than $35,000 on luxury limousine services between October 2024 and September 2025. Her campaign made dozens of payments to Aline Luxury Limo Services, a Detroit-based company, for “travel” and “transportation” expenses.
Apparently, Uber and Lyft just aren’t good enough for the self-proclaimed champion of the working class. While she lectures Americans about “equity” and “shared sacrifice,” she’s cruising around Detroit in high-end limos, racking up charges ranging from $118 to more than $1,300 per ride. That’s a pretty fancy way to play “woman of the people.”
Yet when the cameras are rolling, Tlaib loves to rail against “inequality” and corporate greed, pretending to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the working class she long ago abandoned. Just last September, she teamed up with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to unveil the so-called “Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act” — a grandstanding piece of legislation supposedly designed to “take on corporate greed” and “rein in the obscene salaries of America’s top executives.”
While promoting the bill, Tlaib argued, “working people are sick and tired of corporate greed” and said that “It’s disgraceful that corporations continue to rake in record profits by exploiting the labor of their workers.”
In a video posted on X, the lawmaker decried the salary Starbucks’ CEO Brian Niccol makes. “Last year, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made almost $96 million,” she said. “The average Starbucks worker made less than $15,000 a year. They would have to work more than 6,000 years” to match Niccol’s salary.
A Starbucks employee would have to work for 6,000 years to make as much as their CEO. That is why I introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, to fight for working families, against income inequality. pic.twitter.com/JXujdJkitC
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) September 15, 2025
This kind of rhetoric is Tlaib’s bread and butter — the same tired script followed by socialist darlings like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Yet here she is, cruising around in limousines while pretending to champion the “common worker.” You have to wonder — how many Starbucks baristas or Amazon warehouse employees could afford a $1,300 limo ride? Not many, but that’s the point. The socialist elite always make sure their “equality” stops at their own doorstep.
This hypocrisy is nothing new for the authoritarian left. If they got their way, government leaders would live in luxury while the rest of us stood in bread lines hoping for scraps. History tells the story clearly — communist and socialist leaders always live comfortably while preaching sacrifice.
They enjoy top-tier housing, private transport, elite medical care, and every privilege imaginable — all while the people they claim to represent struggle just to get by.
In the Soviet Union, the political elite enjoyed every privilege imaginable — exclusive shops stocked with imported goods, private health clinics, and spacious apartments, all while ordinary citizens stood in endless lines for bread and crammed into dilapidated, overcrowded housing.
And that’s the truth the modern left doesn’t want you to see. These people aren’t fighting for the “common man.” They’re not noble crusaders trying to lift up the working class. They’re power-hungry opportunists who use lofty rhetoric about “justice” and “equity” to justify consolidating control. They want government power — not to serve the people, but to rule over them. And these days, they’re not even pretending otherwise.
