Have you heard about the Gabbard “Kill Moose and Squirrel!” Bill?
Gabbard to Hannity:
"Appearing on “Hannity” Thursday, the presidential candidate said she originally supported the inquiry, but she stressed the need for transparency.
“I don’t know what’s going on in those closed doors,” Gabbard said. “We as members of Congress do not have access to the information that’s being shared. I think the American people deserve to know exactly what the facts are, what the evidence is being presented as this inquiry goes on.”
(Warning: Link goes to Faux)
Very possible that Tulsi is angling for a show on Fox news. She denounces David Duke’s endorsement, but has no compunction about aiding and abetting another white supremacist (if a tad more subtle than Duke) Tucker Carlson on his show, as well as Trump bestie (and fellow aider/abetter of white supremacists) Sean Hannity. Still no traction with the Democratic primary electorate, thankfully, but she has a real future in right-wing infotainment.
Yes, you may be on to something, there.
Certainly she has to know the Democratic Party is never going to embrace her. A job with conservative media after her (inevitable?) 3rd-party candidacy spoils the election enough to keep Trump in office, may be her game-plan.
As a “nuts and bolts” question, don’t a lot of states have so-called “sore loser” laws that would prevent a person defeated in the primary from running as a 3rd party candidate?
Every new item of news about her further goes to show that you just can’t trust her. She is obviously hiding something behind that disingenuous façade. What we do know she’s hiding is her substantial ties with the Science of Identity homophobic, Islamophobic authoritarian hate cult. Makes you wonder what else she’s hiding. Even though her cult involvement has been thoroughly exposéed by investigative journalism, most of the official public mention of her still seems reluctant to say the emperor has no clothes on.
There’s on ongoing battle royal behind the scenes at Wikipedia, because Gabbard partisan editors are exploiting Wikipedia’s rule that you’re not allowed to say the emperor has no clothes on unless the emperor publicly says in a reliable source, “I’m totally not wearing any clothes, yo.” They’re fighting tooth and nail to exclude any mention of Butler and his cult from any article concerning Gabbard.
Papa Mike Gabbard is an even bigger emperor with no clothes, since his active involvement in the Butler hate cult is exhaustively documented, but many commentators still credit his cover story about being “Roman Catholic.”
Tulsi announcing she won’t run for reelection to her Congressional seat sure sounds like she’s going to make a third party run.
And when she doesn’t win that, she can go to work for RT.
Usually doesn’t apply to presidential candidates. Don’t know if these have been tested for constitutionality, specifically for senate and house elections. Not sure if it should matter in state elections.
And not too sure she has actually lost anything, yet, to be honest
Bote is quite a good player stuck on a team that doesn’t have a full time role for him.
I don’t know why the Blue Jays haven’t traded for him yet, but I would assume it’s because they’re stupid.
Gabbard is apparently facing a rough primary challenge and she cannot actually be stupid enough to think she has a shot as being President, so it’s not so much that she’s going to go work for Fox News/RT if things don’t work out politically. She is doing what she’s doing to go work for Fox News/RT, straight up. That’s why she’s on Fox all the time.
I’d still vote for her over a Republican. Now that she’s not running for reelection, that makes the Dem choice more palatable here in Hawaii.
It’s likely that the ongoing stream of exposés of her very questionable background has convinced her that her cover story is ultimately not going to work, that her campaign cannot much longer survive all the investigative work by journalists like Christine Gralow. In retrospect, it seems terribly naïve that Gabbard thought her façade would hold up through the electoral year when it’s already crumbling now.
She may have been holding this exit strategy in reserve. Time to deploy plan B.
Gabbard is nothing but a headache for the whole Democratic party.
Democratic establishment reaches boiling point with Tulsi Gabbard
Key pull quote: “She sort of seems to be filling a pretty strange lane. Is there a part of the party that hates the party?” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “It’s a little hard to figure out what itch she’s trying to scratch in the Democratic Party right now.” (Emphasis mine.)
She doesn’t have anything at all to contribute besides attacks on other Democrats and making Republicans happy.
I blame Bernie and the Bros. They’re the ones who started the conspiracy theories against the Democratic party and led credence to the idea that there’s some party machine that conspires to make sure that candidates who barely pull 1 fucking percentage point in a poll of polls are somehow squeezed out of sight.
Christ, Gabby, you barely got above 1 percent - what the fuck does the world owe you?
I do as well. The ridiculous conspiracy theories about the DNC were insane, they’re the equivalent of a Bond villain or a medieval king.
The DNC bent over backwards to accommodate all candidates and didn’t hold kiddie table debates. There’s no way Tulsi, Steyer, or Yang should have been in the last debate. The voting starts for real and it’ll be fast and furious once it does. Get rid of the marginal clowns now.
Because we dragged the overton window to the left you now have candidates running on progressive policies which are popular enough to keep ratings high so ofc mainstream media is going to have them on the stage.
You can blame “conspiracy theories against the democratic party” but it’s the actual things that happened, such as Hillary receiving debate questions, or the DNC doing their damnest to figure out a way to keep Bernie from getting the nomination, that led to the backlash. IF the democratic party wasn’t so weak, corrupt, and pathetic maybe they wouldn’t have lost a thousand seats under my favorite non-republican republican, centrist obama. Nor would they have lost to Trump of all people.
Keep playing the blame game and see how far it gets you. Just a hint, it wont get you too far with Americans now. Do not call yourself a “liberal” if you aren’t willing to accept new things such as the sudden surge of progressive voters.
oh and can someone please let Harris know Tulsi is within margin of error matched with her atm.
Kamala Harris is the Rick Perry of 2020. What a hyped candidate and what a massive fall. But I’m glad for that vetting process. Her complete inability to put together a campaign with clear lines of authority clues us in as to how unready she’d be to manage the executive branch.
As for Tulsi, I like her as a person, disagree with her on most things.
The irony, it burns!
Is Bernie Sanders a Democrat or an Independent?
If he’s an Independent, why should Democrats entertain the idea of him getting their nomination?
If he’s a Democrat, why does he insist on campaigning for Senate as an Independent?
This is what centrists keep saying. “Well it’s the democratic party, and he’s an independent” yeah and what is your point? You’re literally condoning the shit they pulled in 2016. Just, no.