Tulsi Gabbard: The Russian Propaganda Power Hour
Some people are like clouds; when they disappear, it's a brighter day
So what’s our (former) favorite Hawaiian pin-up girl up to these days? Well, if you guessed “trafficking in Russian propaganda” and “endorsing MAGA Republicans,” I’m going to have to dig deep into my prize closet. Yes, that’s precisely what she’s been doing. It’s almost like the Russians have something on her- like a video of her in flagrante delicto with Lauren Boebert and a lubed-up AK-47. Or perhaps she was sucked in by the sign on I-95 outside Washington:
COME TO THE DARK SIDE!! WE HAVE COOKIES (AND HOT RUSSIAN HOCKEY PLAYERS)!!!
I have no idea. I’m just spitballin’ here, but it seems odd that Tulsi Gabbard has suddenly gone from being a Democrat/Opportunist to being a MAGA-fied independent Republican. I suspect every College Republican in the country has had a woody since she announced she was leaving the Democratic Party.
SO YOU’RE SAYING I HAVE A CHANCE????
When we last visited our hero, she was endorsing only the most common-sense white men with ties to Nazis and white nationalists for high national office. There was Joe Kent, running for Congress as a Republican in Washington state, and there was Don Bolduc, running for Senate from New Hampshire. Also she was on the Joe Rogan podcast agreeing that it is VERY CRAZY that children are identifying as cats and using litterboxes at school.
Now, while campaigning for Bolduc, Gabbard has identified the real Nazi and it is Joe Biden. Or more specifically, she said she thinks Joe Biden and Adolf Hitler have something in common, and it's that their hearts are/were in the right place.
Right. Because Joe Biden and Adolf Hitler share SO MANY qualities, amiright??
Speaking at a Bolduc town hall event in a town outside of Manchester on Sunday, the former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate stipulated that she’s “pretty sure” both Biden and Hitler share a “mindset” of good intentions to justify authoritarian behavior, according to audio obtained by The Daily Beast.
“And this is something that is, you know, throughout history, we look at authoritarian leaders and dictators in other countries,” Gabbard said in a tangent about Biden’s Philadelphia speech from September on anti-democratic extremism among “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”
“I'm pretty sure they all believe they’re doing what’s best,” Gabbard continued. “Even Hitler thought he was doing what was best for Germany, right? For the German race. In his own mind, he found a way to justify the means to meet his end. So when we have people with that mindset, well, you know we’ve got to do whatever it takes because, as President Biden said in that speech in Philadelphia, that those who supported Trump, those who didn't vote for him are extremists and a threat to our democracy.”
Except that Biden didn’t steamroll Europe and exterminate six million Jews as if their lives were inconsequential. Yeah, except for that minor difference, he shared a mindset of good intention with Hitler in that they both believed they were doing what was best.
WTeverlastingF????
How one goes from opposing an American President to equating him to a totalitarian dictator responsible for exterminating six million European Jews is a logical leap that NO rational person could possibly make. There IS no basis for comparison between Joe Biden and Adolf Hitler…and yet Tulsi Gabbard goes there as if it’s the most natural correlation in the world.
Got it. She's just saying she's pretty sure Hitler meant well for the Aryan race, which is just like when Joe Biden said mean things about vile extremist seditionist MAGA trash in Philadelphia. It's amazing how she both minimized the Holocaust and incited delusional hatred against sweet old Joe Biden at the same time.
Not surprising, though, considering who she hangs out with. Antisemitism is all the rage in the MAGA crowd right now, as is utterly hallucinatory thinking.
No world in which one may reasonably compare Joe Biden to that sort of madness exists. Tulsi Gabbard may see herself as the voice of reason, but there’s nothing reasonable about her inflammatory rhetoric. She’s gone full MAGA and lost all connection to the reality that words have meaning. When it comes to MAGA, words can lead to violence, even death.
And that’s something that seems not to have registered with Gabbard.
What frightens me is that there are so many races around the country between MAGA Republicans and Democrats in which the margins are razor thin. It’s within the realm of possibility that President Biden could be facing a Republican Congress who could decide to impeach him because they can. They’d undoubtedly spend the next two years harassing him and making his Presidency a daily horror show.
Millions of Americans seem willing to vote this madness into reality. It used to seem wildly speculative to think that American democracy would be seriously threatened in our lifetimes. As a student of contemporary American political history, I’ve seen our country heading this way since 1990. The momentum picked up with Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolution in 1994, and after that politics for Republicans became a blood sport. It’s only become worse over the past three decades, to the point where horror and contentiousness have become accepted as the norm.
With political animals like Tulsi Gabbard doing the bidding of those who wish us harm, it isn’t easy to see how we right the ship.
Of course, she doesn’t tell us in the tweet precisely HOW Democrats have racialized everything. Perhaps she goes into more detail in her podcast, but I’m not about to devote any time or brainpower listening to it. From where I sit, she’s spouting convenient Russian propaganda, because if you take what she’s saying at face value, it’s total bullshit.
The only party using identity politics for their own gain is the GOP. Racism has been part and parcel of their divide-and-conquer strategy since 1994. Either Gabbard doesn’t see it or she chooses to ignore reality.
Right. Kari Lake has refused to accept that Joe Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, and she’s refused to agree that she’ll accept the result of her election if she loses. So when it comes to those who “play games” with our system, Kari Lake is right at the top of the list. And yet Tulsi Gabbard still endorsed her.
“The election results are only legitimate if I win” is a pretty crappy way to run a democracy, don’tchathink??
The hypocrisy at work here is breathtaking. It’s almost impossible for a rational person to wrap their head around the duplicity and sanctimoniousness of Lake and Gabbard. Lake is little more than a rhetorical bomb thrower, whose MAGA conversion was a matter of political convenience. She cast aside family, friends, and virtually everything she cared about to run for Governor of Arizona as a dishonest and deceitful MAGA Republican. Why? Who knows? I certainly hope it was worth it.
Gabbard probably endorsed Lake because she saw in her a kindred spirit- someone who’s ambitious, opportunistic, and willing to burn the system to the ground to get what she wants. Lake lacks the things people used to look for in a candidate- class, authenticity, compassion, and trustworthiness.
No, Kari Lake is ALL about Kari Lake, and she neither hides nor apologizes for it. It astonishes me that so many Arizonans could so enthusiastically support someone so craven, nakedly ambitious, and so devoid of compassion and human decency.
Of course, that’s the same description I’d use for Tulsi Gabbard. Perhaps they’re twin daughters of different mothers.
I’m not breaking new ground when I say that Tulsi Gabbard and Kari Lake are horrible, nasty, hypocritical people. I’m sure you could find redeemable qualities in each if you looked hard enough; I see no need to work that hard.
Both Lake and Gabbard are pushing agendas based on lies, propaganda, hypocrisy, and unalloyed insincerity. Neither should be trusted to run a Dairy Queen, much less a state or whatever it is that Gabbard is after these days. In fact, the sooner they fade into woodwork with the cockroaches and the rodents after Election Day, the better off America will be.
If you’re wondering, this has nothing to do with them being Vagina-Americans. It has EVERYTHING to do with them being the worst sort of lying, dishonest, and pharisaical examples of Right-wing humanity.
I’d have no problem with them if they added something positive to the public discourse. Instead they’ve chosen propaganda, dishonesty, and dissembling. As far as I’m concerned, they can take the express lane to Hell, where I suspect there are reserved parking spaces waiting for them.
I have a feeling karma will catch up with both of them. I hope their fall will be public AND embarrassing. Both Kari Lake and Tulsi Gabbard deserve nothing less.