Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog,
Tulsi Gabbard has stones. She has the kind of stones born of a life dedicated to the cause of serving others.
She is the direct opposite of Hillary Clinton, for whom all causes serve herself and her enormous narcissism and pathology.
So seeing Gabbard go directly after Hillary Clinton after her debate performance the other evening where she explicitly called out both the New York Times and CNN (the hosts of the debate) for the hit jobs on her puts to rest any idea she’s someone else’s stalking horse.
Two weeks ago I asked if five tweets from President Trump changed U.S. foreign policy for good, Gabbard does him two better with these three tweets of absolute, Oscar Wilde-like beauty.
Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a …
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019
… concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and …
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019
… powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.
It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019
There is so much goodness to unpack in these tweets it is almost beyond my ability to do so.
Clearly, Gabbard may have real problems with Donald Trump as president but she’s learned very quickly from him that the best way to deal with Hillary and her media quislings is to attack them without mercy.
Gabbard throws down the gauntlet here outing Hillary as the mastermind behind the DNC strategy of allowing the current crop of future losers to fall all over themselves to alienate as many centrist voters as possible.
This paves the way for Hillary to swoop in on her broom, pointed hat in hand, and declare herself the savior of the Democratic Party’s chances to defeat Donald Trump next November.
Remember that leading up to the debate Gabbard was going to boycott the event because it was such a corrupted event and stage-managed to showcase the chosen ‘front-runners’ — Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
It makes sense to me that she decided at the last minute to join the debate after the Times piece just to ensure she got the national platform to openly call out the corruption in the same breath as attacking Trump for his, to this point, disastrous foreign policy mistakes.
She emerged from that debate as the only candidate with any moral compass capable of pointing in a single direction. Warren made a fool of herself responding with bromides about leaving in the ‘rightt way’ indistinguishable from any other presidential puppet of the last twenty years.
This is two debates in a row where Gabbard came out blazing at the front-runner, claiming a moral and ethical high ground on foreign policy that, at just over half the age of her rivals, that shows a maturity well beyond her years.
Her calling Hillary the “Queen of Warmongers” is so self-evidently true that it will reverberate far beyond Twitter into votes.
And it tells Hillary that Gabbard has zero fear of her and her political machine.
You can’t cow a person without fear who has nothing to lose.
[ZH: And Gabbard was not done – she ripped into Hillary’s terrible legacy in a Friday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview.]
During her discussion with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Gabbard framed Clinton’s opposition as being not only against her candidacy, but against “every veteran in this country, every service member, every American, anyone watching at home fighting for peace and who was calling for an end to these regime change wars.”
“Ultimately she knows she can’t control me,” Gabbard said, responding to Carlson’s question about why Clinton is taking aim at her. “I stand against everything that she represents and if I’m elected president, if I’m the Democratic nominee and elected president she will not be able to control me. She won’t be able to manipulate me. She won’t be able to continue to work from behind the curtains, to continue these regime change wars that have been so costly.”
The Democratic presidential candidate said the blood of her “brothers and sisters in uniform” killed in Iraq, a “war she championed,” is “on her hands.”
“I am calling for an end to these regime change wars. This is why she’s speaking out strongly and smearing my character and trying to undermine my campaign,” she said.
“Just as she is doing this to me, this is what will happen to anybody who is doing the same.”
Responding to a question from the Fox News host about the massive media and political opposition from both parties to her foreign policy positions, Gabbard noted that it happened as soon as she announced her candidacy.
” And now we know exactly why. It’s because I am standing up and speaking out strongly against the Hillary Clinton legacy, the warmongering legacy of waging these regime change wars, continuing to escalate these tensions between the United States, nuclear armed countries like Russia, China, this nuclear arms race bringing more profits to the military-industrial complex. “
Bullies like Hillary never learn that lesson until they are humiliated beyond recognition.
Moreover, when you look at this sequence of events it’s clear that the DNC, Hillary and everyone else close to the corridors of power fear Gabbard’s rise. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be putting out smears in the New York Times.
They wouldn’t be spending millions on social media trolls to discredit her in the public fora.
The first rule of politics is “You never attack down.”
Well, Hillary attacked down. The Times attacked down. The DNC, by gaming the debate rules, attacked down. And that spells disaster for anyone who does it.
Just ask Rudy Guiliani.
This was the exchange that ended Rudy’s political career. 150 seconds of truth-telling that ignited a movement which culminated in the election of Donald Trump.
Gabbard is following that same course. The difference between her and Dr. Paul is that she’s less polite. But as to their moral clarity there is little difference. And she shouldn’t be polite. The stakes are higher today than they were in 2008.
The people Gabbard is up against are even more ruthless since Hillary intends to win, whereas the Republicans in 2008 were fighting for the right to lose to her at the time.
Gabbard’s rise in popularity among Trump voters and centrists is born of the same exhaustion the American people have with endless wars for globalism. She is Trump’s Kryptonite.
The party she represents is irrelevant. By wrapping herself in the mantle of the front-runner for the nomination is not delusional, it’s the most strategic thing she’s done to date.
It’s also becoming more and more realistic as the days go on.
Because by responding to Hillary’s ham-fisted attempts to position herself as the voice of reason, Gabbard clarifies for everyone just how sick and bile-filled Hillary is by outing her as the delusional one.
And reminding everyone that Hillary is the architect of the very policies in the Middle East that Trump is now taking heat for trying to unwind.
Gabbard knows what the plan is. She was there in 2016 when Hillary stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders and quit her position in the DNC because of it.
Even Trump knows that foreign policy and foreign entanglements will be the big ticket issue for this election cycle.
Why?
Because Gabbard has single-handedly made it so.
Trump is already running against her by pulling back from Syria, looking for peace options in Afghanistan, firing John Bolton while using proxies and, yes, Vladimir Putin to assist him in fixing his myriad mistakes of the first thirty months of his presidency.
Hillary trying to position herself as the one who can save the Middle East from Trump’s bumbling is laughable and Gabbard just laughed in Hillary’s face.
Calling everyone who voices any dissent from foreign or domestic policy orthodoxy a Russian agent is a losing proposition. It belies reality and what people see with their own eyes.
Americans want better relations with Russia now World War III. Trump’s popularity has risen since he backed off on starting a war with Iran.
The media spent four years marginalizing Dr. Paul. The RNC stole the nomination from him just as surely as the DNC stole the nomination from Bernie. As the people in the U.K. are finding out, their votes don’t matter.
Democracy doesn’t matter, only the fever dreams of the soulless and the power mad who think they run the world. Look at what Hillary has become, not what you remember her to be.
She’s a tired, sick, fragile woman whose bitterness and evil is literally eating her up from the inside out. Have you noticed that she hasn’t been photographed standing up for months?
She’s the epitome of everything wrong with America and, in fact, the world and Tulsi Gabbard just stood up and laughed at her for still thinking she was the Emperor when in reality she’s The Joker.
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I love it that Gabbard kicked Hildabeast in her Depends but let’s not forget that she is also a deranged lefty.
Yes, unfortunately she does support the same social and cultural positions as Hitlery and is fine w/ those being turned into political weapons …
Jared and Ivanka are lefties and are advisors to Trump. So I guess that makes Trump a hybrid.
Okay downvoters, state what is false about this?
It’s true, plus he was a Demo for like…ever. I still think Gabbard is coasting on his work, possibly part of it through MI(once a soldier) as multifaceted strategy, insurance. At any rate, not CIA approved.
More like a Hybrid Shitbag courtesy of nice folks like Cohn, Mercer, and Lauder.
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Nooooooooooooo, not again!!!!!!
This is why political parties, both of them need to be abolished. They are antiquated and serve no single American today.
Death to the Military Industrial Complex. Fuck em up Tulsi!
She is ultimately up against the M-I complex. She will have a tough time. You go, girl.
First Tusli took out Kamala Harris and now she’s taking out Hillary before Hillary can re-enter the race. Gabbard is driving a tank through the ranks of the democratic party. Whether you agree or disagree with Gabbard’s policy positions, you gotta love her efforts.
I see her as the only adult and least frightening person in that pile of shit called the Dhimmicrat Primary. It is instructive how easily Kamalto Ho-ass and Hitlary and other media created heroes can be destroyed with a few sharp jabs of fact to the glass jaws. Good thing she isn’t up against the R-Girly Men like Romney or the insufferable John Kasich. She’d whip their sorry asses. I wonder if she will be the one to administer the coup de grace to Biden?
The Party itself will be doing that, probably as we speak.
He’ll wait for the right plausibly deniable moment, maybe a health problem. Maybe his wife will have something, a lump. He’ll say tearfully how he’s lost too many close family members and wants to be at her side. Maybe he’ll decide to finally be a father and stop enabling his addict son with steady and exorbitant streams of cash for his cocaine habit, and take him to rehab. Okay no, not that. But something fake-selfless that doesn’t look too overtly like he’s a quitter.
Biden is on the edge of strokeville , he goes nowhere !
i’d pay hard earned $ to see her whip kasich’s ass–
mitt fancies himself a gentleman & that partially explains him–
kasich is an embittered,back stabbing,over the hill career politician–
btw,did i mention that his dad was a postman?
I’d rather her just whip my ass.
Smoking out Clinton as the candidate who will send the Deplorables off to be killed is a dagger.
Imagine those t shirts.
I don’t agree with some of Tulsi’s leftist positions, but she is correct on a lot of issues, and she certainly appears to have more integrity and honesty then any of the other candidates. I say “appears” because Trump also appeared to have honesty and integrity when he was a candidate. However, in spite of being burned by Trump after voting for him, I will probably vote for Tulsi if she is the Democrat candidate, which isn’t likely. If she is not the Democrat candidate then I will vote for a third-party candidate, which is what I usually do anyway.
And speaking of voting for third-party candidates, one of the main reasons that elections are so paralyzing in this country is because we have a failed electoral system that essentially guarantees that there will only be two viable candidates in any given race. This causes the voters to often vote for the lesser of two evils instead of voting for someone who they actually think would do a good job, which is why we end up with losers like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The solution to fix our failed electoral system is complicated, and beyond the scope of this comment, but a very simple partial solution to this problem would be for everyone to simply vote for whoever they think the best candidate is, including third-party candidates. But unfortunately the erroneous “wasted vote” mentality is too ingrained in most people’s brains, which means we are going to have to suffer through paralyzing elections from now until the system collapses completely.
One additional thing I should have mentioned in my previous comment is that our electoral system is so perverse that people who actually do vote for a good candidate (or at least a better candidate) are mercilessly criticized because they didn’t vote for a worse candidate. This showed up in the last presidential election with Jill Stein. Now anyone with an IQ above room temperature would consider Jill Stein to be better than Hillary Clinton, regardless of whether you are on the left or right. But those on the left who voted for someone who they thought was better than Hillary (and obviously was better than Hillary), were and still are to this day being excoriated for doing that.
Your comment(s) appear to not understand that the problem is CORRUPTION & RACKETEERING … not, voting.
2016 ELECTORAL COLLEGE HOAX!
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winnie,
get some help–
go work at gcp’s ice cream shop or hsf’s farm,you’ll get the piss/vinegar out of you while they counsel you–
just stay away from francis marion’s gun shop–
22winmag, what color is the sky in your world?
I like her empty promises also.
Carry on. …
Came across quite a few Tulsi billboards and yard signs in NH, rural VA, and even very rural Mass. on a long road trip last week. The absolute most were in NH. I can honestly say that I didn’t see a single yard sign for ANY other democratic party candidate. She may have more support that polls are allowed to acknowledge. Her anti-war sentiment is likely stronger than Trump’s, but the rest of her agenda is unsupportable.
We get all the ‘tards in NH.
Kalama and Tulsi both spoke to maybe 300 people down the apple orchard last month.
Many people have died crossing the beast. Watch your six, Tulsi.
Such a shame that a bright, energetic candidate like Gabbard had to fiddle around her home with a nail gun…..
Just wanted to chime in and say fuck you Tom Luongo.
Tulsi is not a heroine riding in to rescue us from Hillary The Evil One. Tulsi is just another version of democratic communist who is advancing her own career. She is not to be trusted .
She’s also a hard-core feminist who availed herself of the various privileges, owing to diversity and sex quotas in the Army, given to non-White women with decent IQ’s.
She has also publicly attacked the character and competency of a sitting president, Donald Trump, who is her Commander in Chief. This is a court martial offense under the UCMJ to which she as a commissioned field-grade Army Reserve officer is subject.
Yes, she’s the most fluent of the whole sorry lot, and yes, it’s mildly amusing to see her grapple with the likes of Harris and Clinton. But she is an enemy of White people and she has no business occupying any position of authority over White men.