Tulsi Gabbard announces that she is leaving the Democratic Party
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A Democratic former representative from Hawaii has announced that she is leaving the party, calling it an “elitist cabal of warmongers”, and inviting her “common sense independent minded” colleagues to join her.
Tulsi Gabbard, a former United States presidential candidate, in a video published on Twitter on Tuesday said that the Democratic Party is driven by “cowardly wokeness”.
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism,” Gabbard said.
Gabbard added that the party works to “demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans”.
The development comes amid deepening polarisation between the two major US parties ahead of the midterm elections – critical races set for November 8 that will determine whether Republicans or Democrats will have control of Congress. The results will also impact the second half of President Joe Biden’s term in office.
Gabbard represented Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District from 2013 to 2021. In 2020, the Iraq War veteran made an unsuccessful bid for the White House.
Gabbard has been a frequent critic of the Biden administration and has blasted his handling of Russia’s war on Ukraine .
Over the weekend she said the administration “does not care about the American people”.
“Permanent Washington loots us to serve the interests of the arms-manufacturing global oligarchy while we struggle to pay for gas/food/rent and our soldiers go on food stamps,” she said in a tweet .
In February, in an unusual move for a Democrat, Gabbard spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of the nation’s most conservative officials and political activists.
In 2017, she made a secret trip to Syria where she meet with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Gabbard did not specify if or when she plans on joining another party.
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One wonders what took her so long ... she had mastered talk/post 'right-wing lingo' several years ago.
had to be a big check...
She's been a DINO for some time now.
Wasn't one of her last acts being an endorsement of Joe Biden for President? Did Joe turn that down?
Joe's a uniter within the party and not a divider.
Gabbard? Follow the threads back to the pro-Russia websites that boosted her during her presidential campaign.
Anyone who transforms from a sort of socialist to a sort of fascist in a few short years is probably knee deep in RT talking points for some rea$on.
True. The majority of Americans have united to say he is doing poorly.
A nutty comment.
Neither of you can provide any evidence for that, of course.
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That's hilarious!!
And untrue, of course!
I'm woke AF.
What's the opposite of woke AF?
an ostrich
Some folks (morons, every single one of them) act like being woke and wanting social justice is a bad thing.
I guess awareness of what is happening around one's self goes against the navel gazers values
Is everyone that does not think like you a right wing fascist?
Seems like you believe this.
Nutjobs bandy those words about so much now it is like using the word racist---it has lost much of its significance due to overuse and gross misuse.
Isn't it rather obvious they have no other argument?
They hear the word on cnn or msnbc and pull the old monkey see monkey do routine and turn into a parrot. Polly wanna cracker?
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism,” Gabbard said.
Gabbard added that the party works to “demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans”.
All very true! The Democrat party is circling the drain
What else is true? Ah yes, the Republican party is working 24/7 to demonize the FBI, the CIA and the IRS among a host of others that they've conveniently wrapped up in some 'deep state' nonsense for the befuddled 'they're coming for us and they're going to take all of our stuff' tinfoil crowd.
Apparently I've struck a sensitive nerve.
My apologies, but you are a barn door large target.
"Apparently I've struck a sensitive nerve."
You couldn't possibly!
None of you have that ability. The only thing y'all are skilled at are projection, deflection, and denial.
Likewise
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To spend more time with her KGB handler?
Another nutjob 'theory', I see.
Sigh.
What year did you join the KGB?
I did study Russian in High School.
It's amazing how you can completely forget a language in 45 years.
In the beginning I kind of liked her, but then I learned she was brought up in a cult , and then some of her ideas went off the rails. I'm not sure she is full out right wing, but we dont need eccentric unreliable personalities like hers in high levels of politics.
You mean nut jobs like Maxine Waters and the "Squad"?
Don't forget Biden, Harris, Clinton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Newsom, and many others. There are just too many idiot democrats to count much less list.
And just how many election denying republican dumbasses are running this year ... 299? You are living in a glass house boy!
First don't call me boy. If I can't call anyone that neither can you.
Second I don't care how many are running. How many of the Democrats running or ran in the past denied the legitimacy if the 2000 election or the 2016 election. I don't know and I don't care
Pardon me but your hipocricy and racism is showing.
“I don't know and I don't care…”
To save us all time and energy, perhaps preface every further comment with this disclaimer…
To conserve all your precious time and energy, perhaps you would be best just pretending he said it every time.
Don't be throwin' shade on AOC. She's a congress member representing a district right next to mine.
When she's not trying to be an Instagram influencer, she's actually a quite a competent lawmaker. She's probably the reason Trump is sweating bullets with regard to Letitia James lawsuit.
In what imaginary world is she perceived as effective?
How many bills has she written or was the main sponsor of that resulted in a law?
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Thanx for posting the truth!
I
AOC!
And those are just her accomplishments while Trump was still president.
Hilarious!
Then again, she does represent New York, and like Nancy told you, a glass of water with a d behind can win there.
Hillary seemed to think Gabbard was a Russian asset. Maybe heading the State Dept. sharpened her eyes for such things.
Tulsi Gabbard Is Being Used by the Russians, and to a Former US Double Agent, the Evidence Is Clear | Opinion
If nothing else, it is instructive to imagine how Trump could be a similarly unwitting asset of the same type.
Hillary is so full of shit that it isn't even funny. The woman that started the whole BS Russian collusion hoax. She sees Russians everywhere. They stole the 2016 election from her don't you know? Just ask her- she is willing to tell anyone willing or unwilling to listen.
If nothing else it shows how rampant moronic TDS is. There is no cure; and even if there was leftists would believe it was created by Russians to wipe their minds. Or to use a Hillaryism "bleach" them.
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By every post.
I think the Russian trolls hanging around Newsvine were mostly there because they could get paid royalties for posting seeded content.
Did any of them follow you guys over here? It doesn't look like it.
I can't find anyone here making "the Pentagon and State Department are wrong at every turn" arguments.
And as far as I go, I stopped reading Truthdig when it said with a straight face that "the hacking of Hillary's emails was a false flag operation by the Deep State."
the hacking of Hillary's emails
Hillary's server was never "hacked".
I didn't actually say her email server was hacked.
(But we can't say with certainty that Hillary's email server wasn't hacked. It looks like it was targeted over a period of time and unprotected for much of that time. See Wikipedia for details.)
Hillary Clinton email controversy
Also, Wikileaks published over 30 thousand Hillary emails, many of which were obtained by hacking some of her associates email accounts. Those Hillary emails, are "hacked Hillary emails."
Heck, the emails are still online for us to look at:
Hillary Clinton Email Archive
It's impossible to talk to those with Hillary/Clinton Derangement Syndrome on top of Hunter Biden Derangement Syndrome.
bye!
Ex Congresswoman Gabbard...
That is what I thought. She is no longer in office so who gives a shit.
So it doesn't matter what she does. If she wants to hold another federal elected office, she'd better leave Hawaii
Then why the seed or the commentary?
Yep. I don't think she would have any chance at all there.
Did I seed it? No I did not. So ask someone else.
Norman Cousins would advise me not to respond.
I figured it out. If I come and speak here, you are allowed to speak to me. Such a promise! Is that what respect really means?
Well, looks like Al Jazeera, the seeder, and everyone here commenting thought it was worth a shit to comment on, including you.
And you post on shit yourself, so what is the problem? Only here to start shit?
I don't go to articles I am not interested in and say that they are shit or no one cares.
See any differences?
“I don't go to articles I am not interested in…”
That is just too damn funny. Carry on, tex, as there has never been a subject not worthy of your two-cents.
If it bothers you so, skip on by!
We should all call out fascists whenever we see them.
Really?
I must have missed that Al Jazeera link...
Oh wait, here it is:
Tulsi Gabbard announces that she is leaving the Democratic Party
The former US presidential hopeful said the party is driven by ‘cowardly wokeness’ and is stoking ‘anti-white racism’.
Cool! Tulsi even used a crazy white supremacist dog whistle ( "anti-white racism" ) to pander to Republicans.
The Republicans need another Russian asset. They've only got 68 right now.
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And I have no respect for left wing socialists who want everything given to them and have others pay for their way so we are even.
Well, when you actually see one, sound the alarm!
Going all chicken little and calling anyone who disagrees with you a fascist is pretty ineffective and rather juvenile.
Your conspiracy theories are whacko nonsense, but never let common sense or the truth stop you now!
She is willingly leaving on her own terms, so your admonishment means absolutely nothing.
I think of her a bit like the Left’s version of Liz Cheney. She is still a reliably liberal person, but because she is critical of her party’s leadership, everybody acts like she is suddenly conservative.
Not suddenly. She always has been far right.
I know, crazy that the Dems made her Vice Chair of the DNC or that Bernie accepted her endorsement in 2016.
"Not suddenly. She always has been far right."
Yup. Always. There are those of course who obviously always defend the alleged conservatives, no matter what!
Gabbard is in no way liberal and never was.
Yeah, there’s that tribal ignorance. If you don’t agree with me on everything, you must be an extremist for the other side.
Tusli Gabbard wants to abolish the death penalty, minimum prison sentences, and private prisons. She supports a $15 federal minimum wage, 12 weeks of paid family medical leave, free college, student debt relief, shutting down nuclear power plants, an assault weapons ban, few limits on abortion, patent breaking for prescription drugs, Medicare for all, citizenship for Dreamers, increased infrastructure spending through decreased defense spending, legalized marijuana . . .
I could go on, but that should be enough to convince anyone with a remotely open mind that Tulsi Gabbard is not “far right.”
Same tribal ignorance from you. See @8.1.3 (if that’s not too far to scroll up).
Then STFU.
After you.
You first!
I'll say what I please when I please and there's nothing you can do about it.
You’re right. I can’t do anything to stop the trolling and ignorance that you spread around here like manure on a daily basis. All I can do is shine a light at it and hope everyone else has the sense to cover their noses.
You have mastered the obvious.
I don't troll or spread ignorance.
All I can do is shine a light
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You can insult me all fucking day but I'm not going anywhere.
I would never insult you. I only call out your wasted contributions to this space.
Hey did you bother reading the list of liberal positions Gabbard holds that I posted @8.1.3? Or are you still looking for an emoji to copy and paste?
Thank you for that list. Pretty much everything I like except for shutting down nuclear power plants. Until we strengthen the power grid infrastructure where we rely more on renewable, we're gonna need those nuke plants
So who made you the king around here regarding 'my wasted contributions'?
So you're not insulting me.
Regarding her alleged 'liberal positions' contributions - whatever
Now you may continue with the insults.
I'm still not going anywhere.
You may try and have the last word.
We'll see.
It convinces me that she is an absolute idiot that should never be allowed to hold any public office again
That’s a perfectly legitimate point of view. Claiming that she is “right wing” is not. It was not my purpose to persuade anyone to vote for her (not that she’s running for anything).
It's not that she's left or right.
She's a Ruskie sock-puppet.
What is Tulsi Gabbard actually doing on Russia?
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Hold up!
Who was it that started a war in Iraq to "spread democracy"?
Pretty sure it weren't no democrat
If you told me 30 years ago that the GOP would be in favor of Russian expansion into Europe basically anti-NATO, I never would have believed it.
What a long strange trip it has been for Russian meddling in the USA.
It looks to me these days like Russia is attacking the political center in American politics from both the left and the right. You will still find them working the hard left and anarchist beat (if you look hard enough) but man oh man have they found a treasure trove of useful idiots on the American right.
She dislikes US involvement in foreign wars. That doesn’t make her a “Ruskie sock puppet.”
Ya! That's the ticket!
It’s amazing how blood thirsty our democrat friends have become, maybe they hate trump because he didn’t start any new wars that killed brown people.
It’d be bitchin if you kept your ignorance to yourself.
Do you enjoy US involvement in foreign wars? Which Service were you in?
I thought at one time she might have made a good POTUS. I actually like those who are in the center. But then she got on the trmp bandwagon and she left a bad taste in my mouth
No ignorance on my part.
Gee.....
What ignorance?
All Ruskie sock-puppets are against US involvement in foreign wars.
It's what Russia wants to accomplish by meddling in our domestic politics: to get us to walk away from the national stage and let Russia do whatever it wants without opposition.
Of course there are true pacifists who are against US involvement in foreign wars. True pacifists are also against Russian war crimes and violence and all war no matter who is involved.
The tell that you are dealing with a Ruskie sock puppet is the one-sidedness in their suggestions as to how to go about creating world peace: that the USA should stand down and leave the world to its fate without our help.
It kind of reduces the notion of peace to absurdity when that peace involves turning over nations of free people to a genocidal monster.
Which service were you in?
Army, still am.
Yeah, you've claimed that you're a really high ranking high brow muckety muck.
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No, I'm not high ranking and have never claimed to be, I don't think that I've ever used the term muckety muck. If by high brow you mean receding hareline, I confess.
Good to see a Republican switch to Democrat and running for governor of OK
Why?
I will be even better to see some of the voters switch.
The Democratic Party, as much as we constantly complain about them, has room for moderates.
It is even going to be better when Oregon switches from blue to red. Can't wait for November 8th!