I drifted in faith from Tulsi Gabbard's presidential run for a few weeks. When she offered a "Medicare For Choice" plan I winced. The "Choice" part would enable those who like the plan they have already in place to retain it, while Medicare For All would, I assume, apply to everyone else. It seems batty to me to make such an offer. Medicare For All would mostly be much better for people than any plan derived from a job, so why, Tulsi Gabbard, would people "choose" a shittier plan? Unless brainwashing is part of the decision-making process.
The health insurance industry and its lobbyists have bought politicians in this country. The politicians (lawmakers) make laws favoring the insurance industry profiteers as they indulge their greed, American Capitalist-style. Tulsi's position on this subject makes no sense to me--I haven't yet heard her explain it in an interview. Most interviews with her consist of "You met with Assad..." and "You called Hillary Clinton 'Queen of the warmongers,' what's your evidence for that?"
Gabbard, smeared by Queen Hillary herself, an American royal in exile, stands tall against her many enemies. Youtuber Kim Iversen illuminates the Hillary-Tulsi contention in a recent video, mentioning how Senator Kamala Harris was/is Hillary's anointed successor for the 2020 election. Past Hillary supporters (the kind with big bucks) wrote checks for Harris's campaign, hosted her in the Hamptons. The tough-talking no nonsense former DA and Attorney General from California must've impressed the money people (among whom used to be such admirable Democratic donors as Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein). Harris seems competent--she most definitely possesses a key Hillary Clinton trait: cruelty.
Extending prison terms of inmates to make them fight California wildfires for a buck a day, as AG Harris did, doesn't strike me as the act of someone with normally functioning emotions.
July 31, 2019, the second Democratic debate in Detroit. I don't know why Tulsi Gabbard decided to "take down" Kamala Harris. It could be due to Harris being a strong-seeming woman of color, someone close to the front end of Gabbard's race car, in the way, not in the lead, but still important to move to the side and pass. How to fight Harris? Tell America the truth about the Senator's past official actions. Keeping a man unnecessarily on Death Row. The wildfires hell she put inmates through as they deserved legally and morally, to be released from servitude, having served their time.
Tulsi's take down left Kamala, in split screen, looking down at her podium, shaking her head, but shaking her nicely coiffed head at what? No, Congresswoman Gabbard, that thing you just said that's true isn't true. Those watching the debate could easily check Gabbard's "accusations" of the truth of Harris's horrid record as a "public servant" in real time, using the Internet in their phones.
Harris afterwards, interviewed by Chris Matthews of MSNBC, provided a lame excuse, saying she wasn't concerned about what candidates not in the "first tier" (like herself) had to say about the record she's proud of, her accomplishments stand for themselves (must be a drag to be famous and uncomfortable at the same time). But anyone bothering to look up what Tulsi said could see that Kamala Harris is, essentially, a brutally minded cop.
Within a month, the magic began to work. Tulsi has been ahead of Kamala in the polls, making Harris no longer "first tier."
If Harris is Hillary Clinton's preferred candidate, the latter has picked a loser. It's funny to look back at stories from early this year, when Harris was preparing to announce her run. Like Jeb Bush, Harris is put forth in these stories, as in one I'll discuss from CNN, as virtually anointed as the Democratic nominee. Hillary 2.0. After Gabbard's revealing statements on live television about her opponent Harris in Detroit last July, the Clinton machine has been aiming to destroy Tulsi, who really isn't a threat in terms of winning the nomination. It must be revenge on Hillary Clinton's part. She operates on the intellectual level of a warlord character on Xena: Warrior Princess.
Delusion plays a part, too, in the pushing forth of Harris by Clinton and her surrogates in mainstream news media. A video story from CNN dated last January covers the power of the sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Thousands of these women are, we're told, likely to vote Harris, one of their own. I didn't know sorority sisters are robots, but I guess that when it comes to presidential electoral political thinking they're uniformly behind the one candidate who got hazed in their house decorated with Greek letters.
The CNN interviewer, a young Asian woman, speaks to four or five "AKA" sisters who attended school and lived in the same sorority with Kamala Harris. We're assured, without any evidence offered, that Alpha Kappa Alpha is for Harris. An image of sisters holding up copies of Harris's book seems to reveal a strong voting bloc of about fourteen affluent Black women. We are to assume that among the thousands of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters none of them are Republicans, in spite of the likelihood of some being rich.
Even in January 2019, six months before Tulsi Gabbard humiliated an Alpha Kappa Alpha alumna who wants to rule the world, CNN and other mainstream outlets had an unrealistic view of the Senator's chances, producing slick video segments amounting to commercials for a woman with a heart of iron, just like Hillary Clinton. For it to be convincing, the notion that Harris is electable to high office beyond her current job as Senator should not be dependent on the devotion of her sorority sisters. Most people have no contact with sororities and fraternities. Most people have never been served food, or given money, in the Hamptons. Kamala Harris will not win the nomination, much less the presidency, because the American people don't like her. Still, she makes it to the debates. Tulsi will be in the fifth one. It would be gratifying to hear her take another well-placed shot at Harris, who, like in the second debate, will stand like George Custer--an earlier American with presidential ambitions--before someone with a greater cause sweeps her feet out from underneath by telling the truth.
Politicians who get hurt by the truth should be shit out of the body politic like the tapeworms they are. Their lack of personal character is deadly to the world.
Vic Neptune
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