Tulsi, who’s fans will remember, was their “anti-war” icon… appropriately endorsed by Mike Gravel, who’s own run as “anti-war” unseated one of the only two congress people to vote against the Tonkin Resolution and against going into Viet Nam.
Tulsi is a perfect example of the false left on the disconnected extreme that is the entire horseshoe shaped Tea Party built and mirage like but devastatingly consequential parody of actual political positions.
Earlier this year, blue district anomaly and fascist apologist dressed like a preschool teacher, Kirsten Sinema decided to announce her partisan independence. Her 2020 “victory fund” co-benefactor was Tulsi Gabbard who was fundraised to the second debate by the “Daily Stormer” and promoted by far right white supremacists such as David Duke
And Matt Gaetz
Tulsi almost had a place in Trump’s cabinet, and moved to dismiss her own lawsuit against Hillary Clinton for pointing out that her campaign was designed by Russia and Republicans when finally faced with disclosure. She has left campaigning but there are many alt righters pretending to be leftists within the original camps that endorsed her obvious ghost candidacy.
Here are notes I made for a thread I wrote on Tulsi Gabbard in 2019. Much of this is straight excerpts from these sources. I will try to update with images and more articles later. Enjoy:
https://www.sacouncil.com/aalert_gabbard_assad
“Since her election to Congress in 2012, Gabbard repeatedly made a series of the following false assertions to her fellow lawmakers:
-Attempts to remove Assad from power has lead to killing of 400,000 Syrians
-Assad fights ISIS. Syria would be controlled by ISIS if the regime was driven from power
-The Syrian opposition is comprised of al-Qaeda and affiliated extremists groups
“She had even criticized Obama for not using the term “radical Islam” to describe groups such as ISIS. And she introduced legislation that would bar the U.S. government from supporting groups allied with or supporting terrorist organizations, some of which are fighting against the Assad regime. Her views on Syria appear to align more closely with those of Trump, who says the U.S. should focus its efforts on defeating ISIS.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/tulsi-gabbard-president-foreign-islam/
“Gabbard met with Assad, explaining herself afterward by saying that no meeting should be off the table “if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people.” That sympathy apparently did not extend to anyone who’d fought against Assad or belonged to the Syrian opposition, to whom she had previously tried to outlaw US assistance. Assad was a “brutal dictator,” Gabbard wrote, but “[e]very Syrian soldier we and our Saudi partners kill is one less soldier available to fight against ISIS.”
“The wake up call, for most of us, came when Gabbard met with Trump soon after his inauguration and then with Assad, instead of marching on DC with us and the rest of the Hawaii’s congressional delegation during the Women’s March in protest of what has become an unprecedented abolition of human and civil rights in America,” said Sherry Alu Campagna, an environmental scientist who is among Gabbard’s most well-known primary challengers”
“U.S. politicians criticizing imperialist U.S. foreign policy interventions, this time in the Middle East, and helpfully excluding other major world powers’ own interventions, is exactly the message Russia seeks to amplify through its propaganda channels. On cue, Russia's 24 hour English news channel, RT, serially posted Gabbard’s video clip on their YouTube channel with the headline that read: "Speeches that still matter: Rep Gabbard on bringing an end to U.S. interventionism."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-run
“Gabbard did not notify her Democratic peers before flying to Syria on the trip, which was sponsored by a far-right group with connections to Greek right-wing nationalists. Afterward, Gabbard said she was “skeptical” that Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people, calling the accusations just another round of “pointing fingers.” Critics have accused her of being an “Assad shill” and therefore also a “Putin puppet”—or, as Russian state television network RT put it, “daring to seek firsthand accounts rather than blindly trusting the MSM narrative.”
“The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has had a quiet but well-funded lobbying effort in Washington since well before he began murdering his own people. But that influence campaign’s clearest triumph came in 2017, when it succeeded in bringing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) to Damascus and having her parrot Assad’s propaganda on her return.”
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Below these notes I have a list of links from when I was researching this obvious Putin Shill, raised by a very homophobic father within the Chris Butler cult, Who was apologizing for Assad and with the support of not only DSA and Green Party but also Steve Bannon and Neonazi groups
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-assads-favorite-democrat-is-running-for-president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-democrats
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad/index.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/letters-from-the-november-20-2017-issue
https://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad-war-criminal-stephen-colbert-2019-3
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45002/miller-tulsi-gabbard-pro-assad-candidate-2020-paul-miller
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-run