The United States has a Director of National Intelligence who is parrroting Russian talking points. Surreal. I mean, it´s surreal even if it´s just red meat for the "base". And who are the "base" anyway? The last remaining faithful of the Communist Party USA?
Note also the bizarre timing of Gabbard´s video. You know, Israel and Iran cough cough...
When asked by a reporter circa 2015 why he quoted Mussolini on Twitter, Trump responded: "We are interesting people. We do interesting things".
Mr Trump certainly has interesting allies! But...I assumed the Republican party regarded Waheguru as the only true god?
How Trump could appoint Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr without Senate approval. From the pro-Trump site Breitbart News.
Dagens Nyheter hävdar att den svenska säkerhetstjänsten inte tänker dela information med USA om Tulsi Gabbard blir Trumps "spionchef".
Trump wants to appoint Tulsi Gabbard to the position of DNI.
Not sure what the Director of National Intelligence really does that the CIA or FBI can´t do themselves, but since Gabbard is (as far as I know) still a member of "Science of Identity", I wouldn´t let her near any classified information. How do we know it won´t end up in the hands of Chris Butler?!
Who, at least according to critics, is a cult leader...
See also here:
Since I discussed Tulsi Gabbard before, I might as well link to this clip. I haven´t really watched it. It´s interesting to note that, say, Alt-Right personality Mike Cernovich "predicted" this already in 2016, since he described Gabbard as a "centrist populist" already at a time when she was officially a left-leaning Democrat!
Oh, and then there´s this...
Tulsi Gabbard is a controversial American politician
and political commentator whose main claim to fame is probably her 2019-2020 primary
election campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Gabbard destroyed
Kamala Harris´ presidential bid before the voting even started, but as we all
know, Harris staged a comeback later. Still, it *is* intriguing that Harris´
attempt to become POTUS in her own right was upset by a “fringe” candidate like
Gabbard!
Supposedly a progressive leftist, Gabbard veered rather
strongly towards the populist right, eventually leaving the Democratic Party
altogether in 2022 for unknown pastures. Judging by the presentations linked
above, Gabbard may never have been a leftist at all, and perhaps deliberately
prettified her past.
It´s been known for a long time that Gabbard had
contacts with Hindu nationalists (she even met Modi). Her Hindu beliefs are derived
from a breakaway group from the Hare Krishna movement, known as Science of Identity.
Both her parents (not just her mother) are members of Science of Identity, and
so is Gabbard herself. The group is based on Hawaii, where the Gabbards live. The
founder-leader of this group, Chris Butler, is a really raving homophobe. So is
Mark Gabbard, Tulsi´s father, who claims to be a Catholic but is actually a member
of Butler´s organization. While it´s not super-secret that Gabbard is somehow
connected to Butler´s people, she has tried to downplay both the connection and
essentially denied her guru´s homophobia.
The narrator of the videos linked above is a Canadian counter-cultist with somewhat eclectic spiritual beliefs, Henri Jolicoeur. As a very young man, Jolicoeur was a member of the Hare Krishna movement (the ISKCON) and worked closely with none other than Shrila Prabhupada himself. Indeed, he was tasked with spying on Chris Butler´s ISKCON temple in Hawaii! It seems Butler was creating his very own, shall we say, cult following already back then. Yes, Jolicoeur regards Science of Identity as a dangerous cult, prompting Butler´s lawyers to sue him for libel in both Hawaii and Quebec as a result (the present status of the lawsuit is unclear to me).
The videos are interesting,
not just for what they may reveal about Gabbard or Butler, but also due to the
narrator´s reminiscences. Judging by other uploads on his channel, Jolicouer
knows all of the ISKCON “fallen gurus” who took over the Hare Krishna after
Prabhupada´s death…and he despises all of them (or almost all). There is some
other interesting info of a counter-cultist nature on the channel too, so stay
tuned for more links!
As for Tulsi Gabbard, she did have an intriguing
ability to politically attract a rather motley crew of people. Among people who
had positive things to say about her were Alt Right cyber-demon and citizen´s
reporter Mike Cernovich, pro-populist leftist Jimmy Dore and perennial kind-of-liberal
gadfly Michael Tracey (who even endorsed her for president). I was interested
in her politics, too, but things change and so on.
Presented her for all it may be worth.
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Gabbard is too weird and mercurial (in the bad sense of the term) for my political tastes, but her attempts to market herself as a kind of babe version of Donald Trump makes her say interesting things from time to time. Such as here...
The only sane Democrat left?
Tulsi Gabbard on Kyle Rittenhouse
"The jury got it right—finding Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges. The fact that charges were brought before any serious investigation is evidence that the government was motivated by politics, which itself should be considered criminal."
Tulsi Gabbard is getting old (let´s be honest, she used to be the hottest Hare Krishna chick in town, and yes the town in question was Washington DC!), but she does make some good points in this message on Afghanistan, which, however, also leaves many questions unanswered...
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