Trump ropes Tulsi Gabbard for debate prep, in hopes of having a fighting chance against Harris
Trump ropes Tulsi Gabbard for debate prep, in hopes of having a fighting chance against Harris | Salon.com
I don't think there's anything special that Gabbard did in that debate to make Kamala selfdestruct. She just asked her about the laughing about smoking weed after locking people up for smoking weed. Kamala had no answer prepared and in general isn't great at thinking on her feet. Kamala's prep needs to be better this time, otherwise it could be a repeat of the dem debates which could be catastropic in a close race.
Honestly the whole thing that she "eviscerated" her in the debate (as the New York Times put it) is a bunch of horseshit.
Here's the exchange. I think Harris was a little taken aback because it was at least 50% complete fabrications, and that's harder to deal with in a debate setting than in a prosecutorial setting. It's fair to say she handled it a little poorly and Gabbard did a good job at landing the dishonest attacks. But most of what it accomplished, at the end of the day, was to accelerate the putting of those lies into the public discourse in a big way as talking points, alongside the idea that if anyone in Harris's office was prosecuting people who broke the law at the time, that represents a fair reason to attack Harris today because obviously what she should have been doing was letting them go and instructing every prosecutor in California to do the same, and that wouldn't have caused any problems.
FYI it's pretty normal for DA's to juat say were not gonna prosecute a crime. This is just the first result when I searched for examples with weed:
Also if she has trouble countering lies, she'll get smoked by Trump so prep is really important here.
I think Harris was a little taken aback because it was at least 50% complete fabrications.
Hopefully Harris is prepared for that, because a heap of fabrications (or blatant lies as most people would call them) is exactly what she will be getting from Trump.
Harris better be ready this time because I assume Trump will be coached to try that jab too.
Tulsi "I Love Putin" Gabbard.
And that was before she started pushing that "U.S. bio weapons labs in Ukraine" lie.
Teaching a pig to sing comes to mind.
What is Gabbard's story these days? She hates Harris (nothing wrong with that: in the US we are all entitled to hate any politicians we want)? Or she aligns with Trump in deeper ways now? I remember Gabbard from the 2020 Dem primary. She clobbered Harris pretty well back then. But she didn't come across as even slightly likely to sympathize with Trump.
Since then, she has been on Fox News a lot. I wonder if it changed her?
She’s a grifter and has always been a grifter.
Hillary Clinton called Tulsi out explicitly as a Russian asset. I think she was right about that.
There's some evidence she's a cult member, and was posturing as some kind of Manchurian candidate.
No, really.
Mike Prysner has made a few decent podcasts (QAA, eyes left) following her political career and service. I don't think you can definitionally tie her to membership, but she's got some questionable associations.
Tulsi Gabbard is part of the Science of Identity cult. She was literally raised in this cult and is Chris Butler's heir apparent. They're viciously anti-gay and she lied to the voters to be elected in Hawaii as a Democrat.
Q-Anon Anonymous did a great episode about this
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that and it is interesting.
She is showing typical grifter behavior like many who changed their ideologies on a dime to further self interest.
What? What a weird statement.
I mean, if the goal is to flabbergast your opponent he's the king.
"Baffle them with bullshit" has been a saying for quite a while. But with Trump it's more like "give them a stupidity migraine." The stuff that comes out of his mouth hurts my brain to hear it.
You can't help but to try to parse some meaning out of his words. They sound like English. But he assembles them in an arcane order where the harder you try to understand him, the less anything he says makes sense. He is like a human word cloud where you just have to infer the message based on the biggest, boldest words.
So yes, it's hard to beat an opponent in a debate when you have to try to understand what he's saying in order to form a cogent counterpoint. His audience of the hearing- and vocabulary-impaired only absorb the gist without ever attempting to parse actual meaning out of it.
It is truly a thing of wonder, and if the future of our nation didn't hinge on it, it would be fascinating to explore. I hope future generations, unburdened by the threat of another Trump Presidency, might be able to study this and harness this power for good.
Imagine trying to think while a dimwitted centaur's front end plays an invisible accordion to accompany his dementia-riddled and bigoted stream-of-consciousness.
Trump would rarely be the best debater in the room.
Even in an empty room