Iraq snapshot
Wednesday, August 14, 2019. Today, we look at the campaigns of a War Hawk (Joe Biden) and his enabler (Tulsi Gabbard).
Let's take a trip on the Tulsi train. THE TULSI TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE, not since that laughable debate performance and the days that followed. She wasn't willing to challenge War Hawk Joe Biden in the debate and then she goes around lying that Joe's said he was sorry -- no, what Joe said was he's not about sorry about anything in his life -- and that he said he was wrong. He didn't say he was wrong to vote for the Iraq War -- or to silence Iraq War critics, or to support the war for years after it started or . . . -- he was wrong, he said, because Bully Boy Bush tricked him.
Seriously?
I believe the phrase we're looking for is "Bitch, please."
Tennessee Williams wrote THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE about a dying woman who, no surprise, dies in the end. THE TULSI TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE is about her dying campaign which, no surprise, dies in the end.
After the first debates in June, the press couldn't stop salivating over Julian Castro. He dah man! They said it over and over. He got bitchy with Beto O'Rourke and the press loved it. They forgot or ignored that he didn't state his own case very well. They were convinced Julian was going to be coming into double digits for his performance. Never happened. We said it wasn't happening, the snapshot the morning after, we said it's not happening. This was based on the reactions from Democratic voters we were speaking to in New Hampshire.
The second debates were in July, the last week of July. Tulsi's campaign staff -- such as it is -- was saying ahead of the debates that Tulsi was going to come out so strong, she was going to show everyone . . .
Well Tulsi's not running on domestic issues. She's made her whole campaign about "I am the one who will end these endless wars."
She did prepare for the debates. She prepared to attack Senator Kamala Harris. She did all of her research to attack Kamala who, for the record, did not vote for the Iraq War. She wasn't in the US Congress -- House or Senate -- then. She attacked Kamala on Kamala's record as a prosecutor.
And she defended Joe Biden, she refused to call him out.
The press loved that moment. But being a bitch onstage doesn't really work -- ask Julian Castro. If you make your own case and you manage to take down someone else, it can work. But you have to deliver on your own. If all you've got to offer is attacks, you look like a bitch and nobody going to rush to support you. Julian had to learn that lesson, can Tulsi?
Probably not, it's a dying campaign she's on.
We told the truth about Tulsi and the debates and that was the unspeakable -- how dare we!!! A friend on the left flat out lied about Tulsi. When he did his commentary, I called him and asked WTF? Did he not see the debate because she didn't go anti-war? He said she was a huge disappointment but he had to make little steps and blah blah blah.
No, you were too chicken s**t to tell the truth. Love you to death as a friend, but as a voice of truth you're a joke right now.
The pretense that she won the debate or that she had changed the narrative continued.
She didn't do a damn thing.
The proof is in the fundraising.
Still high on the media attention, Tulsi set a goal Thursday, August 8th of reaching 160,000 -- "past 160,000 by next Sunday" which would have been August 11th.
It should have been an easy walk for 'internet sensation Tulsi,' right?
She missed that self-imposed deadline. Sunday, August 11th she was still begging people to donate so that she could reach that 160,000 unique donors.
That's bad. Especially considering all the publicity she's received since the last week of July.
But it gets worse.
Reaching 160,000 shouldn't have been a hard climb for her. At the time she announced the goal, she was at 157,045. And when she announced the results of Sunday? She was at 159,514. Less than 2,300 people.
And she's the rising star?
She's cratering and she has no one to blame but herself. She was supposed to be the anti-war candidate (she's really not, no one dares asks her about The Drone War -- that's another little trick that her left supporters in the press are playing on voters) and she went on stage and offered dull statements when asked about Iraq and Afghanistan -- asked not once but twice. She didn't say a single word of value.
People watching the two debates the last week of July saw Jay Inslee desperately trying to speak about Iraq -- Don Lemon ignored him and aren't we all laughing about Don allegedly rubbing his hand furiously in his pubes and then shoving the hand in some guy's face and asking him if he likes p**sy or cock? whether the allegation is true or not, it does say a lot about Don, doesn't it -- and the people saw Bill de Blasio desperately trying to raise the topic of Iran -- of no war to Iran.
Tulsi, asked to speak about war, had nothing to say and, no, she didn't mention Iran once.
She's cratering because it should have been her big moment but it has people believing that all she really wants is to be Joe Biden's running mate. And, yes, people ponder that online but we watched the debates and saw her supporters ask that during the debate, ask that after the debate. If you think I was harsh to Tulsi here -- and I was -- that's nothing compared to the group of people we watched the debates with.
Here's what happens with gas baggery. Stick Up His Ass Pundit sees some drama on stage -- it doesn't add up to s**t and it never will but he's bored and he doesn't know actual issues so he goes for 'heat' and 'drama.' He speaks to Stick Up Her Ass Pundit and having both been broken -- and broken in -- by the infotainment system that passes for journalism today, the two highly paid corporate whores agree with each other. And that is their 'polling' upon which they will now base their 'informed' opinion. Thomas Friedman is a joke but at least he speaks to people -- taxi cab drivers -- both real and imaginary -- before he writes his column.
Insulated from reality, they make these ridiculous proclamations -- Julian Castro is what the people are talking about! He is on the rise!!! -- ridiculous proclamations that never come to pass because no real person was impressed with Julian. He slammed Beto but Julian never got his own point across. He didn't the next day either. It wasn't until the Sunday after the June debates that Julian could coherently explain to the media what his immigration position was. I understood him. I understood him in the debate. But that's only because I knew his position before the debate. His scattershot approach to presenting his belief in the debate wasn't going to persuade anyone.
I called a friend with Tulsi's campaign an hour ago to see if she'd reached her goal yet, all these days later.
Has she?
I got a lecture on how she's doing this and how she's doing that.
I didn't get anything about her fundraising. I kind of believe that if she had reached it, that would have been the first thing I was told -- a snippy "Well she's reached it now!"
Bye-bye Tulsi.
One of us Tulsi's idiot supporters in the press is someone we can't mention. I know both of his parents and I was asked not to mention him here. He has drug problems among other things -- he's a hot head and always has had poor impulse control -- and they didn't want me to mention him here -- positive or negative because they knew he would implode (repeatedly) and he has.
So I have never mentioned him. His name has popped up at the site -- as early as 2005 -- but that's when someone asks me to promote a show and he happens to be a guest on it. I don't say anything about him. I also believe he was noted in an interview we did with a journalist at THIRD.
All these years, I still have not mentioned him by name and my own remarks.
And, goodness, do I wish I could break my promise now.
I don't know what he's snorted or injected now but it's 'poor Tulsi that bad media!'
Tulsi, in the debate, was asked by Jake Tapper about the wars and she took a pass. That's why, after Joe Biden spoke his nonsense, Jake went back to Tulsi, gave her a chance to speak again. Those kind of gifts don't happen often. She refused to take it.
The media attention after that debate? Intense. And she was asked a variety of questions. But she can't handle questions, can she?
I didn't go to Syria and meet with Bashir al-Assad. I also do not condemn her for doing so. She did it. She did it as a member of the US Congress which made it news.
She's acting as though they're asking her how long she's been sleeping with Nick Jonas.
This is a serious issue.
I think it's great that she went.
Up until the point where she can't defend herself.
What kind of an idiot can't defend themselves on a public action they took after planning it out?
She should be thrilled every time she's asked.
Those should be her first words, "I'm thrilled you asked me about that. It's important for us to speak with other leaders, even leaders we disagree with. Let me explain what I hoped I could achieve and what I think I did achieve because this was a controversial decision for some people -- and maybe still is -- and let me explain, since I'm asking America to trust me and make me their president, let me explain what I was trying to accomplish."
But instead, Tulsi -- and her druggy pal in the press -- keep acting as though she's being asked, "Did you sniff Nick Jonas' pubes when you went down on him?"
She's not being asked about rumors or about anything salacious. She's being asked to explain a public trip she did press for both before and after the trip, a public trip that some people found outrageous. She should have been grateful for the opportunity.
That opportunity has passed. She wouldn't address it and she insulted the press with her Long and Whining Road. If Bernie Sanders is punching the press, he's doing so for a reason other than "I'm tired of talking about my trip!!!" Tulsi's press critique is actually an attack on the press for doing its job.
She was at 1% before the debate and she remain there after. Maybe if she hadn't taken the BMW (Bitch Moan and Whine) out for a drive, she could have explained to the American people what the trip was about. She can't and that's why she's not going to be the nominee. She can't communicate with the American people about something as basic as why she went to Syria. And without reassurance, most Americans are not going to support her for the presidency.
And even she, in all her great delusions, is finally grasping that reality which is why she spent her recent days campaigning 'for the presidential nomination' in her own district in Hawaii. The second district hadn't seen her in some time. She has a vocal group of people in the district who want to vote her out. And she's acted as though that reality didn't exist. Until the last seven days. Suddenly, it was all Tulsi, all the time in Hawaii's second district -- the one she's supposed to represent.
I was supportive of her campaign and willing to highlight it here but I did not endorse her and that upset many.
She stands for what we stand for!!!!
Let's take a trip on the Tulsi train. THE TULSI TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE, not since that laughable debate performance and the days that followed. She wasn't willing to challenge War Hawk Joe Biden in the debate and then she goes around lying that Joe's said he was sorry -- no, what Joe said was he's not about sorry about anything in his life -- and that he said he was wrong. He didn't say he was wrong to vote for the Iraq War -- or to silence Iraq War critics, or to support the war for years after it started or . . . -- he was wrong, he said, because Bully Boy Bush tricked him.
Seriously?
I believe the phrase we're looking for is "Bitch, please."
Tennessee Williams wrote THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE about a dying woman who, no surprise, dies in the end. THE TULSI TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE is about her dying campaign which, no surprise, dies in the end.
After the first debates in June, the press couldn't stop salivating over Julian Castro. He dah man! They said it over and over. He got bitchy with Beto O'Rourke and the press loved it. They forgot or ignored that he didn't state his own case very well. They were convinced Julian was going to be coming into double digits for his performance. Never happened. We said it wasn't happening, the snapshot the morning after, we said it's not happening. This was based on the reactions from Democratic voters we were speaking to in New Hampshire.
The second debates were in July, the last week of July. Tulsi's campaign staff -- such as it is -- was saying ahead of the debates that Tulsi was going to come out so strong, she was going to show everyone . . .
Well Tulsi's not running on domestic issues. She's made her whole campaign about "I am the one who will end these endless wars."
She did prepare for the debates. She prepared to attack Senator Kamala Harris. She did all of her research to attack Kamala who, for the record, did not vote for the Iraq War. She wasn't in the US Congress -- House or Senate -- then. She attacked Kamala on Kamala's record as a prosecutor.
And she defended Joe Biden, she refused to call him out.
The press loved that moment. But being a bitch onstage doesn't really work -- ask Julian Castro. If you make your own case and you manage to take down someone else, it can work. But you have to deliver on your own. If all you've got to offer is attacks, you look like a bitch and nobody going to rush to support you. Julian had to learn that lesson, can Tulsi?
Probably not, it's a dying campaign she's on.
We told the truth about Tulsi and the debates and that was the unspeakable -- how dare we!!! A friend on the left flat out lied about Tulsi. When he did his commentary, I called him and asked WTF? Did he not see the debate because she didn't go anti-war? He said she was a huge disappointment but he had to make little steps and blah blah blah.
No, you were too chicken s**t to tell the truth. Love you to death as a friend, but as a voice of truth you're a joke right now.
The pretense that she won the debate or that she had changed the narrative continued.
She didn't do a damn thing.
The proof is in the fundraising.
Still high on the media attention, Tulsi set a goal Thursday, August 8th of reaching 160,000 -- "past 160,000 by next Sunday" which would have been August 11th.
It should have been an easy walk for 'internet sensation Tulsi,' right?
She missed that self-imposed deadline. Sunday, August 11th she was still begging people to donate so that she could reach that 160,000 unique donors.
That's bad. Especially considering all the publicity she's received since the last week of July.
But it gets worse.
Reaching 160,000 shouldn't have been a hard climb for her. At the time she announced the goal, she was at 157,045. And when she announced the results of Sunday? She was at 159,514. Less than 2,300 people.
And she's the rising star?
She's cratering and she has no one to blame but herself. She was supposed to be the anti-war candidate (she's really not, no one dares asks her about The Drone War -- that's another little trick that her left supporters in the press are playing on voters) and she went on stage and offered dull statements when asked about Iraq and Afghanistan -- asked not once but twice. She didn't say a single word of value.
People watching the two debates the last week of July saw Jay Inslee desperately trying to speak about Iraq -- Don Lemon ignored him and aren't we all laughing about Don allegedly rubbing his hand furiously in his pubes and then shoving the hand in some guy's face and asking him if he likes p**sy or cock? whether the allegation is true or not, it does say a lot about Don, doesn't it -- and the people saw Bill de Blasio desperately trying to raise the topic of Iran -- of no war to Iran.
Tulsi, asked to speak about war, had nothing to say and, no, she didn't mention Iran once.
She's cratering because it should have been her big moment but it has people believing that all she really wants is to be Joe Biden's running mate. And, yes, people ponder that online but we watched the debates and saw her supporters ask that during the debate, ask that after the debate. If you think I was harsh to Tulsi here -- and I was -- that's nothing compared to the group of people we watched the debates with.
Here's what happens with gas baggery. Stick Up His Ass Pundit sees some drama on stage -- it doesn't add up to s**t and it never will but he's bored and he doesn't know actual issues so he goes for 'heat' and 'drama.' He speaks to Stick Up Her Ass Pundit and having both been broken -- and broken in -- by the infotainment system that passes for journalism today, the two highly paid corporate whores agree with each other. And that is their 'polling' upon which they will now base their 'informed' opinion. Thomas Friedman is a joke but at least he speaks to people -- taxi cab drivers -- both real and imaginary -- before he writes his column.
Insulated from reality, they make these ridiculous proclamations -- Julian Castro is what the people are talking about! He is on the rise!!! -- ridiculous proclamations that never come to pass because no real person was impressed with Julian. He slammed Beto but Julian never got his own point across. He didn't the next day either. It wasn't until the Sunday after the June debates that Julian could coherently explain to the media what his immigration position was. I understood him. I understood him in the debate. But that's only because I knew his position before the debate. His scattershot approach to presenting his belief in the debate wasn't going to persuade anyone.
I called a friend with Tulsi's campaign an hour ago to see if she'd reached her goal yet, all these days later.
Has she?
I got a lecture on how she's doing this and how she's doing that.
I didn't get anything about her fundraising. I kind of believe that if she had reached it, that would have been the first thing I was told -- a snippy "Well she's reached it now!"
Bye-bye Tulsi.
One of us Tulsi's idiot supporters in the press is someone we can't mention. I know both of his parents and I was asked not to mention him here. He has drug problems among other things -- he's a hot head and always has had poor impulse control -- and they didn't want me to mention him here -- positive or negative because they knew he would implode (repeatedly) and he has.
So I have never mentioned him. His name has popped up at the site -- as early as 2005 -- but that's when someone asks me to promote a show and he happens to be a guest on it. I don't say anything about him. I also believe he was noted in an interview we did with a journalist at THIRD.
All these years, I still have not mentioned him by name and my own remarks.
And, goodness, do I wish I could break my promise now.
I don't know what he's snorted or injected now but it's 'poor Tulsi that bad media!'
Tulsi, in the debate, was asked by Jake Tapper about the wars and she took a pass. That's why, after Joe Biden spoke his nonsense, Jake went back to Tulsi, gave her a chance to speak again. Those kind of gifts don't happen often. She refused to take it.
The media attention after that debate? Intense. And she was asked a variety of questions. But she can't handle questions, can she?
I didn't go to Syria and meet with Bashir al-Assad. I also do not condemn her for doing so. She did it. She did it as a member of the US Congress which made it news.
She's acting as though they're asking her how long she's been sleeping with Nick Jonas.
This is a serious issue.
I think it's great that she went.
Up until the point where she can't defend herself.
What kind of an idiot can't defend themselves on a public action they took after planning it out?
She should be thrilled every time she's asked.
Those should be her first words, "I'm thrilled you asked me about that. It's important for us to speak with other leaders, even leaders we disagree with. Let me explain what I hoped I could achieve and what I think I did achieve because this was a controversial decision for some people -- and maybe still is -- and let me explain, since I'm asking America to trust me and make me their president, let me explain what I was trying to accomplish."
But instead, Tulsi -- and her druggy pal in the press -- keep acting as though she's being asked, "Did you sniff Nick Jonas' pubes when you went down on him?"
She's not being asked about rumors or about anything salacious. She's being asked to explain a public trip she did press for both before and after the trip, a public trip that some people found outrageous. She should have been grateful for the opportunity.
That opportunity has passed. She wouldn't address it and she insulted the press with her Long and Whining Road. If Bernie Sanders is punching the press, he's doing so for a reason other than "I'm tired of talking about my trip!!!" Tulsi's press critique is actually an attack on the press for doing its job.
She was at 1% before the debate and she remain there after. Maybe if she hadn't taken the BMW (Bitch Moan and Whine) out for a drive, she could have explained to the American people what the trip was about. She can't and that's why she's not going to be the nominee. She can't communicate with the American people about something as basic as why she went to Syria. And without reassurance, most Americans are not going to support her for the presidency.
And even she, in all her great delusions, is finally grasping that reality which is why she spent her recent days campaigning 'for the presidential nomination' in her own district in Hawaii. The second district hadn't seen her in some time. She has a vocal group of people in the district who want to vote her out. And she's acted as though that reality didn't exist. Until the last seven days. Suddenly, it was all Tulsi, all the time in Hawaii's second district -- the one she's supposed to represent.
I was supportive of her campaign and willing to highlight it here but I did not endorse her and that upset many.
She stands for what we stand for!!!!
We must stop trying to be the world’s police. As your commander-in-chief, I’ll end the wasteful regime change wars, work to end the new cold war, bring our troops home, and redirect our precious tax dollars into serving the urgent needs of our people here at home. #TULSI2020
Yes, she says the right things in interviews. And if she was Johnny Carson's braless second guest on an 80s episode of THE TONIGHT SHOW, that might be fine and dandy.
But she's a US politician seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party and yet when she stood onstage opposite Joe Biden she didn't say a thing and then she made it worse by defending him after the debate.
What about Biden lying about Iraq having chemical weapons, biological weapons, a nuclear weapons program, long-range missiles and other sophisticated delivery systems, etc. in order to frighten people into supporting an illegal, unnecessary, and predictably catastrophic war?
There is no defense on Iraq for Joe Biden. And if the issue is what has Tulsi running to begin with, she needs to be able to take on the War Hawks.
She didn't.
She talks a good game in an interview with someone she sees as a friendly but she can't deliver -- not with an interviewer she considers hostile, not in a debate.
So how the hell could she deliver from the Oval Office?
She's tanked her own campaign.
Maybe her two weeks of reserve service will give her time to think about that? Maybe she'll try to fix it when she gets back? Maybe she'll just continue floundering.
But while she uses this reserve service to raise funds, might we ask one more question?
Her remarks about Donald Trump have gotten ruder and ruder. If that was Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or Bernie, it wouldn't matter.
But they aren't in the reserves. She is.
Donald Trump is not my commander in chief. I'm not in the military and the commander in chief holds no role in the civilian world in this country. The commander in chief is over the military.
Considering how she held her tongue on notorious War Hawk Joe Biden, I'm sure she could hold it on Donald Trump.
And, in fact, here's the point, she has to. She's in the reserves. She has got to find an appropriate way of discussing Donald Trump -- not because he's president but because she's in the reserves and he's her commander in chief.
Spread some aloha on that, Tulsi.