[Peace-discuss] TOTALLY done with Tulsi

[J.B. Nicholson]

Debra Schrishuhn wrote:
> Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) announced
> <https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1240650484546859008> that she will
> suspend her Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard wrote in https://news.tulsi2020.com/en/an-important-announcement 
(her official campaign blog):

> After Tuesday's election, it is clear that Democratic Primary voters have chosen 
> Vice President Joe Biden to be the person who will take on President Trump in the 
> general election.

No the voters didn't. Those voters were denied a consistently hand-recountable 
voter-verified paper ballot (some voters used an app) producing an outcome in Iowa 
that is still not truly known. It's easier to rig elections where you don't collect 
voter-verified paper ballots (or if you destroy such evidence after misreporting the 
outcome). Democratic primary voters were recently compelled to choose between risking 
contracting Coronavirus or voting in that primary (a clear sign showing that the 
Democratic Party doesn't care about your life and all but nullifying any argument 
against what Trump said about Coronavirus/"Coronaflu" as Trump tried to minimize it).

As Jimmy Dore (whose show was very kind to Gabbard) points out in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI--5Y-Sst0 in his interview with Tim Canova who lost 
his race against Debbie Wasserman Schultz under circumstances that look like election 
fraud:

- there are exit poll discrepancies in the Democratic Party primary so large 
(double-digit discrepancies) that if this happened in another country, the UN would 
call that election evidence of fraudulence.

- Biden was in last place, "couldn't get 10 people to show up for a campaign event 
and isn't campaigning" Jimmy Dore said, and is now beating Sanders who was 
consistently popular throughout (as evidenced by the money Sanders raised from 
ordinary people). It's not at all clear where any significant base of support for 
Biden came from other than the elites.

The voters apparently chose to support a corrupt party as if they could reform it 
from within (which will not happen).

And Jimmy Dore mentions that Sanders won't speak up for himself or his campaign and 
point this out but neither has Gabbard. As Canova said in the aforementioned video, 
"Sanders styles himself as a Democratic Socialist. And if he cared half as much about 
democracy as he does about the socialist agenda, then this would be exposed. You're 
not gonna have a Green New Deal, you're not gonna have Medicare for All as long as 
you have rigged elections". I think that is dawning on even the most ardent Sanders 
fan and this means another election where would-be Democratic Party supporters don't 
vote for POTUS and a growing base of people who have good reason to sit back and 
watch rather than support Sanders if he runs again in 2024.

Jimmy Dore's show doesn't point out what BlackAgendaReport.com's Bruce Dixon told us 
years ago ("Sanders is a sheepdog for the Democratic Party"). And Dore's show is too 
much in the tank for Gabbard to point out how she can be criticized for which Dore 
vociferously criticized Sanders. But we can all see that Sanders & Gabbard have some 
common ground here -- their fealty to the corrupt Democratic Party.

Gabbard is demonstrating her loyalty to the Democrats and that includes pushing the 
myth about their small-d democratic primary. The party bosses always get their way 
because that entire process is about choosing the "standard bearer" for a corporation 
(as its lawyer, Bruce Spiva, told the court). Part of that means not discussing the 
reason why the DNC pushes so hard for exposing people to Coronavirus -- it helps 
manufacture the numbers needed to make it look like Biden is the people's choice.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard continued:

> I know Vice President Biden and his wife and am grateful to have called his son 
> Beau a friend who also served in the National Guard. Although I may not agree
> with the Vice President  on every issue, I know that he has a good heart and is 
> motivated by his love for our country and the American people. I'm confident that 
> he will lead our country guided by the spirit of aloha — respect and compassion — 
> and thus help heal the divisiveness that has been tearing our country apart.

This reads like Gabbard's version of what Sanders has (rightly) taken a lot of 
criticism for saying: "Joe Biden is a good friend of mine and he's a decent person.".

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard continued:

> So today, I’m suspending my presidential campaign, and offering my full support
> to Vice President Joe Biden in his quest to bring our country together.

For Sanders supporters, what happens to Gabbard's delegates (few as they may be)? Are 
they now pledged to Biden?

Now Gabbard looks like she is also joining in the support-Biden-to-knock-out-Sanders 
effort which so many of the other Democratic candidates supported.

But she is fulfilling a promise she foolishly made long ago (in interviews to CBS 
News, Primo Nutmeg, and probably others) -- supporting the presumptive nominee (which 
she did before anyone knew who that would be). This also means that she is (as I 
predicted) supporting someone with politics radically opposite to hers. I never 
believed she was properly called anti-war as I've been pretty clear about, but if one 
contends that she is an anti-war candidate then here she is pledging support to a 
pro-war candidate. Anti-war candidates don't do that.

P.S. Jimmy Dore is doing a live show as I write this 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpLh6J_5wQ) which promises to address Gabbard's 
endorsement of Biden. It'll be interesting to see if Dore & co can come clean about 
what this means regarding war.