Posted on 08/22/2019 5:43:54 PM PDT by george76
Iconoclastic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard did the unforgiveable in the eyes of the hidebound Democratic Party establishment: She knocked down one their favorites, Kamala Harris.
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Now, through the miracle of rule-rigging, the Democratic establishment has maneuvered to exact a price from her: No appearance at the next Democratic debate. No more taking down the next favorite.
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Isn't Julian Castro polling around something like zero? Maybe he's there for affirmative action purposes, alongside his lockstep extremism.
Two, Google seems to have already done a number on Gabbard, taking down her paid-for campaign ads during the first debate when Internet viewers' interest in her spiked to the highest levels of all the campaign. Google, most of the reporting has neglected to note, is brimming with former Obama administration operatives. Democrats, the pillars, the money, the establishment. Might that suggest some sort of fix in for Gabbard as well? It's pretty obvious something is going on.
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Right after Tulsi finished the second debate, Kamala Harris really did utterly tumble in the polls. Democratic voters, now aware of her incredibly corrupt record as a prosecutor - endorsing false testimony, keeping people in jail beyond their terms, throwing the impoverished in prison for marijuana crimes while admitting she enjoyed the weed herself -- are avoiding her now like a bad smell. Harris is damaged goods now, and she won't recover
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Democrats are still the same old Democrats, and up to their old rigging tricks, putting their thumbs down on the scale for the candidates they prefer. They've done it before, against Bernie Sanders, and now they are doing it again to avenge Harris.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sure seems like the left media and establishment dems have put the black magic on people like Tulsi Gabbard. I only know a bit about their rules. But, to be fair, their rules are rigged to favor the most ridiculous. To enter round #3 a candidate needs to be above X% in 4 independent polls, and raise money from Y number of donors across Z number of states.
So if you promise reparations, if you promise to erase student debt, if you promise $1000 a month to everybody you will get 2% in the polls. And you can use that to fundraise. As for fundraising, you just need at least $1 from something like 120,000 people. The candidates are spending $70 on average to raise $1.
The dems are just so stupid in every way. They can’t even come up with a reasonable debate system or fundraising scheme. The build a scheme that forces the candidates to absurd ends of the spectrum in order to stay in the pack. And because Bernie did so well in 2015-2016, many of them are flat stealing his previous campaign ideas trying to steal 1% or 2% of his supporters (and there is something about the 2015-2016 DNC scandal, where the DNC may have stolen his donor list).
Of course I don’t favor any of them. But I marvel at their absurdity. They are control freaks in so many different ways. Not to mention, they have the most softball partisan questions at these debates. None of the moderators challenge anything.
Anyway, I predict Harris won’t go very far. But clearly they ran all moderates and moderate ideas off the stage in favor of more identity politics, racial division, and power grab over people and the economy.
“To hell with Gabbard. She said Trump “supports Al Queda.” “
We literally supplied them with TOW missiles and flew top cover for them in Syria. We switched positions on Al Qeida in Libya. That’s where the State, DOD, and CIA all started supporting black flag waving Al Qeida.
She’s a complete weirdo. I met plenty of them in the Army.
Week, they now avoid the debate that both of these two are not Natural Born Citizens.
If she is polling less than 2% in the polls she doesn’t deserve to be in any debate.
“I think she was potentially rather dangerous for us with swing voters.”
definiely! Tulsi was very dangerous for our side and she ex-military, unabashedly avows her patriotism, is VERY articulate, very good-looking, young, and has sued google ...
OTOH, she’s as lefty as any of them, so she’s essentially an old-style, wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing Dem, and it’s a good thing for our side that she’s gone, though i personally am going to miss her presence in the debates ...
if Bidn gets the nomination, he could do himself a whole world of good if he’s smart enough to pick Tulsi as his VP candidate ...
Harris sinking helps Warren and Sanders, not Biden.
Active duty in the National Guard while running for President?
Aren’t there some Hatch Act issues there?
Yes, some swing voters will see her in uniform & conclude she’s not a leftie nutcake like the others.
But on guns, she is; the entire ban/confiscate/Red Flag litany. Not to be trusted, especially if she waves her medals in our face and goes, “Don’t you dare question my loyalty to the Constitution!!”
I’m actually surprised Skanka has crashed and burned so easily. The Rat media adores her, and their adoration has done no good.
But she has no one to blame but herself. She is nasty, arrogant and a very unlikable lecturing scold.
She is a B*TCH with a capital B.
There were about three weeks in August where she did not show up anywhere. There was one article that showed all the people who qualified for the next debate and those who did not. She was in neither list. You could not google her and get any recent information. They made her a non-person for three weeks.
You didn’t read my whole post. I’m saying Biden and Tulsi colluded to knock out Kamala since Tulsi has no chance on her own. If need be, he’ll find a way to do the same to his other opponents. He’s a boob, but he’s also a veteran pol that knows the long-game and plays it ruthlessly, just like Hillary.
Yup, that's what I'm saying. I think that is actually his plan, and that he got Tulsi to knock out Kamala. Picking 'em off, one at a time, Old Slow Joe is.
As I said long before the Democrat primaries began, there will be a bloodbath.
Bernie was robbed of a shot in 2016 by the cheating Hillary campaign. A lot of his followers were not happy. A lot of them refused to vote for Hillary for this reason alone.
The Democrats will continue to repeat their non-democratic selection process that alienates a significant portion of their supporters.
So, thank you DNC for running your organization with the same pathetic incompetence that you use when trying to run our lives through your incompetent abuse of the powers of government.
Fantastic. Sends a message that there is no place in the Dem party for anybody but crazy leftists. All “moderate dems” should feel like her.
My company is on Google my business, and we have all 5-star ratings, except for like 6 1-star ones...each h one of those were not from customers, and a couple for people who posted on the wrong company...I protested these and followed Google’s pro less...each time they refused to take down the review. Google is an evil company from the pit of hell and needs to be vanquished.
I don’t believe the Hatch Act applies to military personnel.
However, I’m sure something similar is probably in the UCMJ.
I know you can’t politic or demonstrate in uniform.
I’ll vote for her...to make me a sammich! Just kidding! I like her even though she has dumb ideas! Plus she’s hot...so there’s that!
Agreed. Thanks for posting/information.
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