Well, this will drive annoying libs further insane. They've been calling her a Russian agent for like 8 years
Honestly tulsi is probably one of the least offensive picks Trump has made... of course that bar is buried deep in the inner circle of Hell
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Heck, she sometimes sounded like the least insane person on the DNC primaries for 2020.
Yeah she's definitely been the most surprising pick of Trump's for me. Don't get me wrong, she is a ghoul too, she's a rabid Zionist and a cheerleader for American jingoism, but she as well as RFK Jr (Mr. Brain Worms personified) both go against the grain on enough other parts of the Washington consensus that i wouldn't have thought it possible for them to get confirmed. I guess both of them just flattered Trump's ego enough to get a pass. Definitely still better than the usual Zionist billionaires and evangelical lunatics Trump surrounds himself with. An interesting wild card in a sea of otherwise boringly predictable fascists.
She is a Zionist so no surprises there. AIPAC approved.
Gabbard faced concerns from several Republican senators over her lack of support for Ukraine; her shifting position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702, a key surveillance and security tool; her 2017 meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; and her past support for Edward Snowden.
In December 2020, shortly before she left Congress, Gabbard introduced legislation that would repeal the Patriot Act and Section 702.
In a contentious hearing, she refused under persistent questioning by Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee to say whether she now believed Snowden’s actions were traitorous.
“I am glad that Ms. Gabbard plans to focus on identifying and eliminating redundancies and inefficiencies to restore the office to what it was originally designed to be,” he said.
Feds gonna get fired, better get used to that austerity. You reap what you sow, in this case "small government" propaganda.
Other than that she's a very weird pick and I have no idea how Republicans even embraced her given her political record is centered almost solely on opposing direct US involvement in wars (from a liberal perspective).
Seems like the MAGA wing of the republican party recognizes that the hegemony is now becoming unsustainable. My expectation is that people like Musk are going to position themselves to reap the benefits of reindustrialization by making sure government funding flows to their companies.
That's rather hopeful
To avoid just being a pure cynic here: what have you seen thus far to indicate that the US plans to re-industrialize?
If Trump was doing tariffs AND a massive "New Deal" style government funding, new department-creating, infrastructure building, industry building bill (all of it) thus forcing US industry to be rebuilt, then I could see this. But he's just throwing tariffs out there and, I dunno, hoping industry magically is rebuilt? As someone who lives in "the rust belt" it's called that for a reason. That shit ain't coming back without billions if not trillions of dollars of direct investment into rail, manufacturing plants, mining (iron, probably coal for steel. Unless modern steel can be made without it).
It just seems like Trump thinks you can use the stick and these places will come back on their own. I'm not sure if be understands the scale of what re-industrialization of the US looks like. He and the republicans would have to be willing to just dump infinite resources into the sector, not unlike China, give it a couple decades, and then it might work.
As far as Musk goes, I think he overplayed himself. I said before somewhere (maybe this site I don't remember) that he's clearly being used by Trump to take the blame. As he is doing now. He has no legitimacy or protections under the laws as they exist. As soon as Trump is tired of his toy Elon could be gone in an instant and considering he's violated countless laws... I'm not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end. He took on incredible personal risk for a potential, but highly unlikely, personal reward. I dunno I don't have a crystal ball obviously, but I just don't see things "being great" for Musk a couple years from now. His spiraling drug addiction mixed with his egotism and apparent inability to read rooms. I do agree he's a much bigger "threat" (hate that word for such a loser) than libs are currently willing to accept.
If only a hero of the Mario's Mansion, Shinzo Abe, variety were out there... it would really pave over this annoyance. Not solve anything, but definitely pave over one of the most annoying bumps.
The goal here is to make money for the oligarchs. Reindustrializing will just be the slogan for the public spending campaign. It's gonna work the same way Halliburton was "rebuilding" Iraq.
It's not that I doubt they want to do that. I just... Iraq is half the world away. No one in the US sees what was done there or not done (rebuilding-wise).
If they promise infrastructure in the US, and it's clearly not happening next year, 2 years, 4 years from now, what happens?
I can't be alone thinking there is a bottom for all this government graft, corruption, etc. At some point something has to give... I'm not saying it's anywhere near there yet, but I just have this feeling that Musk is going to explode this is in his face because he's kind of just a dumb guy. Dumber than most of the others. Someone in the background, probably Thiel also dumb but knows to kinda stfu a little, I can see absolutely grabbing all this stuff though.
As long as they keep the security forces on their side, then things are likely to go similarly to the way they did in Germany and Italy back in the 30s. The oligarchs will use cops and armed gangs to suppress labor organizing, bust unions, jail labor leaders, and so on. This could all backfire of course, but I do get the impression that this is where things are headed.
It's going to be bloody. Population dramatically reduced. I believe they foresaw this and that's why women are now house slave baby factories. They will be called the lucky ones, unless they bring back temple sex workers I guess.
Remember when Congress gave telecom companies billions of dollars for new internet infrastructure?
We will just see the Crédit Mobiliar scandal again but just with the train line not even built in the end. It’s possible to money on this no matter if the end goals are or aren’t met.
"I'm not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end."
This might be a pedestrian opinion, but I wonder if being the world's nominally richest person isn't enough for him, or that he at least understands how ephemeral that status actually is. His wealth is largely based on speculations of the runaway success of his "revolutionary/visionary" businesses and "innovations," and he may be coming down from that high. Seeing as he's not going to actually colonize mars, the hyperloop is old news, and no one wants to buy a cybertruck, Twitter didn't pan out super well, etc, he might feel that the jig is up. Getting a foot in the door of more traditional power structures by being Donald's sycophant and the latest MAGA darling could be his attempt to concretize his "wealth" into actual power.
“'The nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President receives are tainted by a Director of National Intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment,' McConnell said."
Pretty fast and loose definition of a "lapse of judgement," there. Seems she was absolutely right about Ukraine and the other shit Mitch "criticizes" her over.
"Do Not Interact"
That's ironic (she is not intelligent)
This woman has been on all sides of all issues and says whatever she has to to survive and keep her career afloat. Either she's incredibly slimy and just a clever politician, or she's an insidious, carefully crafter psyop.
I guess we'll see which it is this year.