{"id":183847,"date":"2019-02-18T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183847"},"modified":"2019-02-22T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:41:49","slug":"the-tulsi-gabbard-phenomenon-as-a-diagnostic-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183847","title":{"rendered":"The Tulsi Gabbard Phenomenon as a Diagnostic Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Saker \u2013 The Unz Review Feb 15, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-183849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tulsi_Gabbard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tulsi_Gabbard.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tulsi_Gabbard-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tulsi_Gabbard-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ever since Tulsi Gabbard announced that she will be running for President in 2020 her personality and candidacy have been a subject of heated debates and after I posted <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/interesting-message-by-tulsi-gabbard\/\">a rather small message from her<\/a><\/strong>, I have been getting panicked emails warning me that she is a fake and that I not should \u201cjump on her bandwagon\u201d or otherwise endorse her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So, first and foremost, I am not \u2013 repeat NOT \u2013 endorsing her in any way shape or fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However, I do find her and what is taking place around her extremely interesting and I want to look at it a little closer. This won\u2019t be a review or analysis of her ideas, political platform or chance of getting elected. Neither will I try to read her mind and do what so many other folks are doing and confidently declare that I know what her true values, ideas or plans are. I don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But there are a few things which can already be observed about her which I want to comment on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First, one might imagine that she would be the <strong><em>dream<\/em><\/strong> candidate for the Democratic Party: she is a female, she is not White, she has impeccable \u201cpatriotic\u201d credentials, she is obviously both very good looking and very smart, she does not have any skeletons in her past (at least none that we know of for the time being) and she is not associated with the notorious Clinton gang. So what\u2019s there not to like about her if you are a Democrat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Well, as we all saw, the putatively \u201cliberal\u201d legacy Ziomedia hates Tulsi Gabbard with a passion. Maybe not as much as that legacy Ziomedia hates Trump or Putin, but still \u2013 the levels of hostility against her are truly amazing. This may seem bizarre until you realize that, just like Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard has said all the right things about Israel, but that this was not nearly \u201cenough\u201d to please the US Ziolobby. Check out the kind of discussions about Gabbard which can be found in the Israeli and pro-Israeli press:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-tulsi-gabbard-the-pro-assad-iraq-war-vet-critical-of-israel-loved-by-adelson-evangelicals-1.6831029\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-tulsi-gabbard-the-pro-assad-iraq-war-vet-critical-of-israel-loved-by-adelson-evangelicals-1.6831029<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/American-Politics\/Democratic-presidential-contender-Gabbard-supports-and-criticizes-Israel-577149\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/American-Politics\/Democratic-presidential-contender-Gabbard-supports-and-criticizes-Israel-577149<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/American-Politics\/Ex-KKK-head-David-Duke-praises-Tulsi-Gabbard-because-she-wont-put-Israel-first-579917\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/American-Politics\/Ex-KKK-head-David-Duke-praises-Tulsi-Gabbard-because-she-wont-put-Israel-first-579917<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/democrat-gabbard-who-slammed-israel-for-live-fire-use-in-gaza-to-run-in-2020\/\">https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/democrat-gabbard-who-slammed-israel-for-live-fire-use-in-gaza-to-run-in-2020\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/record-at-a-glance-hawaii-rep-tulsi-gabbard-on-the-middle-east-in-her-bid-for-president\/\">https:\/\/www.jns.org\/record-at-a-glance-hawaii-rep-tulsi-gabbard-on-the-middle-east-in-her-bid-for-president\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/rep-tulsi-gabbard-who-met-syrian-president-bashar-assad-announces-2020-presidential-bid\">https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/rep-tulsi-gabbard-who-met-syrian-president-bashar-assad-announces-2020-presidential-bid<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is just a small sample of what I found with a quick search. It could be summed up \u201cGabbard is not pro-Israel enough\u201d. But is that really The Main Reason for such a hostility towards her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I don\u2019t think so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I believe that Gabbard\u2019s real \u201cultimate sin\u201d is that she is against foreign wars of choice. That is really her Crime Of Crimes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The AngloZionists wanted to tear Syria apart, break it up into small pieces, most of which would be run by Takfiri crazies and Tulsi Gabbard actually dared to go and speak to \u201canimal Assad\u201d, the (latest) \u201cNew Hitler\u201d, who \u201cgasses his own people\u201d. And this is an even worse crime, if such a thing can even be imagined! She dared to <strong>disobey<\/strong> her AngloZionist masters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So, apparently, opposing illegal wars and daring to disobey the Neocons are crimes of such magnitude and evil that they deserve the hysterical Gabbard-bashing campaign which we have witnessed in recent times. And even being non-Christian, non-White, non-male and \u201cliberal\u201d does not in any way compensate for the heinous nature of \u201ccrimes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>What does this tell us about the real nature of the US society?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_183850\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183850\" class=\"wp-image-183850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Just-go-away.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Just-go-away.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Just-go-away-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Just-go-away-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-183850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Appeasing never works with the Neocons. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is also interesting to note that the most vicious (and stupid) attacks against Gabbard did <strong>not<\/strong> come from \u201cconservative\u201d media outlets or journalists. Not at all! Most of the attacks, especially the more vicious ones, came from supposedly \u201cliberal\u201d sources, which tell us that in 2019 USA \u201cliberals\u201d do not refer to folks with liberal ideas, but to folks who are hell-bent on imperialism and war; folks who don\u2019t care one bit about any real \u201cliberal\u201d values and who use a pseudo-liberal rhetoric to advocate for war outside the USA and for a plutocratic dictatorship inside the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As for Gabbard herself, she already managed to publicly back-peddle to one obnoxious lobby (the homo lobby) on the issue of marriage (see <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/13\/politics\/kfile-tulsi-gabbard-lgbt\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/17\/us\/politics\/tulsi-gabbard-gay-lgbtq.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/campaigns\/tulsi-gabbard-apologizes-for-past-anti-gay-activism-as-she-prepares-for-2020-race\">here<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/rep-tulsi-gabbard-apologizes-past-anti-lgbtq-views-n959941\">here<\/a><\/strong>) and I fully expect her to cave in to the Zio-lobby just like Trump has been doing every day since he made it to the White House. Apparently, US public figures like Gabbard and Trump still don\u2019t understand the simple fact that NO amount of grovelling will EVER appease the Neocons or the Ziolobby (see <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/anti-semitism\/ilhan-omar-apology-unaccepted\/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Apology+Unaccepted&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+newsletter+02%2F12%2F19\">here<\/a> for a perfect example of that attitude from Commentary).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In fact, one of two things are most likely to happen next:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tulsi Gabbard remains true to her ideals and views and she gets no money for her campaign<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tulsi Gabbard caves in to the Neocons and the Deep State and she become another Obama\/Trump<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Okay, in theory, a third option is possible (never say never!) but I see that as highly unlikely: Tulsi Gabbard follows in the footsteps of Trump and gets elected in spite of a massive media hate-campaign against her and once she makes it to the White House she does what Trump failed to do and appeals directly to the people of the USA to back her in a ruthless campaign to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d (meaning showing the door to the Neocons and their Deep State). This is what Putin did, at least partially, when he came to power, by the way. Frankly, for all her very real qualities she does not strike me as a \u201cUS Putin\u201d nor does she have the kind of institutional and popular backing Putin had. So while I will never say never, I am not holding my breath on this one\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Finally, if Gabbard truly is \u201cfor real\u201d then the Deep State will probably \u201cKennedy\u201d her and blame Russia or Iran for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Still, while we try to understand what, if anything, Tulsi Gabbard could do for the world, she does do good posting messages like this one:<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_uRUsBYlpk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I don\u2019t know about you, but I am rather impressed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the very least, she does what \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d did with its \u201c1%\u201d which was factually wrong. The actual percentage is much lower but politically very effective. In this case, Gabbard speaks of both parties being alike and she popularizes concepts like \u201c<em>warmongers in ivory towers thinking up new wars to wage and new places for people to die<\/em>\u201c. This is all very good and useful for the cause of peace and anti-imperialism because <strong>when <\/strong><em>crimethink<\/em><strong> concepts become mainstream, then the mainstream is collapsing<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The most important achievement of Tulsi Gabbard, at least so far, has been to prove that the so-called \u201cliberals\u201d don\u2019t give a damn about race, don\u2019t give a damn about gender, don\u2019t give a damn about minorities, don\u2019t give a damn about \u201cthanking our veterans\u201d or anything else. They don\u2019t even care about Israel all that much. But what they do care about is power, Empire and war. That they <strong>really<\/strong> care about. Tulsi Gabbard is the living proof that the US Democrats and other pretend \u201cliberals\u201d are hell bent on power, empire and war. They also will stop at nothing to prevent the USA from (finally!) becoming a \u201cnormal\u201d country and they couldn\u2019t care less about the fate of the people of the USA. All they want is for us all to become their serfs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">All of this is hardly big news. But this hysterical reaction to Gabbard\u2019s candidacy is a very powerful and useful proof of the fact that the USA is a foreign-occupied country with no real sovereignty or democracy. As for the US media, it would make folks like <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Suslov\"><strong>Suslov<\/strong><\/a> or Goebbels green with envy. Be it <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/the-us-aggression-against-venezuela-as-a-diagnostic-tool\/\"><strong>the ongoing US aggression against Venezuel<\/strong>a<\/a> or the reaction to the Tulsi Gabbard phenomenon, the diagnostics concur and we can use the typical medical euphemism and say with confidence: \u201cthe prognosis is poor\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/the-tulsi-gabbard-phenomenon-as-a-diagnostic-tool\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saker explains why the hysterical reaction to Gabbard\u2019s candidacy is powerful proof of the fact that the USA is a foreign-occupied country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183853,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183847\/revisions\/183853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}