The Tulsi Gabbard Effect 02/06/2019

A few posts ago, I mentioned that the Democratic Party would never embrace Tulsi Gabbard as their presidential candidate. Well, apparently the propaganda war against her has started already.

Zero Hedge has run a couple of articles covering the war of words in some depth. Here’s the links to their articles:

I’ll just give you some of the highlights covered in the articles:

NBC News ran a hit piece accusing Tulsi Gabbard of being a Kremlin stooge.

Gabbard, an anti-war candidate, struck back at NBC News saying, “That is why the neocon/neolib warmongers will do anything to stop me.”

NBC News Glenn Greenwald, a journalist, posted this on his Twitter page: ”This NBC News report is a total disgrace from top to bottom. It’s a joke using the most minimal journalistic standards. But that’s because NBC is in partnership with the Democratic Party (and intel community) to smear any Dem adversary, on the left or right, as a Kremlin tool.

NBC News Michael Tracey, a journalist, tweeted this,“Even for those of us who are numb to Russia-related media disgraces, this NBC News item bashing Tulsi is one of the most egregious examples of bottom-feeding gutter journalism in recent memory. The reporters/editors involved are pathetic slimeballs.”

NBC News Vanity Fair, quoting Politico, had this to say:“The presidential campaign of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,the renegade Democrat known as much for her chummy relationship with Bashar al-Assad as for supporting Bernie Sanders , is beginning to resemble the candidate herself: confusing, disorganized, and, according to Politico , falling apart.”

Bari Weiss, a New York Times columnist, called Gabbard an “Assad toady” on Joe Rogan’s show.

Ben Norton, a journalist, had this to say about Weiss’ statement: “Neocon NY Times columnist Bari Weiss smeared Tulsi Gabbard…as an Assad toady, then couldn’t spell/define toady or offer any evidence to prove her smear. embarrassingly funny.”

Finally, after comedian Jimmie Dore called out writer Caroline Orr for her criticism of Gabbard, Orr tweeted, “I wouldn’t doubt it if Jimmy Dore was a Russian asset.” This was followed by Jena Friedman, a comedian, tweeting, “I wouldn’t doubt it if Jimmy Dore was a Russian asset. Why else would he drag my name in the mud and misquote me when I said that Russian trolls are fueling the fire and radicalizing people online, which has been in @washingtonpost.

Zero Hedge then concluded by showing a meme entitled Everyone I Don’t Like Is A Russian Spy – the emotional child’s guide to political discussion.

There are a few points that are worth mentioning about all the mud-slinging. For example, why the visceral reaction to Tulsi Gabbard? What’s so special about her that might explain the extreme rhetoric before the real campaigning even begins? The answer lies in the Vanity Fair quote above whereby Politico describes Gabbard as a “renegade Democrat.” That’s renegade, as in anti-establishment. Renegade Democrat, as in all establishment Democrats are for endless wars, as we saw when the recent announcement of troop withdrawals from Syria was made.

So, exactly who is the establishment, anyway? For starters, the establishment includes both political parties. There is in reality only one political party. Gabbard’s tweet (see above) about neocons and neolibs both supporting endless wars makes the point clearly. In this case, the neocons (on the right) in alliance with the neolibs (on the left) = the establishment.

In effect, the establishment is a shadow government which has been bought and paid for by the elites. It goes by the moniker, The Deep State. It includes leaders from every branch of society, but especially the Mainstream Media. The Jena Friedman tweet is a clue about how the media is used by the Deep State, specifically where she defends herself by saying that she was simply quoting the Washington Post (as if that were gospel). Of course, the Washington Post, in turn, got it from the CIA… who in turn is just spinning disinformation.

Politically, I don’t have a dog in the Gabbard fight, but, understand this. In the upcoming elections, there will be just two kinds of candidates – anti-establishment candidates like Trump and Gabbard and establishment candidates (as of now, pretty much everyone else). There is only one issue which makes a candidate an establishment or an anti-establishment candidate. Just one. Are you for endless wars or not. That’s the litmus test. Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy understood this very well. It even got JFK assassinated.

Epilogue

Tulsi Gabbard, were she elected president, would become the first woman president, the first Samoan president and the first Hindu president. However, she will undoubtedly not even get the Democratic Party nomination. Come 2020, just watch for the Gabbard Effect.

“The ability of the plutocratic class and their allied government agencies to manipulate the way people think, act and vote is the only thing holding the ecocidal, omnicidal unipolar world order in place, which is why billions and billions of dollars are poured into the plutocratic media, think tanks, the agenda to censor the internet, and other influence campaigns.” – Caitlin Johnstone