Tulsi Update: March 2, 2019

Submitted by apenultimate on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 4:18pm

I've been finding it fascinating to watch my favorite candidate, so I'm going to every once in awhile post an update on Tulsi Gabbard's efforts. I'm hoping most of the stuff I post won't have been posted here before, but if there is some duplication, please accept my apologies.

Tulsi has been campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire recently, as well as appearing on a number of television network shows over the past few weeks. After being attacked on MSNBC's Morning Joe and The View on ABC, she appeared on FOX's Tucker Carlson who surprisingly treated her with respect.

The "left-leaning" media is completely trying to erase Tulsi from the picture. Take a look at this story from Fivethirtyeight.com, which is now a part of ABC News. Notice the only candidate or potential candidate missing? Yep, it's Tulsi. The establishment must be totally frightened of her. (Incidently, in the image it looks as though they are attempting to push Bernie off the page, and note Kamala Harris is in an unusually small position compared to the prominent heads of Biden, Bloomberg, and O'Rourke. I guess Kamala's campaign is not looking so hot after all the gaffes she and her campaign have made.)

Tulsi will be on a CNN Town Hall on Sunday, March 10, 8:00 PM ET, so take note of that.

Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit, had an interesting comment recently that social media interest in Tulsi's campaign is mimicking the early interest trends of Obama and Trump in their election campaigns. Perhaps a positive sign there.

This is a video from a year ago, but highlights her answering a stupid question very intelligently.

Unconfirmed information from comments on Tulsi's Reddit says that she is currently about 20,000 donors short of the 65,000 individual donors needed to qualify her for the Democratic debates, which begin in June. (I am a donor, FYI.)

She has sent out a number of Tweets recently supporting striking locomotive workers in Erie, PA; requesting global cooperation on water shortages and planning for the future of water resources; highlighting the scientific consensus on climate change and the need to do something about that; as well as her continued request to end our regime change wars.

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Submitted by QMS on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 5:05pm

thanks for this

trouble keeping up with the candy dates. this helps!
nothing to add or subtract on the subject
glad someone is watching
and reporting

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 5:44pm

reporting

@QMS

nothing to add or subtract on the subject
glad someone is watching
and reporting

This is something that, in my humble opinion, we c99ers need to recognize and appreciate, perhaps even more than we already do. Daily Kos lost most of its best writers and news reporters in the aftermath of Kos' pronunziamento of March 15, 2016 -- and nearly all of them are now here doing what they did there.

"More for us!" as the saying goes!

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 9:52pm

Amen to that Than!

@thanatokephaloides

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 5:46pm

Please

post all you want about Tulsi.
I had hoped that at least one candidate would say fuck it and tell the truth. She's cursing more than others.
But I had also hoped at least one candidate would say fuck it and run on an independent ticket. Yes I know it's a losing cause but I refuse to vote for any presidential entity that runs under the demo or repub ticket.
Thanks for your diary and please continue.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 6:00pm

I appreciate your efforts to cover Tulsi Gabbard for us here

I can't believe how she is 'put on the backburner' of the msm attention. Please go on with it. Thanks.

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Submitted by Linda Wood on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 6:29pm

Thank you

for these reports, and I don't think it's a losing cause at all. I think her personal appearances and internet activity are more important than the mainstream media blackout. If she keeps telling the truth, she just might out-run them all.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 7:43pm

And maybe, the people do not yet realize the importance

@Linda Wood of Tulsi's campaign. I personally believe that her current campaign is two pronged. First is to establish her as a legitimate Presidential candidate for the future. And second, and more importantly right now is to get her issues into the public arena.

Tulsi is speaking truth to power more than any other candidate out there right now. She is being shunned by the media because of her anti-war/anti regime change stance. For me, that shows that the PTB are more afraid of the public buying into her anti-war position than they are for the other populist positions. Tulsi has shown herself to not be afraid of crossing up the PTB. IMHO, this is what defines Tulsi as a true leader.

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Submitted by QMS on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 7:48pm

Anyone with a moral spine

@gulfgal98
gets my vote, regardless of the smears

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 7:00pm

Thanks for the news.

I don't really get 'in' to candidates, but if forced to choose between the likes of Robert Francis O'Rourke (D-Fraud) and Tulsi Gabbard, the major would get my vote.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 8:24pm

Saw this letter from the Wikileaks #PodestaEmails dump

FW: Disappointed

From:mkives@caa.com
To: ha16@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com
CC: darnell.strom@caa.com
Date: 2016-02-29 21:31
Subject: FW: Disappointed

Hammed dropped!

From: Darnell Strom
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 3:13 PM
To: Tulsi Gabbard (tulsi.gabbard@gmail.com)
Cc: Michael Kives
Subject: Disappointed

Representative Gabbard,

We were very disappointed to hear that you would resign your position with the DNC so you could endorse Bernie Sanders, a man who has never been a Democrat before. When we met over dinner a couple of years ago I was so impressed by your intellect, your passion, and commitment to getting things done on behalf of the American people. For you to endorse a man who has spent almost 40 years in public office with very few accomplishments, doesn't fall in line with what we previously thought of you. Hillary Clinton will be our party's nominee and you standing on ceremony to support the sinking Bernie Sanders ship is disrespectful to Hillary Clinton. A woman who has spent the vast majority of her life in public service and working on behalf of women, families, and the underserved.

You have called both myself and Michael Kives before about helping your campaign raise money, we no longer trust your judgement so will not be raising money for your campaign.

Darnell Strom & Michael Kives

This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.

Heh.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 9:48pm

Good lord

@Mark from Queens

I was so impressed by your intellect, your passion, and commitment to getting things done on behalf of the American people.

Guess Darnell didn't think that Bernie's platform would have helped more people than Herheinous' would have. Bernie was hoping to get us better health care while Her was saying that "universal health care will never ever happen!" Her was running on creating a no fly zone over Syria while Bernie was calling her out for her warmongering.

For you to endorse a man who has spent almost 40 years in public office with very few accomplishments, doesn't fall in line with what we previously thought of you

This is a great point. After all Hillary had been in congress for. ... years and got .... things passed. Something about a post office?

Hillary Clinton will be our party's nominee and you standing on ceremony to support the sinking Bernie Sanders ship is disrespectful to Hillary Clinton. A woman who has spent the vast majority of her life in public service and working on behalf of women, families, and the underserved.

The tone deafness of this is incredible. I'm sure that this dude knew how hard Hillary worked on getting welfare reform passed. Her crime bill and again her warmongering that saw more women and children go deeper into poverty, into prisons and into graves.

This is just a small part of Hillary's legacy.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 2:23am

It's kinda weird that they spout this bullshit

@snoopydawg

To each other...

A woman who has spent the vast majority of her life in public service and working on behalf of women, families, and the underserved.

as if Tulsi didn't know exactly the kind of woman Hillary is.

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Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 9:56pm

That's an in-the-face-punchable sort of email.

@Mark from Queens

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 5:22am

This sounds like

@Mark from Queens this email was written by Hillary operatives. If it was truly an email written by concerned voters, it shows just how deluded the Hillbots are. Personally I believe this letter was an operative plant.

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Submitted by Centaurea on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 7:23am

Strom and Kives were consultants

@gulfgal98 Darnell Strom and Michael Kives were (maybe still are?) employed by Creative Artists Agency, the huge diversified services company based in Los Angeles. It has strong connections to the Dem Party, including representing Dem politicians and throwing megabucks fundraisers.

Apparently, Darnell Strom sent the "chastising" email to Tulsi, copying Michael Kives on it. Then Kives forwarded the whole thing to John Podesta and Huma Abedin ("ha16(at)hillaryclinton.com" is Huma). Notice his statement in the email to Podesta and Huma, telling them "Hammed dropped!" I assume he meant to type "Hammer dropped".

It wouldn't surprise me to know that someone at the Hillary campaign requested Strom and Kives to send this email. Essentially what it did is tell Tulsi that the Dem Party would not be providing support for her 2016 re-election campaign, thus "dropping the hammer" on her.

Typical Clinton and Podesta behavior, to get someone else to do their dirty work for them. I guess that's what the consultant class gets paid the big bucks to do.

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~Rumi

"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 3:11pm

paid

@Centaurea

Typical Clinton and Podesta behavior, to get someone else to do their dirty work for them. I guess that's what the consultant class gets paid the

..... 30 pieces of silver ......

to do.

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by apenultimate on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 8:33pm

Just One Note

If you haven't donated to Tulsi's campaign, and don't mind doing so, even a $1 donation will go towards getting her to that 65,000 donor's level so she can be in the debates. If you want to see her on that stage, it might be worthwhile.

Tulsi2020

Submitted by QMS on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 2:24am

act blue doesn't work

@apenultimate
for a buck without a tip

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 9:47am

worked for me ... no tip/nt

@QMS

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Submitted by eyo on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 11:09am

shakes fist at sky

@QMS thanks, I lifted this from the actblue page whilst yelling at clouds:

Contribution rules

I am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder).

This contribution is made from my own funds, and funds are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution.

I am making this contribution with my own personal credit card and not with a corporate or business credit card or a card issued to another person.

I am at least eighteen years old.

I am not a federal contractor.

To contribute by mail, please send a personal check made payable to:

Tulsi Now
PO Box 75255
Kapolei, HI 96707

Slow or fast, it all ends up D. At least there is a token choice, a token voice for a kind of peace. sort of

aloha

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 2:51pm

what is it that made you yelling at the clouds

@eyo
about what you lifted from the actblue pages?

If I were not a legal alien resident with a green card, I wouldn't be allowed to donate to any candidate, because I would count as a foreigner. That is nothing new to me.

Contribution rules

I am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder).
This contribution is made from my own funds, and funds are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution.
I am making this contribution with my own personal credit card and not with a corporate or business credit card or a card issued to another person.
I am at least eighteen years old.
I am not a federal contractor.

To contribute by mail, please send a personal check made payable to:

Tulsi Now
PO Box 75255
Kapolei, HI 96707

Unfortunately neither Sanders, nor Gabbard had the nerves to create and lead a new third party. I guess for that you have to wait for sixteen year olds, like for example this Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, the teenage activist fighting for the environment

The change will come with them. Thank God for the youngsters.

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Submitted by eyo on Mon, 03/04/2019 - 6:05am

I was talking about the post office option to mail a check

@mimi it feels old, using paper checks and the postal system to give money away to a politician. It takes longer to arrive, and then some human has to unwrap the prize to enter it manually. I like that idea, but it is old-fashioned and not so easy.

Grandpa from The Simpsons is who put "shakes fist, yells at sky" inside my head forever. insidious tv wins again. lol

PEACE

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 03/04/2019 - 5:14pm

yeah, sent five buckaroos the old fashioned way

@eyo
amazing it only takes a regular stamp to send it to a 'state' 1/2 way around the world. major postage to canada, only a couple hundred miles from here. whatever happened to free trade? nevermind

Submitted by jobu on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 9:08am

Donated last week n/t

@apenultimate

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 8:58pm

Thanks, apenultimate. We need to keep Tulsi in the news

regardless of the likelihood of her winning in order to spread her message. The more she is out there, the more likely it is that people will begin to get her message.

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Submitted by chuckutzman on Sat, 03/02/2019 - 9:17pm

Tulsi's message is getting through. If you take a look at

the comments section on The View https://youtu.be/8w1zf3YyXRI you'll see almost all support. See just needs to get her message heard.

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chuck utzman

TULSI 2020

Submitted by eyo on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 4:39am

dignity, honor and respect

I am not drinking that kool-aid but the show must go on. good luck

A soldier's heart.

Tulsi will bring a soldier's principles to the White House -- restoring the values of dignity, honor and respect to the presidency.

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LOL well alrighty then, no.

My problem with any D-Candidate is their vaccuumous database, the roach motel. Every name goes to building the pyramid for queen Harris Herself in the end, the fix is already in for California in case ya didn't notice. Preordained... legal!

first the stampede
then the superdelegates
kabuki ftw

aloha good luck

Submitted by Azazello on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 9:40am

That interview with Tucker Carlson

has also been posted to Tulsi's YouTube channel, TULSI TV
Here it is again:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7qN9QMIDFg width:500 height:300]

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 10:46am

I find it extremely interesting

@Azazello that only Tucker Carlson of the mainstream media has treated Tulsi Gabbard with the kind of respect she deserves for having the courage to stand up against the military industrial complex. For whatever possible ulterior motive that there may have been for Carlson having her on his show, he allowed Tulsi to present her views without smearing her or interrupting her with nonsensical argumentative points. I respect Tucker Carlson for this.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Linda Wood on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 12:36pm

Yes.

@gulfgal98

I find myself looking to Carlson for a conservative voice that agrees with me. Here is a piece on NATO that was impressive. For what it's worth, I consider myself to be a leftist, and he refers to the Democratic supporters of war as "the left," while I am a pacifist. But setting that aside, he's a strong voice for common sense when it comes to foreign policy.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-to-the-left-questioning-n...

Published January 16
Tucker Carlson: To the left, questioning NATO is treasonous and challenging the status quo is criminal
By Tucker Carlson | Fox News

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 8:47pm

Tucker Boy may appear to have an occasional moment of clarity

@gulfgal98
here and there but he's not coming from the right place. He's shown his true colors way too many times to deserve any sincere accolades. Here's one of many:

"Why don't you go fuck yourself, you tiny brained—and I hope this gets picked up, because you're a moron. I tried to give you a hearing, but you were too fucking annoying."

Leaked video of the unaired Tucker Carlson segment on tax fairnesspic.twitter.com/rmc662h1Aq

— jordan (@JordanUhl) February 20, 2019

We should not misinterpret him to be anything than he really is, which is a privileged and pampered Libertarian, scion of the Swanson TV dinner family, who has a fetish for fascism.

He constantly runs stupid propaganda garbage like this:

He's a Murdoch minion. They run stuff like this, all the time, such as this similar kind of garbage in the NY Post:

Gas-guzzling car rides expose AOC's hypocrisy amid Green New Deal pledge https://t.co/TrIl8B53Q5 pic.twitter.com/ysOE9KnS69

— New York Post (@nypost) March 3, 2019

I'll hold out a flicker of hope for him, I guess. But he's not our friend.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 2:57pm

And I am with ..... all the way.

I have never donated in such a manner as I did right now. ~~drabbag~~ (oops, nobody got my joke, I am not funny and that's not funny).

So, Tulsi is campaigning. That is what campaigning looks like. What else should she do?

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Submitted by dfarrah on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 9:50am

This is so old:

she appeared on FOX's Tucker Carlson who surprisingly treated her with respect.

People around here need to watch Fox news - you would be amazed at the overlap.

And Tucker Carlson frequently sounds like a liberal or progressive.

The Fox people think they staunchly support capitalism and hate socialism, but they really don't - not if you listen to everything else they say. They attack the repub establishment as much as we attack the dem establishment. They even talk about the deep state and its stranglehold on the US.

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dfarrah

Submitted by dfarrah on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 10:02am

I've been saying that I'll caucus

for Tulsi or Bernie, but I forgot that Colorado doesn't do presidential caucuses anymore!

So, I can't caucus but will vote.

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dfarrah

Submitted by OzoneTom on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 12:23pm

That's better anyway

@dfarrah
Caucuses exclude too many potential voters who cannot take off hours from work, caring for children, etc. to attend.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 2:43pm

Curious though

@OzoneTom

That TPTB decided to do away with that particularly part of the voting process they could not fraudulently manipulate?

Also, wasn't it the caucuses where Bernie beat Hillary?

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Submitted by OzoneTom on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 3:20pm

Yes, Senator Sanders did well

@Anja Geitz
That doesn't change that the process inherently excludes a large number of potential voters.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 3:31pm

And what measures where taken

@OzoneTom

To change the nominating process? Thru a ballot measure where "The People" could decide if the caucus process was inherently unfair?

Or was the process changed without the people consensus and we were simply told after the fact that it was in our "best interests"?

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 5:17pm

why Colorado went back to presidential primaries

@Anja Geitz

And what measures where taken to change the nominating process? Thru a ballot measure where "The People" could decide if the caucus process was inherently unfair?

Or was the process changed without the people consensus and we were simply told after the fact that it was in our "best interests"?

capitalization changed to accommodate format change

zoebear, Colorado used to choose candidates for all offices, including President, by primary election. Then, the Presidential process was changed to caucuses. It was changed back after the 2016 primary season by popular demand. It is my understanding that this occurred for two reasons: in several jurisdictions, Bernie Dems couldn't get into over-packed caucus venues; and Colorado was still conducting primary elections for all other offices, which meant that the presidential caucuses were just duplicate public expense.

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 12:34pm

Thanks for the Tulsi focus

I think folks are aware of her anti-regime-change-war approach, but I bet several folks are not aware of her environmental policies.

Long before AOC...

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02 introduced H.R. 3671, the Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (OFF Act), which will put the United States on a pathway to replace fossil fuels with 100 percent clean energy generation and use by 2035. This legislation eliminates tax giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, and provides support to transitioning workers who will be impacted by this generational change. https://gabbard.house.gov/OffAct

More...
https://www.ecowatch.com/off-act-tulsi-gabbard-2479880368.html
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/22419/Gabbard-Bi...

She is not supporting the Green New Deal at present. I think in part because it does not address fuel extraction and sales out of the US.

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Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 1:18pm

Anyone the MSM intentionally ignores...

instantly qualifies her a someone to vote for.

You'd think the geniuses running the propaganda outlets would have figured that out from their treatment of Bernie last cycle.

The more they ignored him, the more popular he became. Far from disqualifying Bernie, their enmity made him seem more legit. Plus, the lack of coverage actually created its own sympathetic buzz for the candidate because people perceived him as being treated unfairly.

The result was exactly the opposite of what the MSM mandarins hoped to accomplish, and now they're pulling the same stunt four years later with Tulsi and expecting something different? Good luck with that.

I for one hope the MSM continues ignoring Tulsi. It will only help her and her anti-war agenda in the long run.

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Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 03/04/2019 - 12:30am

At some point

@Not Henry Kissinger

the voting public will ignore the mainstream media.