Aloha Tulsi

Drops out. Endorses Joementia.

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@mimi

The motive could have been any number of things. I can only see two motives for Tulsi to do this which are not utterly heinous. One, if she believes that somehow "keeping her word" is more important than keeping faith with the people. That's possible, but IMO specious at this point, given that keeping her word means supporting a man in cognitive decline for the Presidency of the United States after a primary in which obvious voter suppression and fraud have been in play-- and during a global pandemic.

If somebody put a gun to the head of my loved ones right now and told me to vote Biden or Trump, I'd probably vote Trump, even though I am opposed to him with all my heart. Because voting for Biden is not voting for Biden. It's voting for some unknown person or persons who would be running things while Biden sat at the front as a puppet. During an epidemic.

The second motive for these actions which is not utterly heinous is what people have talked about in these comments: she might have had her arm twisted.

We have no proof of what her motive might be, and we probably never will. However, her being part of No Labels to my mind vastly increases the chances that her entire campaign was an attempt at deceit.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
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Between the Trump and Biden, Biden's the choice. Sanders has surrendered. Everyone scatters to live another day.

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Centaurea's picture

@Bob In Portland

No, I'm not going to do that. It is never wise to enable toxic abusers.

And Tulsi was most certainly wrong when she said the following in her email to supporters Thurs. morning. It was not necessary for her to effusively praise Biden in this way. She could have simply announced her decision to withdraw and given a standard show of support. Instead, she tried to propagandize her supporters.

I know Vice President Biden and his wife and am grateful to have called his son Beau, who also served in the National Guard, a friend. Although I may not agree with the Vice President on every issue, I know that he has a good heart and is motivated by his love for our country and the American people. I'm confident that he will lead our country guided by the spirit of aloha — respect and compassion — and thus help heal the divisiveness that has been tearing our country apart.

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@Centaurea

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"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN

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@fakenews

and let us see the real Tulsi. Not a pretty sight.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Centaurea's picture

@TheOtherMaven

But the way she did it in her email to her supporters, gushing over what a wonderful human being Joe Biden is, and how happy she is to support Biden in his "quest to bring America together again".

It was a brutal way to let us know she was withdrawing from the race. Just an utter betrayal of her supporters' trust.

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@Centaurea

she could've done better than that
should've
would've
but what

are they all in the tanks now?

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@fakenews

I'm not holding out much hope, though.

Was Tulsi blinking out "torture"?

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@Bob In Portland

For the reasons I said above. Voting for Biden isn't voting for Biden. It's voting for some unknown person or persons to run the country while Biden gets occasionally propped up in front of some cameras.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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@TheOtherMaven

traction lost
nothing gained

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