The last time DKos went after Tulsi Gabbard

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 1:55pm

So the corporate Dems at TOP are going after Tulsi again.

Daily Kos is backing state Sen. Kai Kahele, who announced his primary campaign earlier this week to take on Gabbard, who’s seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020....
“Throughout her six years in Congress, Gabbard has repeatedly shown how out-of-step she is with mainstream progressive values, despite the fact that she represents such a deep-blue district,” Daily Kos political director David Nir said in the post.

Let's recall that this isn't the first time that the GOS endorsed a primary challenge to Gabbard.

Let's also recall that this isn't the first time that the GOS announced that Gabbard was beatable.

According to a new poll for Honolulu Civil Beat conducted by Merriman River Group, Gabbard's statewide favorability rating dropped from 64-19 two years ago to 50-29 today. Gabbard fares better in her home district, but she's still taken a bit of a hit there, too, falling from 67-17 to 58-25.
What matters most, though, is where Gabbard's support is—and isn't—coming from. Statewide, Gabbard earns positive marks from just 49 percent of Democrats, which is low given that we're talking about members of Gabbard's own party, while she gets a thumbs up from 48 percent of Republicans, a shockingly high score … ordinarily, at least. To put this in context, Hawaii's other member of the House, Democrat Colleen Hanabusa, has a similar 48-27 statewide favorability rating, but with 65 percent of Democrats viewing her positively and just 24 percent of Republicans doing so. That's a much more conventional split.

So how did DKos' primary challenge go?

Maybe, just maybe, the GOS doesn't represent anyone and is irrelevant.

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Submitted by Snode on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 2:10pm

Does "mainstream progressive values" equal

centrist neo liberal values? I get confused. If KOS is against her that looks like a seal of approval to me.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 3:46pm

Has DKos ever been on the right side of things?

@Snode
I'm sure they have, but it's been so long ago that I can't remember.

Submitted by chuckutzman on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 5:02pm

I used to think DK was worthwilesite, but I also thought

@gjohnsit
the same about Obama. Live & learn I guess.

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 8:35pm

It was about a decade ago.

@gjohnsit
I was there then and within 6 months of the Obama presidency I realized we had been bamboozled. He had the House, the Senate and the Executive. But he kowtowed to the banks, exonerated the war machine and basically said FU to single payer.

DKos called it 11th dimensional chess. We peons were told we did not have the intelligence to understand Obama's game plan.

It is very interesting that the C99'rs were eventually proved correct in their assessment of the situation and necessitated their BOJO'ing lest they 'infect' the True Believers.

BTW, the reason for my BOJO was because I was a Russian plant who had "an unusually good command of the English language". The fact that I joined in 2009 just "proved" to them how Putin had planned his "destruction of American democracy" well before anyone had realized they were under attack.

The people remaining are the same people who fell for the Iraq War fraud.

Submitted by Deja on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:17pm

Woah!

@CB

BTW, the reason for my BOJO was because I was a Russian plant who had "an unusually good command of the English language". The fact that I joined in 2009 just "proved" to them how Putin had planned his "destruction of American democracy" well before anyone had realized they were under attack.

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I shouldn't be surprised, but holy shit. They've all actually gone full on guano!

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 12:54am

The Russian infiltration goes back to the beginning of DK

@Deja

I can't tell you how many times I've seen comments like this that say that Vlad had planned on meddling in our country for a very long time. And that most of us here, on Reddit and the other blogs that popped up after the ides of March were all Russian plants that just waited patiently for Vlad to pull the trigger and activate us into action.

I wish I was joking, but I'm not. People who have bought into Russia Gate hook, line and sinker have gone completely insane in their beliefs about this. And apparently Trump had planned on running for president for decades and he knew that he could count on Vlad's help. I'm guessing that this was planned when Vlad was president for the first time. Or something ...

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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 snoopydawg on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:20pm

The kos kids are waiting for the attacks to begin again

@CB

I wanted to say that they probably won't happen because no one is left there that would do that. It's darn funny though that they are giving people who say something about Kampala's tenure as attorney general crap about it and then they turn around and give Tulsi crap. I'm guessing that they don't see their hypocrisy?

And after we were told that he was playing chess we got "he's got the republicans right where he wants them."

Ahh the memories.

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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 ChezJfrey on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:37pm

That is the coolest

@CB

awesomest story!! Sad, yet, hilarious at the same time. They should adopt a new slogan, "DKOS: It's got electrolytes!"

BTW, the reason for my BOJO was because I was a Russian plant who had "an unusually good command of the English language". The fact that I joined in 2009 just "proved" to them how Putin had planned his "destruction of American democracy" well before anyone had realized they were under attack.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 3:38pm

OT

that didn't last long

Same ol' song

Hillary Clinton about the attacks on Kamala Harris: “It feeds into sexism and misogyny. She’s being attacked by the left. Enough. If you don’t want to support Democrats, go somewhere else.”

Also, racism. pic.twitter.com/HuRQGQHhG3

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 26, 2019

Submitted by dervish on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 3:43pm

So if a Warren supporter

@gjohnsit says something true but unflattering about Harris, that person is sexist? Did I get that right?

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Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 7:38pm

Exactly

@dervish The same is true of Tulsi supporters. They start with the desired conclusion and fix the narrative around it. Logic and consistency be damned.

Submitted by Nastarana on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:49pm

Don't forget

@dervish the special place in the Inferno.

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 5:47pm

Wait

@gjohnsit

We’re allowed to go somewhere else?

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Submitted by ChezJfrey on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:43pm

Of course, sweetie...

@Hawkfish

We’re allowed to go somewhere else?

But if you do, you're obviously a nazi, racist, bigoted, privileged, supremacist, Russian bot/dupe/useful idiot/troll, hope-you-die-tomorrow!

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 10:08pm

If you don’t want to support Democrats, go somewhere else.

@gjohnsit one step ahead of ya Hill.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 4:28pm

There is a good chance that this primary may finally expose

dailykos for the bought and paid for mouthpiece it is. Thanks to Bernie being anti-establishment, markos has blown his cover and is losing credibility on social media. Before it was bojo'd sour grapes. Now it is everywhere. We just need to keep exposing him and calling out the propaganda everywhere we see it.

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Submitted by divineorder on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 6:51pm

But wasn't it exposed as that long ago?

@dkmich
2016 was the final straw for many.

I guess there are some still active that might get an eyeopener.

Stef Zamorano Retweeted

We need to accept that there is a hard right, neoliberal, corporate, militaristic, McCarthyite wing to the Dem party...and The Daily Cos is one of the rags that shills for it. If Tulsi gets squeezed out by the establishment, she should go third party or green. Plenty of time tho pic.twitter.com/uIN4TSReI7

— InartIc TULSI♥️ (@inartic) January 25, 2019

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Submitted by divineorder on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 6:56pm

Double post, sorry.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 8:16pm

I want to start a punk band REAL BAD right now

It would be named "Biden Youth." Anyone want to design band paraphernalia?

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Submitted by Deja on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:03pm

Ack!

@Cassiodorus
Lol

You're bad!

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 9:22pm

lead vocals by Dude Abiden

@Cassiodorus

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