Tulsi, not Bernie, not AOC, speaks out against Venezuelan coup
Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 2:47pm
Guess we know who we can actually trust to be a real progressive now don't we?
After many have noted AOC and Bernie's silence on Venezuela, a progressive candidate finally rose up and spoke out against the Venezuelan coup.
A lot of people were doubting her. I don't think you can anymore. This proves she's not deep state. This proves she's got guts. This proves she'll stand up for what she believes in.
People will no doubt find faults. They're being paid to after all, but no one is going to be perfect. I'll take Tulsi over anybody.
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if she'll just run third party.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I saw her tweets. I also saw
I saw her tweets. I also saw this article in GQ, read it, and while it was far from a smear, it was far from the mark.
Basically, it talks about Bernie's indecision. Does he run or hand his "movement" over to someone else who is running. What they both miss is that Barack Obama is the last person that will ever get elected on bull shit lies and a phony smile.
Bernie's age, gruffness, track record, and maleness all worked for him. He was like someone's grampa and all of it created trust. If it isn't Bernie, who else can/will be trusted to have the same dedication and determination to the agenda Bernie made mainstream. Talk is cheap, and Barack Obama proved that.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
commondreams has an article up...
that says that ro khanna and ilhan omar have also spoken out against the coup.
that sleazy weasel dick durbin has spoken out in favor of the coup.
So-Called 'Trump Resistance' Mostly Silent as US President Openly Foments Coup d'Etat in Venezuela
Nice to confirm I am correct in my support of Tulsi
I have stayed away from lots of political sites as the whole trump is bad is all that is ever said.
Yes trump is bad! but just shouting that and Russia with no real coverage had turned me off to politics. Note:I am not implying by any means that this point is true of C99, I was just burnt out by all the other sites and if I checked on anything from outside here it was just all the Russia and trump BS
Having stated this, as it has started to get to time to pick a candidate for 2020, my first choice doesn't appear to be running (Nina Turner who famously stood up to the DNC during the sham of the DNC convention) so my second choice Tulsi has my full support.
Having checked on my twitter account that has until very recently been dormant, I see that Tulsi is on point about Venezula. I checked to see what other 2020 candidates had to say about this and saw much of nothing.
I then checked at a place I have long since abandonded, and what did I see on Orange State (i.e. Daily Kos)? Hit pieces on Tulsi and that the orange slime (DKos, not to be confused with other orange slime trump) is actively supporting a primary opponet against her for her congressional seat.
Damn, talk about holding a grudge! Since when did they EVER raise money for the BETTER part of More and better Democrats?
Seeing DKos against Tulsi just further reaffirms that Tulsi is who we need in 2020!
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
love it -
The worst of the worst both being orange slime.
They want Tulsi primaried? OMFG. I can't believe I spent 11 years there.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
More and Redder Democrats appears to be their new philosophy
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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
@dkmich
If I wasn't banned over there I would go off on a huge rant, but they love their echo chamber!
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
I am not banned. I rejected them.
I wouldn't waste a minute of my time with that collection of brain dead sheep.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
@dkmich
My banning was a no holds barred rejection of their crap to which they didn't take too kindly to!
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
When I got Bojo'd from DKos
It was right before the election and people we once trusted over there would come over here and write essays to persuade us to vote for Hillary because OMG! Trump!
After Subir penned an essay over here titled "Hillary Is Not The Enemy", I penned one in response and I guess their spies came over here, read it, didn't like it, reported back to DKos, and then banned me in absentia
Talk about the lengths their mean spirited pettiness can go? Regardless, I wear those skull and crossbones as a badge of honor:
https://caucus99percent.com/content/yes-virginia-hillary-enemy
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
This is an excellent essay, Zoe
You certainly nailed it. Why aren't you writing more? I'd like to see you doing it if you have time.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Thanks Snoop
I wish I did have more time to write these days. I got really slammed at the end of last year and I'm feeling the crunch. On top of maxing out my credit cards, my car needs repairs, my freelance work is on hold, and every time I turn around there's another situation that requires me to dip into my bank account.
Needless to say, efforts to create an additional revenue stream have been monopolizing my time. So, with a little bit of luck, along with some fruitful networking, I should get past this crisis with more room to breath, and write
Hopefully soon.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
garbage dumps are garbage dumps
I think I wrote a goodbye there a few years ago. Short and sweet and, hopefully, funny.
The most depressing thing is "news" people thinking it's a liberal site. I think I'll go write some of them (Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper) and give them a history lesson. Will they read it? Doubtful but otherwise I'd have to get back to work.
scratch that thought
it's impossible to get to them. Their bubbles are sealed off.
@dkmich Getting banned at
Getting banned at DKos is easy. I've done it lots of times.
The big difference is that
Tulsi Gabbard has seen war up close and very personal. And she knows the real human costs of war. No other candidate or President in the recent past can attest to that. This is exactly what makes her stance so powerful and it is also why the deep state establishment hates her so much.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Here's Bernie's response to Venezuela
How utterly disappointing, Bernie! Utterly. You know what the truth is about this and yet you once again fall in and tow the party line.
The economy is a disaster because of the brutal sanctions that we have put on Venezuela. You know that too. Bye, bye, Bernie!
The other two tweets.
Not sure if I heard you speaking out against the violence on protesters when it happened during Obama's tenure? You remember, right? During his brutal break up of OWS and then when he allowed a private company to be in charge of security at the DAPL protests. This country's shit stinks too Bernie.
ETA: boy talk about being tone deaf, Bernie. Remember that fraudulent primary you were involved in just a few years ago? Yep. It stinks. Big time!
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
I am so damn disappointed in Bernie for that response.
And surprised, quite frankly. He knows better. And says this shit anyway.
I admired him long before he became the cool guy politician on the national stage.
Bernie is the reason I am so hesitant to jump on board for Tulsi.
Fool me once...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I'm trying
to be patient about Bernie and his responses to foreign policy controversy, but when he says,
does he not include Ukraine or Libya because there's doubt over whether we supported the coups there? Is he living in a pumpkin shell?
maybe he ran out of breath.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Not a chance. n/t
How much longer will you continue to give him
the benefit of doubt after everything he has done beginning with rolling over for Hillary and the democrats after that bogus primary? Then his shilling for Her and finally for his joining the Russian lawyer crap? And now his saying that the Venezuela president is in the wrong and out and out lying about it?
There's that old saying: When someone shows you their true colors believe them.
His foreign policy was very weak to begin with when he stayed silent about the things Obama was doing. The Russian stuff was my last straw for him. He's now showing me that I was right.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Same here, very disappointing
and disgusting really. Talking about Medicare for all and all that other "nice" stuff while continuing to gin up more wars. And his making remarks about VZs unfair elections while he had a primary stolen from his own supporters here in the good old USA just shows me he's still shilling for the war machine. He blathers on about greedy millionaires and how evil they are while supporting their use of the US Treasury to line their own damned pockets. Isn't that kind of the definition of shill?
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
If the shoe fits...
You put quite well, lizzyh7:
Yeah, it hits pretty close to the meaning of shill, but for me it certainly lands squarely on the dictionary entry for hypocrite.
The silence from Bernie Sanders on certain issues is deafening, especially when those issues are the hinges upon which the entire door swings. Whether the reasons for his silence (or even support) for the continuation of empire be cowardice, blackmail, or ignorance (doubtful), I cannot support him any longer. While he may yet speak out publicly on issues I support, and even have me applauding those words, I'm convinced he's going to pull that football away.
Perhaps one should consider
Who controls the medium. Did you get this info straight from Bernie? There is a lot of parleying going on, if you hadn't noticed. Just because twitter told me so? Don't trust it. The truth is probably a bit beyond these psy-ops announcements. Just consider, maybe your opinions are being hijacked for nefarious purposes. The more people repeat unknown quantities, the more it becomes a sum.
OT. But what the f'ck?
Just wow! What an asshole.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
One of the responses to Sanders' tweet was:
and all I could think was, "Are there any effects of any kind that are not far more wide ranging than Trump understands?"
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Uh, maybe Not a
quibble; I happen to Know a few people that will find faults with any candidate and NOT get paid for it. I'm having trouble with That throwaway slice that Seems to cut across All critiques of this candidate-shades of Her-bots to my untrained eye.
I understand the enthusiasm but you're floggin' that horse a little hard this early in the race ain't ya?
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
i can't work out whether your use of occasional caps
is some sort of encryption technique, or just hassles with your keyboard.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Slight emphasis
added? A certain stress on those words?
Just trying to be helpful, wasn't sure of snark or not. I'm not Bright enough for encryption.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Fair enough. There might
Fair enough. There might also be people not being paid to be critical of the science behind climate change too. Am I over exuberant to consider all climate change deniers who are busy posting their propaganda as nothing more than paid shills and fools then?
Well,
now I'm not sure if you're trying to lump me in with "paid shills and fools"? Should I be offended? HA!
Your wish to make up your mind Two Years Out and then blanket every Potential critique of your choice by Asserting that the person providing said critiques is a "paid shill or a fool" Might be indicative of issues of a more personal nature on your part.
Not trying to cast 'aspersions on your asparagus', just Maybe suggesting a look in the mirror when next you write those sentiments.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
ah, for those naysaying
about the lack of a Blue
Wave... it was a (very) bad
week for Repubs in New Yawk...
Blue New Yawk is back!!
And Mario Jr. actually signed the bills! Shock!
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jesus
if only we'd been able to get one damned house out of the hands of the wisconsin republicans.
2020 is going to be a brutal uphill slog, but they must not be allowed to dictate the redistricting. if that happens, wisconsin is doomed.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Many of us worked
on two or three state
house districts when we could,
especially knowing our Dim candidate wasn't going to beat the Repub congressional House seat holder. So, encourage that if you feel you can't beat your Repub Congressional House seat holder! We were lucky here in NY in ousting five of 7 DINOs that voted with Repubs, giving Repubs control of the NY state Senate. And, added to that pile with 8 or 9 other flipped seats giving Dems a Yuuuge margin they should be able to maintain for years to come. So far, so good. Roe v. Wade has been restored, voting has been extended, and transgender protection laws signed. A good week! The blue tsunami hit NY!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.