Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Tulsi very sick, promotes "after birth abortion" conspiracy theory" video.
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@kbanghart But for some people, it's pretty easy to tell that they're lying.
And that's the case with Tulsi Gabbard. She went from being the "Democrat" who went on Fox to complain that Obama was "soft on terrorism" (because he "wouldn't say 'radical Islamic terrorism'"), demanding more drone strikes, praising Russia for leveling whole cities in Syria in the name of fighting ISIS, calling for a Muslim ban even before Donald Trump did, and introducing a bill in Congress for the specific personal benefit of Republican medagdonor Sheldon Adelson, to reinventing herself as an anti-war "true progressive". She was an obvious phony, but lots of people didn't want to see it.
Tulsi realized that her conservatism was increasingly out of step with her Oahu district and at the time was looking to continue her career in Congress. And she opportunistically latched onto progressive frustration in the 2016 primary by "resigning in protest" from the DNC and endorsing Bernie Sanders. She figured that most voters in her district wouldn't be politically engaged enough to see past her endorsement of Bernie (particularly since so many of Bernie's supporters had never paid attention to politics before 2016 and wouldn't be familiar with her actual record), and that this would inoculate her against the (truthful) accusations that she was a Republican in Democrat's clothing.
This worked temporarily, but people started to notice that Tulsi's actual voting record still didn't match up with her newly-progressive rhetoric. Especially since she never stopped shilling for right-wing dictators around the world. By 2020, it was clear that the jig was up, which is why she didn't bother running for reelection, and instead ran an blatantly grift-y vanity presidential campaign. This was really a not very thinly-veiled audition to Fox; a lot of us were predicting at the time that she was positioning herself to be a "former Democrat" Fox contributor. Since then, she's taken the mask all the way off, fully supporting every insane MAGA-cult conspiracy theory.
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