{"id":7168,"date":"2020-01-29T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2020-01-29T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:35:27","slug":"were-not-living-on-tulsi-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7168","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Not Living On Tulsi Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With all the drama of the impeachment unfolding on a day to day basis, the Democratic presidential primaries have been pushed to the back burner.   <br>Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren  continue to be the front runners, with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Yang and Amy Klobuchar still hanging on with the Iowa caucuses just a week away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One name that is amazingly still in the race despite anemic poll numbers is the curious case of  Tulsi Gabbard. It has been suggested by Hillary Clinton that she&#8217;s a Russian agent, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"which has caused Gabbard to sue Clinton for defamation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/22\/tulsi-gabbard-sues-hillary-clinton-for-alleged-russian-smear.html\" target=\"_blank\">which has caused Gabbard to sue Clinton for defamation<\/a>. Former candidate <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Kamala Harris scolded her for her criticism of Obama and her fellow Democrats (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/kamala-harris-thumps-tulsi-gabbard-debate-072380\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris scolded her for her criticism of Obama and her fellow Democrats<\/a>. Is she a Russian plant? We don&#8217;t know, but<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" her vote of 'Present' during the historic impeachment vote (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/18\/us\/elections\/tulsi-gabbard-impeachment-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\"> her vote of &#8216;Present&#8217; during the historic impeachment vote<\/a> certainly didn&#8217;t quash the rumors and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"she announced she won't seek re-election for her congressional seat (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/10\/25\/tulsi-gabbard-congress-drops-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">she announced she won&#8217;t seek re-election for her congressional seat<\/a> in heavily Democratic Hawaii. As a matter of fact, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ms. Gabbard is now the most disliked Democrat (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tulsi-gabbard-impeachment-vote-democratic-primary-1479112\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Gabbard is now the most disliked Democrat<\/a>. Why would any sane, rational person who has been conscious the past three years vote against impeachment, especially when the evidence is so overwhelming that the President abused his power and obstructed Congress (not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"obstructed justice as the Mueller report volume 2 (opens in a new tab)\">obstructed justice as the Mueller report volume 2<\/a> concluded)? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump certainly approved of her vote (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/12\/22\/trump-respects-tulsi-gabbard-impeachment-vote\/2726520001\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump certainly approved of her vote<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what&#8217;s Tulsi&#8217;s game then?  Is she a contrarian who just likes to criticize others in her party to bring attention to herself? She does support Bernie Sanders, who is a social democrat. She has strongly advocated most of the progressive Democrat&#8217;s issues in the past. But then again lately,  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"She does seem to talk a lot like a Republican (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2019-10-25\/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-republican\" target=\"_blank\">she does seem to talk a lot like a Republican<\/a>. She has also been sympathetic to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ms. Gabbard appeared regularly on Fox News during the Obama administration and cozied up to Trump and Steve Bannon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/punditfact\/article\/2019\/nov\/22\/looking-back-tulsi-gabbards-fox-news-presence-obam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Gabbard appeared regularly on Fox News during the Obama administration and cozied up to Trump and Steve Bannon.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>So, really . . . what is Ms. Gabbard&#8217;s deal? What&#8217;s her motivation?  What the hell is she up to? We here at the Bucket think it&#8217;s something more egotistical. We think that the enigma that is Ms. Gabbard sees that the stairwell to the Democratic nomination is blocked and will be for many years to come with every Democrat currently still running polling well ahead of her. Like Reagan and Trump, (both former Democrats), the possibility exists that she could get the Republican nomination if she switches parties. Her vote against Trump&#8217;s impeachment certainly endeared her to Trump&#8217;s nutbag supporters and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"her approval is very strong from conservative males (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/11\/tulsi-gabbards-support-skews-conservative-and-male.html\" target=\"_blank\">her approval is very strong from conservative males<\/a> (gee, go figure that! . . . see the saga of Sarah Palin). Plus, she&#8217;s from a heavily Democratic state.  Look at all the fawning Democrats do over moderate Republicans from heavily Republican states who side (or appear to side) with Dems (the late John McCain, Susan Collins, Spiff Romney) and you&#8217;ll get it. You have to have a gynormous ego to run for president, and Ms. Gabbard certainly is developing a colossal one.  Since she has absolutely no chance to win the Democratic nomination in 2020, here&#8217;s our bold and fearless, purely comedic conjecture prediction for Ms. Gabbard: she runs for President as a Republican in 2024. Remember: we predicted a Ralph Nader landslide in the 2004 election so . . . yeah . . . we&#8217;re . . . probably . . . wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumptulsigabbardpresidentimpeachmentelection.jpg\" alt=\"Could it be that Tulsi Gabbard's presidential ambitions may be so great that she'd switch parties in 2024, and because of her impeachment vote, she'd get the blessings of America's current CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his following of nutcase supporters? Stay tuned, folks!\" class=\"wp-image-7172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumptulsigabbardpresidentimpeachmentelection.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumptulsigabbardpresidentimpeachmentelection-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Could it be that Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s presidential ambitions may be so great that she&#8217;d switch parties in 2024, and because of her impeachment vote, she&#8217;d get the blessings of America&#8217;s current CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his following of nutcase supporters? Stay tuned, folks!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the drama of the impeachment unfolding on a day to day basis, the Democratic presidential primaries have been pushed to the back burner. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren continue to be the front runners, with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Yang and Amy Klobuchar still hanging on with the Iowa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Living On Tulsi Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2054,60,8,85,3],"tags":[2070,2074,331,155,237,22,20,1899,27,1552,107,1973,147,4,2073,9,557,154,739,43,98,596,235,343,296,19,871,694,2072,2071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}