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  • This woman has been on all sides of all issues and says whatever she has to to survive and keep her career afloat. Either she's incredibly slimy and just a clever politician, or she's an insidious, carefully crafter psyop.

  • Gabbard faced concerns from several Republican senators over her lack of support for Ukraine; her shifting position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702, a key surveillance and security tool; her 2017 meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; and her past support for Edward Snowden.

    In December 2020, shortly before she left Congress, Gabbard introduced legislation that would repeal the Patriot Act and Section 702.

    In a contentious hearing, she refused under persistent questioning by Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee to say whether she now believed Snowden’s actions were traitorous.

    “I am glad that Ms. Gabbard plans to focus on identifying and eliminating redundancies and inefficiencies to restore the office to what it was originally designed to be,” he said.

    Feds gonna get fired, better get used to that austerity. You reap what you sow, in this case "small government" propaganda.

    Other than that she's a very weird pick and I have no idea how Republicans even embraced her given her political record is centered almost solely on opposing direct US involvement in wars (from a liberal perspective).

    • Seems like the MAGA wing of the republican party recognizes that the hegemony is now becoming unsustainable. My expectation is that people like Musk are going to position themselves to reap the benefits of reindustrialization by making sure government funding flows to their companies.

      • That's rather hopeful

        To avoid just being a pure cynic here: what have you seen thus far to indicate that the US plans to re-industrialize?

        If Trump was doing tariffs AND a massive "New Deal" style government funding, new department-creating, infrastructure building, industry building bill (all of it) thus forcing US industry to be rebuilt, then I could see this. But he's just throwing tariffs out there and, I dunno, hoping industry magically is rebuilt? As someone who lives in "the rust belt" it's called that for a reason. That shit ain't coming back without billions if not trillions of dollars of direct investment into rail, manufacturing plants, mining (iron, probably coal for steel. Unless modern steel can be made without it).

        It just seems like Trump thinks you can use the stick and these places will come back on their own. I'm not sure if be understands the scale of what re-industrialization of the US looks like. He and the republicans would have to be willing to just dump infinite resources into the sector, not unlike China, give it a couple decades, and then it might work.

        As far as Musk goes, I think he overplayed himself. I said before somewhere (maybe this site I don't remember) that he's clearly being used by Trump to take the blame. As he is doing now. He has no legitimacy or protections under the laws as they exist. As soon as Trump is tired of his toy Elon could be gone in an instant and considering he's violated countless laws... I'm not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end. He took on incredible personal risk for a potential, but highly unlikely, personal reward. I dunno I don't have a crystal ball obviously, but I just don't see things "being great" for Musk a couple years from now. His spiraling drug addiction mixed with his egotism and apparent inability to read rooms. I do agree he's a much bigger "threat" (hate that word for such a loser) than libs are currently willing to accept.

        If only a hero of the Mario's Mansion, Shinzo Abe, variety were out there... it would really pave over this annoyance. Not solve anything, but definitely pave over one of the most annoying bumps.

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