Tulsi became everything she railed against, then she quit. 
Gabbard Resigns
The Wall Street Journal reports Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as U.S. Intelligence Chief
Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday as director of national intelligence, capping a tumultuous tenure in which she was largely sidelined from President Trump’s national-security operations, including in Venezuela and Iran.
In a letter Friday to Trump later posted on social media, Gabbard says she is resigning because her husband, Abraham Williams, “has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”
“I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” Gabbard wrote. Gabbard said her last day would be June 30, staying on temporarily to help ensure “no disruption in leadership or momentum.”
Trump, in a social-media post, said, “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her.” He noted that Aaron Lukas, Gabbard’s deputy, would serve as the acting director.
Gabbard’s departure comes as Trump is considering fresh strikes on Iran if mediators don’t reach a deal to end Tehran’s nuclear work, or at least extend the cease-fire to hold more discussions. Trump’s national security team has faced upheaval as he has relied on a small circle of aides to prosecute the unpopular war.
The deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Ellis, is a front-runner for the job to permanently replace Gabbard, two people familiar with the matter said. Others are still being considered, one of the people said, noting Trump will make the final pick. Becoming director of national intelligence requires Senate confirmation. Among the other names Trump allies publicly floated for the post was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.).
Gabbard wasn’t a significant part of conversations about the Iran war before it began in February, officials previously told The Wall Street Journal. She often diverged from administration talking points about the war, saying the U.S. and Israel had differing objectives and that Tehran made no efforts to rebuild its nuclear program since American attacks on three nuclear sites last year.
In recent months, Gabbard has spent time pursuing theories of voter fraud in the 2020 election at Trump’s behest, according to administration officials; she showed up at a Fulton County, Ga., election center where Federal Bureau of Investigation agents seized voting machines earlier this year. (Audits and recounts commissioned by state and local officials in the aftermath of the 2020 contest found no evidence of widespread tampering or fraud.)
She has fallen in and out of favor with Trump, who instead has relied on CIA Director John Ratcliffe for important intelligence consultations.
One of her close allies, Joe Kent, stepped down in March from his post as the top U.S. counterterrorism official, over his concerns with the war in Iran.
Falling Out of Favor
It’s easy to fall out of favor with Trump. All you have to do is disagree with him on anything.
It was sickening to watch Tulsi preach against war then make excuses to support it.
She should have resigned on the spot.
Then she got involved in absurd, and many times debunked voter fraud ideas, the equivalent of rat vomit.
Now, after going against everything she once stood for, she resigns.
Looking Back at What Should Have Been
Tulsi did Trump a favor by supporting him. Trump found a way to ruin her. But Blame Tulsi, not Trump.
She did not have the moral integrity to resign, nor did she look ahead to what working with Trump would mean. Instead, she sold her soul.
Looking back, but I also said so at the time, Tulsi should have asked for support for a Senate seat instead of the job Trump gave her. It’s too bad she was confirmed.
This is so sad, I was once a huge Tulsi fan.
She never had been. Unconditionnaly supporting Israel was always an exception to her anti war agenda.
More time to surf now.
Adam Schiff says her decision to resign is “the only positive contribution” she made to US intelligence. 😂
I was a fan too anti war pretty sound ideas Hillary hated her so she ad a lot going for her but she was done the minute she took a deal with the pedo pres
More idiocy.
Had she remained a Democrat, she wouldn’t have advanced to a prominent cabinet position in any presidential administration. Dems already cast her aside.
She wouldn’t have had a position, would have been largely forgotten for an entire election cycle, and would still have a husband with cancer to contend with. THAT would have been the end of her political aspirations because the Dems decided they didn’t want her a long time ago.
But somehow being on the side that won the election handily, after being ostracized by the Dems, holding a prominent cabinet position, and resigning that post only to care for an ailing spouse is “ruining” her career.
Mish used to write smart things. Now he doesn’t.
Today’s Kool Aid is grape flavored! Sour Grape.
Is there any politician or political party that is vociferously advocating for world peace?
With peace there is little to No Profettering, No Fraud as there is no money pit and slush flunds for politicians to grab while we watch—
You are probably right, but, I think the populace needs to rise up and demand it. I hear no politician, no media, no pundits, ever discuss the topic at all. Yet, I think the overwhelming masses would be perfectly happy in such a state. But, they are always programmed with Machiavellian intrigue and strategizing again supposed enemies “out there”. Beware the “other”.
Not in the United States. Or Western Europe. Maybe in East Timor or someplace.
“All wars are bankers’ wars. War is a racket!” (Gen. Smedley Butler)
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Anyone that works for Trump eventually gets his or her life ruined. I look forward to all of these goons (Pete Hegseth and Todd Blanche especially) getting frog marched to jail when their usefulness is over.
Tulsi was only there as a backup conduit to the Kremlin. Trump has proved to be such a reliable Russian agent that Putin has decided Tulsi is not necessary and can be reassigned to another role after a suitable cooling off period.
She was always a creep, but she fooled people.
Anyone who aligns with Trump deserves what they get and it should be no surprise.
“Anyone who aligns with Trump and continues to be so and then breaks ranks….”
Notice the reference to Russian Roulette where a 1/4 of Russian oil facilities are now closed due to Ukranian strikes
BREAKING: A source close to Iran’s Ghalibaf says Iran’s “third struggle” plan announced by the IRGC will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait “by fire” and disable the seven submarine internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz, in immediate response to upcoming US strikes that Iran has assessed as “inevitable,” for this weekend.
The source adds that Iran will also respond with “next-generation missiles and drones” firing hundreds daily at the Gulf energy infrastructure, and that the US and Israel are playing “Russian roulette” with the outcome being the “collapse of the global economy and unprecedented gas prices.”
Ukraine is hanging drones off little weather balloons and floating them 100km or more into Russia, where they launch with a fresh battery and use ai to get to their target. Russia can’t do that because the wind blows the wrong way.
I’m a little ashamed to say how hilarious I find that.
Her political career has not been ruined. She can easily fill a high level cabinet position with the next administration.
Her career was ruined by her bad decision(s). Do not blame others for her decisions. However, bad decisions don’t keep you out of politics – just look at the others.
Why wait until June 30? The bench is deep. Waiting more than another day or week to spend time with a sick family member seems negligent. When I got hurt growing up, one parent would leave work early to take me to the doctor within the hour.
Agreed. There’s more to this story.
There are others like her walking on 14th street in DC. In fact, DC is filled with the amoral, it’s our democracy.
She didn’t quit, she was fired
True and then Trump, in his usual Gentle & Considerate Manner, fucked her with someone else’s Dick cuz he is continually limp and limping. This Admin is a rolling out of control deck fire.
She was “resigned”.
Don’t write off Tulsi Gabbard just yet …
A potential 2028 vice president candidate …
Cuba takeover imminent!
I was fooled by Tulsi for longer than I care to admit. By the time the Iran War started, she had long passed her expiration date.
I’m not surprised she turned out to be a grifter and charlatan. Her membership in the WEF as a “young global leader” was the clue that she had sold her soul to the devil from the get go.
I was fan back in the double oughts. Later, she began spewing some real nonsense. I believe she was closer to Trump’s way of thinking than most think.
Read her history as a child and young adult. She was reportedly a cult member in HI. When I first saw her in politics I thought she would be great, now not so much. I hope to never see her in politics in any substance again.
Noone with even a single working brain cell can expect to ally with Trump and come out better for it. How people keep falling for it is incredible. Tulsi sold out her principles and has nothing to show for it.
And imagine how well she would be positioned had she stayed true to herself and opposed Trump whereever he crossed a line.
It’s ALWAYS “it will be different this time” about EVERYTHING. You can see it in most human endeavors where history of failure is easily obtained but usually ignored.
Tulsi should have known better as an intelligence specialist. Taco is a one way street and he will use you for his own gains. You will either compromise your morals, unless you have none, or he will break you if you do. Anyone could have seen that in his first term with the revolving cabinet door.
You are being unfair to Gabbard. She believed Trump’s campaign promises like a mass of us did. Once in office, you want to try do what good you can, to make the best of a bad situation; that is a reasonable explanation of why she didn’t resign in protest. She exposed some of the rot in the Swamp. I think her heart is in the right place.
Hi Tulsi, how was the flight home?
Anyone who believed Trump after Jan 6 and the stolen election nonsense doesn’t have the intellect nor moral integrity to work in any governing position. I wouldn’t vote for her for my HOA.
If you are older than Puberty age, then it is naive to believe ANYONE’S promises.
Lol how can someone who believed Trump’s campaign promises ever be qualified to work in “intelligence?”
I was a great Tulsi fan, but now she is soiled by association with Trump. No amount of rationalisation will help….she is now just one more dirty political hack. I am gravely sorry about this….should could have been a candidate for the highest office
Perhaps it is for the best. Now we see she was either blind or willing to compromise her integrity just to be close to power.
Our “independent” Fed chair today,
Kevin Warsh: “As you demonstrate, Mr. President, every day, energy and purpose are how big obstacles are overcome. Your greatest ambitions are for America.”
obligatory obeisance
The public displays of outright abject servility and prostrate submission stagger the mind.
Reminiscent of N-Koreans’ frantic frenzied exhibits of devotion.
Ah, the freshly browned nose, the American version of knighthood.
Everyone in trumps orbit gets crushed sooner or later. Trump cares about trump. Thats why i am worried about the slush fund. Besides all the illegal ness etc. Know one has put it together trump still has some use for the masses. Around election time is my guess. He talked them into treason pardoned them and now wants to pay them. That will emboldened them when he calls them out again.
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
He’s telling thugs they will get paid for attacking his enemies.
Her positions on West Asia and North Africa regarding US Imperialism were spot on.
Washington DC like any other political capitol is a cesspool. Those with integrity quit, get fired or are forced to resign, eventually. The General George Marshalls, Fighting Bob La Follettes need not apply.
No one escapes the Trumpian Blackhole once you get sucked into it.
She has lost my respect too, particularly when she went to Atlanta over the election “fraud” engineered by Trump.
Maybe she can recover her reputation in a 3rd party candidacy because the Democrats Party as currently constructed is almost as bad as the GOP.
I hope the best for her husband’s recovery and her professional career whatever she chooses to do next.
Trump will forever be an albatross around Gabbard’s neck.
Her performance before the House Intel committee was super cringe, refusing to give her opinion on attacking Iran. Still, it’s not obvious whether she should have immediately resigned when Trump started this illegal, immoral and deeply stupid war. Should she have hung in there and tried to use whatever minimal influence she had to counter Susie Wiles, Lindsey Graham and the other lunatics surrounding Trump – or resign and let the lunatics and Zionazis be the only ones singing in demented Trump’s ear? I’m sure she already knew her political career was over. Sure, she would have been a little less tainted if she’d resigned earlier, but I assume whoever replaces her will be worse. In the end, her absence won’t make much difference, since she’d been sidelined long ago. Maybe a few years in Hawaii will wash the stench of DC off of her.
Everyone around Trump is turned to shi¡t.
He’s got the Midas touch.
RFKjr, Tulsi, Vance.
He’s even won over people that initially despised him, only to leave them hanging out to dry. Once contaminated, you become a vector. Only quarantine helps.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
Some things cannot be managed. They need to be extirpated like a malignant tumor.
Any sympathy with Israel, be it out of traditional loyalties, political reflexes, or evangelical/Christian background, makes it all the harder find the bottom under your feet and to wade out.
He’s a human shit blizzard. Figuratively and in his pants.
I don’t think Tulsi’s career is totally ruined. She may be getting out at a very credible time. If she plays her cards right, I think she may be able to join America First as a “survivor”.
The money is on Stefanik
A little spelling hint from Trump
Trump: “He’s a dumb person! D-U-M. Not the B. Most people don’t know it has a B.”
Stefanik is all in with Trump on Iran, so expect no tempering of his impulses this weekend
He won’t need Stefanik to stay in the House to maintain a slight majority, since the dems will have a big majority next term.
I have said this before, Tulsi has literally been on both sides of just about every major political topic. A quick Google search will easily yield the receipts. The notion that she was ever a principled person is laughable. She’s easy on the eyes and is a skilled speaker. That’s often all it takes to overlook political inconsistencies.
She is and always has been an unscrupulous politician. It finally caught up with her. I never cared for her sleezy behavior. Good riddance.
True, but she might be able to wiggle her way into being a force for good in the America First movement if she markets herself as a “deep state” survivor.
Lol….ok….she is the fucking deep state.
If she is, then she won’t last long in America First. I’m assuming that’s where she’ll go because neither of the uniparty wings want her now, of that I’m sure.
America First is where the deep State lives. If the current administration with its unprecedented corruption and disregard for the law has made anything clear then it is that.
People like Fuentes and Balzerian may be psyops, but the America First movement is real and very deep, much deeper now after this week’s election atrocity. That means utter decimation for Republicans at the polls moving forward, even though no one is actually becoming “more liberal”.
Yeah, I recall she was a supporter of Sanders in her socialist incarnation.
That’s true. However, the one issue that she hadn’t wavered on was perpetual war. I was glad when she joined the 🍊 team, as one of the few good ones. That is, until she met her moral peer, the 🎃. Guess that that’s what happens when one doesn’t the chops, just the hips. Trash bin, meet Tulsi.
meanwhile:
Has Mike Johnson Dumped Trump?
Gosh, what could have caused a rift between them?
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn’t an accident.
Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.
Whoopty-do. That guy will be out of leadership come January.
Perhaps then he can fulfill his dream of becoming a real live boy.
Do you guys really know how you sound? Her husband has CANCER. Tulsi is so offended she is going to stay on another 35 days in the administration and Trump gave her husband cancer. (Sarcasm) Your blatant lack of humanity is appalling but not surprising. There are other things in life like cancer that affect people and families that are not political. Tulsi is a courageous American and America would be a better place if we had more people like her serving.
Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Resign? Report Points to White House Pressure,
She was given until June 30th to depart at the request of “anonymous White House officials.”
she was fired…Exactly
Her #1 aide Joe Kent resigned as did RFK Jr.’s sister-in-law from the DNI’s office. IMHO she had no allies within the viper nest of congress, this Administration nor the intelligence community.
If you believe that that is why she quit, sure.
Oh fuck off with the pearl clutching, you ghoul.
Power is a drug few humans can handle
Yup, Trump has overdosed on it and has lost his mind think he’s Jesus come again and is so addicted he’ll do anything for more.
Her husband has an extremely rare form of cancer. It’s the kind that doesn’t show up on an Xray, MRI or CT scan or any other medical test. It’s the kind that’s only detectable in resignation letters.
She is/was a Russian asset,probably knowingly but perhaps not. Not sad in the slightest to see her go.
hillary? you can do better than this. or is this kamala? not much difference between the two.
Ruined like Trump ruined Kamala Harris political career?
Buh-bye Gabbard! Hope to never hear from you again!
One has to really wonder why anyone would be associated with a POS like taco as he will throw you to the wolves whenever it is convenient for him. Have never seen a public official treat his or her associates so poorly. It is truly disgusting and unjustified.
If I recall correctly Scaramouchi (sp?) often says anyone who gets to know Trump hates him. Add Tulsi to that list. In every day in every way for Trump it’s ALL about Trump. What a pond scum excuse for a human being. When he passes hell will have to turn up the afterburners to warm that pig.
Too bad. She went from having the potential to becoming the first female president to becoming a footnote.
To become president, you have to acquiesce to the deep state (including Mossad, which has free rein in the Pentagon, CIA and halls of power). Obama did. Trump TOTALLY did. Vance is already signaling his willingness to go to the dark side. Also, the Intelligence Community has to be OK with you – which they would never have been with Gabbard. They have six ways from Sunday to get you, after all. Yay democracy! The illusion of choice. No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain (piss be upon him).
They could easily give someone cancer…
Vance proved his graduation to the dark side at the moment that he joined the 🎃 ticket.
Cool it, Mish. I couldn’t help but admire Tulsi Gabbard, too. I don’t see that she disgraced herself by working for Trump. I think you are being much too much of a purist about politics. It is inherently a dirty game. It was a dirty game 500 years ago when Machiavelli was writing, and it hasn’t changed.
I don’t know, of course, whether her husband’s cancer was her real reason for resigning. Women are funny that way. I knew a lady here in Australia who made a name for herself by campaigning against perverted sex education in schools, then suddenly quit to, she said, take care of her father. (This was in the 1970s.)
I think you are much too confident that you understand the real workings of the Trump Administration. I appreciate your inside comments on statistics, because I can believe that you understand them, even though I don’t. But I don’t think you should assume that you know what is going on inside a political group. It looks to me as if you are just relying on news reporters’ speculation in saying that Trump stopped listening to Tulsi and started listening to Ratcliffe.
And I don’t know why you are so confident that there is nothing in Trump’s claim that the election that he lost was rigged. As I recollect it, both Newt Gingrich and Rand Paul made comments to the effect that election-rigging had happened many times in the United States. I would trust them more than I would trust any court of law. In my opinion the law is so corrupt now that anyone who has anything to do with it must be absolutely worthless. It isn’t like being a politician and trying to do good on balance, according to your own ideas, which may of course be mistaken – I’m thinking of Bernie What’s-His-Name. It’s more being part of a system of sycophancy that is dedicated to maintaining orderly corruption and pretending that it is justice.
Governments are always made up essentially of soldiers, who live by force, and priests, who live by deception – teachers, journalists and judges in our present society. Politicians are brokers who stand between the government and its prey, but they have become too much beholden to the priests: many of them actually see themselves as priests. It’s time for the soldiers to have another turn in charge.
mike can’t help it. this is what animates much of the political part of the site. irrational hatred.
Whereas with people like you, it’s willfull stupidity.
Run Forest! Run!
Trump has made politics so dirty the stink cannot be borne. It is very difficult to rig an election when you are not in power. How many times did Trump lose in court on this question? Give it a rest, it was 6 years ago and he lost.
I’ve already told you what I think about courts of law. I hate it that we are helpless in the hands of such treacherous, impudent and generally worthless people, the worst that our evil system of education can recruit.
On elections, I get the impression that rigging has to be pretty blatant before the courts or the media will feel themselves obliged to take notice. I am something of a compulsive writer of letters to newspapers, and I have noticed that questions about the fairness of an election almost never get published. The plan seems to be to sweep any funny business under the carpet as far as possible, once the election is over.
That sometimes doesn’t apply when a conservative politician has made a minor mistake. In that sort of case, the “full weight of the law” is apt to come down on him. A lot of election officials seem to like to steal a few votes here and there for the major leftist party, I think.
Great post
Thank you. I don’t have many fans, and I appreciate those I have.
Newt Gingrich is as swampy as it gets. There has been some rigging in the past. The 2000 race in Florida was a massive clusterfuck and the republican administration, run by the candidate’s brother, was going to make sure they delivered. But since that debacle elections have been pretty tight. Most states use paper ballots read by machines. Hand counting is often used when triggered by a tight margin or a recount is requested. 2020 itself was an anomaly due to the Covid pandemic. But it wasn’t a free pass when counting the electoral votes. Republican congressmen still had their say during oral arguments on whether the voting process was fair. There was no reason for the riot, as the rioters’ concerns, though mislead, were still being addressed in accordance with the rules of the counting process. The fake elector’s scheme should tell you who was actually trying to cheat.
I had the impression that the whole plan in the “January 6th riots” was to allow those not terribly bright people to rampage around, and then use the ensuing fuss to make sure that there were no proper hearings about whether the election had been properly conducted. It looks to me to be another example of perfect coordination between the Democratic Party and the media.
I think the way those poor souls were treated afterwards is a pretty good indication of the morality of the people in charge under Joe Biden.
In the late 1930s in the state of Australia where I live (named “Queensland” after Queen Victoria, believe it or not, because another state, “Victoria,” had already got her actual first name), some earnest young farming types including two of my father’s cousins, led apparently by a silly clergyman who took the classic English story of King John and the Magna Carta (the barons of England forcing the king to sign a paper which forever afterwards was a basic part of their constitution) far too seriously, broke into the parliament building in our state, and tried to get the Premier (the equivalent of a “governor” in your states) to sign a paper making them the government. They were going to straighten everything out. Instead they were taken away to jail and eventually put on trial. The jury threw the charges out. People then didn’t like politicians any more than they do now. Even the judge apparently told the jury something to the effect that “studying these questions” (as the boys had been doing) might be considered laudable.
The way your media continues to treat that riot as if it were some sort of serious affront to your “democracy” suggests to me that you are still being led by the nose, by the class of people who live by deception.
This is all very suspicious. In first term, say all sorts of things and make all sorts of promises and see who is on-board. In second term destroy them because they are enemies of the real Agenda?
Everyone has very naive ideas about the real motivations of those high in society. Their goals are not to make families stronger, not to make small business more profitable, not to make neighborhoods safer, not to enlighten schoolchildren with truth.
Let’s hope it isn’t as deep as that. I lean to the idea that you should assume stupidity rather than conspiracy where there is room for doubt. I hope we’re not living in a hall of mirrors where NOTHING is true.
None of us is privy to the inner sanctum of the current administration, but I fear that any political force whose leadership’s primary demand is “Loyalty to its leader above all” HAS to test every member’s integrity, OFTEN, and in the extreme.
In the movie “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” After the democratically-elected government of Spain fell to the Franco dictatorship, Mrs. H proclaimed, “We are forever bitched.” Yea, Martha, I think I’m beginning to understand how you feel.
“With integrity, nothing else matters; without integrity, nothing else matters.”
I agree with most of Mish’s assessment. Sad to see someone completely torch what was a promising career. Bit depressing as I contributed to her political campaigns. Not resigning at the first attack on Iran was fatal to any future career for her in politics…I think we are getting close to critical mass with the large number of Independents that a new party will arise focused on solving America’s urgent problems.
Unfortunately, her career was never really promising because they would never let her get close to actual power.
Bewbies are a potent disqualifier.
It is hard to recall a member of his administration that he has not ruined. Especially his first term, everyone with any credibility was used up and then discarded. I suppose there is hardly anyone with credibility willing to work for him this term (just Rubio and Tulsi?).
I suspect Vance and Rubio have likewise ruined their political careers by their allegiance to Trump.
Rubio is actually getting good publicly and showing he has the chops to be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate. Vance, not so much.
I like your sense of humor, Jojo. Keep it up!
Please, never, ever encourage MAGA.
But they look so sad…
Rubio is transparently phony. Vance is opaquely phony.
American voters often go for candidates that are promoted as sincere, genuine, or authentic.
Like Bush jr, Reagan, Obama.
Remember when Windows was promoting NT as robust, secure, scalable, enterprise-ready? Things are often promoted by emphasizing their drawbacks as strong points.
lol, this level of delusion is hilarious.
I certainly hope everyone who’s voted Republican in the last decade is happy with what they’ve voted for. The children? Molested, but at least not “trans’d” or whatever (less than 2% of the population by the way)! Government overreach is on a level never before seen in this nation’s history, hope you like having a fat Mexican pointing a gun at you in traffic! He’s with the government now. Graft is openly practiced with a smile, market manipulation too. Oh, and there’s a golden statue of dear leader now.
It is America’s 250th birthday and we are on the verge of collapsing. Traditional values indeed.
Well said, Creamer. I ardently agree. Somewhat. It’s a passionate stance – Red vs Blue, but I’ve seen little evidence of doing what’s best for this formerly great nation and its constituents from either party. Harris? Biden? Barrack Hussein? Dubya? Clinton? Elder Bush? In the event of your early demise, who among them would you trust to raise your children, let alone the helmsmanship of this nation?
You forgot the mind addled St, Ronnie Raygun that put on steroids the neoliberal and neoconservative policies of divide and conquer, jingoism, nationalism, Star Wars, crony capitalism, the S&L, HUD scandals and the coup de grace- Iran- Contra.
Ah, yes, dear old Ronald Reagan, who was ridiculed by your kind of people throughout his presidency, but still managed to force the Soviet Empire into collapse, and remove the threat of nuclear war for a generation or so. That was such a little achievement in comparison with, say, getting your loyal CIA agent Muammar (?) Gaddafi murdered, or bungling a war in Afghanistan, or starting an unnecessary war against Iraq and disgracing your military by the way you treated prisoners, or collapsing your dollar (which was of course an achievement that all your administrations and congresses participated in). And what about the attack on the “twin towers”? I don’t suggest that your George Bush II actually knew about it in advance (he was too stupid to have been in the loop), but I think it has the marks of your government all over it. Any explanations yet of why the third building collapsed? Was the aircraft that crashed outside of town supposed to fly into it?
Forcing the Soviet Empire into collapse? Despite it doing that well before he entered office? Very smart Arthur! I bet he made the sun rise and fall every day of his presidency too.
Oops, wait. I read further down. You’re just a fucking retard.
Thanks for that. You haven’t attempted to answer any of my questions. Is there some secret, known only to Americans, about that “third building” story?
PS. The Soviet empire didn’t collapse “well before” Reagan entered office. It began to thrash around after Reagan and his Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, started making noises about “Star Wars,” the weaponization of space. The Soviets knew they couldn’t afford to keep up, and decided they would have to do something about it, which meant freeing up their sclerotic economic system. That meant allowing an element of free speech, which killed their system. You may be too young to know, but I’m not: I watched it.
Russia has been collapsing for 300 years.
The collapse of the Soviet Empire was a complete surprise to the CIA, NSA, and President Bush.
Raygun didn’t win the Cold War. Pickup a history book as to when it started. The American taxpayer, every president, congress and those that served in the armed services during the Cold War won it.
The Soviet empire’s version of state capitalism was failing in the 70s. Gorbachev could read a balance sheet.
Raygun just happened to be president when the USSR house of cards fell.
I think that to understand twentieth century history, including some of the very bad things that were done by President Franklin Roosevelt, you always need to keep in mind that the Communist Party took over Russia in 1917. The ‘Origin of Species’ had been published some time in the 19th century, and most people knew that Christianity was not true. There was a genuine belief among a lot of people who didn’t understand economics that some sort of socialism was the way forward.
Everything that was done by Roosevelt and the British socialists may be seen, I think, as a way of warding off the destruction of private property and order by a Communist revolution. It doesn’t really matter whether you call what we have now fascism or social democracy: it is much the same compromise between individual liberty and the power of force and fraud that existed in Europe during the age between the end of the Roman Empire and the advance of science that began in perhaps the eighteenth century.
Strangely enough, science still seems to advance in the West in spite of the corruption of politics. It suggests to me that there is some sort of inherent virtue in Western people. (That’s for you racial-equality fanatics. I should acknowledge Jewish intellectuals like Albert Einstein and Ludwig von Mises.)
I wouldn’t be too interested in what modern history books say about the end of Communism. No doubt they have rationalized it and fitted it into their spurious ideas by now. Communism still looked pretty threatening in 1976-78, when I was a student activist against it. All the no-good university types who are all-in for racial equality and women’s lib now were all-in for Communism then. Maybe the American rulers always knew enough economics to know that Communism couldn’t work very well, but the ordinary public didn’t. We saw atomic bombs, and planes that could dump them on our heads. Reagan gave Communism a push after he became President at the end of year 1980, and it fell to pieces. Previous presidents, while wasting huge amounts of money and the lives of conscripted soldiers on “fighting Communism” in Viet Nam, hadn’t done anything effective about it.
Respond to the retort then I’ll read the entirety of the response assuming that you did address that Raygun just happened to be president when the Cold War ended.
To be sure, conflating FDR with post WW II foreign policy is a straw man. I ended my reading there due to your bs argument.
Provide a response that is germane. Get it?
Elder bush was a steady hand with great track record, I’m not even a Republican and I can see that. Obama is widely regarded as a good president, though I think he’s best described as “okay”. Bernie was a good egg, but the DNC wouldn’t have him and pushed him out. If I could pick, I think Mamdani could raise my kids just fine. Shame he can’t run for pres, but there’ll be more like him from that generation.
And how can singular people do what’s best in a system that’s this deeply broken? I see a SCOTUS that is out of control and openly corrupt, gerrymandering that is choking off our elections, and a complete lack of enforcement of our laws. Trump is openly settling a case with himself and paying himself. In any other working nation, that would have him led off in handcuffs.
Also, any of the people you just listed would have more scruples than this. Of both parties. I would trust any single one of them more than DJT because not a single one of them screwed up this bad. That is all we are asking.
The future savior is going to be an AI. Expect the people to elect an AI to high office, possibility President, in the next 10 years of so.
I’ll vote for a Luddite.
How’s that Iran war going Jojo?
People acting on gender dysphoria was traditionally about 2‰, not 2%, and virtually exclusively male.