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Brando's avatar

The problem is this is not a case of an otherwise loyal president nominating a potential Russian asset--the president himself has proved to be a national security risk. That this national security risk won the votes of most military members and veterans is appalling but it also means there's not only no risk to him in nominating her, but even if she dropped out he'd still be likely to share secret information with Putin and who knows who else.

The end result probably won't be immediately obvious, but our own allies and assets are going to be less likely to cooperate with us, even if we had another loyal president again, because there's the risk that any information shared can get easily disseminated to Putin. Our intel apparatus is becoming permanently damaged, and we are walking into several more 9/11s and Iraq Wars--military actions based on faulty intel--as a result.

The voters who wanted to "shake things up" are certainly going to get that.

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I'm disappointed that coverage of Tulsi Gabbard often fails to include her involvement, along with her entire family, in a dangerous and homophobic pseudo-Hindu cult, led by a reclusive self-appointed guru who set up shop in Hawaii back in the 70's.

She only became a Democrat in the first place because in Hawaii, that was the only viable path to political power. She has since proven that she was never an honest Democrat, and never actually believed in Democratic principles. She is an opportunist and simply hungry for power.

I suppose that coverage of her weird religious history is suppressed in the press because of our foolish tendency to grant legitimacy to whatever variety of god-bothering that people decide to subscribe to. In her case, it's dangerous to grant her access to power. The voters rightly turned her out and she should be denied any promotion. Trump of course, believes in nothing except transactions with those who further his own ends. He would appoint Beelzebub himself if he was willing and able to wear a MAGA hat.

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