vcczar Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 Tulsi Gabbard of HI has a lot of actions because she's said or done a lot of things to draw attention to herself. Few politicians have swung so wildly ideologically as Gabbard. The only consistency is that she's remained populist--a kind of "outsider trendy" politician. Her actions: Gabbard, Tulsi 2013 1st Hindu and 1st Samoan-American voting member in US Rep in history Gabbard, Tulsi 2016 Endorses Bernie Sanders for pres, and gives his nominating speech at Dem Conv Gabbard, Tulsi 2017 Introduces Stop Arming Terrorists Act Gabbard, Tulsi 2019 Votes "present" on Trump's 1st impeachment as protest to the impeachment move Gabbard, Tulsi 2020 Introduces bill to ban transgender athletes from playing sports according to their gender identification Gabbard, Tulsi 2020 Pres cand for Dem, 1st female combat vet to ever run for pres Gabbard, Tulsi 2020 Calls Trump's bombing of Bagdad Airport a violation of the Constitution Gabbard, Tulsi 2020 Endorsed by fmr KKK leader David Duke, but she disavows it Gabbard, Tulsi 2021 Praises GOPer Youngkin's victory over Democrat McAuliffe in VA Gov election Gabbard, Tulsi 2022 Blames the Biden admin for provoking Russia into invading Ukraine Gabbard, Tulsi 2022 Former Prog Dem speaks at CPAC; begins frequently campaigning for GOPers, generally MAGA Gabbard, Tulsi 2022 Leaves Dem Party to become Independent Gabbard, Tulsi 2022 Embrace of MAGA leads to speculation as VP option for Trump in 2024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted October 25 Author Share Posted October 25 I remember liking her in 2016 when I didn't know that much about her. I ended up unfollowing her on Twitter during her 2020 campaign because he Twitter feed was filled with video of her working out and otherwise showing off. There was almost nothing about it that seemed to have any sense of urgency or seriousness in wanting to lead the nation. Totally self-absorbed. She was so attacked during the 2020 primaries and left out of the Dem Conv that she got defensive and joined MAGA. I don't think she really has any values. She just wants attention. Viewers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pringles Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 Once again, I despise populism and these types of no-value politicians who just seek social media attention and love catering to their cult following. Even if I agree with her on some policy, not a person I'd want to be associated with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConservativeElector2 Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 9 hours ago, vcczar said: I ended up unfollowing her on Twitter during her 2020 campaign because he Twitter feed was filled with video of her working out and otherwise showing off. [...] Totally self-absorbed. Even with ideology put aside, AOC's Twitter isn't filled with much more valuable content... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted October 25 Author Share Posted October 25 9 hours ago, Pringles said: Once again, I despise populism and these types of no-value politicians who just seek social media attention and love catering to their cult following. Even if I agree with her on some policy, not a person I'd want to be associated with. I align with a lot of left-populism but I’m not a populist. It’s just that left-populism overlaps with a lot of political humanitarianism. I define populism as an anti-intellectual movement, whether left or right. It moves almost exclusively on the rhetorical appeal to pathos and least on ethos and/or logos. My personal ideology is very intellectual (obviously intellectual doesn’t necessarily equate with intelligent) which shows an anti-intellectual movement can have intellectual ideas. For instance. A populist may want businesses to be required to give sick days to sick employees no matter how long they’re sick because they don’t want to work while sick with the fear of being fired for missing work. I’d mostly agree with that but my primary driver is that you don’t want a potentially contagious person getting other people sick. If someone works in food handling services, they could infect a community. I think it should be the case that an employee has more to fear from knowingly coming to work sick than calling in because they are sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcczar Posted October 25 Author Share Posted October 25 4 minutes ago, ConservativeElector2 said: Even with ideology put aside, AOC's Twitter isn't filled with much more valuable content... I follow her and she does address issues and make public statements and etc. It’s like only 10% of what Gabbard’s was in 2020. Not really that comparable. I don’t know if Gabbard’s has changed. AOC is also more restrained now on Twitter. I don’t use instagram, so maybe she’s different there. But she’s not really doing anything different than standard politicians on there, most of they time. You can tell she’s a politician. With Gabbard, it seemed like she was an influencer and you’d have to dig to find out she’s a politician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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