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PleaseBlitz

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6 hours ago, skinsfan_1215 said:

 

This is my district (and county, his distillery is about 15min from my house). He talked a good game with Trumpism but I never got the impression he was a true believer. He’s got no political background other than randomly trying to run for Governor and then being gifted the congressional nomination. 

 

The district is probably too red for a Dem to win though. 

 

I feel like it would help my understanding of Mr. Riggleman if you could tell me more about the hooch his distillery makes?  Like, if he makes top-shelf ****, then he probably has a lot of the qualities that would be good for a congressperson, e.g., attention to detail, pride of ownership, not sucking at everything, that kind of thing.  

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TheGoodBits

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4 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

I feel like it would help my understanding of Mr. Riggleman if you could tell me more about the hooch his distillery makes?  Like, if he makes top-shelf ****, then he probably has a lot of the qualities that would be good for a congressperson, e.g., attention to detail, pride of ownership, not sucking at everything, that kind of thing.  

 

Meh haven’t had it (I don’t drink liquor). I don’t think he’s got any real background in the industry. Career Air Force officer who saw a business opportunity.

 

He’s also not from here, just a carpetbagger who moved here and opened the business a couple years ago, put the building on the market and threatened to move the business to PA because he didn’t like how VA taxed alcohol, decided he’d try to run for Governor for no apparent reason before dropping out a month later, then was gifted the GOP congressional nomination by the party after the previous Congressman dropped out at the last minute. Oh and he likes Bigfoot porn. 

 

I’ve never quite understood how he came to be my congressman. Utterly perplexing tbh. 

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tulsi's imprint is growing...i can almost put an article about her in three diff threads :D

 

i don't know why my spidey-sense (i will never call it peter-tingle) lit up on the conspiracy notion of tulsi being supported by rooskies, and likely knowingly, but it's a naggin' notion (that i don't take too seriously, for the record) 

 

but this article doesn't quiet it down :P  (really, i think it's that i just see here as such a good choice for that role)

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-race.html

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STANDING ROCK, N.D. — Tulsi Gabbard is running for president of a country that she believes has wrought horror on the world, and she wants its citizens to remember that.

 

She is from Hawaii, and she spends each morning surfing. But that is not what she talks about in this unlikely campaign. She talks about the horror.

She lists countries: Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq. Failure after failure, she says. To drive the point home, she wants to meet on a Sioux tribe reservation in North Dakota, where, she explains, the United States government committed its original atrocity.

 

“These Indigenous people have been disrespected, mistreated with broken promises and desecrated lands,” Ms. Gabbard says.

 

Ms. Gabbard, 38, was a soldier in Iraq and currently serves as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard, which she cites to temper her message: Get out of foreign wars. Leave other countries alone. Not everyone wants democracy.

 

The method she has chosen to get this message to a wide audience, however, is through democracy — campaigning for president as a Democrat.

A Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii who was first elected in 2012, Ms. Gabbard is a singular figure in the 2020 race. She doesn’t fit neatly into any one established ideology or school of thought.

 

She has a relatively bare-bones political operation and a history of outlier positions, from her foreign policy stances to suing Googlefor free-speech impingement. Some of her own advisers do not think she will win. She may not make it to the September debate. Candidates need 2 percent support in four polls to qualify, and she has crossed that threshold in only one. On Thursday, her campaign said it had reached the necessary 130,000 individual donors, though its own website had not yet been updated to reflect the milestone.

 

But her run, and the unusual cross-section of voters she appeals to — Howard Zinn fans, anti-drug-war libertarians, Russia-gate skeptics, and conservatives suspicious of Big Tech — signifies just how much both parties have shifted, not just on foreign policy. It could end up being a sign that President Trump’s isolationism is not the aberration many believed, but rather a harbinger of a growing national sentiment that America should stand alone.

 

To Ms. Gabbard, it is the United States that has been the cruel and destabilizing force.

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On the far left, her supporters appreciate how she talks about respecting Native cultures. On the right, as liberal democracies see authoritarian strongmen rise, Ms. Gabbard’s allies like that she would not meddle with dictators.

 

The threat from Russia is severely exaggerated, Ms. Gabbard says. Do not beat the drums of war with Iran. Make nice with North Korea.

She flew to Syria in 2017 and had what seemed to be a friendly meeting with Bashar al-Assad, shocking her colleagues in Congress, and voted against a House resolution condemning the dictator’s war crimes. More recently, she said Mr. Assad was “not the enemy of the United States.”

Critics have called her actions un-American. After Ms. Gabbard tore into presidential candidate Kamala Harris for her prosecutorial record during the second Democratic debates on Wednesday, the California senator on CNN called Ms. Gabbard an “apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered the people of his country like ****roaches.”

 

To Ms. Gabbard, it is the United States that has been the cruel and destabilizing force.

 

“We should be coming to other leaders in other countries with respect, building a relationship based on cooperation rather than with, you know, a police baton,” she says.

 

 

 

 

 

<much more at link>

 

btw, if you want a temp free acct to read the nytimes online, it really is a no-hassle minimum info deal-----asks for an email and you set a password is all

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3 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

I saw a ****load of billboards for Tulsi on our drive from Florida to VA.  Didn't see a billboard for a single other candidate. 

Did you mean to put this in the other thread?

 

Also, billboards or signs?  I would think billboards would take some money....

 

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On 8/5/2019 at 3:35 PM, TheGreatBuzz said:

Yup.  Wrong thread.  And full blown billboards. 

 

She's the 2020 version of Jill Stein. Fully funded by Russian and GOP money. Gonna hammer a few progressive ideas like legal pot to try to carve out a 2% vote share. And as we saw in 2016, 2% can swing an election. 

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