After Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard is the Trump nominee facing the most resistance

@NativePortlander1970 ⁉ What war did Trump stop?? .... and I'll take a list (please) of all the others he stopped. I do admit that (a rare) once in a while tRump does take sound advice - but (as himself??) he's never stopped a war.

@NativePortlander1970 And: Why did they stall??? No bills ever passed the House during Obama's time. You folks wasted so many possibilities just because the Repubs didn't want a black man in the White House to make any progress!

@Ynotisay I'm not criticizing your piece. But her sympathies brought to mind what I just wrote below.


I know that because of the 1950s "Red Scare", discussion of communism is anathema to the USA. However, there are some instances when communism has its place IF it is tempered by good leadership and is accepted as a transitional governance position. For example: When Castro's government upset the Batista dictatorship, had that interim peoples government been accepted by the USA at the outset, I believe that Cubans would have returned to democracy.... however because it was outcast by the USA, the despotic (Stalinist) style of communism was instituted BECAUSE Cuba had no other place to turn for resources except to the then wealthy USSR. The rest is history.

(https://www.historyandheadlines.com/who-ran-cuba-before-fidel-castro/)

If you remember too, Peru and Chile also needed a 're-set' in their governments but because the USA and the USSR were at ideological loggerheads and interfered, the people suffered instead of having had a chance to sort out their own goals. The USA is not the 'savior of the world's democracies.'

All this to say that communism is not evil - the administrative corruption of communism is evil. AND greed disguised as altruism is evil too.

PS: Where does tRump suddenly get off saying that the USA should claim Greenland?

@JollyRoger Well stated. Only thing I would say about communism, outside of human rights, is the only way it can succeed is through economic reform. China and Vietnam are examples. North Korea is an example of what happens when that doesn't take place. If entrepreneurship and individual wealth isn't on the table it can't successfully exist today.
I'm not sure about Cuba. Castro was a dictator and, at the time, proximity to the U.S. mattered. But Cuba went from being one of the most developed Latin nations to one where almost everyone lives in poverty. They have some things. A healthcare and literacy model that's far better than a place like the U.S. But the people are poor with no real opportunity for anything else.
But any political model is open to the things that drive some human beings. Greed, repression, inhumanity and the rest.
As far as Gabbard? She's been shown to regurgitate Russian state media talking points, tacitly supports the Russian war effort and national security advisors are screaming that the woman can't be trusted. She has zero experience in intelligence and shouldn't be anywhere even CLOSE to that department. Led alone head it.

@Ynotisay No disagreement except that I don't think poverty in Cuba would have occurred had the USA 'adopted' it and encouraged it to try democracy again instead of cutting it off. Yes, Castro was a dictator... but he was benevolent to his own people. When you fight a war were the enemy (Batista) was propped up by the USA, there are bound to be distrustful feelings. BUT: That was then! I admired Obama's effort to change the attitude of the USA toward Cuba. Canada too has worked to help Cuba.

@MistyCee The resistance isn't just coming from Democrats. Something like 100 intelligence officials, diplomats and security officials are asking the Senate for a closed door meeting. I would imagine there's a reason for that. She's a 43 year old with exactly ZERO intelligence experience. That alone should disqualify her.

@Ynotisay
And a lot of those folks have concerns about Trump. I get the idea of closed door meetings, but is it closed to Trump, and/or, is it really about Trump?

Also, what about this "military intelligence subcommittee" she served on?

@MistyCee From what I was able to gather she was on three Congressional committees. Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Homeland Security. Not that it matters. Serving on a committee in the House isn't a huge deal.
She has zero intelligence experience yet is in a position to head 18 different intelligence agencies. Including the CIA and DIA.
This meeting in question has nothing to do with Trump. It has everything to do with her. And it's being called for a reason.

@Dino11 Looking forward to it