Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) refuses to "play politics"; will work with Donald Trump

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) refuses to "play politics"; will work with Donald Trump

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) vowed to work with Donald Trump on the issues that matter to the American people, following a meeting between the two Monday at Trump Tower.

She did not, however, comment on whether she would join his administration.

Gabbard and Trump met in New York City to discuss U.S. policy in Syria, she said in a statement, though some have speculated she is under consideration to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

"President-elect Trump asked me to meet with him about our current policies regarding Syria, our fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria], as well as other foreign policy challenges we face," Gabbard said.
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"I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government—a war which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions of refugees to flee their homes in search of safety for themselves and their families."

Gabbard said that while the "rules of political expediency" would suggest she not take a meeting with the president-elect, she refuses to "play politics" with American and Syrian lives.

“I will continue to seek common ground to deliver results that best serve all Americans, as I have tried to do during my time in Congress," she said.

She added that while she will not hesitate to express any disagreement with Trump, she believes they can come together on some issues.

"We cannot allow continued divisiveness to destroy our country," she said.
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Gabbard told Trump she opposes a no-fly or safe zone in Syria, calling it "disastrous" for the Syrian people and the U.S.

Trump and Gabbard have “a lot of common ground” and both understand “the country very well,” Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Monday afternoon.

The top Trump aide pointed out that Gabbard “went against her party quite boldly early on,” by endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders, leaving her post at the Democratic National Committee to endorse the Vermont independent's presidential bid earlier this year.

“There’s a recognition that there’s a big country out there with lots of voters that feel disaffected from their party, the Democrats,” Conway added.

Gabbard was a staunch Sanders supporter, but said she would support Hillary Clinton after she clinched the Democratic nomination.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ard-says-we-cant-let-divisiveness-destroy-our
 
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Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a high-profile Bernie Sanders supporter during the Democratic primaries, is “under serious consideration” for various Cabinet positions in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, according to a senior official on the transition team.

According to the official, the 35-year-old Hawaii congresswoman is being looked as a candidate for secretary of state, secretary of defense or United Nations ambassador. If selected, Gabbard will be the first woman as well as the youngest pick for Trump's Cabinet.

She met with him this morning in his New York City offices at Trump Tower. The Trump transition source said that their sit-down was a “terrific meeting” and that the Trump team sees her as very impressive.

Gabbard, a progressive Democrat, has bucked her party in Congress and during the contentious Democratic primaries. In February she left her position as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to support Sanders.

I shared with him my grave concerns that escalating the war in Syria by implementing a so-called no fly/safe zone would be disastrous for the Syrian people, our country and the world," she said. "It would lead to more death and suffering, exacerbate the refugee crisis, strengthen ISIS and al-Qaeda and bring us into a direct conflict with Russia, which could result in a nuclear war. We discussed my bill to end our country’s illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government and the need to focus our precious resources on rebuilding our own country and on defeating al-Qaeda, ISIS and other terrorist groups who pose a threat to the American people."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/demo...consideration-trump-cabinet/story?id=43696303

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outstanding.
she would be a terrific pick ( SoState /UN) - a Democrat and not from the Neo-Con Clinton wing of the party.

She gets Syria ( conflict with Russia, and interventionism) ...outstanding all around
 
anatta said:
outstanding.
she would be a terrific pick ( SoState /UN) - a Democrat and not from the Neo-Con Clinton wing of the party.

She gets Syria ( conflict with Russia, and interventionism) ...outstanding all around
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btw i love her and all but she doesnt have the gravitas yet for SOS and SOD needs to be reserved for mattis because he is captain america. The UN is good though.
 
tsuke said:
btw i love her and all but she doesnt have the gravitas yet for SOS and SOD needs to be reserved for mattis because he is captain america. The UN is good though.
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I agree that 35 is a little on the young side but picking a democrat woman [from the Bernie wing no less] for a post is good politics on Trumps part.
 
tsuke said:
in 2020 the real threats will be this girl and warren. We will take her tyvm :)

Gabbard 2024 as successor to trump? :D
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Never heard of her until now .. and now it's becoming clearer.

The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard

She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.

But the case of Tulsi Gabbard becomes less curious and more expected once you look at her links to a different set of ethnic and religious hardliners: the Hindu nationalist Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Since her election to Congress, Gabbard has tied herself closely to this party, which has a history of condoning hatred and violence against India's Muslim minority. Many of her stateside donors and supporters are also big supporters of this movement, which disdains secularism and promotes religious sectarianism.

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The more important point is that her backers are all ideological backers of the BJP, which represents the right-wing, Hindu nationalist wing of Indian politics. Most Indian Americans actually support more progressive politicians; 81 percent of Indian Americans approved of Obama's job approval in 2012, and polling before the presidential election that year found only 5 percent of Indian Americans pledged to back GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...bic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard

Got it .. Trump can have her.
 
blackascoal said:
Never heard of her until now .. and now it's becoming clearer.

The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard

She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.

But the case of Tulsi Gabbard becomes less curious and more expected once you look at her links to a different set of ethnic and religious hardliners: the Hindu nationalist Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Since her election to Congress, Gabbard has tied herself closely to this party, which has a history of condoning hatred and violence against India's Muslim minority. Many of her stateside donors and supporters are also big supporters of this movement, which disdains secularism and promotes religious sectarianism.

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The more important point is that her backers are all ideological backers of the BJP, which represents the right-wing, Hindu nationalist wing of Indian politics. Most Indian Americans actually support more progressive politicians; 81 percent of Indian Americans approved of Obama's job approval in 2012, and polling before the presidential election that year found only 5 percent of Indian Americans pledged to back GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...bic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard

Got it .. Trump can have her.
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also you forget she was vice chair of the DNC and stepped down in protest when the things were done to bernie the only official to have done so. Something the bernie kids will not forget :) She also is very vocally for bernie

The fact that she is anti muslim and pro working with russia is just icing in the cake. Ohh first hindu xxxx also fullfills her SJW quota.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
Well, going from Bernie-wing democrat to even moderate republican is quite the metamorphosis lol.

But she is young so you never know.
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going from berniecrat to trumpian GOP is not far. You just add anti-illegal immigration, a bit more muscular foreign policy, and muslim realist. Shes already halfway there.
 
tsuke said:
also you forget she was vice chair of the DNC and stepped down in protest when the things were done to bernie the only official to have done so. Something the bernie kids will not forget :) She also is very vocally for bernie

The fact that she is anti muslim and pro working with russia is just icing in the cake. Ohh first hindu xxxx also fullfills her SJW quota.
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Obviously you don't know much about democrats.
 
I knew this would be out there even before I started looking for it.

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard draws criticism for meeting with Trump

Tulsi Gabbard's name conspicuously absent from the list of 160 Democratic members who called on Trump to rescind Bannon appt last week

if you actually believe in the things tulsi gabbard says she is for, then her meeting with donald trump is a betrayal, period.

@TulsiGabbard has dismissed sincere appeals for humanitarian action to stop Assad & Putin's slaughter of Syrians as merely pretext for war.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/800817425126199300

She no threat to anybody .. but her own political career.
 
tsuke said:
the fact that I predicted the trump win when everybody else didnt shows i do :)
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No it doesn't.

I just means that you're a Trump supporter.

The fact that I knew there would be great criticisms of her already brewing means that I know democrats better than you do.

Are you a democrat .. on the Left?

Didn't think so.
 
blackascoal said:
Never heard of her until now .. and now it's becoming clearer.

The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard

She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.

But the case of Tulsi Gabbard becomes less curious and more expected once you look at her links to a different set of ethnic and religious hardliners: the Hindu nationalist Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Since her election to Congress, Gabbard has tied herself closely to this party, which has a history of condoning hatred and violence against India's Muslim minority. Many of her stateside donors and supporters are also big supporters of this movement, which disdains secularism and promotes religious sectarianism.

---

The more important point is that her backers are all ideological backers of the BJP, which represents the right-wing, Hindu nationalist wing of Indian politics. Most Indian Americans actually support more progressive politicians; 81 percent of Indian Americans approved of Obama's job approval in 2012, and polling before the presidential election that year found only 5 percent of Indian Americans pledged to back GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...bic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard

Got it .. Trump can have her.
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She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.[from link]
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For over a decade the reigning dogma [I say dogma because it's fact-resistant] is that radical Muslims are driven by materialistic concerns: poverty, lack of jobs etc.

Trump will give the alternative assumption a chance: radical Islam is a totalitarian ideology and its adherents differ from other totalitarians only insofar as it's tenets are derived from a religion.

I can see why Trump picked her.
 
Tulsi Gabbard: The Curiously Conservative and Nepotistic Network of a Democratic Candidate

Tulsi is the daughter of Mike Gabbard, a Hawaii state Senator, former Republican, and anti-gay activist. Certainly, no one should be assumed to share the political views of their parents. But Tulsi Gabbard's political connections to her father go far beyond the family relationship. Despite her recent claims to socially-progressive views, the identities of her staffers and donors make much more sense as the products of a conservative family network than as the products of conventional ideological organizations.

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When HONOLULU asked Gabbard in an e-mail to clarify his former relationship with Butler's Krishna group, Gabbard's daughter, state Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo, sent us an angry e-mail in response. "I smell a skunk," Tamayo wrote. "It's clear to me that you're acting as a conduit for The Honolulu Weekly and other homosexual extremist supporters of Ed Case."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1/20/1056467/-

She'll be easy to take down.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
She's particularly a favorite of right-wing media. Appearing with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week, she lashed out at the White House for holding an extremism summit with Muslim Americans, saying it's a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is on that Islamic extremist threat.” She criticized Obama for saying that “poverty, lack of access to jobs, lack of access to education” is contributing to radicalization. “They are not fueled by materialistic motivation, it's actually a theological, this radical Islamic ideology,” she said, throwing red meat to Fox viewers.[from link]
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For over a decade the reigning dogma [I say dogma because it's fact-resistant] is that radical Muslims are driven by materialistic concerns: poverty, lack of jobs etc.

Trump will give the alternative assumption a chance: radical Islam is a totalitarian ideology and its adherents differ from other totalitarians only insofar as it's tenets are derived from a religion.

I can see why Trump picked her.
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Agreed
 
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