The former Hawaii congresswoman delivered a full-throated call to vote for Trump—a man she had once tried to run against as a Democrat.
  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    602·
    3 months ago

    Damn we need that clown meme up in here. I remember when she was a big supporter of Bernie in 2016. So I’m guessing she was just a Putin puppet the whole time right?

    I honestly thought she might be Trump’s VP.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    3 months ago

    The timing of her endorsement was not accidental. Gabbard, a member of the Hawaii National Guard, had earlier gone to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia with Trump to lay a wreath marking the third anniversary of the deaths of 13 American servicemen at the Abbey Gate of Kabul Airport during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    I just want to remind people. You’re going to hear about this in the coming weeks. When some dumb fuck tells you that the Afghan withdrawal was a disaster:

    • Ask why the 3 past Presidents kicked the can down the road (rhetorical: It was ALWAYS going to be a disaster on the ground and politically disadvantageous).

    • Ask them if they know how many total US service members died under Trump’s term versus Biden’s in Afghanistan. (HINT: The total deaths under Trump is SIXTY-FIVE. The total under Biden: 13)

    • Thanks to Biden, ZERO American servicemen have died in 2022, 2023, and 2024 in Afghanistan — the first 0 years since 2001.

    Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be praised in history books as a political sacrifice that ultimately saved more American lives in the long-run.

    • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world
      20·
      3 months ago

      The withdrawal from Afghanistan is the the most genuine “the buck stops here”, that I can remember. He ripped off the bandaid and it was the right call

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 months ago

      The only question I ask is, who started both illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan??

      Republicans! W Bush. Everything else is bullshittery designed to deflect blame from Republicans and the mess they caused.

      I’ve said it before, Republicans are assholes that take a shit in your living room then complain about how you are cleaning it up and how you’re not fast enough.

    • Nurgus@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago
      • Ask who let the Taliban out of Afghanistan’s prisons? Trump did a deal with the Taliban and had the American military crack open the prisons, against the wishes of the supposedly sovereign Afghanistan government.
    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be praised in history books as a political sacrifice that ultimately saved more American lives in the long-run.

      Maybe. But I still hear people insist we could have won Vietnam.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    36·
    3 months ago

    He keeps us in his heart

    Sure. Tell that to the women that he took abortion rights from, or the refugee kids that he stripped from families, or the people he tried to deny health care, or the natural disaster victims in blue states that he tried not to help because they voted for the other party, etc etc etc.

    This man has never cared about anyone other than himself.

    If he’s pretending to care about you, it’s because he thinks you’re a useful idiot that will get him into a position of power that he can exploit.

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    “I know what I mean when I share with you that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a president and commander-in-chief bears for every single one of our lives,” she said.

    I really only have obscenities at this point. Lots of them…maybe all of them.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      “I know what I mean when I share with you that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a president and commander-in-chief bears for every single one of our lives,” she said.

      …and he doesn’t give single shit about any of those responsibilities or those lives. He will walk on your grandmother’s face if it means saving a single step to wrap his small fingers around a can of Diet Coke sooner.

  • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    3 months ago

    And… Hilary was right.

    (not so coincidentally, that is the name of my wifi network in my red neighborhood, so it can be seen!)

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
      037·
      3 months ago

      Edit2: words, format

      The 2016 Russiagate smears because she lost to Trump…

      The DNC and the politicians bought by the owner-class are the ones pushing out these long-time Democrats.

      Tulsi was for Bernie Sanders; I wonder what could have caused such a big shift.

      I suggest learning more from independent journalists and not just from owner-class media.

      • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
        18·
        3 months ago

        Oh, fuck off, man. It doesn’t take a fucking genius, let alone someone as smug as you, to see how much of a piece of shit she’s always been.

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
          027·
          3 months ago

          Following the owner-class talking points and smears.

          It’s not hard to tell who falls for the Blue MAGA talking points every four years, with their continuous fear mongerging to sway any dissidence.

          I am against the duopoly, and I will proudly support third parties that are for the working class.

          • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            17·
            3 months ago

            I will proudly support third parties

            You could’ve just stopped there. This is all anybody needs to see to know that nobody should listen to you. In our shitty first past the post system, all this does is pull frustrated people away from the mostly reasonable but imperfect choice. You’re either clueless or intentionally attempting to dissuade people from voting for democrats in order to help trump to win. In this system, a third party candidate cannot fucking win. There is no actual “blue maga” for you to whine about. Stop spreading bullshit. I’m glad your username is so stupid that it’s easy to see on its face that your account’s entire existence is predicated on sowing division or you might actually have a chance at convincing some people. Unfortunately for you, most of the people on lemmy are smarter than the people on reddit. If you actually cared about defending American democracy, you’d shut the fuck up instead of saying this dumbass bullshit that serves only to dismantle what crumbs of democracy we have left, whether your sabotaging words are intentional or not. If you keep posting this braindead shit, then I’ll know for sure that you just want more fascism than we already have. So for the love of all that you are at least claiming to hold dear, shut the entire fuck up about this. Yes, capitalism bad, so actually maybe let’s not hand the country over to donald fucking trump, famous asshole criminal capitalist.

            • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
              023·
              3 months ago

              It seems you want a community built upon self-censorship and echo chambers.

              I disagree with your point of view and your talking points.

              We just have a difference in opinion and how we see the world, due to our upbringing and what we read and watch.

              Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter, even if we do not agree.

          • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
            9·
            3 months ago

            Another one acting like Trump has been in every election cycle since the start of this country. Such obvious bad faith rhetoric. And Kudos for you for being gullible and being proud of it.

          • legion02@lemmy.world
            8·
            3 months ago

            Dude you’re not supposed to go full-troll, gotta keep just a hint of sincerity in there or the normies will sniff you out. There’s no coming back from that.

          • barsquid@lemmy.world
            6·
            3 months ago

            “Blue MAGA.” What happened to “independent journalism” if you’re pretending this idea from the far right exists in reality?

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        “Independent journalists,” but he posts a fuckload of podcasts from far right radical propagandists. I think I prefer fact-based journalism to brainwashing myself, thanks though.

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
          021·
          3 months ago

          Echo chambers and self-censorship do not help the working class.

          Diverse ideas and thoughts are needed in Lemmy, even if they may be seen as controversial or extreme from the status quo point of view.

          Most posts on Lemmy are from owner-class media and the duopoly talking points.