Oh 2013, You Are So Adorable!

 

Notes from The Before Time from Vogue:

Making a Splash: Is Tulsi Gabbard the Next Democratic Party Star?

“I grew up with the Aloha Spirit,” says Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. “We try to treat everyone with respect. Like family.”

by John Powers

June 24, 2013

We’re heading toward Honolulu’s Keehi Lagoon Park, where the first-term U.S. representative, dressed in a scarlet blouse and black trousers, will be putting in an appearance at the Hawaii Ports Maritime Council’s Ohana BBQ. “If you’ve never been to a Hawaiian barbecue,” she says, grinning, “let me tell you: There will be a lot of food.”...

There’s the newly appointed U.S. senator, Brian Schatz, a bit too eager to please in his blinding yellow-and-green shirt, and boyish city councilman Stanley Chang, who fairly squeaks with ambition. And then you have Gabbard, a tanned 32-year-old with mahogany-brown hair that falls just past her shoulders, a fit surfer’s physique, and a smile so warm that it’s no surprise Web sites have offered polls rating her “hotness.”...

So first comes the packaging.  Bright colors. Scarlet blouse.  Black trousers.  Yellow-and-green. Tanned.  Mahogany-brown 

Then comes the promise, which makes me laugh and laugh.  WIth emphasis added:

Yet this is no Democratic Sarah Palin—all barracuda populism and you-betcha sass...

“She’s our rock star,” says a man in an expensive suit, who hastily adds, “Don’t quote me.” He hands me his card and I understand why: He works for a rival Democratic politician. 

 

She also comes across as an embodiment of the Obama era...

Then back to the packaging:

And at the end of a fourteen-hour day, when I’m ready to melt into the hotel bath, she’s still going strong—lacing up her running shoes for a jog...

It goes on like that for many more paragraphs than I have any interest in reading.  Standard fare.  Her political bio.  Her family.  Her many boosters in the leadership of the Democratic party.  Her bright future.

That was 2013.

One decade later...

From the Daily Mail UK:

Ex-Dem Tulsi Gabbard gives Joe Rogan a dire prediction on what could happen in November if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are reelected

Former Democrat congresswoman and presidential candidate turned independent Tulsi Gabbard believes that America stands to lose freedom if Joe Biden is re-elected.

Gabbard, 43, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast Wednesday to promote her new book, 'For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind' to outline her now frequent criticisms of liberals.

She sounded the alarm about the Biden administration, saying the current administration 'cannot be allowed to remain in power.'

Gabbard believes the White House has engaged in an 'unprecedented abuse of power.'

She cites the Democrats 'undermining the rule of law, politicizing our government entities, targeting Americans' including former President Donald Trump, whom Gabbard has been tabbed as a possible running mate.

Sarah Palin was 44 years old when John McCain inflicted her on the world and send a thrill up Rich Lowry's leg.

Tulsi Gabbard in now 43.  

And having surveyed the post-Trump rubble of the American political landscape and calculated her most likely path to real power, this "embodiment of the Obama era" has remade herself into an ex-Democratic Sarah Palin "all barracuda populism and you-betcha sass.".

Gabbard is making the rounds, hawking her book about how "independent" she is and what a buncha baby-eating commie monsters Democrats are.  And MAGA scum love stories from alleged lefties who saw the cans and gears of the Very Bog Soros Conspiracy Machine from the inside and are now coming to you live from the set of the Jesse Watters Show to tell you all the gory details!

It's the same profane trade made by Glenn Greenwald.  And Andrew Sullivan.  And Matt Taibbi.   Cash in whatever integrity/credibility you may have banked in exchange for money/ status/ influence/ power/ celebrity.

I read somewhere that the only thing worse than selling your soul, is putting your soul up for sale only to find no one is buying.  And all I see on the Right now is row after row of toxic, burned out souls -- husks with the copper wiring already stripped out and the all fixtures already up on Ebay -- all desperate to sell themselves off to whoever is buying at whatever bargain basement bust out price they're willing to offer.  

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