Michael Tracey writes on X:
So now [Tulsi Gabbard] randomly dumps this trove of 2016 “Russian interference” documents to Fox News, in a clumsily-concocted PR scheme — then she jumps on Hannity to accuse Obama of “treason” (laughable), and pretends Obama could face criminal prosecution. In other words, she takes everyone to be an absolute idiot, as she desperately implements her bogus little political diversion tactic at the behest of Trump…
But it’s just not factually accurate that Obama himself ever claimed voting systems were tampered with, or that he “suppressed intelligence” to that effect. Could it be argued that Obama should’ve been *more* proactive in tamping down on the insane proliferation of Dem conspiracies? Sure. There are plenty of legitimate critiques to be made of Obama, on the “2016 election interference” issue, or any number of other issues.
But that’s not what Tulsi Gabbard is doing. She’s doing another simpering political shtick — to appease Trump and promulgate bullshit. That’s her clear MO so far as Director of National Intelligence.
First off, two things:
- I don’t like Michael Tracey.
- I was saying that Russia collusion is a hoax from the first moments it was inflicted on the public notice back in 2016. I was very anti-Trump back then but, as blog long-timers will confirm, I was always adamant that Russia collusion was stupid and fake.
I do, however, agree with this analysis by Michael Tracey. The problem with Tulsi Gabbard is not that she’s a Russian agent. The obsession with Russian agents is like a disease. People need to get over it. Gabbard’s problem is that, at heart, she’s a hippie lefty bimbo. This conspiracy stuff she’s peddling is typical Boomer lefty stuff. She’s weak, that’s her main problem. And that’s Trump’s problem, too. Granted, he’s been less weak in the second term than in his extremely impotent first one. But we’ve seen some slippage into weakness recently, and that’s disturbing.
Of course, Tulsi is only doing what Trump is telling her. And so is Pam Bondi. These weak, embarrassing threats to publicize, reveal, and arrest that never get anywhere all come from the same source.
On the positive side, it’s heartening that conservatives are a lot less gullible than liberals. Leftists ate the Russia collusion hoax (and every other hoax) right up. There are, of course, stupid, low-information people on the Right. But there’s nothing like the Left’s gullibility where every outré hoax gets happily picked up and eagerly repeated. Rightist influencers bash Trump all day while I can’t think of any leftist opinion-maker who would dare to peep anything against Kamala.
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