Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. added to Trump transition team | CNN Politics
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Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have both been added to Donald Trump’s transition team. Both endorsed Trump in recent days.
  • Billiam@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 months ago

    Oh, so that’s her thirty pieces of silver?

    I guess, considering it’s Trump, more like 30 pieces of IOUs.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      191·
      2 months ago

      Cracks me up that we hardly hear anything from JD Vance now. It’s like they realized he was a horrible pick.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      Don’t you have to be an actual member of the group in the first place for it to be considered a betrayal?

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 months ago

      Alluding she is pulling a Judas is actually too kind for her. At least Judas was canonically a disciple at one point. Tulsi has always been a fake Democrat.

      Her father is a politician and a founding leader of a wacky alt-right cult in Hawaii. He was a conservative and very invested in the anti LGBT movement up until the late 00s, only changing tickets when Hawaii started going blue.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    241·
    2 months ago

    It’s just a little bit fucking wild that Sanders was the only real progressive in 2016, because he’s the only one who hasn’t turned tail and started endorsing Trump.

    We really need to be more aware how deeply conservatives are trying to turn progressives.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      That’s why I’m incredibly skeptical of some of the “leftist” accounts that constantly go out of their way to exclusively demonize the Democratic Party.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        72·
        2 months ago

        As one of those leftists, it’s sad but understandable for people to be skeptical at this point.

        I have a lot of issues with the Democratic party, but its because I don’t have another party to vote for. I could waste my time critiquing Republicans, but they’re so far off the map of rationality that it feels silly and pointless. Democrats are still at least offering positions that can be critiqued outside “that was an outright lie” which is all you can say about Republican “policies.”

        I try to frontload those comments to make clear nothing could ever convince me to vote Republican or withhold my vote when they’re trying to fucking roll over democracy into autocracy.

        • 9point6@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          From that link

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    • Omnificer@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      It’s populism. You have to see if someone’s policy positions are consistent over time, that they have a specific ideal they are following, vs what they think is the most popular policies.

      Granted, it’s a huge pain with new politicians when they don’t have that history, but I think Tulsi had a pretty clear history that showed she wasn’t progressive.

      • chetradley@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        She was openly against gay people up until only about a few years ago when she switched to being against trans people.

  • Perfide@reddthat.com
    8·
    2 months ago

    From Vice Chair of the DNC to endorsing Donald Fucking Trump and being part of his campaign team. Hilary was on the fucking nose calling her a russian asset.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    RFK is basically that brain worm piloting a vaguely human-shaped mecha. Tulsi is literally a cult princess. In these regards, they are perfect additions to the shit gibbon’s rogues gallery.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    What do these jobs have in common with Trump Infrastructure Week? They never have a chance of seeing the light of day