http://mauitime.com/news/politics/democratic-rep-tulsi-gabbard-met-with-president-elect-donald-trump-this-morning/“While the rules of political expediency would say I should have refused to meet with President-elect Trump, I never have and never will play politics with American and Syrian lives.
“Serving the people of Hawaiʻi and our nation is an honor and responsibility that I do not take lightly. Representing the aloha spirit and diversity of the people of Hawaiʻi, 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.
“Where I disagree with President-elect Trump on issues, I will not hesitate to express that disagreement. However, I believe we can disagree, even strongly, but still come together on issues that matter to the American people and affect their daily lives. We cannot allow continued divisiveness to destroy our country.
She wasn't just in the military, she volunteered to go with her brothers and sisters to Iraq during the war, my whole angle about her possibly being able to court military voters is due to the "I've been there, like fuck I'm sending you back lightly" bit.
Until I see the American-Samoan Hindu woman come out cheering Bannon and his hateful ways rather than trying to get in good with Trump to counter the harm of fuckers
like Bannon, I'm gonna assume the latter reason is more likely.
Sticking to purity in the name of his ideological guns didn't do shit for Bernie in the end, did it? Politics is a game, if she wants to play it and get an influential position in the Trump administration,
let her. Can you think of someone else you'd rather have trying to steer Trump on these matters?
So there are pictures out there of a woman who was supposedly hit in the arm with a concussion grenade during the Standing Rock crackdown last night. Her arm is gruesomely blown open to the core, and will likely have to be amputated.
There is not nearly enough outrage about this situation. That a group of people can be openly treated like this right in the middle of the continental United States for so long flies in the face of all the claims I hear from people about how I shouldn't be so cynical. Its direct contradiction to every time someone tells me the government isn't willing to brutalize its own people if it really needs to to get its way, or the way of its corporate allies.
Ah, see, you said "people" there, but I think you're talking about Native Americans and their supporters, the time for a rights movement and outrage on their behalf would have been before they were wiped from the country and reduced to a bit part in the history books, sadly.
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