Timothy Snyder: Tulsi Gabbard Holds the Knife

[erronis]

https://snyder.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-holds-the-knife

Imagine that the day has come for your brain surgery. You are lying, immobilized and vulnerable, on the operating table. Something is wrong, but you hope that it can be repaired. As the anesthesia sets in, you reflect. To be sure, your brain hasn't always performed the way you wished it had. You have made some mistakes, and done some stupid things, regrettable things, wrong things. But still, it is the brain that allows for a reconsideration of all that, to adjust, to have some hope and some possibility of doing better next time. Your brain keeps you going, keeps you in touch with the world. Hopefully, yours can be repaired, and you can get back to thinking, being, becoming. You could get better. As darkness descends, you catch a glimpse of a person dressed as a surgeon, approaching your head with a knife and a smile. It's Tulsi Gabbard. Hope gives way to horror.

This dark fantasy suggests, on a very small scale, the national trauma that lies before us. Gabbard is Donald Trump's choice to operate American intelligence. In the intelligence system, a kind of national brain, the Director of National Intelligence oversees and coordinates the work of agencies charged with knowing the world, protecting the integrity of digital systems, anticipating and preventing terrorism, and evaluating national security threats. Gabbard is the opposite of qualified for such a role: she is a disinformer and as an apologist for the war crimes of dictatorships.

Gabbard appears on the world stage as a defender of a million violent deaths.

She is an apologist for two of the great atrocities of the century: the Russian-Syrian suppression of the Syrian opposition to the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship, which has taken about half a million lives, most of them civilians, some of them by chemical weapons; and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has also taken about half a million lives, and has brought the destruction of whole cities, the kidnapping of children, mass torture, and the large-scale execution of civilians.

[rampartd]

1. trump is the perpetrator in a million from covid, for starters

we are in for a nightmare.

[Amanita Pantherina]

2. Thank you for the link.

My god was that depressing. Kafkaesque.

Though, I learned a new word.

“Farrago”, a confused mixture.

“Amidst the farrago of lies that Russia used to justify its full-scale invasion was the completely bogus claim that Ukraine was site of American biolabs that were testing which infections would be most harmful to Slavs (and thus Russians)”

Protect your heads, everyone.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. For the U.S.A. -- A Perfect Nightmare

For enemies of the nation and Constitution, big laughs.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[no_hypocrisy]

5. If Putin demanded Western Europe and they refused,

and Putin threatened to use nukes, Gabbard would likely assuage, "Well, maybe they needed it."

[ReRe]

11. Nahhh

She would say "Well you have em' , why not use them?", which is Trump's attitude toward our nukes!

Thing is, she and Trump would never imagine that Puti would point them in our direction.

In essence, Puti has won the cyber war!

I can come to no other scenario.

[GiqueCee]

6. Gabbard...

... is rotten down to her DNA. An irredeemable monster with a pretty face.

[Amanita Pantherina]

8. This is petty as hell

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But she really could use some laser resurfacing.

What’s the point of being a Russian asset if you aren’t even making use of their Medspas?

[dchill]

7. ALL Trump's nominees are "the opposite of qualified..."

...for the posts they're set to fill. That's the point - but far be it for our overpaid and underrated media to point that glaring factoid.

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R

[Quanto Magnus]

10. Pulling a republican move here....

If Tulsi loves Russia so much, she should move there.... I hear Pooty Poot has built some towns for disaffected Americans...

[erronis]

12. Guessing the new american guests will want to tour the battlefield in Donetsk

their bodies will work as well as North Korean ones for cannon fodder.