The conservative political action conference or
CPAC is getting underway later this week in Florida.
The speakers will include republicans Donald Trump,
Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Lauren Hobart and others.
There's also a democrat now on the speaking list.
CPAC chairman Matt Schlepp just tweeted this confirmed, Tulsi Gabbard,
slaps announcement describes her as a 2020 presidential candidate.
And former congresswoman at least back then.
She was a democrat as media I put it, Gabbard's record of Congress included
voting with former President Donald Trump 20.1% of the time according to 538.
However, she has been critical of the Democratic Party has made numerous
appearances on tucker Carlson tonight.
Another fox news programs like Trump,
Gabbard is dovish on military intervention.
Gabbard hasn't exactly been a favorite to the American Conservative Union is
Noah Rothman wrote on twitter quote, sure she's weak on taxes.
The budget, spending, energy, the environment, labor issues,
government integrity, transparency, human dignity.
Per of the ACU but she slags on Biden on TV.
And that's what's really important.
Through the years there have been a handful of democrats who have
appeared at CPAC.
This has included former Bill Clinton, advisor Paul Beagle at the event in 2013.
Former representative Dennis Kucinich appeared in 2015, former Obama adviser and
current CNN commentator Van Jones was there in 2019.
Still the Gabbard appearance seems a bit different,
particularly when it comes to the neo cons and their position in Ukraine.
Tulsi Gabbard wrote on twitter, what are we trying to achieve in Ukraine?
How will it benefit the American people and
at what cost my administration has never answered these questions, inflation and
cost of living will drastically increase.
Russia will retaliate and no one knows where it will all end.
Cenk, hasn't ended for Tulsi Gabbard as far as the democratic party is concerned.
>> Yeah, of course.
So, but honestly it had ended for
her back when she was pretending to be a progressive.
They already hated her for being a progressive.
So, that ship had sailed a long time ago.
The question is, can people stop calling or progressive?
And that answer now is obvious.
Of course, she's no longer anywhere near progressive.
Apparently she was pretending the whole time that voting record is greatly
misleading cuz that was while she was pretending to be a progressive.
And doing that particular racket as it turns out in her case.
Now, we had caught on to this early on David that in her
positions were actually far more conservative.
And then people realized, and Anna was leading the charge and
pointing this out and we looked back at the table.
I thought it was two years ago, it turns out it was nearly three years ago,
that Anna started pointing this out.
And I wanna show you this clip.
So, you can see who's right, who's wrong, back then when Anna said this,
she took a ton of critique how dare you Tulsi's a progressive.
And he's a better progressive than Bernie Sanders.
All these hilarious things is now, you see Tulsi Gabbard running fully
into the arms of tucker Carlson CPAC and every lose right wing group.
Remember these words from Anna back then.
>> But it would be misleading and
unfair to my audience if I pretended there weren't some concerns for progressives.
Most of the worries I personally have center on Tulsi's foreign policy views.
While she's clear in her disdain for military intervention in the name of
regime change, she is supportive of the war against terror.
Think about how many interventions the US has found itself in since the Bush
administration, all in the name of fighting terrorism, right?
So, I'm not just talking about Iraq and Afghanistan, I'm talking about major
military operations in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, right?
These were all done in the name of fighting terror.
There have also been US led coalition airstrikes in Mali, Syria,
Libya and West African airstrikes in Nigeria.
Have those military actions ended global terrorism?
Of course not Tulsi's hawkishness toward terror has led her to support
military actions.
I along with many other progressives disagree with.
Torture tactics like waterboarding, which were given the Euphemism
of enhanced interrogation was something that Tulsi was supportive of.
>> So, Anna did an 18 minute segment there filled with receipts of
Tulsi is actually actual quotes, etc.
So, David, in a sense, her right wing inclinations had been hiding
underneath her progressive marketing efforts all throughout.
And there was a unifying theme to it when it comes to Russia.
She says we should not intervene,
now, when it comes to Russia intervening in Ukraine, she seems to mind that less.
But whenever she talks about how we should bomb countries almost every time.
They're Muslim countries, when she talks about how we should torture detainees and
call it enhanced interrogation, it's almost always Muslim detainees.
And so, now she's gone further right wing against more immigration,
against more of the progressive priorities.
And I have not seen her push any progressive
ideas in basically over a year.
By the way, one of her turns towards conservatism was when she endorsed
Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders after she left Democratic primaries in 2020.
Well, Joe Biden is far more conservative.
Bernie Sanders,
that doesn't make any sense if you're pretending to be a progressive.
And so, we just now have the culmination of this trek that
we told you about three years ago.
And we were right, because we weren't speculating we had
already seen the facts, that others couldn't quite discern.
They were there in hiding in plain sight the whole time.
And she got more and more conservative because she was looking for a new racket.
>> It also seems like she got more and more intoxicated with the attention
that she was getting by being on tucker Carlson's show and the rest.
She's not exactly known as an intellectual influencer,
she was never that way, necessarily a democratic party.
But here she is suddenly republicans get to hold her up.
Conservatives, hold her up as somebody has come back to the conservative way
of thinking and even if she really has in some issues.
I wonder if it also goes to show just how shallow things have become in
the conservative movement that just because somebody is famous for
being on tucker Carlson's show, now they get a speaking slot at CPAC.
>> Yeah, but look, remember, there's a litmus test going on across the show.
You have to agree with them on everything, I know because they tried to get me on
the show several times and I told them that I would not agree.
Two things I don't agree to a very simple test, right?
And so they said no, that's it we don't want you on.
So, the Jimmy Doors, the Glenn Greenwald and
the Tulsi Gabbard that go on tucker Carlson's show repeatedly.
You will notice that they never disagree with him.
They're not allowed to disagree with him.
They're basically sold their soul and are saying yes, if I go on here, I know,
I'll get more followers, more paid subscribers.
They will almost all be right wing and that's the deal that they've made.
And in return with Tulsi and the others offer is, my God,
Tucker and Donald Trump and CPAC and all of you lose some conservative.
You are right about everything, I am from the left and
I will tell you that from the left, the right is right about everything.
So, that's the scam.
It's an obvious scam.
And by the way they use up these people until it's obvious that it's a scam and
they throw them away.
Look at Dave Rubin, he was the first to do that scam.
I am a classical liberal and I will tell you as a classical liberal that the right
wing is right about everything, right?
And the idiots like Bill Maher and
the others were like, well this is a real sign.
There's a real sign that the left is going towards the right that the right was right
all along.
And so, they get catfish like that.
Some of them wittingly, some of them unwittingly but Rubens now used up.
So, then they first they did the liberal thing with him,
then they had to betray every identity he had.
And they had him attack gay Americans saying that they're starting fires,
it's insanity.
Now he's making references to his Jewish culture.
It's disgusting.
So, it's the same thing for Glenn Greenwald who's a former shell of his
former self is one of the saddest things I've ever seen cuz in that group,
he's the only one that had a real career, right?
And so, now, they'll use Tulsi for as long as it makes sense, and
they'll give her some crumbs off their table.
And she'll eat those up and I guess she'll be satisfied with the fame and
the money that she's gotten.
But understand, even back when she was pretending to be a progressive,
she was just trying to find an angle.
Okay, she never meant any of that, and she doesn't mean what she's saying now,
she doesn't care.
The only thing I've ever seen her mean is how much she hates Muslims.
>> Yeah, how much she hate Muslims and how much she likes herself.
I mean, we should all marry somebody who loves himself as much as Tulsi,
Gabbard loves herself.
It just feels like [LAUGH] Tulsi has always been about Tulsi.
When it was cool to be a progressive there she was.
And when it was time to look for
a job in the administration there she was supporting Joe Biden.
Now, in order to keep her flame going.
It's well, okay, sure, I'll go to CPAC.
It's sad.
>> Yeah, and in case you're wondering why the random hatred of Muslims from someone
who was pretending to be on the left and she couldn't even contain herself.
Even when she was pretending to be on the left, she's like, but
we really should torture the Muslims.
Okay, let's just be clear, and we should drone strike the hell out of them.
Because I'm against war,
it's because she's in a fundamentalist Hindu cult.
It does not speak for all Hindus, not by a long shot,
literally not by stretch of billions of people, okay?
But she's in a particular fundamentalist cult and
it appears that's where it's coming from.
But I don't really care, I don't know if it's because of that or she just,
whatever her personal proclivities are.
The thing that matters is what she actually advocates for.
And what she has advocated for consistently is anti Muslim hatred.
And now she's gone full right wing and will be celebrated at CPAC.
I'll tell you ahead of time what she's gonna say, the left wing,
I am in the left wing and I can guarantee you they're wrong about everything.
And the right wing is right about everything and
she'll get a standing ovation from a bunch of schmucks.
Who believe that stuff for
a couple of years until they throw her in the garbage care.