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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBack in December, a former member of Tulsi's cult warned Congress about her.
Anita van Duyn says she spent 15 years inside the Science of Identity Foundation, a fringe offshoot of Hare Krishna that was formed in the 1970s and has been described by defectors as a cult.
Van Duyn has sent letters to Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, detailing Gabbards deep ties to the organization and its reclusive founder, Chris Butler, who still resides in a multimillion-dollar beachfront home in Kailua.
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Everybody is thinking her allegiance is to Trump, but in reality her allegiance was already given away to her guru, van Duyn said in an interview with Civil Beat. You cant just go in and out of that. Thats a lifetime commitment.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/12/senators-urged-to-examine-gabbards-deep-and-intense-ties-to-hawaii-sect/

pat_k
(11,467 posts)They noted that:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/is-tulsi-gabbard-a-mystery/681398/?gift=CiksPDoBurvFhUHnw_O61nJi7V9-x8sz9XUWiZg7C1k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Grim Chieftain
(405 posts)How do you go from being a Bernie supporter to a Trumper? Really?
pnwmom
(109,968 posts)JI7
(92,332 posts)BoRaGard
(6,376 posts)"So what the hell. Let's vote her in. Heh heh." - G.O.P.
B.See
(5,891 posts)Trump, Fkr Carlson, Vance, Sea-Gull and a whole kaboodle of other treasonous reich wing commies just like em. That's right, called em commies, like their buddy Putin.
As usual they want to project their own bs onto liberals, but last I looked it is THEY who are SABOTAGING democracy.
RoeVWade
(562 posts)nt*
pat_k
(11,467 posts)... they do seems to be grounded in hatred of the West. Putin is certainly seen as an ally in the project, but it's unclear to me that he's pulling the strings on the money that has manufactured this insane "movement" over the decades. For the PayPal mafia, it's hatred of the Western world for bringing down their beloved Apartheid. I don't know what other simmering hatred and resentments drive the other players, but their actions ALL scream sabotage of every driver of American progress and prosperity and dismantling of institutions and connections that have ever been employed to do a damn bit of good. The consequences of the 47 regime's acts are so obviously acts of sabotage, I find it beyond mystifying that so many are blind to it.
B.See
(5,891 posts)used the word asset instead of agent (I try to pick words carefully, sometimes deliberately).
Whether directly 'employed' or by happenstance, their malicious undermining /dismantling of democracy (and btw NATO) plays right into Putin's hands.
pat_k
(11,467 posts)RoeVWade
(562 posts)on this politico article. And ask yourself why you wouldn't be going "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA"
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/