Hmm, Tulsi Gabbard is the topic of the top 8 threads...

[brooklynite]

[dewsgirl]

1. Slow news day?

[Blue Owl]

2. The Gift of Gabbard...

Um, no thanks... I'll send it back please...

[emulatorloo]

3. Well, the meltdown is pretty spectacular.

Can’t get over Booker’s tweet:

Link to tweet

[Cha]

8. Cory's Tweet doesn't play for me, emulatorloo..

Weird.. Could you please tell me what it says?

And, yes it is Spectacular!

Mahalo!

[tblue37]

11. No words--just his famous "WTF!" look at the first debate. nt

[Cha]

16. Oh! So I guess it's not my

player.. it is!

Mahalo, tblue!

[tblue37]

18. Back atcha, Cha. 😉

[mia]

12. Try this link.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

17. Mahalo, mia.. still not doing it

it just goes Blank.. but, Otto has it posted below here!

[Me.]

27. Talk About Rot

Tell that to Assad Tulsi

[Otto Lidenbrock]

13. it's a gif

[Cha]

19. Now it says "404 image Not found!" But

I already saw it before this happened!

Mahlao, Otto!

[Salviati]

14. Here's the gif he tweeted:

(I see it's been posted above, so I'll edit mine out, lest people be mesmerized by the dual Booker side-eye)
Now restored:

[Cha]

20. Now the above gif says

"404 image Not found!"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=315461

So I don't know what the heck is goin' on but I saw it before it before this happened and it's PRICELESS!

Mahalo, Salviati!

[Salviati]

26. I reposted my version of it, for people with problems with twitter.

[emulatorloo]

15. The video shows Booker looking shocked/incredulous as the camera zooms into an extreme

close up of his face. Like you would see in a movie of person having a “startling revelation” about another character. He has such a great sense of humor.

Edit: As tblue says, it’s a WTF! look.

[Cha]

22. The gif is now showing this.. But I saw it before it happened !!

"404 image Not found!"

Brilliant and Priceless! Mahalo for posting it, emulatorloo!

[StarfishSaver]

21. Instant classic

[Cha]

4. And, yours is 9?

[TwilightZone]

6. haha

I always find threads like this amusing.

[IronLionZion]

7. LOL

[TwilightZone]

5. Well, she's in the race solely for attention...

so, mission accomplished, I guess.

[Hekate]

9. Seems appropriate, since there is some important info about her finally getting national attention

Go, Hillary

[NurseJackie]

10. She has disqualified herself. She needs to withdraw immediately.

[2naSalit]

23. +1

[Midnightwalk]

24. Well she is getting attention

So mission accomplished?

[Tarc]

25. Her lashing out is truly the stuff of popcorn-munching legend

[Hortensis]

28. Lol, sure is. Overreaction, surely? She'd already been outed

by our intelligence services, and this just adds some detail.

[Demsrule86]

29. She is a Democrat...folks should leave her and her supporters alone...disgusting behavior.

[Celerity]

30. also, these calls to boot her out of the party will drive her straight into a Green Party 3rd Party

run, which is a potential disaster (or if not disaster at least makes it harder for us in 2020) under the following scenario.

She would have a cakewalk in the Green Primary, Stein is not running and Howie Hawkins is weak.

IF Warren wins the nomination, there is a really good chance Schultz (I do not think Bloomberg would) steps is as an indie too, and the Libertarians might have a POOR candidate (Johnson was superb in terms of numbers garnered for them.) The Libertarians draw mostly from the Rethugs, and in far greater numbers overall compared to the Greens (which is often overlooked, as add the 5.2 MILLION votes Johnson and RW indie McMullin got, to Trump and he beats Clinton in the POPULAR vote as well, even if you add in ALL of the Green voters, who totalled only 1.46 million, but that does not fit some people's narrative, lol.)

Total that data/positing up, and then put Tulsi on a Green ticket, and it is BIG trouble, especially if Bernie and Warren go bonkers on each other in the primary campaign and Bernie does a tepid Warren endorsement, or worse, refuses to endorse her at all. Tulsi as a Green and Schultz as an indie alone could easily draw a combined 6, 7, 8, even 10 (or more) million votes combined (1980 John Anderson, in 2016-adjusted % numbers, would have pulled over 10 million, Perot, close to 30 million based off 1992) and if the Libertarians field a shit candidate, and the other RW 3rd party/indy candidates do meh, it is could be Rump's election to lose, especially if we bollocks up the impeachment and the economy does NOT go into recession. Tulsi will pull hard (in terms of her types of voters, far more than Stein would if she ran again, IMHO) from us, Schultz would probably pull 75/80% from us (moderate to conservative Democratic voting types), and 20/25% from Rethug Rump haters (especially if there is no big name RW Never Rumper running as an indie.)

A Biden win of our nomination takes a Schultz (or Bloomberg or even Steyer) indie run off the board, but it would also increase a Tulsi led Green ticket's drawing power, unfortunately, as many who would have supported Warren (and as usual have to add in Bernie's NON DU supporters as well, unfortunately) will be tempted by a Gabbard Green run.

Caveat: THAT ALL is a WORST case scenario, I am NOT saying it will happen (especially the part about Warren winning the nomination and all that concurrent fallout from that.)