Tulsi Gabbard says US 'not so different' from Russia on free speech
Former Hawaii congresswoman defended spreading Kremlin-backed conspiracyhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-babbard-russia-biden-speech-b2037274.html
Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has claimed that Russia and the United States are “not so different” when it comes to freedom of expression.
Speaking with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Ms Gabbard said the situation in the US was “not that different from what we’re seeing happening in Russia”, where news is state-controlled and challenging authority will likely lead to imprisonment, if not death.
“This is what’s so dangerous about the place that we’re in right now as a country,” said Ms Gabbard of the US, where the news is not controlled by the government, on Tuesday. “Freedom of expression is directly under threat and under attack.”
“And you’re right. It’s not so different,” she continued, without any apparent irony. “What’s happening here is not that different from what we’re seeing happening in Russia, where you’ve got state TV and controlled messaging across the board. This is where we’re at.”
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1. If Gabbard were a DU poster saying the same thing, she'd be what Russian intelligence has long considered a "USEFUL IDIOT."
2. If she WORKED FOR RUSSIA, one of them, she'd be a Russian AGENT. Like Rosa Klebb or Maria Butina.
3. ASSETS are those whose behaviors are of special benefit to Russia. If she or someone else ran as a political candidate and used national attention to badmouth and splinter away support for Democrats, enabling Russia's choice to take power, that person would definitely be a really good ASSET to Russia. Assets only have to be helpful; they don't have to agree to be. They can be totally free and self directed or they can be compromised and coerced, knowing or completely clueless, rewarded or ruined.
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Gabbard's history is probably too well documented for her to have become an agent at some point in her past. As a national figure, once presidential candidate ( 
) she was too helpful to just be a useful idiot. That leaves asset, and the millions of useful idiots who can always/usually be fooled (because they want to be) pretty much guarantee that public figures who behave like her can, and will, be put to good use by Russia.
go there ... and stay. 
She is just another "useful idiot." 
What a dunderhead. 
In Russia, she would have never been heard of again. Perhaps she should defect and move to Russia then if she is so unhappy in America.
That's why Joe Biden will be sending the police to arrest her now... 
If you go far enough to the left, you end up sounding like the far right.
I had a friend many years ago who was quite active in protesting against Vietnam, the Cold War, Nuclear Weapons and other things. Her outlook was solidly left. It still is, but at some point she slipped over the line and now she sounds an awful lot like Gabbard.
Her Facebook posts now read as if they were written by Putin himself, with the US as the perpetrator of all the terrible things in the world, including Ukraine. It’s strange and sad to see this.
