“When you voted for Trump, you voted to put Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian asset, in charge of our nation’s intelligence. That’s what you voted for. Congratulations.”
So reads an idiotic tweet by former congressman Joe Walsh. (His handle is @WalshFreedom, which is ironic because he appears to advocate exclusively for government policies that take away people’s freedom.)
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This response by @EndTribaliam is 100% correct. Walsh’s claim that Gabbard is a “Russian asset” is misinformation (a better term in my opinion would be false information, or simply a lie). Walsh is, indeed, spreading misinformation, and he is, indeed, either a scumbag or an idiot (or both).
But more importantly: even if Gabbard is a Russian asset… who cares?
Voting for the Harris / Walz ticket meant voting for people to be forced to undergo medical procedures against their will, voting for historical figures to be obliterated from existence, and voting for everything that makes life worth living to be destroyed.
Is all of this somehow supposed to be preferable to having a Russian asset in charge of our nation’s intelligence? Because it isn’t. Putting a Russian asset in charge of intelligence is a tiny, minute, insignificant problem compared to the things listed above.
For four and a half years, I’ve endured a living hell in which statues have been viciously torn down and destroyed for the “crime” of representing unpopular historical figures, people barred from public life for the “crime” of declining medical intervention, and hundreds of people tracked down by the FBI and arrested for the “crime” of participating in a protest for an unpopular cause. The fact that Walsh considers a Russian asset to be a bigger problem than all of this demonstrates both his moral bankruptcy and his lack of empathy.
Let’s have a country in which everything even remotely beautiful or good has been deliberately destroyed, in which every public space has been redesigned to ensure that people who are different from the norm feel excluded, in which people are forced to undergo medical procedures against their will and arrested if they dare to voice dissent…. but at least a Russian asset isn’t in charge of intelligence.
Sounds great.
Not.
“That’s what you voted for. Congratulations.”
Yes, we voted for people’s fundamental rights to be protected, for historical figures to have a chance of receiving some semblance of justice, and for a possibility that life might actually be worth living.
I’m not sure why Walsh considers this a bad thing.