Video: Tulsi Gabbard Defends 2020 Endorsement of Joe Biden, Says She’s ‘Gotten to Know His Family’

"I've known Joe Biden for a long time," Gabbard said in her defense, adding that she's "gotten to know his family…"

Tulsi Gabbard defended her 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden for President when questioned by a conservative, citing her relationship with the Biden family as a reason for her support and pleading ignorance to his radical agenda, which she supported throughout her career. Video footage of the exchange has been exclusively obtained by National File.

The Fall Briefing With Tulsi Gabbard, hosted by the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, a free-market think-tank, took place on October 15th, just days after Gabbard announced her departure from the Democrat Party. When Gabbard was asked by an audience member why she backed Joe Biden in 2020 as opposed to President Trump, she defended her endorsement and pled ignorance of Biden’s far-left agenda.

One of the “reasons that conservatives are still skeptical of you and of this move is because you endorsed Joe Biden in 2020,” a man in the audience said to Gabbard when it was his turn to have to mic.

“What is it that you know about Joe Biden now that you didn’t know then?” he asked, to cheers from his fellow audience members. “Why were you willing to endorse him and not support President Trump?”

“I’ve – I’ve known Joe Biden for a long time,” Gabbard said. “Gotten to know his family.”

“The Joe Biden that I knew is nothing like the Joe Biden we’ve seen in the White House,” Gabbard went on in responding. “I endorsed him in the hopes that he would carry out his promises and that he would listen to his better angels in the face of the permanent Washington establishment,” she said of Biden, who’s been in Washington for 50 years.

“But he’s failed to do that,” Gabbard said. “In every aspect. His promises to unite a divided country turned out to be hollow and empty promises.”

After calling Biden’s recent speech in Philadelphia, where he declared millions of Americans to be military enemies of the state “divisive,” Tulsi Gabbard told the audience that she is “sickened and disheartened” by the administration of the man she endorsed in 2020.

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-video-tulsi-gabbard-defends-2020-endorsement-of-joe-biden-says-shes-gotten-to-know-his-family/

How the pro-Ukraine NAFO troll operation crowd-funds war criminals

Celebrated in mainstream US media for its anti-Russian trolling, the Twitter operation known as NAFO was founded by a Polish antisemite to raise money for a militia that has hosted war criminals, white nationalists and wanted murderers.

Whether they know it or not, anyone who has checked Twitter for recent coverage of the Ukraine proxy war has likely encountered at least one of the thousands of trolls that comprise NAFO, or the “North Atlantic Fellas Organization.” Thanks to the efforts of NAFO and its “fellas,” any journalist or prominent figure critical of Ukraine or NATO on Twitter is likely to receive hundreds of replies accusing them of being paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin (or even performing fellatio on him) from accounts with Shiba Inu dog avatars.

Since its inception several months ago, NAFO has earned gushing praise from the Washington Post, which hailed it for “show[ing] that the tables could be turned on Russia, when it came to trolling.” The arms industry-funded, Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), meanwhile, hosted an online panel highlighting NAFO as an instrumental weapon in the Russia-Ukraine infowars.

Yet NAFO’s beltway boosters often gloss over its role as a fundraising machine for the Georgian Legion, a US-backed Ukrainian fighting group that stands accused of gruesome battlefield atrocities. Several former members of the Legion have produced first-hand testimony documenting its perpetration of war crimes, including the torture and execution of POWs and civilians.

One NAFO founder explained that he chose the Georgian Legion as a funding recipient precisely because of the unit’s reputation as a band of “mercenaries and criminals” that was willing to carry out barbarous acts which could cause foreign governments to shy away from supporting it. Another NAFO founder has praised the Georgian Legion’s leader for “killing Russians since the ’90s.”

Among the Georgian Legion’s most notorious members are US fugitive and murderer Craig Lang, as well as Paul Gray, an American whose past involvement in several neo-Nazi organizations was never mentioned during the friendly primetime interviews he was granted by Fox News and its local affiliates.

While providing a financial feeding tube to a militia that revels in its own atrocities, NAFO continues to attract effusive support from mainstream US journalists and think tankers who portray the operation as little more than a grassroots expression of online solidarity with Ukraine.

Obsessively online interventionists find meaning and purpose as “fellas”

Employing cartoon memes of the Shiba Inu dog breed, NAFO’s postmodern aesthetic, irreverent style and dedication to viciously trolling any critic of the Ukraine proxy war has garnered the adulation of Western media and interventionist government officials alike.

To outsiders, the lingo that flows through internal NAFO chats might seem unintelligible: “fellas” refers to members; “nafoarticle5” is a call to action that urges “fellas” to dog-pile on a particular social media post; “vatnik” serves as a pejorative for Russians and virtually anyone critical of the US-backed proxy war. Phrases such as “NAFO expansion is non-negotiable” and sarcastic claims that they are funded by the CIA (which they simultaneously claim “doesn’t exist”) are also ubiquitous.

Behind the anonymously named Twitter accounts of NAFO members lies a base of extremely online, mostly male civilians seeking a sense of purpose and community. Some participants have tattooed Shiba Inu avatars onto their bodies while others have published photos of their newborn babies in the arms of an adult sporting a NAFO shirt.

One member of the troll operation tweeted a photo of an elaborate NAFO tattoo emblazoned on his arm, but has since deleted it.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/10/20/ukraine-nafo-troll-war-criminals/

Daily mail has gone full retard

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11335845/Simulation-reveals-Russian-nuclear-strike-trigger-war-kills-34-million-people.html

US diplomat’s wife pleads guilty over crash that killed British teenager

Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a teenager by driving carelessly in England three years ago.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/us-diplomat-s-wife-pleads-guilty-over-crash-that-killed-british-teenager-20221021-p5brmq.html

Trump calls Danchenko verdict: 'Disgraceful judicial system'

The former president said that although he was told Durham had a "great" case, it had "ZERO chance of winning."

Former President Trump on Thursday called the judicial system "disgraceful" for the jury verdict last week in which Steele dossier contributor Igor Danchenko was found not guilty on all charges of lying to the FBI.

"The disgraceful judicial system was on full display yet again with the Danchenko Verdict," Trump posted on his platform, Truth Social.

Trump said the legal process was not fair to Special Counsel John Durham, who led the probe into the FBI's handling of its investigation into whether the 2016 Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the election.

The dossier, a Trump opposition research document funded in part by the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, was in part used by the FBI in its collusion probe, despite the bureau being unable to corroborate the information.

Danchenko contributed about 80% to the dossier, which has since be discredited.

In Durham's only other trial in the investigation, former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann was found not guilty in June of making false statements to the FBI regarding the collusion probe. Durham will now deliver a final report to the Justice Department.

"Durham could not get a fair shake in the Swamp of biased and partisan juries, where you are told that no Republican based or supported case can be won no matter how good it is, & judges that are so biased, unfair and angry that it is literally dangerous to be in court!" Trump also said in his tweet Thursday.

The former president said that although he was told Durham had a "great" case, it had "ZERO chance of winning" in the northern Virginia federal court.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-reacts-danchenko-verdict-disgraceful-judicial-system

https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/10/20/the-navy-let-cher-perform-on-ship-in-89-its-regretted-it-ever-since/