MaxE wrote:
Ms. Gabbard seems to be a favorite of the "There's no real difference between between the Democrats and the Republicans" crowd. This link to an NYT article should bypass the paywall. YMMV. I don't feel like copying and pasting the whole thing.
https://archive.ph/2024.11.18-220018/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-trump-russia.htmlThe go to pejorative for a person like that is “asset”. What that means is while there is no collaboration with a hostile foreign government that person is useful to a hostile power. It has become a useful talking point because people conflate “asset” with “agent” a person who is actively collaborating with a hostile foreign power.
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