Dumdumleft and right-wing media explode over Tulsi Gabbard not qualifying for September debate
Following presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard failing to qualify for the upcoming third democratic debate in September, the Congresswoman denounced the DNC for ‘lack of transparency’ on Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour. Right-wing media and idiots on the left took to Twitter to assert the DNC rigged the debates to exclude Tulsi Gabbard, and falsely claim the DNC suddenly and severely changed the debate criteria.
The criteria for the September debate was announced in February
It’s fair to wonder why the list was restricted to certain DNC-approved polls, what makes a YouGov poll sponsored by respectable magazine The Economist less qualifying than a new Monmouth national survey? There’s been ample time to inquire about the criteria that was implemented in February, bringing it up now is what sore losers and reactionaries who never believed in democracy do. As Kid Showbusiness on Twitter wrote, “To believe the DNC rigged the polling to keep Tulsi out of the Sept. debate is to believe they had clairvoyance 6 months in advance of what the polling would look like, before most of the candidates had declared.”
Did the Tulsi campaign set up the precursor for the conspiracy theory “the DNC rigged the debates?”
…all the way back in late August, August 24, 2018, to be precise.
I’m not ruling it out, Tulsi does not really believe in transparency and democratic customs, when you won’t debate your primary opponent out of fear your shitty foreign policy views are laid bare, or entertain an interview by progressive champion Ana Kasparian.
…to be fair, the Gabbard campaign did lodge one valid complaint: The DNC raised the donor percentage.
Jimmy Dore: “Hey we rigged another debate by arbitrarily excluding polls that had the loudest ant-war voice qualifying. Why not host a Debate watch party so you can all experience how to quietly accept being cheated again.”
[Twitter, 8/28/19]
Twitter Polemicist Michael Tracey: “ Tulsi has 170,000 individual donors. Two national polls this week alone put her at or above the required threshold (but they’re not “approved” by the DNC). She’s ahead of Beto, Yang, Klobuchar, Booker, and Castro in New Hampshire. Excluding her from the debates is a total joke.”
[Twitter, 8/28/19]
Washington Examiner Editor Brad Polumbo: “The people celebrating #TulsiDidntQualifyParty are celebrating the DNC’s rigging of a primary. Classy.”
[Twitter, 8/28/19]
Right-wing Pastor and Doctor Darrell Scott: “The DNC threw @TulsiGabbard under the bus and off the debate stage because she DESTROYED Kamala Harris in the last debate.” #RiggedAgain
[Twitter, 8/28/19]
Right-wing baseball player Matt Marksberry wrote in a now-deleted tweet: “Lol as you can see now the DNC is rigged and doesn’t care about the American people. They burned Bernie and now. #TulsiDidntQualifyParty
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Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe: “ It’s patently absurd that Julian Castro & Amy Klobuchar will be on the September debate stage while Tulsi Gabbard won’t despite the latter having better polling and more donors than the former. But play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
[Twitter, 8/28/19]
Anti-Semite David Duke and “noted Anti-War Stalwart” designed his twitter profile around defending Tulsi Gabbard: “TULSI IS BEING UNJUSTLY BANNED FROM THE DEM DEBATE. WHY? ..SHE OPPOSES THE INSANE NEOCON WARS!”
[Duke’s twitter profile has been updated]
Infowars Personality and Conspiracy-Theorist Paul Joseph Watson: “Everything is rigged against Tulsi Gabbard. The establishment is terrified of authenticity.”
[Twitter, 8/1/19]
Pizzagater Mike Cernovich: “They kept Tulsi off. That’s how much the establishment loves war.”
[Twitter, 8/29/19]
Kyle Kulinski said to Michael Tracey in a podcast: “The polls are cherrypicked against Tulsi Gabbard.”
Tulsi Gabbard’s Supreme Fundraiser and Conspiracy Theorist Niko House passive-aggressively tweeted: “People pretending that ignoring election rigging will solve election rigging.”
[Twitter, 9/6/19]
After feeling ‘encouraged’ by watching Kyle Kulinski, Jamarl Thomas asserted in a August 19 YouTube video: “Tulsi is being excluded from the DNC debates.”