{"id":9396,"date":"2025-01-05T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:05:21","slug":"trumps-picks-only-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9396","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s picks: Only the Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back when she called herself a Democrat, and was running for President, a couple of folks I know actually supported Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s candidacy. One was a person close to me genetically but rather far off politically, but the other was a person whose politics had been perfectly reasonable. I could never understand either one\u2019s rationale, because even then she seemed to be a bit of a nutjob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now she is about to be the person in charge of national intelligence, and make no mistake, she will be approved, though Susan Collins (and maybe others!) will be concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought I\u2019d pass <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/2025\/01\/04\/tulsi-and-her-guru\/\">this<\/a> along to anyone who happens to read this, as it surprised even me. It seems that Tulsi is a member of a cult whose Charles Manson like leader, among other things, requires his followers to eat his toenails, and no I\u2019m not making that up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defectors tell stories of children discouraged by Butler from attending secular schools; of followers forbidden to speak publicly about the group; of returning travellers quarantined for days, lest they transmit a contagious disease to Butler; of devotees lying prostrate whenever he entered the room, or adding bits of his nail clippings to their food, or eating spoonfuls of sand that he had walked upon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More at the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, she can\u2019t be blamed for her original involvement in the cult, as apparently her parents joined and she was indoctrinated young. But she\u2019s still a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet further proof that as little as 10 years ago you couldn\u2019t have made this stuff up and convinced anyone that it was a real possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when she called herself a Democrat, and was running for President, a couple of folks I know actually supported Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s candidacy. One was a person close to me genetically but rather far off politically, but the other was a person whose politics had been perfectly reasonable. I could never understand either one\u2019s rationale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dysfunction","category-the-very-stable-genius"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9397,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions\/9397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}