Saturday, April 12, 2025

When Hypocrisy and Possible Voter Fraud Mingle


This is Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence.

From CNN via Hawai'i Free Press:

 …  In March 2024, Gabbard and her husband, Abraham Williams, bought a home in the Austin suburb of Leander, Texas, according to property records.

Several months later, in June, Gabbard and Williams declared under oath before a notary public that “we are resident(s) of the State of Texas,” and their Leander home was “designated as the family homestead,” according to a public document filed in Travis County, Texas, the following month….

On the (2024) campaign trail, she echoed some of Trump’s rhetoric about election security, calling voting integrity “a serious concern and a serious issue” at one Trump campaign event in Las Vegas last fall….

But a few months later, Gabbard voted in the 2024 general election back in Hawaii….

…Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University who studies election law, said Gabbard’s vote raised “a bunch of questions.”

“If she voted in Hawaii without actually living up to Hawaii’s eligibility standard, then that’s a problem,” said Levitt, who served as a voting policy adviser in the Biden administration. “Alternatively, if she always meant to keep Hawaii as home, that could well be a problem for that Texas tax exemption.”

Hawaii law says that individuals can only have a single residence for election purposes, and defines a voter’s residence as the “place in which the person’s habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention to return.”

If a voter has more than one dwelling, there is a “presumption” that a voter’s residence is the dwelling that is “subject to the homeowner’s property tax exemption,” state voting regulations say. There is also a presumption that if a voter takes up a new dwelling in another state, that new dwelling is their residence. The regulations allow voters to present evidence that they should still be allowed to vote in Hawaii.

Lance Collins, a Hawaii lawyer who has worked on multiple cases in the state in which voters challenged an elected official’s residency, said he thought Gabbard could face a challenge to her registration or an investigation into her vote in the 2024 election.

Under Hawaii law, voters keep their residency “until you take some affirmative action to abandon it,” Collins said. “Requesting a homestead exemption in another state is strong evidence of an intention to abandon.” …

In May of 2024, Gabbard was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody about the former congresswoman's recently published "For the Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind." Asked about gender, she contended that Democrats "themselves are removing these guardrails in our society that the truth then becomes whatever they deem it to be, putting themselves in that position of trying to be God."  In the book itself, she had written

I cannot associate myself with today’s Democratic Party, the leaders of which stand in direct opposition to this freedom, intent on using all levers of their power to target people of faith, especially Christians, and undermine our religious freedom.” She spoke of her own experiences when her father was persecuted for his religious beliefs and how over her lifetime God has been removed from the Democratic Party. In 2002 God was mentioned seven times in their official platform but in 2020 only once. Gabbard also scrutinizes how during the pandemic, churches were shut down–-even drive-in ones—yet liberal political protests were allowed to continue.

Bit in December of 2019 when Gabbard was seeking nomination as the Democratic nominee for President, she had commemorated the 39th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, who with his wife had written the 1971pop hit "Imagine." She posted to Twitter a three-minute video showing her singing the song while she was in the back of her campaign bus and accompanied by her husband playing a ukelele. "Imagine," the politician sang

Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today
Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peace.



One day she's singing "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try... And no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace." Less than three years later, in her letter announcing her departure from the Democratic Party, she wrote in October of 2022 that the Democrats "actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and  spirituality...."
For Gabbard then, peace comes only through the elimination of religion and with it, God. Then there was Gabbard leaving the Democratic Party in part because it was doing everything in "their power to target people of faith, especially Christians."
To be generous, Gabbard belongs to the Science of Identity Foundation, an offshoot Krishna Consciousness, itself an offshoot of Hinduism. There is, ahem, history between Hinduism and Islam, and Gabbard may have been aghast as the tolerance of the Democratic Party toward Islam and Muslims.
Or perhaps Tulsi Gabbard is merely a fake, a phony, and fraud. Adopting the Republican playbook, she turns her back on God while claiming to be a person of "faith," allegedly unlike her opponents. And she has conveniently adopted one of the central tenets of the Donald Trump strategy: never admit error or play defense and always attack. So now the response of the woman who appears to have voted illegally in 2024 herself attacks what she claims is electronic voting fraud to manipulate election results.
That ' is paired with someone who celebrates atheism, then condemns her political opponents for targeting "people of faith."  If that ever is combined with blatant corruption, we'll have the perfect Cabinet secretary for the Trump Administration.


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