Tulsi Gabbard - Who Actually Runs the Government

who actually runs the government in your experience not who you think it is it's um and in in and in many cases especially recently uh the the troubling part about all this is it's not even people who we vote for when you look at uh what happened when President Biden had that Infamous debate with President Trump uh it it exposed the reality that many of us have known for long time which is that President Biden has not been the guy calling the shots he has not been the guy making the decisions nor has it been KLA Harris for that matter nor will it be if she is elected president it is this cabal of you know the Democrat Elite the the woke War mongers uh made up of the likes of Hillary Clinton and uh Barack Obama and you know Tony blinkin and Jake Sullivan and you know people who who are in the military-industrial complex people who profit from us being in a constant state of War it is um those in the administrative state in the National Security State who derive more authorities and ability to take away our Liberty when we are in a heightened state of Crisis or War it is the the their friends and billionaires and people in media who all derive their power from being able to have a fig Figure Head that essentially they can control and the most troubling part about there's so many things wrong with this of course but really at at the most fundamental level you look at um you know our country is the oldest democracy in the world but the reality of a truly functioning and thriving democracy that has brought to life the vision that our Founders had for us that we really have a government of by and for the people and that we have the ability and respons ibility for that matter to ensure that um the government we have only exists with the consent of the Govern that becomes very hard to do to hold people accountable when the person that you voted for is is certainly not the one making the decisions how long has that been the case was it ever the case that the president run the country when was the inflection point I don't I don't know that there's one specific I mean there have know personalities come in and shift here and there uh I would say the answer to that has probably changed but in the election that we are facing here very shortly in the United States um it's our opportunity to hit the reset button and you know however people feel about the choices and the options that we have and they've changed a little bit recently but really it's only the phases that have changed the stakes have not changed and and the choices between the democr Elite and I've been saying this for months like hey guys don't be because it's like oh is it Biden G to stay or is he going to go and who's they going to replace him is it Gavin is it all of these different theories they make for good chatter I guess on cable news but I've been telling people all along don't be distracted you know you take one horse out you put another horse in you've got the same people who are running the show and it is it is between the Democrat Elite will be KLA Harris on the ballot and uh and the uh those calling the shots behind the scenes continuing to remain in power versus uh Donald Trump who has a record of I mean the reason why they're doing all they can to destroy him is because he won't bend the knee to this Washington establishment which is which is made up of people in both political parties by the way what makes you think that a trump presidency would be any more inoculated against this nefarious behind the scenes control than the one that we have at the moment surely you're just if the people out front don't make any difference because it's people behind the scenes that are changing than what makes Trump any better than what we've got at the moment it's not that anyone who's put out front doesn't make a difference it is specific to in this in this world that we're living in now specific to uh President Biden and vice president kamla Harris and and the reason why they've been doing all they can to try to keep Trump off the ballot in over 32 states all of the court cases and lawsuits and everything that the media is throwing at him the reason why they're doing that is because uh you may agree or disagree with his decisions or his policies or the way that he talks about things but he is he is not beholden to those same uh establishment interests that so many of these establishment politicians are and so you know he's he's not going in and saying oh gosh well I got to do what this person says or I got to do what that person says I think often times even his own staff doesn't know what decision he's going to make or what position uh he'll he'll put forward and and that is to me that's the Clear Choice you have a choice between those who believe that that government knows better for us than we do that uh their power is more important than our freedom uh that their power in many cases derives from being in a con state of war that undermines our national security versus Trump who has the ability to um and frankly the backbone to say yeah no I'm not going to go down that road or we're going to take a different path or we shouldn't be an unnecessary counterproductive regime change Wars we should focus on investing in our country and try to work towards a future of of Peace and Freedom uh and prosperity if that's correct if it is the case that this sort of Limp flaccid Democratic party has permitted people behind the scenes to come and basically run Puppeteer people that are out front that's happened very quickly because it was not that long ago that we had the very guy that you're saying will sanitize this thing in office so is it going to then take a long time for that to be cleaned up and also how do we know that some of this didn't already exist it did already exist okay it did already exist uh because the party Elite itself has been very powerful for a long time so that that hasn't come around uh very quickly um and you know I think I think one of the the problems when President Trump was elected last time was uh and and he's talked about this himself he came in and uh you know he didn't he never worked in Washington before and he had a bunch ended up with a bunch of people around him who were a part of this establishment uh this Washington establishment do you think he didn't really have that much of a plan do you think it was a surprise to him that he got in in some ways it I I don't know for sure but it certainly seemed that way yeah and and you know I mean there and there were and and the was interesting because the conversations that I'm hearing coming from even establishment Republicans right now uh are very similar to the ones that I heard in 2016 when Trump was elected which was okay like we gota we gotta like balance the scales in their words by surrounding Trump with people who hold completely opposing views than he does to try to mitigate what they view as the the quote unquote threat that he poses to not the country who is it that's saying that we need to surround him oh I mean there's it's basically like the neocon war mongers even within the Republican party so and what what do they see is the position he holds that they're trying to count about that he and and he's been pretty vocal about this like he's like no we're not going to wage more stupid Wars and we're going to put America First in his words and uh we will achieve that through by peace through strength who wants War and why they would be shocked by how many people do and they won't say I want war or I like to see more people dead of course you know they won't use those words but there are are um politicians who were beholden to the big defense contractors who are making billions and trillions of dollars uh and they are their political donors and their supporters and their friends uh and and ultimately it's those politicians whose knee-jerk reaction to any Challenger situation in the world instead of choosing diplomacy and seeing War as the last resort once you've exhausted all other means understanding how costly it is both in in lives and in taxpayer dollars it's just hey we got to go and punish this bad guy topple this regime uh you know wage This Modern modern-day Siege through economic sanctions and warfare all of the tools that they have at their disposal without thinking through what the cost and consequences of those actions and policies are