Tulsi Gabbard: Remarks at '26 Independent Women's Forum

Thanks to D29, who forwarded these remarks by Hall favorite Tulsi Gabbard to me. At one point in the remarks she tells a story about a debate early in her political career in which she asserts that she "smashed" her opponent. It was a local race to Hawaii so I didn't see it, but without looking it up I believe her. We all saw what she did to Kamala Harris the one time she got to debate Harris before Kamala decided to withdraw from consideration.

I don't know if it's significant that the only members of the administration that have earned the title "Hall favorite" are Tulsi Gabbard and Harmeet Dhillon, both ladies rather than gentlemen. That may be coincidence, because I believe the reasons are substantive and unrelated: Gabbard's aggressive pursuit of IC politicization and corruption, Dhillon's increasingly robust defense of the 2nd Amendment. Still, given that these were remarks at an explicitly 'women's' forum, for whatever it's worth, they're the ones I appreciate.

D29 notes that there's a lot of Aquinas in her remarks, as indeed there is.