Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1880 - Tulsi Gabbard
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Joe Rogan Experience #1880 - Tulsi Gabbard

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Hello, Joe.
Good to see you.
It's good to be back.
What's cracking?
Nice seeing you.
What's it been like, retiring from being a congresswoman for a wee bit?
It feels so weird hearing that word.
Retire?
Yeah.
It's a dirty word.
I don't know what that means.
I don't believe in retirement.
Yeah.
I believe in quitting.
Yeah, I suppose.
Or moving on, rather.
Moving on.
That's where I've never seen politics as a quote-unquote career.
Some people are like, oh, how's it like retiring from congress?
I can't relate to that.
I'm just continuing the work, but in a different way.
Well, the way you did it, though, is what most people should do.
When people are running for office and then they're also in a job, you're not
doing a good job at that job.
There's no way you can be.
Running for office, just campaign financing, just raising the money for the
campaign has to be crazy.
The amount of time.
There's no way that you could be dedicating 100% of your time to your
constituents like you should be.
Yeah.
It has to be your full-time mission.
And people who come and ask me, they're like, oh, I'm thinking of running for
office.
And that's literally what I tell them.
I'm like, are you ready to quit everything else in your life and have the
support of your family and dedicate all your energy towards this mission of
service?
Because it will require that.
If you're serious about it, it will require that.
If you want to do it at your best.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And if you want to be truly sincere, when you're knocking on people's doors,
you're standing in a town hall meeting and you're saying, hey, essentially,
give me your trust.
Right.
That I will fight for you.
I will speak for you.
I will represent you every single day.
How are you going to do that if you're like, yeah, by the way, I got this side
gig or that side gig or this, you know, other loyalty that is something other
than you, you know, the people, the voter.
And I don't know.
I think more and more people are starting to pick up on that and question that
in both people who are running for office and their electeds.
Like, who are you really working for?
Well, they certainly should.
It's a complicated union.
Yeah, it is.
It is that.
It really is.
Between money and politics.
And it's just like, it's, I mean, it would be wonderful if we could get money
entirely out of politics.
If the only way that a politician could make money while they're in office is
just their salary.
Yeah.
If we said it that way.
Yeah.
Like, I'm sure you're aware of the Nancy Pelosi stuff.
Absolutely.
It's wild.
It is.
And look, this is, I think this is one of the good things about social media is,
of course, the mainstream corporate media is hardly covering it at all.
But because of social media, things like that are spreading like wildfire, like,
hey, Paul Pelosi is doing these trades within this period of time of Nancy
Pelosi voting on this bill or bringing a bill to the floor.
So regardless of whether it's happening in the Judiciary Committee or the
Commerce Committee or the Armed Services Committee, if there's a bill coming to
the floor and there's major legislation that's being passed or is being squashed,
that is happening with her say-so.
And so just in these last few days, once people started making noise saying,
hey, you as a member of Congress or your spouse or your adult child should not
be allowed to conduct insider trading on issues that Congress is dealing with,
which really covers every issue under the spectrum, they can't pretend anymore
that they haven't been doing it.
And yet, even as a Nazi Pelosi is like, okay, okay, fine, we'll draft
legislation.
But Congress is about to take a break as they head into the general elections.
And once again, she's refusing to bring the bill to the floor for a vote saying,
oh, well, you know, we're not going to bring it to the floor if it doesn't have
support.
Put people on the freaking spot.
Make them cast that vote.
That is the last thing she wants.
Right before the election.
To lose that honeypot.
She doesn't, first of all, she doesn't want it becoming a big, important thing
that people are talking about.
Yeah.
Where people start, excuse me, where people start looking at it and say, well,
how much money have you made?
Yeah.
Like, why are you worth $200 million?
That's crazy.
You make $200,000 a year.
You're worth $200 million.
Like, what's going on?
And you look at, like, Paul Pelosi's stock, like, what his record is.
He's better than Warren Buffett and George Soros, who are like wizards.
Exactly.
Those guys are the best.
He's better than them.
Yep.
But it's 100% insider trading.
You think about what they put Martha Stewart away in jail for.
That's a nothing, that's nothing compared to what she's doing.
And she's not the only one, obviously.
There are, and this is where, you know, the, the, the quote unquote, uniparty
in Washington has been blocking this kind of legislation from being passed
because they're, they're both benefiting from it.
We had, I think there are Republican and Democrat senators in the lead up
towards COVID who knew about it, right?
And started making different investments in, as we were approaching it, even
before the rest of the country knew about it, so that they could profit
financially from it.
Just absolutely disgusting.
It's crazy.
It's just, it's just crazy that it's legal.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's, it's really egregious and, and it's, it's shocking how complicit
the mainstream media is in ignoring it.
Like, do you think that there's some discussion or is it just an understanding
that you'll lose access to these people if you highlight this?
Like, what is, why are they not covering that?
It's, it's like this, this chummy insiders club in Washington.
And, you know, a common term that's being used now is, is called permanent
Washington, which really fits when you think about it, because it kind of
encapsulates that whole swampy ecosystem of both those who've been elected into
positions.
Those who are longtime appointed or powerful bureaucrats and the corporate
media, they all go out to the same parties, the same social functions, you know,
passing information to each other.
And so, you know, if the anchor of a big time news show says, hey guys, guess
what?
Nancy Pelosi and her husband are, are insider trading, then they have to think
about, oh, well, am I cut, am I burning a bridge?
Am I cutting off access to, you know, information that she or her staff might
be feeding me, that I can break news on and all this stuff.
So, you know, it's like you, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
And if you start pissing off certain people, then you get kicked out of the
cool kids club.
That's, that's really what's at, what's at, uh, at the heart of it.
And so they, they play along because this, this is, this issue has come up
before it came up years ago.
Congress said, okay, we're going to take action to stop insider trading and
make sure that elected leaders aren't benefiting.
And so they passed the stock act, which did nothing.
Essentially, it just said, okay, if you are going to, um, you know, trade in
stocks or buy or sell stocks, uh, you have to report it.
You have to be transparent about it.
Most of Congress has failed to do even that.
So it did nothing to stop it.
It says, you just got to tell us.
And most people are like, yeah, I don't, I'm not going to tell you anyway.
And there's no repercussions.
Well, they might get like a hundred dollar fine, $200 fine as, as they make
millions in their, in their trade.
So, you know, again, it's good.
It's, this is, this is kind of like one of those things that should give us all
a glimmer of hope.
Where if enough people, we, the people make noise about it, um, they're forced
to pay attention.
So now what, what about when you were talking about like chumminess and like
sort of like the hidden rules.
What about if you do right wing talk shows?
Like if you're a Democrat and you decide to go on Tucker Carlson, for instance,
like, what is that like?
Um, it, it ranges from people kind of like giving you a cynical look like whose
side are you really on?
To, uh, people just outright, um, ending, ending that friendship or that
professional relationship because they don't want to have anything to do with
you.
Have you experienced that?
Over and over.
Really?
Over and over.
Um, and, and it's not just Tucker Carlson.
There's been this negative stigma for almost as long as I've served in Congress
against, uh, anyone who actually goes on Fox News, period.
And so you could say like, and I do, I was like, hey, more people watch Fox
News than any other cable news channel.
So my audience is speaking to the American people.
If I have the opportunity to do that, and by the way, Fox News, more than CNN
and MSNBC over the last decade, has, uh,
been more fair to me in providing me that opportunity to speak to the American
people, I'm going to take advantage of it.
Well, it seems like one of the things that Fox News does well is if they have a
Democrat on, they don't attack them.
They allow them to express themselves.
That's right.
Which is interesting.
Whether the host agrees or disagrees.
Right.
That's not the point.
Because when a right wing person seems to be, if they're on MSNBC or if they're
on CNN, it's like they have these weapons ready to go.
The blades are sharp and they attack and they're trying to discredit that
person and trying to mock them.
They will talk over them.
They will be rude to them.
They will mock whatever position they have.
Instead of like trying to offer some sort of a reasonable debate against it,
they will just, they will talk over it and mock it.
And they'll bring on an extra, another expert and that person talks over it.
It's just.
It's, it's not even limited to those who bring like a so-called right wing
perspective or conservative perspective.
It's really anyone who brings a voice, a view, a perspective that is different
from whatever the mainstream narrative is at that point, whatever the cause of
the day may be.
And so as a Democrat serving in Congress, I experienced that over and over and
over again.
Exactly that reaction that you're talking about in, you know, not allowing me
at least just to come and present my view.
They can, they can ask me a tough question.
They can present an opposing view.
That's great.
But so many times I've gone on these different shows and they don't, they don't
even allow that.
And, you know, it really just speaks to what, what is really a dangerous
mentality amongst the Democratic Party leadership and kind of this, this
establishment narrative in Washington, which is they don't believe in freedom.
They don't believe in freedom of speech or freedom of thought.
And for anyone who brings an opposing view, they, they choose to shut you up,
silence you, smear you, try to ruin you or undermine your character and
credibility.
Because, you know, they don't want the weakness or the insecurity of their own
argument to be exposed.
And also they immediately judge you as someone who may bring an opposing view,
regardless of your political party, as, as the enemy, as a threat, as somebody
who, who is, is less than and doesn't deserve a voice, which is really, really
dangerous for our democracy when you really think about it.
Yeah, it's, it's very spooky and it's spooky how prevalent that, that mindset
is and how many Democrats, not even just politicians, just people that are
Democrats, how many people share that position that you should silence people
that you don't agree with.
And it's just, it's such a foolish perspective and it's, it plays out
historically over and over and over again in a terrible way.
And I just don't understand why people don't learn that lesson.
I think that, I think that the Democratic Party leaders, people like Hillary
Clinton, people who've been in charge for a very long time, foment th