Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1170 - Tulsi Gabbard
Uploaded: 2018-09-11T02:44:37.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1170 - Tulsi Gabbard' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1170 - Tulsi Gabbard

thank you five four three two one boom and we're live hawaii in the house aloha
good to see you
nice thanks for doing this thanks for having me what a great place to be a
congressperson
the best you're in paradise yeah it's it's hard to leave to go to washington i
tell you what
that's one place if it wasn't for the storms and the fact that's it's really a
volcano yeah
as we've seen all too evident just recently yeah i have a friend who goes to
the big island every
year for thanksgiving he convinced me to go uh two years in a row it was
awesome i loved it but then
this year i'm like yeah i don't know bro it seems like it's shooting rocks into
the sky and uh half
of it's on fire yeah that that's been uh that's it so that's my district my
district in hawaii covers
basically the whole state except for the the densely populated urban corridor
of honolulu oh so you're
lucky yeah you cover everything except the problem spot the city the city so um
no it's it's been tough
it's been a tough year because of those folks in the the district of puna with
the volcano yeah um we
have gone through a few near misses with hurricanes some big flooding on kawaii
and now we've got another
one that's uh knocking on our door yeah you guys just uh what was it a level
four just it was five they
were expecting it to be kind of the same intensity that puerto rico and the
virgin island saw so we
were really like encouraging everyone to get prepared getting prepared
ourselves like boarding
up all the doors and windows and then thank god it turned into a tropical storm
at the end and had some
a lot of rain we still had some flooding but compared to what it could have
been we're fortunate and then on
top of that you guys had a false alarm where a text went out to everybody in
the island saying that a
nuclear missile was headed your way and this was not a drill what the hell
happened there that my gosh
um i was in washington when that happened it was a saturday oh afternoon ish in
dc time you know early
morning in hawaii and uh somebody from hawaii sent me a screen capture of that
alert that went out to
over a million cell phones across our state saying uh you know ballistic
missile headed towards hawaii
seek cover this is not a drill wow yeah what does that feel like i mean until
you find out that it's not
how long did it take before you found out that it wasn't real so i immediately
started thinking i
mean so many things running through my head i'm thinking about my parents my
husband my family
everybody's in hawaii start thinking about what's going on in the state is this
real is it not real
so that was kind of the first thing like i kicked into gear like okay let's let's
make sure this is
legitimate um the actual threat from north korea is a very real one so it could
very well be it was not
obvious that this was just a mistake that people should blow off and that was
what i think most of
the people in the state understood as they started thinking through what do we
do with the last
minutes of our lives so i called um the first person i called was our state adjutant
general who's
also the head of our civil defense and the national guard and uh called his
cell phone thank god he
answered the phone and i said i got this message what's going on and he said uh
it's a
false alarm it was sent out as a mistake so i said okay i'm gonna blast that
out so i got on twitter
and i put that out just saying hey this is not accurate i forget exactly what i
said but basically
this is a false alarm and then just started getting on the phone making as many
calls as i possibly
could but as i was doing that i was getting text messages and emails and things
from people who were
freaking out um how far is korea from hawaii um it's it's over 4 000 miles um
but that's not very far
for an intercontinental ballistic missile and knowing progressively just over
the six years that i've been
in congress and this was a major issue um that i've been bringing up since i've
been there in just
raising the alarm bells at north korea is increasing their capacity and their
their ballistic missile
capabilities that put hawaii closer and closer than reach hawaii and alaska
particularly and that's why
you know and and after people started getting the word that this was a false
alarm i started hearing
from folks who just shared their stories of what they went through and you know
on the news they showed
the guy who was lowering his daughter down a manhole on the side of the street
his little girl oh god
i heard from another guy who said that you know i had one kid in town in honolulu
and another kid
in waianae over an hour drive and he literally sat there thinking how am i
going to choose which child
i'm going to go and spend the last minutes of my life with because you're
either driving in one
direction or the other wow there's so many so many stories of how did it happen
guy pushed clicked on the wrong uh on the wrong alert message on his computer
screen
ultimately what happened uh the one that said this is a drill did he have like
no glasses on or something
or was he just there's there's so many uh theories and and his story has
changed a few times and of
course he's the subject of major investigations and then after a while he got
fired he's actually
suing saying he was wrongfully terminated and all this stuff going on and if
ever there was something
you could be fired for how could you be wrongfully terminated for that mistake
yeah that's my question
i understand the magnitude of your decision i mean that is a giant fuck up yeah
oh my god but it you
know i think it um it really woke people up there were clear vulnerabilities in
our state alert system
that would even allow this like allow one person to have that power to do that
is not um it's obviously
not good and so there there are things that we're working to do just to
strengthen our civil defense
alert system but also just to bring attention to north korea and and make it so
that people aren't
living under this threat of possibility that that could be a real thing and
that alarm could come
through your phone and know that you now have around 18 minutes to find good
cover or say your final
goodbyes well it's so scary because it's such an erratic and dangerous regime i
mean it's when you see
what that guy has already done and the people he's executed including family
members yeah i mean he's uh
quite a maniac and a legitimate dictator in the old world kind of sense it's
very strange that
he's still i mean you you think in the age that we live in that would be very
difficult to control
an entire country the way that they've controlled north korea for so long yeah
since the korean war but
yeah they still can do it that they are and i think that while it may be easy
to write him off as a
maniac there has also been a very um consistent there there has been a
consistency throughout the
different regimes of the kim family um as they've developed this nuclear and
nuclear missile capability in
that they are doing it to um protect themselves against regime change war
essentially and they
have said it directly um you know our our u.s foreign policy experts point that
out that this is the
reason why they're developing this capability because they have seen how if you
look at libya for example
when qaddafi was looking at you know building and acquiring nuclear weapons um
he was doing so also
as you know to protect himself and his regime and then he made a deal with the
united states saying
okay give up your nuclear weapons uh program and we're not gonna you know don't
worry about it we're
not gonna touch you and then of course we know what happened the u.s led this
regime change war toppled
qaddafi and and north korea says okay so that's what you do when you have you
know a leader of a
country without nuclear weapons to protect themselves well it's also the
consequences of that regime
change is a failed state and it's more terrifying than even when qaddafi was in
control i mean i'm sure
you've seen the uh the slave trade videos from there it's horrifying it's
insane it is horrifying you're
watching that on youtube yeah right in in our lifetime yeah and that this this
um this failed
state has happened as a direct result of our policy there are failed
continuation of these regime
change wars that we carry out in different parts of the world right it's almost
like we don't learn
from our mistakes and i don't know what the the proper solution is i mean do
you keep someone like
saddam hussein or someone like muammar qaddafi do you keep them in power and
let them still be horrific
dictators and evil maniacs or do you step in and cause more damage i mean it's
almost a lose-lose
situation it's yeah it's not a good situation but it's where we as the united
states need to
be pragmatic about the situation and the fact that we live in the world that
exists not some kind of
idealistic world that is a fantasy and then think about how um counterproductive
our acting as the
world's police has been has proven to be in example after example after example
so yes there are bad
people in the world who do horrifying things but is it really in our place to
go in and take action and
say okay we're going to remove this person and then we're going to put this
person in and this is how
you're going to govern this country and and really acting uh acting as the
world's police and therefore
and then as a result as we've seen in iraq and libya and now in syria the
people in those countries are
far worse off than they were before we have and and it's counterproductive for
our interests as well
because we have al-qaeda isis and these other terrorist groups who have been
strengthened
directly as a result of our policies in these countries when you talk to people
in the intelligence
community what what do they think i mean either off the record or on the record
what do they think
is the solution for situations like that
many of them are hesitant to to share their own opinion because especially in
the intelligence
community their job is to report on what they're hearing what they're gathering
the intel that
they're bringing in and so on and so forth but you know when you when you talk
with folks who operate
in that space the ones who are honest and not trying to further a specific
agenda or cover somebody else's
bad decisions um there is a recognition of how our policies of of the past
decades have failed people
in those countries and us they've failed but have they failed as bad or equally
bad as if we did if we
did nothing like worse worse worse for sure we yes yeah yes worse for the
people in those countries worse
for the people in those countries as well as as as we should be thinking about
before we take any of
these actions is how does this best serve the interests of our people in this
country and these actions
have been counter to those best interests and so your question about so why do
we keep doing this
right um i think there are a lot of different things that go into that and to
drive that you know you
have the military industrial complex that benefits and makes a lot of money off
of our being in a
in a perpetual state of war you have a lot of other countries like saudi arabia
for example who dump a lot
of money into the united states uh and and um kind of try to use our u.s
military as their force to go in
and and do certain things the middle east that's more beneficial to saudi arabia
we see this happening
in yemen right now yet another example interventionist war jumping in there we're
uh supporting saudi arabia
and their coalition in this war that's created the worst humanitarian disaster
in the world they just
bombed a school bus and killed 40 kids a couple of weeks ago in yemen yemeny
civilians bombed weddings
in yemen and yet uh our u.s government is not saying hey we're we're gonna stop
and yank all of our
support for saudi arabia they're continuing to do it now you're a veteran as a
veteran do you mean you
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