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Joe Rogan Experience #1170 - Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013.

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Sep 10, 20181h 43mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Tulsi Gabbard condemns regime-change wars, corruption, and broken U.S. democracy

  1. Tulsi Gabbard joins Joe Rogan to discuss U.S. foreign policy, election integrity, criminal justice, and systemic political corruption through the lens of her military and congressional experience.
  2. She criticizes regime-change wars in places like Iraq, Libya, and Yemen, arguing they worsen humanitarian crises, strengthen terrorism, and primarily serve the military‑industrial complex and allied regimes like Saudi Arabia.
  3. Domestically, Gabbard highlights vulnerabilities in U.S. elections, the corrupting influence of Wall Street and corporate money, superdelegate abuses in the Democratic Party, and the failures of the drug war and private prisons.
  4. She advocates for paper-backed voting, ending federal marijuana prohibition, serious campaign finance reform, and a less interventionist foreign policy, while calling for more authentic, younger, and tech‑literate leadership in government.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Regime-change wars often make countries and Americans less safe.

Gabbard argues interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria toppled dictators but left failed states, empowered ISIS and Al‑Qaeda, and created massive humanitarian crises—showing U.S. ‘world police’ behavior is counterproductive.

War policy is heavily shaped by profit and foreign lobbying.

She cites the military‑industrial complex and countries like Saudi Arabia using U.S. power to pursue their regional goals, pointing to Yemen as a current example where U.S. backing enables atrocities like bombed school buses.

U.S. elections remain technically and structurally vulnerable.

Hackers—including an 11‑year‑old—have easily compromised voting system replicas, yet Congress resists simple fixes like mandatory paper ballots or voter‑verified paper backups, preferring to fundraise off the ‘Russia interference’ issue instead of solving it.

Party mechanisms like superdelegates can override voters’ will.

Gabbard details how in Hawaii Bernie Sanders won over 70% of the vote but most superdelegates still went to Clinton, calling the system undemocratic and noting party insiders openly defend it as a way to ‘save’ the country from voters’ choices.

Corporate money and Wall Street skew policy away from the public interest.

She connects paid speeches, campaign contributions, and lobbying to post‑2008 deregulation, arguing Congress is peeling back even limited safeguards because both parties are financially tied to major financial institutions.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

We need to be pragmatic about the world that exists, not some kind of idealistic world that is a fantasy.

— Tulsi Gabbard

Is it really in our place to go in and take action and say, ‘Okay, we're gonna remove this person, and then we're gonna put this person in, and this is how you're gonna govern this country’?

— Tulsi Gabbard

There are bad people in the world who do horrifying things. But as a result of our regime change wars, the people in those countries are far worse off than they were before.

— Tulsi Gabbard

I shouldn't have any… My vote shouldn't count for any more than yours or anyone else's.

— Tulsi Gabbard (on being a superdelegate)

One of the problems with politics is a lot of these people are just really good at being full of shit.

— Joe Rogan

Hawaii false nuclear missile alert and the real North Korea threatCritique of U.S. regime-change wars (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen)Military‑industrial complex, Saudi influence, and war incentivesElection integrity, voting machine vulnerabilities, and paper ballotsDemocratic Party superdelegates and DNC bias against Bernie SandersCampaign finance, Wall Street influence, and corporate PAC moneyCriminal justice reform, private prisons, and marijuana prohibitionCivil liberties, NSA surveillance, and post‑PATRIOT Act overreachTech illiteracy in Congress and social media manipulation (Russian troll farms)Education costs, student debt, and universal basic income debatesHealthcare costs, nutrition, and preventive medicine gaps

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