I usually ignore and just downright mock this creepy weirdo. But here it goes :

[Carlitos Brigante]

Tulsi Gabbard's ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-cult-putin-democrat-science-of-identity-b2058196.html

In one breath Gabbard expresses a desire to bring love and aloha from her native Hawaii to the world, in the next she is fanning conspiracy theories on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.

This week, Gabbard announced she was leaving the Democratic Party, claiming it had become “an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness”.

The decision came as little surprise to anyone who has followed her political trajectory from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to darling of Russian propagandists and the American far-right.

To understand her ambitions, her aunt Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard tells The Independent in an interview that it is necessary to look to her upbringing in a secretive cult called the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) whose members show absolute loyalty to a reclusive guru, Chris Butler.

Updated link, hopefully works now.

[Kali]

1. link is for Spanish version

English - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-cult-putin-democrat-science-of-identity-b2058196.html

needs sign up

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. Weird let me see if I can fix it. Phone's being dumb. nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. When I click on it. It takes me to the the right page. So not sure what ya'll are seeing. nt

[Kali]

6. weird!

Los vínculos de Tulsi Gabbard con una secta misteriosa podrían explicar su desconcertante trayectoria política

La educación de Tulsi Gabbard en una rama del movimiento Hare Krishna con estricta devoción a un misterioso gurú screto habla sobre su aparente cariño hacia Vladimir Putin, escribe Bevan Hurley
miércoles 12 octubre 2022 16:49

ah! I fount a link at the beginning of the article to read in English, no sign up reqired.

[sheshe2]

7. Weird, we see this, Carlitos.

Los vínculos de Tulsi Gabbard con una secta misteriosa podrían explicar su desconcertante trayectoria política
La educación de Tulsi Gabbard en una rama del movimiento Hare Krishna con estricta devoción a un misterioso gurú screto habla sobre su aparente cariño hacia Vladimir Putin, escribe Bevan Hurley

miércoles 12 octubre 2022 16:49

I hate trying to post from my phone.

[Carlitos Brigante]

10. Updated now from the good ol' PC. Looks different so it might work. nt

[sheshe2]

15. Thank you!

[NewHendoLib]

2. not another weird cult? where do these fucking assholes sprout from?

[TheBlackAdder]

12. There are over 4500 Christian Church variants in the US alone, with pastors running their flocks.

[NewHendoLib]

13. lucrative sham...er, business, hey?

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Yep, separate churches where pastors control congregants, grift, get free labor, sex, etc.

[yankee87]

4. Grifting

She sees how much money she can grift from the cultists and now we know, she’s in a cult.

[Cha]

8. Gabbard's a FRAUD who doesn't have a brain she lets

the Cults do the thinking for her.

i caught on to her early.. voted Against her since 2014.. and Now she's a Gaslit RF for Putin & DT.

[SunSeeker]

20. You were (and are) right about her!

[Cha]

25. Hey Aloha, SunSeeker!

Mahalo!

[emulatorloo]

24. She is a disingenuous liar. I never understood the ridiculous claims that she was "progressive."

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I remember well how you have pushed back on her over the years.

A trip down memory lane:

Link to tweet

[Cha]

26. Aloha, emulatorloo!

I saw that tweet and replied that she wasn't being "petty".. she was correcting the Gaslighting.

Mahalo!

[Abolishinist]

9. I can tell you one thing,

if I ever join a 'cult', it will NOT be one named SIF!

[Hekate]

11. Let me see if I can find my old files. She's a piece of work: the favored child of a cult, raised...

… to be their outward face and influencer in the world.

[Hekate]

16. Here's the first old post I could locate in my Bookmarks. It has a lot of links in the thread.

(Mahalo nui, Mahina)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211667912

[Hekate]

17. Another link about Tulsi's upbringing

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211695834

A woman who grew up in same "high demand closed group" as Tulsi Gabbard (aka, CULT) explains what
it was like to grow up in the Science of Identity Foundation.
https://medium.com/lalitamann/an-insiders-perspective-on-tulsi-gabbard-and-her-guru-e2650f0d09

[Hekate]

18. Tulsi's campaign, Putin supporters, and where your donations went

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287123396

******* and *******

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287281984

If you donated to Tulsi Gabbard, she's funneled much of your money to her cult
Big investigative piece on Gabbard in a Hawaiian newspaper

https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/09/why-is-tulsi-gabbard-paying-this-obscure-consultant-big-bucks/

Why Is Tulsi Gabbard Paying This Obscure Consultant Big Bucks?
Kris Robinson grew up in the same controversial religious sect as Gabbard. Now, he’s one of the top-paid vendors on her 2020 presidential campaign.

**********. *********

DONE

[vlyons]

19. Definitely a cult

I read thru a bit of Science of Identity web site at https://www.scienceofidentity.org/ and it is definitely a cult. It is not simply a health club to practice yoga. Whenever a "guru" asks for a pledge of allegience, a little bell goes off in my head -- ding ding ding warning warning warning. Time to leave and don't look back. If that cult was so pro-peace and pro-harmony, it didn't do her much good. Demonizing the Dem party by calling it "an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness" doesn't sound too peaceful to me.

[KS Toronado]

21. Seen a documentary on her and the cult once

May have been on 60 minutes, I'm not sure.

[betsuni]

22. K&R

[Dorian Gray]

23. For anyone intrested

Science of Identity (leader Chris Butler) is an offshoot of Hare Krishna, though it seems to have more a lot of "traditional" views. They claim to be a yogic tradition, but they have lots of anti-gay ideology.

They've been around since the early 70s, so they're not new.

https://www.culteducation.com/group/1298-science-of-identity.html