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'Change her meds': MSNBC panel baffled by 'just plain weird' Tulsi Gabbard video

Tulsi Gabbard's out-of-nowhere doomsday video issued on Tuesday had the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" scratching their heads, mirroring a GOP lawmaker who was also caught off-guard by it.

According to Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the world is on the precipice of a nuclear apocalypse with Gabbard solemnly warning, "This is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now," she said. "Because as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elites and war-mongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers."

On MSNBC, co-host Jonathan Lemire was asked by Mike Brzezinski, "What's the backstory here?"

"So she went to Hiroshima recently, and that's what she says is why she's posting this," he reported. "But in most ways, she's accused of parroting Russian talking points here: that it has been from the Kremlin throughout the conflict in Ukraine, that the West, that the U.S., that NATO is trying to push Russia by punishing it for invading Ukraine, therefore putting the world on the brink of an atomic conflict."

"That is what she's saying here; that that she's afraid that the elites want this war and this is a warning to the U.S. and the West to not punish Russia for not agreeing to a Ukrainian ceasefire, because if Russia is punished, they might have to lash out and we may head towards the apocalypse," he added.

The bemused Lemire then told the panel, "[Louisiana] Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, said yesterday when shown this video that he thinks that Gabbard should, quote, 'change her meds.'"

Addressing MSNBC contributor Katty Kay, he pointed out, "She's getting some pushback from Republicans, members of her own party, well, she was a Democrat, but members of the Trump –– those who are normally supportive of the Trump administration and beyond the obvious Kremlin sort of shadow here, it's just plain weird."

"Yeah, it's pretty weird and very ominous,' Kay agreed. "It went out to 3.5. million followers. I mean, I think I would add is: is this the best use of the DNI's time?"

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The president told reporters Tuesday at the White House that he intended to shift responsibility for disaster response to the "state level," saying governors "should be able to handle it," and if not, "then maybe they shouldn’t be governor," while also saying the federal government would start distributing less aid for recovery – and what funding was provided would come directly from the president's office, reported CNN.

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That led Guardian columnist Robert Tait to label what he watched as some "weird s--- indeed."

In his speech postmortem, Tait noted that the president's MAGA rally style before the assembled Ft. Bragg soldiers was heavy on attacks on California and light on praise for the mission of the U.S. Army –– which was compounded by Trump's choice of music for his walk-off.

Noting the president went dark again with his attacks on U.S. citizens and the political leadership of California who are balking at his heavy-handed military approach to occupying the state in search of immigrants, Tait wrote, "It was the same discordant melody he had gone off on in his memorably dark first inauguration speech of January 2017, prompting George W Bush – who has kept an otherwise sphinx-like silence on things Trumpian in recent years – to murmur that it was 'some weird s---'."

"Given the martial setting, it would have been worthier, though unquestionably duller, to hum a tune of virtue and valor," the columnist suggested before adding, "It was a tour of Trump’s darkest horizons – all the bleaker for being leavened with a comical parting serenade."

That "comical parting serenade" he noted was the Village People's disco chestnut "YMCA."

That led Tait to bluntly observe, "As he exited the stage, the PA boomed out his favorite anthem, the Village People’s YMCA. The president drew the biggest cheer of the day from the watching troops by playful indulging in his trademark little dance, culled from distant memories of late nights at Studio 54. Then he waddled off stage, like some aging dystopian disco king."

You can read his whole piece here.

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“The INCOMPETENT Governor of California was unable to provide protection in a timely manner when our Ice Officers, GREAT Patriots they are, were attacked by an out of control mob of agitators, troublemakers, and/or insurrectionists. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

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