Garen Mouths Off

P&P4P – 2

The goofy-looking “acronym” of this title refers to a previous piece of mine “Preening and Primping for President” which seemed a bit long. As we are now in debate season for the Primary Elections held state-by-state in winter and spring of 2020, it seemed like an updated look at the candidates for the US presidency was due. Remember that this is all on the Democratic Party’s side of the fence since only one significant challenger to sitting President Donald Trump, a Republican, has arisen, and he’s not getting much traction yet.

A disclaimer is necessary here, in that given the limitations of the length of this piece, not all candidates will be discussed individually. No slight is intended in that respect.

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Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.

4 Comments

  1. Some observations:
    -The next democratic debates have already been scheduled for 9/12 and 9/13 in Houston.
    -Stricter criteria has been established for debate participants.
    -As of today, only eight candidates have qualified. The field will narrow substantially.
    -As of today Tulsi Gabbard is not qualified.
    It is premature to talk about votes in the Primary Elections. It is yet unknown who will remain in the race; Probably Biden, Sanders, Warren and Harris.
    This is an incredibly expensive campaign. Big bucks are being spent and wasted. Raising money to fund these campaigns is not easy due to fatigue and conflicts between moderates and extreme left/liberals.
    We still have 16 months to go for elections. A very long wasted time.
    Who knows what will happen. In the meantime the circus continues instead of focusing and finding solutions to the problems facing the country.
    A sad state of affairs.
    Vart Adjemia

  2. Tulsi Gabbard did a public service and really outed Harris, That needed to be done . Tulsi Gabbard is the best candidate.She’s not divisive,Tulsi Gabbard is authentic,She has the character and desire to help we the people to stop foolishly fighting each other and politically neutering ourselves in the process. If we don’t resist being shepherded into division than we the people are and will remain politically irrelevant.
    The #1,2,3,4,5 top issues are saving our biosphere ,If we keep allowing these super predator maniacs who control our govt and media to keep having us warring over fossils we won’t save spit. We are toast if this insanity continues. If we join Tulsi to oppose this madness we have a shot, There’s no one else advocating for what needs to be done. Only Gabbard is showing the cahoonas to take on the brass and their weapon maker puppet masters .
    Donate , keep her on that debate stage.

  3. I support Gabbard but I predict her chances for running are quite small because 1. Zionist money is not behind her. 2. Zionist money is actually working against her. (The only people aware of Tulsi Gabbard are the ones on the internet… in the “mainstream” media she is nowhere to be found. Even on the internet, Google tried to suppress her search queries, which is by she filed a lawsuit against Google).

    Gabbard terrifies the Zionist/Neocon establishment of America because she makes too much sense, uses too much common sense, and has made it clear she does not want any Mid East wars. For example, everyone knows that if any politician goes to Syria on a “fact finding” mission, you are not supposed to visit the areas inhabited by the Christians and the majority population and protected by the actual Syrian government like what Tulsi did. Instead you are supposed to infiltrate Syria illegally with the help of Turkey and other terrorist channels and visit ISIS and Alqaeda commanders and organizers like what neocon hero John McCain did. Then that way you may have a chance in the ‘American’ government, that is, right after you establish a solid record of blind allegiance to Zionist interests and Israel.

    Just a note:
    Trump won because Israeli money was behind him. (Right field).

    Hillary almost won because Israeli money was behind her. (Left field).

    There is no third alternative.

  4. Since this article was published, here are the most noteworthy developments in the Democrats run for the Presidency.
    1- Five candidates have withdrawn their candidacy.
    2- The line up of the debate set for 12 September has been established.
    3- Ten candidates met the criteria established and will participate in the debate.
    4- It includes the 4 front runners; Biden Sanders, Warren and Harris.
    It will be interesting because the 4 front runners will be on the stage at the same time.
    The ten candidates who did not qualify, including Gabbard, may still qualify for the October debate if they meet the polling criteria established by the DNC.
    Still a long way to go until the first primaries on February 3 and 11 and Super Tuesday on March 3.
    A very long and expensive process. But that is our system, where ” money” more than anything else talks.
    Vart Adjemian

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