Haley doesn’t seem to realize that it’s a badge of honor for Trump to have been blown out in DC. Any Republican who wins in DC is automatically suspect.
Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia?? All I need to know! This is approaching the theater of the absurd limits… excuse my language, but really…so fucking what?? I hate Republicans…. Not as badly as Democrats… but still, it’s like everything is a big fat game to them… so here we are, 72 and 78, until “ COVID” ( henceforward in quotes because you know why) very comfortably retired… and now, not so much. But our worries/ disappointments are insignificant …I do not know the $$ line between middle class and upper class, but I know for certain that the middle middle class and below are getting absolutely hammered. And that Americans in need of any form of financial assistance are and should be outraged what is being done to them. It is so upside down… and it’s being done primarily by the party that claims to champion them. And Nikki, nice try, but we don’t need anymore MIC supporting war mongers. Keep your Board job at BOEING and go away.
I’m somewhat neutral on Trump, heavy on ending the corrupt stratego/political game, so I’d prefer he’d try to behave like an adult, but he won’t. I get it. But he blows chances to gain favor
Here is the amazing thing about Trump. He somehow causes his enemies to self-destruct. I have no idea exactly how this phenomenon works but it happens reliably over and over again. He is like a clown that points out everything around him is a circus and in the process of denying it everyone performs circus acts.
Thats Trumps persona and it won't chage and more impryantly it doenst need to. we (America) are way over due for getting a president like Trump whop says it as it is instead of trying to be politicaly polite. This ide that he is somehow nt fit bcof his perosna is just estalishment BS. Do you think Gangis Khgan spoke nicely to other nations? We've far too long been the spinbless cowards afraid to offend others and Trump puts and end to that !@
Yep. Regan was the last president to speak honestly and before him it was JFK, 3 presidents the political establishment hated enough to do extreme things like assassination attempts or more recently creating an insurre6out of a protest were a very few did enter restricted areas. If the Right did it Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations " into an organized pedophile ring.
Yup!!! Ive been amused for years by how easily people were infatuated with Obama’s charm and his equally disingenuous spouse clueless to the fact that they are performing… Trump goes out with his full personality on display 24/7 and people are abhorred…and they accuse him of being a con man!! 😂😂😂
Don't forget salt. Often overlooked, even by experienced people.
Maybe that would be a good idea for a follow-up to the preparation-style article SimCom ran a few years ago - what is often left out/forgotten from the prep-list?
I’m curious to know how many shots Haley supporters have? More than 3 for sure…
To vote for Nikki Hailey is closing your eyes to reality stomping your feet on the ground and saying take me back to 2006 take me back to 2006 take me back to 2006 over and over and over.
They are the same people who still rationalize the invasion of Iraq, and make excuses for the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
Maybe to see the truth of who the Republican Party has been, our government has been is simply to unsettling, disorienting, too ‘rug pulled out from beneath me’ for millions of Americans.
The truth may set us free, but it was never said that it would be painless.
This is KEY and why the Feds have been able to get away with this BS for so long. Until Recenty they were able to keep the economy working normally so the regular people didn't notice what these pricks were doing.
DJT has no manners, is an egotistical caricature and yet... i know he can figuratively blow up the RNC-DNC political establishment and put the business of government on a collision course with reality.
As long as PACs exist, NGOs are unaccountable and Pharma-Big Tech-Globalists meddle in our Republic WE CANNOT VOTE OUR WAY TO SALVATION.
(and for another fav Team America quote: "Durka, Durka, Mohammed Jihad" and the proper response, "Surprise, C*ck Fags!"
This is likely crazy. Projection for sure, but mostly just tip-toeing out on a branch a bit too far.
There is another forcing function from endless war that is, in some ways, almost therapeutic. War prioritizes itself, and you along with it. The absolute thrill of a sustained effort of near total attention. Flow. It is professional Nirvana. Counter-intuitively, many feel less stressed overseas. Your spinning plates of adult life are reduced to one, maybe two.
There may be an echo of this to some Americans. I could see this undoubtedly if one worked in the gov contracting/manufacturing companies.
There is a predictability to the 21st Century FOB life for Soldiers that is reminiscent of Bill Murray's experience in Groundhog Day, except we never learned. Of course it is predictable up until IT IS NOT in very dramatic fashion, but most of the days are just ending yesterday today.
Predictability is comfortable for everyone, it is generally a significant motive beneath much of our striving behavior. We all want our lives to be predictable.
A large part of the country has learned to find comfort in war. There is a great living for many. Like all the small businesses around stadiums, there are so many businesses surrounding our military.
With just a small injection of moral idealism, justified vengeance, and hubris we can actually become proud of our warring nation. It is the moral, right thing to do. Let's bring democracy to these savages.
It is a good, ordered, simplified life. It provides access to flow which very few people are fortunate enough to experience professionally- ever- and rarely in other aspects of life.
War becomes its own end.
If all Veterans were surveyed 90-180 days after returning from combat, my guess is nearly 90% would return immediately. War is also addictive.
"WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." ah....I beg to differ Edwin Starr...
One important thing to remember that Haley forgot, DeSantis only suspended his campaign. If Trump is removed and the choice is between a person no one but Never Trumpers and Democrats like vs. everyone's second choice it's not hard to figure out who the nominee will be. Her humiliation will only skyrocket.
Yes, but the party can change its rules whenever they want and there's nothing anybody can do about it. If Trump gets thrown in jail the night before, they can re-write the rules to be the non-Trump candidate with the most pledged delegates at the convention.
Obviously this would piss off a lot of people, but pretty much everything the GOP does pisses off a lot of people.
If I ever wake up with positive feelings for the RNC, please send someone to remove the parasite that has obviously taken over my brain or chop my head off if that doesn't work.
Oh sure then we will have the complete destruction of the neocons. I mean if they do that then even a lot of anti Trump Republicans will write them off forever. The backlash will probably scare the shit out of them to reverse course. The reason I do not think they will do it is simple though. Haley has had her chance to be useful to the party establishment and she is nothing more than an embarrassing failure.
it is a curiosity to witness the continuing Haley campaign following repeating rejections by primary voters. She has now seriously damaged her brand going forward. The people still funding her campaign must not like Trump very much. Why she continues her dead-end campaign is beyond reason.
Sure, she will be the yes-person useful for certain power brokers. Otherwise, why would they hire someone who can't read writings on the wall to run a business? She can be against Trump, as many are, but to not be able to see the obvious is quite something else!
Well, it could be a reasonable choice on her part, depending on 1) what she has been offered, and 2) whether there is a "offer that she couldn't refuse" aspect.
She isn't destroying her future at all. By being teh parties puppet she willensure herplace in thefuuture. Yes she may have to sit out a few years for the crap to blow over but by being th patries bitsch shes securing her politcial future.
D's in the happiest place on earth, with rainbows and unicorns and a (so far) group of conservative activist govt reps actually doing the reclamation of governing.
Exec orders will not succeed if laws aren't enforced and non-elected administrative bureaucrats rule the go-along-to-get-along populace.
(My Virginia has too many purple Karens to recover, despite Miyares, Sears and the unctuous ambitious Youngkin)
Haley is going to go down in history as the woman who could have avoided the biggest political embarrassment of all time had she just dropped out of the race. Is she really going to take the DC win as an own against Trump? If anything, her winning DC actually just proves his point that she is the problem. The dying gasp of the old guard of the Republican Party desperately hanging on to power. This farce ends now.
80 % of Metro DC voters are registered Democrats. 85% of all Government bureaucrats ( I can’t remember the G numerical rating) are registered Democrats. So like 250 people voted for Nikki….
She and Biden have the same deep state handlers. Choosing between them is like choosing the sock puppet on the right hand v choosing the sock puppet on the left hand. They are both in favor of endless war and eroding our civil liberties. I'd vote 3rd party before I'd vote for her, and I know I'm not alone.
I'm planning to vote for Trump, assuming I have the option. If not, 3rd party. Though if Trump is elected, I'm sure he'll do something disappointing in the first 90 days. I just want Ron Paul America. Is that too much to ask?
So I read somewhere (too much reading) that the "Haley gambit" isn't a possibility because Trump's delegates would never vote for her. I'm ashamedly ignorant of the process. Is that a valid reassurance?
The RNC can change the rules of the primary at any time for any reason, and there's not much the rest of us can do about it. If Trump is DQed, they could very easily declare the next person at the convention with the most bound delegates is the winner.
As I said yesterday, this would piss a lot of people off -- but everything the GOP does pisses a lot of people off.
Haley doesn’t seem to realize that it’s a badge of honor for Trump to have been blown out in DC. Any Republican who wins in DC is automatically suspect.
Less than 2000 total turnout IIRC?
That pic in this article speaks a thousand words. It is the reason we put him on office.
They're so detached it's hard to tell if they're mocking us...or they'll just never get it.
Haley seems like all of the male architects of the NWO, WEF, and the WHO in a dress.
Yes.
Very Twicky….
Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia?? All I need to know! This is approaching the theater of the absurd limits… excuse my language, but really…so fucking what?? I hate Republicans…. Not as badly as Democrats… but still, it’s like everything is a big fat game to them… so here we are, 72 and 78, until “ COVID” ( henceforward in quotes because you know why) very comfortably retired… and now, not so much. But our worries/ disappointments are insignificant …I do not know the $$ line between middle class and upper class, but I know for certain that the middle middle class and below are getting absolutely hammered. And that Americans in need of any form of financial assistance are and should be outraged what is being done to them. It is so upside down… and it’s being done primarily by the party that claims to champion them. And Nikki, nice try, but we don’t need anymore MIC supporting war mongers. Keep your Board job at BOEING and go away.
The Trump I know from 2016 would be congratulating her for her DC win every chance he gets.
I’m somewhat neutral on Trump, heavy on ending the corrupt stratego/political game, so I’d prefer he’d try to behave like an adult, but he won’t. I get it. But he blows chances to gain favor
Here is the amazing thing about Trump. He somehow causes his enemies to self-destruct. I have no idea exactly how this phenomenon works but it happens reliably over and over again. He is like a clown that points out everything around him is a circus and in the process of denying it everyone performs circus acts.
I’m saving this. “ not my clowns , not my circus.” Double meaning.
The circus anology is excellent.
And DJT will make an excellent ringmaster. Even if he fails, we win.
Thats Trumps persona and it won't chage and more impryantly it doenst need to. we (America) are way over due for getting a president like Trump whop says it as it is instead of trying to be politicaly polite. This ide that he is somehow nt fit bcof his perosna is just estalishment BS. Do you think Gangis Khgan spoke nicely to other nations? We've far too long been the spinbless cowards afraid to offend others and Trump puts and end to that !@
Spot on.
It's called real-politik.
I agree and worth noting, we have not had a President who says it as it is in decades… Diplomacy has not exactly been a success….
Yep. Regan was the last president to speak honestly and before him it was JFK, 3 presidents the political establishment hated enough to do extreme things like assassination attempts or more recently creating an insurre6out of a protest were a very few did enter restricted areas. If the Right did it Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations " into an organized pedophile ring.
Politically polite and politely political…
Really, there is nothing polite about politics.
And yet he gets attacked for wanting to be liked.
We can use DJT to bust up the uniparty security state, Mrs.
We don't have to like him or be his bff. We just have to get behind him and vote for him, overwhelmingly.
Yup!!! Ive been amused for years by how easily people were infatuated with Obama’s charm and his equally disingenuous spouse clueless to the fact that they are performing… Trump goes out with his full personality on display 24/7 and people are abhorred…and they accuse him of being a con man!! 😂😂😂
He does act like an adult. But people keep parroting that he isn’t polite - it a virtue signal.
She must be hoping Trump drops dead and she gets it by dedeath.
There's always that (but not dead, via lawfare).
stock up on .. ...
EVERYTHING
We just might have a world wide melt down
I quadrupled down on GS Thin Mints today….
Smart. Priorities :)
I’m thinking more ammo, more supplies…
Don't forget salt. Often overlooked, even by experienced people.
Maybe that would be a good idea for a follow-up to the preparation-style article SimCom ran a few years ago - what is often left out/forgotten from the prep-list?
Excellent idea.
What about the other two basic food groups?
And what would those be, Bill?
Popcorn and beer
Those work, too.
Whiskey and ice cream, of course!
Those work!
Thin Mints might go for more per ounce than gold! I wonder how many rolls of TP you’ll be able to get per cookie after the apocalypse? 🤔
They should partner with Bitcoin……
Girl Scouts contributes to Planned Parenthood
Cookies are cookies, I’m more annoyed that the AARP donates to Planned Parenthood…. As in Retired People…
Literally ordered 1/2 share of beef fewer than 3 hours ago.
Like is being optimistic but I appreciate your post
2024 will be a complete cluster f%#k before & after the election. Scary times
I’m curious to know how many shots Haley supporters have? More than 3 for sure…
To vote for Nikki Hailey is closing your eyes to reality stomping your feet on the ground and saying take me back to 2006 take me back to 2006 take me back to 2006 over and over and over.
They are the same people who still rationalize the invasion of Iraq, and make excuses for the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
Maybe to see the truth of who the Republican Party has been, our government has been is simply to unsettling, disorienting, too ‘rug pulled out from beneath me’ for millions of Americans.
The truth may set us free, but it was never said that it would be painless.
bsn
It's a lot easier to "America, Fuck Yeah" when everybody you know has a good house and job and is well-fed and takes the boat out on the weekends.
When those same people are suddenly struggling to keep food on the table, it's a lot harder to rah-rah endless wars.
This is KEY and why the Feds have been able to get away with this BS for so long. Until Recenty they were able to keep the economy working normally so the regular people didn't notice what these pricks were doing.
Or when Wells Fargo freezes their bank account.
Love that sentiment.
DJT has no manners, is an egotistical caricature and yet... i know he can figuratively blow up the RNC-DNC political establishment and put the business of government on a collision course with reality.
As long as PACs exist, NGOs are unaccountable and Pharma-Big Tech-Globalists meddle in our Republic WE CANNOT VOTE OUR WAY TO SALVATION.
(and for another fav Team America quote: "Durka, Durka, Mohammed Jihad" and the proper response, "Surprise, C*ck Fags!"
This is likely crazy. Projection for sure, but mostly just tip-toeing out on a branch a bit too far.
There is another forcing function from endless war that is, in some ways, almost therapeutic. War prioritizes itself, and you along with it. The absolute thrill of a sustained effort of near total attention. Flow. It is professional Nirvana. Counter-intuitively, many feel less stressed overseas. Your spinning plates of adult life are reduced to one, maybe two.
There may be an echo of this to some Americans. I could see this undoubtedly if one worked in the gov contracting/manufacturing companies.
There is a predictability to the 21st Century FOB life for Soldiers that is reminiscent of Bill Murray's experience in Groundhog Day, except we never learned. Of course it is predictable up until IT IS NOT in very dramatic fashion, but most of the days are just ending yesterday today.
Predictability is comfortable for everyone, it is generally a significant motive beneath much of our striving behavior. We all want our lives to be predictable.
A large part of the country has learned to find comfort in war. There is a great living for many. Like all the small businesses around stadiums, there are so many businesses surrounding our military.
With just a small injection of moral idealism, justified vengeance, and hubris we can actually become proud of our warring nation. It is the moral, right thing to do. Let's bring democracy to these savages.
It is a good, ordered, simplified life. It provides access to flow which very few people are fortunate enough to experience professionally- ever- and rarely in other aspects of life.
War becomes its own end.
If all Veterans were surveyed 90-180 days after returning from combat, my guess is nearly 90% would return immediately. War is also addictive.
"WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." ah....I beg to differ Edwin Starr...
bsn
One important thing to remember that Haley forgot, DeSantis only suspended his campaign. If Trump is removed and the choice is between a person no one but Never Trumpers and Democrats like vs. everyone's second choice it's not hard to figure out who the nominee will be. Her humiliation will only skyrocket.
Yes, but the party can change its rules whenever they want and there's nothing anybody can do about it. If Trump gets thrown in jail the night before, they can re-write the rules to be the non-Trump candidate with the most pledged delegates at the convention.
Obviously this would piss off a lot of people, but pretty much everything the GOP does pisses off a lot of people.
If I ever wake up with positive feelings for the RNC, please send someone to remove the parasite that has obviously taken over my brain or chop my head off if that doesn't work.
Now, now.
Or rather, the past, the past. Yes, the RNC has historically been a big disappointment, overall, these past 100+ years.
But don't lose hope for a better future. The Party base is having success in changing things for the better, imo.
Another KEY factor that no one is taught in school and for a good reason They don't want the plebs (PLebians) thinking for themselves.
Oh sure then we will have the complete destruction of the neocons. I mean if they do that then even a lot of anti Trump Republicans will write them off forever. The backlash will probably scare the shit out of them to reverse course. The reason I do not think they will do it is simple though. Haley has had her chance to be useful to the party establishment and she is nothing more than an embarrassing failure.
it is a curiosity to witness the continuing Haley campaign following repeating rejections by primary voters. She has now seriously damaged her brand going forward. The people still funding her campaign must not like Trump very much. Why she continues her dead-end campaign is beyond reason.
She's not campaigning to win the nomination.
But to destroy her future in the party? Makes no sense. Or she is a fool used by power brokers.
Her future isn't in the party -- it's in a board room or heading an NGO.
Exactly
Sure, she will be the yes-person useful for certain power brokers. Otherwise, why would they hire someone who can't read writings on the wall to run a business? She can be against Trump, as many are, but to not be able to see the obvious is quite something else!
If so, thanks Hailey…. For Nothing.. throw her on the pile of voter users and abusers!
Well, it could be a reasonable choice on her part, depending on 1) what she has been offered, and 2) whether there is a "offer that she couldn't refuse" aspect.
A fool.
did you mean, "tool"?
A "fool used by power brokers," as Orca suggested.
AND a "tool," as you note.
She isn't destroying her future at all. By being teh parties puppet she willensure herplace in thefuuture. Yes she may have to sit out a few years for the crap to blow over but by being th patries bitsch shes securing her politcial future.
BINGO! Pretty sexist IMO.
They tried the same with DeSantis but he's apparently smarter than Haley and caught on before he ruined his political career.
D's in the happiest place on earth, with rainbows and unicorns and a (so far) group of conservative activist govt reps actually doing the reclamation of governing.
Exec orders will not succeed if laws aren't enforced and non-elected administrative bureaucrats rule the go-along-to-get-along populace.
(My Virginia has too many purple Karens to recover, despite Miyares, Sears and the unctuous ambitious Youngkin)
Haley is going to go down in history as the woman who could have avoided the biggest political embarrassment of all time had she just dropped out of the race. Is she really going to take the DC win as an own against Trump? If anything, her winning DC actually just proves his point that she is the problem. The dying gasp of the old guard of the Republican Party desperately hanging on to power. This farce ends now.
*crosses fingers*
🤞🏻
Both hands.
80 % of Metro DC voters are registered Democrats. 85% of all Government bureaucrats ( I can’t remember the G numerical rating) are registered Democrats. So like 250 people voted for Nikki….
The Koch brothers dumped her. She’s either being paid a lot or blackmailed a lot. Or threatened. I’m leaning towards being paid a lot.
Offered a lifetime spot in some organization. You know, a "cushy".
Nikki is just Liz Cheney in a (marginally) better looking meat suit.
Haley literally looks like a Halloween witch. Even before she opens her mouth.
I don’t care what she looks like. I care if she can beat Biden. I think she can.
Haven't you noticed Haley has lost every Republican primary but the meaningless charade in DC?
Yes, I noticed.
She and Biden have the same deep state handlers. Choosing between them is like choosing the sock puppet on the right hand v choosing the sock puppet on the left hand. They are both in favor of endless war and eroding our civil liberties. I'd vote 3rd party before I'd vote for her, and I know I'm not alone.
I'm pretty sure we live in interesting times. :-/
It's true :(
I know! I've always known how this eventually goes...but you really don't understand it until it's ON you...like kids.
It's ON us.
Lol.
This country needs 3rd 4th & even 5th parties. But, "Democracy" won't allow it.
I am so with you.
I have a singing cat (and guy) video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuN2QzKUtA
I couldn't think of another way to send it to you, SC!
Monday early! but wait... it's past midnight, so it's an early pawsitive vid.
per Peewee: okay, Okay!!
People talk about credentials, but Haley's aren't extensive, and she's been out of government for 5 years, doing I'm not sure what.
MIC boards.
Well, she's been grooming contacts and campaigners.
I'm planning to vote for Trump, assuming I have the option. If not, 3rd party. Though if Trump is elected, I'm sure he'll do something disappointing in the first 90 days. I just want Ron Paul America. Is that too much to ask?
So I read somewhere (too much reading) that the "Haley gambit" isn't a possibility because Trump's delegates would never vote for her. I'm ashamedly ignorant of the process. Is that a valid reassurance?
The RNC can change the rules of the primary at any time for any reason, and there's not much the rest of us can do about it. If Trump is DQed, they could very easily declare the next person at the convention with the most bound delegates is the winner.
As I said yesterday, this would piss a lot of people off -- but everything the GOP does pisses a lot of people off.
But what you, uh...warn about (?), would take an even higher level of stupid.
Look, if the GOP wants to wreck its only legitimate brand...well, see ya GOP.
Would it be 'wrecking the brand' to win the election?
Oh, but of course, all bets are off if the neocons (for lack of a better negative catch-all name) win!
I guess I just find that notion absurdly unrealistic.
No offense! ;-)
Who wins a Haley/Biden matchup?
Haley.
And that's the only thing she's got going for her.
It still remains existential fact (imso, of course) that for the People to win, DJT must win. If he loses, we lose.
One cannot read too much, imso.