#anti nikki haley

[misskremlintsarina5294]

Everywhere, there are savages . It ain't just an Islam problem. It's obnoxious to imply that Muslims have the most abusive religion when abuse happens everywhere across the globe. Democrats and Republicans are a complete joke. The Democrats' evil are more out in the open, but they try to sugareoat that evil, whereas Republicans are more straightforward about their bigotry, but claim to be the saviors of the United States because they don't have as much power as the Democrats. Deep down, the Republicans wish to have as much power as the Democrats while the Democrats would like to deport illegals they have no use for.

[juanabaloo]

related to the great "humanizing dictators" sketch on Alternatino, i did watch SNL this weekend. 99% for Ayo, she was good. (JLo was fine but her songs were boring to me)

Nikki Haley made an appearance. i feel like this was SNL "correcting" their mistake of having 45 on before. which just, NO. i guess they haven't internalized the fact that the Republicans are Nazis now. 45 or Nikki? they are both Nazis so while SNL thinks they are cute for making fun of 45, they are just showing they haven't learned their lesson from before. Which, as Alternatino shows, is don't fucking humanize dictators. Don't humanize fascists who want to be the President.

dipshits. that's really the kindest word i can say to SNL mgmt.

(also if you haven't seen the Fallon bit where he talks to 45, do yourself a favor and watch that before you watch the Alternatino sketch. double fuck to Fallon.)

[lilithism1848]

[mugiwara-lucy]

Hello, everyone! While I am VERY proud of the Democrat voter turnout for Early and Mail In Ballots; here's ANOTHER thing to keep in mind.

Two of the Supreme Court's chairs will be up for grabs and the next president will be able to put in two new justices that are younger. Currently there's a 6-3 demographic in the Whitehouse with 6 being Republican and 3 being Democrat. SHould Kamala win, she can put two more Democrat court younger justices in and we'll be 5-3 (the five being Democrats!) and we'll have a less corrupt SCOTUS.

Should Trump win......he'll stack the Supreme Court with younger justices and the Supreme Court will be locked HARD RIGHT for AT LEAST 30 years.......do we REALLY want that??

And keep in mind, one of the justices (Clarence Thomas) was talking about giving a look at gay marriage if he comes back into office.

And I bet one of the Supreme Court justices that Trump will put will be Aileen Cannon, the person who threw out Trump's stolen documents case. We ALL KNOW he stole those documents for nefarious reasons......do we REALLY want someone like that in office??

Here is the link below to register to vote along with the deadlines varying by state! Also, your own vote isn’t enough! Get as many people as you can to vote for Kamala be it your friends, cousins, parents, grandparents, old friends from high school and college, coworkers, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, stepchildren (if they’re 18 and over) and the list goes on and on but every vote counts! ALSO PLEASE check your registration DAILY because MAGA WILL purge your voter registration!!!

And early voting has started! And if you don’t wanna vote on November 5th, Early Voting is another option! Like I said get as many people as you know and try early voting that way you can avoid MAGA fuckery on November 5th! Down below is a list of dates by state:

And Mail in Ballots are ANOTHER option I highly recommend!! And like I said get as many people as you can to take advantage of this option! BUT if you decide to go with Mail In/Absentee Ballots; PLEASE mail your ballots at the ACTUAL USPS office!! That way MAGAts won't fuck with it.

And if you’re an American who lives overseas; PLEASE use the option of voting overseas since I know every country other than North Korea, Russia and China do NOT want to see Trump’s stinky ass back in the Oval Office! Here’s a link below:

Like I said last night....because of Trump's first term, we had Roe v Wade, Affirmative Action and Chevron overturned. I bet all the money in my savings and checking accounts that Interracial Relationships, Women’s right to vote and Gay Rights will be done away with should he be back in office. BET MONEY.

We're doing well....let's NOT get complacent like 2016.

THANK YOU.

[cavalierzee]

Hold Them Accountable

Incitement to commit acts of violence, especially in the context of armed conflict, can be considered a violation of international law, including international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law. Incitement to genocide and war crimes are severe offences under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and may be investigated and prosecuted.

Furthermore, encouraging or inciting the use of weapons against civilians or non-combatants is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law.

Politicians or military leaders who incite war crimes can be held accountable under the principle of command responsibility.

During World War II, Nazi leaders who incited violence and genocide through propaganda were held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials.

Rwanda Genocide: Politicians and media figures who incited violence during the Rwandan Genocide were prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Why not hold Nikki Haley responsible, Isaac Herzog, Mike Pence and Chris Evans?

By Elijah J Magnier

[nikkiruncks]

#gwen and andy being like 'what the actual fuck' internally

[tomorrowusa]

Nikki Haley is still not a moderate on abortion.

Do you know people who are still delusional about there being GOP candidates who favor reproductive freedom? Tell them to cross Nikki Haley off their lists.

Haley says she would sign six-week abortion ban if still S.C. governor

Pressed on abortion at a Christian conservative gathering, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Friday that she would sign a six-week abortion ban in her home state of South Carolina if she were still governor. Haley has tried to strike a more nuanced tone on abortion than some of her fellow Republican hopefuls by calling for legislators to seek areas of “consensus” at the federal level. She has also said that while she opposes abortion, she “doesn’t judge anyone for being pro-choice.” At the same time, she has previously said she would support any restriction on the procedure that can pass while sidestepping calls for a particular limit. At a forum on Friday for 2024 candidates hosted by evangelical organization the Family Leader, Haley was asked to be more specific about which types of laws she supports. The fine line she has tried to walk has drawn approval from some Republicans and independents wary of abortion restrictions — or just eager to move on from the divisive issue. But it’s also brought criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, with some antiabortion activists skeptical of her answers and Democrats attacking Haley as extreme despite her talk of compromise. “Nikki Haley is no moderate — she’s an anti-abortion MAGA extremist who wants to rip away women’s freedoms just like she did when she was South Carolina governor,” Ammar Moussa, the director of rapid response for President Biden’s reelection campaign, said in a statement.

Haley has been trying to dance around the abortion issue. Nobody should trust her.

At the last Republican debate she claimed, "No Republican president is going to ban abortions." Her comment is disingenuous bullshit.

Presidents appoint Supreme Court justices. Trump has been going around the country telling audiences that he "killed Roe v. Wade". It's one of the rare times he ever told the truth.

Trump did not need legislation or a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in much of the country – his justices and ones from the two Bush administrations did it on his behalf.

Republican presidents are only going to nominate extremist anti-abortion justices to SCOTUS.

Every single justice nominated by Republican presidents since 1991 is anti-abortion. They differ in their opposition only by degree – with Roberts being somewhat opposed and Alito and Thomas being fanatically opposed.

And almost all of those six justices blatantly lied in Senate hearings about considering Roe v. Wade "established law" just as some Republican presidential candidates will try to muddy the waters regarding their true positions on abortion.

People who favor reproductive freedom should not waste their votes on vanity candidates from loser third parties. Being anti-abortion is in the GOP DNA. And the only way to keep Republicans out of office is to vote Democratic.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 24, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 25, 2024

On Wednesday, May 22, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who had been the candidate for anti-Trump Republicans, said she will vote for Trump. Haley ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination and maintained a steady stream of criticism of him, calling him “unstable,” “unhinged” and “a disaster…for our party.” Since she suspended her campaign in early March, she has continued to poll at around 20% of Republican primary voters. 

There are two ways to look at Haley’s capitulation. It might show that Trump is so strong that he has captured the entire party and is sweeping it before him. In contrast, it might show that Trump is weak, and Haley made this concession to his voters either in hopes of stepping into his place or in a desperate move to cobble the party, whose leaders are keenly aware they are an unpopular minority in the country, together. 

The Republican Party is in the midst of a civil war. The last of the establishment Republican leaders who controlled the party before 2016 are trying to wrest control of it back from Trump’s MAGA Republicans, who have taken control of the key official positions. At the same time, Trump’s MAGA voters, while a key part of the Republican base, have pushed the party so far right they have left the majority of Americans—including Republicans—far behind.

Abortion remains a major political problem for Republicans. Trump appointed the three Supreme Court justices who provided the votes to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion, and he has boasted repeatedly that he ended Roe. This pleases his white evangelical base but not the majority of the American people.

According to a recent Pew poll, 63% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while only 36% think it should be illegal in most or all cases. But Republicans are continuing to push unpopular antiabortion legislation. On Thursday, Louisiana lawmakers approved a law classifying mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs commonly used in abortions, as dangerous drugs—a category usually reserved for addictive medications—making it a crime to possess abortion pills without a prescription. 

Louisiana prohibits abortions except to save the life of the mother or in cases in which the fetus has a condition incompatible with life. The law requires doctors to get a special license to prescribe the drugs, one of which is used for routine reproductive care as well as abortions. The state would then keep a record of those prescriptions, effectively a database to monitor women’s pregnancies and the doctors who treat them. Louisiana governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, is expected to sign the measure into law. 

Trump has repeatedly promised to weigh in on the mifepristone question but, likely aware that he cannot please both his base and voters, has not done so. On Tuesday, May 21, though, he stepped into a related problem. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, antiabortion activists have begun to talk about contraception as abortion, with some warning that it is “unbiblical.” But in February, 80% of voters polled said that contraception was “deeply important” to them, including 72% of Republican voters. On Tuesday, Trump said he was open to regulating contraception and that his campaign would issue a policy statement on contraception “very shortly.” He later walked back his earlier comments, saying they had been misinterpreted.

On May 19 the same judge who tried to remove mifepristone from the market by rescinding the FDA approval of it, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, blocked the Biden administration from implementing a new rule that requires sellers at gun shows and online to get licenses and conduct background checks. The rule closes what’s known as the “gun show loophole.” According to the Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy, 86% of Americans want mandatory background checks for all gun purchases. 

Trump himself is a problem for the party. His base is absolutely loyal, but he is a deeply problematic candidate for anyone else. As Susan Glasser outlined in the New Yorker yesterday, in the past week he chickened out of testifying in his ongoing criminal trial for paying hush money to an adult film actress to keep damaging information from voters in 2016 after insisting for weeks that he would. He talked about staying in office for a third term, ran a video promising that the United States will become a “unified Reich” when he wins reelection, and accused President Joe Biden of trying to have him assassinated. He will be 78 in a few weeks and is having trouble speaking.

In addition to his ongoing criminal trial, on Tuesday a filing unsealed in the case of Trump’s retention of classified documents showed that a federal judge, Beryl Howell, believed investigators had “strong evidence” that Trump “intended” to hide those documents from the federal government.

Also revealed were new photographs of Trump’s personal aide Walt Nauta moving document boxes before one of Trump’s lawyers arrived to review what Trump had, along with the information that once Trump realized that the men moving the boxes could be captured on Mar-a-Lago’s security cameras, he allegedly made sure they would avoid the cameras. The new details suggest that prosecutors have more evidence than has been made public. 

This might explain why, as Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley of Rolling Stone reported today, Trump is pressuring Republicans to pass a law shielding presidents from prosecution in state or local courts, moving prosecutions to federal courts where a president could stop them.

Yesterday, Marilyn W. Thompson of ProPublica reported on yet another potentially harmful legal story. There were a number of discrimination and harassment complaints made against the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2020 that Trump tried to keep quiet with nondisclosure agreements. A federal magistrate judge has ordered the Trump campaign to produce a list of the complaints by May 31. Those complaints include the charge that the 2016 campaign paid women less than men and that Trump kissed a woman without her consent. 

Trump’s current behavior is not likely to reassure voters. 

Yesterday he wrote on social media that “Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!”

There is no good interpretation of this post. If Trump does have that sort of leverage with Putin, why? And why not use it immediately? Is he openly signaling to Putin to ignore the Biden administration’s ongoing negotiations for Gershkovich’s release? Trevor Reed, who was arrested in Russia in 2019 when visiting his girlfriend in Moscow, noted: “As a former wrongful detainee in Russia, I would just like to remind everyone that President Trump had the ability to get myself and Paul Whelan out of Russia for years and chose not to. I would be skeptical of any claims about getting Evan Gershkovich back in a day.”  

Reed was freed in 2022 as part of a prisoner swap arranged by the Biden administration. 

Last night, at a rally in New York, Trump accepted the endorsement of alleged gang members, rappers Michael Williams (Sheff G) and Tegan Chambers (Sleepy Hallow). In 2023 the two men were indicted with 30 other people on 140 counts, including murder, attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms, and at least a dozen shootings. Sheff G was released from jail in April after posting a $1.5 million bond. 

Then, Trump’s people claimed that 25,000 people turned out for the rally, but they requested a permit for only 3,500, and only 3,400 tickets were issued. Aerial shots suggest there were 800–1,500 people there. 

MAGA voters don’t care about any of this, apparently, but non-MAGA Republicans and Independents do. And this might be behind Haley’s promise to vote for Trump. The unpopularity of the MAGA faction might allow Haley to step in if Trump crashes and burns, so long as she kowtows to Trump and his base. Or it might be calculated to try to repair the rift in hopes that the party can cobble together some kind of unity by November. As The Shallow State noted on X, Haley’s announcement showed that “Trump is fragile.”

But Haley’s statement that she will vote for Trump does not necessarily mean her voters will follow her. Deputy political director for the Biden campaign Juan Peñalosa met with Haley supporters in a prescheduled zoom call hours after Haley’s announcement. On Thursday afternoon the campaign issued a press release titled: “To Haley Voters: There’s a Home For You on Team Biden-Harris.”

MAGA Republicans know their agenda is unpopular, and they are working to seize power through voter suppression, violence, gerrymandering, and packing the legal system. But there are signs a bipartisan defense of democracy may be gathering strength.  

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[grenade-cephalopod]

When Nikki Haley's signature becomes imbeded in the skull of a grade schooler I think she should be charged with murder. This is vile.

[bostonwalks]

Sowing the seeds of destruction: Iran's attempts to fracture American society - editorial Iran seeks to deepen fault lines in American society and exploit domestic tensions to polarize an already badly polarized society. By JPOST EDITORIAL JULY 11, 2024 05:54 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-809825

At the end of May, a month when anti-Israel and often antisemitic demonstrations roiled US college campuses, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei penned a letter expressing support for the protests.

Khamenei commended the students for being on “the right side of history,” for their “noble resistance” against US support for Israel, and for having established “a branch of the Resistance Front” against the Jewish state.

Considering that Avril Haines, the US Director of National Intelligence, said on Monday that in recent weeks “Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we’ve seen other actors use over the years,” Khamenei’s words take on new meaning. Khamenei was essentially praising the fruits of his own handiwork.

“We have observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support,” Haines said.

She added that the intelligence did not indicate that Americans who participate in the protests are not “in good faith, expressing their views on the conflict in Gaza.” But, she warned, “it is also important to warn of foreign actors who seek to exploit our debate for their own purposes.”

Ironically, her words came just a day after Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with progressive The Nation magazine that the protesters “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza.”

Harris added, “There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.”

Tehran's pernicious game

But if Haines’s information is correct, some of that emotion is being fueled by a country that hates American democracy but wants to exploit it for its own purposes, and that seeks to destroy Israel.

There have been persistent rumors since the protests began that Iran and other governments were involved – some fingers pointed at Russia and China, and at Qatar and and Saudi Arabia – to either foment civil unrest in the US, or weaken US-Israel ties.

Haines’s comments were a first high-level confirmation that Tehran has a hand in this pernicious game.

And it is pernicious on several different levels. First, by stoking discord, Iran seeks to deepen existing fault lines in American society and exploit domestic tensions to further polarize an already badly polarized society, potentially leading to greater social unrest

This is something that could transpire at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month, where there already is concern that this high-profile stage will be exploited by anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrators to create havoc on the streets that will be seen and heard around the world.

Second, this move is destructive because it undermines the public’s trust and faith in grassroots democratic movements. A democracy’s integrity rests on the free and fair expression of public opinion. When a foreign government covertly intervenes in domestic protests, it compromises that principle and breeds skepticism of the protest’s legitimacy and authenticity as well as of the policy decisions influenced by those protests.

Thirdly, foreign interference in domestic affairs poses a real threat to US sovereignty since it involves covert operations to manipulate internal political dynamics. What is even scarier is that some of those being manipulated do not even realize they are being used as stooges to serve another country’s malign interests.

And, finally, this could have negative ramifications for Israel-US ties. If the assessments are accurate, Iran was involved in sowing anti-Israel sentiment on US campuses and in streets that featured in mainstream media, creating a perception that America was moving away from Israel. That very perception – if it takes hold – could impact the decisions of policymakers who are heavily influenced by what they perceive as the public’s mood.

We must hope that with Haines’s revelation, both US policymakers and the public will be more wary and see anti-Israel protests for what many of them are – a vehicle used by foreign interests to sow disunity inside America and drive a wedge between Israel and the Jewish state.

[schooltrashers]

Vixie Vs Nikki The RINO Haley

[bigassbowlingballhead]

If I have to hear my annoying ass neighbor talk about politics like he has any idea what's going on one more time I'm going to end it all for both of us.

[lilithism1848]

[centrally-unplanned]

This Richard Hanania piece was quite good for crystallizing some thoughts I had around the toxic nature of the electoral college. Obviously the electoral college is dumb - it is undemocratic in an arbitrary way, just randomly rewarding certain voters. I think idea of a system empowering "rural voters" would be really bad, but if that is your goal fair enough; it is telling that so many defenders of the EC will do so on grounds like that, but it doesn't do that! It just randomly empowers people in Pennsylvania, agonistic of density of living.

But more than it being undemocratic, it results in pernicious political dynamics - national elections being decided by tiny slivers of voters such that their hobbyhorse topics get undue preference. It twists the policy agenda, yes, but it also twists the parties themselves, who have to exist in its world. As someone who is far more of a Democrat, I think about it in terms of the Democratic Party; but Hanania is right to note it has been far more destructive to the Republican Party. The Republican Party has a much larger "anti-establishment" element that the Democratic party does, and they are concentrated in swing states. As I have said before, there are more Republicans in California than there are in Texas; but the voice of those Republicans doesn't matter. Everything gets bent around catering to that swing state slice. A Republican party staffed by its members in NYC and Los Angeles would still not be my fave party or anything, but it would be far better than the status quo.

The post reminds me of similar things around primaries; the US primaries are currently built very badly. US political parties just aren't democratic institutions, they don't really make sense to be that way and do not function that way, but we sort of pantomime it with this weird, staggered "race to drop out last" that rewards factional posturing over clear governance & electoral agendas. But as annoying as the democrats have been under it, the Republicans have suffered far worse! A complete outsider who disagreed with a third of the party's stated agenda and was deeply unpopular with the median voter exploited razor-thin majority-of-a-majorities in "elections" with maybe 25% voter turnout to seize the nomination twice. These conditions are "unfortunate" in a certain sense, it is bad that a solid ~1/10th of the US population are ride-or-die nativists for whom "immigration" is their only concern and are, to be frank, too poorly informed to understand the policy issues they care so much about. But something like that will always be true; these systems make every election a dice roll to dodge unlucky alignments, and when you hit them your coalition warps to match them and becomes sticky.

Many Republicans will mention these hazy ideas that "without the EC we will never win", and this is the least accurate idea of all. I actually remember a Richard Hanania post I blogged about a long time ago, about how so many Republican ideas are actually very popular and have gotten more popular over time. School choice, parts of immigration, taxes, law & order, etc, are all winning issues. Sans the EC the party woulds shift, as it always had, to a new equilibrium. And I bet you could do it within one term, voters have no long term memory, like at all. If in two years Nikki Haley is campaigning on Compassionate Conservatism and expanded Medicare, she would do just fine.

Ofc the issue now is that the Republican Party - while filled to the brim with hucksters, for sure - are true believers enough that they wouldn't want that. Because the EC alignments are sticky, as mentioned, it is part of why it's so toxic. Which is very sad because, despite probably being a lifelong Democrat voter, I really want a better Republican party. Because they are going to win elections! It is a democracy, of course they will, and they probably "should", I don't want a unipolar state and god knows the Democrats have their own brand of bullshit that electoral defeat has gotta discipline to keep them sane. Even if it means a Republican party that wins more elections, if they are saner it is worth it. They have some good ideas after all, if only they had a chance to breathe.

Since I don't think Republicans will consider it, I do think it is something Dems should pursue harder. But I'll admit the capacity to execute here is bleak - do your best with the State Compact I guess.

[cavalierzee]

"Finish Them!"

“Finish Them!

America Loves Israel

Always”

By Nikki “The BUTCHER” HALEY

Nikki Haley is a Genocidal Maniac and International Terrorist!