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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI never considered Nikki Haley as part of the extreme asshole contingent, but...
I just got an email from her (don't ask...) claiming that schools, teachers unions and local governments are conspiring to prevent parents from learning what their kids are learning.
Specifically, Critical Race Theory, which will be our downfall. Besides, she says, it's just not right to teach such things without parents' permission.
CRT is a sideshow they are using to inflame the ignorant masses. Unlike things like economic and foreign policies we can legitimately disagree on and debate, it is a non-issue that has no point. An esoteric field of study that became an imaginary problem with no real solutions.
Haley is smart enough to know this is bullshit, but if she's signing on to this sort of nonsense, there is little hope for the Republican Party.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)1-10 calculating scale. Shes indeed smart which makes her so dangerous. She doesnt buy in to a single conspiracy theory but she will do or say anything to get or stay ahead.
Ive said for years that shes the person Id be most afraid of in 2024.
TheBlackAdder
(28,194 posts).
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/indian-nikki-haley-says-she-is-white/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/nikki-haley-claims-america-not-racist-later-says-she-faced-n1238025
Note: I used Anchor Baby because that is a common slur with the GOPers, yet they somehow give her a pass.
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GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... to know it's bullshit - just as most Republicans know it.
The point is that they also know the Trump-humpers are stupid enough to believe anything - and they use that gullibility to manipulate those whose votes they hope to get.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Nothing more.
JI7
(89,249 posts)her benefit .
But when she saw that the right wing stayed loyal to Trump and started attacking her she started doing things like in the OP .
She did this before when she didn't do anything about the confederate crap in SC but only after the shooting at a Black Church by a racist and took credit .
Total fucking phony .
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Enough said.
Botany
(70,504 posts)n/t
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)attempting to appeal to the lowest common deplorable. She's way smart but this makes her contemptible in my eyes.
2naSalit
(86,610 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)For the US Republican Party as it is constituted today.
There are a few individuals who are somewhat salvageable, e.g. Maryland's Gov Hogan and the two GOP Reps on the Jan 6 Committee. But even they are a far cry from the days of someone like Nelson Rockefeller and certainly from the days of Ike.
But as a Party, it is hopeless indeed.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)This CRT isnt the CPR The Gop needs.
griloco
(832 posts)and i NeverNeverEver vote for a " R)" because few ever stray from the party line and those that do can be replaced by any (D)
Earth-shine
(4,011 posts)Haley is certainly not the worst. But, given the current state of the Republican party, one has to be extreme to get noticed or just to get along.
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Lie with Trumpers, get their disease.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)She tried to defund rape crisis centers. because she considered the a "speccial interest group." That right there should have been the end of her career, but when you are a republican, you fall up.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)A member of the Extreme Asshole Contingent.
"Ain't no takesy backsey" as my dad would say.
applegrove
(118,654 posts)oasis
(49,384 posts)knowing it would be a monumental task for Democrats to ever root him out of there.
She's a sly one for sure.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)Pretty sure she is an asshole.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)SHE IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE
GoodRaisin
(8,922 posts)It's the latest in their line up of nonsensical, fear factor wedge issues they have invented to get people to hate democrats. Guns, The Border, Socialism, and now CRT, will share equal importance in driving a wedge between Americans and hiding the fact that their agenda consists of nothing but tax cuts for the rich. They are going to pound CRT on Fox News and other RW outlets to gain votes from white people by making them mad at democrats with their CRT lies.
DET
(1,311 posts)I immediately had a visceral negative reaction to Nikki Haley once she came to prominence under Trump. It was obvious that her spunkiness was just a facade for naked ambition while paying obeisance to the dear leader. I have no patience for these hypocritical sociopaths any more.