Anyone Koch supports is corrupt.
I think there are a few like Mitt and Paul Ryan still around that haven’t drank the kool-aid, but they’re staying pretty quiet.
If they weren’t corrupt, they could’ve voted against them when it mattered. They didn’t. They only speak up when they aren’t in the game anymore. They are as complicit as the rest.
Romney was allowed his vote to convict trump of one impeachment charge. Did that not tide you over? How dare you expect him to embrace such positions in perpetuity!
Koch-hatched libertarian foundations sponsored Milei in Argentina
I hope the republicans pick anybody but Trump, but just try to imagine them picking a first generation Indian American woman for president. That sounds like a deafening amount of cognitive dissonance.
Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa
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It’s very important to them. It’s their superpower.
She was called slurs multiple times by Republican state-level politicians while she was governor of SC. And that was before they all started saying the quiet parts out loud.
One of her primary opponents is Vivek Ramaswamy.
Two first-generation Indians are contenders. That’s wild to me
Except neither of them are really contenders, numbers wise.
Haley is getting the nomination because the number 1 is likely going to be in prison by the time the convention rolls around and the number 2 has made the people funding the election very uncomfortable through his lack of charisma.
I mean Trump’s gonna be the nominee, at least at first, almost certainly. I just find it fascinating who Republicans think “the good ones” are
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Don’t they mean Nimrata Haley? Or are Republicans allowed to use alternative names while American citizens can’t?
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It’s Nimarata, and could you imagine if everyone just started calling her that instead. Republicans would lose their minds that people are not respecting her wishes to be called something different.
Because “Gilgamesha” wasn’t feminine enough for her parents, when picking out names? 😶
She’s Indian. Pretty bigoted to make fun of that, despite what you think of her politics
Do you even know who Nimrod was? Take your virtue signaling down the block, kiddo. FFS.
I’m Indian so not quite virtue signaling, kiddo. FFS
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So, you don’t know who that was.
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Necro much?
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This is Lemmy. Racism against Asians is a-okay, even encouraged. I asked someone to stop making fun of M Night Shyamalan’s name and got downvoted to oblivion. Just like Reddit lol
Sounds like nimrod-a
Yes but she goes by Nikki. Her full name is known pretty widely, just like Joe instead of Joseph Biden.
They’d have a problem if the preferred name was Nicolas though
She is awful and this endorsement is further evidence of that.
Do you prefer Trump, DeSantis or Ramaswamy? There are no good candidates on the Republican side. Unfortunately, one of them is going to be the nominee and whoever it is has a decent chance of becoming president. As bad as she is, I don’t think she’s the worst Republican.
She’s the best choice as far as those running goes.
It’s a low bar, but I’d be more okay with her over any of the others.
Project 2025 would still go into effect but be under her. NO SHE IS HORRIBLE ALL THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ARE HORRIBLE DON’T VOTE GOP.
I don’t plan to vote for her or any other Republican candidate. But there’s going to be a candidate and I see her as the lesser of the evils. While I don’t agree with her positions or particularly like her, I acknowledge that she is at least qualified to hold office and believe that she will leave after completing a term, which is more than I can say about the other candidates. We don’t always get the candidate we want and that’s part of democracy. It’s ok to disagree on policy as long as we can agree on what it means to be Americans.
DeSantis is a hack and I do not believe he has demonstrated either good character or an ability to effectively govern. He relies on a Republican super-majority in the state legislature to ram his agenda through. Sooner or later you have to work with the opposing party to get things done and he has never had to do that. He can’t expect a Republican super-majority if he’s in the White House and I don’t think he has the political chops to work with Congress. Hell, his former colleagues in Congress say he basically ghosted them once he became governor. He’s also a racist asshole and hates LGBT people.
Ramaswamy is a hateful prick who is good at getting people riled up. That has nothing to do with governing. I don’t believe he is qualified in any way, shape or form.
Trump is a traitor. His actions on 1/6 are an affront to every person who has ever worked to preserve or better our country or our way of life. He literally tried to deprive all Americans - even his own supporters - of a free and fair election. Ironically, many of his supporters consider themselves patriots who believe in free and fair elections. He has deprived them of their faith in our democratic systems as much as he has anyone else, and, in the process, has created an awful schism between Americans. I can’t think of a worse criminal in our nation’s history. It is unfathomable that he is considered a candidate for any public office. His rightful place should be on the gallows. His trials, eventual conviction, and imprisonment is a future far better than what he deserves.
Yeah in terms of policy the specific GOP candidate isn’t very influential, they’re more like the brand of the party, and embody the politics of the time rather than define them.
Trump and Biden are historically unpopular opponents and it’s likely Haley would sweep the floor against Biden, as sad as that is. “Unnamed Democrat” has +10 points over Biden in swing states already, if either party manages to kick their current leaders then it might force the other’s hand. The US would enter a post-Trump political era if that were the case.
Trouble is: Koch brothers are very much into the same things as Trump is but they want to be able to control POTUS not having to deal with lose cannon that shoots everything and everyone and is only predictable in his unpredictability. So I’d think that the same policies would be pushed forward but without as much drama and publicity. In the end everyone will end up just as screwed.
They legitimately want Ayn Rand for president, they’d dig her up in an instant if they got their hands on a necromancer.
0 regulation government with handouts for them and none for us as their wet dreams. We have them to thank for the “Freedumb Caucus”
Didn’t she die on public assistance?
Happened to a lot of conservative groups. Set the fertilizer perfectly for a plant they did not want.
If I remember right the Koch brothers didn’t support trump in 2016 and he still won. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the general election if Trump gets the nomination.
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You’re correct they didn’t support Trump and instead focused on the lower races.
she’s their token “person of diversity”
I wonder if she’s aware she’ll be in a cage too after her usefullness runs out.
