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These are Nikki's people. She has spent her political career standing up for them and giving them a pass on their racism when applied to others. She thought (much like Tim Scott does) that carrying the water for them would mean they wouldn't eventually turn on her. As the saying goes, f**K around and find out.

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How is Alex Jones not living in a van from the payouts he was supposed to make for his Sandy Hook BS?

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Appeals and other stall tactics?

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As Trump would say, and I'm sure the Ingraham-Walsh crowd would agree, he's "one of the whitest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of whiteness"... under all the orange, that is.

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All of them, but especially Matt Walsh, are hot garbage. I can't think of anything funny after reading that transcript. Fuck that guy.

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I so want to know what Matt Walsh was teased for at school as a kid. I really do.

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Constant pants wetting?

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Computer paper? Does Walsh have a dot matrix printer?

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You have to admit, it would be pretty weird to see someone whose skin was alternating stripes of white and green.

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Thanks to Evan and Stephen and the others for documenting the atrocities here, because I would have thrown up in my mouth several times just a paragraph or two in if I had to cover this stuff. You always knew there were horrible people in the world, but then someone like Matt Walsh or Charlie Kirk has to come along and show you the kind of imagination you lack.

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fuck. matt. walsh. the rest of 'em too.

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It is hideous what the MAGA shits are doing to Haley but I don't care. What I really fear is that she actually wins the Repub nomination. She is only a shade sheet over the MAGA agenda and would be as bad as trump in office; used mercilessly by other nefarious ass hats. I want to see her loose/I want to see her win---either way I'm not happy. lol

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If she somehow wins the Republican nomination, she better hope Trump is dead

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Sometimes one chooses to lie down with flea-ridden dogs voluntarily. I presume Haley knew what she was going to get up with, but when she acts surprised is when I stop feeling sorry for her.

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"Of course, all people who were raised well by decent parents — not Charlie we guess — are aware that if somebody says “I go by Nikki,” you call them Nikki, you fucking antisocial waste of DNA."

Remind us again why these bigoted fucks have issues with addressing people with the pronouns they would rather be addressed by rather than the pronouns these bigoted fucks THINK they should be addressed by.

Kind of looks like the same problem of self-centered bigotry to me.

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I suggest we all agree Kirk's pronouns are "her royal fucking pussy princess highness". Because apparently other people get to choose your pronouns, not you.

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"Moreover, Matt Walsh hasn’t heard of people being teased for being brown"

Maybe not quite the same, but I remember my olive-skinned daughter, who is of Ukraini-Baltic heritage, coming home from school in tears because kids were telling her she was part black and didn't know who her daddy was. She isn't, and she does (he still comes over to freeload a few times a year), and that was only one instance that I know of. But it happens and kids are affected by it. Wonder what names Walsh got called as a kid?

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I wish Matt Walsh would have experienced being teased for being Matt Walsh.

It would have been a justified subject for teasing too.

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I'm sure he was, and this is the result

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I'm pretty sure that all of Laura Ingraham's childhood memories of racism are just her dishing it out.

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But hang on, according to these guys it's the white people who are the real victims of real double-reverse racism because of DEI. But they also think you have to have darker skin than Haley to experience racism?

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Funny how they're telling on themselves. The argument is basically "you're light-skinned enough that the racist people you would've encountered growing up wouldn't realize that you're someone they should've been directing their racism at". Have to say, given the circles she runs in and the people she associates with, its a compelling argument - let's not pretend that Nimrata doesn't go out of her way to downplay her Sikh heritage except when it suits her (i.e. trying to play to a national, rather than strictly republican audience).

Curious as to the over/under on the number of jokes she's heard over the years in which she nodded her head/laughed because she realized the people telling them didn't know she was Brown.

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Over at Balloon Juice there was a go-round in the comments about whether it was or was not offensive to call Haley by her first name rather than the name she uses, particularly in light of the fact that "Nikki" is her middle name, not something she plucked out of the air like Cancun "Ted" Cruz.

Indian names can be difficult for Americans to pronounce, so it's not surprising that well before she went into politics she chose to use her easier-to-pronounce middle name.

Looking at her wiki page to confirm that I'm accurate about Haley's name, I see that she's on Boeing's board of directors. Maybe the RWNJs aren't entirely wrong about who's responsible for the door blowing off the plane? (I kid, I kid -- but also, omfg, no wonder the door blew off the plane if that's the quality of board oversight Boeing has.)

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The worst form of racism is by gradients of color. RE Man in the High Tower or my ex saying lighter skinned blacks are less subject to crime.

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Excellent job, in making them your ex!

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Matt Walsh: "What is Brown?"

Nikki Haley: "Baby don't hurt me ... no more"

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