Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Let me make it clear from the beginning that I think Nikki Haley (R-Boeing) is a vapid establishment automaton who is basically the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party, a Bushesque mediocrity who represents a dying ideology that peaked in 2005, and good riddance to it. She’s the worst – self-righteous, annoying, always spewing grrrl-power nonsense and hack clichés salvaged from the back catalog of the Weekly Standard. She’s a disaster on every level, one of those people who is both very aggressive and always wrong, the worst possible combination. That being said, should he win the nomination, Nikki! should absolutely be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Stop laughing. I am serious. I am not being ironic. It makes sense. Hear me out.
Look at it from Donald Trump‘s perspective. She’s absolutely the person he should pick if he wins the nomination. I don’t like it. I don’t want it. But it’s a fact. She’s awful. She’s arrogant. She’s a squish. The thought of four years of that nattering nabob of nonsense – apologies to William Safire – is positively agonizing. But Donald Trump’s most important task is to get elected, and she would be the best choice to help him do it.
I hate writing that so much. But it’s true.
No, wait a minute, hasn’t Donald Trump slammed her? Not really. He’s been remarkably gentle with her, probably because he knows she’s his best choice. Even his nickname for her – the uncharacteristically unimaginative “Birdbrain” – is soft and spongy. I do need to point out, however, that in the week of her amazing “Anything but slavery” gaffe, it was pretty obvious that Trump needed to start calling her “Byrdbrain.” What a missed opportunity!
No, Donald Trump has been very nice to her. He’s reserved his fire for Ron DeSantis, a competent and effective conservative governor – in contrast to Nikki Haley – who provides real competition for the nomination, also in contrast to Nikki Haley. Everyone knows Nikki Haley‘s going to lose the nomination. Even Nikki Haley knows she’s going to lose. She’s been quite obviously running for vice president the entire time. She wants the gig. And there’s a lot that she brings to the table.
What does she bring to the table? Well, stupid people. There are a lot of people out there who think she’s a great politician and a great choice. I’m not one of them. If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re not one of them, but they are out there. Many don’t like Joe Biden, and many don’t like Donald Trump, but adding her to the ticket can win them over to the GOP. Winning the election is about addition, not subtraction. This isn’t the time to pick a favorite of the people he’s already got nailed down.
Someone like Kari Lake or Vivek Ramaswamy is very popular with the Trump base, but Trump doesn’t need to win the Trump base because they are already the Trump base. They will fall in line, grumbling maybe, but fall in line they will. He has to expand the Trump base. I think Ron DeSantis would expand the base alone, but if he’s not on the ballot, Trump will need to expand beyond the Trump base. And Nikki Haley expands the Trump base. I don’t particularly dig the people she will bring in, but the point is to win, not to make people like me happy about how Trump does it.
It’s all about winning. Sigh.
He needs her to win over the doubters. For some reason, suburban women seem to like Nikki Haley. I don’t understand it, but the facts are the objective facts. Now, suburban women are the worst people in the universe, living proof that the 19th Amendment needs an asterisk to exclude anybody who prefers oaky Chardonnay. But there are many of these wine women, and they all vote. A good chunk of them will vote for a Republican ticket if it has Nikki Haley on it. Maybe it’s her girl power nonsense. Maybe it’s the fact that she looks like someone who tells you to use your inside voice. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. She wins over people Trump couldn’t win over alone.
And she brings in the Establishment. No one hates the Establishment more than me. They are terrible people with an unbroken track record of failure. They brought us McCain, and they brought us Romney, and they are utterly incapable of analyzing why they lost or understanding the rise of Trump. But there are many of them, and they’ll stay home if it is Donald Trump and somebody like Donald Trump on the ticket. Nikki Haley appeals to them because she’s just the kind of decline management Republican they seem to adore, one who won’t take any hard positions that upset the folks down at the country club. It is better to have them on the inside of the tent than on the outside, peeing on it.
It’s not just that they will vote for her but that they will write her checks. She’s the donors’ gal because she’s the kind of pol the big donors love. Big Republican donors are mostly idiots. Their political instincts are awful, and they cannot learn from repeated mistakes. That’s why they love her. That and the fact that she’s willing to do whatever they want and adopt every dumb position they want, whether it’s allowing in endless hordes of illegal aliens, genuflecting at the altar of companies like Disney, or not making fellow swells upset by banning the mutilation of children. With her on the ticket, they will send money. Trump will need money because it’s all going to lawyers right now. And while I typically like lawyers being paid a lot of money, I also like the Republican Party having enough money to compete in the general election. Nikki Haley brings that to the table – the bottomless checkbooks of sucker GOP donors, and that’s not nothing.
But shouldn’t we worry that Nikki Haley will somehow have a big influence in a Trump 2.0 administration? Frankly, no, though I’m sure she imagines she will. I think it will look like four seasons of “Veep,” with Nikki Haley as a less amusing version of Selena Meyer, constantly asking if the president called and being told he has not. That brings us to another vital attribute of Nikki Haley. She’s not going to overshadow Trump. And she’s not going to have any influence. She can get in there and advocate for whatever dumb war she’s supporting this week or whatever idiotic social fetish she refuses to fight, and Trump is going to do whatever he wants. The only problem is if somehow Trump falls out and she falls into the Oval Office. But Trump’s pretty robust. He’ll certainly live through his term, if only for spite.
Now, the ultra-mega-MAGA Trump people properly detest Nikki Haley. I mean, they just despise her, which is to their credit. But they love Trump even more. Hell, he announced we ought to reward the fascist FBI with a spectacular new building, and they cheered as genius what last week they would (correctly) call treachery. So, if he picks Nikki Haley, they will all support it. They’re going to swallow it whole and applaud. You’ll have @FatMAGADeadbeatDad69 putting out reams of memes about how this is a brilliant 27-dimension chess move. A few people will ask, “What the hell are you thinking?” They won’t get a good answer and’ll still fall in line in November.
I will fall in line in November. I’m going to vote for whoever the Republican nominee is. If the Republicans are intent on nominating Trump instead of a disciplined and effective governor who is not hated by 53% of voters and who has a really good chance of winning, I’m in. Would a Trump Haley ticket have a good chance of winning? I don’t think it would have a good chance of winning, but it would have a better chance than a Donald Trump/Anyone Else ticket.
If you think I’m happy about a situation where I think the Republican candidate would be cunning to pick Nikki Haley for any job not involving a mop and bucket, you are wrong. I’m not happy about this. I’m very, very sad. We still have a chance to avoid it by nominating DeSantis (who would pick Iowa’s Kim Reynolds for VP), but if we don’t avoid it, I don’t see a better pick for Trump in terms of winning the election as opposed to actually governing – fortunately, a vice president doesn’t actually govern. A vice president usually gets sent overseas to attend the funeral of Finland’s Secretary of Ennui and Reindeer Affairs. And standing there in the snow listening to the eulogy for some depressed Nordic elk wrangler seems like a great job for Nikki Haley.
Do I think Trump would pick her? I think Trump would do it in a heartbeat. After all, we all know his personnel selection track record, and he’s already picked Nikki Haley once for a big job.
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The shill knows….chozenites always own both tickets.
Over Trump’s dead body, which will be arranged if she is the VP. If she is the pick I will not vote in the 2024 election.
Same here. She’s the only choice that would make me write off Trump. She’s as bad as if he chose Hillary to be his VP.
No way, Trump has already been warned about picking her, he won’t do it
It would be like assassinating himself.
And, she ain’t no racisss…
or Christian , which the Most High haters and chozenites will like
… loves her some Israel shekels , too.
Vivek should have asked her why America needs Israel. I really need to know the answer to that question.
Glock, didn’t you get the memo? This country is merely a branch office of Israel, the proxy government is run by the Israeli dual-citizens that somehow (?) are elected and appointed to high office to make sure the looting of our treasury goes smoothly. Throw in the use of our army mostly for their purpose that we also find ourselves picking up the tab.
Seriously, why don’t we just let the Israelis vote for who is THEIR president ?
All of that sounds like why ISRAEL needs America, not the other way around.
OK, then why are we complicit? There is nothing in this for us anymore. Why participate in this slave game where most of the population is blind to the fact that we are merely their branch office and have been cowed and shackled?
Why not boycott the State of Israel? Gregg Abbott will have none of that mind you!
Don’t forget TrumpRetreads For Israel, TFI.
This is all completely irrelevant. It’s who counts the votes and how many boxes are stuffed. Has nobody been paying any attention since 2020? Birdbrain is terrible and if the CIA-FBI-NSA “remove” Trump, she’s it. What an awful thought. Why do Americans keep voting (locally and nationally) for the choice that is the least shitty?
“Why do Americans keep voting.” Full STOP.
brainwashed, ignorant, uneducated, guilt tripped, puppets.
It’s a habit.
At my age I’ve come to the conclusion my so called “vote” does not matter. Therefore I’m requesting a reversal on the voter registration scam as in deregister. Seriously.
Only the ‘best’ and brightest’ get to be President!
“Anyone can grow up and be President”.
bwahahahahahahahaha.
YEP JUST WHAT UNCLE JOE STALIN SAID, “IT’S NOT WHO VOTES, IT’S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES”.
Please, JW, get rid of the caps lock and write your posts as ordinary speech … not as screaming … it gets old …
Does it matter since the next general “election” is already rigged?
The “smart” money is on joey winning by just a smidge with his new record of 163 million votes.
Unless the American Citizen voter learns how to stuff ballot boxes and cheat at elections better than the socialists, it doesn’t matter who Trump’s running mate is.
Trump-Flynn is a win for America. Trump-Vivek is a second place win. Trump-RINO is a win at the polls but a loss for America.
We need to stop settling for less than what we need to win. Not win the election, win the country back.
A sold out America is no America.
A settled-for America is no America.
A strong America is what is wanted and needed or there is no America.
Kurt’s message is you have to get elected first. What happens after depends on the winner’s management skills.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Do not let that woman close to the seat of power. She is a war-hawk lunatic. Do not do it!!
She is not constitutionally qualified for the office…but nobody seems to notice, or care.
Constitution? What’s that?????
Trump will pick whoever he is instructed by his handlers to pick.
How can anyone with two brain cells left to rub together not be aware that Trump is a Judas Goat?
If Nimrata Randhawa is the pick, Nimrata Randhawa it will be.
They’re putting a lot of effort into stopping him: staging 1/6/21 so it could be labeled an “insurrection”, charging him with various and sundry bullshit charges in multiple states, trying to get him removed from the ballot wherever they can (PA would be the big one), etc.
Iska, who stirred the crowd into a frenzy to storm the capitol? Why do you infer Trump had no part in that farce? It was just another day of theater to me but I’m baffled by your attitude.
Oh, so down voting implies that Trump had no part in the stirring of the crowd, right. I guess we all just imagined he was there, go ahead and down vote. The truth is is hereby irrelevant, so sayeth the DV’ers.
“Who is being naive here, Kate?”
I’ll take Iska for $500, Alex.
Pissing in the wind for $1,000.
What makes you think that I think that Trump “had no part”? The fact that Pelosi & Co., clearly set it up to be labeled as an “insurrection” doesn’t mean that he didn’t have a part and fell into their trap – as he does ALL the time. I think he had some half-baked idea that if enough people were demonstrating outside the Capitol that Pence and the House GOP would come to their senses and see that there had been enough “irregularities” in the election where they would decline to certify the slates of electors and it would be left to the House to vote in the winner (as is the process when no candidate gets 270 electoral votes). It’s actually not a crazy idea, since the standard process of the VP counting the electoral votes and the House voting to certify that count implies that they could choose to NOT certify that EV count. If that constitutes an “insurrection” (it doesn’t) then the several democrat representatives who – in January 2001 and January 2005 – voted against certifying the election because they thought the Bush-Gore and Bush-Kerry races were not legit were also “insurrectionists” who should be banned from holding office. That’s silly. Speaking your opinion that the election was influenced by cheating is anyone’s right – even Trump’s.
Pelosi turned down Trump’s initial offer for National Guard troops on 1/6. She wanted it to devolve into a clusterfuck. There were – what – 200 FBI agents and “informers” on site instigating people to crash the gate and enter the Capitol. Ray Epps was just one of them. When people weren’t bashing the Capitol doors in, someone inside opened the doors and LET them in – where most of them stayed within the velvet ropes. The reason the videos of the entire day were kept from the public for 3 years was because people would be able to see that the young guys in balaclavas (the Feds) acted as instigators and role-players. BTW, there is no such thing as an unarmed insurrection.
You bring up interesting points. Especially about the implied fact that Pence was/is clearly “establishment” and knifed Trump in the back. Yeah, Kurt says Trump needs Haley in order to get elected-all the while holding their nose. Time for a Constitutional amendment-in the event of the President dying in office-that provides for a special election to be held within 30 days and which otherwise does not grant the Vice-president the right to take over as President unless elected in the special.
So walking into a building, that the feds opened the doors for, is now a frenzied storming and by extension a type of insurrection no doubt. lol
It is if Nancy says so.
“theater” is right. Looking at timelines for that Jan. 6 day , Trump watched the FAUX broadcast of the event for about four hours. Someone said he ordered some Big Macs during that time.
And Jared was on the phone with Tel Aviv.
Iska, it is all theater. Most of the individual prosecutors, judges, politicians, etc who want to indict Trump or prevent him from running do hate him and are really trying to stop him. But they are just useful idiots for TPTB who are actually running things. TPTB are going to select Trump this year, just like they selected him in 2016. Trump and Biden are a tag team.
I think Schfincter has take too many clot shots. She’s the female version of Mike Pence. Not that it matters.
Voting: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Kurt has lost his mind and, its obvious he has no real principles.
Ridiculous article.
So he’s a typical R media pundit making lots of shekels.
Who ever said you have to have principles to be in politics?
Voting = Suggestion box for slaves.
Articles from State of The Nation are exponentially more ridiculous and insulting to intelligence, but they generate hits…..so there’s that.
Voting= An exercise in stupid to install Israel’s hand picked puppets.
I share Kurt’s views on this despicable woman. As far as I am concerned she is not even an American. Her nasty butt should be shipped back to Calcutta. I also understand his thinking. The ugly truth is that America is full of broad-assed, wine-drunk, childless, single, college-educated, moronic women, and, yes, they all vote. Still, I think this dot-head will do far more harm than good. The days of splitting the difference are gone. Either we run the table or move to Paraguay.
As for the “Don’t Vote!” crowd, good. Just sit there and sulk all day and fantasize about actually doing something. Bah, humbug, indeed.
Yeah, I know things are rigged, and I also believe we can’t vote our way out of this. The day will come.
That said, until the day comes when they are marched out to the gallows, the game must be played. By voting you force them to stuff the ballot boxes and engage in obvious nonsense such as mail-in voting, lawfare, and the rest. Each time they do they are more exposed and more Normies catch on.
Hold your nose and vote.
You know things are rigged and we can’t vote our way out of this, then you tell us to vote? WTF?
Nothing and nobody can stop what’s coming.
Be realistic and vote with your feet and wallet.
Totally agree, former anon. Now, how can we get the chozenites out of our treasury?
Get back into regular workouts. Never know how far one may have to tote the bug out bag. Get stronger for when SHTF. Ain’t no joke. Plus when teenage kids expect $20 hr for helping out on the farm, strength, man, strength for the DIY requirements.
Keep in mind that at least some non-voters will be using their time to sort and inventory their stash of ammo on selection day.
Seems to me one should have already done that before the “time”, eh?
Perfect reason why Nikki, FJB, and other morons need to step up and let the “fine people” who are crossing our border illegally move into their own basements and live with their family.
Kurt likes Nikki because she’s a huge, warmongering, Zionist shill.
Nimrata does not pass the native born test. Neither of her parents were American citizens when she was born.
That is not an agreed-upon definition of natural born citizen.
Actually, it is … but it was obviously ignored with Kamal Toe … and, quite likely, with President Trump’s predecessor …
It’s Nimrata, not Nikki.
Nimrod-a
The dream ticket: Swammy and Nimarotten
Street shitters for the win!!! (For Israel)
Spot on Liberty!!! 🙂
Beep-Beep…….
Yup.
Yeah,about that.I won’t vote for Trump if he picks the bish.
No Hell No No Fuckin way Hell No
NO WAY IN FREAKING HELL SHOULD THIS WOMAN BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE. ESPECIALLY THE VP. AND ANYWAY SHE’S NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT. SHE CAN BE A GOVERNOR, A CONGRESS CRITTER, A SENATOR EVEN THE DOG CATCHER BUT SHE CAN’T BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HER PARENTS WERE NOT U.S. CITIZEN WHEN SHE WAS BORN AND EVEN BEING NATURALIZED SHE CAN’T BE PRESIDENT. THE SUPREME COURT WAS CLEAR ON THE MATTER BACK IN 1913.
Wonder if Nikki will pop the Epstein client list question in Iowa? Nah.
“They” are all in “it” TOGETHER.
Seems like a bad idea…once they have the VP they want they don’t need the President…jus sayin…
Right… Get Trump/Haley “elected”, then Trump gets JFK’d. Sounds like a great plan. /s
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
― Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
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Tucker Carlson calls Nikki a neoliberal in favor of endless wars and unchecked illegal invasion
Seems ever since ol’ Kurt started polishing Benny Netanyahu’s jewels he has completely and utterly lost the plot. What in the fuck is Schlichter thinking. Does he have a Deathwish for the presumptive Repub frontrunner. Come on Kurt, the last thing Trump needs is that cunt anywhere near the oval office. Maybe…
Hire as a maid to clean toilets but putting her 2IC is asking for trouble. She has no qualms blowing up Palestinian women and children in Gaza, destroying churches that are 1500 years old. So it won’t be much of a leap to get one her Neo-con freunds to rub one off, putting a bullet in the Orange One’s head, and not even bother to show up for the service when The Donald gets sent to the promised land..
The only thing missing from the article is the t-shirt
Hell … President Trump could win just by picking his nose or his toe jam … no need to pick this skank …
REQUIREMENTS TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT OR VP.
be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States; <<<<<<<THIS, THIS RIGHT HERE
be at least 35 years old;
be a resident in the United States for at least 14 years.[1]
I'm Sick of the Nimarata cheerleading, before you bother to run off all your good reasons, lets stop right there and check to see if She OR Vivek are even eligible to run for the office. Something that also effects the person playing VP right now. Are they even eligible ? If you wanna vet them, then start at the beginning with the first rule. ARE THEY EVEN ELIGIBLE ?? WHAT IS A NATURAL BORN U.S. CITIZEN ? The short answer to all three of them is NO.
And most importantly if he picks a female, he should pick Kristi Noem. Very Popular, Very smart, solid record over covid and her economy, very conservative and most importantly VERY COMMEN SENSE.
She would bring a lot of experience with her, something Nasty Nikki doesn't have. But she still has several more years left on her current term.
Catherine Austin Fitts for VP.
1,000 +
Just for shits & giggles…
2024 UNITED STATES ELECTIONS, PENDING CIVIL WAR: TRUMP, BIDEN AND THE 2030 WEF GLOBALIST AGENDA
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Minir v Happersett noted that a person been born in the land to two US citizens was of course a natural born citizen. That did not define natural born as such. In British common law (which guided the US framers) “natural born” meant simply born to (on) the land. Being born of two citizens AND born to the land was not understood as the standard definition at the time the constitution was drafted.
Ted Cruz is not natural born. Obama’s status depends on where he was born. A strong circumstantial case can be made that he was born in British Columbia. Both of his birth certificates were forgeries.
The case that he was born in Kenya-because his mud sharking mother was unable to get permission to board the Pan Am flight back to America because of her advanced pregnancy-is compelling. But when liberals are involved no amount of the truth is accepted.
Plus Kristi has much nicer looking boobs.
There are several million of us who will hold our noses and vote for Trump, but not if he runs with this harpie. The choice matters… Schlichter couldn’t be more wrong and out of touch.
Another myth about the “vote”, the old hold the nose trick sort of like the “lesser of evils” nonsense. SMDH
Kurt is a birdbrain when it comes to politics.
the cunt is an illegal alien. she is not eligible to be president of vice president, just as obama was a kenyan, the cunt is an indian citizen – not american -not anything except a vile cunt.
Trump would do well to have Sarah Palin as his VP choice.
Sarah is strong, proven loyal and experienced.
Haley. Yuck!
SamFox
And, as far as we know, she’s loyal to the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights … and I’ve not seen her shilling for israel …
Well, “whatever”.
I hear she is pretty good with a hockey stick.
Nimarata Haley, née Randhawa is first generation American of Indian descent. Her people are Sikhs. India’s culture is fundamentally tribal and has only the thinnest of western cultural veneer imposed by British colonial rule, it is widely understood to be reverting to pre colonial levels of tribalism, much of it based on religious identity. There is no fundamental western understanding of right and wrong in the common culture. Most interactions are based solidly on power dynamics. Chattel slavery is practiced, privately, very much in consequence of the reliance on power dynamics in interactions.
This is important to us as the power dynamic is fundamental. The dominant power is free to use subordinates in any manner it may choose. The subordinate must accept such use or find a means to escape it, suborn it or in some manner defeat it. Thus the acceptance of institutions such as chattel slavery.
Culture matters, the general deterioration of our culture does not need acceleration, Haley is not adequately acculturated to traditional western values to occupy a national leadership position.
So the premise of this ridiculous essay is that more people will vote for Trump if he picks a warmongering dimwit who might one day replace him, instead of someone like Vivek or Ron who might make a decent VP that actually accomplishes something useful? Nice try, Slick, but nobody is buying your condescending BS.
Stupid fucking article and idea. Haley is a RINO neocon globalist cunt. The author is under the crazy impression that voting matters anymore. The people in charge that want us all dead are going to install whoever the fuck they want to “lead” us into the 2030 endgame. Buckle up
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in Washington, D.C., touches the third rail without having a political death wish. And, of course, the third rail is ISRAEL. Every major presidential candidate—Democrat and Republican—is required to travel to Jerusalem, wear the little beanie and kiss the wall and the rings of Zionist benefactors, or he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of becoming president. EVERYONE knows that.
-Chuck Baldwin