Darling Nikki

 

.@BarackObama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work & personal responsibility matter. My parents didn’t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my…

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) June 16, 2023

Dearly Beloveds, are we here again? Yes, and while I will boost Michael Harriot for gathering this whole little fool's backstory for all and sundry to read, her scattershot missives against diversity and putting down people who haven't risen as yeastily as she has in her life have become something of a theme. She once very opportunistically delivered a scathingly dumb opinion on the Confederate flag.  She can say the US isn't racist when she faces incoming fire from her own side. 

She knows better, but she just can't do any better. She literally once said that GA Senator Raphael Warnock should be deported. To where? Did she mean "sent back to Africa?" I think she did. 

So let me ask you all very truly: what does Nikki Haley think is the bad thing when she tries to say that a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for his VP. Kamala Devi Harris?  Because in every presidential election, it's been understood that a running mate is someone who can take over the presidency in the event something happens to the president--it isn't new.  Dan Quayle, Joe Biden, Al Gore. People do get to be VP's.

Does she have a problem with Vice-President Harris' foreign policy chops? Her seriousness? Her commitment to public service?

Or is she just saying something about Harris that is ironic as fuck coming from her mouth? About the quality of her identity. And the weirdness of someone of her identity serving in this role. When--

Darling Nikki, Put down the magazine. 

 

This is a Victory Today.

 

Thank you, Georgia. We did it again. pic.twitter.com/jikuO5Kt8S

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) December 7, 2022

I am so pleased that the good people of Georgia saw their way through and voted for a good man over whatever Herschel Walker is. You have a good senator and escaped a whole strata of nonsense. It's a triumph of competence over heavy partisan promotion.

UPDATE: Here's a pretty good recap of the 2022 Georgia Senate race, but I do have a bone to pick:

Mr. Walker’s loss will almost certainly lead to soul-searching for a Republican Party that must decide heading into the 2024 election how firmly to tether itself to a former president who has now absorbed powerful political blows in three successive campaign cycles. 

"Almost certain"?  You would think so, you really would, but counterpoint, even if they do, how honest is the party willing to be about their messaging and their appetite for "Celebrity Apprentice" candidates like Walker and Dr. Oz? 

In other things the GOP should re-think: prioritize getting people to vote over complaining about voter fraud. (After all--where has election-denial gotten them?)

As for Democrats--the takeaway should be to run as Democrats and form coalitions of voters who are motivated by the promise of good government and dedication. But Warnock's still-close win feels like it is in many ways more attributable to an impossibly awful Republican candidate in a state which, even with two Democratic senators, is still so red.  

Herschel Walker in the House

 

Sometimes when we want to define a thing, we ask "What do you call it when it is at home?" If you wanted to define Herschel Walker (recognizing his pronoun is not that of a "thing" even if he proclaims no understanding of what a pronoun is) , I can tell you readily what to call Herschel Walker when he is at home:

A Texan. 

But the real reason I'm envisioning Walker in his house is because that is where he seems to be envisioning himself. In the basically tied US House (or Senate--hard to say):

In a brief interview with POLITICO on Saturday, Walker seemed to mistake which chamber of Congress he was running for and also appeared to think the outcome of his race would determine control of the Senate.

“They’re not [less motivated] because they know right now that the House will be even so they don’t want to understand what is happening right now,” he said of voters. “You get the House, you get the committees. You get all the committees even, they just stall things within there. So if we keep a check on Joe Biden, we just going to keep a check on him.”

This is a C- effort on a Civics quiz. It's a whole F as far as someone actually running for the Senate goes. As in W. T. F.

 He really does not seem to know what he's running for. And yet, I still think (while I'm optimistic for Warnock) this will be close and it's a shame that Warnock has to be purely exemplary, and a Republican can go ahead and be...this.