In calling out Trump, Nikki Haley warns of a more sinister threat

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Jan. 7, one day after a horde of Donald Trump's supporters brazenly, disgracefully and illegally broke into the U.S. Capitol Building, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and former United Nations ambassador under Trump, rightfully called out the president for his unchecked, poisonous rhetoric during her remarks before the Republican National Committee's winter meeting.

Said Haley, in part: "President Trump has not always chosen the right words. He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time. He was badly wrong with his words yesterday. And it wasn't just his words. His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history."

Haley is correct. Trump should - and will - be judged very harshly by history. The more one learns, the worse it looks for the president for a few more days.

But, on the heels of that necessary denunciation of Trump, Haley also warned of what might turn out to be a much more corrosive threat to the already unravelling fabric of our republic: the rise of censorship and the "cancel culture."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-calling-out-trump-nikki-haley-warns-of-a-more-sinister-threat/ar-BB1cOsOG?li=BBnb7Kz

Seriously?

[cp]

1. Haley, you idiot, he meant everything he said

[Xipe Totec]

2. Nice try, Nikki Daylate. nt

[dalton99a]

3. The Trump regime never suppressed information and never tried to cancel Democratic votes

[Binkie The Clown]

4. My bullshit detector just starting ringing like a 5 alarm fire. nt

[Voltaire2]

5. Haley had four years to distance herself from the fascist wing of the party

and instead opportunistically allied herself with it. Now she sees her presidential ambitions in tatters and opportunistically wants to distance herself from the same fascist goobers she supported right up until Jan 7 2021.

Fork that noise.

[MontanaMama]

6. So Hayley and Comey are now on record

saying that we should treat Traitor45 and his band of terrorists with kid gloves and let them say and do what they want because no stop them is a threat to our republic. FFS. No. Just no.

[texasfiddler]

7. I am all for cancelling the racist, anti-democratic, anti-truth, anti-science GOP culture.

[halfulglas]

8. Really? Does the more "gentle" right wing want us to believe this meme?

Are we really supposed to believe that what they want to call "cancel culture" - determining what we want to spend our hard earned money on, is much more corrosive to democracy than storming the Capitol and murder? Trying to overturn election votes already certified by the states? This isn't the first time I've heard this, but at any other time I would laugh out loud at them. Right now it's sad. Besides, they renaming it "cancel culture" does not absolve them from the harshness of their use of "cancel culture" during Bush's reign. Should we talk about the Dixie Chicks, how about Dan Rather? They tried to rename French fried for Dog's sake.

[stopdiggin]

9. but -- "look over here!"

She's a snake -- and nothing less.
(the real danger is, the entire Republican field for 2024 will sport an advantage of IQ 20 points greater than Trump)

[LizBeth]

10. Soft dismiss redefine. The way she is trying to manipulate the wording. I would expect that from a

mother with a little kid or whatever, but not with the President of U.S. what bullshit the kid glove we wear for Trump. Jut pathetic.

[GemDigger]

11. Buzz off nikki, you are just as shitty as the rest of your party.

No one in your party is considered trustworthy, including yourself.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Douglas MacKinnon worked for Reagan and Bush sr., and this seems to mean for Haley, now

Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and former special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three years of the Bush administration.

More gold from McKinnon:

Is Donald Trump one of the smartest presidents in US history?

...
If the definition of “smart,” at least for this purpose, folds in raw intelligence, street smarts, intuition, real-world experience, business success, job creation, wealth creation, a fighter’s instinct, and knowing when to roll the dice or to bluff, then Trump might stand relatively high on the presidential “smarts” pyramid.

Just the fact that he got himself elected president of the United States on his “first try,” as he says — on his own, against all odds, as an outsider with zero political experience, amid ridicule and attacks by both political parties, the mainstream media, Hollywood and academia — should get Trump honorable mention for top billing.

For nearly five decades, reporters and rivals have been writing the “End of Trump’s 15 Minutes of Fame” obituary. Except that, on Jan. 20, 2017, this purported failure and human asterisk to fame, business success and history was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

This “Very Stable Genius” is up for reelection in November. Most likely, those who dislike the man who has continually beaten the odds and the predictions of failure will have to try to beat him at the ballot box and not with doomed-to-failure political tricks.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/479815-is-donald-trump-one-of-the-smartest-presidents-in-us-history

What an arselicker.

[Hortensis]

13. Playing both sides as usual. Everyone who wants to like her can,

just choose the comments targeted at your type of useful idiot and ignore the rest. SOP for bad pols.

[wishstar]

14. Haley lost all credibility when she claimed he was a "truthful person"

she did have good timing in leaving her UN post to be on Boeing's board of directors and then leaving that lucrative position before their malfeasance was exposed and they were charged with fraud.