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It's so strange how the press covers Nikki Haley like she actually matters.
I’m so glad young people no longer watch cable news. I hope it continues
I'm not sure that getting your "news" from random TikToks is any better...
They're not random, they're likely carefully curated (by algorithm) to maximize profits and promote the interests of it's owner, who is that again?
If Trump is unable to be president because of Court cases that should rule that way (will they? Flip a coin...), then Haley has a pretty good chance of beating DeSantis. So yeah, she does matter.
I'd rather her over the others because she's not so MAGA and far-right.
I'll be voting for Biden either way.
People are complaining about not having better options than two old guys, but are also complaining that their rivals are getting coverage during the primary season.
She’s been backed by a few mega donors who are able to push media coverage if I recall correctly
24 hours a day of drama to fill. Gotta cover something
She is easy on the eyes and can generally make coherent points. That makes her a very small minority within the GOP.
"The Civil War was about state rights."
Coherent.
Pick one.
You understand what she is trying to communicate, it's s shitty hateful lying message but you understand it. Compare it to the rambling insanity we have all had to deal with since 2016.
By the way to be clear I am not going to vote for her.
He most certainly is not.
330 million people in the US and both parties are going to run a candidate who should, by rights, be considered medically unfit for office.
I hate it here.
Do you have any proof at all that Biden is mentally unfit, or are you just repeating what TikTok says?
All I see is that he's old, his stutter has gotten worse, and he tripped over a sandbag once.
A mental aptitude test for all politicians is a great idea actually
This could be weaponized as a tool of discrimination to keep minority groups or the impoverished out of office by constructing purposefully confusing questions. Just like the Jim Crow Era laws requiring people pass literacy tests to vote.
This.
It has to be something really really unassailable. Age would be a good starter.
Requiring candidates to release their IRS records in order to appear on the ballot is another close second.
I get the problem, but I don't think it's really applicable. Voting is a basic right of every citizen of the country. Presidency is not for everyone. You wouldn't want a translator who doesn't know the languages they're supposed to translate? Why would you accept a president who is, let's say mentally challenged?
I could understand objecting to specifics, like why should mental aptitude get tested, but I don't understand being against the whole idea. IMO presidency is like a job and like most jobs there are specific requirements that a person needs to meet to be fit for that job. I don't think it's unreasonable to have certain expectations of people who are running for president.
I mean... Trump did take a mental fitness test, and failed so miserably he genuinely thought he had passed it. Person-woman-man-camera-tv, anyone? And that was years ago, he's certainly lost even more of his faculties since then.
There's basically 3 rules to be president:
If Trump can't be barred from running for his role in Jan 6, there's no way adding more requirements will somehow fix things.
Whatever, really. She's probably 6-8 weeks from turning around and endorsing him anyway.
Trump hasn't been mentally fit since prior to the end of the apprentice
Narrator: of course he’s not fit.
But neither are his voters, who would rather burn the world down out of hatred and spite than accept defeat.
Haley needed to be saying this stuff 2 years ago.
She's clearly just a spineless flip flopping politician.
Why is that even a question in 2024
No. The answer is no.
Go gloves off you pussy bitch Nikki Haley. You think your orange idol would hold back?
Haley waited too long to go in for the kill, and that just shows she isn't the right material. She's going to pander to Trump's base who believe his obvious lies. They will vote for Trump. These clowns don't have the first idea about strategy or commanding power or assessing the electorate.
Questions it? The answer to that question has been thoroughly documented.
What is with america and demented old fools as presidents? You guys have some kinda fetish or what