Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 5:11PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Trump The Neocons Race/Genetics
... directed by the Donald. (When Harry Met Sally is an old chick flick* that I got this post title from.)
Peak Stupidity is certainly no fan of candidate Nimarata Randhawa, aka, Nikki Haley. We are sure she will lose the coming South Carolina GOP primary BIGLY to The Donald, with most of her votes to come from Democrats.**
The only reason the whole nation knows her name, at this point, is that Donald Trump appointed Haley his United Nations Ambassador on November 23rd of '16, when he was still President-elect.
The people of South Carolina, same as those in other Southern States that haven't been so immigrant-inundated yet (the counter-example being Virginia), are able to elect fairly Conservative State Reps/Senators and Governors. I'd say it's due to that "harmless bit of housekeeping, Amendment XVII of the US Constitution, that the same thing doesn't happen with US Senators... cough, Graham ... spit ...
What happens with the US Congressmen is that the gerrymandering is done with approval by most to fence in a few hard-core Black! districts, so there's that one fairly outspoken, often powerful, guy in the Black! caucus with his grift, reparations-boosterism, and other general Pissing & Moaning, while the rest of the districts get some decent Conservatives (those that haven't been tainted or succumbed to the Cocktail Party Theory of Political Stupidity). That one guy in S. Carolina, BTW is well-known and long=detested James Clyburn.
Going back to this short Peak Stupidity take on her, Nikki ("Little One") Haley (married name) was, as we all know, the daughter of immigrants (illegal or not***). She was born in 1972 in Bamberg, SC. Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, where she attended school, were heavily black, and still are. Other than wetbacks out on some of the farms, there were very very few immigrants in States like South Carolina, and the •Indian population would have been miniscule. Therefore little Nikki (that's redundant, it turns out) would have assimilated to society, and that society was White v Black, plain and simple. Her very birth year was the time that school integration was being completed, and guess where she went to school? Nikki was sent to one of the new private schools, specifically built to let White kids keep away from the violence and disruption of the black kids. None were allowed in her Orangeburg school until decades later.
The Randhawa parents, who are in fact Sikhs, came to the American South via Canada after leaving the northern Indian state of Punjab. Let me tell you, after obtaining his PhD in the 1969 Great White North of Vancouver, British Columbia, Ajit - that's the Dad**** - would have had his eyes OPENED WIDE within one week of starting his 30-year career teaching at "historically", aka, always-done-been-Black! Voorhees College in the small town of Denmark, SC. 30 years! I'm pretty sure little Nikki and/or brothers and sisters would have been sent back to the Old Country to live with Turbine-headed Granny first thing, had there been a hint of their assimilating to the other part of society. Having been assimilated to the White South, she was bound to turn out Conservative.
Once she obtained State legislative office, Mrs. Haley, now married to a man she met in her college years, indeed was a fairly typical strong Conservative, socially, fiscally, and all. You can read the whole Wiki page, but let me excerpt just one line - same as I'll do in the post on her Gubernatorial successor:
Haley was named a "Taxpayer Hero" by Governor Mark Sanford in 2005 and a "Friend of the Taxpayer" by the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers in 2009.Governor Sanford was the guy who had a fling with a lady down in S. America while he was, to the wife's knowledge, hiking the Appalachian trail.
Anyway, as for Governor Haley, there's not so much I'd criticize up through a certain point. The fact that her husband, Michael Haley*****, was a long-term member of the SC National Guard and has been deployed to "the Sandbox" has likely only slightly additionally solidified her "standard" Conservatism. In the Southern style, in an area with more military families than the nation on average, that means, yes, America, fuck yeah!!. That was not so bad a sentiment in years long past, but it's not truly Conservative at all anymore. Given the new huge Woke push in the military, making the Institution Offensive in yet a new way, some Southern Conservatives have finally seen the light.
South Carolina elected Nikki Haley Governor as another in the line of establishment Conservatives. The problems I have with her started only after she made the big-time. Big money is involved, such as with the deal to bring Boeing to Charleston for the 2nd 787 assembly plant. There's lots of MIC money for those at high levels. Now, the Haley's have a beautiful house on lovely Kiawah Island, away from the Capital city of Columbia, much less back in her hometown in Bamberg Country.
Additionally, with her husband's years of "service", and her family background, what would you expect from a GOPe "Little One" who makes the big-time at the Fed level other than the Invade the World/Invite the World mantra?
Why I've been calling her (T-SC), as in, Traitor, is due to something else entirely. Even after the State gave in to the Wokeness and took the Rebel Flag off the top of the State House - it'd flown 3rd, below the Palmetto (State) flag and the Stars & Stripes - it has been placed in a small area on the grounds with historical information. After one deranged young guy shot up a black Church in Charleston, the Governor signed a bill that stipulated removal of the flag entirely from the grounds.
That was in July of '15. Now that I read a little more, I realize the vote of 90-something to 20 in favor of removal is one that Governor Haley could not have successfully vetoed.
I'll admit I was wrong her in calling Nikki Haley a traitor for that. Now that I've seen video clips and excerpts from her campaign, I've got other things to call her a traitor for, in addition to another choice word favored by a certain someone ...
NOTE: This post was to be a one-part post to make just one point. I will make that point, but this background on Nikki and then Henry (McMaster) was pretty interesting, with its own points I wanted to make here. I hope the reader is somewhat interested also. Next, we'll discuss replacement SC Governor Henry McMaster much more briefly, and then get to the point... Anyone seen the point? Where's that confounded point??
* It was kind of boring, as chick flicks can often be, but back in that day, when a big movie came out, we felt obligated to go see it.
** It's a stupid way to run a party primary, is it not?
*** The requirements for the Office of US President require a clarification on this, not like anyone cares about the Constitution anymore, but hopefully the same goes for Mrs. Haley too.
**** I can't help but include the following clip, surely a repeat for us, just for the bit about the names:
Hey, they are from the Rhandawa family too, it sounds like.
***** He was also a graduate of a White private High School, albeit in a ritzier area, Hilton Head Prep. What else are ya' supposed ta do??
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - February 21st 2024 11:48AM MST
PS: I don't know Sikh customs as well as you do even, Mr. Blanc. ;-}
I'd forgotten that about the daughter. That may have had some BIG influence recently on Nikki's politics. I wonder if that was going on during the George Floyd nonsense.
I'd forgotten that about the daughter. That may have had some BIG influence recently on Nikki's politics. I wonder if that was going on during the George Floyd nonsense.
MBlanc46
Wednesday - February 21st 2024 10:50AM MST
PS NImrata might have developed standard conservative attitudes, but her daughter is a coalburner. If her parents, and presumably she, are Sikhs, why isn’t her middle name Kaur? I thought that all Sikh women had the middle name Kaur, just as all Sikh men have the middle name Singh. Just asking.
Moderator
Tuesday - February 20th 2024 7:42PM MST
PS: Neither to dominate the comment system nor bring the children into it, but after all, Mom and (American!) Dad Haley named their daughter Rena and their son Nalin.
I don't know - it's hard to tell now with those last name first names where these come from, but Rena and Nalin? It sounds like the MIL and/or FIL has some input. They both sound a little bit OT Biblical, but they are not.
I don't know - it's hard to tell now with those last name first names where these come from, but Rena and Nalin? It sounds like the MIL and/or FIL has some input. They both sound a little bit OT Biblical, but they are not.
Moderator
Tuesday - February 20th 2024 7:33PM MST
PS: As for "not fitting in" (same article), yeah, well, that's kind of the way it is when you move into a then-unified nation of people that HAVE belonged there for many decades or centuries. I surely don't doubt they didn't fit in in the 1970s. Even people from a different region of the country didn't fit in - it was an actual diverse country in that way.
I'm not sure I'd "fit in" myself, were I to move to the Punjab province of India, or any of them, especially with my own personal choice of headgear. That'd be a bright red MAGA hat. "No, no, you people don't get me. We're just a different sect, is all." Hmmm, how about a MAGA turban for the pro-Trump Sikhs. There's a business idea!
I'm not sure I'd "fit in" myself, were I to move to the Punjab province of India, or any of them, especially with my own personal choice of headgear. That'd be a bright red MAGA hat. "No, no, you people don't get me. We're just a different sect, is all." Hmmm, how about a MAGA turban for the pro-Trump Sikhs. There's a business idea!
Moderator
Tuesday - February 20th 2024 7:28PM MST
PS: "Not that anyone seems to care much about that anymore." True, and at least going back through '08. After all, even if you somehow can be sure that the Øb☭ma was born in Hawaii, his deadbeat Dad was no king of US Citizen, right?
From your "People" magazine article, time to debunk this a bit:
"They faced discrimination and racism in South Carolina"
"In her memoir, Haley detailed the struggle her parents had when looking for a place to live in South Carolina when they were first getting settled in the United States. Haley said no one would rent to her parents, in part because they were foreign-born and in part because her father was a professor at a "Black school" — the HBCU Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina."
Firstly, why the quotes around "Black school". I'm here to tell you - it's a black school.
I don't believe it. I'm pretty sure ANY landlord would have rather had a Professor (such as it was) Indian tenant family than black folks. Bidness IS bidness, after all.
"They had to buy a home instead, landing on a property in Bamberg, South Carolina, and Haley said even that came with conditions: They weren't allowed to host Black people in the house, they weren't permitted to have alcohol in the home and if they ever wanted to sell the property, they had to sell it to the people who originally sold it to them."
1st condition: How exactly would that be enforced, after the sale?
2nd: What's that, discrimination against Sikhs, the alcohol thing? I don't buy this one, but same thing, though - I don't know how you would specify this while selling your house. They didn't have gated communities much in 1970. especially in rural or small town S. Carolina.
3rd: That would be written in a contract as "first right of refusal", I think it is. They didn't have to sign on for that, but it must have been a better deal this way. That doesn't sound like any kind of discrimination against Sikhs. When would the next Sikh family arrive in Bamberg County, for cryin' out loud?
If they never got around to renting,
From your "People" magazine article, time to debunk this a bit:
"They faced discrimination and racism in South Carolina"
"In her memoir, Haley detailed the struggle her parents had when looking for a place to live in South Carolina when they were first getting settled in the United States. Haley said no one would rent to her parents, in part because they were foreign-born and in part because her father was a professor at a "Black school" — the HBCU Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina."
Firstly, why the quotes around "Black school". I'm here to tell you - it's a black school.
I don't believe it. I'm pretty sure ANY landlord would have rather had a Professor (such as it was) Indian tenant family than black folks. Bidness IS bidness, after all.
"They had to buy a home instead, landing on a property in Bamberg, South Carolina, and Haley said even that came with conditions: They weren't allowed to host Black people in the house, they weren't permitted to have alcohol in the home and if they ever wanted to sell the property, they had to sell it to the people who originally sold it to them."
1st condition: How exactly would that be enforced, after the sale?
2nd: What's that, discrimination against Sikhs, the alcohol thing? I don't buy this one, but same thing, though - I don't know how you would specify this while selling your house. They didn't have gated communities much in 1970. especially in rural or small town S. Carolina.
3rd: That would be written in a contract as "first right of refusal", I think it is. They didn't have to sign on for that, but it must have been a better deal this way. That doesn't sound like any kind of discrimination against Sikhs. When would the next Sikh family arrive in Bamberg County, for cryin' out loud?
If they never got around to renting,
Adam Smith
Tuesday - February 20th 2024 6:40PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed,
https://i.ibb.co/60VWrF6/Nikki-Haley-2024.jpg
https://archive.is/xtnTq
*** Nimrata Randhawa is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 a Natural-born Citizen. Nimrata was born on January 20, 1972. Her father became a U.S. citizen in 1978, while her mother was naturalized in 2003, according to the Associated Press.
https://people.com/nikki-haley-parents-what-to-know-8552209
(Not that anyone seems to care much about that anymore.)
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https://i.ibb.co/60VWrF6/Nikki-Haley-2024.jpg
https://archive.is/xtnTq
*** Nimrata Randhawa is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 a Natural-born Citizen. Nimrata was born on January 20, 1972. Her father became a U.S. citizen in 1978, while her mother was naturalized in 2003, according to the Associated Press.
https://people.com/nikki-haley-parents-what-to-know-8552209
(Not that anyone seems to care much about that anymore.)
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Nikita isn’t a Traitor: Foreign ruler, especially a •Indian, is going to be true to her own tribe first.