{"id":80137,"date":"2023-02-18T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80137"},"modified":"2023-02-17T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T23:14:24","slug":"nikki-haleys-presidential-bid-is-clearly-doomed-because-she-uses-her-middle-name-let-me-read-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/18\/nikki-haleys-presidential-bid-is-clearly-doomed-because-she-uses-her-middle-name-let-me-read-that-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley’s presidential bid is clearly doomed because … she uses her middle name? Let me read that again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Treacher<\/a> (whose name I should now probably put in scare quotes because it’s a nom-de-plume<\/em>) explains why Nikki Haley is a no-hoper in the next Republican presidential primaries:<\/p>\n

As I revealed over a decade ago, “Jim Treacher” isn’t my real name. This is just a message-board pseudonym that got way out of hand, and now I guess I’m stuck with it. My government name is Robert Sean Medlock, but my parents have always called me Sean. I don’t know why they didn’t just name me Sean Robert Medlock, but I was in no position to argue my case at the time because I couldn’t talk yet.<\/p>\n

So now, every time I need to fill out paperwork somewhere, I have to explain that I go by my middle name. Doctors, dentists, car repairs, insurance, what have you. The routine is kind of annoying, but at this point I’m used to it.<\/p>\n

I’m not deceiving anybody by using my middle name. It’s just my name, man. Lots of people go by their middle name.<\/p>\n

In other news: This week Nikki Haley announced she’s running for president. I don’t know if she has a shot, but the libs sure seem to think so. They’re already attacking her for … going by her middle name.<\/p>\n

Check out this idiot:<\/p>\n

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She didn’t. Her birth name was Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. Not “Nimrata”, as it’s commonly misspelled by supposedly sophisticated libs:<\/p>\n

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My goodness. Guess it runs in the family, huh?<\/p>\n

The Randhawa family referred to their daughter as Nikki, which is Punjabi for “little one”. And she changed her last name to Haley when she married a man named Michael Haley.<\/p>\n

Y’know, like Hillary Rodham did when she married Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Here’s another dummy, who of course works for CNN:<\/p>\n

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Yeah. Wait. What?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if that scandal wasn’t enough to sink Nikki Haley’s chances utterly, CNN’s Don Lemon<\/a> helpfully points out that she’s way, way, way<\/em> past her peak:<\/p>\n

Now, you know I’m not one to cry sexism often. Frankly, when I found out a hot college professor of mine had been fired for doing a #MeToo, I was offended for not being involved. I’d gone to office hours, for godsakes. But there is sexism this week we have to call out. Nikki Haley announced she is running for president. She’s a reasonable Republican candidate who is, of course, a long shot against Trump. There are plenty of ways to criticize her politics, but for some reason a bunch of people we are meant to respect tried to say that the real problem is that she’s a woman, that she’s not young, and that she’s Indian. <\/p>\n

You may think I’m exaggerating. <\/p>\n

Here is Don Lemon on CNN: “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry”, he says, looking to camera, a little smile on his face. “When a woman is considered to be in her prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s …” His co-hosts, both women, balk. (“Prime for what?”) But Lemon keeps going. Watch the extremely stressful video<\/a> here, where he goes on … and on … about how Nikki Haley, who is 51, cannot criticize Biden’s age. Because women peak in their 20s, and she’s long past that. <\/p>\n

Or here’s progressive hero Mary Trump, Donald’s niece, who disavowed him and became a star of the intelligentsia. She decided that the best way to insult Nikki Haley this week was by highlighting that she’s Indian, because Nikki is her middle name. Again, this is a real statement Mary Trump released on Twitter<\/a>: “First of all, fuck you Nimrata Haley.” Sorry, I’m slow: If you’re a white person trying to insult someone who’s not white and you do it by highlighting their race, what’s that called again? I’m sure there’s a Robin DiAngelo chapter on this somewhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Treacher (whose name I should now probably put in scare quotes because it’s a nom-de-plume) explains why Nikki Haley is a no-hoper in the next Republican presidential primaries: As I revealed over a decade ago, “Jim Treacher” isn’t my real name. This is just a message-board pseudonym that got way out of hand, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28,53,13],"tags":[80,1329,99,517,413,43],"class_list":["post-80137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-names","tag-nikkihaley","tag-racism","tag-republican","tag-scandal","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kQx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80143,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80137\/revisions\/80143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}