You knew it was coming.
As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by him. Any front-runner would do the same thing. But Trump did it with his typical touch.
Last week Trump reposted on his Truth Social account a conspiracy theory that Haley, who was born in South Carolina, was not qualified to be president because her parents, born in India, were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth. In fact, the Fourteenth Amendment establishes that any person born on American soil is a citizen of the United States and therefore can serve as president.
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By Friday the former president of the United States was referring to Haley as “Nimbra.”
There are two things to know in order to understand what’s unfolding. The first is that Haley’s given name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has gone by Nikki since she was a child—a local newspaper referred to her as Nikki when she was 12 years old and she had a role in a production of Li’l Abner; and she dropped her maiden name when she married Michael Haley in 1996.
I feel like the media just has to pretend it’s a new story to keep people engaged.
It’s the same with all this generational crap:
Gen X: “They are slackers who never leave their parents’ basement and don’t want to work. How will society survive?”
Millenials: “They are slackers who never leave their parents’ basement and don’t want to work. How will society survive?”
Gen Z: "“They are slackers who never leave their parents’ basement and don’t want to work. How will society survive?”
And then we all get cultural amnesia and pretend that none of this has ever been said before.
Hell, I’m pretty sure they said this about boomers too in the 60s, though I wasn’t around.
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If anything, it seems the kids are even better now than before, but I may be biased because my nibling and nephew are turning out to be straight up awesome people
This Xer really has hope for Z. As a group they seem to have figured out that a lot of our norms are bullshit to serve the 1% much quicker than we X-er’s did, and quicker than it seems like Millennials did too.
Saw this recentlyish and saved it. 100% validates your point, and goes back even further than you’d believe.
I’m saving this! That’s … really far back!
Right? About time people stopped accepting it.