>>20181685

Alan.

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>>20181886

Greetings Alannowshutup.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6823155/Alan-Krueger-noted-economist-served-Obama-died.html📁

"It is with tremendous sadness we share that Professor Alan B. Krueger, beloved husband, father, son, brother, and Princeton professor of economics took his own life over the weekend,' a statement from his family reads."

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>>20181935

>Alan B. Krueger

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>>20182008

>5 year old news

>Alan.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/03/nikki-haley-in-2015-americans-should-not-call-illegal-aliens-criminals-because-theyre-not/

Nikki Haley in 2015: Americans Should Not Call Illegal Aliens ‘Criminals’ Because ‘They’re Not’

breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/03/nikki-haley-in-2015-americans-should-not-call-illegal-aliens-criminals-because-theyre-not

January 3, 2024

John Binder

3 Jan 20241,744

3:02

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), now running in the Republican presidential primary, previously said Americans should not describe illegal aliens “as criminals,” suggesting that doing so is “disrespectful.”

In July 2015, a month after then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his candidacy with a speech centered on stemming illegal immigration, Haley joined a panel with the Aspen Institute moderated by then-CEO Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson, in his final question, asked Haley “As a family of immigrants from India, how does that inform your thinking on the immigration debate and what do you feel about the tone of the immigration debate as it has recently turned?”

Haley, in response, said that while Americans are rightfully frustrated with illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border, she urged the audience not to use language like “criminals” to describe illegal aliens because “they’re not.” She said:

So I think that what we have to remember and what I’ve always believed is that we’re a country of laws. That is what’s made us strong so it’s incredibly frustrating for a lot of people when they see the illegal immigrants being able to come across. It really is astonishing that after all these years, D.C. can’t figure out how to build a wall. It really is, after all of what they spend.

Having said that, we are a country of immigrants. I am the proud daughter of Indian parents who reminded us every day how blessed we are to live in this country. They resent when people come here illegally. But let’s keep in mind, these people who are wanting to come here, they’re wanting to come for a better life too. They have kids too. They have a heart too, so we don’t need to be disrespectful. We don’t need to talk about them as criminals, they’re not. They’re families that want a better life and they’re desperate to get here.

[Emphasis added]

What we need to do is make sure we have a set of laws that we follow and we go through with that. I think that some things have been said that are unfortunate and wrong but I think we also need to remember, especially for all of us … tone and communication matters and people matter. We don’t ever need to talk about this in a cold-hearted way … be kinder than necessary. [Emphasis added]

https://youtu.be/VFeJlAPwKi8

Haley’s prior comments are contrasted against her recent statements, wherein she has vowed a “catch and deport” policy where the federal government is barred from releasing illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.

“What we need to do is when you catch them, you deport them back from where they came,” Haley told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle in an interview last year.

“You can’t allow them in this country. My parents always said, ‘If someone doesn’t follow the law to come into this country, they won’t follow the law when they get into this country.’ We have got to stop the bleeding,” she said.

https://youtu.be/VFeJlAPwKi8

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/01/04/trump-totally-should-pick-nikki-haley-for-his-veep-n2633111

Trump Totally Should Pick Nikki Haley for His Veep

townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/01/04/trump-totally-should-pick-nikki-haley-for-his-veep-n2633111

Kurt SchlichterJanuary 4, 2024

OPINION

Kurt Schlichter

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Jan 04, 2024

Let me make it clear from the beginning that I think Nikki Haley (R-Boeing) is a vapid establishment automaton who is basically the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party, a Bushesque mediocrity who represents a dying ideology that peaked in 2005, and good riddance to it. She’s the worst – self-righteous, annoying, always spewing grrrl-power nonsense and hack clichés salvaged from the back catalog of the Weekly Standard. She’s a disaster on every level, one of those people who is both very aggressive and always wrong, the worst possible combination. That being said, should he win the nomination, Nikki! should absolutely be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick

Stop laughing. I am serious. I am not being ironic. It makes sense. Hear me out.

Look at it from Donald Trump‘s perspective. She’s absolutely the person he should pick if he wins the nomination. I don’t like it. I don’t want it. But it’s a fact. She’s awful. She’s arrogant. She’s a squish. The thought of four years of that nattering nabob of nonsense – apologies to William Safire – is positively agonizing. But Donald Trump’s most important task is to get elected, and she would be the best choice to help him do it.

I hate writing that so much. But it’s true.

No, wait a minute, hasn’t Donald Trump slammed her? Not really. He’s been remarkably gentle with her, probably because he knows she’s his best choice. Even his nickname for her – the uncharacteristically unimaginative “Birdbrain” – is soft and spongy. I do need to point out, however, that in the week of her amazing “Anything but slavery” gaffe, it was pretty obvious that Trump needed to start calling her “Byrdbrain.” What a missed opportunity!

No, Donald Trump has been very nice to her. He’s reserved his fire for Ron DeSantis, a competent and effective conservative governor – in contrast to Nikki Haley – who provides real competition for the nomination, also in contrast to Nikki Haley. Everyone knows Nikki Haley‘s going to lose the nomination. Even Nikki Haley knows she’s going to lose. She’s been quite obviously running for vice president the entire time. She wants the gig. And there’s a lot that she brings to the table.

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What does she bring to the table? Well, stupid people. There are a lot of people out there who think she’s a great politician and a great choice. I’m not one of them. If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re not one of them, but they are out there. Many don’t like Joe Biden, and many don’t like Donald Trump, but adding her to the ticket can win them over to the GOP. Winning the election is about addition, not subtraction. This isn’t the time to pick a favorite of the people he’s already got nailed down. Someone like Kari Lake or Vivek Ramaswamy is very popular with the Trump base, but Trump doesn’t need to win the Trump base because they are already the Trump base. They will fall in line, grumbling maybe, but fall in line they will. He has to expand the Trump base. I think Ron DeSantis would expand the base alone, but if he’s not on the ballot, Trump will need to expand beyond the Trump base. And Nikki Haley expands the Trump base. I don’t particularly dig the people she will bring in, but the point is to win, not to make people like me happy about how Trump does it.

It’s all about winning. Sigh.

He needs her to win over the doubters. For some reason, suburban women seem to like Nikki Haley. I don’t understand it, but the facts are the objective facts. Now, suburban women are the worst people in the universe, living proof that the 19th Amendment needs an asterisk to exclude anybody who prefers oaky Chardonnay. But there are many of these wine women, and they all vote. A good chunk of them will vote for a Republican ticket if it has Nikki Haley on it. Maybe it’s her girl power nonsense. Maybe it’s the fact that she looks like someone who tells you to use your inside voice. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. She wins over people Trump couldn’t win over alone.

And she brings in the Establishment. No one hates the Establishment more than me. They are terrible people with an unbroken track record of failure. They brought us McCain, and they brought us Romney, and they are utterly incapable of analyzing why they lost or understanding the rise of Trump. But there are many of them, and they’ll stay home if it is Donald Trump and somebody like Donald Trump on the ticket. Nikki Haley appeals to them because she’s just the kind of decline management Republican they seem to adore, one who won’t take any hard positions that upset the folks down at the country club. It is better to have them on the inside of the tent than on the outside, peeing on it.

It’s not just that they will vote for her but that they will write her checks. She’s the donors’ gal because she’s the kind of pol the big donors love. Big Republican donors are mostly idiots. Their political instincts are awful, and they cannot learn from repeated mistakes. That’s why they love her. That and the fact that she’s willing to do whatever they want and adopt every dumb position they want, whether it’s allowing in endless hordes of illegal aliens, genuflecting at the altar of companies like Disney, or not making fellow swells upset by banning the mutilation of children. With her on the ticket, they will send money. Trump will need money because it’s all going to lawyers right now. And while I typically like lawyers being paid a lot of money, I also like the Republican Party having enough money to compete in the general election. Nikki Haley brings that to the table – the bottomless checkbooks of sucker GOP donors, and that’s not nothing.

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>>20182316

>townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/01/04/trump-totally-should-pick-nikki-haley-for-his-veep-n2633111

But shouldn’t we worry that Nikki Haley will somehow have a big influence in a Trump 2.0 administration? Frankly, no, though I’m sure she imagines she will. I think it will look like four seasons of “Veep,” with Nikki Haley as a less amusing version of Selena Meyer, constantly asking if the president called and being told he has not. That brings us to another vital attribute of Nikki Haley. She’s not going to overshadow Trump. And she’s not going to have any influence. She can get in there and advocate for whatever dumb war she’s supporting this week or whatever idiotic social fetish she refuses to fight, and Trump is going to do whatever he wants. The only problem is if somehow Trump falls out and she falls into the Oval Office. But Trump’s pretty robust. He’ll certainly live through his term, if only for spite.

Now, the ultra-mega-MAGA Trump people properly detest Nikki Haley. I mean, they just despise her, which is to their credit. But they love Trump even more. Hell, he announced we ought to reward the fascist FBI with a spectacular new building, and they cheered as genius what last week they would (correctly) call treachery. So, if he picks Nikki Haley, they will all support it. They’re going to swallow it whole and applaud. You’ll have @FatMAGADeadbeatDad69 putting out reams of memes about how this is a brilliant 27-dimension chess move. A few people will ask, “What the hell are you thinking?” They won’t get a good answer and’ll still fall in line in November.

I will fall in line in November. I’m going to vote for whoever the Republican nominee is. If the Republicans are intent on nominating Trump instead of a disciplined and effective governor who is not hated by 53% of voters and who has a really good chance of winning, I’m in. Would a Trump Haley ticket have a good chance of winning? I don’t think it would have a good chance of winning, but it would have a better chance than a Donald Trump/Anyone Else ticket.

If you think I’m happy about a situation where I think the Republican candidate would be cunning to pick Nikki Haley for any job not involving a mop and bucket, you are wrong. I’m not happy about this. I’m very, very sad. We still have a chance to avoid it by nominating DeSantis (who would pick Iowa’s Kim Reynolds for VP), but if we don’t avoid it, I don’t see a better pick for Trump in terms of winning the election as opposed to actually governing – fortunately, a vice president doesn’t actually govern. A vice president usually gets sent overseas to attend the funeral of Finland’s Secretary of Ennui and Reindeer Affairs. And standing there in the snow listening to the eulogy for some depressed Nordic elk wrangler seems like a great job for Nikki Haley.

Do I think Trump would pick her? I think Trump would do it in a heartbeat. After all, we all know his personnel selection track record, and he’s already picked Nikki Haley once for a big job.

Follow Kurt on Twitter @KurtSchlichter. Get the newest volume in the Kelly Turnbull People’s Republic series of conservative action novels set in America after a notional national divorce, the bestselling Amazon #1 Military Thriller, Overlord! And pre-order his new novel of terrorism in America, The Attack!

Nikki Haley Makes Statement About 'Correcting' Iowa Voters, and It Isn't Going Over Well

redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/01/04/nikki-haley-makes-statement-about-iowa-voters-that-may-not-go-over-well-n2168277

January 4, 2024

By Nick Arama | 11:18 AM on January 04, 2024

We're getting ready for the GOP primary season to really kick off later this month. The GOP candidates have been hitting all the early states, like Iowa and New Hampshire, trying to consolidate and increase their support and heighten their numbers.

But when you're trying to get people to vote for you, it may not be a good thing to say that their actions need to be "corrected."

However, GOP candidate Nikki Haley got herself into a bit of trouble when she did that while she was talking to voters in New Hampshire. She was talking with them about what Iowa voters would do and then she commented on how they, the New Hampshire voters, would "correct" what was done in the Iowa caucuses later this month.

New Hampshire Nikki supporters and Nikki literally laughing and mocking Iowa voters. The audio and visual is just brutal for her.

pic.twitter.com/YdtoxPmC1n

— HJoseph (@DontShedOnMe_1) January 4, 2024

“We have an opportunity to get this right. And I know we’ll get it right, and I trust you. I trust every single one of you. You know how to do this. You know Iowa starts it. You know that you correct it,” she said at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

“And then my sweet state of South Carolina brings it home. That’s what we do,” she added.

What does she think needs correcting? It sounds like she thinks she isn't going to do well in Iowa, but she feels like she has a better shot in New Hampshire.

The problem? While those voters in New Hampshire laughed, some believed that those remarks would not play very well in Iowa.

They're not gonna like this in Iowa… https://t.co/LBYhsLJVF7

— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 4, 2024

Iowa local news outlets are already covering it, saying Haley is now finding herself in "hot water."

“Nikki Haley’s finding herself in hot water.”

WATCH: Local Iowa news is already covering Nikki Haley insulting every Iowa caucus goer. pic.twitter.com/IsumPrOEax

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) January 4, 2024

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (who has endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis) also shot back at Haley, "I trust Iowans to make their own decisions. No 'corrections' needed."

I trust Iowans to make their own decisions. No “corrections” needed!

— Kim Reynolds (@KimReynoldsIA) January 4, 2024

Her comments may not help when she's supposedly neck. and neck with DeSantis.

DeSantis and Haley are currently neck and neck in the state, polling at an average of 18 percent and 17.1 percent, respectively, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling average. However, it’s unlikely that either candidate will catch former President Trump, who is polling at an average of 51.6 percent in Iowa.

DeSantis and Haley are scheduled for separate CNN town halls in Des Moines, Iowa, that will be aired back-to-back Thursday.

Haley also has had some problems lately with comments about the Civil War (not mentioning slavery as a cause) and being called a flip-flopper like John Kerry by a nine-year-old boy in New Hampshire.

Tucker Carlson Outlines Nikki Haley as Favored UniParty Operative – Vivek Ramaswamy Agrees

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/03/tucker-carlson-outlines-nikki-haley-as-favored-uniparty-operative-vivek-ramaswamy-agrees

January 4, 2024

The gist of the Tucker Carlson outlook is: You thought Democrats were going to dump Biden for Gavin Newsom, but they’re not. They’re backing Nikki Haley instead.

In this discussion segment, Tucker Carlson and Vivek Ramaswamy outline how Nikki Haley is the perfect candidate for the administrative state in Washington DC. WATCH:

https://youtu.be/EK50PjZxAJ4

HUMA, WOW

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1742966675618590739https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1742966675618590739

Yesterday was Seth Rich’s birthday. John Doe 107 is Huma Abedin. It was revealed yesterday that she got an extension to keep her name from being released until January 22, 2024.

Happy Birthday. Seth. The bastards are going down!

12:50 PM · Jan 4, 2024

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