Great Twitter Post

[NowISeetheLight]

A short while ago Nikki Haley posted about how great the old times were. A friend sent me this tonight. I think it's pretty accurate.

[madaboutharry]

1. Nikki Haley is full of shit.

Every time she opens her mouth out pours a pile of nonsense, sanctimonious bullshit, and a bunch of “Hey, look at me I’m a phony” stupidity.

[FakeNoose]

2. I can't imagine Haley snagging any votes from Chump

She's really going to fade quickly, I bet she'll be out of the race before the end of this year.

The only way Haley could grab any votes at all, is if she suddenly went pro-choice. I think it would work in her favor because right now she's the only woman running and she could grab some indie votes.

There are plenty of MAGAts and regular Repukes who are closet pro-choice ... they're just afraid to say it out loud. But she won't do that, so she'll fade quickly.

[Timewas]

3. Yes

All that and every summer we had to wonder who was going to get Polio? Til the vaccine came out.

[SergeStorms]

20. I remember long lines of kids in school....

all waiting for their inoculations. They'd watch the other kids getting their shots (this was before they implemented the sugar cubes) and all the sudden you'd hear "WHUMP". Some kid had passed out, mostly from fear of the needle I guess.

Then another "WHUMP", and then another "WHUMP", "WHUMP", "WHUMP, "WHUMP".

Kids were fainting like flies. They finally moved the waiting line out into the hallway so no one could see the needles penetrating little arms.

The polio inoculation was the first time the vast majority of kids had a shot. They were terrified.

Great fun!

[Timewas]

22. Yep

In the Gym at school......

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Remember back in 1964 when only 100 Indians a year were allowed to immigrate to the USA. Good Times.

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The first wave of Indian immigrants found work mainly in the agriculture, lumber, and railroad industries. Although their presence remained relatively small through the early the 20th century, they and other non-European migrants were the target of a series of laws in 1917, 1921, and 1924, which, among other exclusionary measures, eventually banned Indian immigrants altogether. While the Luce-Celler Act of 1946 established a yearly quota of 100 Indian immigrants, it was the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that removed national-origin quotas altogether, paving the way for non-European arrivals. Educational exchange programs, new temporary visas for highly skilled workers, and expanded employment-based immigration channels opened pathways for highly skilled and educated Indian immigrants, many of whom brought family. From 1980 to 2019, the Indian immigrant population in the United States increased 13-fold (see Figure 1).



https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/indian-immigrants-united-states-2019

PS. Fuck you Nikki


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[ShazzieB]

5. Fuck her is right!

I can't stand that woman. She represents everything I hate about Republican women, with a side of additional contempt for the way she hides her ethnic background.

Has she come out in favor of eliminating bthright citizenship yet? Just wondering, because that seems to be a favored Republican stance right now. As someone who was born in the U.S. to immigrant parents, I'm curious about how she views that!

[Codifer]

6. Don't forget Polio.

I still remember the fear of having to live in an iron lung. That nine year old me had seen classmates wearing tons of metal braces, but (for me) the fear of smothering in an iron lug scared the whee out of me. Mebbe is why I am a bit claustrophobic.

So yeah, fuck those selective thoughts of false history.

[ShazzieB]

7. True, but Madame Nkki never had to worry about that!

She wasn't born until 1972 (I just checked), so she didn't have to grow up with that particular specter hanging over her head. The MMR vaccine came out the year before she was born, so she didn't have to worry about those maladies, either.

Come to think of it, the Vietnam War was still going on when she was born. I don't remember those years being easy or simple at all! Then there was Watergate, followed by economic problems and severe inflation, the energy crisis when all the gas stations were constantly short on gas, and factories closing down all over the so-called rust belt. She was too young to remember any of that, though. Her childhood memories of current events are probably all of Reagan gaslighting the country about how he was going to make everything peachy keen and hunky-dory.

In short, she's talking about an idyllic past that didn't really happen for anyone. She probably knows that, and she also knows that doesn't matter to most Republican voters. They all want to believe that past happened and that we can "get back" to it by putting a Republican in the White House, and she knows they'll vote accordingly (although not necessarily for her ).

[Codifer]

18. In those times when I climb in the wayback

machine I take out the old idealized memories, comfortable and joyous ones.

The sound of of the commons at Riverside City College. It's 1969 and Southeast Asia is behind me and someone has The Moody Blues on a radio and I am stoned and listening to "Voices in the Sky" and I am with friends and we think we are changing the whole world with peace, love, dope and music and we nearly did and there is a kite flying. I am not mentioning the red color of the sky and the police helicopters and how I had to remember not to smile while walking down the street cuz I could get busted for dope which the smile would clearly indicate.

Further back the beginning of summer and I was twelve and there is the banging sound of a screen door. Simpler.

[NowISeetheLight]

9. Neighbor

One of my parents neighbors in their community in AZ had polio. She wore these braces and had to use two canes. I assume she had it back before the vaccine but it was very sad.

[Codifer]

19. Yes, the canes.

the kids name was "Stonebreaker"..... ironic I thought.

[flashman13]

12. I'll testify to everything you say. Polio scared the hell out of me.

[Codifer]

21. And then there was the Salk vaccine.....

and I don't recall anyone threatening to kill him. I took the oral one a drop on a sugar cube an ironic first of many dots on sugar cubes.

[NowISeetheLight]

24. Salk

Didn't he just give it out too? I thought I read somewhere he didn't really profit from it?

[Pluvious]

8. Original Twitter link...

Link to tweet

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

10. I was a child of the 60s/70s, life wasn't all that easy and simple

watch madmen.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. It was simple if you were white and male

The good old days when women could vote, but they couldn't get their own bank account or credit cards if they were married. Up until 1972, unmarried women couldn't get birth control in HALF the states. Good times!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. exactly. there were almost no female politicians... Shirley Chisolm and Bella Abzug are the few I

remember. There were no female governors.

[niyad]

11. Domestic abuse and marital rape were, if not legal, ignored. Women had few rights.

Conraception was iffy, as the Pill came much later. Abortion was illegal. Shall I go on??

So, stick it in your ear, you clueless, pandering twit. In those golden days of yore, you would never have been a governor, nor even think you had a chance at the White House.

[Carlitos Brigante]

14. Maybe life seemed "so simple" to so many growing up............ BECAUSE

THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN THEN!!! And apparently, many still are. What it must be like to have zero self respect and awareness, like this fake ass, brown nosing nobody.

[yonder]

16. +1.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. She's conning the child-like RepubliCONned sheeple

Duh, Haley, children are supposed to have their lives simplified to basics. That is what parents do. They shield their children, form a bubble around them.

Those who cling to that childish bubble are most likely to be Republiconned:

Snopes regarding 2016:

Trump did well across the board in Nevada, garnering 45.9% of the vote, but he did even better among voters with a high school education or less. Fifty-seven percent of those voters supported him, according to entrance polls.

The next closest candidate among high-school-or-less voters was Ted Cruz, who had 20%.

That's a sizable gap of 37 percentage points.

Trump didn't just win with less educated voters ... he crushed it.

Afterwards, in a speech to supporters, Trump touted how many different demographic groups he won in Nevada, declaring that "We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated," before exclaiming "I love the poorly educated!":

[Mblaze]

23. You know Nikki

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It’s not so much how the country was for you. It’s what you are for the country. If you lead America back to the past then not only are you reversing important modern progress but you are putting millions of Americans back into the cages of tradition that kept them suffering as closeted and politically and socially limited second class citizens.

[Faux pas]

25. I'm

a 49er too. Your friend NAILED IT 👌👏