So when does Nimrata

[Old Crank]

Call for the execution of Biden should she win?

She now will pardon a career sex criminal and traitor.

[tritsofme]

1. I just feel like we can criticize her without using a name she doesn't identify with as an insult.

Just makes me uncomfortable.

I don’t think she’ll win the nomination or be selected as the VP nominee FWIW.

[Bucky]

2. Thank you. It's not quite "deadnaming" but we don't need racist dogwhistles in our party

We still have to be the change we want to see.

Haley is a formidable politician. She'll probably end up with the support of the Christie/Cheney/Kinsinger factions of the party, which is really the only path to saving the Republican Party from becoming the anti-republicanism party

[Old Crank]

47. Just following her fellow GOP member

Raphael Cruz who has put forth a law to make people use their real names.

[Bucky]

52. Well, you're following the wrong example

I don't know if you figured this out, but it doesn't do anything to help the Democratic cause when Democrats act like they can out-hate Republicans.

Stop saying things that a bigot would say. Bigotry is not a special privilege that we should be jealous of Republicans enjoying; it's self harming as much as it hurts targeted outgroups.

[PCIntern]

79. Yeah because

When they go low, we go high.

How’s that been working out for us?

[Bucky]

80. You make a strong argument for acting like Republicans

... except for the in part where we won the 2018 elections, took back the White House in 2020 by seven million votes, held on to the Senate in 2022 and kept the supposed "red tsunami" down to an impotent five vote majority.

So, yes, standing up for democracy seems to be working out okay

[PCIntern]

81. Do you know why?

Because we now hit back as hard as we can with whatever ammo we can use.

Ask President Kerry how well restraint worked out.

[Walleye]

3. I agree, sort of like the deliberate way they mispronounce Kamala

[IzzaNuDay]

6. If Nikkki wanted to be authentic

Then she would be using her given name. the Nikkki name makes white folks feel comfortable with what she is saying and a name they can relate to.

Just another code switching application

PS - also waiting for the day Vivek anglicizes his name…

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. .

If Nikkki wanted to be authentic Then she would be using her given name."

This is such a crap take.

[IzzaNuDay]

12. NH is code switching - Kamala didn't

Notice Kamala never Anglicized her first name during her political career.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Are you saying people shouldn't code switch? Because that is also a crap take.

[MurrayDelph]

29. I think it's more

that people who don't want to allow others to choose a different name than the one they were assigned at birth should not get away with doing so for themselves.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

36. Oh, has Haley spoken out against name preferences?

[mountain grammy]

68. Haley said the primary reason for teenage girls suicide

Was transgender youth ..tough to defend but you’ll find a way.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-suggests-transgender-kids-cause-suicidal-ideation-teenage-rcna87708

[WhiskeyGrinder]

70. Right but has she said anything about names

[mountain grammy]

73. Right because that's really what's important here

🙄. Guess she’s your girl

[WhiskeyGrinder]

75. Not sure how objecting to weaponized bigotry makes her "my girl," but okay

[Disaffected]

74. And so are your

"crap take" comments (IMO). Unnecessary and not useful.....

[Igel]

16. She wants to use her given middle name, she can use her given middle name.

Remember, there was no "Beau Biden"--his (first) given name was "Joseph", and his middle name was, as the case with his father "Joseph", "Robinette" (he had a "III" as a result after his name, 3 generations of "Joseph Robinette Biden&quot . "Beau" is pure nickname.

I guess we have to exclaim, "Oh, noes! Utterly falsified and fabricated! Oh, the lies! The cover up! The fraud!" But, no, nicknames are fine in American society. Have been for many a century.

And "Hunter Biden" has the (first) given name "Robert". "Hunter" is his middle name.

Oooh ... The falsity. I guess he wanted to make himself seem like an aggressor, a "hunter". "Nikki" is less "anglicizing" her name by using her middle given legal name than "Beau" was trying to seem more Cajun by gallicizing his name or than Hunter wants to seem like a gun-toting NRAer by presenting himself as a "hunter".

But, no, that kind of thing has also been going on for many a century.

Having a principle that people get to use their given names or a hypocoristic should be applied equally. You're a person, each of the Bidens is a person, my dad was a person (he used his middle name when young), "Nikki" is a person, I'm a person. Condemn "Nikki" and you condemn "Joe," "Beau," and "Hunter" and by extension my dad.

[Old Crank]

48. Is Beau running for office.

Is he pushing laws that force the use of given names?

[Eyeball_Kid]

76. She can call herself

Loose Goose for all I care. She can even accent the "e"s. But she's sly as well. Have you noticed how much air time she earned by not mentioning slavery? This may come to something... like... the less she says, the greater the audience? Extend that to the extreme, and we've got something to work with: gain the greatest audience by saying NOTHING. There's Nikki's pathway to success.

[Caliman73]

19. Nikki is her name.

Her legal birth name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.

That is like saying if Joseph Robinette Biden wanted to be authentic, he wouldn't allow himself to be called "Joe".

It is dumb and there are many other things to criticize her for.

[Ocelot II]

27. Nikki is one of her given names. It's her middle name; it's Punjabi and not anglicized.

[belpejic]

78. Slightly surprised

That her middle name, or at least one of them, isn't Kaur. Thanks for pointing out the facts, Ocelot II.

[Polybius]

31. "If Nikkki wanted to be authentic Then she would be using her given name"

Oh, so you believe in deadnaming.

[Bucky]

50. Sorry, but you don't get to rationalize your dog whistles

If you lay aside your values of respect and tolerance and because your opponent doesn't share them, then those aren't really your values.

Just be honest and admit that respect and tolerance is only a political tactic to you.

[JI7]

65. It's not Anglecized. It's a nickname or even regular name given to girls in India

[tblue37]

71. Nikki IS part of her real name: Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. It's her real middle name.

[Raine]

10. I agree, i hate seeing that kind of crap here in DU. nt

[tenderfoot]

13. It's so sad that she's ashamed of her own heritage and finds the need to appease bigots

eom

[Caliman73]

20. How do we know she is ashamed of her heritage?

Nikki is a punjabi word that means "little one". She is using her middle name.

I began using my middle name when I went to school because when I was in day care, no one could pronounce my first name correctly. I am certainly not ashamed of my heritage.


Now, the fact that she will not clearly say that the Civil War was about Slavery and that it is a dark stain on American history that we need to continue to address, that is moral cowardice. She is a moral coward and she should be ashamed of that.

[Sympthsical]

21. Do you often lecture other immigrants about this?

I can bring my in-laws around, and you can scold them, too, if it feels productive for you.

[tenderfoot]

22. Not as often as you lecture everyone on this site about everything under the sun as if you're so above it all.

Have a nice day.

Toodles.

[Sympthsical]

25. I actually believe in my liberal principles

They're not just for show.

It results in remarkably consistent views, I find. Particularly against racist attitudes.

[tenderfoot]

28. "It results in remarkably consistent views, I find."

Very right of center views and a variety of other conservative takes.

The world we live in is so far to the right today that it makes sense.

🍿

[Sympthsical]

32. I don't think defending immigrants is right of center

And if shitting on ethnic minorities is considered Left, well, things have been changing under my nose.

Telling minorities how they should be has always struck me as more of a Right thing.

But apparently mileage varies. Conveniently. At need.

[Sympthsical]

38. That's the problem with paper activism

So . . . ephemeral.

[ForgedCrank]

33. I'm in

agreement with you.
I find it to be a bit hypocritical. We should be focusing on qualifications and policy, not irrelevant silliness like this.
What she wishes to be called and her reasons for it are her own business and don't have any relevance to the political race overall.

[Ritabert]

37. Sorry anybody who conveniently forgets their heritage

...and then ignores slavery is delusional or pandering to a racist audience. She deserves to be called Nimarata.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

42. Why does she deserve to be called Nimrata?

Do you think Indian names are an insult?

[Ritabert]

44. Do you think she'd run as Nimarata for MAGAts?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

45. Why should she?

She goes by the name Nikki.
The only people who seem REALLY CONCERNED that she uses her middle name and not her first name seem to be Democrats looking to score a cheap shot with some racism.

[Old Crank]

49. Explain Rsphael Ted Cruz.

And his law.

[Dulcinea]

72. I don't think so either.

Dolt 45 will never pick anyone who might upstage him, & I doubt she'll be the nominee.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. I heard about her wanting to pardon stinky

the clown. 🤡 Just keep digging that hole nimrod.

[malaise]

5. Nimrata has one serious problem

She just wants to be acknowledged as a white American - she is insecure and ambitious on steroids. She also thinks she’s superior to the descendants of ex- slaves who have been in the USA for centuries.

Meanwhile her Indian born father worked as a college professor at the only college that would employ him-- an HBCU. For her, this is a cynical political dance baked in anti-Blackness.

I hate these people.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I agree completely with you.

Hammer meet nailhead!

[malaise]

18. I stole the part about the college from a tweet

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[HAB911]

24. CORRECT

[onecaliberal]

51. They're all so despicable.

It’s mind boggling that people can be so evil.

[malaise]

53. Everything is about them

She knows not one eff about African American history and she made that choice.
Happy New Year to you and yours😀

[uponit7771]

56. 😲😲😲 did not know about her pops at am hbcu

[malaise]

57. Lots of them use our institutions to climb up

And then continue their hate fest

[uponit7771]

61. This pisses me off to no end that she thinks pandering to the stupid 20% is needed

Is she even paying half assed attention?

America's first POTUS of color was named Obama ... Americans loved him

[malaise]

62. And he used his African name

Happy New Year my friend

[ecstatic]

7. Wow! She said that?? She is really getting desperate.

Not a good look.

Sometimes when these gopers are squandering their campaigns in the last moments I wonder, is it that they were never serious about getting the position?? Is it just about the campaign money? A grift?

[Stainless]

9. Remember Barrack Hussein Obama?

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Despite his name (and color) he was one of the better U.S. Presidents in my baby boomer lifetime.

Nikki Haley (or Nimrata Nikki Randhawa) is simply another MAGAt trying to destroy our American Democracy from within. Her name or ethnicity doesn't really matter IMHO.

[ecstatic]

58. I think it matters because it shows she's not authentic

She's a phony.

Barack Hussein Obama ran with his full real and correct name and won the presidency twice.

Even Vivek, as obnoxious and off putting as he is, is also running under his real name.

Nikki, on the other hand appears to be self-hating and running away from her culture and identity. She won't even embrace her own opinions. She tells a room full of people, tell me what you want me to say and I'll say it. That is completely unacceptable. Voters don't like that. They want someone who is real, authentic and proud of who they are.

[Blue_Adept]

11. The name usage here says far more about you than Haley

And I have mostly negative things to say about Haley.

Be better.

[HAB911]

23. When DUers use her first name

it is not to be racist, it's to rub her and MAGAt's nose in their own hypocrisy

[Ocelot II]

35. Her given middle name, Nikki, is Punjabi. It wasn't anglicized.

If she prefers to use her given middle name which is simpler and easier to remember than her first name, what's hypocritical about that? We can point out what's wrong with her politically without disrespecting the way she wishes to be addressed.

[HAB911]

43. We can also disagree about that, as well

[MorbidButterflyTat]

63. I agree

with your disagreement!

While she racistly lies about the cause of the Civil War and promises to pardon that traitorous criminal, her feefees might get an owie from using her real name.

Boo hoo.

[HAB911]

67. thank you

[ARandomPerson]

59. No, it is racist.

They're trying to exploit other racism while pretending to be non-racist themselves. It's shit. DUers should knock it off.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

60. Weaponizing bigotry is still bigotry.

[NotVeryImportant]

69. To pretend otherwise, is racist in my opinion.

I have no problems referring to her as Nimrata in public, it's her name, she should be as proud to use it as I am.

[Ocelot II]

26. How about using the name she uses instead of implicitly insulting her

with the name she doesn't use - maybe calling attention to her ethnicity? I don't like her at all but please don't play that game.

[question everything]

30. Agree. And on these pages it is often aimed at women

like referring to Andrea Mitchell as Mrs. Greenspan but never to Kamala Harris as Mrs. Emhoff.

[Ritabert]

39. Because Mr. Emhoff never tried to screw over the American public

...and Mrs. Greenspan is always spewing nonsense.

[question everything]

40. So you are holding women responsible for the acts of their spouse. How 50s and apparently

Gen-Z

[Ritabert]

41. Actually boomer here

I call her Mrs. Greenspan because she apparently absorbed Greenspan's destructive philosophy.

[JI7]

66. Why do you say she absorbed it from him ? It's more likely

something they had in common before they met and why they ended up together.

[dembotoz]

46. who is old enough to remember the gop wanted jimmy carter on the ballot as james

let her be called nimrod for all it care

[RandomNumbers]

54. Am I the only one who thought "Nimrata" was

a feminization of "nimrod"?



After seeing the comments, I looked it up. Nikki Haley's given name - per Wikipedia - is spelled "Nimarata" - not the spelling in the OP.

I still think it works as "Nimroda"

Just a silly add to the other comments which stray from the question of the o.p.

[Emile]

55. I think all the Republican candidates have openly

stated they would pardon the fucking traitor. Chris Christie said he would have to look into it.

[JI7]

64. Nikki is a common nickname for Indian girls

similar to how they will refer to a name like Meenakshi as miki .

But there are girls that are only named Niki also. It's like Priti, Tulsi, Neeti etc. They just have those type of names.

So I don't think this is similar to "Bobby" Jindal.

[Ziggysmom]

77. Don't give a shit what her name is. What I hate about her is her BS lying. In the lousy book

she wrote in 2019, With All Due Respect, she kisses trumps fat ass, even going so far as supporting his brown nosing with Putin. She also goes over the top and notes Trumpy was oh so truthful and great to work with. Once in an interview for Time she said about TFG, "We need him in the Republican Party. I don’t want us to go back to the days before Trump.” Enough said.