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Nikki Haley turns Trump's "barred from MAGA camp" comment into merch

www.salon.com

On Wednesday, Donald Trump made a pointed statement on Truth Social directed towards Nikki Haley's donors, writing, "Anybody that makes a 'contribution' to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp," and less than 24-hours later, Haley flipped the attack into a campaign merchandise opportunity.

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is that a crack in the base? are 'moderate' republicans coming out of the 'i sold my soul to donald trump to be a republican' fog?
i doubt it. its not like they had high moral ground to start with.
doesnt matter what they say, the Rs are going to vote straight R no matter what no matter when. zero critical thinking happening there.
- No, there's been a big backlash against Trumpism for awhile now. It's just not nearly big enough to defeat it. But it's still something we can use.
  Don't paint them all into one big camp. That's what they do to us, and it's dumb. We're better and smarter than that. They're all individuals, otherwise it would just be 100% Trump-train.
  Really, saying all repubs are the same is no different from saying all dems are the same. It's just not accurate, it's not the truth. Anything telling you otherwise is shitty propaganda, trying to mislead us from the inside.
  We value truth and honesty, because they're necessary for progress. The truth is hard, often very ugly and challenging to work with, but its important.
  
  do you really think those moderate conservatives arent going to hold their nose again in the general? i dont think they know of any other way.
  thats the real test of 'humanity vs party', and conservatives consistently fail.
- I'm sure the base loves crack

She uses the same weapon his PR team carried. She forges an ultracontrarian identity, contrarian to MAGA contrarians. I guess it may work. I'd like to see their voices split and\or her becoming a republican candidate.
And now imagine trumpie crowd voting blue just to protest her on elections. A thin blue line leading to a president from democrats. As a part of a minority and a woman she would do better to herself and her voters even in spite of what she actually says. Oh, this charming, earth-shattering drama, let it be everything but an empty dream of popcorn.

Trump is really slipping on the nicknames. He's gone from 'Little Rocket Man' to 'Birdbrain.'
Birdbrain hasn't even been an insult since like the 1960s.
- He’s been watching It’s Always Sunny.
  
  Oh you bitch

"Enough said…Grab your shirt here!” Haley fired back on Thursday in a post on X (formerly Twitter) along with a link to a t-shirt that reads “Barred. Permanently,” which donors can purchase for five bucks.
- Harkens back to the "incorrigibles" comment by Hill.

Remove Trump from the picture entirely. Pretend he died of COVID a few years ago.
Can anybody really imagine the current GOP base voting for Nimrata Haley (born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa)? In the general election, it would be a "young" non-white (but maybe white-passing) woman who was the child of immigrants from one of the "shithole" countries going up against perhaps the whitest man that has ever existed.

Truly hilarious.

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