• Salamendacious@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If I remember right the Koch brothers didn’t support trump in 2016 and he still won. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the general election if Trump gets the nomination.

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      The entire #GOP, from top to bottom, is corrupt. The only good Republican politicians are either long dead or got kicked out of the party in the last 8 years.

      It’s #fascists all the way down now.

    • Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Do you prefer Trump, DeSantis or Ramaswamy? There are no good candidates on the Republican side. Unfortunately, one of them is going to be the nominee and whoever it is has a decent chance of becoming president. As bad as she is, I don’t think she’s the worst Republican.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The powerful political network led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch endorsed Nikki Haley for president on Tuesday, as it looks to stop Donald Trump from being the Republican nominee.

    “AFP Action is proud to throw our full support behind Nikki Haley, who offers America the opportunity to turn the page on the current political era, to win the Republican primary and defeat Joe Biden next November,” Emily Seidel, senior adviser of the group, wrote in a memo.

    “Haley will have the full weight and scope of AFP Action’s unmatched grassroots army and resources to help her earn the support of Americans to become the next President of the United States of America.”

    “Additionally, in the coming days, we’ll launch extensive mail, digital, and connected television campaigns to supplement those on-the-ground efforts.”

    AFP Action framed its support as an effort to move on past the current political era, a message that aligns with Haley’s calls for a new generational leader.

    The group is announcing its pick later than initially planned, underscoring the uncertainty that has hung over the race to become Trump’s main challenger — with DeSantis starting the year in the strongest position and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) at one point capturing growing attention from donors.


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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca
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    Trouble is: Koch brothers are very much into the same things as Trump is but they want to be able to control POTUS not having to deal with lose cannon that shoots everything and everyone and is only predictable in his unpredictability. So I’d think that the same policies would be pushed forward but without as much drama and publicity. In the end everyone will end up just as screwed.

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      They legitimately want Ayn Rand for president, they’d dig her up in an instant if they got their hands on a necromancer.

      0 regulation government with handouts for them and none for us as their wet dreams. We have them to thank for the “Freedumb Caucus”

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      Happened to a lot of conservative groups. Set the fertilizer perfectly for a plant they did not want.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t they mean Nimrata Haley? Or are Republicans allowed to use alternative names while American citizens can’t?

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      It’s Nimarata, and could you imagine if everyone just started calling her that instead. Republicans would lose their minds that people are not respecting her wishes to be called something different.