When Nikki Haley announced she was running for president this week, she boldly stated that racism is no longer an issue in America.
“Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil,” the former South Carolina governor said in her campaign video released on Tuesday. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Then during the first speech of her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, she repeated the false claim, telling the crowd in Charleston, “Every day we’re told America is flawed, rotten, and full of hate. Joe and Kamala even say America is racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“America is not a racist country.”
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Well, extreme right-wing hatemonger Ann Coulter just proved her wrong!
In an appearance on the “The Mark Simone Show” podcast yesterday, Coulter made a string of vile remarks against Haley, who was born in the U.S. to Indian immigrant parents.
“Why don’t you go back to your own country?” she said, adding, “Her candidacy did remind me that I need to immigrate to India so I can demand they start taking down parts of their history.”
“What’s with the worshipping of the cows? They’re all starving over there. Did you know they have a rat temple, where they worship rats?”
But she didn’t stop there.
Coulter went on to call Haley a “preposterous creature” and “bimbo” and then criticized her taking down the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse after the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
“This is my country, lady,” she said, angrily. “I’m not an American Indian, and I don’t like them taking down all the monuments.”
Haley has yet to respond to Coulter’s blatantly racist remarks, but Twitter has sure had a lot to say about it.
Here’s what folx are saying…
The Racist Ann Coulter just told The POS Nikki Haley to Go Back to her Own Country, Let the Games Begin.
— Shane (@shannonsinsc) February 17, 2023
Nikki Haley saying there’s no racism in America then immediately being subjected to racism from Ann Coulter is fantastic.
— DraymondTargaryen (@JusticeMBeaver) February 17, 2023
Ann Coulter's attacks on Nikki Haley and Indians are disgusting.
She told Haley 'to go back to your own country'.
Haley was born to Indian immigrants in Bamberg, South Carolina.
She mocked Indians for worshipping cows & rats.
The GOP worships Trump, so don't get me started!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 17, 2023
Racist harpy Ann Coulter is like conservative herpes – she flares up a couple times a year to remind you she's still awful and there is no cure.
— GOP are Traitors (@are_gop) February 17, 2023
Damn, racist Ann Coulter beat Trump to the punch. As I said Miss Nikki is about to discover her non-whiteness ?? https://t.co/fYaZE5lXrT
— Darlyn2 ?? (@Darlyn215) February 17, 2023
Nikki Haley said that America is not a racist Country. Ann Coulter said she should go back to her Country. Sounds pretty racist to me. #FreshWords
— LanaQuest aka RosaSparks (@LqLana) February 17, 2023
Nikki Haley saying there’s no racism in America then Ann Coulter telling her to go back to her country is very very on brand ?
— toby is the scranton strangler (@OhHELLNawl) February 17, 2023
People on here defending that racist Nimrata aka Nikki Haley against racist attacks by Ann Coulter totally forgetting that she suggested that American born Raphael Warnock should be deported. Fuck her.
— Andi Ondrea (@andigirlo) February 17, 2023
White supremacist and neo-nazi bigot Ann coulter takes a dig at @NikkiHaley.
Rob Lowe said it best when he roasted her saying : “she is what an abortion looks like”!
— ThePreityEffect™???? (@PreityUpala) February 17, 2023
Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to hold her BEER on American Racism! pic.twitter.com/FEFmGlmPgo
— Talk Real Solutions (@TalkRealSolutio) February 17, 2023
Before you go, here’s a video of Haley giving a speech at a campaign event for U.S. House candidate Jeremy Hunt from Georgia last year, during which she praised Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill and said it didn’t go “far enough” to protect children.
Watch.
ZzBomb
There’s a reason no one ever refers to a conservative utopia: it just simply could never exist. They hate each other just as much as they hate “leftists” which is why the Republican party is a perennial dumpster fire.
RIGay
I honestly do want to know what kinds of drugs are the Republicans using? Really. Crack? Cocaine? Meth? Just how much more delusional and hallucinatory are they going to get before the country has to band together and force the GOP into an intervention? It is the ONLY reason I can ascertain as to why all this paranoia and rhetoric about gays, blacks, abortion, balloons, etc.
Please, GOP – stop or OD. One or the other.
Kangol2
Ann Coulter is a hateful, racist, homophobic plagiarist who allegedly committed vote fraud, but she’s also saying out loud what many in the GQP believe and what their ideology and policies promote and uphold, which is White Christian nationalism and fascism. She’s hardly any icon of Christianity, but she is White, she is nationalist and she has actively supported fascist politicians in the US, including Don the Con. Haley is fooling herself if she thinks the GQP is anything but what it truly is, yet the irony also is that she has done all she could to support and advance it, including serving traitor Don the Con loyally during his term of misrule.
LMG
Haley and Coulter are two sides of the same debased coin. They are both racist hypocrites. Haley’s remark that “there’s no racism in America” clearly indicates that she is in need of a mental competency test that she insists anyone over 75 needs to take. She also quite obviously needs an eye exam. As for Coulter, she is nothing more than a contemporary Golem made out of BS with an unbridled big mouth. By criticizing Haley, she also killed her chance to be Haley’s running mate in the next election…LOL!
Darson
Is Ann auditioning for VP?
Al
Philip Pullman called the terrifying villain of his Dark Materials trilogy Mrs Coulter. Good call.
Kangol2
Though–SPOILERS!!!–remember, in the end, Mrs. Coulter turns out to be a much more complicated and complex figure than she initially appears in the first two books.
Tombear
And the Republicans continue to write material for late night comedians.
DavidIntl
South Carolina is one of my several ‘homes’, and so I had experience with Nikki Haley long before she was nationally known. Is she an ‘ally’? Certainly not. But over time she has tended to be a voice of relative moderation and compromise within the Republican party – which is surprising coming from a place as severely socially conservative as South Carolina. She might well prove to be the lesser of the possible evils on the national stage, so I would suggest that Queerty not present her as an enemy.
tbrax25
The is no lessor of two evils in the Republican Party. When you align with racists and bigots, you are them.
Like a white father and son who does not participate in a lynching but can be seen in pictures happy and giddy next to a tortured body, they are evil terrible people too..
Republicans align, depend, and are friends with neo nazis, white supremacist, homophobes, Christian nationalist, and extremists.
Until they cut the chord of hate in their party I will never vote for them again.
abfab
She does very well presenting herself as an enemy. She needs not Queerty and we need not her. Shoo!
Den
She specifically said DeSantis anti gay bill “did not go far enough to protect children”. In what way does that sound like “moderation and compromise?” I would suggest you consult a dictionary and find some way to connect to reality!
barryaksarben
No NO NO HELL NO ! There is NO lesser of two evils in the gop it is just all evil. They are not reasonable , you can not work with them , you can not trust them. People thought my gov her in Florida was a reasonable man before he won the first time and look at him now. His latest is trying to make people register to be bloggers (doesn’t support people having to register guns however)( so that they can be fined or stopped if they criticize the state government. This beacon for free speech but ONLY if you never go against his ideas I trying to undermine the constitution. Free speech is needed and guaranteed by the constitution esp when it concerns speaking out against our government when we dont agree with them. Now attacking our government armed and murderous is ok with him but not talking bad about him imparticular. They are power mad zealots willing to LIE to get on the Supreme Court. THEY CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. Never will I give a republican an inch even tho I understand Coulter has one
tbrax25
If there is no racism or white privilege in America why did Nimrata change her name to Nikki and try to pass as white?
abfab
I love that. She’s creepy and duplicitous to the max. And after hearing her coming out speech, still dumb.
Gadfeal
She is also a lighter shade of skin than when younger. Makeup, or, a Michael Jackson mechanism?
LegionKeign
I just can’t get worked-up over this. I would rather these morally bankrupt souless mutherf**kers rip each other apart. Then at least they aren’t focused on real people.
Mr. Stadnick
It was only a matter of time until the racists started attacking Nikki Haley for being Indian. They should really be attacking her for her stupidity and utter blindness to the fact that the USA is a very racist county. Ann Coulter might as well wear a KKK hood for most of her appearances. The cross she wears around her neck should be burning.
My2CentsWorth
It may not be only stupidity and utter blindness but a willingness to endure whatever to be a part of what she considers to be the better segment of society. Ann Coulter is not the only prominent right winger who feels that she is an outsider because of her race.
Kangol2
Just a word about Haley’s name: Apparently her middle name by birth is Nikki and she has always used “Nikki” rather than “Nimrata.” I find her abhorrent and grossly hypocritical but this is probably not a line people on the left and in the center should pursue.
What people should know and point out to this woman is that she listed her own race as “White” on her 2001 voter registration card, so she has passed as White in the past, her own father was racially profiled in South Carolina, and she was previously attacked with a vicious racist slur by a fellow South Carolina Republican. If she’s this clueless and forgetful she shouldn’t be running for anything.
Also, let’s not forget, her family and millions of other non-White immigrants were able to immigrate to the US after Black Civil Rights activists pressured President Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congress to open the immigration system to non-White immigrants from all over the world. (The US had very restrictive, racist immigration laws for nearly 50+ years, including laws going back to the 19th century that banned immigrants from China, etc.)
My2CentsWorth
The fact that she listed her race as White says a lot about her mindset.
Unfortunately, inversed racism/bigotry makes a lot of people to not only want to deny who they are but to be very negative about who they are. To do so in extreme ways. The Log Cabin Republicans is a group like that. My thinking is that no decent person would want to identify with the current Republican Party but that it is pathetic when they become like the folks who not only are members and supporters but push for acts that hurt them.
I am sure that there must have been [I HOPE] a very few Blacks who thought that the end of slavery was bad. Not bad because they had fears for the future but because they thought that the slave owners were better and warranted their support.
My2CentsWorth
CORRECTION:
I posted “I am sure that there must have been [I HOPE] a very few Blacks who thought that the end of slavery was bad.”.
I meant I am sure that there must have been very few Blacks [I HOPE NOT TOO MANY] who thought that the end of slavery was bad.
CNY1983
the cross around her neck should be burning….that was funny as hell.