Nikki Haley’s shadowboxing: Final night time, the outcomes of Nevada’s Republican presidential main have been tallied up. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who was working mainly unopposed, obtained fewer votes than the choice “none of these candidates.” Sure, you learn that proper.
BREAKING: Related Press calls the race for “None of these candidates.” #NevadaPrimary pic.twitter.com/aW9triB11P
— Corey A. DeAngelis, faculty alternative evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) February 7, 2024
“The primary, which awards no delegates, had seemed like a foregone conclusion, as former President Donald J. Trump chose not to take part,” stories The New York Occasions. “On Thursday, he will instead participate in party-run caucuses where all of the state’s 26 delegates will be awarded, a choice by Nevada Republicans that complicated the process and rendered the primary basically irrelevant.”
The twin-primary system in Nevada is complicated and albeit sort of silly, so Haley’s unhealthy exhibiting does not rely for something apart from embarrassment, and the truth that so many individuals felt snug giving a protest vote does not rely for a lot given the utter insignificance of the competition.
Nevada used to, previously, maintain caucuses, however did away with them circa 2021 in favor of a main with each mail-in and in-person voting. This yr, the Nevada Republican Occasion selected to host an in-person caucus, additional including to folks’s confusion and the extraordinary chaos that’s this election season—one stuffed with Trump skipping debates, Biden reminiscence lapses, Gavin Newsom/Ron DeSantis debate-stage showdowns, oddly excessive Robert F. Kennedy Jr. polling (?), and “section guy” Vivek Ramaswamy continually interrupting everybody else.
And it is solely February. Somebody may nonetheless die or go to jail!
Ronna McDaniel will get the boot: Republican Nationwide Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has informed Donald Trump that she is going to resign following the South Carolina main on the finish of the month.
“Mr. Trump is then likely to promote the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Whatley, as her replacement, according to several people familiar with the discussions,” stories The New York Occasions. “Under the arcana of the committee’s rules, however, Mr. Trump cannot simply install someone. A new election must take place, and Mr. Whatley could face internal party dissent.”
Although she was not technically fired, “McDaniel has faced months of pressure, a campaign from Trump-allied forces to unseat her and growing dissatisfaction and anxiety in the Trump camp about the strained finances of the R.N.C.,” provides the Occasions. Whatley has persistently curried favor with Trump, endorsing his stolen-election theories.
Scenes from Tromsø: Whats up, I’m again and going rogue since I am unable to stand the busybody Europeans. No extra SFNY this week, simply photos from my travels.
A number of years in the past, the Norwegian authorities pressured tobacco producers to adjust to a brand new regulation that standardizes the look of all cigarette packs (in addition to all unfastened and chewing tobacco). Additionally they mandate that 30 p.c of the entrance and 40 p.c of the again of every pack have to be coated with warning labels.
After all, numerous nations do that. Plain packaging could be present in Australia, France, the U.Ok., Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Singapore, and Israel, to call just some.
However are you able to think about having to take care of the ache of residing in Norway, land of conformity and excessive tax charges, whereas not with the ability to boring it by way of a reasonably pack of American Spirits?
(For extra on how Norway is a faux nation populated solely by gnomes and statists, verify this out.)
QUICK HITS
- A observe of housekeeping: A few of you’ve gotten complained that I take advantage of many paywalled hyperlinks. I implore you to both be much less low cost or to make use of particular web magic to get round them. (And cease complaining, I would like frequent love and validation!)
- Related/silly:
As soon as once more I discover myself agreeing with Hamilton Nolan: The one solution to save journalism, long run, is public funding. There is no secret as-yet-undiscovered enterprise mannequin that may get round that. https://t.co/v9MDYc5Ucq
— David Roberts (@drvolts) February 6, 2024
- Dartmouth would be the first Ivy League faculty to revive its standardized testing requirement. Now prepare for the remainder of them to comply with go well with, and so that you can be informed 5 years from now that, truly, they by no means eliminated them, it was all a dream.
- “When the leader of the training brought up hormone treatments, I shakily tapped the unmute button on Zoom and asked why 70 to 80 percent of female adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria have prior mental health diagnoses,” writes gender clinic whistleblower Tamara Pietzke for The Free Press. “She flashed a look of disgust as she warned me against spreading ‘misinformation on trans kids.’ Soon the chat box started blowing up with comments directed at me. One colleague stated it was not ‘appropriate to bring politics into this’ and another wrote that I was ‘demonstrating a hostility toward trans folks which is [a] direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath,’ and recommended I ‘seek additional support and information so as not to harm trans clients.'”
- Chinese language economic system watch:
Folks in China are so mad on the CCP proper now that they’ll random US Embassy posts to complain/ask the US for assist.
This can be a US Embassy submit on Weibo about giraffe conservation efforts. The feedback are all like “Help me, I’ve been unemployed for so long” pic.twitter.com/4MsbYELxEi
— Jeremiah Johnson ???? (@JeremiahDJohns) February 7, 2024
- Yale Regulation’s activist group, College students for Justice in Palestine, is claiming an Israel Protection Forces soldier’s go to to campus “makes many of us—especially Palestinian Arab, Muslim, Black, and brown students—feel physically and psychologically unsafe and unwelcome in our own school.” Extra from Free Beacon author/Simply Asking Questions visitor Aaron Sibarium.
- I went on Megyn Kelly’s great present (while terribly jet-lagged) together with Cause‘s Matt Welch to speak RFK Jr., Trump immunity, and Brooklyn mother psychological derangement. Watch!
- Will Adam Neumann revive WeWork in any case?
- Headlines you would like have been satire: “This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten program. Test scores fell even further.” (I want this have been merely a Los Feliz Daycare-esque account as an alternative of ACTUAL REALITY.)
- This poor man will need to have by some means escaped from the nursing dwelling—oh, wait, that is our president:
WATCH: Joe Biden says he lately met with “Mitterand from Germany.”
Mitterand was the FRENCH President between 1981 and 1995.
He additionally died in 1996. pic.twitter.com/W0YPBDp69n
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) February 5, 2024
Socialism is not about inducing bland mediocrity. It is about unleashing the artistic potential of all.https://t.co/yB1eQ7l8w2
— Jacobin (@jacobin) February 6, 2024