Today is Saturday, February 24, 2024. As predictable as the sun coming up after the night, as predictable as a yawn being expelled after watching Love Song, an underrated 2022 romantic film that has not much going in it other than two childhood friends reconnecting in the outdoors after spending many years apart, the insurrectionist won the South Carolina primary over his repugnican opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who vowed to her many raucous supporters that she was not dropping out. I say, “good for her,” even I strongly disagreed with her stump speech after losing to the Orange Turd.

In her uplifting address, Haley said she does not believe Drumpf can defeat President Biden in November, but she also compared both Biden and Dump, saying that one calls the other a “fascist,” which is fucking true, Ms. Haley, and the other calls his opponents “vermin,” which is also very true. She talked about an America that has been lost since Biden came into office. So what is she really referring to here? I don’t see that from her point of view.

According to early returns from CNN, its exit polls show a highly conservative electorate, with a significant number of voters self-identifying as part of the MAGA movement. No wonder then that the avatar of MAGAism himself, Donald J. Duck, would win the primary in that state.

Talking to her supporters in Charleston, Haley declared that “I’m a woman of my word,” meaning that she is going to stay in the race. She continued, “I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”

Haley accurately characterized the Orange Turd as driving people away. Haley stated her margin of loss, about 40 percent to Drumpf’s 60 percent, is not a huge margin of loss. She made the case that while she has lost four states to the former president, there are many more states that still haven’t voted. Haley pounded home that this election isn’t a “Russian state” election where there is only one candidate.

A more detailed online article about South Carolina’s exit polling reveals the truth of who actually voted in the primary which is written by Ariel Edwards-Levy entitled “What South Carolina exit polling tells us about Haley’s home-state loss.”

From the exit polls, it appears that Haley’s pitch to her home state’s primary voters largely failed to win over the conservative, MAGA-friendly electorate, in which she included arguments about her relative fitness for the presidency and her electability in November. These arguments did not sway these voters to abandon the sexual predator.

More than three-quarters of voters said they made up their minds up before this year even began, with an overwhelming majority of those early deciders backing Chump. By contrast, the small fraction who were still undecided in January or even more recently broke, by a somewhat narrower margin, for Haley.

The electorate for the South Carolina Republican primary looked much more like the one for January’s Iowa caucuses than for the New Hampshire primary. As in Iowa, over 4 in 10 South Carolina primary voters described themselves as affiliated with the MAGA movement. Only about one-third acknowledged that Joe Biden was the legitimate victor of the 2020 presidential election – similar to Iowa, but lower than in New Hampshire, where nearly half of primary voters ceded that Biden was clearly the president. Thus as in Iowa, it appears that the typical South Carolina primary voter is in a delusional bubble, not even acknowledging that Biden is the legitimate victor of the 2020 presidential election.

“Close to 70 percent of South Carolina primary voters identified as Republicans, and roughly 8 in 10 described themselves as conservatives, with about 4 in 10 calling themselves very conservative.” In considering the educational attainment of these primary voters, it’s not shocking to know that three-quarters of those without a college degree went for Drumpf.

What is extremely telling about the results of this exit polling is that about 6 in 10 primary voters identify themselves as white evangelical (oh, there we go again!) or born-again Christians, a higher share of the electorate than in either Iowa or New Hampshire.

It goes without saying that I’m disappointed in the results here, but it’s not so unexpected, given the overall makeup of South Carolina primary voters. And there are so many other states whose voters will cast their votes for their presidential candidate before November. Let’s be hopeful that Drumpf will still be dislodged somewhere.

In the meantime, the repugnican frontrunner made a disgustingly racist speech on Friday among a crowd of deluded followers in Columbia, South Carolina, right before the primary today in which he stupidly thought his criminal indictments and mug shot appeal to Black voters and claimed that “what’s happening to (him) happens to them.” Meaning exactly what, being apprehended for committing offenses against society? Was he saying that people of color are unfairly targeted by law enforcement because of their skin color? There is no fucking comparison here between Blacks and Drumpf’s legal woes, whatsoever, and I doubt he made a cogent argument for attracting people of color to his campaign now. In fact, he made an argument for doing exactly the opposite.

Here is Drumpf’s incoherent comments made in Columbia: “I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing. They were doing it because it’s election interference and there I got indicted a second time, and a third time and a fourth time. And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me [Not!] because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against.” These head-turning comments appear in an online CNN article by Kate Sullivan entitled “Trump suggests his mug shot and indictments appeal to Black voters.”

Herr Drumpf was addressing a gathering of Black conservatives right before the state’s primary. The gala was hosted by the Black Conservative Federation and Drumpf ran his mouth as he always runs his mouth: right into the chasm of controversy and condemnation. In addition to making those racist remarks about Blacks understanding his poor legal problems, he falsely claimed that people of color have “embraced” his mug shot more than anyone else.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley rightly told reporters today that she found Dump’s remarks “disgusting.” She added, “That’s the chaos that comes with Donald Trump. That’s the offensiveness that’s going to happen every day between now and the general election, which is why I continue to say Donald Trump cannot win a general election. He won’t.”

In responding to Trump’s most recent racist remarks, Jasmine Harris, the Black media director for the Biden campaign, called the former president “an incompetent, anti-Black tyrant.” He mentioned that Dump evinced his racism by meeting with an infamous white nationalist shortly after declaring his 2024 candidacy.

Prior to the event in which Drumpf held forth with his big bigoted mouth, Joe Biden’s campaign had put out a statement calling him “the proud poster boy for modern racism.” It detailed what it described as his “racist record,” which included his role in the Central Park Five case and his promotion of the “birtherism” conspiracy theory that targeted former President Barack Obama.

In July 2020, Biden boldly said that Drumpf was the first racist to win the presidency.

Oh, I forgot to mention the worst racist thing Drumpf said at that gathering of Black conservatives, which was trying to make a joke about only seeing the Black people in the dark room where the event was being held.

The idiot said, “These lights are so bright in my eyes that I can’t see too many people out there. But I can only see the Black ones, I can’t see any white ones, you see, that’s how far I’ve come. That’s how far I’ve come. That’s a long way, isn’t it? These lights. We’ve come a long way together,” he said as his crowd cackled. Can you believe any candidate for higher office could make such obviously racist comments? Drumpf is as funny as stale bread here.

Have a good Sunday.

Stay safe and be well.