Also less that Donald Trump is doing these things and more the President of the United States is.
For whatever reason the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that Trump actually holds an important official position with the exact same duties and responsibilities every other president had.
It’s not even worth asking the usual rhetorical questions like, “what if Biden, Obama, Clinton, or any Democrat under the sun showed a weird racist twitter video to another head of state, much less an error-ridden one that would be personally offensive to that particular head of state?” anymore
To the extent this administration has a coherent FP, Africa is one of the most logically consistent in that it is entirely built on latent and explicit resentments from the fall of apartheid decades ago in SA. This will inform how they interact with the entire continent
to put this another way, it is not news that the president is a racist. it very much IS news that his information diet as president appears to consist of the stuff that made dylann roof horny
on the same day the Times launders the Groyper-In-Chief talking smugly about how catholic he is!! (after what, ten years now? and like fifteen for douthat?) he’s holding up print outs of pictures from Congo and is seconds away from bringing up Rhodesia! the president!!
I hope that none of them learn that the Rwandan rebels in eastern Congo force people to clean their cities and government property once a month or pay ruinous fines, on top of having huge tariffs collected by cronies, or that’s going to be their Medicaid work requirement. Luckily it’s in Africa.
The orange buffoon has no filter or desire to focus on facts or reality. He’s reached the stage that he will shamelessly parrot and sell any conspiracy or policy if someone pays him or kisses his ass.
what's worse is he doesn't have an information diet, he's not sitting there scrolling twitter getting all these fed into his brain. they're coming from someone like Miller showing him
Because they’re literally running that shit on us. Half the people they have in the house are psyops (lol autocorrect to psychopaths ain’t wrong actually) meant to make us feel like we’re in crazy town and “trust no one.”
Good point. When I first saw the headline, I was annoyed, but not surprised, given the company he keeps. When I read the story, and learned that he forced President Ramaphosa to watch a video most of our racist uncles might think twice about forwarding, I was livid. And then I saw that Biden is old!
Many whites are truly brut animals. The last 9 years have proven this. Who knew there were so many deplorables amongst us? They backed this 3 times…It’s just so heartbreaking.
My God, Dylann Roof popped into my head yesterday uninvited. The first thing I remembered is that those good people *invited* him into their Bible study. What a disordered mind, crippled by his own thoughtlessness (I'm thinking about Hannah Arendt here).
I thought he’d hit rock bottom already, he believes anything he’s shown in the moment. 72% of land in South Africa is owned by white farmers. Whites are 7.2% of the population. One wonders how they managed such high level of ownership 🤔
This is NOT an exact comparison - but take a moment to watch this clip on YouTube and decide which is most like the Afrikaner farmer as opposed to the black worker on his farm. There’s some history to take into account, as well as current situations. Colonialism was evil.
I'd never read that before. Crazy that it was over 8 years ago. Trump's racist ass has been hanging in the wind since forever. Somehow, nobody seems to give a shit. It's Looney Tunes.
And what gave up Anders Breivik. And what gave us Brenton Tarrant. And what gave us William S. Lind... oh wait it was William S. Lind that gave us the whole pile of shit. Breivik plagiarized his "manifesto" from Lind.
Great piece, as always. How I bawled during those funerals, the victims of that POS were truly the best of us. I can’t imagine how their deaths felt to Black Americans.
While I don’t remember the first website I saw, probably aol or my high school’s (maybe it’s on his racist journey), but that’s a group I’ve only ever seen in historical context, these people are so weird!
“The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens,” Roof wrote.
News sets the agenda & frames information. Moving on gives hate tacit approval
It's important to keep reporting on his racism etc. The acceptance of discrimination against marginalized people is why the neolibs are pushing to allow segregation.
That man was meaning it's not new information, but he was SAYING it doesn't matter. He was SAYING people shouldn't be made to care
If he believes that news just follows public interest, after YEARS of watching Fox turn non-issues like VACCINES into engines for voter turnout, he has bad judgement
Fox News is totally running with it. The guy on the flight in front of me was watching and the headline was “President Trump confronts South African President”
Especially wild since he doesn’t drink, so doesn’t hang out in the types of bars where the discourse is the equivalent of those freeper and gateway pundit message boards, along with xeroxed copies of truly tasteless jokes. Which tells you a LOT about the locker room talk at his golf courses.
Golf course discourse can be awfully cooked but Trump was relatively early on Twitter. Most of it for him I think is internet and TV just like most of his supporters
the average Trump administration official would have been kicked off of FreeRepublic in 2009 for unacceptable levels of gutter racism, we're being governed by the most bilge-broiled brains in history
you may be assuming too much about his information diet. did he read that racist trash? 🤷♂️ was he fed it? by stephen miller perhaps? for propaganda purposes? sure thing. it's not about what info trump consumes but the incitement he's prepared to commit.
Of course he didn't read it. The piece about the mass grave was from Congo. But the headline said MASS GRAVE LOTS OF DEAD PEOPLE ALL PILED UP HERE*!! but not where it was. Miller or whomever let him presume it was SA or he knew he was lying and didn't care.
Adding that according to NPR they showed President Ramaphosa a super-racist video the White House itself gleefully tweeted out, that would normally be found in an email whose subject line is FW: FWD: FWD: fwd: fw: FWD: FWD: from a family member you can’t block because they host Thanksgiving
Then he shuffled around a bunch of papers of more printed out email forwards that definitely had proof and asked the president of another country what he was going to do about them.
And he was like, the graves are a memorial in Congo, and the politician is a crackpot who has freedom of speech.
He explained that they had kicked him out of his party because he’s a whack job, REPUBLICANS TAKE NOTE, but he has a right to be one.
Trump then asked why the president of South Africa wouldn’t ban the nutty guy from say things that are offensive but not true threats, but dumber and more bullying.
If you think it's bad now, wait until Donald Jr is sworn in as confirmation of the Trump dynasty, and elections are as effective as in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
Only then will the shit truly hit the fan.
Fact is:
7-south African farmers have been killed in the last 9-months, of those, 3-were white.
The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36.
36 about 0.2 % How many of them were actual farmers? Seven.
If “the prior president is old” is 24/7 news, then yes, “the current president believing conspiracy theories before inconvenient intelligence reports” is definitely nonstop news.
And he gobbles it all up like the shameless glutton he is. Oh, did I mention stupid, too? It's beyond my ability to comprehend how anybody can be that stupid, but here we are.
Yeah considering the media thinks the top news story at the moment is selling Jake Tapper's book, they would be better off reminding people the current president is a senile racist.
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For whatever reason the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that Trump actually holds an important official position with the exact same duties and responsibilities every other president had.
There are major human rights, labor, and environmental issues wrapped up in this that this administration is more than happy to ignore.
It’s always projection. :)
Because they’re literally running that shit on us. Half the people they have in the house are psyops (lol autocorrect to psychopaths ain’t wrong actually) meant to make us feel like we’re in crazy town and “trust no one.”
My God, Dylann Roof popped into my head yesterday uninvited. The first thing I remembered is that those good people *invited* him into their Bible study. What a disordered mind, crippled by his own thoughtlessness (I'm thinking about Hannah Arendt here).
https://youtu.be/AFtRnMCsccc?si=K92pnVioYxxHG-Oc
“The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens,” Roof wrote.
Like why would any of this dumb shit be true? How could it be true? You're not just suspending disbelief, you are believing cukoo bananas nonsense.
News sets the agenda & frames information. Moving on gives hate tacit approval
It's important to keep reporting on his racism etc. The acceptance of discrimination against marginalized people is why the neolibs are pushing to allow segregation.
If he believes that news just follows public interest, after YEARS of watching Fox turn non-issues like VACCINES into engines for voter turnout, he has bad judgement
"Them" Now: Everyone knows this, boring
Me to "Them":
The Nazis vanished without a trace
But batallions of facists
Still dream of a master race 🧵
Of their defeat at '45
But they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
"Zelenskyy says Donald Trump living in Russian 'disinformation space'"
*Paraphrase
And he was like, the graves are a memorial in Congo, and the politician is a crackpot who has freedom of speech.
Trump then asked why the president of South Africa wouldn’t ban the nutty guy from say things that are offensive but not true threats, but dumber and more bullying.
no limits
they want a civil war
Only then will the shit truly hit the fan.
7-south African farmers have been killed in the last 9-months, of those, 3-were white.
The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36.
36 about 0.2 % How many of them were actual farmers? Seven.
…and unlike the PDB, he religiously devours all of it
But this is touching on an insane conspiracy that he is now dragging the country into.