Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday declared Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, persona non grata, saying “he is no longer welcome in our great country.”
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And that's the headline you guys choose?
WTF?
You miserable cowards!
Why was he declared Persona Non Grata?
BC he called out Trump, JD, Elon & the whole fascist $hitshow for what it is, a christo-fascist white ethno-state, worse then apartheit SA ever was!
Your great country? You guys gave exceptionalism a very bad name. It was always a strange concept to see your own country and people as superior to others. But now your country behaves exceptional rude, mean and outright stupid.
"We have nothing to discuss with him" (Rubio about Rasool) is perfectly emblematic of the current US foreign policy stance. Defeatist. A nation in retreat. Childish ear plugging while the adults in the room stand aghast.
Pointing out obvious global racism by Trump and Musk is not "race baiting."
Are you sure you got the right race-baiting, America hating South African, Marco? Seems there's another one lose around the White House, you know the one named after a scent gland found in some oxen and rats?
Didn’t JDV say it was Europe that had issues with free speech that presented an existential threat to their democracies?🤔 So far, it seems anyone MAGA adjacent can exercise their 1st amendment right; anyone criticising/disagreeing with them is PNG, illegal, fired or deported? 2-tier free speech?
Truth hurts, eh, Liddle Marco? Yes, Trump is fanning the flames of white supremacy, and so is his sidekick JD. But now saying it gets a foreign ambassador banned from the US? What are we coming to, and why are you embracing it?
Making enemies, being small. Quite a change for the United States of America.
Don't be fooled by the Spectacle- it's a con man's misdirection.
1) russia is the Enemy.
2) We are under attack.
I don't like Marco Rubio. He banned the ambassador for calling Trump a white supremacist as Trump ordered links from Arlington website removed for black and hispanic veterans buried there.
Trump: Passes exec order denouncing South African legislation that established a program for redistributing unused agricultural land that White owners (who seized the land during apartheid) have refused to sell to Black purchasers.
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A race-baiting politician who hates what America is supposed to be, that's exactly what Trump is and what Musk is becoming. Deport them both and yourself, bootlicker.
Gosh, considering the harm to our democracy being done by a fellow South Africa, could/would Rubio do that for Elon, too, then? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, no?
Rasool also has long history of being a Russian mouthpiece and has refused to condemn Putin for invading Ukraine. None of them should be dignified with office.
Full on incorporating fascist language. Are they studying Hitler speeches and writings or have they just been suppressing it what comes naturally for a long time.
Golly and hahaha, Rubio is a very silly little guy.
I can’t imagine Ambassador Rasool gives 2 toots about Trump’s welcome mat as we are sinking into the depths of our own revised history.
How many times has Trump made disparaging statements about a variety of countries and their people with far worse, and frequently inaccurate, characterizations? Poor little Rubio has been tasked with conveying Trump's thin-skinned rage about an accurate, albeit impolite, comment.
If you're an activist and screaming such protest in the street, that's another thing. An ambassador is a representative of his own country in a foreign country. Whatever he says will affect his country's reputation.
That’s choice: the representative of Donald Trump calling someone out for race baiting. Late at night and alone, little marco knows what Trump thinks of him.
“...he is no longer welcome in our great country” sounds like a direct quote from Donald Trump, which is no doubt where the order to insult the ambassador came from.
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They only want democracy when they are in the majority.
They only want rule of law when it’s applied to “them” who ever they are. Not “us”
They wrap them selves with the flag but only want what it stand for when it benefits.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY.”
As if no one has the rights to challenge anything he says.
WTF?
You miserable cowards!
Why was he declared Persona Non Grata?
BC he called out Trump, JD, Elon & the whole fascist $hitshow for what it is, a christo-fascist white ethno-state, worse then apartheit SA ever was!
It’s no longer great it’s no longer free, it’s play thing of Nazi Billionaires a bastion of hate
Pointing out obvious global racism by Trump and Musk is not "race baiting."
Don't be fooled by the Spectacle- it's a con man's misdirection.
1) russia is the Enemy.
2) We are under attack.
For speaking the truth!
Trump: Passes exec order denouncing South African legislation that established a program for redistributing unused agricultural land that White owners (who seized the land during apartheid) have refused to sell to Black purchasers.
https://www.floridadems.org/2016/07/20/top-10-trump-tweets-about-little-marco/
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/26/dallas-rubio-eviscerates-con-artist-trump/
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
I have to watch it again because there were a few gems in it.
I was like wtf? But now it's 100% understandable
I can’t imagine Ambassador Rasool gives 2 toots about Trump’s welcome mat as we are sinking into the depths of our own revised history.
And who wants to be in the US anyway?