one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 6 days ago

one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid

Reposted from Josh Marshall

You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view?

Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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blissb33.bsky.social•6 days ago

Of course he did. Have you not noticed his nominees are always the polar opposite of who should be in such a position? It's because we want the people to live and he wants us to die.

carriesweet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I would say unabashedly pro-apartheid

jhalp2.bsky.social•6 days ago

Great article with an also great history lesson. TY.

neversus64.bsky.social•6 days ago

So racist. It was racist.

altworldly.bsky.social•6 days ago

Partly because establishment liberals were more worried about offending the racists and trying to court their vote than they were interested in doing the hard work to educate and inform voters about why apartheid is bad.

lyricstoliveby.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nerds like you, and anyone who forgot about Reagan and his trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi

rebelscum5.bsky.social•6 days ago

From Elon to this guy, conservatives are hell-bent on digging it up again.

mrkkits.bsky.social•5 days ago

The racism of these people just absolutely astounds me. Open and in our faces racism...do we hear any pushback from Republicans? Not a peep...

chokoreetob.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is how I found out Brent Bozell is the ambassador to South Africa lol. Jesus fucking Christ.

itek-mark.bsky.social•6 days ago

These guys are comically predictable; bad caricatures of weakminded bad guys from our past.

Trump and his crowd aren't masterminds. They're puppets on a string.

aussophia.bsky.social•6 days ago

My high school geography teacher Mrs Pillay (a South African immigrant to Australia) insisted every white American who voted for Reagan or any Brit who voted for Thatcher was explicitly anti-apartheid and a “colossal bigot”. (She was very cool for a geography teacher)

aussophia.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oops - that should have been anti-anti-apartheid

mwoodpen.bsky.social•6 days ago

Woah he’s a looker! 😩

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necromaunzer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, it just stands to reason that nobody would realistically be that evil, right?

Right?

Hello?

drstef.bsky.social•6 days ago

I didn't know Brent Bozell was still alive.

npersson.bsky.social•6 days ago

So did Musk’s family and the current cadre of tech bros lurking around the White House. Ie, Peter Thiel

wearethetruth.bsky.social•6 days ago

You have to say one thing about Trump he pick can the right mf for job he just can’t pick the right mf to do the job .Who’s better to do racist shit than a racist.

neptuniandemocracy.bsky.social•6 days ago

White supremacy is bigly in this admin

gilliesracer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Surprising no one.

betterangelsrise.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m sure Musk picked him.

hawaiian-ishkelly.bsky.social•6 days ago

*sigh*

jeanpauldelier.bsky.social•6 days ago

Shocking…

ilovepets420.bsky.social•6 days ago

there's an easier way to say that

sheilabryan.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s the naked racism from every corner of this incompetent, hate filled, white supremacist Administration that blows my mind! Isn’t this what those of us Seniors who marched in the 60s and the anti apartheid 70s fought? Sweet Jesus! These depraved MFs must be stopped. NOW!

gawaintheknight.bsky.social•6 days ago

I just assumed all these guys were dead now.

j-c11.bsky.social•6 days ago

This White House is very anti-anti-racism and very anti-anti-(insert anyone that isn’t white, straight, cis, or Christian) so it follows that they’d be pro-Apartheid.

barnat4.bsky.social•6 days ago

SA amb told to leave USA.

Why should SA accept their Amb ?

jerseypatrick.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even William F Buckley

theblackrepublican.bsky.social•6 days ago

Why do I hear Foghorn Leghorn?

impcus.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think that's "pro-apartheid"

dglancaster.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wow - this guy seems like the type who would wear a "Be a man among men - fight with the Rhodesian Army" t-shirt.

parentingaspath.bsky.social•6 days ago

As someone alive during that time I recall quite vividly Reagan’s support of apartheid SA

franscavalier.bsky.social•6 days ago

How we’ve fallen. This guy even looks the part and with an insurrectionist son to boot.

johnnylinsky.bsky.social•6 days ago

Was genuinely shocked to learn about this while researching the history of the right-wing Washington Times for a book I wrote.

tinajpnw.bsky.social•6 days ago

Kind of like Karoline Leavitt stating that a judge was an "anti-trump hater".

Wouldn't that be a supporter, then? These people are incredibly stupid.

allimcc.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’s probably one of Musk’s cousins.

onedayinjune.bsky.social•6 days ago

In the UK also that's a rarely acknowledged part of Margaret Thatcher's legacy, her vicious resistance to efforts within the Commonwealth (mainly its Asian and African members) to isolate and boycott South Africa.

themilo.bsky.social•6 days ago

There is a pretty memorable scene in season 4 of The Crown where they show a montage of Thatcher rejecting proposed statements against South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-IN_txGxu4

minionofmidas.bsky.social•6 days ago

If someone was important in the Young Conservatives in the 80s and had a political career later on, you just knew there were public statements in defence of Apartheid in their closet. Even people who later on became Tory moderates (think John Bercow).

jeffwave.bsky.social•6 days ago

Could he be a white supremacist?

jeffbsky123.bsky.social•6 days ago

It takes some doing to find someone who OPPOSED the fight to end apartheid. But he did it! And he made him ambassador to South Africa. (: A joke like pretty much ALL his appointments.

booman23.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Bozells humped Rhodesia all the way back in the sixties.

mfelps.bsky.social•6 days ago

When people ask me why I think Republicans are racist I just tell them I remember the 80s.

therealxtina.bsky.social•6 days ago

sounds like a musk pick imho. they've got apartheid in their dna.

shingomathieu.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ew.... Someone let him leave the house looking like this?

worldcitizen1994.bsky.social•6 days ago

Seriously? That fossil GOP hack Bozell? Man, but is that ever scraping the bottom of the barrel.

joshdobbin.bsky.social•6 days ago

PEOPLE FORGET this so bad. I was a kid and a huge Springsteen fan when "Ain't Gonna Play Sun City" came out, and it was cooler to me than "We Are The World." It all went down the memory hole after Mandela was freed in 90, that the Reagan admin was against the anti-apartheid movement.

cathygreen67.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do you remember the Peter Gabriel song too?

https://youtu.be/luVpsM3YAgw?si=-Y8sxHX1Zekn0TEb

joshdobbin.bsky.social•6 days ago

And we read "Cry, The Beloved Country" in school that year, too.

cathygreen67.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thinking of the anti-apartheid demos.

And being in Trafalgar Square at the Poll Tax Riot, looking at the S African Embassy and thinking that I really wouldn’t mind if it went up in flames.

Obviously, I didn’t want anyone to be hurt. It was just such an oppressive symbol of an oppressive regime.

wilhelminaj.bsky.social•6 days ago

For those who may not know.

https://youtu.be/aopKk56jM-I?si=oLg4Vw3mbQyYA49k

bumper-21956.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wouldn’t KING ELON like to be returned to his country of origin. He is an illegal ALIEN, maybe he could be their ambassador

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trumps only knowledge or care about South Africa is a far right talking point related to Afrikaner land ownership and a desire to support white landowners restoration of property.

He thinks folks like Elon Musk are victims

stevenlsjr.bsky.social•5 days ago

What’s weird is that Elmo’s dad (despite otherwise being a horrible person) was a leader in one of the only anti-apartheid parties during the apartheid era

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•5 days ago

I haven't read too much of his views.

The younger Musk is about division and victimhood.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/persecution-of-south-africas-whites-a-false-narrative-president-says-as-musk-repeats-genocide-claim

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/chriskremidascourt.bsky.social/post/3llefubqtks2i

annesayre.bsky.social•6 days ago

The blonde guy with NO protective melanin.
No WONDER he's testy.

nyc55.bsky.social•6 days ago

Would it have made any difference if it wasn't buried?

nyc55.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm afraid a lot of voting was because of, not despite....prove otherwise!

droylapidus.bsky.social•6 days ago

The people who are anti-anti-fascist are also vituperatively racist? I'm shocked

poetdevotee.bsky.social•6 days ago

What? He hired ANOTHER fascist for his 'administration?'

clairelobel.bsky.social•5 days ago

“L. Brent Bozell III, the right-wing activist that President Trump tapped this week to serve as America’s ambassador to South Africa.”

hamiltwan.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think people just look back at apartheid and it's such an obviously evil thing that they assume basically everyone opposed it at the time, like Nazism in the 40s and 50s. So it's hard to believe these guys supported, and continue to support it.
And the same logic applies to actual Nazism too.

thewakan.bsky.social•6 days ago

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bethly711.bsky.social•6 days ago

steveisdamages.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe, but do conservatives need to hide any of this from an electorate that supported "They're eating the pets in Springfield"? I think they can just start having the cross burnings on the White House lawn.

tirza-atar.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wish pro-apartheid stands were a "conservative" issue. The unconditional support of US "liberals" for Israeli apartheid is not buried. They are proud of it.

frmrmarine.bsky.social•6 days ago

Certainly on brand for today’s GOP

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gratitude333.bsky.social•6 days ago

Of course he did! Musk and Thiel feel the same and are striving of a kleptocracy, with white nationalism as the organizing principle. Vance’s comments over the past year indicate he is on board.

lovingkindness730.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh great, this is like Ted Bundy as head of women’s health department.

sintendo69.com•6 days ago

Of course he looks like a plantation owner.

peebsy0.bsky.social•6 days ago

The entire Reaggan Administration and everyone they spawned, to be most precise.

maranoagirl.bsky.social•6 days ago

🙄sounds like a great match to support all those poor white south africans being killed by the thousands on a daily basis by, well, you know who, that need a safe country to immigrate too with similar values to their own?

philoof.bsky.social•6 days ago

robobearart.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s certainly handsome but maybe more-so with a nice bright necklace.

kellimalone.bsky.social•6 days ago

He ugly too

illegalbussy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Dude why do you have that you will have a mutual aid requesting your bio and ignore people every day that ask for help just watching someone struggle it constantly still try to get help and you ignore them it’s very evil

rwdrift.bsky.social•6 days ago

South Africa should bar his entry and cut off diplomatic ties with the US.

lskmuse.bsky.social•6 days ago

Please tell me you’re making it up. Please.

alinamercedes.bsky.social•6 days ago

So…racist?

barefootsmith.bsky.social•6 days ago

And not just in South Africa.

staceyham.bsky.social•6 days ago

Makes sense since musk is apart of the apartheid

professorg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Side note: shout out to Lethal Weapon 2 for being one of the “wokest” movies of the 80s.

smitty11.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not only vocally anti-anti-apartheid, but also blatantly racist and xenophobic.

debteachky.bsky.social•6 days ago

mmiike.bsky.social•6 days ago

South Africans remember.

pre3chorded.bsky.social•6 days ago

South Africa doesn't have to accept Bozell.

mbkent.bsky.social•6 days ago

That was my question. Can they/would they refuse to seat him?

henryburke.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is true but also Elon Musk, David Sacks and others present Dems with a good opportunity to highlight this. Emphasize the fact that these guys have seized the government and are issuing it to settle scores from their home country. Journalists should ask Musk his thoughts on Mandela

sciencemonkey.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExBvabAJw18&pp=ygUXV2hvIGlzIHRoZSBkaWNraGVhZCBtb3c%3D

podkin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Brent Bozell 111
Lovely guy! Great hair style too!

bluedotredsea.bsky.social•6 days ago

fElon47 lives to find the most unqualified, oppositional, asshole possible to fill his administration with.

kenbrooke.bsky.social•6 days ago

If I had a mobster in my pocket running a foreign country, what better way to obfuscate real intent than to appoint the worst people at every position, easy to control. Like any mobster, they'll burn the restaurant down when its done paying out. I'm worried about port security and suitcase nukes.

tytoseye.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Ginger Santa Claus of Anti-Anti-Apartied.
(small-fingered vulgarian)

coxsportsohio.bsky.social•6 days ago

honestly don’t think anyone under 40 knows about, let alone understands, south africa or apartheid

it’s only something I learned about from reading the liberal blogosphere. but wasn’t a topic in HS or college

nicoleaduran.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m under 40 and we learned about apartheid in 10th grade.

sham.bsky.social•6 days ago

24 and same

coxsportsohio.bsky.social•6 days ago

42 and it did not come up *shrugs*

mikedolam.bsky.social•6 days ago

They showed us Cry Freedom (great film) in high school & that’s the only reason I remember that it was definitely discussed. I’m 49.

coxsportsohio.bsky.social•6 days ago

ya basically went civil war => ww1 => great depression => ww2 => civil rights => vietnam => fall of ussr

learned later about all the campus debates and shit for apartheid

bamamontana.bsky.social•6 days ago

Learned about if from the news and my (black) parents. There was nothing about it in school

nagaswan.bsky.social•6 days ago

I know you know this but the fact you can swap “conservative” with “segregationist” whenever anyone says it and it makes everything crystal clear is really something

missebennet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I remember Dick Cheney was a proud anti-anti-apartheid guy when he was in Congress

beccasmullet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I went to demonstrations demanding divestment!

tink51.bsky.social•6 days ago

He looks like an Afrikaner, unsurprisingly.

okay7.bsky.social•6 days ago

“Actively opposed to ending apartheid “…. He’s unacceptable. I hope South Africa refuses to allow him into their country.

wp410.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don’t think they buried it.

I just think a lot of people agree with them or apathetic to it, which is why most conservative movements win.

The faster we accept that 45% of society is in support of or indifferent to immoral ideas, the quicker progressive movements can move forward.

saintron.bsky.social•6 days ago

If it makes you feel better I assumed they were anti anti apartheid.

Pro apartheid? I think I just had a stroke.

jameslwilson.bsky.social•6 days ago

That anti-anti-apartheid movement included a young Neil Gorsuch.

jessbheart.bsky.social•6 days ago

They have been openly pro-segregation for.. 50?.. years or so on the republican side.. they've hated it ever sense 64 really..at no point was integration accepted by white people.

ericrosenfield.bsky.social•6 days ago

I mean, conservatives were also against integration… and, you know, abolition…

nojustdan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Apartheid is literally their dream situation. Exploiting workers to the point of enslavement, looting natural resources, imprisoning dissenters, stealing from tax payers, paying no taxes themselves. It’s what they are trying to do here.

dinodemitris.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not in Canada - Tories led the sanctions crusade under Mulroney. He kept pressing Reagan and thatcher to join it.

cvilletgr.bsky.social•6 days ago

I sure as fuck remember how busted up Buckley and his crowd (which decidedly included his relative Brent, here) were at the tragic fate of the ruling White caste in South Africa and (the-then-named) Rhodesia. About how great were these anti-communist buddies of ours were.

cymruambith.bsky.social•6 days ago

GROTESQUE PERVERSION and EVIL

bethly711.bsky.social•6 days ago

juryst.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not surprisingly, that dude's got some tiny-ass hands.

jackeber.com•6 days ago

Trump has yet to appoint someone who who isn’t the worst possible person for the job.

billejzak.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump and the maggot-verse are racists and are trying to exclude Blacks from the economic life of the country. Trump's attacks on "DEI" are really attacks on Blacks and women.

dialectics68.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can’t imagine the SA govt will accept Bozell. But Trump likely knows that.

the-original-ray.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's like all members of this administration were hand picked from the ranks of the KKK and LOTIE.

editorialboard.bsky.social•6 days ago

Didn’t Bozell’s dad help Goldwater write The Conscious of a Conservative as an admirer of Franco?

celticdragon1.bsky.social•6 days ago

South Africa could simply refuse his credentials

sarwark.org•6 days ago

Doctor Zeus.

foodnwhine.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fIJ5LIrqoM/Uxqjf8X_BsI/AAAAAAAADZE/mBjNJYG-6G4/s1600/apes+blog+(12).JPG

Am I the only one that thinks he looks familiar?

tzipshmil.bsky.social•6 days ago

Same with antisemitism.

Didn’t he call Obama everything but N word? (Just publicly of course)

justicewarrior4all.bsky.social•6 days ago

Everything about American politics is offensive and disgustingly corrupt

uilleccdubh.bsky.social•6 days ago

And that’s also behind the embrace of the Tesla Boer’s attack on USAID…

cornwarning.com•6 days ago

Reagan was anti-anti-apartheid. Reagan was the smiling paragon of every odious prejudice of the right wing.

bananarepublicans.bsky.social•6 days ago

He looks EXACTLY like someone who would oppose the end of apartheid.

sanho.bsky.social•6 days ago

That family was bred to be nasty.

safexxi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Another mediocre white bro … MWB hire

chrislhayes.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thomas Frank’s book about Abramoff has an *amazing* chapter on this.

inmydefense.bsky.social•6 days ago

Given the...disposition of a lot of this admin towards South Africa for totally not racist reasons, I do expect there to be a diplomatic crisis one of these days between the US and South Africa over what will later be determined as a hoax/propaganda campaign.

isabellasmom.bsky.social•6 days ago

Chris, The media should focus on "why" Trump chose these people instead of all repeating the same stories attacking them.
What's the long-term goal here?
When R u folks going to figure it out?
"To take us over without firing one shot." Remember who said this? When? 1990s ..

deety3.bsky.social•6 days ago

I recall from history classes it was Kruschchev saying exactly in the late 1950s.

isabellasmom.bsky.social•6 days ago

Who is following in his footsteps?

modicool.bsky.social•6 days ago

These people need to be literally locked into a prison at the Hague. I want zero tolerance after this. You support objectively horrible things publicly, you get investigated and deported.

seekingreason.bsky.social•6 days ago

Good writer. I read one of his books years ago.

yukonhcornelius.bsky.social•6 days ago

We need a LOT more light on themes like this coming out of silicon valley. Add to it the twisted notion that future lives are more valuable than present lives because by definition the future is more technologically advanced and something something effective altruism something something.

daveweigel.bsky.social•6 days ago

IIRC Dems tried to make Cheney's South Africa vote a problem for him in 2000 and he MSM shrugged about it.

82321.bsky.social•6 days ago

America in 2000 was also more conservative (but much less authoritarian) than today

rimidar.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah and they won that election but for Bush v Gore so I’m not sure what your point is.

whitesided.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s been over a decade but I don’t ever have a week go by where I don’t think of the Vox article about how describing to people the way that the death penalty is racist makes total approval of it rise.

empath75.bsky.social•6 days ago

At the time Cheney took that position there was an arguable cold war real-politik defense for it — the us worked with a lot of murderous dictatorships when it served our economic/military interests.. now it’s just pure mask off racism.. just put it on the pile with the rest of the racism.

empath75.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not saying the defense was a good one, btw, or that he wasn’t motivated by racism, just that’s how he could just shrug it off.

jeotraveller.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, I worked in South Africa a lot in the 1990s and early 2000s and tried to explain the context of the awful things we supported during the Cold War. The political logic that we did this shit to save us from nuclear annihilation provided a lot of cover for morally reprehensible actions.

empath75.bsky.social•6 days ago

South Africa was one of the worst, but when I was in Guatemala, there are plaques all over the place commemorating massacres committed by the dictatorship we put into place there and supported for 40 years. People forget that a lot of immigration is to escape from situations that we created.

jeotraveller.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly this! My friend is in Lao now and just told me USAID has terminated funding for removing mines and unexploded ordinance there. Bombs we dropped.

drjeannedb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Shameful. Nelson must be rolling in his grave!

velikonjamg.bsky.social•5 days ago

The South African government could refuse agrement. If the nomination has gone to the Senate, it sounds like they didn’t.

mattivated.bsky.social•6 days ago

Reminds me of the time when idiotic rightwing nutjob John McWhorter went on Bill Maher and proudly declared himself an "anti-anti-racist"

It's like, bro, didn't you take elementary school math?....two negatives = a positive

doctorsynth.bsky.social•6 days ago

The pro-slavery political party, apparently. Lincoln was an aberration.

clj5.bsky.social•6 days ago

Too on the nose even for MAGA movement bent on making the country safe for #racism again.

nunyabitnez.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Musk famliy migrated to S.A. because Canada was no longer tolerant of Nazis. ( Musks family is genuine, pledge making, goose stepping Nazis.) They left S.A when Apartheid was abolished.

elmjoe17.bsky.social•6 days ago

Everything, EVERYTHING the " conservative " movement supports is based in racism and white fear. EVERYTHING.

banalplay.bsky.social•6 days ago

the passes they've gotten from complicit media really tells the story for anyone who has not grown up steeped in the hoodwink

kyeburn.bsky.social•5 days ago

I dare say they think Nelson Mandela was too woke....

justjack01.bsky.social•6 days ago

just like MUSK! welcome to russia 2.0.

mainlinegrrl.bsky.social•6 days ago

SO freaking egregious. It's amazing how quickly a country's estimation can fall, especially when it seems its "leadership" goes out of its way to select the most vile/unqualified people for the job. Almost like they want our country to fail.

nookum.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, wow, it’s Bozo! Used to get his ridiculous, pearl-clutching mailings about all the “smut and filth” on TV.

Nice to see he’s still on welfare.

ipinions.bsky.social•6 days ago

Of course, this is Trump trolling Black South Africans. But I hope the SA government has the good sense to refuse any meetings with this racist tool...

curiouslyclever.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well of course he did. He looks like he fell off a branch from a Dutch colonizer's family tree.

bamamontana.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is this some kind of punishment for him, then? He doesn’t sound like he wants to hang out in the SA of 2025

jacobwolpert.bsky.social•6 days ago

Does a country have to accept anyone who is picked to be an ambassador to them? What happens if they refuse? I'm genuinely curious.

maryjeffers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Countries can refuse ahead of time too - called refusing agrément. Passively not giving agrément can be a way of refusing it (like a pocket veto, sort of). But of course countries have to weigh the repercussions when they refuse.

mbkent.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you. I had this question too.

onkey.bsky.social•6 days ago

No, they can declare them persona non grata. Usually they don’t, but they might for this one

222sally.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am sure Musk was the one to suggest him; Musk is called Apartheid Clyde for a reason.

boyonabike62.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yup, just like they’re anti-anti-fascist and anti-anti-racist.

hombrelibre.bsky.social•6 days ago

His dad, Brent Boswell Jr., was Bill Buckley's brother-in-law. His son was arrested and convicted for attacking the Capitol on 6 Jan 21.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/17/conservative-activist-son-sentenced-capitol-attack-leo-brent-bozell-iv-00158750

d-flo1.bsky.social•6 days ago

Anti-DEI as code word for pro-Aparteid.

perigominas.bsky.social•6 days ago

Anti-anti-apartheid in the streets
Segregationist in the sheets

nickfish.me•6 days ago

"was"

elons-coke-dealer.bsky.social•6 days ago

The conservative movement is built purely on messaging victories, its the top .1% in a trench coat.

oopsallmuffintop.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even more incredible is the fact that they managed to do that while he looks like that

antelopemd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tump and Musk are working hard to remind everyone how shitty the GOP has been in the past.

steeleleets.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/live/P2ZpGzBWOzI?si=IGyS6YIoHB4vU_ub

culmore.bsky.social•5 days ago

Appalling

dfalc67.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump is scraping the bottom and forced to hire incompetant weirdos because anyone else with talent and common sense left long ago.
This guy looks like he'll fit right in with the current crowd. I hope he gets an appropriate welcome from the authentic citizens of South Africa.

straycatmulti.hunts.monster•6 days ago

he looks like he could provide a *strong hand* to make sure it stays in place.

mamabearhill.bsky.social•6 days ago

As a kid that grew up in the 70’s & 80’s - it is un-effing-believable! Insulting, inhumane, unconscionable!

3wombats.bsky.social•6 days ago

They’re such horrible people 🤦🏼‍♀️

jonsrud.bsky.social•6 days ago

He has a very Afrikaner look to him.

altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s Russian dolls of Calhoun all the way down. They are scum.

seekingreason.bsky.social•6 days ago

🤦🏻‍♀️ Because our military is not removing Deadly Seditionists and Constitution violators from our White House, I’m worried they are complicit…but I want to believe otherwise. I feel like they are waiting until the damage leaves the country is a pile of rubble with no return. This admin must be removed!

ldxlauren.bsky.social•6 days ago

i never considered it buried? Everybody else just decided it's not a dealbreaker.

davidensign.bsky.social•6 days ago

The racism runs deep. All the way down.

chester1995.bsky.social•6 days ago

An infestation of hatred and horrors.

jen-hamlet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I listened to a really useful podcast episode yesterday about this. It was Close All Tabs from KQED. Highly recommend seeking out.

jen-hamlet.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://www.kqed.org/news/12033066/the-broligarchy-pt-1-chronicles-of-the-paypal-mafia

riggsveda.bsky.social•6 days ago

Those of us who lived through the Free South Africa protests and the Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City protests while Reagan catered to that regime remember how anti-anti-apartheid the GOP was.

marylandrockets.bsky.social•6 days ago

By “nerds like me” do you mean people who read?

neilanderthal.bsky.social•6 days ago

This animal is still alive? That amount of bile would have killed an elephant.

spoonwilliam.bsky.social•5 days ago

I have long wondered what normie (ie, nominally non-Nazi) conservatives make of their ideology having been on the wrong side of every conflict resulting in the expansion of rights and human dignity in modern political history.

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