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avrilhowes.bsky.social
Proudly South African political junkie who stands with Ukraine
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"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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🚨…WE ARE BEING TOLD THE FRONT LINE OF THE INSURRECTION HAS MOVED TO THE HOME DEPOT PAINT AISLE. MARINES SUBDUED ONE DIY HOMEOWNER WHO WAS BROWSING CEILING PRIMERS AND TWO SUSPECTED CRAFTERS CARRYING A SUSPICIOUSLY LARGE NUMBER OF BEHR PAINT SWATCHES…SUPPORT DRONES REMAIN STUCK IN THE GARDEN SECTION…

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Somehow, and I don’t know how yet, we will be informed that the whole Trump-Musk feud is Joe Biden’s fault.

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Oh dear

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They’re doing the meme.

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The impact of the Trump administration slashing of more than half of South Africa’s HIV and TB projects funded by the US government, transcends reduced access to HIV testing and HIV prevention and treatment drugs. Treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, cervical cancer, depression and ...

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How deep the irony that as Trump attempted a crass humiliation of South Africa’s president over the property rights of white farmers, our highest court was carefully deliberating Ramaphosa’s concerns about arbitrary deprivation of property.

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I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and tell everybody I'm protecting Putin, and I wouldn't lose any voters. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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If it all seems utterly stupid and terribly cruel and amazingly damaging to this country, it’s because it is

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The US is now complicit in the deaths of Ukrainians as Trump ONCE AGAIN does not sanction Russia despite his so called “red line.” He is the weakest so called leader America has had in its history.

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Trump rattling tariffs sabre again. Markets plunge. Billionaires must have wanted a month end bonus.

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"It is nothing short of being a racial arsonist. That's what Donald Trump is and that's the politics that they're playing here on this issue." @timmiller.bsky.social talks with former ambassador Patrick Gaspard about Trump's "White Genocide" lies

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The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

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Love this: South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a Dick @borowitzreport.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

SA President Cyril Ramaphosa was upbeat about his meeting with US President Donald Trump, despite it being derailed by Trump’s claims of genocide against white Afrikaners in South Africa.

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South African President Ramaphosa: “I am sorry I don’t have a plane to give you.” Trump: “I wish you did. I’d take it.” What an absolute sh*tshow.

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