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Liz Bailey's avatar

Good article. As a South African I am horrified that they can say what they say without having been here since apartheid. They have BEE which means companies need to hire according to demographics. The white population is 7-8% of the total. We have a huge brain drain though. Corruption (look up Zuma, State Capture, Gupta) https://blog-pfm.imf.org/en/pfmblog/2023/04/how-and-why-did-state-capture-and-massive-corruption-occur-in-south-africa

Now tell me this is not what has happened in the USA. This is what the news should be highlighting. Musk is Gupta. Trump is Zuma.

The current Government in SA has signed a bill that a few parts are possibly unconstitutional but this is being fought in parliament by the Democratic Alliance. Be aware be warned and shut it down. Before you lose your country.

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Mari O’Donnell's avatar

Smegma! What a great word to describe this administration.

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Suzanne's avatar

Haven’t heard that word since college 40 some years ago.

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Phyllis's avatar

Me, too! A friend joked about starting a sorority called Smegma Chi. . .

Smegma does capture the essence of the current political situation, don’t you think?

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Suzanne's avatar

Oh that sounds so familiar!

Yes it does. You put it so well.

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Jeannine Johnson's avatar

Old people like me remember what it was like in the 50s and 60s. I won't go back and will fight like hell for the next 4 years.

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THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's avatar

We ain't going back!

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Cheryl Ince's avatar

We are a country of 300M+ and I would venture to say about 300M+ do not know (due to lack of education?/knowledge?/access to information?) about any of this. Thank you for enlightening me and I will continue to follow you as a source of true information in a world of misinformation

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Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

Thanks for letting for the Apart and hide history. When I was a freshman at Wittenberg University in 1963, I and a few fellow students ran clothing drives where our fellow students donated/gathered clothes and shipped them to the SA prison camps for the inmates, also set-up and ran SAFE (student alliance for equality). I have always avoided any use of PayPal and its founding Nazis. I do not recognize Tramp as president nor his brownshirts, nor his creepy billionaire fellow democracy assassins. Shame on those who have been ignorant of PP's true nature and made these creeps billionaires. Have a blessed day!

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Michele Mudrak's avatar

Good article, truly frightening

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Nandini's avatar

Good grief this is depressing as hell.

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THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's avatar

It's been their long term plan. They don't hide their ideology or goals or viewpoints. It's all there.

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Lost In Alabama's avatar

Utterly terrifying. So is the lack of education in our country where 56% of adults read at a 6th grade level or below. Most could not begin to comprehend your article, and that’s exactly what the Republicans have been aiming for, make them dumb, then scare them with lies and propaganda, then offer themselves as the only saviors.

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Eulonda's avatar

Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC have Breaking News video on repeat of a guy in a cherry picker taking down the USAID sign in DC. While that’s worth mentioning once, maybe twice, it’s the least of our problems. The “real talk” analysis in this story is what people need to see and hear. Instead MSM is “cherry-picking” low hanging fruit as the country rapidly becomes FUBAR.

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Carolea Hassard's avatar

Even the hint that Peter Thiele considers apartheid "economically sound" lays bare his love of white supremacy.

People should remember that Black people were in Africa first, then came the whites who had no regard for the harm they did to other human beings.

I see pattern here.

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kathi wright's avatar

i see now that the USA has indeed had their own national costume for a long, long time.

it’s definitely that pointed hood with the eyeholes cut out, an outfit made complete with the coordinating robe. truly the ensemble of ignorance and hate - under the guise of god of course.

apparently most of the klan had theirs tucked away into the back of their closets. but now we are finding out just how many of those pointed hoodies have been hiding out…

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Y eYe I's avatar

Okay, so I went with make America Gross again, but love the apparteid one!

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Jason Egenberg's avatar

Trump’s stunning power grab is dismantling the government in real time—with Elon at the center. Meanwhile, Democrats are still playing by rules that no longer exist. This article I wrote lays out exactly how to fight back before it’s too late.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/the-rules-are-dead-the-game-has-changed?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios

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Leslie Ann Epperson's avatar

The thing is I only used PayPal a few times. Now it’s obsolete. If you keep using it, it is much easier to use your debit card.

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julie ranahan's avatar

White boys who were born men on third base club… stealing home

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Claire Paxton's avatar

Thank you for this & in particular calling the doge juvenile delinquents incels! Truth!

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