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[Doubleplay]

Interesting! I’ll be going through Jo’burg in 2 months, on my way to Zimbabwe; hope this doesn’t escalate to where it’s tough for Americans to get through South Africa.

But, I’m glad to see our new administration making it clear that the bullshit tolerated over the last 4 years is no longer being ignored.

You should be fine.
However this bullshit is nothing new.
South Africa was in Bricks and all the issues was present during first Trump administration as well.

 

[mdwest]

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Its bad and have been for many years. I was on a gunauction in England back in [emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]] and already there was London like Jalalabad. But it was fairy peaceful but I did my thinking back then.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Jalalabad.. and a lot of time in London..

While London is absolutely fucked up like a football bat, and appears to only be getting worse… Jalalabad it is not (yet)…

 

[Brent in Az]

U.S military strikes Iran backed Houthi's in Yemen.
Sounds like Trump is sending Iran a message.

 

[kdenn]

Thought this funny!

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Sorry, didn’t realize the deed was in your name……..

a short while back I decided against posting any longer in the political thread as I felt I’ve made all the posts I could contribute and had begun to repeat myself. Further I found myself lashing out at fellow forum members most I felt justified in but one was uncalled for and frankly uncouth behaviour.

@John Wasmuth i owe you and apology my comment to you last week was uncalled for and spoken out of frustration which is no excuse. I began to type you a pm this morning apologizing in private and decided against it. I made my remark in public why then should I be allowed to recant it private.

Although I do not always agree with your political views I appreciate your contribution as a fellow forum member and hope you can forgive my inflammatory comment.

 

[DeadEyeDickless]

Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans

The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

taskandpurpose.com

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’ve spent a lot of time in Jalalabad.. and a lot of time in London..

While London is absolutely fucked up like a football bat, and appears to only be getting worse… Jalalabad it is not (yet)…

Most of us have zero issue with legal immigration. The issues come when immigrants refuse to assimilate and then demand the host citizens to bend to their cultural norms and customs.

Even in the work place the host citizen is deemed Xenophobic if they expect assimilation.

Then laws force the citizen to bend to assimilate to the immigrants culture or be jailed or fired from work if stating the facts in front of their face.

Unfortunately the later is what is happening in Europe and in some US cities

 

[steve white]

a short while back I decided against posting any longer in the political thread as I felt I’ve made all the posts I could contribute and had begun to repeat myself. Further I found myself lashing out at fellow forum members most I felt justified in but one was uncalled for and frankly uncouth behaviour.

@John Wasmuth i owe you and apology my comment to you last week was uncalled for and spoken out of frustration which is no excuse. I began to type you a pm this morning apologizing in private and decided against it. I made my remark in public why then should I be allowed to recant it private.

Although I do not always agree with your political views I appreciate your contribution as a fellow forum member and hope you can forgive my inflammatory comment.

We accept your apology, not sure we could have done it for that SkinnersBlade fellow....lol

 

[observe]

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I SPEAK ON BEHALF of a sizeable portion of South Africa [of all races] who would once and for all like to know exactly which whites stole which pieces of land and from which blacks.

The message that goes out from the presumptuous EFF and thus indirectly from the ANC is that all land was stolen from all blacks by all whites...

Not only does Juliass malema makes such false statements, but many others too who support him, so this is a serious issue which requires serious clarity. Let’s look at one small example.

In 1834 the king of the Pondos, King Faku, gave the land between the Mbashe and Mkomazi rivers to the Dutch settlers on the condition that they go and live there.

He wanted them as a buffer between him and Dingane who constantly stole his cattle and tried to chase him off his land.

Another agreement was in February 1838, when Dingane himself signed a treaty allowing Piet Retief and his group of approximately 100 Voortrekkers to occupy the land between the Tegula River and Port St. John's.. (a copy of this agreement can still be found today).

In 1825, when Shaka met the British for the first time, he allowed the British to take control of what was then called Port Natal, and, in return for this gesture, 2 British commanders, known as Fynn and Farewell, presented Shaka with beads, brass, blankets made of cloth, and other small inventions that could have very easily been brought over by ship.

These are just a few examples of some land that whites legally, or by mutual agreement, acquired from blacks. These stretches of land, and the farms on this land today, certainly cannot be defined as stolen...

Our history is littered with such barters and gifts, where land was traded for cattle or in many cases given as a reward for returning lost or stolen cattle from a neighbouring tribe to its original tribe. As for King Faku, the question is whether the land was Faku’s to give in the first place. He, or his predecessor, undoubtedly took it by force from another hapless black tribe...

Stealing, you may call it. Of course Dingaan also tried to get his hands on it. He, and particularly Shaka before him, “stole” massive pieces of land; in fact they chased the Matabele people off their land, all the way to Zimbabwe where they still live.

The Matabele may argue that a large part of South Africa rightfully belongs to them and that the current black inhabitants should depart. Needless to say that, even before the black tribes started “stealing” land from each other, the San people lived here.

They have the strongest claim of all.

To add a twist, by studying old documents and reading old diaries, you discover that vast areas of land were uninhabited when the Dutch arrived, basically no-man’s land. These areas got occupied and vacated almost at random, as a result of regional wars (or exterminations by other tribes) that took place from time to time.

The only difference between the Dutch who settled there and the previous occupants, who were gone, was that the Dutch were able to defend their positions and were not driven away.

I’m not sure how to bring this letter to the attention of juliass [race mad] malema and those who think like him. It is a very serious issue, since the disregard of treaties, no matter how old, tends to de-stabilize whole regions.

We need clarity about the grounds on which juju malema's own claims are based...
[...for the record....he is a Zimbabwean living here and spreading race hatred in south africa...]

If he is not interested in historic fact or the historic treaties that his forefathers entered into (not to mention those made by the ANC with the NP in 1994), and if he simply wants to seize land belonging to whites, then he is of course, planning to cause unrest, ,

#RaceagainstRace

....To My Critic's it's Not a White Thing, It's The Right Thing..

Here are certain crooked politicians that on purpose mislead the [deliberate unschooled?] jobless voting masses [and overseas liberals?] into a land/property war,....... that can become very-very ugly....!

 

[observe]

RSA Ambassador to USA

Dedicated to the terrorism-loving Ibrahim Rasool who forgot that his ANC style racist remarks are only believed by idiotic locals, tolerated by the South African courts and by our biased Black Rights Only Commission.
You have embarrassed your cause, exposed your government and painted SA in a corner like never before - even under Apartheid!

Bye-bye love
Bye-bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm gonna cry
Bye-bye love
Bye-bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye-bye my love, goodbye

And so the criminal ANC government keep on embarrassing the majority of the good and thinking population of ALL races in South Africa !


A self proclaimed muslim extremist [aka terrorist!]

 

[John Wasmuth]

a short while back I decided against posting any longer in the political thread as I felt I’ve made all the posts I could contribute and had begun to repeat myself. Further I found myself lashing out at fellow forum members most I felt justified in but one was uncalled for and frankly uncouth behaviour.

@John Wasmuth i owe you and apology my comment to you last week was uncalled for and spoken out of frustration which is no excuse. I began to type you a pm this morning apologizing in private and decided against it. I made my remark in public why then should I be allowed to recant it private.

Although I do not always agree with your political views I appreciate your contribution as a fellow forum member and hope you can forgive my inflammatory comment.

Nothing to forgive, it’s just my sarcastic nature and gallows humor.

 

[jpr9954]

The US has expelled the ambassador to the US from South Africa Ebrahim Rasool over alleged comments he made. Rasool is reported to have said that Donald Trump was leading a global white supremacist movement. In response, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X that Rasool was a "race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS". He then declared him persona non grata saying the US has nothing to discuss with him.

From NPR:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's kicking out the new Ambassador from South Africa — accusing him of hating America and hating Donald Trump.

It's the latest salvo against South Africa, which has been in the administration's crosshairs since Trump took office in January.

In a fiery post on X on Friday, Secretary Rubio called Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool a "race baiting politician" and said he was considered "a persona non grata."

Rubio's ire came after Rasool said in an online seminar hosted by a South African think tank that the MAGA movement was partially in response to worries about demographic change and a future when white Americans would no longer be the majority.
"So in terms of that — the supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement — the Make America Great Again movement — as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white, and that the possibility of a majority of minorities is looming on the horizon," said Rasool.

The South African government on Saturday scrambled to contain the fallout, issuing a short, terse statement. Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for the South African president, called the ambassador's expulsion "regrettable."

"We urge all relevant and impacted stakeholders to maintain the established diplomatic decorum in their engagement with the matter," he said. "South Africa remains committed to building a mutually beneficial relationship with the United States of America."

And the BBC:

The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing him as a "race-baiting politician".

In a post on X, Rubio accused Ebrahim Rasool of hating the US and President Donald Trump, and said the ambassador was "no longer welcome in our great country".

The office for South Africa's president on Saturday called the decision "regrettable", adding that the country remained committed to building a mutually beneficial relationship with the US.

The rare move by the US marks the latest development in rising tensions between the two countries.

Finally, from the German-owned DW News...

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[jpr9954]

From the South African "Daily Maverick"

• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa's ambassador Ebrahim Rasool "persona non grata," accusing him of being a "race-baiting politician" who opposes America.
• Rasool's expulsion follows a rapid decline in US-South Africa diplomatic relations since President Donald Trump took office again in January.
• President Cyril Ramaphosa recently stated that Rasool was actively engaging with stakeholders in Washington to strengthen ties between the two nations.
• The controversy stems from Rasool's remarks in a webinar, where he criticized Trump’s foreign policy and implied connections to white supremacy, sparking backlash from right-wing media.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/home-summaries/?post=2634567

 

[Tanks]

A bridge too far? It is getting ridiculous.

On November 1, 2021, Major General Rogers' service was recognized on the defense.gov website as part of their Medal of Honor Monday program. On March 15, 2025, it was observed that the page honoring Major General Rogers had been deleted and the url changed to "deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers

Here is his wiki. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Calvin_Rogers

His medal of honor citation reads like the end of the movie "We were soldiers".

 

[spike.t]

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[Aaron N]

Most of us have zero issue with legal immigration. The issues come when immigrants refuse to assimilate and then demand the host citizens to bend to their cultural norms and customs.

Even in the work place the host citizen is deemed Xenophobic if they expect assimilation.

Then laws force the citizen to bend to assimilate to the immigrants culture or be jailed or fired from work if stating the facts in front of their face.

Unfortunately the later is what is happening in Europe and in some US cities

How well did North Americans assimilate with the natives of the time?

 

[steve white]

We accept your apology, not sure we could have done it for that SkinnersBlade fellow....lol

May I add--you are pretty darned mature for a 31 yr old!

 

[Red Leg]

A bridge too far? It is getting ridiculous.

On November 1, 2021, Major General Rogers' service was recognized on the defense.gov website as part of their Medal of Honor Monday program. On March 15, 2025, it was observed that the page honoring Major General Rogers had been deleted and the url changed to "deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers

Here is his wiki. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Calvin_Rogers

His medal of honor citation reads like the end of the movie "We were soldiers".

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If this is true, it is sickening and beyond stupid.

Like the Enola Gay photo (can't make it up), I have to wonder if it wasn't done deliberately as a way of making a point about the blanket nature of the guidance.

 

[CJW]

I didn't know SAAB was this controversial. I need to start stalking some FB pages.

 

[Tanks]

If this is true, it is sickening and beyond stupid.

Like the Enola Gay photo (can't make it up), I have to wonder if it wasn't done deliberately as a way of making a point about the blanket nature of the guidance.

Absolutely true. Here is the directory entry at DOD website. I guess they nixed it because he worked on DEI towards the end of his career.

When you click on that link you get.