Every American who did—or didn’t—watch Donald Trump’s ambush of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House last week should be embarrassed.
I don’t really think that Ramaphosa needed to respond to the insulting nonsense. A response would have given it credence. He allowed Trump to hang himself, while retaining his own dignity. And there are other possibilities that would explain his actions. I personally don’t feel qualified to judge the motives or decisions of such a person as Ramaphosa.
Having lived in South Africa, both in Cape Town and Johannesburg, for a couple of years, and used it as a hub, visiting frequently for nearly two decades, while living in Angola, Zambia and Malawi I would just say that there is large-scale murder of white farmers and the Government turns a blind eye.
Trump may well be a thug and devoid of diplomatic grace, but we also have to deal with facts. Ramaphosa is no saint. But that is not relevant to South Africa taking the lead to call Israel to account.
How odd after an South African has already disagreed with what you write. It's a it like saying Gazans are murdering zionist Jews when we already have evidence that it is Israelis that are killing Gazans every single day with American bombs.
My experience after a long time in South Africa. And of course there is no comparison with Gaza which is a concentration camp where genocide is being inflicted on the native people by those who colonise their country.
In South Africa there is a lot of violence and hatred and not just black on white but black on black, tribal divisions. But there is no doubt that blacks target and murder white farmers. You may not like that reality but it is a fact.
I'm sorry but where are the headlines each time this happens. The only people saying it are Drumpf and his bottom feeders. Look at the flurry of pieces on the two killed at Jewish museum compared to the almost silence about the genocide by Israel in Gaza.
Some media still think white lives are more important than any other community. You couldn't find anyone more white than me, who hides from the sun, but I don't not feel for one second that whilst are more important than others. Yet isrealis, whose religion was founded in Ur, Iraq where the people are nowhere near being called white, are being actually now filled by whites from every other part of the world and being backed and armed by mainly white countries, which is downright disgraceful. In other words, the new Jewsars ashamed of their birth in Ur.
Headlines when what happens? I honestly do not think pale-skinned people think they are superior. The discrimination in Israel is against non-Jews, it is religious discrimination.
Given our bloody history of past and ongoing genocidal insanity, no American president has the moral ground to criticize any world leader on the issue of genocide. Frankly, I don't understand why world leaders still come waddling to the White House to meet with Trump. They should all shun -- boycott -- the US in whatever way possible to isolate the US from the rest of the world we exploit, terrorize and steal from.
With our accelerating national debt and collapsing infrastructure and manufacturing base and perverse abandonment and destruction of the American people by the government, the US is a decrepit house of stained and moldy cards ready to collapse.
Instead of pilgrimages to the White House to be insulted by the Orange Punk, the rest of the world should put their efforts into building up BRICS and other international cooperative groups to sidestep and isolate the US economically, diplomatically and militarily. It's time to move beyond a tawdry, failed "hegemoronic" world structure to one of cooperation and collaboration.
On a more mundane level, it would be like having a psychopathic, lying, murdering pervert who walks around in his stained underwear screaming at people in your neighborhood and feeling you have to be polite to them. Shun the bastard.
Makes no sense and anything less than isolation in whatever way possible simply delays the inevitable.
Trump is engaged in what Professor Frankfurt terms "bullshit", that is, he is indifferent to whether what he said has any element of truth or not.
Trump neither knows nor cares whether there is a genocide in South Africa, as facts are of interest to the sociopath, solely to the extent they can be weaponized.
Surprise, surprise! Having seen Trump assault Zelensky, why should anyone have expected something different? Moreover, Trump is a professional liar for whom facts are completely irrelevant, so again, why should anyone have expected something different?
This column is well done and discusses historical context and current events that certain interests wish to discount and forget that these things took place. Trump was offensive and a very purposeful ignorant American.
Trump ambushed himself, not the South Africa prez. That worthy came out looking pretty good.
Saying Trump ambushed Ramaphosa is like saying the Zulus ambushed the British at Rourke's Drift, with Ramaphosa in the hilariously ironic role of the British.
It's all about optics for Trump's MAGA base many of whom fall for his "America First" racist and Zionist pandering.
And any critics of the 'patriotic' narratives spewing from Trump news outlets like NewsMax and the N.Y. Post are called anti-Semitic or anti-American.
Trump has been crafting a white nationalist movement wrapped in the American flag.
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et.al. The Dr. Strangelove's of the Department of Offense since Vietnam.
I don’t really think that Ramaphosa needed to respond to the insulting nonsense. A response would have given it credence. He allowed Trump to hang himself, while retaining his own dignity. And there are other possibilities that would explain his actions. I personally don’t feel qualified to judge the motives or decisions of such a person as Ramaphosa.
It was not the place for Trump to raise issues within South Africa and as you say, not the place for Ramaphosa to respond to it.
Having lived in South Africa, both in Cape Town and Johannesburg, for a couple of years, and used it as a hub, visiting frequently for nearly two decades, while living in Angola, Zambia and Malawi I would just say that there is large-scale murder of white farmers and the Government turns a blind eye.
Trump may well be a thug and devoid of diplomatic grace, but we also have to deal with facts. Ramaphosa is no saint. But that is not relevant to South Africa taking the lead to call Israel to account.
How odd after an South African has already disagreed with what you write. It's a it like saying Gazans are murdering zionist Jews when we already have evidence that it is Israelis that are killing Gazans every single day with American bombs.
My experience after a long time in South Africa. And of course there is no comparison with Gaza which is a concentration camp where genocide is being inflicted on the native people by those who colonise their country.
In South Africa there is a lot of violence and hatred and not just black on white but black on black, tribal divisions. But there is no doubt that blacks target and murder white farmers. You may not like that reality but it is a fact.
I'm sorry but where are the headlines each time this happens. The only people saying it are Drumpf and his bottom feeders. Look at the flurry of pieces on the two killed at Jewish museum compared to the almost silence about the genocide by Israel in Gaza.
Some media still think white lives are more important than any other community. You couldn't find anyone more white than me, who hides from the sun, but I don't not feel for one second that whilst are more important than others. Yet isrealis, whose religion was founded in Ur, Iraq where the people are nowhere near being called white, are being actually now filled by whites from every other part of the world and being backed and armed by mainly white countries, which is downright disgraceful. In other words, the new Jewsars ashamed of their birth in Ur.
Headlines when what happens? I honestly do not think pale-skinned people think they are superior. The discrimination in Israel is against non-Jews, it is religious discrimination.
Given our bloody history of past and ongoing genocidal insanity, no American president has the moral ground to criticize any world leader on the issue of genocide. Frankly, I don't understand why world leaders still come waddling to the White House to meet with Trump. They should all shun -- boycott -- the US in whatever way possible to isolate the US from the rest of the world we exploit, terrorize and steal from.
With our accelerating national debt and collapsing infrastructure and manufacturing base and perverse abandonment and destruction of the American people by the government, the US is a decrepit house of stained and moldy cards ready to collapse.
Instead of pilgrimages to the White House to be insulted by the Orange Punk, the rest of the world should put their efforts into building up BRICS and other international cooperative groups to sidestep and isolate the US economically, diplomatically and militarily. It's time to move beyond a tawdry, failed "hegemoronic" world structure to one of cooperation and collaboration.
On a more mundane level, it would be like having a psychopathic, lying, murdering pervert who walks around in his stained underwear screaming at people in your neighborhood and feeling you have to be polite to them. Shun the bastard.
Makes no sense and anything less than isolation in whatever way possible simply delays the inevitable.
Trump is engaged in what Professor Frankfurt terms "bullshit", that is, he is indifferent to whether what he said has any element of truth or not.
Trump neither knows nor cares whether there is a genocide in South Africa, as facts are of interest to the sociopath, solely to the extent they can be weaponized.
Surprise, surprise! Having seen Trump assault Zelensky, why should anyone have expected something different? Moreover, Trump is a professional liar for whom facts are completely irrelevant, so again, why should anyone have expected something different?
Why aren't you saying that djt is supporting White South Africans who believe that aparthaid was the better system for South Africa?
This column is well done and discusses historical context and current events that certain interests wish to discount and forget that these things took place. Trump was offensive and a very purposeful ignorant American.
Trump ambushed himself, not the South Africa prez. That worthy came out looking pretty good.
Saying Trump ambushed Ramaphosa is like saying the Zulus ambushed the British at Rourke's Drift, with Ramaphosa in the hilariously ironic role of the British.