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Apartheid Nostalgia Open Thread: The GOP’s Leader Resorts to Its Greatest Hits of the 1980s

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You know the Fox News Repub puke-funnel operators are pretty desperate when they’re reduced to scavenging white-nationalist-prepper lists for gruesome fantasies of stalwart Afrikaner farmers threatened by the violent minions of corrupt black nationalist bureaucrats. Hey, it worked for St. Ronnie, back in the golden days!… and besides, it’s not like they have to worry about crossing Paul Manafort any longer.

Of course, it’s a bit of an embarrassment to the remaining “sane GOP members”, as they flee for the exits…


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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    I believe South Africa planned to summon our ambassador for a formal censure, but we don’t have one.

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    CORKER calls Trump’s South Africa tweet “a base stimulator”

    Q: What do you mean? What is his base that would be stimulated?

    “Gives racist white men an erection”

  3. 3.

    The Midnight Lurker

    (Mother)Tucker sez: Forget about corruption and treason in the United States! Black people are taking over in Africa!

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I don’t really follow late-night TV (generally catch up the next day), but I do hope South African Trevor Noah is not on vacation* this week.

    *Unlike Stephen Colbert, who must be ripping his hair out by the fistful that he’s not around this week to monologue about all the breaking news every goddamn day.

    (OTOH, Colbert and his writers must be salivating at the prospect of summarising this week and next into one incisive comedy routine.)

  5. 5.

    jl

    If the corporate media brings on BS bigot talkers for balance on this issue, then they are bankrupt. They need to say, and show easily obtainable evidence, that Trump’s tweets about SA are a pack of total bald-face lies.

    No expropriation, no agreement about land reform and compensation, no targeting of white farmers.
    If people see the media weaseling and balancing on this, need to contact them and make strong complaints.
    it is just totally false Stormfront, KKK, and white supremacist Big Lies, stove piped to Trump.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    In Berkeley watching Cal woman take on Haavaad in soccer. Stadium IQ dropped noticeably the moment I walked in.

    Perfect afternoon and no smoke.

  7. 7.

    PPCLI

    Perhaps Trump had Anders Brevik in mind when he said there should be more immigrants from Norway.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    Ed Kilgore had an article in NY Mag yesterday about Duncan Hunter’s opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar. There is one thing that will cause this to be a brutal election:

    But there was another obstacle he had to overcome before arriving at his current supreme opportunity. In February the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that Campa-Naijar’s paternal grandfather was one of the perpetrators of the infamous Black September massacre of Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

    Haaretz gave Campa-Naijjar the opportunity to make his own position on his family legacy clear:

    Campa-Najjar doesn’t defend the actions of his grandfather, calling them “horrific. Innocent civilians were murdered. There is never justification for killing innocent civilians.” His thinking is also different from that of his father, whom, according to a 1996 Washington Post article, was proud of Yusuf al-Najjar and refused “to accept that killing athletes was more repugnant than the violence of Israeli occupation over the years.”

    According to Campa-Najjar, “I’m against ‘comparisonism’ — competing who suffered more. Too many people have been killed. What my grandfather did was inexcusable. The goal is for our generation to be better than our predecessors, and find a way to end this conflict.”

    Twitler and the whole cast of ooga-booga “Muslims trying to kill us all” will be all over it.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mary G:

    IIRC, most of the Black September terrorists were Palestinian Christians, not Muslims. And one of the ringleaders was half-Jewish. At the time, it was about ethnic conflict, not religious war.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    And what a nightmare for our diplomats @USEmbassySA, who must now explain why our racist president’s reckless tweets about vicious falsehoods are causing currency fluctuations & bad press for the South African government.

    That’s easy. Just tell them, “But her emails!”

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    (OTOH, Colbert and his writers must be salivating at the prospect of summarising this week and next into one incisive comedy routine.)

    The punchline will be: “…and that was just Monday!”

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    @Mary G: Teen Vogue had an article on Campa-Naijjar in May 2017. He looks like one of The Property Brothers. How could that hurt!

    And his grandparents were killed by Mossad before he was even born. Sins of the grandfathers.

    Teen Vogue:

    “I’m running for the people of my district. These thousands of young people who have reached out to me and said, ‘we are really inspired by what you’re trying to do. We love your message. We think you could actually make this work,” Ammar said. “Maybe a lot of that was born out of a backlash against Trump, but really it was peoples’ enthusiasm. It was this positive momentum.”

    Ammar is one of those young people. He said that he became interested in politics at an early age, and he never thought his age would hold him back. Now, as he makes a bid for Congress, Ammar wants other young people to know they shouldn’t let their birth date be a barrier.

    “I have a campaign called 18 by 2018, which focuses on teens who are 16,17 and going to be 18 by election day. It’s a voting block that is sorely overlooked,” he said. “Every 30 seconds a Latino American becomes 18 years old and an eligible voter. They’re the ones who are getting soul crushing debt, the worse calamaties of climate change. That’s something I really believe in. I was animated at a really young age to fight for these things. I’m a firm believer you can never start too soon.”

    18 by 2018. And that was pre-Parkland.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    @Mary G: Maybe it’s good Fox is monofocused on that right now. They sure don’t want to be covering what a criminal dumbass Duncan Hunter Jr. is.

    Will be old news, and those whom the story about Munich would inflame are likely not voting for Ammar anyway.

  22. 22.

    Flanders' Former Neighbor

    @trollhattan:
    That’s what I thought the other night when I went mountain biking in Tilden. Sore throat Thursday morning suggested otherwise.

  23. 23.

    Gelfling 545

    @debbie: Trump doesn’t sidle. Hell probably just deny he ever said it, should he feel the need to. This is a man who has never even confessed his wrongdoing to the God in whom he notionally believes because he has never done anything wrong in his estimation. I don’t expect him to feel the need.

  24. 24.

    Mary G

    @Elizabelle: Yes, I actually won $5 on the primary because I said Ammar would win over the DNC’s preferred candidate, even after this was all hashed out in the media here.

  25. 25.

    Ladyraxterinok

    The website rightwingwatch.org has a long article on the background/sources for T Carlson’s broadcast. It has links and points to an extensive article on this white supremacy story at the website Africa is a Country. That article discusses the intensifying international coopertion between white supremacist groups. The website has many articles on Africa never mentioned in the US m$m.

  26. 26.

    FelonyGovt

    @Mary G: I must admit I had a brief pang this morning when I read about his grandfather being one of the Munich assassins. I remember that incident well and it chilled me to the bone. Then, however, I realized that I would not want to be judged for something my grandparent had done before I was born.

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    Racist president pees his pants with pointless concern over white farmers in South Africa, apparently now part of the United States.

    And somewhere there are some white fools musing, “Well we can’t be sure he’s a racist unless we can hear him saying the N word.”

    ETA. Trump has squared the lunacy of the conspiracy circle. He listens to Fox News propaganda and then Tweets about it and transforms fake news into fool’s gold which his supporters then accept as gospel.

  28. 28.

    Zinsky

    This “white genocide in South Africa” malarkey started on Neo-Nazi websites like Stormfront and is now mainstream Republican Party. Pathetic, and frightening!

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    Was Fucker KKKarlson this big a douchebag back when he was still wearing bow ties? I think I know the answer.

  30. 30.

    Citizen_X

    @Mike in NC: He was always a douchebag, but I don’t remember him being this flat-out racist, mainstreaming white-power propaganda. Am I wrong?

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    My coal miner grandfather was against the union. I’m not. He died when I was 10 months old, so he got to meet me, but I have no memories of him, other than going to the cemetery with my grandma with peonies when they were in bloom.

    I’ll try not to hold anyone’s grandparents against them… if they aren’t supporting the work those ancestors did that’s questionable.

  33. 33.

    sigaba

    @dmsilev: I’m frankly shocked that the reporter followed up with Corker and actually thought to ask the really simple question, What base? How does this statement “stimulate”? Most of the time a comment like this is simply passed over in silence.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @Mary G:
    The current day GOP, like the GOP for the last 50-60 years doesn’t want to know. Of course with their heads placed so strategically in their normal location, not knowing is pretty easy. IOW it’s easy to only know shit when their heads are in their current location.

  35. 35.

    randy khan

    @The Midnight Lurker:

    Trump won’t back down. Bigots are his base. He’ll double down.
    Here’s an idea! Donate money in Tucker Carlson’s name to:

    Colin Allred – TX – 32. He’s running against Pete Sessions – R(acist).
    https://www.colinallred.com/

    The Honorable Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson – serving TX – 30.
    https://ebjohnson.house.gov/

    I like the concept, but that is in fact what got Dinesh D’Souza in trouble – you can only donate to federal campaigns in your own name. So don’t do it.

  36. 36.

    Ruckus

    @J R in WV:
    My dad’s father was racist. No robes or anything like that, but it was rather obvious if one paid any attention.
    I just decided when I was rather young that was crap and I didn’t want to be that way. That’s has been a good choice all my life.
    My DNA gives me the physical attributes that I have, but I am the operator of the brain they gave me, I have a choice not to accept their bigotry.

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