This is the first time Trump has used the word “Africa” on Twitter as president – to express support for white people, on the recommendation of white nationalists’ Fox host. pic.twitter.com/wFiZPVu7Go
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 23, 2018
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.
Get the story behind the president’s tweet about “white farmers.” The @washingtonpost has you covered. https://t.co/uj6iXLVax7
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 23, 2018
Of course, it’s a bit of an embarrassment to the remaining “sane GOP members”, as they flee for the exits…
behold everyone, the bravest republican. https://t.co/vdd8K7XVBH
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 23, 2018
yeah I don't think the medium was the issue here https://t.co/n0huD5037D
— Blake Hounshell (powered by blockchain) (@blakehounshell) August 23, 2018
OK. As an Afrikaner South African: This issue is blown up by the alt-right and dark-web that after Charlottesville and Dylann Roof gained some sort of false legitimacy: “This was the province of Stormfront five, 10 years ago, white genocide in SA.” https://t.co/JNh6bH83f5 (1) https://t.co/Sq2HknKje8
— lomikriel (@lomikriel) August 23, 2018
Charlottesville marchers and 4Chan Nazis are thrilled with Trump's South Africa tweet. pic.twitter.com/cPDdjLwhYn
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 23, 2018
"the pipeline that Trump and his allies have built between hate groups and the mainstream isn’t accidental, unwitting, or merely the product of being repeatedly taken in by grifters.” https://t.co/FDKVfYgzY8
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) August 23, 2018
I know many folks in the Africa bureau at State. They are smart, dedicated, capable career civil servants who will respond to requests with factual information showing that there have been no land expropriations, that violence against white farmers is at a 20-year low, etc.
— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) August 23, 2018
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.
— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) August 23, 2018
Congrats to every idiot producer and host on every other mainstream news media network or opinion editor who will now feel the need to book people willing to defend the legitimacy of this white nationalist narrative to US audiences with no frame of reference to evaluate it.
— Dan Trombly (@stcolumbia) August 23, 2018
You know who believed the nonsense about a "White Genocide" in South Africa?
Anders Breivik, the lunatic white supremacist terrorist that killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
Trump furthered this conspiratorial nonsense to millions of people.
— (((YousefMunayyer))) (@YousefMunayyer) August 24, 2018
For those saying Trump's noxious lies about South Africa's white farmers are a deflection from criminal investigations-
The two aren't so separate
White supremacy thrives on corruption, secrecy & theft. White supremacy is the original white collar crime — on a global scale.
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) August 23, 2018
Mary G
I believe South Africa planned to summon our ambassador for a formal censure, but we don’t have one.
dmsilev
“Gives racist white men an erection”
The Midnight Lurker
(Mother)Tucker sez: Forget about corruption and treason in the United States! Black people are taking over in Africa!
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.)
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.
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.
PPCLI
Perhaps Trump had Anders Brevik in mind when he said there should be more immigrants from Norway.
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:
Twitler and the whole cast of ooga-booga “Muslims trying to kill us all” will be all over it.
Mary G
@Mary G: Oops, they’re already at it:
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.
Baud
That’s easy. Just tell them, “But her emails!”
Mary G
@Mnemosyne: You and I know that, but the current-day GOP doesn’t.
jeffreyw
@SiubhanDuinne:
The punchline will be: “…and that was just Monday!”
debbie
This WaPo article published two hours ago details Carlson’s attempts at sidling away (almost inperceptively) from a blatant lie. How long until Trump does the same? //
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:
18 by 2018. And that was pre-Parkland.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Steel yourself, it’s a two-week vacation.
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.
Dan B
@Mnemosyne: Sounds right. Most Palestinians in the US are christian. And Ammar says he is christian.
But…. few Americans know this.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Nice guy, turning on his wife so quickly. Is love dead anymore?
The Midnight Lurker
@debbie: 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/
The Midnight Lurker
@debbie: No, but republican ‘family values’ are.
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.
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.
Mary G
@Elizabelle: Yes, I actually won $5 on the primary because I said Ammar would win over the DNC’s preferred candidate, even after this was all hashed out in the media here.
Ladyraxterinok
The website rightwingwatch.org has a long article on the background/sources for T Carlson’s broadcast. It has links and points to an extensive article on this white supremacy story at the website Africa is a Country. That article discusses the intensifying international coopertion between white supremacist groups. The website has many articles on Africa never mentioned in the US m$m.
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.
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.
Zinsky
This “white genocide in South Africa” malarkey started on Neo-Nazi websites like Stormfront and is now mainstream Republican Party. Pathetic, and frightening!
Mike in NC
Was Fucker KKKarlson this big a douchebag back when he was still wearing bow ties? I think I know the answer.
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?
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: I expect Colbert’ll steal a line from our own Ozark Hillbilly, and start with “So did anything happen while I was away?”
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.
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.
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.
randy khan
@The Midnight Lurker:
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.
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.