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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:19am On Oct 24, 2025
RodgersAkpafu:
America does not have a left
Come here in Europe
Na here real left dey

America has centre right (democrats) and far right (republicans) only bernie aoc and very few politician's can be termed left
What is centre right about
Green New Deal
Medicare for All
Defund the Police
Reparations for Slavery
Wealth Tax

That's Marxist left. If JFK woke up today he would be a Republican
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:25am On Oct 24, 2025
DeepSight:
1. I said repeatedly to all who cared to hear that Hamas would not disarm and nor should they.

2. Since you support the seizure of both the West Bank and Gaza, where do you want the Palestinians there to go?
You think Hamas is a partner to involve in a peace process. This is straight from the Hamas Charter.

"Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras al-Naqurah in the north to Umm al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not cancel their right to return to it."



Regarding Israel the Charter

Article 18: "The establishment of 'Israel' is entirely illegal and contravenes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and goes against their will and the will of the Ummah; it is also in violation of human rights that are guaranteed by international conventions, foremost among them is the right to self-determination."



In the 1998 Charter how does the Charter envsiom Jews and Israel
"The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."


Their fight is religious sacred duty to exterminate the Jew.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:15am On Oct 24, 2025
They warned Joe about his crazy liberal Chief of Staff. He thought diversity is king.

💥 JOE MANCHIN TORCHES THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE

“Ron Klain—smart guy, good guy—but he went so far to the left and pushed Joe left.”

Manchin says he warned Biden early that his staff was out of touch with real America:

“I told him, ‘Mr. President, you have the most liberal staff I’ve ever seen.’
He said, ‘Well Joe, they tell me I have the most diversified staff.’
I said, ‘We’re not talking about diversity, sir — we’re talking about batsh*t crazy.’” 🤯

🔥 Manchin didn’t hold back:

“Your staff is pushing you too far left. You’ve never been that far left.”

Even Democrats are now admitting it: Biden’s presidency was hijacked by the radical left.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:01am On Oct 24, 2025
Obrigardo:
He is an all round evil man with blood on his hands. He knows he's evil and acknowledged that he won't make heaven
Exactly . What blood. The 13 marines who died in Kabul The Venezuela drug smugglers being blown up. The Libyans, Egyptians, Syrians and Iraqis who died during Arab spring . The hundreds of thousands who die from fentanyl.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:57am On Oct 24, 2025
Obrigardo:
I see in the not too distant future, people like basilico will fight you if you call them maga. I believe a wool will be pulled over their eyes completely with one 'jim Jones' event the tyrant predator will try to pull but fail miserably.

I said before the legacy of this man will forever be toxic in American society, that denying or destroying anything with his name on it will be considered patriotic and free speech.

The corrupt elite class is still empowering this open corruption but I'm afraid it's about coming to an end in a couple down the line.

I said it before, this man's fate will be the same as Gaddafi who was flamed by his own.

How the tyrant and his family sleep in blood every night is beyond me.
I agree with you on the the areas to be reconstructed .. .with significant American contractors input .
Why? Because the administration is foolish, it doesn't realize that Gaza people all support the genocidal Hamas and the innocent Gazans are the recruiting ground of Hamas. Mothers pray for their children to join Hamas and die as martyrs in their war against Israel.Sone hostages were detained in prominent Gazans homes including a medical doctor.
Very foolish of Trump to think he can separate the ordinary Gazan from Hamas.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:45am On Oct 24, 2025
Trump is going after his enemies. Democrats scream.
Grassely has released an authorization by Lisa Monaco and Merlick Garland to FBI to open Arctic Frost investigation.
Detractors have been saying Joe Biden wasn't involved , this investigation was deemed SIM , a Serious Investigative Matter.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/merrick-garland-chris-wray-signed-off-on-arctic-frost-probe-that-targeted-gop-groups-spied-on-senators-documents-show/?dicbo=v2-QgW0y6t

This investigation caught Trump allies in the crosshatirs . 8 Republican Senators had their calls monitored. .92 groups including TPUSA were also spied on. Add thousands of protesters who attended J6 fedsurrection that had 274 FBI plainclothes agents doing God knows what.
This is what you call weaponization of the justice system. IOW an abuse of process where the results were handed to Jack Smith and the sham j6 committee.
Trump had his Twitter account subpoenad,everyone who followed him,likes,retweeted ,u followed or replied to his tweets was placed under scrutiny.
They went as far as going though his official phone without authorization. They then sought a warrant retroactively.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:34am On Oct 23, 2025
ijebosb:
God, Putin got his money's worth.
The NYT story about $230 million is doubtful. It was from sources close to etc

U.S. Code § 2675(a): “The failure of an agency to make final disposition of a claim within six months after it is filed shall, at the option of the claimant any time thereafter, be deemed a final denial of the claim for purposes of this section.” Under normal circumstances, the federal government only has six months to respond to a claim, or the claim is construed as having been denied


Any claim if not responded to within 7 months is automatically deened DENIED.
Trump filed in 2023, then again in 2024.
Six months as of writing this would be April 2025.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:50am On Oct 23, 2025
Bemeruca. See this,past presidents renovations to the WH, I can see Felicia is whining about Trump raising money .

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)Total: $5.3 million Taxpayer-funded: $5.1 million
Privately funded: $200,000

George H.W. Bush (1989–1993)Total: $2.85 million Taxpayer-funded: $2.7 million
Privately funded: $150,000

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)Total: $15.25 million Taxpayer-funded: $14.9 million
Privately funded: $350,000

George W. Bush (2001–2009)Total: $17.63 million Taxpayer-funded: $17.33 million
Privately funded: $300,000

Barack Obama (2009–2017)Total: $10.16 million Taxpayer-funded: $9.57 million
Privately funded: $590,000

Donald Trump (2017–2021)Total: $9.65 million Taxpayer-funded: $6.35 million
Privately funded: $3.3 million

Joe Biden (2021–2025)Total: $58.7 million Taxpayer-funded: $58.2 million
Privately funded: $500,000

Donald Trump (2025–present)Total: $250 million Taxpayer-funded: $0 (construction ongoing, funded by private donors)
Privately funded: $250 million


Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:38am On Oct 23, 2025
ijebosb:
God, Putin got his money's worth.
Don't you think you are exposing your ignorance despite Ivy league claims.
Trump secured a USMCA deal. He will change it to US Canada and US Mexico deal..Or if their economic livelihood depends on the US consumer there is no harm in them being the 51st State and he gets to be Governor.Win win.
Since you are knowledge challenged, being a neighbour doesn't mean your country becomes a prepackaging hub for goods from China which enter Trump's America duty free as was the case. Especially steel .
It makes sense for Canada to seek G7 alliances, they are free to go ahead .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Ghostagain:
"any normal judge would have asked for evidence that there was no fraud in the election".

The person who wrote the comment above didn't finish secondary school. I'm not even going to waste time explaining to him why his statement is not logical.
Let me add more to the Georgia judge.
Before he became a judge he had received a full complaint of election fraud in Fulton county before the state elections were certified. . He never investigated the complaints.
3 years later he is the one presiding over Fani Willis cases. This time as the judge.
Ever heard of the word recusal?

Scott McAfee served as the Inspector General for the state of Georgia from April 1, 2021, to February 1, 2023. In this role, appointed by Governor Brian Kemp, he oversaw investigations into fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption within the state's executive branch agencies



TDS will never take you any where. You be just like antifa who have been fed hatred of everything Trump
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
.Event.

A hearing will be held regarding the Fulton County Clerk’s failure to fulfill 2024 Open Records Requests filed by Garland Favorito to obtain a copy of Fulton County 2020 election ballots. The ballots were unsealed by court order in 2021, the 2-year sealing requirement expired in 2022 and the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation to make ballots public in 2024.

When: Thursday, October 23, 2025, 1

Why won't the release the ballot images to Geraldo if there was no significant fraud ? It's 4 years that the most secure election results can't be queried because they were the most secure. That's circular logic .

Fulton county is Fani Willis territory . She indicted a lot of people over actions rejecting the election results. Any normal judge would have demanded evidence that the election wasn't marked by any fraud
For years they have stonewalled , if there was nothing to hide let them do the needful.
Unlike Epstein files where they can add remove evidence , in this case the number of ballot images of returned and signed ballots is known. The number of total votes is known and they differ. They won't release the ballot images because there are fake signatures .
The discrepancies already determined exceed the margin of Joe Biden's" Win' in Georgia.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:30am On Oct 23, 2025
What's up with democrats.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will be launching what he called a “master ICE tracker” to monitor the movements of ICE agents. In other words, a hit list.

“I shared this with the mayor,” Garcia began. “Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a “master ICE tracker.”

“We will be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify (location of ICE agents),” he added.


They are literally pinpointing the locations of ICE agents . Without saying it, they are risking the lives of ICE agents. I think this borders on criminality.

*On X , commenter says he will be reporting ICE presence whenever he goes to the store. No queues.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:09am On Oct 23, 2025
DeepSight:
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But going even further, it is important to understand that civilization is a pyramid, and one generation builds on the work of preceding generations. So it is extremely misguided to credit the white man alone for technology and civilization, one thing has built upon another for generations and from all corners of the Earth to arrive at a peak, and events coalesce through wars, through trade, and through natural disasters and climate to bring development to a head. The small example I gave about gun powder was intended to show that white men didn't just miraculously develop the technology for firepower by themselves, They built on knowledge from elsewhere.

For example much of the most advanced science and technology especially mathematics which so much depends upon was developed in the Middle East by Arabic scholars. Anyone who doesn't know that things like geometry and calculus developed there is simply ignorant. With trade and movement (and mind you, some places are more amenable to trade and movement by reason of a body of water such as the Mediterranean for example) these things spread and develop easily. It is not by accident that three of the greatest civilizations ever rest on the Mediterranean - Egypt, Greece and Rome!

I can go one and on, and there is so much more to say, that's why I said I dont have the energy for this tonight. Another small example is that the flora and fauna of a place is also critical. Many here don't understand the huge advantage given by the presence of one single animal - the horse, for example. But I see a lot of sad ignorance here and a huge load of inferiority complexes. The matter is not as simple as saying that the white man is superior and he has invented this and that. There are layers and reasons to this phenomenon and it rests in a study of history and the environment. It is lazy to just bow down and say, oh, the European must be God!

By the way this has nothing to do with not giving credit where it is due - all credit is given - but one has to understand what one is talking about. The same people some of you are praising were busy burning hundreds of thousands of their women alive on allegations of witchcraft barely three centuries ago - and three centuries is nothing in historical terms. It's virtually like yesterday. So the story of mankind is manifold.

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See next post

cc: tctrills
Extremely poor people with less education and exposure don't have resources for recreation, tend to have more children. The cycle continues generation after generation. They end up lagging behind in Human development.

The white man was more motivated to invent electricity than the African because he needed to heat up in the winter and cool off during the summer. Add to food preservation methods. His inventions were necessary to ensure his survival.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:49am On Oct 23, 2025
IbeOkehie:
Those may be the facts, but she might still not be convicted. The lawyer for Hillary Clinton that arguably started the entire Trump Russia investigation, I forget the name it starts with Schhuh He's the one who gave the FBI the Steele Dossier...he was charged to court and found NOT GUILTY by a jury of his peers. His crimes were VERY CLEAR.

Letitia's case isn't a slam dunk. This is the USA, 2025. Trump doesn't even know what he's up against, this is playing out like the First term. He might be John the Baptist, we still await THE Messiah.

Good Luck to Nigerians.
The lawyer you are talking about didn't start the Steele dossier Suissman went to FBI with fake data about Trump servers pinging some Russia based server. The FBI knew it was fake, but they accepted it and pretended to investigate it. The supposed ping was leaked to mecis which gleefully published " oh Trump has links to Russia ".
In a trial no way they could find him guilty without FBI being exposed as being part of the scheme. The judge made sure the details of the case wete not fully addressed to the jury.

Rulings on Evidence: Judge Cooper made significant rulings regarding what evidence could be admitted during the trial, including considerations of privilege claims and the admissibility of certain conspiracy theories presented by the prosecution.
Jury Instructions: He provided instructions to the jury, which guided them on how to interpret the law and the evidence presented during the trial.
Verdict: Ultimately, the jury acquitted Sussmann on the charge of lying to the FBI, which was a major outcome of the trial.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:37am On Oct 23, 2025
bemeruca:
This is wrong. They had backdoor access to the Iranian servers. If they had indicted him, then it would have leaked that they accessed Iranian servers where classified information was found due to their hack of Bolton's emails.
Oh okay I get it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:25pm On Oct 22, 2025
It all started with a comment that skeletons are transgender.
Emanuel Brünisholz
Replied.
If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum."
The comment was reported by citizens as discriminatory.

Legal Action: Swiss police in Burgdorf investigated under Article 261bis of the Swiss Criminal Code, which prohibits "public incitement to hatred or discrimination" against groups based on race, ethnicity, or—since a 2020 expansion—"sexual orientation or identity." Prosecutors issued a criminal order fining Brünisholz 500 Swiss francs (~$580 USD).
Appeal and Upholding (2023–2025):
Brünisholz objected, leading to a trial at the Regional Court of Emmental–Oberaargau. The court upheld the conviction in December 2024, adding 600 francs in costs and redefining "LGBTQI" broadly as a "loose group" protected under hate speech laws (equating transgender and queer identities with sexual orientations like lesbian or gay). Brünisholz refused to pay, opting for 10 days in prison instead.
Recent Developments (September–October 2025):
Brünisholz announced his impending jail time on X (formerly Twitter) on September 19, 2025: "It’s happening. On December 2, I’m going to prison for 10 days!" The case gained international attention in late September, with U.S. legal scholar Jonathan Turley highlighting it as evidence of Europe's "free speech free
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:11pm On Oct 22, 2025
IbeOkehie:
There's a high probability that Letitia James WILL NOT be convicted.

Until those who made the USA the great nation it is, pick up courage and once again "pledge their lives, property and sacred honor" to the defense and survival of this Republic, there will be only be DELAY on the way to ultimate ruin. There will be many more Letitia James and John Bolton in the decades ahead.

Good Luck to Nigeria.
Why would there be a high chance For 43 years she lied on every single mortgage application she made. .
She has been charged with one of her 3 properties in Virginia. She still has 2 others in Virginia and 2 in New York.
43 years of lying to gain better mortgage terms. One application included lying about her father being her husband so that she would qualify for the mortgage.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:08pm On Oct 22, 2025
bemeruca:
John Bolton is in a very serious problem. Biden's admin could have indicted him if the indictment had not tipped the Iranians off that the US intelligence had access to their systems.

Bolton's email account was compromised by Iran, and they had classified documents from it that the US intelligence got from Iranian servers.
They are all in huge trouble, at least Bolton and Letitia
There is nothing new in those allegations that the Biden admin didn't know. Since he was a Trump critic they dropped the investigation. Two tiered justice system.
Foreign Affairs › Re: List Of All Wars Between Arabs & Israel Since 1948 by basilico: 4:06pm On Oct 22, 2025
erico2k2:
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That above statement of yours is what I am trying to portray, The Jews who were expelled were ethnic jews not a geographical area, however the geographical area has always been there and the word Palestinians was used to described this region which consist of Jews and Arab.
it is true that these present day Palestinians have no lineage with the philistines and also this present day Israelis have no lineage connection with the Israelites. I don't even think anyone has referred to them as Israelites.
We are on the same page. The exiles Jews descendants started the. Zionist movement to return to their homeland earnestly in the mid 19th century, buying up land from the Ottoman . Their resettling did attract lots of nomadic Beduoins and surrounding Arabs. who came in as labourers . Some laughed hysterically at their efforts to reclaim the barren land
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:41pm On Oct 22, 2025
budaatum:
Those of us who've been here long would find your statement amusing.

Cc Basilico,
https://www.nairaland.com/4508641/american-politics-thread-trump-47th/5373#136808030
Never.
Being black is just that I have a lot of chlorophyll 😊😊😊. I don't want to use the correct term.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:39pm On Oct 22, 2025
IjeBos:
Levels of corruption that will make Nigerian Presidents blush in jealousy and excitement at what new things they'll do.

The President of the US is going to direct his DOJ (stacked with his own personal defense attorneys) to settle with him for 230 million taxpayer dollars.
Holy Batman.
This is breathtaking corruption.

And the problem is that the Supreme Court made Trump immune. And if he pre pardons everyone who did this, he would have just stolen 230 million dollars scott free.

Raumdeuter, come defend your boy.
He should sue Hillary Clinton and Obama for they are the brainchild of everything he went through defending himself.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:36pm On Oct 22, 2025
DeepSight:
Basilico, I give you the words of MLK. If you cant see the co-relation with Apartheid SA, well, I cant help you then.

"Now there's another myth that I want to mention, because if we are going to have action programs that will prod the forces in power so that they will make the necessary concessions, we are going to have to understand why the forces in power need to be prodded. Now this leads me to say that we've got to get rid of the myth of over-exaggerating the bootstrap philosophy. By that I simply mean this: Over and over again we hear that the Negro should lift himself by his own bootstraps. Then there are those who say over and over again, "Other ethnic groups did it; why don't you?" Now it doesn't help the Negro for unfeeling and insensitive people to say to him that he's been in this country more than 348 years and was brought here in chains, involuntarily, and yet people who have been here, other ethnic groups who have been here for a hundred or a hundred and fifty years have gotten ahead of him. That doesn't help him at all. That only deepens his problem, his frustration, and almost his self- hatred. For the people who are that insensitive never stop to recognize the fact that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil.

They never stop to recognize the fact that the nation made the Negro's color a stigma. It became something evil. You know even linguistics or semantics conspired against us on this. If you open Roget's Thesaurus, you'll find 120 synonyms for black. They are all degrading; smutty, dirty, lowly, every one of them. Now when you look for the 130 synonyms in that thesaurus for white, all of them [are] chaste, pure, everything elevated, and high and noble. So the society through its language structure came to the point of saying that a white lie is better than a black lie. If someone goes wrong in the family, you don't call them a white sheep, it's the black sheep of the family. If you know something about somebody, and you use that as a basis to bribe them and say that if you don't give them this amount of money that you are going to expose them you don't call that whitemail you call it blackmail. Go right down the language structure, and you see that everything conspired to make the Negro think that there was something wrong with him because of his color.

The other thing is that no ethnic group has lifted itself by its own bootstraps. The Negro was freed from the bondage of physical slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but he wasn't given any land to make that freedom meaningful. It was something like keeping a man in jail for many, many years, and then suddenly discovering that he is not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. Then you go to the man and say, "Now you're free," but you don't give him any bus fare to get to town. You don't give him any money to get clothes to put on his back or to get on his feet in life again. Every system of justice or code of jurisprudence would rise up against this, and yet this is exactly what America did to the black man. It freed him from slavery and then left him there penniless, illiterate. He didn't have a thing, and there was no land provided.

The important thing that America must realize is this: That at the same time that she refused to give the black man anything, she was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest through an act of Congress. Not only did she give the land, she built land grant colleges to teach them to farm. She provided county agents to help them and to get them expert, to give them expertise in farming. But not only that, the nation provided low interest rates in later years so that they could mechanize their farms.

Not only that, many of these persons are being paid today not to farm, and these are many of the persons who are telling the Negro that he should lift himself by his own bootstraps. A wonderful thing. I guess that it is all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. Through centuries of denial, centuries of neglect, and centuries of injustice many, many Negroes have been left bootless.

This does not mean that we do nothing for ourselves. It does not mean that we should not amass our economic and political resources to reach our legitimate goals. It simply means recognizing, the nation recognizing, that it owes a great debt on the basis of the injustices of the past.".


cc: tctrills.
I out it to you that the negro has been given so much by the white person in terms of opportunities and money stemming from MLK efforts. Blacks in America are more wealthier than on my other continent. Democrats moreso have created so many chances for the black person than the republicans I admit that . Though I must add that the democrats want the family to be destroyed.
An unmarried single woman can get upto $3000+ 9000 per month depending on the number of kids. It's more economically advantageous for a single woman than a married woman if their gross income is less than $120K. Don't challenge me on this. This happens more to black families.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:28pm On Oct 22, 2025
budaatum:
Fact is, they can't. And neither can caucasians in US and Europe chase non-caucasians out.

In fact, they are all doing the opposite, including Japan and China, and are inviting Africans to their countries because they need you to replace their aging populations.
Stop lying about Japan. The new Prime Minister has decided the population would rather die out than be replaced via immigration. In one of her first measures, Japan's newly appointed Prime Minister, the far-right Sanae Takaichi, created a new Ministry of Immigration, with the stated goal of deporting illegal immigrants in the country.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:08pm On Oct 22, 2025
RodgersAkpafu:
Further proof that you are far deep in the right wing ecosystem
I'm being realistic. I usually have an open mind ready to be convinced otherwise. I have written extensively about my diaspora friends and relatives who are doing something really useful.
I have nothing against immigration at all. I do have major beef with liberals 24/7 though and they support illegal immigration for political purposes while thinking everyone is stupid to buy into the argument that unbridled immigration is good for the country. It's not.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:12pm On Oct 22, 2025
RodgersAkpafu:
I know the history
But it doesn't make any sense
Nor does it apply to this case

I can only speak of the UK though
This country has become multiethnic FOR GOOD

A trip across the MAJOR UK cities will tell you something (i live in one)

And the trend will only continue
Immigrants are good for the nation I never refute. It's the lies the elites come up to promote mass immigration. What's the point of allowing immigrants who are welfare dependent. Europe as a whole has not been growing that much economically despite the massive immigration.
The elite bring in hordes to boost their voting base Unfortunately many of them have other ideas. Some see it as a way of extracting the last penny from their host infidel nations and have no desire to be anything useful to the society.
If you look to ME nations they have more foreigners than their own citizens ,, a permanent feature but the foreigners are just that. They don't participate in elections ( non existent) . Countries that have had double digit growths in the East don't have immigrants, so one can't use immigrants as a vital cog to economic development.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:03am On Oct 22, 2025
DeepSight:
"Woke up and moved on"

Maybe you think 1994 was two centuries ago.

In the life of a nation, it is literally one hour ago.
I'm an electrical engineer and by looking at power production trends you can tell what direction a country is moving in.

In 1990, the installed capacity was 40,000 MW, reflecting the energy landscape just after the end of apartheid.
By 2000, it had increased to 46,253 MW, showing growth as the country developed.
The capacity reached 54,700 MW by 2010, indicating a significant investment in energy infrastructure.
The capacity reached 54,700 MW by 2010, indicating a significant investment in energy infrastructure.
In 2020, the installed capacity was approximately 51,600 MW, which reflects challenges in maintaining growth due to various factors, including load shedding.


Between 2010 and 2020,SA installed capacity went down.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:38am On Oct 22, 2025
DeepSight:
There are problems yes.

But i sense you here trying to excuse the country's inequitable past from its present difficulties.

If thats what you asre trying to do, enjoy.
It's not the only country that has had a terrible past.There are other countries that woke up and moved on. Poor and corrupt leadership will siphon the country's coffers then blame the past.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:24am On Oct 22, 2025
DeepSight:
What direction is SA heading and why?
Racial animosities and xenophobia where poor leadership heaps blames on the past and foreigners taking their jobs.
As an example.
With one of the world's largest coal , uranium reserves and permanent rivers, they should be exporting power massively to its neighbours but instead face power outages since 2007. Compare to Ethiopia in terms of power generation.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:14am On Oct 22, 2025
RodgersAkpafu:
The bolded is even more delusional talk

And the above STILL doesn't make any sense whatsoever

We have come to stay, and this is OUR COUNTRY TOO.
you must be delusional to think that somehow the tens of millions of us somehow will be edged out to achieve a delusional "White ethnostate"

Make all of una white worshipping coons dey play se

Consumption of excessive right wing white supremacist content has fried your brains
I'll only comment about Andalus. I had explained why the Muslims still dream about it, a few days ago.
Whenever Muslims captured territory and put up mosques , that territory became theirs forever. They usually converted any religious shrine ,temple or church to a mosque ,as a show of subjugation .
**Don't remember which Arab leader refused to enter a church,later explaining that had they prayed in the church, they would automatically assume it's a mosque.I'll get the actual person and quote later**
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:07am On Oct 22, 2025
DeepSight:
Ever heard of the "Butterfly Effect?"

"In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

There are, quite simply, knock-on effects of each and every factor which the country suffered from inception. Events, and life, do not occur in a vacuum, they occur in an existing causal chain.

Haiti has suffered as a result of its history but aside from that it has also been quite deliberately diplomatically short-circuited and a lack of investment has caused it great developmental difficulties.

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/5f9bfaf1-8fe6-473f-9654-0d17fe697ac5

Having said the foregoing, I want to be clear that I am not excusing everything, no they also have played a part in their own predicament as is most often the case in life. There are factors of bad policy and corruption as well.

But overall, I dont want anyone to imagine that Haiti had that fantastic head start by reason of its early independence. No. It remained in effective chains till the latter 20th century.

Neither do I think the comparison with Israel is apt, a nation which had the backing and support of the most powerful and wealthiest governments in the world - in contrast to Haiti which actually had their enmity and contempt.
Haiti poverty is the result of poor governance. I didn't know that they had paid off their debt over 80 years ago.
I admit I don't know much about Haiti, I've always wondered why it's neighbour is extremely wealthy.
Or maybe the neighbor didn't chase the white men away? Don't call me racist,in other fora , I've seen Haiti being compared to the current direction South Africa is heading.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:54am On Oct 22, 2025
RodgersAkpafu:
This is very unintelligent
indeed right wing media has fried your brain
Name the judges who sentenced the list I put up. Excluding the J6 trials 100% are democrat appointees.
Look at how this year alone 100% of the injuctions by lower court judges have been rescinded by the Supreme Court. Nearly 99% if those injuctions have been made by Obama, Clinton or Biden judges. Prove me wrong.

At the SCOTUS level the three democrat judges in vast majority of cases always side with the progressive liberal madness fronted by the radical democrats.

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