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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy.
You never responded to this.

https://www.nairaland.com/4508641/american-politics-thread-trump-47th/6114#139464104

history lesson for today.

I showed how all Jews in neighbouring Israel were chased away or fled to a man leaving all their properties behind. Most were business people, the Muslims forbade them from owning land then. To this day those Arab countries never returned that wealth , running into hundreds of billions today.
The Arabs who are now called Palestinians were told by invading Arab armies in 1947 to run away so that all Jews in present day could be driven to the sea ie exterminated which is nothing short of genocide.
They fled Israel to the neighbors, around 750,000 of them at most, very few of them alive today.
Their children are called refugees. In international relations successive generations of refugees are not refugees and supposed to be settled by the host countries.
Israel happily resettled all fleeing Jews from all corners of the world,including airlifting a black Jewish community from Ethiopia. Arabs. Said no to Palestinian resettling them. In recent wars Arabs won't resettle their Muslim brothers,it's left to America and Europe to give them a hope and new life .
Arab countries occupying 5.2 million square kilometers of land verses Israel 22,000 sq km could have safely given these people a home. Instead the UN established UNRWA which gave them permanent refugee status. Most of their staff in Gaza are either Hamas militants or support Hamas.
Neighbouring countries that hosted then like Jordan expelled all Palestinians. Reason. They wanted to overthrew the Jordanian king. They went to Lebanon where they caused more problems launching attacks after attacks into Israel and gave rise to Hezbollah.
Others went to Kuwait, when Saddam invaded it, the Palestinians supported Saddam. Kuwait expelled all of them.
This year Qatar expelled their Palestinians because they support Iran.

Palestinians are just an entitled people whose sole reason for existence is to exterminate every Jew. They were given back Gaza , voted for Hamas which immediately set about launching rockets , coming terrorist attacks in Israel whenever they got s chance. Instead of building Gaza , they built massive tunnel networks with the cement they got in aid. The naval blockade exists because Hamas interest was to smuggle weapons from Iran to kill Israelis. They smuggle weapons through tunnels between their border with Egypt. Egypt doesn't want these troublemakers. Egypt has built a multi layered fortified wall barrier along all it's boundary with Gaza. With cameras, armed guards and concertina.
The world berates Israel for it's security fence against Gaza ignoring this wall by Egypt below.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:49am On May 23
Travis County District Attorney José Garza released three illegal migrants back out on the streets instead of holding them for ICE, in an effort to stop them from being deported.
Those three illegal migrant teenagers then went on a shooting spree across Austin over the weekend injuring at least four people, including a man who was walking his dogs on Sunday morning.

🔷️Cristian Fajardo Mondragon, 17,
illegal migrant from Mexico.

He was arrested in January for stealing a firearm from Central Texas Gun Works.
Instead of being held for ICE deportation, he was released by Travis County under DA Garza’s oversight.
He now faces six felony charges including:
➡️Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,
➡️Aggravated assault with a motor vehicle,
➡️Deadly conduct,
➡️Theft of a firearm,
➡️Burglary of a vehicle, and
➡️Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

The other two suspects, ages 15 and 16 are described as Hispanic males. Police have not publicly released their names or immigration status.
The group stole multiple vehicles and a gun, then carried out at least 12 separate shootings over 28 hours across South and East Austin.
They hit people, homes, apartments, businesses, vehicles, and even Austin Fire Department stations.

One victim, Sean Fuentes, was shot multiple times while walking his dogs. Three other people were also sot.

Republicans are blasting Garza for not cooperating with ICE.


This Soros sponsored DA should be charged as an accessory. He should be incarcerated while his trial is going on.
Families of the victims should also sue him.
The pillory should be brought back .

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:29am On May 23
RodgersAkpafu:
How can a language be useful to the colonised from the coloniser?
Honestly your mentality is beginning to be concerning

Why all these sent hatred and white worship?
I'm using it because some of it's words words in ethnic language sound horrible.
An example would me wanting to say fuq you (which I really want to) . if I use vernacular it will sound very vulgar.
See how important English language is? Makes some words sound less harsh thsn intended meaning.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Kilmar Abredo Garcia ,the Maryland father.
Judge throws out the human trafficking case case against him..He termed it vindictive prosecution because Pam Bondi and Tod Blanche are biased and made statements.

?

Kilmar who got a final deportation order in 2019 is still in America. His daily job,while not beating up his wife , was transporting illegals into the heartland .

Obama judges starting with Boasberg are fighting to keep Kilmar Garcia in America. This one who has effectively freed him is an Obama judge too. Kilmar should get an order that also allies him to vote.He can argue successfully that their votes are important to prevent excesses by future administrations.

The Nazis would all be walking free if such judges existed then.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:24am On May 23
bayelsaowei:
The juju that Netanyahu and the Israeli government is using on the Trumps administration needs to be studied.

Chaii
You didn't add.

America has also paused selling military hardware to Taiwan to stock up for the next phase of the Iran war. Losing revenue in other words.

How many missile interceptors should America have used in your opinion?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:12am On May 23
DeepSight:
And yet you are the biggest conspiracy theorist on this thread.
Any example of something I posted that was proven wrong.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:24pm On May 22
Liberalism can be a mental disorder.


Republican mayoral candidate explains why he became a Republican.



In other news,

Alberta Canadian richest province to hold a referendum in November to secede .
They are tired of liberals ruining their lives and economy. They are sabotaged from developing their oil industry under the guise of climate change.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:15pm On May 22
Wow. No words.

bemeruca:
Democrats don't know the Declaration of Independence, even MSNBC news anchors. Anytime they hear "God", their skin burns

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:46pm On May 22
Cococandy.

Until the new law takes effect in November 2026, Oklahoma operates under its previous tier system:

_Ages 16 and 17: Allowed to marry if they obtain the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

_Ages 15 and under: Allowed to marry only with a court order, which was historically granted under extreme circumstances such as pregnancy or childbirth.

_After November 1, 2026: A hard floor of 18 years old is established. Parental consent and judicial overrides are entirely repealed.


That's the existing laws Republicans wanted maintained.
A lot of families especially the wealthy usually arrange marriages for their kids.
Asians and Muslim societies. As soon as a girl is born many families have already decided whom she will marry. Asians especially have very low divorce rates, when they get of age they just get married and live happily ever after
Take a look at the Royal Family. A lot of their marriages are predetermined to an extent with rare divorces.
Nigeria. It happens a lot.
Wealthy people all over the disproportionately determine which good family to marry into or from. Corporate boardroom marriages happen all the time.
Its happened to many children.Even today, families plan holidays with the agenda unbeknownst to the children.

TV dramas and blockbuster movies over such occurrences are very common. You must've watched the "Titanic" or the "wedding crashers".

In such a scenario, what happens when the girl gets pregnant?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
You take your children to school to get an education. If tomboys and soyboys feel inadequate , a teacher should immediately let you know.
Five cases you are free to lookup.
_Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County (Florida)
_Lee v. Poudre School District (Colorado)
_Michigan Parental Rights Lawsuit (Janesville/Rockford Area)
_Foote v. Ludlow School Committee (Massachusetts)
_Doe v. Colorado Department of Education et al. (Brighton School District 27J)


The schools above encouraged children to transition without informing their parents . Anything about a child's privacy is total nonsense. It's absolute evil.

You took it literally that schools were doing the surgeries. It doesn't work that way. Groom the child first. Convince the child he she is in the wrong body. Redefine gender to mean different from biological sex. Encouraged change of names. Hide it from parents.
Many movies today have normalized trans and other queers as perfectly normal. A delicate mind taking that notion to school shouldn't be encouraged at all.

cococandy:
And requiring the student’s consent before revealing their gender identities to anyone is the same as performing transition surgeries in schools?

Please don’t be intentionally daft. I know you can be better than this. Malicious misrepresentation of facts makes you look desperate.
My point was that those who encourage transitions will be the ones to praise bodily changes of the kids. Is it not perverts and paedophiles who will notice these changes.
Boils down to Republicans in Oklahoma on child marriage at 18 versus 198 Congress Democrats who voted no to banning transitioning in children.

Who are the paedophiles.
In today's world most people post photos of their families on Facebook especially. Some people have tens of thousands of photos on Facebook which get numerous likes ,shares and comments like "Oh what a lovely family".
Tell me you'd do the same to someone happily posting photos of his/her trans children.

Ponder this.
In 2021, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus released a satirical musical video featuring the lyrics: "We'll convert your children... We're coming for your children."
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 4:14am On May 22
How many days since Iran blocked everyone in the country from accessing the internet.
Appreciate the small guaranteed freedoms we have outside of Iran,China and North Korea.
Many here can't do without the internet . Iranian regime decided it's a privilege extended to it's over 90 million citizens that can be turned on and off like a switch.
Yes a whole country shalt not access the web. Let that sink in.
Foreign AffairsRe: Iran war: USA lost aircraft worth $29Billion. by basilico: 4:10am On May 22
XTruth:
USA is already said to have lost 42 aircraft worth $29b in less than 2month
Iran also killed Netanyahu

🥺🥺🥺🥺
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:07am On May 22
LordReed:
No, you will stop talking about it like all the others.
I'll ramp up when Brennan and Comey are indicted in Florida.
JI'll be so loud. Watch this space.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:03am On May 22
bemeruca:
Establishment Senate Republicans are furious because Cornyn is gone.
Senator Thune has sent the house on holiday until after June.
Entitled brats who think they are more important than the president.
They will sabotage him at every turn running out his clock.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:56am On May 22
DeepSight:
Flat Earth, QAnon.

Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew

6h
BREAKING!!!
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just now Ordered the convictions the Oath Keeper and Proud Boy defendants be vacated, and that the cases be remanded to the District Court in anticipation of a motion by DOJ To Dismiss.


The Appeals court knows that all violence was inspired by FBi , that Biden DOJ framed as many trump supporters as the could.

Keep up with your qanon nonsense.
An insurrection that had no guns, the only dead person was killed by Michael Byrd a black cop who'd once left his gun in the washroom of a strip joint .

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:21pm On May 21
Holy cow.
SPLC might have paid some of the informants who infiltrated the Jan 6 protests



Jim Jordan had subpoenad SPLC for all it's communications with the Biden administration a few weeks ago.

I keep saying what's been secret will one day be revealed.
I will laugh last.

Fedsurrection.
Feedthenation
Lordreed
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Not so fast. This California law was blocked by supreme court.
Overview of the Law (AB 1955)
Passed in 2024, the SAFETY Act prohibits public school districts from enacting or enforcing "forced outing" policies. Under the state law:
Consent Requirement
School staff are barred from disclosing a student’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to anyone—including parents—without the student's explicit consent.
Employee Protection:
The law shields teachers and administrators from retaliation or disciplinary action if they refuse to notify parents.
State Argument:
California officials argued that the policy protects a minor's constitutional right to privacy and safeguards vulnerable students from potential family rejection or abuse.


Clearly California want to transition your kids without you knowing until it's too late.
And yes I know you don't support gender transitions.

I have no problem with gays or lesbians, I have worked with gays and lesbians.
I had a close friend who is a lesbian,says she never had sex with a man and can never. Apparently she has plenty of those penetrative toys .Gays and lesbians should do their thing without forcing the society to accept them has been my belief.
I do have serious problems with those who push gender transitions to kids. No kid should be allowed or influenced to do so unless they are 18 years and above.
Proposals by that community have been to block use of puberty blockers .What that means is before a kid is 10 /11 he or she starts undergoing the transition.
Those kids are already sexualized. That kid should be growing normally but is instead seeking admiration over his body changes Everyone loves their body being complimented esp body builders. Who do you think compliments a young boy who is growing a pair of boobs ,no beards plus a bum bum to boot?

Going by that vote 198 democrats voted no while all republicans voted to ban the transitions.
The other day , Republicans in Oklahoma had other ideas about totally banning marriages below 18, based on their own interpretation of early pregnancies .

Long and short ,democrats are the real paedophiles not Republicans.
Hope this explains why I mentioned you on a seemingly unrelated matter .

cococandy:
As advanced as California is, I can promise you that we do not have the capacity to perform gender reassignment surgeries in our schools.

Heck many schools are still fighting for free lunch for every student. School nurses can’t even give the kids Tylenol (paracetamol) without express parental written consent.

The fact that you can believe we have plastic surgeons (arguably the highest paid surgeons), anesthesiologists, O.R nurses, surgical techs, circulating nurses and PACU (post anesthesia recovery unit) nurses, all lining up to give students free trans surgery in public schools tells me everything I need to know about you. This is the minimum staffing needed for a semi functional operating room.

We haven’t even gotten into the logistics of how they would be obtaining O.R equipment. Sterilization of equipment. Lab services (all surgical patients must have labs prior to). Scrubs techs. Gosh you guys exasperate me.

Your party knows you people are extremely gullible. That’s why they sell you hogwash like this to you without even considering how ludicrous it sounds to reasonable people.

I thought Trump was steupid when he said boys are going to public school and coming him with gender reassignment surgeries performed on them. But it was probably a smart thing he said knowing people like would believe him. It’s scary how me$$ed up your minds are such that most bizarre things make sense to you. Scary.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:18am On May 21
AG Todd Blanche has indicted an assistant US attorney in southern Florida who reportedly worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith in the documents case.

Judge Aileen Cannon essentially placed Volume II of Smith's report on the case under seal, forbidding anyone at DOJ or any government agency from sharing the report. Why? Because she had dismissed the document indictment in July 2024 after concluding Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.

But is appears this prosecutor, Carmen Lineberger, stole the report and tried to conceal what she did. A grand jury in Fort Pierce--the hive of the DOJ's grand conspiracy investigation--indicted Lineberger on four counts.
Bigger question: who was she planning to leak the report to? Not like she stole it as a souvenir
The timing of Lineberger’s theft of Jack Smith’s documents report also is suspicious. She sent it to her personal account a few weeks before Smith’s first deposition before House Judiciary.

Democrats repeatedly raised the fact that Cannon had banned the report’s release; Smith also addressed it during his Congressional interview.

At the opening of Smith’s interview, an individual who appears to be a staffer for Jamie Raskin complained about Cannon’s order prohibiting the release of the report.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:12am On May 21
Babylon Bee.
smiley smiley smiley

Tucker Carlson is toxic.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:09am On May 21
LordReed:
Yes, it is a conspiracy theory, a nonsense one at that.
CDC data is nonsense.
How can you be helped ?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:05am On May 21
Deepsight.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley took the stage and declared that every ounce of American success was built on the backs of Black Americans—then demanded reparations as payback.

Such talk is not helpful.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:57am On May 21
Cococandy.



If you had a girl child you'd be comfortable a school counselor advising her to get a mastectomy , take testosterone.
If you had a boy child you'd be happy the counselor advising him to take oestrogen + progesterone and have his wee wee cut off.
And all this be done without your knowledge . California has a law similar to that.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:53am On May 21
True the independent are around 40-45% with the rest almost equally split.
The pollsters I tend to believe are deliberately skewered and oriented towards a certain result.


bemeruca:
Trump supporters are not the entire country. You have the independent voters, who are a huge voting bloc, and the Democrats. So you cannot use this to assess his approval ratings.

What we can say is that his infuence cannot be matched. Tucker, Candace and all those Social media influencers that are high of their own supply are irrelevant.
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:42am On May 21
You can't industrialize without reliable ,cheap and abundant energy. The market is there. There are no excuses whatsoever to company executive in the private sector making losses when their product can't meet demand.
Govt should facilitate industrial development by availing a favourable business climate and steering off non essential sectors.

Take a massive housing construction boom. Target a million homes a year, use local materials. Force manufacturers to build everything from nuts,bolts, gauge wire, plugs,taps ,pegs , nails etc locally..This should be a years long development goal then finally move in to construction.
That was just one example of an idea that would encourage industrialization.
Develop a parallel competitive financial sector in the process.
You don't industrialize without a market.Use the existing local market demand for homes .


DeepSight:
Progress is being made albeit slowly and painfully and in a scattered and disjointed manner. In some sectors there is stagnation and regression but overall the trajectory still is forward. There is a lot to be done and improved on, we need to get our ideology and politics right as a starter as so much depends on right leadership.

On a practical note, if anyone asks me, I will say the key to the future is aggressive industrialization.

On a dreamy and idealist note, I will like to see Africa unite. A United States of Africa was a dream of several independence pan-Africanists suck as Nkrumah and ZIK and even became a dream of Ghadaffi.

If we are able to achieve it, and I concede it looks very unlikely - men, that is the single thing that will bring Africa to the table with real weight.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:22am On May 21
Those historical factors are a fact as you have eloquently elucidated them.
They are in the past,we are in the present.
You have covered the past. Now explain why we are not moving forward, Why don't we have government forecasting population growth 10 years ahead and scaling up water reservoirs, electrical generation, transport infrastructure, 4G connectivity etc ahead of time. We have a fully functional National Bureau of Statistics. Bequeathed to us by our colonial masters.


DeepSight:
I can't start from the beginning. If you didn't get, forget it.

Or try reading more carefully and more thoughtfully next time. Because if you did, you wouldn't have been shouting "excuses" up and down, only to come back and say that every single one matters.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:39am On May 21
bemeruca:
He is Beto 2.0
The polls Trump sitting on negative approval are fake.
37-0 means his supporters are showing up in numbers everywhere .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:12am On May 21
LordReed:
I rest my case.
I believe I had posted this several years ago. Children died when they were injected with the vaccine.



Or you still think it's a conspiracy theory.
You may have noticed if you are smart enough that media reporting especially over Trump and conservatives last ten years has been found to propaganda. You be that smart to notice?
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 7:58pm On May 20
I've been away for a few days from this page.
How many square feet has Putin rag tag army gained in Ukraine those few days
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:35pm On May 20
Trump has 99% approval in Israel. He might go there and run for PM.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:22pm On May 20
DeepSight:
Please don't be disingenuous. I did not misascribe anything to you. You specifically demanded that I point to any progress made by black Africans. Not only does that infer clearly that you don't believe there are any, but you also dismissed the progress on education and economics I pointed to. You went further to answer that you don't envisage black Africans achieving anything in the next one hundred years. You said very clearly that they would stagnate or regress. Indeed you have more than hinted that such regression will be to something primitive (the "Kraal" ).

What can anyone deduce from this. No one needs to interpret this. It is clear what you are saying, namely that you don't believe blacks have ever achieved anything or ever will.

Not to mention your jibe that there must be a Rene before a sance, basically saying that there cannot be an African Renaissance since there was nothing previously.

You have also said verbatim that you have no problem using the word "inferior."

So please if nothing else, at least be honest and bold enough to own what you have said.

The fact that what you have said is extremist, self hating and shameful is not my handiwork. It is yours.

And excuse me, I did not breach the deal. Show me where. I for example said that SA blacks are not barbaric and that was somehow supposed to be an insult to you?

And for Pete's sake, if you say that blacks have never achieved anything and never will, how is it wrong for me to say that that's clearly a racist position. My deal with you was not to point out such things.

I just can't see what there is to discuss further when you are adamant that blacks have never and will never achieve anything.

Please what on earth can I argue further from such a point of view, you tell me? It's an absurd extreme.
Bemeruca, if you agree with TV01 that black Africans have never achieved anything and never will, say so.
You might want to consider how African leaders go to IMF to beg for aid, a whole entourage that books into the most expensive hotel .

Or how the host IMF / World Bank meetings in their office boardrooms. 50 foot mahogany desk with marching with wood panels, executive leather seats , 20 tea girls . Begging for aid while displaying unimaginable opulence.

That had nothing to do with climate , civil rights, etc.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:12pm On May 20
Senator John Cornyn helped execute the 2020 coup.




He has impeded the VoterID Act.
Ken Paxton was already more popular than him ,with Trump's endorsement, Cornyn political career is over.
FAFO.

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