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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

Remember the good old days when ambassadors were skilled diplomats ? I thought I read that France sent kushner Sr packing...

Goonemeritus's avatar

Brent is the kind of asshole that would be short listed for a new kidney.

Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

Is it weird how United States of Americans think they should always tell other countries what to do, even countries that they don’t know anything about, which, to be fair, is <del>most</del> all of them?

Susan Lawrence's avatar

It's high time us grown-up countries started expelling these 'Murican "ambassadors". Canada, South Africa, France (Jared Kushner's FATHER who served time in prison is now the US ambassador to FRANCE FFS!) - I'm looking at you. Get rid of them. They are an active threat to your national security. Deport them now. We just sacked ours due to his Epstein adjacency. If you can't fulfil the most basic requirements of the job then you're out.

"M"'s avatar

France is not going to do that -- even though Charles Kushner just insulted some French official (I can't remember who exactly or what)

And the reason is the same one that Macron handed that note to Donald (that he read out loud) that said basically "go ahead and take those resources from the brown countries - Venezuela, Nigeria, Cuba - but just leave Greenland alone" at Davos -- remember that?

It's the racism and colonialism and greed (because the colonialism is essentially the stealing of the resources from the Black and brown nations for the benefit of the countries with majority White power structures & officials in power).

It's always that

Elderly John's avatar

Designed to instigate racial tensions. I can see what's happening, but I don't understand how Trump sees this as beneficial, unless he just wants to watch a race war.

Brent Bozell told all sorts of lies about Obama and was widely quoted. It is surprising that he is not dead.

"M"'s avatar

He not only wants to start a race war -- he wants that race war to be global

(which ... anybody who's lived through a decade of this really ought to know about him & those who hang around him can kind of eke out just based on who he hires & surrounds himself with - that's what the Goebbels Miller ICE kidnappings are about, that's what the Russell Vought & DOGE-data-stealing firings are about, that's what the Pete Hic!seth-driven wars in the Middle East are about.

People have to be willing to look at those event chains and connect the dots, though)

He's also embarrassed because even the racist White South Africans whom he invited in as "White refugees" are LEAVING and GOING BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA because getting established here was "harder than they thought" ... even though they were literally given everything AND Donald in cahoots with Rubio & Miller did everything they could to try to limit brown refugees

So ... guess that "white genocide" Donald yelled & screamed was (ALLEGEDLY) going on in South Africa was

JUST

ANOTHER

CON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBjHDdXwJro

Rick G.'s avatar

It's always fascinating to me how Republicans can use real hate speech (see Andy Ogles saying that immigration, without any qualification, is a national security issue) with impunity and then claim they can police how South Africa defines it.

tegrat's avatar

The ugly American writ large...

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Gary. As Bugs Bunny would say, what a maroon!

Agent of Chaotic Respite's avatar

JFC. All these assholes are definitely tasked with leaving the entire world pissed off with the US. The only way we will regain any credibility when the regime falls (which is inevitable, may it happen any fucking day now) will be through live, televised public executions, top to bottom.

mr_snarky's avatar

if all your ambassador to a place does is criticize his host country why would anyone from that country want to talk to them? sounds like this dude is just gonna spent his time in south africa doing a whole lot of nothing.

Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

"life in the United States has become too stressful." Ya, think!

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Caepan's avatar

𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 1980𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘥.

Like everything else about TACO, he's mentally stuck in the 1980s.

Mexfiles's avatar

1880s methinks.

Andre's avatar

I thought Murtaugh and Riggs aced this guy back in the late 80s.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Welp, gotta hand it to Piggy on this one.

His ambassador to South Africa has outdone even Ric Grenell's atrocious spell as the ambassador to Germany. Where everyone hated him.

majorfathead's avatar

What!?!?!? Another famta menace appointee acting exactly like the rest of the clown car cabal!?!?!? Color me shocked and appalled. Ffs these are not seriois intelligent people. I feel like I, in my former drunk drug added youth could do a better job. Let me tell you, I was a real pos in those days.