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Doktor Zoom's avatar

UPDATE: I found the source of the video, and no, it's not a thousand grave sites. It was a protest in response to the murder of a farm couple. Glen and Vida Rafferty, in 2020. Really a horrible case but nothing I can find indicates the Rafferties were targeted because they were white. Rather, some idiot lowlifes wanted to rob their safe, broke into their house, couldn't open the safe, and murdered the couple when they returned home. Horrible crime, but in no conceivable sense "white genocide." Video and links added to story.

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Menotsure's avatar

Good work. Now where did I leave those car keys?

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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

You misspelled 'Brain Frog.'

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kmblue187's avatar

Trump, making things up again. How about a look at his cognitive abilities?

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

You mean Trump cherry-picked an instance of black-on-white violence to make a racist point? I'm SHOCKED!

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Zyxomma's avatar

So, a similar crime to the Cutter murder in Kansas that formed the basis for In Cold Blood.

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Alicia Brown's avatar

Cutter ... Qatar ... Is this about the jet again??? How dare you???

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Edith Prickly's avatar

Thank you for trawling the fever swamps to the source, Dok. I appreciate the effort.

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Nancy Naive's avatar

They are replaying the Mau Mau uprising. There were also such attacks in Rhodesia. It’s transference. Take things that happen at some other time and place and claim it’s happening again.

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RRJKR's avatar

After some very cursory research you will find that Black farmers are targeted more often than White farmers. The general level of violence in South Africa is pretty atrocious. For the most part it is associated with thievery and not racially motivated.

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

The level of income inequality and high unemployment in South Africa are more likely causes than any alleged reverse racism.

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Marty Smit's avatar

100:1 odds the perps where white, too.

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

Nope, the killers were Black, but they were out for money, which they didn't get. 3 were convicted, sentenced to life in prison, a fourth was murdered before trial

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

Those odds are pretty long. I’m gonna go with even money, 1:1 odds.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Are there MSM outlets on this garbage? I honestly am too tired to look.

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

NYT did a pretty thorough debunking of Trump's video lies

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"M"'s avatar

Here is Professor Keith Boykin

#BetterThanMSM

https://youtu.be/UM9BFG7uoFY?si=lNLgA_sWvUadVyVc

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

The Guardian seems to have the most accurate coverage of this shitshow, and did report that the video was of a protest and not, and That Fucking Guy seems to believe, of actual mass graves.

WaPo had one line about that aspect. I can’t wait until my subscription is up. Marty Baron must be appalled by what happened to the paper.

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David N. Brown's avatar

What people still don't understand, once Drumpf says something, he will insist on acting as if it is true no matter how many times he is told he is wrong. That not only makes his behavior indistinguishable from literal delusion, it makes it functionally the same.

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

Oh, I understand that.

I don't like it, but I understand it. Same types who think Elron Hubbard did no wrong.

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satch's avatar

I really need to send The Guardian some money.

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

I send them money every month and it makes me feel better. If it weren’t for foreign journalists, we’d be flying blind.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Mean, nasty outlets? Outlets that only say bad things about your favorite president (TRUMP!). Outlets that hate America?

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StructuralCat PE, SE's avatar

Sign me up! Er, I mean, I'll sign up.

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Khavrinen's avatar

Probably bears way too much resemblance to "journalism" for them.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

of course.

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Hops: 86/47 or bust's avatar

Excellent sleuthing.

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Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

So, “In Cold Blood?” Seems to me that’s happened here too.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Should have scrolled down.

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Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

In fairness I was like the third person to think I was the clever one.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Holy Fuckballs Level of Madness here…

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Enter Ranting's avatar

But there's a new book about Joe Biden's dementia.

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kmblue187's avatar

Jake Tapper (one author) has been flogging it every single night on this newscast.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

It is exactly the plot of In Cold Blood.

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NatalyaResists's avatar

That's their MO - find one grain of fact and blow it up into a work of fiction that they will defend beyond all reason to support their shit.

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LilJerseyGirlLost/Lori H's avatar

Sadly, yes. I am not naive enough to imagine that there will be truth about this shouted from the roof tops and successfully rubbed in that Orange Ghoul and his Herr Miller's faces for days on end. We won't hear diddly squat in any meaningful SUSTAINED manner. Not to mention, I'm doubting that any notion of the impropriety of treating a world leader this way will come up with the 'national 'news' orgs.'

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

Not as far as I can tell. Monument went up in 2004, the road protest was 2020

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Smoke O'Possum's avatar

Thanks for journamalisiming, Dok!

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TerseNurse's avatar

extra ration of grog this week!

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Devon Williams's avatar

If he cares so much about those white people, than why doesn't he care more about his own white constituents, because he's been stabbing them in the back nonstop with his industrial backstabbing machine.

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Linda irene peterson's avatar

Is it fear talking ?!

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Hawkeye's avatar

Calgon take me away!! far far away!

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beb's avatar

I hadn't realized before reading this just how awful that "ambush" in the White House had been.

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Mike Conley's avatar

No soup for you!

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beb's avatar

If Trump keeps this up no foreign dignitaries are ever going to visit him in his Frat House on the Potomac.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Marco Rubio - The anti Immigrant anti-democracy IMMIGRANT. The son of immigrants who now spearheads the destruction of the very reason his parents came to this country -for a better life. DEPORT HIM TO CUBA! He has done more damage to this nation's reputation than any so-called "unworthy" visa holder he equates with terrorism. HE IS THE TERRORIST for working to undo the very reason people come to this country, to escape the very conditions he is working to create -a terrorist, nativist, autocracy based on fear and intimidation. Perhaps he will find Communist Cuba more to his liking, economy and politics. DEPORT HIM!

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kmblue187's avatar

With his insults to reporters, Trump is starting to remind me of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland - "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" or maybe with his insults to everybody.

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Parakeetist's avatar

Birdie looks around

- Knicks lost -

Birb will be screamimg -

That ees all.

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tehbaddr's avatar

Murder Kitteh. Soft tiny floofy death.

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Cheers Y'all's avatar

This morning's sunrise...yawn....stretch...

https://substack.com/profile/41005794-cheers-yall/note/c-119205809

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PrimerGray's avatar

This is part of Assface's social media post about the DC shootings. I agree. GTFO, fascist traitor fuckwad. You all know who I mean.

<Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.>

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

It's a wonder his head didn't implode.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Says the guy who ran on retribution against Those People, tosses legal immigrants to Sudan, has threatened political opponents for the crime of going against him, and is trying to remove transgender people from the country.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

House now voting on HR1, the Big Bullshit Bill.

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

215 Yea / 214 Nay /1 pres /1 NV

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

So Repubs voted agin? I thought they had 218?

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

only ones voting Nay had Ds nest to their names

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I saw 2 R Nays on live.house.gov? Did they switch?

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The Estivating Hibernian's avatar

You are right. 2 R Nays

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

The b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ campaign donations must have been huge.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

And the treasoneers have it

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Surprised it was that close.

Whomever the present and NV was better not be a fucking democrat (unless they are in hospital of course)

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Sojourner Truth's avatar

or dead, like Connolly

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

2 Nays and 1 present from the treasoneers. Democrats were united.

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Bobathonic's avatar

Connolly didn't vote. Because he died the other day.

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Cheers Y'all's avatar

That's 3 Dems we've lost to dying this term.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

It'll pass.

But it would be hilarious if, after all their super secret midnight meetings and what not, all their caving in to the very worst, he didn't have the votes

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

*raccoon-tapdancing.gif*

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Target [stock] stumbles as tariffs hit earnings and sales fall amid DEI backlash [gift https://wapo.st/3ZsbUHr]

Multiple challenges descended on Target during the quarter that ended April 30, including the Trump administration’s trade war and a customer boycott over DEI changes.

Everything Trump touches, dies.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Well, last night I got cussed out by a participant on my volunteer route. He's a regular, and I've always been able to tell that he's unstable, but something happened that he wasn't notified earlier in the day that he was on the list, and he never came out when I got there. I offered to put him on my list for Friday (since he's a regular), and he told me, essentially, to fuck off and get bent. I did not respond because I don't respond to being cussed at, but Friday, as I prepare my list, I'll check with him again to see if he wants me to add him. Maybe he'll have cooled off.

This is my least favorite time of year because the sun rises so early. Not even 6AM and already the sky is starting to lighten up.

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PrimerGray's avatar

Stupid 23.5 degree Earth axis tilt.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

LONG DAYS...

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