Dave Coventry

All that has historically been wrong with the ANC government on show in this one ANC Minister. Sunday Times - S’THEMBISO MSOMI | Tolashe nanny scandal reveals truth of our self-serving political elite www.sundaytimes.co.za/opinion-and-...

Yes. I am also very uneasy about the severity of Malema's sentence. Obviously he isn't my most favourite MP and I do regard his singing of 'Kill the Boer', while not deemed illegal having been tested in court, as definitely provocative. Moreover, it gives ammunition to white supremacists.

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Quite. Pretending that he is playing a game of 5D chess that is beyond the intelligence levels of us mere mortals disguises the fact that he's a fucking idiot.

More than that, don't hide. Don't be reticent because you don't want confrontation. I'm convinced the reason Trump and his minions believe elections are stolen is because Democrats are not as willing as Trumpers to hold forth. If you're a farmer, don't let other farmers tell you to vote Trump.

'Piss Board' I like it. I was struggling for a term to describe this stupidity and I think you've nailed it.

Zuma's dirty fingerprints all over this once more. The most destructive President we have ever had - and hopefully will ever have... Once again frustrating justice by any means possible. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Very apt.

Good. I have limited sympathy for some farmers who didn't vote for Trump because I feel that most, particularly those in deep Red communities, were not committed enough as activists. I feel many pretended to be Trump supporters while voting for Harris because of social pressure or just kept quiet.

It looks like Epstein is occasionally showing up in the Trump files.

📸 Mariupol, March 7, 2022. Two weeks later, russia would bomb this building — killing these three little girls. They were buried in the yard of the kindergarten across the street. They stayed, believing the world would protect them. Tragically, like so many, they were wrong.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

I see plenty of good ideas being mentioned, but nobody to actually carry them out. The Democratic leadership is happy to sit on their hands and wait for the midterms while Rome burns or write angry letters.

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Good night!

I doubt it's Russia, even if 'falling out of the 22nd floor window' fits their MO very neatly. Mossad? As a warning about and retaliation for the S. African ICJ case against Israel? And I very much doubt that it's a suicidal remorse for the missing Tembisa millions. That simply isn't the ANC way.

Because they thought they would rule until Jesus comes. Now, if only we'd had an inclusive and therefore viable opposition party capable of winning 51% of the vote!! (Preferably not ruled by a matriarch overly sure of her own often right-wing conservative beliefs and over-inflated self-importance)

That's unkind...

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

Especially a so called businessman who bankrupted multiple companies and who is manifestly inept.

A march in Sea Point, Cape Town, on Sunday was the latest in a series of protests aimed at spotlighting the targeted killing of media workers in Gaza. Local journalists led the demonstration, expressing solidarity with their colleagues on the other side of the world.

Thanks for highlighting it. I have close family members who take a Telegraph subscription and the irrational, unreliable, obsessive, rabble rousing misinformation put out by that grotty rag has turned empathetic humans into hate filled monsters.

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Quite. ' If Jews were not hated before, Netanyahu has made them universally despised. Killing an entire Nation to steal their land is not morally defensible, but nor is it possible and the only likely result will be the ratcheting up of tensions and hatred worldwide. Strategically flawed indeed.

Love it!

David Pakman is onto something here. Something is not adding up...

It's the Trump methodology. I remember him saying that "if they stop testing, the numbers will go down" during the pandemic. Schrödinger's hurricane.

Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

The easy answer to the travails facing ratepaying citizens is that it is incompetence that causes the service delivery failures. That's not the case - state capture at municipal level by ruthless political mafias is the norm and the real cancer. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

I’m sorry I’ve been quiet on here. But I want to say I fully endorse @BetoORourke for whatever he chooses to run for . I am optimistic in Texas again !

Netanyahu has placed Israel in mortal danger and the spectre of Israel losing support internationally is very real. Israel cannot exist alone and if they lose the backing of the US they are finished. Hence the fear and hence the attacks.

That would be the crux of the matter.

I have a little conspiracy theory that Hegseth is deliberately using an unsecured line as a channel to supply the Kremlin with classified information while still maintaining plausible deniability through incompetence.

1 might be a happenstance, 2 might be carelessness, but 3 looks like an attempt to leak information to the Russians while using incompetence to provide plausible deniability. Or is my conspiracy theory a little too far fetched?

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The pill was the driver for the emancipation of women because it offered reliable birth control to allow women to control their lives away from the endless conveyor line of birth. In doing so, it cut the chains that bound them to the wishes of men and freed them from a biblical straightjacket.

Right. Democrats need to gear up right now for the inevitable smears and misinformation that the Right will use. @antifaoperative.bsky.social has been keeping a list of MAGA who have been arrested for underage sex and rape and these should be used. Because you can be sure the Republicans will.

This is key. Having Tim Walz, van Hollen, Bernie and AOC out there is well and good, but there needs to be some coordination or it's wasted. The 'leadership' is sitting on their hands waiting for a blue wave next year, which won't come unless they act with some urgency.

How very true.

I think as a middle eastern man with no papers, he'd be first on the plane to CECOT. I doubt he could speak English, either.

I cannot agree more.

I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...