Politics

[HWL]

Regarding allied help in the Strait of Hormuz. If NATO looses Lindsey Graham they loose their biggest cheerleader in the Senate.

Most of NATO supports a non NATO country in Ukraine but doesn’t support a NATO country in the gulf. Trump is putting the countries on record.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033924181763481974

NATO cannot help in the Strait of Hormuz, because NATO is busy in defending Greenland!!!

HWL

 

[Brent in Az]

Trump has ordered a Naval blockade of the SoH

 

[Tanks]

I see the "peace talks" in Pakistan have collapsed after one day. Didn't take a crystal ball to foresee that would happen. Sending some philandering phony born again Christian spouting Crusader anti-Muslim rhetoric to make peace with a radical islamic state was bound to fail.

FYI, Vance is Catholic, and so is Rubio.

 

[Betterinthebush]

The real 'new South-Africa' under the anc......

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Yet another BLACK [Education] race-law to be implemented in South Africa.....
[There are already 144 new race laws specifically against whites under this communist regime!]
Re-write the school curriculum as if =-260 years of WHITE history till+_ 1912 never existed!

[They use the term BLACK extensively [and rightly so-they are black-] but want to cry abuse by the mere reading or hearing of the word 'White'--so grow up, this is the real world of so called 'black and white' reality! You cannot just wish it away with yet another unjust law]
A real, independent and academically proven-FACT CHECK -....

From 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape of Good Hope, till +_ 1912 after South Africa became a Union with the British, for +_ 260 years the majority of South African territory [land space] were inhabited and developed by WHITE people!
[Do your own independent fact check and research about this!]

During ALL of this time [that this mew race-law want to erase], ALL of the development in South Africa were done by ONLY WHITE people! [A term they constantly use for everybody not heavily dark pigmented]

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Thus, ALL the Food, farms, industry, hospitals, schools, businesses, mining, infrastructure, railways, roads, shipping, airplanes, cars, economic enterprises, buildings, education, universities, electricity, communication, dams etc. were the brainchild and developments of WHITE people by innovation, critical thinking and blood, sweat and tears.

NOTHING of the above [read none, zero] during this soon to be deleted history in schools, were developed, thought out, created by the then black people of the time.

The ONLY response the politically egoistic powers to be and liberals across the world can response on the above, is not by real FACTS, but by over used and mis-used crybaby slogans like 'apartheid' and 'racist' etc. [Check the real facts on this as well...]

After the black population explosion of the British making, and the open borders policy of the current corrupt government [check the real facts on this...], the only achievement to better some black people's lives, was the adaptation of the Mafia's 'protection money' scheme with a black twist, called BEE [Black Economic Empowerment].

This is yet another [of the 144!] race laws that force all and any bigger 'white' [entrepreneur] owned business or enterprise, to take in an unqualified and incompetent connected black partner who must now own and ern 45-51% of said enterprise as a board member, or else.....!

[https://www.artikels.afriforum.co.z...-to-be-abolished-take-a-stand-with-afriforum/]

This race extortion, enforced by law, only benefit +_ 500 black connected families [out of a total of +_ 60 million people] in South Africa, -most in government -connections!!
Fact checks the current youth under 25 years old unemployment rate that are currently a staggering 62%! [a reason for the high crime rate!]

Now check the consequences of yet another race law in Education...
The dumbing-down of the end of 12 years of schooling [currently by mostly political and poorly trained 'educators'], where in their final year of school, the pass mark has been lowered to 30%!
This nonsense low academic mark allows black students to go to an academic university with a state bursary...

White students on the other hand, must have at least 1 or 2 distinctions [above 80%] out of their 6 subjects, to even come on the 'waiting list' of some universities!

[My own daughter had 3 distinctions [above 80%] and were on this waiting list while 25 x candidates outside of South Africa were searched for in Kenia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe etc., as only 5 out of the 30 places in this class could be occupied by WHITES, --in South Africa NONE applied for this course!
After the first year 18 of the 25 lucky foreign black students failed this course--the usual riots and burning of classes resulted!]

Here at the academic universities 99% of black students don't cope with the academic demands of university, thus a 'bridging first year' at university before their 'real academic first year 101' are introduced….

Why do you think there are constant political rallies and riots at universities, if the 'demand' to pass are not met, or those that do pass are 'racist' or 'apartheid' etc.!
So, what is the 'solution' the universities implementing in ‘educating’ the youth?

Dumb academic subjects even further down, and replace subjects like Science and Physics with 'African common knowledge' as degree subjects, like 'African culture' and 'African witchcraft’!
[Do the fact checking!]

In a country where 65-70 % of all blacks don't know who their biological grandfather or father is, due to the traditional [ripa-]schools for back boys where they are taught 'if I want, I want' as a traditional 'right'?

Small black girls are even officially taught by the Department of Education in year one at 6-7 years of age, how to put condoms on broomstick in class as a remedy for HIV/AIDS!
[Very high rape and women abuse rate in South Africa]

One result of children not knowing who their biological father is, is inbreeding, with the resulting of lower the general IQ of the population.
[Do the real -hidden-fact checking on this!]

So, by now introducing a new racist -law in Education to brainwash low IQ [rural] students that NO WHITES ever existed for 250 years in the building of this country, is the same as brainwashing low IQ adults with the political actions of re-naming 200+ year old white-founded and built towns to a recent black person’s name, as if he had built that town!

Reason and Academic facts are Not part of the majority of the current Black cultures around here’s dream world, while dumbing-down is!

President Trump is Right About What’s Happening in South Africa

Today, President Donald J. Trump showed the world the shocking treatment of white farmers in South Africa — including with a video montage that

www.whitehouse.gov

Hang tough. I’m not going to give up on my 2026 big surprises bingo card yet. We’ve got to clear up some things with Iran and the strait of Hormuz first, then we’ll have the lads back on the boats to cruise through the Indian Ocean so that we can land in Cape Town for “Libbo”.

The cape and the west coast of Africa is going to be critical for the USA in the future. I’ll never forget that uncomfortable moment in Washington when Trump and Ramaphosa met.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

FYI, Vance is Catholic, and so is Rubio.

Let’s not let facts get in the way of a diatribe.

 

[Scott CWO]

 

[Brent in Az]

U.S military begins a mine hunting operation.

 

[Pondoro]

U.S military begins a mine hunting operation.

 

[barryk]

It appears Iran is signing up for a few more rounds of air sorties..

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/world/live-news/iran-us-war-talks

Fine...works for me.

 

[Brent in Az]

The demand to cancel it's nuclear program was the deal breaker for Iran.
I understand if they just wanted material for nuclear powerplants, however, those powerplants don't require weapons grade enriched material.
I believe everyone knows what Irans ultimate ambitions are.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

FYI, Vance is Catholic, and so is Rubio.

My mistake. Confused Vance with Pete Hegseth. Apologies to Vance.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

So Catholics aren’t born again?

 

[Flipper Dude]

Yes, Catholics are Christian, too. Just ain’t Protestant.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I know It’s not shocking that the Leftists have completely re written history. And hope the rest of us forgot what the JCPOA actually said and allowed.

In 2021, Blinken stated that the JCPOA was "very effective in cutting off all the pathways that Iran then had to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon" and that breakout time was more than a year.

The JCPOA ALLOWED Iran a path to nuke weapons . Blinken interviewed recently said. Yeah Iran would have already had a nuke under Obama’s gift. But it slowed them down. So in a Democrat mind they feel better allowing a slow path than saying outright they will never be allowed to have one.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Yes, Catholics are Christian, too. Just ain’t Protestant.

Are they? Some no doubt are, in spite of that association and system, but (hopefully) won’t remain in it. It’s debatable whether or not I’m a Protestant myself, historically speaking.

 

[Big_Easy]

I’m a Wilderness outfitter. Don’t assume Republicans want a dirty environment and an oil well on every section. The difference is everything in moderation. Your party knows no moderation. Gillette, WY and Craig, CO are great places for coal mines. The Bakken and Permian Basins are fine for oil, as are some Arctic areas that are uninhabitable for most humans. Other places, not so much. Your party is against all fossil fuels, which is a pipe dream. Your electric car is full of petroleum based plastic, as are the batteries! Remember when Gore and the environmental alarmists said drastic, end of the earth things were coming soon? I’m still waiting. The climate has changed since time immemorial. Get used to it.

Trump? What does he have to do with your extreme, crazy policy shifts from the days of JFK and even Clinton? “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Good luck with that nowadays! Your party is unrecognizable and out of touch with most of the country. Academia and liberal cities are not mainstream.

I didn't assume that Republicans want a dirty environment, I never said that. However, many republican politicians seem to. You see, not polluting the environment costs money, cleaning up past pollution costs even more money. Large corporations don't want to spend any money on such things, it tends to cut into their profits, and god forbid those go down at all.

"Your party knows no moderation"

Since I have had no registered political affiliation since 2012, I would be very interested to know what this means.

"Your party is against all fossil fuels"...again I have no political party, but if you mean the democrats, this is incorrect. The 14 million+ barrels of oil per day of domestic production during the Biden administration would seem to suggest otherwise. The democrats support all types of energy production, not just fossil fuels like the modern day republican party. How many times has trump tried to kill off-shore wind energy?

I was simply illustrating how over the past 40 years republicans have gone from supporting env regulations to being against them.

 

[Big_Easy]

Wasn’t your party recently almost completely opposed to a work requirement for welfare recipients? Let me answer for you, “Yes.”

You forgot to ask if I'm against them, there again making more assumptions...I'm not against a work requirement for welfare recipients by the way.

 

[Big_Easy]

He truly isn't worth the response time. He is trolling. He is interested in reciting talking points and being a contrarian - not debate. Like too many post millennial trollers, he oozes entitlement rather than applauding, or more importantly, representing achievement.

I am interested in debate. Like when I have repeatedly asked for suggestions from this group as to how we would cut costs and lower federal spending. And rather than answers I got lots of insults and straw man arguments. So I'll ask for the fifth, or sixth time. What spending are we cutting?

So far the only two answers that I have received from this group are:
...The Department of Education ($265 Billion), and
..."Foreign democrat controlled NGOs".

Since USAID was defunded I presume that those NGOs are no longer being funded? And yet our budget deficit stands at $1.85 Trillion. Lets say we do eliminate the Dept of ED, that saves 265 billion. It also essentially abandons higher education in America for wast swaths of the country, but lets say we do just that. What else are we cutting, becuase we are a long way from a balanced budget.

Here's my greater points:
1) Everyone has their own political sacred cow(s) that they refused to slaughter, what's yours?
2) Social Security, Medicare/medicaid, and the Military are the vast super-majority of our federal spending. Which of these are you willing to cut to balance the budget?
3) I hear many on the right complaining about "welfare" and federal gov spending, but many here are unwilling to admit that republican politicians and their constituents love these programs as well. Stop blaming the dems for programs that you all refuse to do anything about.
4) Rather than complain and blame you should provide viable solutions, I haven't heard any yet. I'm still waiting for Trump to "repeal and replace" the ACA with something better.

 

[Pondoro]

Victor Orban lost the election in Hungary..

Vance apperance did not save him..

 

[Tex .416]

If anyone wants to see what the IAEA had to say, here is a chronological gathering of their interactions attempting to inspect and monitor Iran’s activity.

The bottom line summary: Iran was actively blocking the IAEA’s attempts to monitor and inspect.

The words “grave concern” appear over and over and over going back for years.

IAEA and Iran: Chronology of Key Events | IAEA

www.iaea.org