Maria Bartiromo's show on impact of Trump's tariffs: "This Dodge Ram truck. $80,000. Instantly became $100,000."

The notion of a President fully in service of a foreign power is so unimaginable that Americans are wasting time disbelieving their lying eyes and gaslighting themselves instead of battening down the hatchets. The person they’ve elected is dismantling their country at a terrific speed.

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Marco Rubio today.

Slumped Marco Rubio mocked as literally 'spineless' during Zelensky-Trump dust-up Secretary of State Marco Rubio's curious body language drew scorn on social media as he sat slumped next to Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian Pre...

Slumped Marco Rubio mocked as literally 'spineless' during Zelensky-Trump dust-up
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Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

I cancelled my Washington Post sub today. 🤬🤮

comrade trump disassembles the west

Either Donald Trump won’t last four years, or the US won’t.

By the time Donald Trump is done with the US it will be a pale shadow of its former self. Destruction of institutions is the fastest way to oblivion. And he will make sure.

I didn’t know that. Why do they keep saying he’s SAn?

Can South Africa Deepen Agricultural Exports to China? The Chinese agricultural market is enormous, with over US$200 billion in imports annually.

Can South Africa Deepen Agricultural Exports to China?

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Dear Americans. Welcome to the juiced up version of our Zupta years. It’s going to be rough, and it will take a long time to recover - if you ever do.

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Scopa: so far, so good, says Songezo Zibi Rise Mzansi boss shares the good, the bad, and the hilarious moments from his first six months as Scopa Chairman.

I had a great conversation with Rams Mabote this week.

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Government contracts with no money to pay for them are unlawful, court rules Nonpayment to suppliers by departments due to lack of funds a common occurrence

This is huge
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'You Really Think This Dude Likes Black People'? Elon Musk Exposed for Subscribing to Shockingly Racist Account That Calls for White Minority to Retake Power In South Africa Elon Musk was raised in a South Africa quite different from the one that exists today. When he left in 1988, apartheid, which instituted racial

'You Really Think This Dude Likes Black People'? Elon Musk Exposed for Subscribing to Shockingly Racist Account That Calls for White Minority to Retake Power In South Africa

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I think we have a pretty good idea how it will play out. Trump doesn't change his Daddy's and Roy Cohn's playbook much. But having a mirror president born in South Africa might. Especially as Trump ages and his dementia increases. Oh woe is us. It would be great if Musk fixed his home country.

He really is a wrecking ball.

Jordan Pickford doing Jordan Pickford things.

The Everton goalkeeper did everything he could to put Erling Haaland off from the penalty spot.

And it worked.

The Manchester City forward saw his spot kick saved as his run of three goals in his last 12 games continued.

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Talk about a drought

This has been a pretty wild year. 🥹

YouTube video by SMWX Songezo Zibi: 2024 Election, ANC, ‘GNU’ negotiations, MK Party, SCOPA, Rise Mzansi, Parliament

I sat down with Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh for a chat. Here it is - youtu.be/jsTLSr2cHm4?...

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

It’s taking three SA-born billionaires to demonstrate (at great peril to the world), how vulnerable US political institutions and democratic system are. But absent of real US experiences from living memory, even some of its smartest observers refuse to believe the “empire” could die within 4yrs

RISE Mzansi National Leader and SCOPA Chairperson, @songezozibi.bsky.social, will be on Talk Radio 702 tomorrow, Tuesday 03 December 2024, at 07h10 to discuss SCOPA’s work over the past six months.

You don’t wanna miss it!

#RISEInParliament #ForThePeopleByThePeople

SA needs an army that is well-funded We cannot expect old, unfit soldiers to take knives to the gunfights the military are pushed into, writes Songezo Zibi.

South Africa needs to decide whether it needs an army or not. Keeping one and starving it of funding while giving it a big mandate makes no sense.
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And many of our compatriots think it’s funny.

All of this substance aside, the question of how private colleges and institutions should handle speech remains fraught. These controversies are typically debated in two registers. The first rests on the consequentialist notion that institutions ought to be maximally permissive on speech because it might benefit or protect today’s would-be censors tomorrow. This is where the idea that progressives are partially responsible for the suppression of pro-Palestinian speech comes from—if left-wing college students and progressives in other major institutions had let up on putatively bigoted and offensive speech over the last decade, writers like Filipovic argue implicitly, we’d be seeing fewer crackdowns on Palestinian advocacy now.

But this is entirely speculative. It is not at all obvious, actually, that defenses of Palestinian resistance, particularly armed resistance, and criticisms of Israel⁠—which has long been neigh-untouchable in mainstream political discourse—would have been more well-tolerated in a world where the campus controversies of the last decade hadn’t happened. We likely would have seen the very same pressure to support Israel after Hamas’s attack; as such, the speech climate likely would have been just as stultifying. To believe otherwise is to invest fully in an odd precedential logic that regularly leads minds astray in these debates—those who use and abuse power are not always groping around for actions in the past that might justify their actions in the present. Reality is not a judiciary. And believing otherwise gives agency and responsibility over to whataboutism.

Taking the freedom of institutions seriously in this way is not without costs for progressives. Bill Ackman and the captains of Wall Street do, in this framework, have the right to bar pro-Palestinian activists from employment at Scrooge McDuck Capital. The purges we’re seeing now are not incompatible with sound liberal principles—advocates for the Palestinian cause will not find refuge in them or in a fuzzy speech maximalism defined and defended inconsistently by most of its own proponents. And activists know this already: All of the action against the pro-Palestinian left now was preceded by the cancellations of controversial academics like Norman Finkelstein and Steve Salaita as well as a years-long assault on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which has been the target of laws, executive orders, or resolutions in at least 36 states.

The left needn’t engage in that kind of misdirection; the urgency of the crisis in Gaza denies us the luxury of merely whispering what we really feel in email lists or group chats or of running in tears to the next available magazine, photo shoot ready, to sniffle about how we’re being silenced. The task now is to direct attention to the war and the Palestinian condition in every available space by all available means. When a door shuts, we must find another; when a microphone is taken away, we must shout, carrying the message along with the strength of our own voices—which have never been stronger.

I wrote about Gaza, free speech, and the perversity of our campus obsessions. newrepublic.com/article/1765...