Drawn in For a Better Deal
President Trump was in historically epic form yesterday in the Oval Office.
His actions transcended politics and affiliation; what our President did during his meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was unprecedented.
Drawn into a meeting seeking a better trade deal with the U.S. after the White House “housed” the world (or was it “hosed”?), resetting our terms of trade with all international trade partners, Ramaphosea probably wasn’t expecting what happened next.
Exports from South Africa will incur a 30% tariff, once the President’s pause on the new comprehensive import tax schedule ends in July, and the South African President was eager to do some wheeling-and-dealing of his own.
He probably expected things to go a little bit differently that day…
The tone was light and friendly, and everyone was smiling and laughing…
…until they weren’t.
Movie Time in the Oval Office
During the meeting, President Trump, master of interior space, transformed the Oval Office into a cinema. Brilliant.
What are going to see today? I hope it’s not boring!
Is it Goodfellas? Braveheart? I wonder! The President supposedly likes those films, but Bravehart is sooo long.
The lights dimmed, everyone sat back, and all that was missing was the popcorn and Sno-Caps.
Maybe the film the President was screening was akin to a cheesy industrial training film, a Soviet-style-cum-MAGA masterpiece of pure persuasion, demanding S. African industry to migrate to the U.S. of A, complete with Elon’s memes? This was my guess.
Such suspense!
Elon Was There and Watched the Film
Even Elon Musk, South African visionary, was in attendance.
It was standing room only, friends, so Elon and many others stood.
But today it was not about him or DOGE.
How could Mr. Musk miss this important meeting between the president of his country of origin and the leader of the country he lives in now?
Major media outlets panned to Mr. Musk numerous times during the presentation.
Elon was not his usual irreverent, not-so-serious self. Today, he was all business.
Bias and Hate Is Just Bias and Hate
President Trump requested, “Turn the lights down. Turn the lights down and just put this on…”
The film began. The images and audio were extremely troubling to take in. I wanted to puke, watching the recap on the major media newsreels.
The thrust of the video montage was that White people in South Africa were the target of an ongoing hate campaign perpetrated by property-theft-cult stalkers, essentially, that cheer for the White farmers’ deaths.
Did they stop at cheering? Hell, no! They butchered many White farmers, in fact. Poor, innocent people who just happened to be the scapegoat.
There was one scene that showed a giant stadium filled with people, shouting in scary unison, “Kill the Boer [White man]!”
Those on stage in the stadium gathering even danced around and made sounds of guns going off and even made the hand gesture of a firearm.
The stark visuals hearkened back to Hitler and other rabid racists. Was this a Hitler rally in 1938? No; this was filmed in the modern era.
Anyone out there, whether Left, Right, Center, apolitical –whatever– should be rightfully upset watching the video.
Do Boer Farmers Being Stalked to Death Constitute Genocide?
If you’re not concerned about poor White Boer farmers in South Africa being oppressed, but you care very deeply about issues affecting Black people, worldwide, and perhaps even White folks in America who are stuck in the underclass, you should ask yourself some important questions. You’re not being consistent.
Why do these people matter less? Regardless of whether what’s happened rises to the level of “genocide,” in terms of some people’s definition, it’s a horrific situation.
White farmers face violence, stalking, kidnapping, and torture. It doesn’t stop there; many Boers have been murdered by crazed racists with this sick ideology as well.
Does it even matter so much whether what is happening qualifies as “genocide” or not, or whether it’s state-sanctioned or not?
Whatever you want to call this situation in South Africa, Boer farmers are dying, their land is being stolen, and they are being targeted for extermination.
Perhaps this is just an early stage in a larger-scale genocide that is yet to unfold.
Boers Were Placed In Concentration Camps In the Past
In the Second Boer War, back at the start of the twentieth century, over 100,000 Boer civilians, not just including women and children, but a contingent being comprised of mostly women and children, were forcibly “relocated” to concentration camps.
The Boers were also stalked and destroyed with great precision. British troops systematically swept the countryside destroying crops, poisoning wells, burning homesteads and farms, and interning Boer and African men, women, children, and workers in concentration camps.
Over 25,000 Boers lost their lives, mostly due to starvation and disease. And so, this group has been the target of extreme bias in its past, and has a history of persecution.
What Does Genocide Even Mean?
Let’s look at what the Oxford English Dictionary defines as Genocide:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.”
Okay; what constitutes a “large number”?
Surely, that is the only matter to be contested, as clearly, there are people in South Africa, people of color, who want the White Boer farmers dead, and seek to steal their land.
A Grand Sandbagging, Maybe Best Ever
Usually, I hate sandbagging. Why? It’s usually done in the spirit of maliciousness and viciousness.
But the South African President was sandbagged in a manner that was all good and totally right on.
Does the world agree?
Sadly, media outlets more to the Left seem to be downplaying claims of “White Genocide” with regard to the matter being addressed in the Oval Office.
While the term “genocide” to describe the atrocities in S. Africa has not been “approved” by many media outlets, nevertheless, many White Boer farmers have been killed at the hands of Black South Africans spouting bias and hate. That much cannot be contested by any source or “side.”
So, either way, it’s a travesty. However, the same media outlets never actually get to that part.
Fact-Checkers and Language Monitors Miss the Point
There were also widespread fact-checking-type articles regarding an art installation of crosses representing the deaths and ongoing travesty that may have been misidentified as a grave site of White farmers.
In the end, these are minor details, and just demonstrate that the Leftist media’s claim that the Right is biased and they are not, is patently false.
In fact, any news outlet, presenter, or “influencer” positing they are “to the Left” or “to the Right” is inherently biased. Face it.
The “Party of Helping the Downtrodden,” the Democrats, want to mince words about whether the widespread hate and bias, violence and death, against White Boer farmers, mostly very poor working people, is a “genocide” or not, because it’s not on a massive enough scale, misses the point.
These same news outlets bring up facts like how White people constitute under ten percent of the population, yet own over 70% of the wealth in South Africa.
In fact, this upper class of White people (and also those of other ethnicities and backgrounds) is not the same group as the poor Boer White farmers!
That’s like grouping the owner of Berkshire-Hathaway with a White guy living in a Section 8 home in the Harbor, and blaming the guy in the Harbor for the stock market.
It’s insensible.
Yes; they’re both White, but the similarities and overlapping aspects end there!
Again, major media misses the point.
Ramaphosa Responds
The South African President defended his country, stating that they enjoy freedom of speech, and those rallies are of an opposition party that is not widely supported.
It is true that in the U.S. we allow slimy people like the K.K.K. to parade through our cities and towns. We value Free Speech so highly we tolerate this.
But they don’t kill Black folks. Well, not anymore! If they did, the F.B.I. would surely be on the case. And, the case would be solved.
And, we have Hate Speech laws. I don’t think this would fly here in the Good Old U.S.A.
The difference is, in South Africa, these people affiliated with this hate party do enact violence against their target group of hate, White Boer farmers.
And the claim is, the government does nothing when the people’s homes and land are occupied and stolen, and the White farmers beaten or murdered.
Consequently, President Trump has opened a channel for refugees to immigrate here from South Africa.
Whether or not this meeting will change much in South Africa remains to be seen, however, it’s commendable that President Trump chose to break silence about this ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Transcript of the Event
[President Trump]: But Mr President I must say we have quite, we have thousands of stories talking about it and we have documentaries we have news stories on that. Is Natalie here somebody here to turn that, I could show you a couple of things and I would I just I have to it has to be responded to
Sure we have Let me see the articles please if you would and turn… Excuse me turn the lights down turn the lights down and just put this on it’s right behind you:
From the videos on in the background:
[South African politician]: There’s nothing this parliament can do with or without you, people are going to occupy land we require no permission from you from the president from no one we don’t care we can do whatever you want to do who are you to tell us whether we can occupy land or not we are going to occupy land south Africa occupy land that’s who we are
Must never be scared to kill a revolution demand that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act
[Chanting]shoot, kill the
mother kill the Boer farmer kill the Boer farmer
[Chanting]:for you to kill your master
[SA politician]:Who kill the mayor of DJ in PE is a white man so these people when you want to hit them hard go after a white man
They feel a terrible pain because you have touched a white man not because mama and will not be touched they will be touched don’t worry but we are standing with this whiteness you are cutting the throat of one
[chanting] shoot to kill kill the poor the farmer
shoot to kill the poor farmer
shoot the poor the farmer shoot to kill the poor
the poor kill the poor the farmer [Applause]
[SA politician]: I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future I’m saying to you was not called for the killing of white people at least for now I can’t see the future
[Reporter]: mean you understand something watching that especially as it gets shared on Twitter they freak out it sounds like a genocidal…
[SA politician]: …appropriate left without compensation whether they like it or not; if they object they can seek refugee in America.
[President Trump]:Now this is very bad these are the these are burial sites right here burial sites over a thousand of white farmers and those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning each one of those white things you see is a cross, and there’s approximately a thousand of them they’re all white farmers the family of white farmers and those cars aren’t uh driving they’re stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed, and it’s a terrible sight i’ve never seen anything like it. Both sides of the road you have crosses. Those people were all killed
[SA President]:Have they told you where that is Mr President? No, I’d like to know where that is because this I’ve never seen.
[President Trump]:Okay I mean it’s in South Africa…
[SA President]:We need to find out….
Banner Image: President Trump meets South African president. Image Credit – White House
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