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D Kitterman's avatar

MAGA has been shown to actually stand for MAKE APARTHEID GREAT AGAIN.

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William Spivey's avatar

I have to write a new story just to use that title.

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Kevin Lossner's avatar

I think we're living through the crazy attempt of a bunch of white South African sickos to recreate their apartheid state on a larger scale in the US. "Disgusting" barely scratches the surface of their evil. We need to make a concerted effort to destroy all of them and their works. Call them to account for all their myriad crimes.

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Carol Ann Conners's avatar

I am a lapsed Episcopalian. Perhaps it is time to go back to church.

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Carolyn Eklund's avatar

Please do. I love my church! This new Presiding bishop and the one before him put us all on a path that follows Jesus of Nazareth, as the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry taught.

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Carol Ann Conners's avatar

Thank you!

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Carolyn Eklund's avatar

I’m so happy to read your important post. I just sent the Presiding Bishop’s letter to a group of interfaith and ecumenical colleagues. It is not only calm and clear, the content sets an important ethical boundary very publicly. I’m an Episcopal priest and feel buoyed by his words. I’ll keep this letter close to my soul for the rest of my life. Thank you for your important commentary and for quoting him.

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Mary Hart's avatar

This almost makes me want to join an episcopal church. Thank goodness for all the resisters.

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Carolyn Eklund's avatar

I recommend it! I’m a retired priest in this church and have led some very faithful, good people to follow faith, hope and love-plus courage, not to be cowed by bullies for the sake of those who need the most help.

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Jennifer Adams's avatar

Well, Trump ain't Jesus... Yeah, that popped up in my head. Fun times from the Bigot Bloc. Oddness abounds. I wonder what kind of a knicker-twist we could expect from say a Black Emigree from Demark seeking U.S. Citizenship? Might shut the whole system down.

White South Africans. Go from Out A Luck when it comes to telling Black People to "Go Back To Your Country" to Welcome to Idaho. White South Africans might not like the temperatures but in just about everything else they'd fit right in. Pa-The-Tic.

S'funny stupid thing, that White Fear Of America Becoming Browner and Browner.... Like The New World wasn't Brown BEFORE they got here. "Manifest Destiny?" Perhaps destiny is the lands being people by predominantly Brown Peoples again. But then, according to MAGA Logic (sorry) "Manifest" and "Destiny" only apply to then and to people who look like them.

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Yamuna Ramachandran's avatar

My god, asking EMM to allow White people to cut to the head of the line??? EMM agreed to resettling them, just that they have to wait their turn like anyone else, correct? Trump is proposing the preferential treatment based on race that he has railed against for DEI. And that leads to segregation.

Surprised Trump didn't hand them a job and a free home. So he brought them here, arguably with the promise of an easy life for below-average white persons. And now they're shocked that in America, you wait your turn?

I've said before, I don't know what picture Trump painted. Is it possible they are so ignorant that they believed "you will be rich so fast" and they could make millions off crypto, all because there's no DEI? Watch them go home. If their anger at being misled doesn't get to them, our crappy healthcare will.

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Danielle Amory's avatar

That's yet to happen if it hasn't already.

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susan conner's avatar

The Afrikaner settlement is for Musk and his people to gain more of a stronghold in the US. They are being given land that was purchased by a financial group, friends of JDV, and according to what I read, he is part of the group. Suffer the children to come unto me. But of course it's more likely, suffer under new Jim Crow aka apartheid. It would have been wonderful if Bishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela had been given more time.

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Elizabeth Decker's avatar

He’s incredibly racist!

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laura oshea's avatar

Racist as shit!

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Jarno Jokinen's avatar

"Trump regime abruptly granted refugee status to 59 white South Africans—skipping over thousands of other refugees who have been waiting in line for years." Well, maybe Dooonald isn't racist white supremacist after all...

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Danielle Amory's avatar

African Desent ministries? Where do I sign up? I'm of African Desent and more than willing to immigrate elsewhere.🤔

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