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Posts posted by Wally Fairway
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49 white farmers from South Africa who are being granted refugee status
Refugee status for white South Africans: First group lands in US
SpoilerUS-funded flight carrying the first group of 49 white South Africans has landed in Washington where the Trump administration is to grant them refugee status.
President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country's Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of "racial discrimination".
South African government has denied this saying any allegations of persecution would not meet the threshold required under "refugee law".
Immigrant rights activists have criticised the fast-track refugee initiative, describing it as "unfair" for the "most vulnerable". The Trump administration has halted almost all refugee admissions including those coming from countries at war.
0:59Skin colour of South African farmers "makes no difference" to Trump
The current group of white South African refugees, who landed in Washington DC on Monday, were given a warm welcome by US authorities at the airport.
Some held young children and waved small American flags in the arrival area adorned with red, white and blue balloons on the walls.
Usually the processing of refugees in the US takes months, even years, but this group has been fast tracked. UNHCR - the United Nations refugee agency - confirmed to the BBC they weren't involved in the vetting, as is usually the case.
Asked directly on Monday why Afrikaners' refugee applications had been expedited compared to other groups, Trump said a "genocide" was taking place and that "white farmers" specifically were being targeted.
"Farmers are being killed, they happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me."
The US has criticised domestic South African policy, accusing the government of seizing land from white farmers without any compensation - something which the southern African nation says has not happened.
In January President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial law which allows the government to seize privately owned land without compensation in certain circumstances, when it is deemed "equitable and in the public interest".
There had been anger in South Africa over the slow pace of land reform in the three decades since the end of the racist apartheid system.
White South Africans make up just 7.3% of the population, but own the vast majority of privately held farmland, according to a 2017 government report.
One of Trump's closest advisers, South African-born Elon Musk, has previously said there was a "genocide of white people" in South Africa and accused the government of passing "racist ownership laws".
The claims of a genocide of white people have been widely discredited.
On Monday, Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen described the resettlement as "baffling" given the "indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers" from other countries.
In a statement sent to the BBC, Rep Gregory Meeks, ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Trump administration's apparent double-standard for refugees was "not just a racist dog whistle, it's a politically motivated rewrite of history".
"Refugee policy should protect the vulnerable, not serve an extremist agenda," he said.
Melissa Keaney, a lawyer with the International Refugee Assistance project, said the White House's decision to fast-track the South Afrikaners arrival represented "unfairness on so many levels".
"How are they even being admitted, if all refugees are suspended currently," she asked, referring to Trump's executive order in January that indefinitely suspended its US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).
Ms Keaney's organisation is suing the administration for its suspension of USRAP. She described the decision as a sudden manoeuver that has left over 120,000 conditionally approved refugees in limbo.
"The speed at which that (the Afrikaners) were processed is remarkable and unprecedented, and required, I think, a lot of sort of bending rules by the State Department and changing procedure," she told the BBC.
"There's just a lot of hypocrisy and unequal treatment obviously happening between every other refugee and the refugees that they're processing through Pretoria," Ms Keaney said.
Afrikaner author Max du Preez told the BBC's Newsday radio programme that claims of persecution of white South Africans were a "total absurdity" and "based on nothing".
Figures from the South African police show that in 2024, 44 murders were recorded on farms and smaller plots of agricultural land, with eight of those killed being farmers.
South Africa does not report on crime statistics broken down by race but a majority of the country's farmers are white, while other people living on farms, such as workers, are mostly black.
- Racially charged row between Musk and South Africa over Starlink
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Bilateral relations between the US and South Africa have been strained for some time as President Trump tasked his administration with formulating plans to potentially resettle Afrikaners, a group with mostly Dutch ancestry, in the US.
In March, South Africa's ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled after accusing President Trump of using "white victimhood as a dog whistle", leading to the US accusing Mr Rasool of "race-baiting".
The US has also criticised South Africa for taking an "aggressive" position against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Pretoria has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of genocide against Palestinians - a claim which the Israelis strongly reject.
President Trump's openness to accepting Afrikaner refugees comes as the US has engaged in a wider crackdown on migrants and asylum seekers from other countries.
Additional reporting by Khanyisile Ngcobo in Johannesburg, Nomia Iqbal & Cai Pigliucci in Washington DC
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41 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:
I wonder whose stock market it is today?
The President
SpoilerPresident Xi, he didn't give up anything and had tariffs reduced for 90 days
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2 hours ago, Coelenterate Fuccboi said:
My advice, disconnect your economics education from your short-term trading.
Or
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3 hours ago, ztejas said:
He won the Masters?
Well then there is always next year for Shane, or maybe 2 or 3 years from now. Rory is great, but he has had to overcome some bad memories of victories that slipped away.
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Shave does his best Rory impression to allow Sepp to pick up another win
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1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:
This is a fact. Stay the course and fight back however you can - agree you should stay within the boundaries of the law and we don't have much ammo right now. BUT, anyone who throws their arms up and is like 'oh well, we lost, this is the end' hasn't read enough history books.
Man o'man - I really hope you are right. But this feels different than in the past, but maybe everything goes that way. I don't think the US government has ever embraced the leaders of business (oligarchy) like it is now; this country was built on immigration, but the last comprehensive reform package passed by Congress was in 1986, parts have been tweaked but no major bill since then. I live in an agricultural area, and many specialty crops will go unharvested because of fear of ICE. Before that there were high school and college kids who would pick fruits and vegetables next to immigrants, but the US youth don't want to do that work today & the immigrants can't get the VISA's they did in the past or fear they will get rounded up. Many of these were families, and the came for the harvest and went back to Mexico (this was years ago), but then Mexico became to violent so they stayed...but with no real path to citizenship or permanent status.
MAGA throws a blind net of murderers, rapists, etc and ignores those who produce for our economy. I don't know the answer to this problem, but blindly shipping them "back" doesn't seem like the right solution.I know some people who view this as a Trump problem, but I fear he is really the figurehead, a TV spokesman, who could rally the votes. They think that once he isn't running that balance will come back to the political system. I think there are powerful people actually pulling the strings, and changes are being made to how elections will work that will keep these people in power for many more cycles.
No one should just throw up their arms, but I do think that people will take personal peril to challenge the party (we have really already seen this when powerful politicians have ceded their voice to Trump (and his shot callers), people like Rubio, Cruz, and many others; along with the group that were able to get elected because they worship at the feet of MAGA (Taylor Greene, at least 3 here in Michigan that I could name, Boebert, etc.
I guess we will wait and see how the mid-terms go, with the economy stalling, tariffs on the horizon, inflation returning (if tariffs hit), the market caught between Presidential announcements, and potentially lower voter turnout.But hey - American Pope, born in Chicago, did a stint in seminary high school in Michigan and a Big East grad so go Pope (though to be honest I was really hoping for Cardinal Pizzaballa....because I like to say it)
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In an interview, the Assistand Secretary for Public Affairs DHS stated they would arrest members of Congress
'We're not playing': DHS spokesperson reveals plans on CNN to arrest members of Congress - Raw Story
And yet this President pardoned those who participated in the Jan 6 2021 insurrection; compare and contrast these two events and the MAGA reactions.
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1 hour ago, 'stache said:
Goddamnit, I'm getting surly af over the comments that "he's not the first American pope." Mother fuckers, the USA is the only country in the Americas that has the word America in its name. Argentinains don't call themselves fucking Americans, they call themselves Argentinians. The term "American" has been universally accepted as the nationality of a person from the United States of America. It doesn't step on anyone else's toes. People from Canada are Canadians, people from Colubia are Columbians, etc., etc. Nobody else in the Americas uses the term "American" as a reference to their nationality. Pretty sure most would be pissed if you called them "American." Every third comment on every article that refers to him as the first American pope. That statement is correct because, again, its referring to nationality, not which fucking string of continents someone may have been born on. So fucking annoying.
Americans are also called Yanks (short for Yankee) by Brits, so are all Texans also Yankees?
The Gulf of Mexico is called the Gulf of Mexico by every, except MAGA. So which is it?
And water is wet, except it is not. It is a liquid, that when it is on another substance, them that substance is wet. So the real question is can a liquid make itself wet? H²O is not the only liquid, any liquid you come in contact with gets you wet. Perhaps I am a liquid, because I made South Austin's mom wet, before...well, the rest of that story is not going to be posted in a Papal thread.
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13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I love the Walk of Life Project. Dr. Strangelove is my favorite.
That show is about my stonk investment performance
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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
He should play “Sirius” by the Alan Parsons Project when he goes out on the balcony.
The correct answer is Dire Straits, Walk of Life - as demostrated here
https://www.youtube.com/@wolproject2952
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23 hours ago, smuggs said:
Holding out for Pope Pizzaballa I. Would be hilarious to have a Pope Pizzaballa IV in the year 2154.
Do us a solid, Catholics.
13 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:I was being glib and didn’t realize this was a real guy (not a Cornballer). He must be the favorite for the name alone.
12 hours ago, Blotto said:I am hoping that if Pizzaballa is elected he chooses Pepperoni I as his Pope name.
I mean who wouldn't like Pope Pepperoni Pizzaballa?
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I'm still hoping for Cardinal Glick, from New Jersey get the votes
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58 minutes ago, burnt beanz said:
Do you really think he’s going into the office everyday at 94?
Yup, he's been doing it for 60+ years. His job consists is reading financial news, reading financial reports, talking to senior executive from Berkshire operating companies, and recently taking an afternoon nap. It isn't like he's working in a mine, running a press, or out mowing lawns in Houston in the summer.
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29 minutes ago, B00M said:
Shouldn’t a 94 year old retiring be priced in?
Market seems entirely headline driven right now.
and I will say it again - he isn't even retiring, he is giving up one of his titles. anyone who thinks he won't be involved is fooling themselves.
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12 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Bought some BRK-B at the end of the day yesterday since it had dipped like 4% with Buffett's retirement. That's my first foray back into stocks since the first of March. I'm now around 60% GLD, 30% SGOV, 10% BRK-B.
Good move (hopefully), but I think it shows that there will be another opportunity when Uncle Warren can't be the Chairman. Because, IMO, him stepping down as CEO is a mere window dressing, as Chairman I think he will still go into the office every day...after stopping at McDonalds for breakfast, so he can read the WSJ, have his breakfast sammy and his first (or second) coke of the day.
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Quail Hollow is home to 4 wins for Rory, so after winning the Masters is the co-favorite at +500, along with Scottie (shows what a dominant week can do for you)
Jordan looking for his career grand slam; JT returning to where his won is 1st major (FWIW -8 was the winning score in 2017); Bryson looking to prop up the LIV crewe, and for fun Michael Block (of the 2023 Block party fame at Oak Hill has qualified.I have great hopes for this to be a close event with big names dominating; and Jordan with a chance (for the 9th time) to get the slam. 18th hole is 494 (from the tips) and makes for a challenging finish.
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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.
10 minutes ago, Macanudo said:Dentist, lawyer... 220, 221. Whatever it takes.
Good thing he didn't say accountant
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No thanks - I live in Michigan and am surrounded by over 17 billion acre-feet of fresh water. I know y'all hate winter, but that snow, when it melts, stays right in that basin.
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12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.
Christ man, you should write a movie.....or did you already?
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UK and India above a new trade agreement, that was negotiated over 4 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y6y90e5vzo
President Huff and Puff gonna get 75+ done in 90 days....NOT
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2025 PGA Championship @ Quail Hollow
in Other Sports
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I'm not sure why that is a big surprise, PGA has never been as anal as the USGA about making courses brutally hard. PGA wants a fair test, though the wet fairways and a wet rough will lengthen the course; which favors big hitters....like Scottie, Rory, BDC, you know the guys already favorites. I think they could choose harder pins than they have at the Wells Fargo, especially Thur & Friday when the regular event is trying to make sure they get everyone around the course.
How to watch:
Thur/Fri
ESPN+ 7am-1pm
EPSN+ featured groups - 7:30am - 7pm
ESPN - 1pm-7pm
PGA (webcast) - Featured groups - 7:30am-8pm
Sat/Sun
ESPN+ - 8am-10am
ESPN - 10am-1pm
Paramount+ - 1pm-7pm
CBS 1pm-7pm
PGA (webcast - Featured groups - 8am-7pm