Stuart Johnson
@stujohnson.bsky.social
Think southern Africa might just be far enough away.
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This comment section is people going:
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This comment section is people going:
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Is organised corruption a growing threat to SA’s municipalities?
Some local government corruption is highly organised, and will further undermine the delivery of essential services and democratic governance.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry.
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Dion George axed, despite ‘doing my job without fear, favour or prejudice’
In a brief note, President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted DA leader John Steenhuisen’s request to remove the key wildlife portfolio from Dion George.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry.
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Well, behaving sycophantically has its price.
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit | News24
Argentine President Javier Milei will not be attending the upcoming G20 Leaders Summit set to take place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on 22 and 23 November.
www.news24.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Well, behaving sycophantically has its price.
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again.
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 | News24
DA spokesperson Willie Aucamp tells News24 that he would “absolutely” replace Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George if President Cyril Ramaphosa so decided.
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again.
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
Well said @AdriaanBasson.bsky.social - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in.
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump | News24
History will call out the names of those who could but chose not to call out Trump’s barefaced lies about the persecution of Afrikaners – one of the wealthiest tribes in Africa – to advance his white ...
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Well said @AdriaanBasson.bsky.social - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in.
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Been wondering what was behind @jsteenhuisen decision.
Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke.
Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture.
Maybe it's all three.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke.
Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture.
Maybe it's all three.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Sacking of Dion George: how a progressive minister is being taken down by the wildlife breeders
The move to oust the environment minister exposes a deeper hijacking – of the National Elephant Heritage Strategy, of policy integrity and of conservation itself.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Been wondering what was behind @jsteenhuisen decision.
Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke.
Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture.
Maybe it's all three.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke.
Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture.
Maybe it's all three.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Hlophe really not a person who smells of roses.
The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort!
Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP www.news24.com/citypress/po...
The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort!
Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP www.news24.com/citypress/po...
Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP | News24
Chief whip Colleen Makhubele files damning charges revealing systematic intimidation, false CIA allegations and party implosion after rejecting John Hlope’s advances.
www.news24.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Hlophe really not a person who smells of roses.
The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort!
Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP www.news24.com/citypress/po...
The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort!
Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP www.news24.com/citypress/po...
There is nothing the ANC hasn't poisoned in South Africa.
Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Madlanga Commission and Parliament’s police inquiry – Key takeaways
The Madlanga Commission heard from Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala for the first time, albeit through comments he allegedly made to an investigator, claiming he had a number of top cops on his payroll. Parliam...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
There is nothing the ANC hasn't poisoned in South Africa.
Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)
Every second headline is ANC cadres' thieving.
They are endemically corrupt.
All of them.
Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...
They are endemically corrupt.
All of them.
Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...
Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m | News24
The uMngeni-uThukela Water board has paid a company with links to one of its board members R390 million to build an 8.2km bulk water pipeline that should not have cost more than R80 million.
www.news24.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Every second headline is ANC cadres' thieving.
They are endemically corrupt.
All of them.
Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...
They are endemically corrupt.
All of them.
Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...
Never mind the 100 BEE beneficiaries who made R1 trillion.
The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount.
R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...
The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount.
R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...
R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal | News24
SARS slapped a company with deep ties to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sons with a R3 million tax bill for unpaid value-added tax and penalties – costs that it owes the taxman on income from a mul...
www.news24.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Never mind the 100 BEE beneficiaries who made R1 trillion.
The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount.
R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...
The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount.
R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...
I still find it completely incomprehensible that the ANC has worked so hard to keep Apartheid crimes unpunished.
58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...
58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...
58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered | News24
In a landmark ruling that shatters decades of official lies, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday declared that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli was murdered by ...
www.news24.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I still find it completely incomprehensible that the ANC has worked so hard to keep Apartheid crimes unpunished.
58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...
58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...
Hoo-boy, the Trump car crash Presidency really is gathering speed impressively.
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hoo-boy, the Trump car crash Presidency really is gathering speed impressively.
He'll be a popular dinner guest in Afriforum circles.
Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.
Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
He'll be a popular dinner guest in Afriforum circles.
Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.
Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.
Nobody is surprised that Trump has vandalized an iconic 200 year old historic building.
Because why would he not?
Because why would he not?
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nobody is surprised that Trump has vandalized an iconic 200 year old historic building.
Because why would he not?
Because why would he not?
The question Americans should be asking is who got the White House ball room contract, how was it awarded, and how much are you paying for it.
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The question Americans should be asking is who got the White House ball room contract, how was it awarded, and how much are you paying for it.
Says the person who represents the people who lie compulsively about just about everything.
maybe what he said wasn't *that* bad and... oh nvm
'Maguire, who is close to Elon Musk, wrote that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”'
on.ft.com/471ywmu
'Maguire, who is close to Elon Musk, wrote that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”'
on.ft.com/471ywmu
Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Mamdani
[FREE TO READ] Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
on.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Says the person who represents the people who lie compulsively about just about everything.
I underestimated Durban tonight.
More like this...
Diwali full bore.
More like this...
Diwali full bore.
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I underestimated Durban tonight.
More like this...
Diwali full bore.
More like this...
Diwali full bore.
Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me.
Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.
Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million because a $50k solid gold Rolex and a Birkin bag aren’t enough
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me.
Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.
Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.
Yes, we are.
And we didn't need this tech to achieve it.
Just Fox News.
Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI.
The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
And we didn't need this tech to achieve it.
Just Fox News.
Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI.
The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Yes, we are.
And we didn't need this tech to achieve it.
Just Fox News.
Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI.
The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
And we didn't need this tech to achieve it.
Just Fox News.
Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI.
The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.
Spatial apartheid: South Africa has earliest average wake-up time in the world. 6.24am. Some workers must be up at 4am, even 3am to navigate unreliable public transport from remote areas to which their parents & grandparents were sent during apartheid
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Average Wake-Up Time by Country 2025
Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.
worldpopulationreview.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.
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Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.
No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.