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Don't you get tired of losing?
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95, to which he will "adjust" for public consumption to 75 . . . he cheats in everything he does and lies about everything, even photographically verifiable things like crowd size, yet you choose to believe him.
 
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MARCH 24, 2019
The Deadly Truth about South Africa
By Don Boys
The corruption in South Africa is so bad, it’s like a noxious fog that has settled on a once peaceful, prosperous, and prejudiced nation. South African’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is being pilloried, pulled, and pushed from many sides, and many of the political players are more radical than he. He is busy trying to stay in power and get reelected later this year, but he has to deal with many warring factions inside and outside the African National Congress (ANC), plus the murder for hire of wayward members and multiple acts of sabotage in many major cities. Everyone seems to carry guns or has bodyguards even low-level provincial (state) leaders.

The ANC no longer stands for African National Congress but for Accumulation, Nepotism, and Cronyism. Corruption is one of the most used words by South Africans. Of course, this does not surprise anyone since one-party rule always results in cronyism, chaos, and corruption.

The corruption is ubiquitous, especially in the ANC, the political party that has been controlled by Communists from its earliest days and has governed South Africa since the end of the white minority government in 1994. The ANC is infamous for sabotage in earlier years and now that there are many factions within, it has returned to sabotage plus assassinations—of longtime comrades. It is now a fractured party with occasional episodes of the “Shoot Out at the O.K. Corral.” It seems every member in the national government and in the provinces has his hand out or worse—even putting out contracts on fellow members with whom they serve!

The New York Times last fall published an article, “Hit Men and Power” highlighting that “corruption and divisions have flourished within the A.N.C. in recent years.” It admits that too many have lost the vision of earlier years and are struggling for “influential positions and the spoils that go with them.” Thus far, few of the ANC officials in charge at the national or local levels have been held to account.

But the corruption is not only in the ANC but also in every facet of the nation: the schools, local governments, utilities, the mines, the police, the unions, South African Airlines, the rail service, and the banks. Plus, the political corruption in the ANC bleeds into all areas of national and local governments. Everyone seems to demand a bribe to do anything.

The corruption is so dissolute, it has nauseated the famed New York Times to the point of publishing another scathing article almost a year ago headlined, “‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption.”

Wow, that was the Times of New York City!

The article charged, “Corruption has enriched A.N.C. leaders and their business allies—black and white South Africans, as well as foreigners.” The statement is easily verified in the life and administration of former President Jacob Zuma who had climbed into bed with the corrupt Indian Gupta family. The Times rightly said Zuma’s connection with the shady family, “contributed to the A.N.C.’s recent electoral losses and helped lead to Mr. Zuma’s ouster….”

Zuma was forced to resign and was replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa who as noted by the Times, is “a veteran A.N.C. insider, and early signs have not been encouraging.” The article admitted that Ramaphosa has “amassed extraordinary wealth” since the presidency of Nelson Mandela
 
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Nobody wants to hear you political B S Sarah.

Sarah Silverman Throws Hulu Under the Bus on ‘The Last Laugh’ Podcast Premiere
In this preview of our new comedy podcast ‘The Last Laugh,’ Silverman reveals how Hulu failed her canceled show ‘I Love You, America.’

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Hulu’s decision to cancel of I Love You, America came as a total shock to Sarah Silverman.




“We were so sure we were getting picked up,” she tells me during a recording session for The Daily Beast’s new comedy interview podcast The Last Laugh. “We’re all super-bummed about it.”

The comedian’s topical, “late night”-style series premiered on Hulu in October 2017. She used it as a platform not just to preach to her like-minded liberal choir, but also to reach out to people with whom she had deep disagreements.

Silverman hosted former Westboro Baptist Church members and ex-neo-Nazis. She visited Trump supporters in the Deep South and a group that actually calls itself Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. She made news by expressing her complicated feelings about friend Louis C.K. and took Democrats to task for acting like they lost the 2018 midterms.

In the end, despite Emmy and Writers Guild nominations, Hulu shut down her show after just 21 episodes. It was the third cancellation of a female-fronted show like this one in less than a year after Netflix axed Michelle Wolf’s The Break and BET got rid of The Rundown with Robin Thede.

“I know that they did love the show,” Silverman starts out, diplomatically, “but I think what it cost compared to its popularity or the eyes that they had on it didn’t—you know, the people that make the decisions there don’t have any connection to the show. So it’s easier for them. It’s probably smart. They make very hard decisions.”

Then she takes a turn. “I probably shouldn’t,” she says tentatively. “Eh, fuck it. Guess I’ll just burn this one down. I think it’s a funny story, or maybe it sounds obnoxious and it’s too showbiz-y. I’m really debating right now.”

She doesn’t debate for long.


“You know, it’s one of their only shows nominated for Emmys besides Handmaid’s Tale,” she tells me. And yet, after appearing at last year’s Emmy Awards on behalf of Hulu, Silverman says she got a $1,500 bill for hair and makeup.

“Even Comedy Central, like 15 years ago, paid for that shit when I was nominated,” she says. “I was just flummoxed. Wouldn’t it be worth them paying $1,500 to not have me on Matt Wilstein’s podcast saying Hulu wouldn’t pay $1,500 for an Emmy for their network?”

On top of that, when Silverman got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last fall, Netflix—a company she hadn’t worked with in over a year—sent her roses and made a donation to one of her favorite charities. She says she didn’t even get an email from Hulu.

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“That stuff doesn’t mean anything to me—it really doesn’t,” she insists. “But it’s just such a bad look for you guys. I don’t want to say ‘appalling.’ Separating children at the border is appalling. I keep my overhead very low, but Hulu doesn’t. So they should probably pay for shit.” [/URL][/URL][/URL]

In the months since the show was canceled, Silverman has been performing more stand-up comedy around Los Angeles and is heartened when people come up and tell her how much they loved the show. “‘Keep doing what you’re doing!’” they say. “And it is just so heartbreaking because I kind of feel cut off at the knees.”
 
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