Donald Trump decided to present the president of South Africa, with the entire press corps in the room the evidence of the danger to white farmers in South Africa:
🚨 OMG!! Trump just dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played, FOR the president of South Africa, the BRUTAL videos of South Africa's leaders calling for the K*LLING of white South African farmers.
This was actually confirmed as as issue by a SA official at the Oval Office today, but hey are you going to believe your own eyes or CNN?
The South African Minister of Agriculture confirmed in the Oval Office today that white farmers are being killed and that it’s a serious problem. Yet, this is what CNN puts out. pic.twitter.com/6M731FOIGs
Trump played the video in front of the guy. Every single network was there, and yet every single network denied what they say.
The irony? All of this took place 24 hours after the Biden health story where the media talked about how they missed a story right in front of their eyes.
Why anyone trusts them is beyond me, but I suspect is bubble reinforcement because once people decide they were wrong they have to see themselves in the light of truth, and that’s just too much for most leftist’s these days.
One of the nice things about the blog being a business was that when I wrote about the various Dynasty leagues it gave me deductions.
Well the deductions are now gone but the leagues continue. With about 50 games left to our 1973 season here is where we stand by division today the AL Alpha:
Al Alpha Division.
Team
Wins
Losses
Percentage
GB
WCGB
Baltimore Orioles
70
48
.593
—–
+12
Kansas City Royals
69
49
.585
1
+11
Cleveland Indians
58
57
.504
10 1/2
+ 1 1/2
California Angels
51
67
.432
19
-8 1/2
New York Yankees
47
68
.409
21 1/2
11
Baltimore Orioles:
The Orioles have been in a dogfight for 1st place with Kansas City from week one and have traded the spot at the top all season. Amos Otis in his 3rd season with the O’s has managed a career season his 24 HR is equal to his entire total since 1969 Add to that a .303 avg 5 triples 83 RBI’s and a .997 fielding percentage and he has been a team leader but he’s not along in power. The Birds lead the majors in home runs by a LOT (157 vs 129) six other Orioles are in double digits in Homers and three others Gene Tenace (22) Davey Johnson (24) and Doug Raider leading the team with 25 are in the 20 plus club with plenty games to play. They also lead the league in triple with young Al Bumbry adding 13 along with 6 homers 10 steals (in 12 tries) and 71 runs scored topped only by Otis’ 92.
The team has been even more impressive on the left side of the infield Rader has only 8 errors in over 1000 innings and 3rd and even more incredibly Roger Metzger has only 4 errors and a fielding percentage of .994 in 1013 innings at shortstop.
That’s important because other than Bob Locker (19 saves in 20 chances) Baltimore’s rotation Dave Roberts, Andy Messersmith , rookie Jim Slanton (acquired for a 5th round pick last season from Milwaukee) ,Steve Renko with Juan Marichal have been good but not world beaters.
Alas while the left side of the infield has been zipper tight Davey Johnson’s 24 HR and 80 RBI’s are offset by 20 errors at second, almost as much as the rest of the infield combined which is why the pitching.
Item of interest: The Orioles are 10 games over .500 on the road and 12 games over .500 at home so if they hold onto the division lead or not, they’ll spell trouble for whoever they face but they have faltered in close games with a record of only 9-19 in one run games.
Kansas City:
The 1972 Royals GM saw doom before him and made a lot of trades to build up draft capital for this year and while he is no longer with the club it has paid off handsomely for the team
Kansas City has allowed the fewest runs in an AL boosted by the new DH rule while leading the AL in batting and being 2nd in Doubles. They are constantly putting the ball in play striking out only 602 times in the league 3rd in the majors and fewer than every NL team (where the pitchers are still hitting) except for St. Louis. Meanwhile their 3.46 ERA leads the AL and is led by their star Bert Blyleven who after a workhorse season with 335 innings and a 12-21 record for a bad club is now 18-8 with a career low ERA (2.49), WHIP (1.03) and a big drop in HR’s allowed giving up only 8 so far this season. Amazingly no other starter has over 9 wins and two relievers (Bob Reynolds 8-2 and Eddie Watt 8-3) are both threatening the number. At the plate veteran Frank Robinson has been key, his 23 HR & 78 RBI are big but the fact that he’s hitting .346 with runners in scoring position and two outs and .500 with the bases loaded means he’s getting the big hit when needed. Bobby Murcer an MVP candidate for the world champion yanks while productive: (.274 13 HR 65 RBI) is having his worst season since 1970 at the plate with avg, slugging and OBP all below his career averages untill there are runners in scoring position. Seven of his HR and 53 of his RBI are with runners in scoring position and with RISP and two outs he’s hitting .302
Amazingly this team has won without stars. Dick Allen had contributed 12 HR and 44 RBI before injury put him down and he was packaged in a deal with pitcher Joe Decker to Atlanta for Norm Cash and Mike Cuellar who have both been a disappointment since their arrival in the bullpen Ramon Martinez has saved 14 but blown 4 with an ERA over five and opponents hitting .302 against him yet the team still manages to win and stay right in the fight.
Items of Interest. The royals love the night life a full 14 games over .500 at night and particularly love left handed pitching 24-13 vs lefty starters they have also been strong in one run games 18-13 and have absolutely dominated AL teams going 47-26 vs the AL while only playing .500 ball vs the NL but the big difference is at home. KC is 41-14 at home but 28-35 on the road meaning, if nothing changes winning this division is VITAL for their playoff run.
Cleveland Indians
The Indians are a mystery. The team is playing .500 ball, but has scored 50 runs more than their foes. They are 3rd in the majors and 2nd in the AL in Home runs (127) but have only one player Sal Bando (22) with over twenty HR although I dare say George Mitterwald (18) and Tony Perez (17) will get there soon. If you look at the top 10 in the majors in any category the only Indian you will find is Pitcher Jon Matlack with his 15 wins and 175 strikeouts and Bob Moose who has given up a mere 0.34 HR per nine innings tying Blyleven. The Indians don’t have speed they have stolen one base in 4 tries as a TEAM. Nor will they dominate you on the mound other than Matlack (15-9 3.07 ERA) and Mel Stottlemyre (8-5 3.25 ERA) but they have been in the wild card race the entire season and currently have risen to the 2nd wild card. They are capable of beating any team, particularly at home (32-23) but are within .500 against every division in the league
Any team that takes them lightly is likely to be burned.
Item of interest. Right now there are three teams chasing them for either a wild card spot or a better wildcard spot, Minnesota and Washington and Boston. They are 4-2 vs Washington 4-3 vs Boston and almost .500 vs Minnesota ( 4-5 ). That bodes well for making the playoffs. If they do make the playoffs their opponent of choice is Baltimore who they have a winning record against.
Kansas City and Milwaukee have owned them in the AL and LA, the Reds and Pirates have owned them in the NL. Against the right opponent they will be trouble.
California Angles
The Angles have gone 7-3 in the last 10 Jose Cardenal has managed 139 hits and 28 Doubles both top 10 in the majors and 5th in the AL leading the team and Clay Carroll with 16 saves and the DH rule has been good for Orlando Cepeda giving him the chance to hit 19 Home Runs and Manny Mota hitting .330 in part time play. On the Mound Jim Rooker is 10-6 with a 2.90 ERA and Tommy John has managed a 9-8 record with an ERA a run over last season. If California gets a lead Clay Carroll has for the 3rd year straight proved is capable of keeping it with 16 saves in 18 chances despite a 3.12 ERA more than double last of last season
The bad news has been the rest of the starting pitching. Clay Kirby who went 15-13 with a 3.15 ERA in 1971 and 18-12 with a 3. 33 last season has had the worst season of his life currently 1-14 with a 5.64 ERA and 26 home runs given up so far this season. Steve Arlin has been almost as bad with a 2-12 record with a 4.38 ERA and 19 HR given up in 100 innings making the 2nd straight year that his stock has dropped (19-7 as a rookie in 71 with the Daytraders and 9-13 with Philly last year).
With a slugging percentage at the bottom of the AL it’s unlikely that their current surge will be enough to allow them to make up the 8 1/2 games they need to catch Boston for the final spot while passing both the Twins and Senators.
New York Yankees
Like most World Series champs the Yankees are in a rebuilding year which included big trades with Cincinnati which sent Thurman Munson and Johnny Mayberry to the Reds for Johnny Bench Jim Longborg and Bill Buckner but thanks to Rennie Stennett (.291 14 HR 59 RBI) and Reggie Smith (.290 13 HR 59 RBI) a respectable season from Oscar Gamble ( .278 12 HR 63 RBI) and good seasons from Wilbur Wood 14-12 3.97 and Rookie Doc Medich 10-12 3.78 without a supporting cast combined with the trades the Yanks have managed middle of the road stats on offense enough to be a danger to any team that plays them.
Alas the same can’t be said for the pitching staff overall. Their 4.50 ERA is dead last in the AL partially from playing in the HR friendly Polo Grounds which boosts power stats fierce for pull hitters but mostly from an inability to throw strikes 2nd to last in strikeouts in the majors and 3rd in the AL in walks adds up to a 1.49 team WHIP worst in the AL and only slightly better than Philly’s 1.52, Their 15 saves in 22 chances is horrible for a bullpen.
The biggest disappointment of the season has to be Cesar Geronimo. While he’s been perfect in the field with six assists and no errors in over 900 innings in the OF primarily in center he’s only managed to hit .197 with an OBP of .255 both 90 points behind the previous season in Milwaukee and while the short fences down the line have boosted his HR total to 3 from last years 2 he’s down 6 triples despite the very deep cavernous center field for balls to roll.
The Yanks might play spoiler for teams that don’t pay them proper respect and don’t get them into extra innings because that’s the only category where they have a winning record (5-3).
There are two critical stories concerning the fitness of Joe Biden for the presidency that are both critical and being almost completely ignored.
The first is a question that some people like Dwayne Patterson are asking: Who was in charge during the Biden years?
I don’t frankly care if the Beltway media takes me seriously or not. I know what I know. I saw what I saw daily in Biden media appearances, seldom though they were. I heard what I heard. And I can safely say that after 30 years in this business, I have never experienced Beltway media as in the tank as they were. The Trump effect can be seen in trillions so far in foreign investments coming into the United States. The Trump effect also has caused a lot of reporters to throw objectivity out the window because they view Trump as an existential threat.
My humble, but sincere advice for my friends in media, and I do have dozens of them that are friends, is it’s hard to take them seriously when they won’t admit their failings in coverage of the Biden regency. If you want to regain trust, go where the story goes, not where you want the story to go. And I’m telling you, the story is who was running the country the last four years, and why there was no accountability in government.Why did the 25th Amendment fail as a failsafe apparatus against an obviously incapacitated president?
I suspect the answer is the government was for sale to the highest bidder and both the Biden family and members of the administration were able to run the Federal Government like Chicago, alternatively or concurrently people with agenda were able to advance them without all that pesky “explaining to voters” stuff.
However for my money while that first question is a critical one it’s the second question that I find most fascinating.
Why didn’t they just use to the 25th amendment at put Kamala Harris in the White House?
Any time after Jan 2023 she would have been eligible for two terms and if she became the first woman president the media would have had a collective organism. All the protection that was given to Biden would have been transferred to her and she would have had time to actually be ready to face Donald Trump, and would have had the power of incumbency and much more time to develop an actual team to run a campaign.
Yet they did not do this.
Why?
There are several possible things. Perhaps they were worried that Harris would want to actually be in charge, perhaps the Biden family threatened to talk about things, perhaps the people who were buying government wanted a freer hand to act, but all of these explanation don’t seem to fly as the media & party apparatus that was willing to prosecute Trump crossing multiple lines were unlikely not to be able to manipulate around such problems.
I think there is a more likely reason, one that nobody wants to admit that while I was writing this piece Ed Morrissey brought up ahead of me:
However, that wouldn’t be the real reason for that reluctance. The real reason is that Kamala Harris is every bit as incompetent as Joe Biden, only for reasons having nothing to do with dementia.[emphasis mine DTG] Harris could not be trusted with the presidency, as voters discovered in 2019 and again in 2024, when in both cycles she couldn’t even be trusted to handle the media, let alone the world.
If the United States had had a competent Vice President, the Cabinet might have acted to replace a president whose aides and families had isolated for reasons of incompetence. Their lack of action in that crisis is unforgivably cowardly, but also a massive declaration of no confidence in Kamala Harris. And then they stood by while Harris attempted to win office anyway rather than publicly demand an open and democratic process to replace the party’s nominee, compounding their cowardice.
Or to put it simply if the final year of the Biden presidency was the first year of the Harris presidency the prospects for Democrats running for re-election and/or retaining power would be so bad that the actual results of 2024 would have been considered a best case scenario.
Much better to keep the lie up and hope that they could pass Biden off as functional, Democrat donors and media could be counted on playing along because the person who spilled the beans would be blamed for a Trump victory and NOBODY in the media/left would want to be the person responsible for Trump returning to the White House. And if the worst case scenario happened (as indeed it did) Harris could not only be considered separate Joe Biden’s failures but in a short campaign her incompetence could be hidden from the general public and panicked donors desperate to stop Trump would be so relieved that they would open up their wallets which indeed they did.
That is plausible and the most likely conclusion to me but think about that for a second.
If I’m right Kamala Harris is so incompetent that the Democrats and the media thought playing Weekend at Joeys with Biden was a safer option than having her in office running the show.
If the goal was a prosperous and well fed South Africa that advice and example from history would be noted but for Marxists and Socialists the goals are not a prosperous and well fed South Africa but a South Africa governed by prosperous and well fed Marxist Socialists.
DaTechGuy March 2018
There is a lot of news out there this week from the China deal to the release of the final American hostage from Gaza.
But for my money the biggest news is the decision by the Episcopal Church to terminate its entire refugee program rather than resettle 5 dozen South African white farmers.
Why do I think it’s a big story? Just this.
The story of what South Africa has become since the death of Nelson Mandela is one of the most ignored stories in the world. How a country with incredible mineral wealth, a strong farm system managed to peacefully transfer from a system of apartheid under Mandela but when he retired fell into kleptocracy and corruption to the point were it is one of the most unsafe nations in the world with unemployment huge, rape a norm and lack of electricity and infrastructure all brought to you thanks to the Marxists of the ANC. The MSM hasn’t touched this story but I’vebeencovering it for years.
While whites are now down to 9% of the population and dropping and it’s been over 27 years since Mandela has left power the ANC is till blaming whites for all the problems due to their quarter century of stealing to the point where their political leaders are literally calling for the death of these farmers publicly.
Now if the Episcopal church was an actual Christian church whose primary mission was to follow the teachings of Christ resettling these people would be a no-brainer particularly given the tens of thousands they have dealt with in the Biden years and before.
But the reality here is that their loyalty is to the politics of the left and to Marxism and because the failures and the violence of the ANC can’t be acknowledged by the left nor can any move by Donald Trump be considered legitimate their church is choosing to end their refugee program rather than help resettle these 60 people, not because this violates Christian values, but it violates their political values.
C. S, Lewis had these types pegged in Screwtape 7:
“Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours – and the more ‘religious’ (on those terms) the more securely ours.”
That what was one a mainline protestant faith has now fallen to this is not a huge surprise to me, those who were interested in actually belief left long ago but that it should openly reject charity is a critical turning point that speaks volumes about those who have made politics their religion.
I recommend worshiping and following Christ over worshiping leftism and political ideology, the former is very merciful and forgiving and the later demands vengeance for the slightest infraction.
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