Femi Fani-Kayode

Ambassador-Designate of 🇳🇬 to 🇿🇦. Former Minister of Aviation of 🇳🇬. Formr Minister of Culture of 🇳🇬. Ayanfe Oluwa. Akanda Eledumare. Sadaukin Shinkafi.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Pattern recognition and the ability to always ask "why" is the difference between a thinking, independent adult and a zombie who lets Twitter manage his emotions.

It's when you look at the "South Africa Vs Ghana beef" and you ask yourself why the South African xenophobes whom everyone knows have had problems with Nigerians and Zimbabweans since forever, suddenly decided to go after Ghanaians - the relatively unproblematic group of Africans that are both highly visible and universally liked across the continent.

Why would the Afrophobes seeking a quick and easy win against African immigrants skip over the hundreds of thousands of available Zimbabweans (invisible and easy to pick on) and Nigerians (widely disliked across Africa) and specifically start a beef with the one group of Africans that the entire continent knows and likes?

How many Ghanaians even live in South Africa compared to Nigerians and Zimbabweans? Why did Ghana - the most unlikely target with the least potential payoff - suddenly become the focus of South African Afrophobes? What did that contrived, 1-sided beef accomplish except create a narrative that set the entire continent against them? Why would Afrophobes seeking a win against immigrants go after the one group of immigrants that everyone likes and aren't even that many, when there were tens of thousands of Kudakwashes and Emekas to go after?

Why shoot themselves in the foot for absolutely no reason by making an enemy out of the state that had the capacity to immediately charter widebody aircrafts to evacuate its citizens who were then pictured joyfully singing their national anthem on the plane home? Why score such a disastrous PR own goal and completely discredit their own movement by adopting the role of comic book monsters, to the point where all of South Africa's continental soft power is genuinely under threat?

Are these Afrophobes really that stupid?

Or, or...hear me out - they are just patsies and someone else behind the scenes is carefully curating a sequence of events that leads South Africa into a catastrophic loss of diplomatic credibility and cultural influence, which will then be followed by an assault against the South African state itself, possibly by one or more separatist entities that are already being covertly armed and equipped?

Who was recently seen sending Starlink kits to Orania under the Seal of the US First Lady? Whose ambassador recently met with Western Cape separatists after publicly stating that he "does not care what South Africa's courts say"? Who is currently pushing every button to discredit South Africa on the international stage including disinviting the country from the G7 meeting and using disaster photos from DR Congo to falsely claim a "white genocide" in South Africa?

Pattern recognition is what helps you stitch all these data points together in sequence and reach the obvious conclusion that helps you avoid becoming a useful idiot whose thoughts and feelings are dictated by proprietary algorithms owned by billionaire white supremacists who microdose ketamine.

It's a basic adult requirement.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

if the US wants Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, it will stop bombing Lebanon. They do not have to do fake "leaks" to the WSJ and NYT and Barak Ravid about "OMG TRUMP IS SO ANGRY OMG" and JD Vance does not have to go on a media tour and only mildly criticize Smotrich and Ben Gvir while praising and laundering Netanyahu and the Israeli regime and Israelis in general while all the morons in the alt-media class go "OMG THIS IS SO EPIC FROM THE MOSSAD-THIEL CREATION, HE IS REALLY ATTACKING ISRAEL AS A WHOLE NOW OMG WHAT A BREAK THIS IS EPIC".

You have to be a fucking idiot to think there is an actual break between the Zionist Israeli Witkoff-Kushner presidency and the Trump-Vance slaves based solely on these meaningless purely rhetorical media plays.

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

If a Russian or Iranian politician had written the tweets that Ben Gvir posted, the so-called moral guardians of the Western media would be foaming at the mouth, but when it comes to an Israeli politician, they always continue to play the three monkeys. You are insincere and hypocritical!

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The biggest troll on X, who spends his entire time smearing, attacking, insulting and character-assassinating anyone who criticises his beloved Israel Govt, wants people to stop being mean.
Beyond parody!

[The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1]

Do they look Middle Eastern?

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

When Israel loses, humanity wins.

[Iran Force @IranArmystan_]

Damn! The way Giorgia Meloni pointed her finger at Trump and stood her ground.

That’s confidence. That’s presence. That’s why she inspires millions of women around the world.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Isn’t it perfect that it took a woman to call bullshit on Trump’s bullshit. Giorgia Meloni - we are so with you.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

President of Belarus:

“Why do we speak about the Holocaust suffered by Israelis while they themselves have killed so many people?”

“Gaza was simply wiped off the face of the Earth.”

“And now they are trying to build a resort on the very land where these people were killed?”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Daniela today in Qanarit, South Lebanon.

Not a fighter.

Just a young Christian woman.

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

Trump tells Israel’s leadership to stop bombing Lebanon and Benjamin Netanyahu instantly responds by carpet bombing Christian southern Lebanon to kill the Iran peace deal and to take the land..

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Trump Privately Rages That Israel Is Trying to Drag Him Back Into His Iran War"

A Trump official says the U.S. president is, right now, ‘madder at the Israelis than the Iranians.’
https://t.co/IQ1Qq9uDs9

[China in English @En_chinaNewsX]

⚡🇮🇱 SHOCKING: Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quotes Hitler saying:

"Just as Hitler pledged to eliminate every Jew and said he could not live as long as one Jew remained, I say: we cannot live in this land as long as one Muslim remains in Gaza. They must be eliminated."

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Most people remember Nancy Astor because of her legendary feud with Winston Churchill.

The insults were unforgettable.

"If I were your wife, I'd poison your tea."

"If I were your husband, I'd drink it."

and

"Winston, you're drunk."

To which Churchill famously replied:

"My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."

The exchange became one of the most famous political comebacks in history.

But reducing Nancy Astor to a witty quote misses the far more remarkable story.

She was born in Virginia in 1879, into a family devastated by the aftermath of the American Civil War. Her first marriage ended in divorce at a time when divorced women often faced social ruin. Seeking a fresh start, she moved to England, married wealthy businessman Waldorf Astor, and entered a world that was almost entirely controlled by men.

Then history unexpectedly opened a door.

In 1919, when her husband inherited a title and moved to the House of Lords, his seat in the House of Commons became vacant. Nancy decided to run for it herself.

The idea seemed absurd to many people.

Women in Britain had only recently gained limited voting rights. Parliament was still overwhelmingly male. Politics was considered no place for a woman, especially one who was outspoken, opinionated, and unwilling to stay quiet.

She won.

Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in the British House of Commons.

Not the first woman elected, but the first woman to actually walk into Parliament, sit among hundreds of men, and demand to be heard.

The experience was rarely pleasant. She endured ridicule, hostility, and constant scrutiny. Critics attacked her voice, her appearance, her accent, and her presence itself. Yet she remained there for more than two decades.

Her record was complicated. Some of her views have drawn significant criticism from historians, and parts of her legacy remain controversial. But her achievement cannot be ignored.

Long before women were common in government, Nancy Astor forced her way into one of the most powerful political institutions in the world.

© Women In World History

#drthehistories

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨 Bella hadid slams Israeli minister Ben Gvir

“Ben Gvir quite possibly could be the worst, most ugly hearted, disgusting human on the face of the planet

You are a nasty nasty human being with a nasty nasty heart. To laugh at pain is a disgrace. The hate in your heart is infuriating, but God will be the judge one day for you.”

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

🤣🤣Pipe down you ridiculous old dinosaur. Nobody under 70 cares what you say.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

This is not a rant by a random genocidal lunatic. It's a public post by the national security minister of the Israeli regime.

The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity. It threatens all humans. Its only interest is permanent war.

[Femi Fani-Kayode @realFFK]

@cenkuygur @JDVance 👍

[Femi Fani-Kayode @realFFK]

@itamarbengvir 🤮

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אמהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור!

עם כל הכבוד לאמריקאים, ישראל חייבת להבהיר לעולם כולו שדם בנינו וביטחון אזרחנו איננו הפקר. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור. חובתנו העליונה היא להגן על אזרחי ישראל ועל חיילי צה״ל, והמחויבות הזו קודמת לכל שיקול אחר.

אמרתי לראש הממשלה, גם בישיבות בינינו: על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אימהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות.

מספיק עם הפינג־פונג. במזרח התיכון לא מנצחים בתגובות מדודות ובהכלה - צריך להשתגע. למחוק. להכריע את הטרור.