One of Elon Musk’s last public appearances with Donald Trump was when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa came calling. Instead of an ordinary meeting, Trump played a video that was supposed to show how South African blacks were evicting whites from their farms and committing genocide.
Of course, neither Trump nor Musk was bothered by the (mostly Slavic) Jews committing genocide on (brown) Palestinians. But blacks committing genocide of good Boer boys? Clearly unthinkable. Musk, it might be remembered, is South African-born and, like Trump (whose four grandparents were all immigrants from Germany), is a Wharton alumnus.
Musk is now out of the Trump Administration so that he can concentrate on his businesses. He has denied leaving because of ketamine addiction, though he admits to using ketamine once a week under medical prescription What he has not admitted to are the ecstasy and the shrooms he’s supposed to have done in last year’s campaign for Trump.
This might explain why Trump got along so well with Imran Khan. It shows that he can get along with users. You know, if Imran had still been PM, we probably could have gotten Columbia to have stuck to its statement regretting the death of innocent Pakistani civilians during India’s Operation Sindoor. It didn’t, supposedly because of Indian pressure, but more likely after it realized that supporting Pakistan meant supporting the government that had thrown behind bars one of the best customers of its national product.
Operation Sindoor continues to have a fallout, though reports have turned out to be false that the Indonesian Air Force has mutinied; there is certainly not any less concern after Indonesia agreed to buy an unspecified number of Rafale jets from France. Buying off-the-shelf 4.5th generation fighters didn’t work out, so India has launched an MCA (medium combat aircraft) program. Right, but will it take delivery of the Tejas first? The LCA (light combat aircraft) entered service in 2016, after having been launched in 1983. So don’t hold your breath for the Indian stealth fighter.
Speaking of the whole conflict, when is a false-flag operation still one? I mean, does it still count if everyone and his uncle knew that it was a false-flag operation? I don’t think so, but it seems to me to be a philosophical question of the nature of whether or not there is a sound if no one hears it, like when a tree falls on a desert island?
It seems that ATM Azharul Islam, now 74, has been acquitted of crimes he is supposed to have committed when he was 19, before the 1971 War. Even Chat GPT couldn’t find what the ATM stood for, but I don’t think it is Automated Teller Machine. He was never known as the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh’s ATM. Not like Jahangir Tareen and Abdyl Aleem Khan were known as Imran Khan’s ATMs, to the extent they accompanied him abroad so they could pick up his tabs.
However, something has happened recently that should wipe out all other events. An Additional DC was killed in Khuzdar. Not since Berkeley was killed in Gugera in 1857 by Rai Ahmad Nawaz Kharral has a district official been killed by rebels. And Berkeley was an AC (in those days ACs had charge of districts). The killing of an ADC is an even bigger thing than the killing of a governor (as was Salman Taseer of Punjab in 2011), because the district administration is manned by the ‘thrice-born’ (Brahmins being only ‘twice-born’). Next thing you know, the sky will be falling on our heads.
But let’s look at the cool halls of academia, where everything is not all that well. India’s Operation threw up more dust than usual, after a political science professor for sent to jail because of a post he made about Operation Sindoor. I suspect that his crime wasn’t the post, so much as the fact that he was the grandson of the Raja Sahib of Mehmudabad, who was a close associate of the Quaid-e-Azam. It seems the BJP is bent on going after political opponents, and the opponents of its progenitors. So if you ever opposed the Jan Sangh or even the Hindu Mahasabha, the BJP will get you. And if you’re dead, your descendant.
