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eugyppius's avatar

Somewhat perfunctory post, because I spent the afternoon working on a longer piece about Merz's election debacle yesterday, which was very interesting. This is more important though, so that will have to wait for tomorrow.

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Gilgamech's avatar

Very much looking forward to the other article too.

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eugyppius's avatar

thanks fren

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Susan G's avatar

Me, too. The one article I read confused, not enlightened me.

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

Does Germany not have the army of human rights lawyers who plague Britain and prevent its government exercising any sort of effective control of the border?

From the British perspective it will be very interesting to see if another EHRC signatory can manage to overcome the plethora of alleged rights arising from the convention that the lawyers exploit.

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John Bowman's avatar

The reality is British Governments since 1997 have not wanted to stop so-called asylum seekers, they want to flood the Country to fragment our society and destroy National identity = part of the globalist destruction of “nationalism” to make one big world which they will rule.

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EppingBlogger's avatar

It has not been unusual over the years for older EU member states to ignore EU rules which British politicians and courts insisted were sacrosanct.

As far as I know Germany has not embedded the ECHR into domestic law the way the Labour and Conservative parties have done in the UK.

German basic law still (just about) applies.

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CS's avatar

Excellent, welcome news from Germany.

Thank you, Eugyppius, for keeping us North Americans informed.

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Jimmy Slim's avatar

This was a fine post! Also, it's great news, and I hope they persist with it.

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Chris Bray's avatar

But wouldn't this mean that the new Merz government has to ban itself for extremism?

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Rocío Matamoros's avatar

It does, and it has.

At 15:17 Central European Time today, Merz ordered his own arrest.

By prior arrangement, as Merz was led out, AntiFa stormed the Bundestag, and formed a provisional People's Salvation Front government with the Greens plus about half of the SDP. A statement is expected at 19:00 declaring martial law under the precepts of green-gay-race communism, and the country will be renamed as Central European Globalia.

Expectant immigrants have resumed their surge over the border (NGOs had been forewarned). Sharia zones have been declared in districts of most major cities, and police have withdrawn.

Exciting times!

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Rick Olivier's avatar

🤣😎🤣 well done!

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

You should apply for an editor's job at BILD !!! Once you're IN, I shall subscribe to the printed version to embellish my appartment's walls ...

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Rocío Matamoros's avatar

Well, I just made it up, like journalists do. But I thought it had a certain truthiness about it ... more so than the actual boring facts.

I don't know much about BILD, but Wikipedia says that according to a whistleblower "the staff commonly displayed contempt for humanity, a lack of respect for the privacy of ordinary people and widespread conduct of unethical research and editing techniques." I like the sound of that. I think I could fit in there.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...widespread conduct of unethical research and editing techniques." I like the sound of that. I think I could fit in there...}

Su éxito será fenomenal, especialmente cuando firmado por R. MATA Moros!!! 🤣🤣

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Danno's avatar

Apply at Babylon Bee.

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Moritz Wallawitsch's avatar

Lol

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79SmithW60's avatar

Classic!!

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Warmek's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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California Girl's avatar

Please let this be humor!

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MattieRoss's avatar

Hold up…let me guess…the provisional People's Salvation Front government goes by the moniker “Democracy NOW”

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FasterThanLight7's avatar

No. They are the establishment. The destruction of Germans as a people and turning the country into a multiethnic libtard hellhole is still the goal. Defeating the only opposition to that is very important to them. This is a great strategy to achieve this while still keeping on track.

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Cartesearcher's avatar

My exact thoughts. I guess it's time to call in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

They are probably just going for the appearance of ‘extremism’ to overlap sufficiently with AfD. They don’t want to go AfD AF, I bet.

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Cape Tribulation's avatar

Great comeback, Chris!❤️

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Matthew McWilliams's avatar

There is a saying I am quite fond of that goes something like this, “good government is not about electing the right people, it is about getting the wrong people to do the right thing.”

In this case, regardless of their motivations, the Merz government is finally doing something right. Also, in this case, any kudos should go to AfD.

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Dave's avatar

Honestly, as you’ve said before, it’s not rocket science. Just adopt one or two of the main AfD positions and the AfD will fade away.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

People are stupid enough to fall for that.

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FasterThanLight7's avatar

Yeah, incredibly grim.

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EppingBlogger's avatar

I. Do not think that strategy would apply now. It might have done a decade ago but the elites (sic) doubling down has reinforced opposition.

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Dave's avatar

Fair enough. Maybe my verbs needed to be past tense. Anyway, moot point, since the immigration issue was the entire reason for founding AfD and no legacy party will ever acknowledge common sense.

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1 other's avatar

The AfD was founded over Eurozone bailouts during the gfc

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RiverHollow's avatar

Alright, what about all those who got in who need to be gotten out?

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eugyppius's avatar

that is the next step.

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RiverHollow's avatar

Of course. People should instinctively know to ask this no matter what they are given to the point where no bureaucrat can escape the question.

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RiverHollow's avatar

A regime is broken by asking of it something which is impossible for it to do without undermining itself, ideally while readying an alternative which can bear the burden.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...no bureaucrat can escape the question...}

Ever tried capturing mercury ??? 🤔🤔🤔

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Susan G's avatar

Check out how well "getting them out" is working in the US. Does Germany have "due process"? And activist judges that believe they are the final arbiter of all things immigration related?

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Danno's avatar

The due process arguments will fail. Millions of illegal immigrants were deported without due process during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama presidencies. It's perfectly legal and has been for over a century. Of course the activist judges and their media allies didn't raise any such objections until Trump.

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Susan G's avatar

I hope you are right.

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4Dbark's avatar

It’s not pretty deporting people and not easy with half the judges in America trying to stop the process. But symbolically it is important. And if real bad guys can be ousted along the way then it is a big positive.

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Danno's avatar

Cutting off benefits will lead to millions of self-deportations. Cooperation with local law enforcement will lead to more 'bad guy' deportation, too. Finally, the practice of deporting them to places like El Salvador (hello, CECOT) and Angola might provide incentive for some bad guys to gtfo.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

If you shut off every last one of their benefits, including the education of their spawn and their right to work in your country, they will self-deport.

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Ken Kunda's avatar

Send them to El Salvador, they will take them for a price.

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

Perhaps the writing is on the wall about what AFD's increasing support signals.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Took'em long enough to read it.

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Danno's avatar

Once they realized that AfD wasn't going anywhere, they had to do something.

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Mark Marshall's avatar

Shockingly good news! Time will tell how serious the Government is about this.

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FasterThanLight7's avatar

Incredibly dark news. The establishment playing it smart all of a sudden will ensure they are staying in power and it will ensure our destruction.

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sweettooth's avatar

So if they won't do what "the people" want, it's not good, and when they do, it's not good either. So things can never be ok then?

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FasterThanLight7's avatar

If we don’t get actual right wing change we are screwed. If the anti German establishment can stay in power by doing this and weaken the actual right, then we are screwed. Because this is not even remotely enough. The destruction of Germans as a people is their goal.

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Thunder Road's avatar

Meanwhile the border is closed. So, not so dark actually.

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Danno's avatar

I can only hope this took the left completely by surprise.

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Random's avatar

Congratulations guys!

I told you not all is lost, regardless of the occasional (often) bleakness.

Your liberals that are not fully progressive are not completely retarded, they know very well that mass migration destabilizes the country and props up the actual right, which they fear.

So now they will have to cut on the queer and migrant stuff🥰

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FasterThanLight7's avatar

It’s all lost. The reactions here show why. The anti German establishment will weaken the only opposition that wants Remigration.

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Random's avatar

>>> cuts wrists in last act of defiance😤😤😤

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Rikard's avatar

Isn't it curious that slitting your wrist is legal, but raising it at the "wrong angle" can be a crime?

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Hahaha! You are cuttingly clever! 😍😍😍

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Random's avatar

Absolutely, worth a noticing or 5 if you ask me!

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Chixbythesea's avatar

They won’t cut queer or radical green agenda.

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NAB's avatar

The trans cult is doubling down in the US. You can see videos every day of transbullies in action.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Naw…. People are over it. They can trans bully all they want but they’ve lost hearts and minds. People know men with man goods don’t belong in women’s sports or locker rooms. Therefore Trump

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NAB's avatar

I think the liberals remain largely retarded and acting now only to save their political skin. The destabilization in the country has been the point of mass migration.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Yep. If you’re freaked and afraid you don’t have wherewithal to fight tyranny in your government.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

That’s clearly what it’s about- bleed of support to AfD. This action is however an affront to “EU values” so in itself is a test.

Which is more important? Stopping AfD? Or openly disobeying the EU center? I suppose the calculus is that excuses can be made re: EU migrant policies, but it may well backfire on them.

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Danno's avatar

It's an admission that AfD was right all along.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Maybe EU-courts will coerce them to rescind this "anti-humanitarian" decision.

Only time will tell ...

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Good start, assuming he actually enforces it.

Danny Huckabee

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sonya's avatar

Excellent news from you today!!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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SCA's avatar

Well, with them dangerous interwebs proving to the world that Trump was correct about "All you needed was a new President" to shut migration down flat...

The hunger for self-preservation will gobble up anything necessary, won't it?

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...The hunger for self-preservation...}

German DNA does NOT include this kind of genes ...

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SCA's avatar

Well, it's been shamed so brutally that it was forced into hiding somewhere in the immune system. But if scientists have been able to get 3,000-yr.-old seeds lying dessicated in the ground to sprout and grow into plants, I suspect Germans desiring of life can be brought back from dormancy too.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...somewhere in the immune system...} Gobbled-up by macrophages generations ago ...

{...have been able to get 3,000-yr.-old seeds...} Doubtful. Their genetic sequence shows that the gene

- for critical thinking is irretrievably misfolded, the one

- for personal autonomy as well as the one

- for perception of imminent danger are both entirely missing and the one

- for total obedience to authority is the dominant one ... 🤣🤣🤣

Usually this combination leads to extinction.

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David Simpson's avatar

Or Hitler 😂

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Trusting this kind of guy is the most efficient way to extinction ... 🤣🤣🤣

But"they" have evolved, this time it is BlackRock to finish "the job" ...

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Vivian Evans's avatar

There's this old saying: "Nichts wird os heiss gegessen wie es gekocht wird", translated: nothing gets eaten as hot as it's cooked. It's very useful, especially when applied to extraordinary news such as this one.

And so: according to one report, the German Border Police wasn't informed and doesn't know now what to do. Also, this new German Minister is keen to 'sharpen' the existing EU deliberations because they're too slow ... would that be the same EU which has condemned Hungary's PM Mr Orban for not allowing in 'asylum seekers'? The same EU which has been rather quiet - for obvious reasons = regarding Poland's stance on this issue?

The same EU which waves 'Human rights' and the ECHR around like garlic to stop vampires?

I'm looking forward to the weekend and new demos in Germany, because that minister must be practically Hitler, just like the AfD which has demanded such policy. Oh - and if that Minister isn't 'securely far extreme Right wing' - then what about the accusations regarding AfD politicians and the AfD?

You might like to stock up on popcorn - I'm more a tea-and-biscuit person ...

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Rocío Matamoros's avatar

"according to one report, the German Border Police wasn't informed and doesn't know now what to do."

Like the guards at the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, but with everything turned inside out.

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Suzie's avatar

Wow! I sure didn’t see that coming! Let’s see how it all rolls out before they cave in any number of “human rights” ways.

Also, when I saw the story about Merz’s historic, ahem, “achievement” losing the first round vote for Chancellor, I thought two things: couldn’t happen to a more deserving putz, and, I cannot wait to hear what Eugyppius has to say!!

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Rikard's avatar

Apologies, but even if this is a desperate attempt to stop people from going to AfD, all I can say to it is:

Horrido!

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Danno's avatar

I look at it as an admission that AfD is right. The real test will come if and when the no asylum policy is codified and introduced to the Bundestag for a vote. Will Merz dare to ask for AfD support? Will every other party and the media have a heart attack if he does? Will some watered-down version be put forth instead? Am I misjudging how things work in the Federal Republic of Germany?

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Simon Baddeley's avatar

Those horrible Nazi fanatics made the poor man do it. This was the post that finally decided me to get a paid subscription to 'a plague chronicle'.

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Paul Jackson's avatar

Another timely and excellent post. It would appear that if this goes ahead then AfD policy will become state policy without AfD being part of government. Maybe there’s yet hope for my homeland, England. I’ve lived the last 34 of my 74 years in the States and I’ve watched in an increasing state of despair the deliberate destruction of my country and a 1,000 years of history along with increasingly authoritarian governments. I can’t return to England because I would be in prison within 3 months because I would insist on freedom of speech; I couldn’t physically do it anyway because of the damage inflicted on my body due to a long and successful rugby career in my younger days. I’m also hopeful that some of the murmurs coming out of Washington regarding repeal of authoritarian laws will be part of any trade deals negotiated between Washington and other countries.

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CMCM's avatar

I spent a lot of my childhood in England, age 6 to 12 in the 1950s. I have such wonderful, fond memories and I adored living there and didn't want to leave. I last visited London in about 1987 and things were already changing at that time. I can't imagine what it's like there now.

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