Despite everything, the cordon sanitaire against the Evil Hitler Nazi Fascist party known as Alternative für Deutschland really appears to be crumbling.
The shadow of Trump is juge ! I don't like the man, but he pointed out all the weak spots from the last umpteen years, and hopefully, he will be able to change all that needs to be.
Over a 1500 criminals have already been set out of the country. I read Colombia is taking back its criminals, and India reported they will take back all the 18000 illegals they have in the US.
I have to admit i was surprised they didn't start calling him Super-Duper-Ultra-Hitler for all the kids that didn't get their happy meals the day he "worked" at McDonald's
I had never really followed the political environment in Germany until I came across your blog. Now, I'm following intently as it is very clear this critically important country has lost its way and is crumbling beneath its' liberal and WEF inspired leanings.
I am now sure that if I lived in Germany, I would be a card carrying member of the AfD.
This is the start of the new beginning. EU27 need a strong Germany, strong France, strong Italy and more. That means stopping Queen Ursula vd Leyen and the other Queens in the Kommission.
Many countries are starting to wake up, they've just not all gone the same distance. Austria is ahead of Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, even the UK, are waking up, and Hungary has never fallen asleep in the first place.
just read what orban tells the people. everything is bad because the west does not understand hungarian values and because they want to suppress hungary. people believe it. it is like an abusive relationship where they sell you the outside world is bad so you can't leave. typical stockholm syndrome and they keep voting for the liar/abuser.
I'm sure I don't agree with this assessment with regard to migration politics and the invasion of transideology. I don't know enough about other areas to have an informed opinion.
If you look to the north (DK and SWE) you will find that the cordon sanitaire disappeared a long time ago (23 years!) in the former case and recently in Sweden.
In Denmark the Danish Peoples' Party (DFP) was formed in 1995 as a "moderate" spinout of the excellent Progress Party, which was originally libertarian but by the mid 1980s vehemently anti-muslim/ migrant. In the late 1990s as DFP got more seats, a prominent Konservative politician said that DFP will never dictate our policy. But in 2001, DFP got around 12% and became the support party of the "center right" government that lasted until 2011. In fact they dictated policy leading to anti-immigration measures but also unfortunately hindering tax reduction and other economic reforms to remove the yoke of socialism. This parallels the Sweden Democrats who basically combine anti-migrant policies with a stronger welfare state. I haven't studied AFD in detail, but I hope they are not like these two in regard to economic policy.
After an interlude of socialist government, DFP became the second biggest party in 2015 (AFD already next election?) and could have taken a role in a coalition govt but chose not to. The founder, Kjaersgaard, became speaker of parliament. (Imagine an AFD pol becoming speaker!? Maybe in 15 years?) So you can see the evolution of DFP that AFD could follow. However, by 2019 even the socialists had adopted strict anti-migrant policies and there was an over-blown scandal re DFP, so their support was slashed by nearly 2/3 in the 2019 election. Other parties on the right have emerged. Later, the CDU equivalent (Venstre) split into 3 parties (!) with one called the Denmark Democrats being very similar to DFP, and immediately taking 10% of the vote (a lot of it from DFP). Is that the future of CDU?
In Sweden, the new center right government realized that they would never govern again unless they accepted the SD as a support party. SD has also been close to becoming the second largest party but not quite. Overall, Sweden is more leftist than DK in political "tone", although maybe not in practice apart from immigration.
Merz certainly knows how to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. The way these politicians can abandon tightly held principles as soon as their poliical survival is at sake shows how untrustworthy and shallow they all really are.
All you have to do is look at the politicians vying for the canadian federal Liberal leadership, all members of the current government, all sure until 10 minutes ago that all the policies of that govt were the only path forward not just for canada but the entire planet (carbon tax) but now we'll just toss all that to the side.
…and they are ALL WEF lackeys. Liberal Party will be dead once Canadians get to vote, which should be soon after whoever is (S)elected as Liberal Leader.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the canadian voter. There are already polls suggesting some people have been fooled by the Trudeau announcement to retire “someday”.
I don't like to say much about my fellow citizen's voting patterns but sadly many are very stupid. I hear too much. Idiots who got sucked in by Trudeau at the start and soured on him quickly. Then there are those who still support him despite the disaster he proved to be. There is no medicine for stupid.
But, I'd like the Liberals to deal with Donald Trump for a while. He's really not being logical with his tariff demands and I don't want Poilievre to deal with that right off the start.
Since liberals are planning retaliation the economic fallout is going to be something we are dealing with for probably years. Conservatives will inherit it undoubtedly.
Well, we must hope that Trump is successful in destroying both main political parties as they are presently constituted.
McConnell as GOP personified voted against Hegseth for perfectly rational reasons. We must hope he's the figuretortoise of an extincting Republican leadership just as we must hope the same of Obama & Co. for the Democrats.
This is why I chose to take French in high school rather than German. Just looking at that word makes my eyeballs hurt. Have they never considered camelcase to make things a little more decipherable?
I too was transfixed when I saw that word, Tardigrade. But then after recalling my previous exposure to how Germans like to string words together, I realised that ‘Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz’ was not one word at all, but actually five - and then it made sense. It is really a phrase. The Scandinavians do that too. Thirty-five years ago I worked in Denmark for a while, and after a few months struggling with the language while trying to buy my groceries in the local village supermarket, I suddenly realised that their double-Dutch language was really more or less an early form of English with all the words jammed up together. (That was before the French-speaking Normans arrived in England in 1066 AD and took over, thereby hijacking the English language). Nevertheless, my local Danish acquaintances were amazed that I could speak (school-boy) French - because to them it was, uh, double-Dutch! They thought that I must be some sort of clever intellectual, when in reality it was only because ‘doing’ French was a routine part of the school curriculum in Australia when I was a kid in the middle of the last century.
I understand that Germans have an aversion to the space character. I did not know Scandinavians did the same. For someone not used to it, it hurts to look at. Why should everyday language be an exercise in cryptography? 😵💫
When I started junior high school in 1966, we were required to choose a language: Spanish, French, or German. I don't think that's a requirement anymore.
I guess enough kids have been raped, murdered, and tortured for the numpties in power to start baulking at the horrors or is it just that they see power slipping from their grubby mitts?
I remember in my youth reading stories of how an animal would gnaw off its own paw in order to escape of from a trap. Such is the power of the survival instinct. The same principle adheres in politics it seems.
Wow. Special note now in my calendar for Friday to see what actually transpires and hear the cries of pain and the gnashing of teeth…maybe.
The hugeness of this cannot be overstated, really, regardless what happens.
They've - or at least some- have seen the handwriting on the wall and realize the end is near. They either submit, and remain alive to fight another day, or go down in ignominy, and their whole country with them.
Obviously, a lot has occurred in the wider world recently to help encourage such a new consciousness, but the ball is now smack dab in their court.
Can’t wait for the games to begin.
P.S. this will also be a great test of the AfD, to see what stuff they are truly made of, should they get their shot at wielding power, no matter how small for now.
Union messaging about the Brandmauer is about as coherent and consistent as the last hours of the DDR about the Mauer. Nach meiner Kenntnis ist das sofort. Unverzüglich.
Holy cow, that was fast. Toddler-knifings and the shadow of Trump have really lit a fire under these guys.
The shadow of Trump is juge ! I don't like the man, but he pointed out all the weak spots from the last umpteen years, and hopefully, he will be able to change all that needs to be.
Over a 1500 criminals have already been set out of the country. I read Colombia is taking back its criminals, and India reported they will take back all the 18000 illegals they have in the US.
Trump's election is, indeed, yuge—in my view one of the biggest benefits is shoving the Overton window to a more reasonable location.
Showing how versatile vehicles can be. Using that garbage truck as a bulldozer.
Do you like him ar least a little bit now?🤔
Haha. They're all gonna develop a terminal case of looooong Covfefe
Thanks again for the giggle.
Honest to god, it seems all the progressive/leftist/liberal just needed to be showed how to do it.
Take one garbage truck; add one tongue-lashing to the WEF; and mix well.
Would you like our new employee, Donald, to supersize that for you?
I have to admit i was surprised they didn't start calling him Super-Duper-Ultra-Hitler for all the kids that didn't get their happy meals the day he "worked" at McDonald's
The stuff he ain't kidding about he really fer damn sure ain't kidding about and that's starting to get through to everyone.
Prior stabbings haven't seemed to matter, so my guess is they know Trump is going to hold them to the fire.
The impact of stabbings is cumulative, and the intervals seem to be shortening. I think those and the Trump shadow reinforce each other.
Man--Trump winning the arm-wrestling with Colombia yesterday sure scared the all-fuck out of 'em.
Fuck around and find out!
One of our excellent American maxims!
First appeared in Poor Richard's Almanac, if I'm not mistaken.
Ben Franklin liked him those big butts, I cannot lie.
“Richie Likes Back”🤖 assist
“To each their fancy, yet let us not deny:
A full form pleases the discerning eye.”
“Lo, tis known by every gent and dame,
That ample backs doth spark the flame.
For while the lean may strut with pride,
A well-rounded form none can deride.”
“Many a man may claim he’s wise,
But loves a lass of generous thighs.”
If it hadn't, actually, the spirit was sure there.
“Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
Close enough!
“Tis a Full Back that raise the spirit of Dickies All man Ack
‘“What is right in this matter does not become wrong just because the wrong people agree with it,” Friedrich Merz said’
Gosh, when he puts it like that, it - that is to say, the fundamental principle of the cordon sanitaire - sounds completely fucking stupid.
How many right things do the wrong people have to support before they cease to be the wrong people?🤔
👍
All of them!
I had never really followed the political environment in Germany until I came across your blog. Now, I'm following intently as it is very clear this critically important country has lost its way and is crumbling beneath its' liberal and WEF inspired leanings.
I am now sure that if I lived in Germany, I would be a card carrying member of the AfD.
This is the start of the new beginning. EU27 need a strong Germany, strong France, strong Italy and more. That means stopping Queen Ursula vd Leyen and the other Queens in the Kommission.
So far only Germany has started to wake up.
Italy woke up a while ago, i thought Meloni was doing a good job on these fronts?
The PM has done a fantastic job, but the EU27 Kommission still have too much say in what is going on. Further the automotive sector is in free-fall.
As good as orban
All fake propaganda.
Many countries are starting to wake up, they've just not all gone the same distance. Austria is ahead of Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, even the UK, are waking up, and Hungary has never fallen asleep in the first place.
Yes. We have read much about Austria and even more about Hungary. Watching MSM smear Hungary is amusing - the level of misunderstanding is epic.
These countries are our real hope.
Hungary is in the deepest Stockholm syndrome of history
Meaning?
just read what orban tells the people. everything is bad because the west does not understand hungarian values and because they want to suppress hungary. people believe it. it is like an abusive relationship where they sell you the outside world is bad so you can't leave. typical stockholm syndrome and they keep voting for the liar/abuser.
I'm sure I don't agree with this assessment with regard to migration politics and the invasion of transideology. I don't know enough about other areas to have an informed opinion.
If you look to the north (DK and SWE) you will find that the cordon sanitaire disappeared a long time ago (23 years!) in the former case and recently in Sweden.
In Denmark the Danish Peoples' Party (DFP) was formed in 1995 as a "moderate" spinout of the excellent Progress Party, which was originally libertarian but by the mid 1980s vehemently anti-muslim/ migrant. In the late 1990s as DFP got more seats, a prominent Konservative politician said that DFP will never dictate our policy. But in 2001, DFP got around 12% and became the support party of the "center right" government that lasted until 2011. In fact they dictated policy leading to anti-immigration measures but also unfortunately hindering tax reduction and other economic reforms to remove the yoke of socialism. This parallels the Sweden Democrats who basically combine anti-migrant policies with a stronger welfare state. I haven't studied AFD in detail, but I hope they are not like these two in regard to economic policy.
After an interlude of socialist government, DFP became the second biggest party in 2015 (AFD already next election?) and could have taken a role in a coalition govt but chose not to. The founder, Kjaersgaard, became speaker of parliament. (Imagine an AFD pol becoming speaker!? Maybe in 15 years?) So you can see the evolution of DFP that AFD could follow. However, by 2019 even the socialists had adopted strict anti-migrant policies and there was an over-blown scandal re DFP, so their support was slashed by nearly 2/3 in the 2019 election. Other parties on the right have emerged. Later, the CDU equivalent (Venstre) split into 3 parties (!) with one called the Denmark Democrats being very similar to DFP, and immediately taking 10% of the vote (a lot of it from DFP). Is that the future of CDU?
In Sweden, the new center right government realized that they would never govern again unless they accepted the SD as a support party. SD has also been close to becoming the second largest party but not quite. Overall, Sweden is more leftist than DK in political "tone", although maybe not in practice apart from immigration.
Merz certainly knows how to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. The way these politicians can abandon tightly held principles as soon as their poliical survival is at sake shows how untrustworthy and shallow they all really are.
All you have to do is look at the politicians vying for the canadian federal Liberal leadership, all members of the current government, all sure until 10 minutes ago that all the policies of that govt were the only path forward not just for canada but the entire planet (carbon tax) but now we'll just toss all that to the side.
…and they are ALL WEF lackeys. Liberal Party will be dead once Canadians get to vote, which should be soon after whoever is (S)elected as Liberal Leader.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the canadian voter. There are already polls suggesting some people have been fooled by the Trudeau announcement to retire “someday”.
I don't like to say much about my fellow citizen's voting patterns but sadly many are very stupid. I hear too much. Idiots who got sucked in by Trudeau at the start and soured on him quickly. Then there are those who still support him despite the disaster he proved to be. There is no medicine for stupid.
Hellyeah!
But, I'd like the Liberals to deal with Donald Trump for a while. He's really not being logical with his tariff demands and I don't want Poilievre to deal with that right off the start.
Under the best circumstances now he can’t be PM until May so the Liberals get to deal with it
Since liberals are planning retaliation the economic fallout is going to be something we are dealing with for probably years. Conservatives will inherit it undoubtedly.
'Remarkably, the CDU seem to have finally figured this out.'
Apparently they're quicker on the uptake than the US's a Democratic Party. That ship has sunk and they still haven't figured out why.
Haters gonna hate. I've never seen so many people harbor hate for that long. No wonder they're all miserable
Oh Ryan come on now.... They are the party of joy...WE are the( insert insult here)!
I am hoping the age of brazen smug, hypocritical political clownery very soon, meets it's end:
Teamsters Union President, Sean O’Brien, Revealed Kamala Harris’s Famous Last Words “I’ll Win With or Without You,”
Sean O’Brien: “Who does this fucking lady think she is?"
Well, we must hope that Trump is successful in destroying both main political parties as they are presently constituted.
McConnell as GOP personified voted against Hegseth for perfectly rational reasons. We must hope he's the figuretortoise of an extincting Republican leadership just as we must hope the same of Obama & Co. for the Democrats.
Extra points for "figuretortoise".
How about - that ship has sunk and they are still promoting "unsinkable"!
Too many of those poor benighted heathens don't seem to be aware they're gettin' wet.
The US Democratic dictated the number of lifeboats on their Titanic without realizing they might just be sailing on it.
Apropos of nothing…
“Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz”
This is why I chose to take French in high school rather than German. Just looking at that word makes my eyeballs hurt. Have they never considered camelcase to make things a little more decipherable?
Pah! I see their Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz, and raise with the Swedish translation:
"Tillströmmningsbegränsingslagstiftingsförslag"!
Gesundheit
Prosit!
Damn Rikard! That hurt!😂
Hahaha! Was thinking similarly when I saw that word! Yikes!
I too was transfixed when I saw that word, Tardigrade. But then after recalling my previous exposure to how Germans like to string words together, I realised that ‘Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz’ was not one word at all, but actually five - and then it made sense. It is really a phrase. The Scandinavians do that too. Thirty-five years ago I worked in Denmark for a while, and after a few months struggling with the language while trying to buy my groceries in the local village supermarket, I suddenly realised that their double-Dutch language was really more or less an early form of English with all the words jammed up together. (That was before the French-speaking Normans arrived in England in 1066 AD and took over, thereby hijacking the English language). Nevertheless, my local Danish acquaintances were amazed that I could speak (school-boy) French - because to them it was, uh, double-Dutch! They thought that I must be some sort of clever intellectual, when in reality it was only because ‘doing’ French was a routine part of the school curriculum in Australia when I was a kid in the middle of the last century.
I understand that Germans have an aversion to the space character. I did not know Scandinavians did the same. For someone not used to it, it hurts to look at. Why should everyday language be an exercise in cryptography? 😵💫
When I started junior high school in 1966, we were required to choose a language: Spanish, French, or German. I don't think that's a requirement anymore.
How about they just start breaking up these enormous compound words into their components.
Please stop your Lächerlichkeitsdurchsetzungsversuche. I mean your attempts to push through such ridiculous ideas.
Funny. Very funny. It took 3 minutes to translate zust.........gesetz.
That's almost a complete sentence in one word - German efficiency.
Leaving out spaces is only efficient on Twitter.
I see your Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz and raise you one Masseneinwanderungsinitiative
I guess enough kids have been raped, murdered, and tortured for the numpties in power to start baulking at the horrors or is it just that they see power slipping from their grubby mitts?
The latter.
Exactly!
Their thoughts, if that's what they are, begin - and end, with that craving for power.
They don’t really care about innocent people being slaughtered, they care that too many people are noticing innocent people being slaughtered
Yes.
I remember in my youth reading stories of how an animal would gnaw off its own paw in order to escape of from a trap. Such is the power of the survival instinct. The same principle adheres in politics it seems.
I am so happy for you and for Germany, I can’t put it into words. I am feeling very emotional!
Wow. Special note now in my calendar for Friday to see what actually transpires and hear the cries of pain and the gnashing of teeth…maybe.
The hugeness of this cannot be overstated, really, regardless what happens.
They've - or at least some- have seen the handwriting on the wall and realize the end is near. They either submit, and remain alive to fight another day, or go down in ignominy, and their whole country with them.
Obviously, a lot has occurred in the wider world recently to help encourage such a new consciousness, but the ball is now smack dab in their court.
Can’t wait for the games to begin.
P.S. this will also be a great test of the AfD, to see what stuff they are truly made of, should they get their shot at wielding power, no matter how small for now.
Play ball!
This kind of thing gives me a little more hope for all of the West.
Union messaging about the Brandmauer is about as coherent and consistent as the last hours of the DDR about the Mauer. Nach meiner Kenntnis ist das sofort. Unverzüglich.
Whatever would we do without your analysis?
That does explain some of protests off and online I've been seeing
Golly. How difficult it is to give voters what they want. In a democracy.