Thomas Vierhaus is an economist from Düsseldorf with a small but active social media presence, particularly on Twitter/X. There, he now and again replies caustically to the idiocies of our media and politicians. Because our media and politicians do not like caustic commentary,
According to me, two of the three Vierhaus accusations (the "drought in the head" one and the "snitch" one) really, really stretch the definition of insult. We're getting to a place, where mere negative or vituperative commentary directed against the politically protected classes can land you in court, it's insane.
All you have to do to get dragged out, taken to the gulag, and shot once you are no longer fit for forced labour, is to be the first to stop applauding Stalin.
This is nudging people towards accepting that even NOT commenting is criminal. Support is required. Think of the the Chinese sitting in the room with Xi. They clap dutifully like trained seals at everything Xi says.
I have anecdotes about that, from teacher-conferences, when some bespectacled harridan would just stay on stage and prolong a meeting until she ot her applause.
"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's.
For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was 'terrorism'."
Laws aren't designed, and enforced, to protect the citizens, they're designed, and enforced, to protect the lawmakers. Thieves carrying knives aren't a threat to lawmakers living in gated communities, but potentially revolutionary citizens carrying knives.
The same goes for "hate." Anything less than full approval of any behavior or words someone utters is full on hate. If you don't like someone, you automatically hate them.
In effect, Antifa do this - the game is 'I'm correct, and everyone else follows or else'. The game has to change constantly because only a few know the correct code at any point, and belittling others who don't follow is a way of establishing power.
Of course this infantile game concludes with nobody free from being belittled.
See revolutions.
Not one worked.
Each time it cascaded into other revolutions where a whole bunch of other people developed parallel stories - all with the same purpose, to take and keep power.
Hope Not Hate is a false charity run by UK ex-Labour Party types.
It represents the exact opposite - it hates everyone and offers no hope at all.
Interesting since there are so many Antifa now in German government. Lars Klingbeil, Vice chancellor SPD (currently in Kyiv), Nancy Faeser (the minister trying to squash AfD) and others. They’re all white college educated and wear suits and frumpy schoolmarm dresses. Reminds me of KKK in US Southern States after the civil war. Librarian by day, in the white hood by night at the bonfire. Sinister and poisonous.
The original AntiFa was the military wing of the KPD, the Communist Party of Germany. In the street-violence of Weimar Germany, they would switch sides between the Stalinist faction and the Nazis with bewildering rapidity, always calling their opposition, 'Fascists.'
When the only German Chancellor actually worse than Angela Merkel passed the 1933 Enabling Act, banning all opposition and awarding himself supreme power, AntiFa disbanded and joined the Brownshirts en masse, to the point that there were more AntiFa than original Brownshirts, which demonstrated that they had neither ethical nor ideological qualms against National Socialism. They are uniformly bad and cruel people who lust after power.
Now that’s the Intel I come here for. Thank you! That’s great! So different in USA. Here they are often trans or entitled (but neglected) kids of billionaires.
I only wish it was insanity. The best case scenario is that the proponents of these laws are incredibly stupid and can't see where this is headed. The worst case scenario, of course, is that they know exactly what they are doing.
It only took the Nazis 6 years after the Nuremberg laws were passed for them to go from a policy of exclusion to extermination.
People don't think it can happen again. I beg to differ. The Nazi ideology was just an extension of the dark side of the human condition.
The signs are ominous imo. Just wait until they get a legal definition of "right wing extremists". At that point they can come up with progressively more exclusionary laws. It was only after 1935, after Jew was legally defined, that the rest of the laws were predicated on the definition.
There is talk of classifying racism, sexism and homophobia as mental illnesses. One of the first groups to sign up for the Nazi claptrap were the medical profession. So they'll be no help to stop such things.
Excellent point. The US Holocast Museum website has an amazing amount of information about propaganda and how it slowly crept into the lives of the Germans (and Jews). There were many 'blind' people. Many.
Six years. Well, 2021 and the coof mandates kicked off one level of the deception that stunned most of us. All the slur words that family members, co workers, dear long time friends threw at us 'anti-vaxxer', 'grandma killer', 'selfish' and 'right winger'....all of that hate directed at me shocked me.
My Persian friend would disagree. He looks Arab with a very dark skin tone. Definitely not indo-european or Northern European. Not Mediterranean at all.
But, not a what-about, one cannot look at what is happening in Palestine and say," Nothing bad happened to the 'Palestinians' because really blah blah blah so as you can see there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
The Zionists through deception, $$$, war are watching their "civilizational" experiment fall apart by self-annihilation.
Exactly the kind of comment that enables racist laws. They aren't really racist because blah blah blah definition of a race. So the laws that enable rounding up large numbers of people for reasons that center around perceptions of certain loudly proclaimed racial characteristics are O.K.
Nothing bad happened to the Jews because really blah blah blah so as you can see there is no such thing as a Jew. Just undesirables and we all knew who they were.
Umm... the Zionists/Jews just propagated lies from the point that they were "legally defined". But even at that, there is the little issue of the FRAUD that was the "Balfour Declaration": member of the House of Lords writes a "gimme" to the Zionists at the dinner table, the letter WITHOUT the Seal of HRM, and without any consult of the residents already leaving there!
Then the violence started against the Palestinians AND the British forces there, only to be carried out for another 100 years until today.
Think Colonial Europe crusading, exploring then rape pillage plunder until the "savages" ARE SUBDUED.
Hanlons Razor...they don`t know or understand or care where this all leads.
And are not very bright as individuals and even less so in groups..
Which explains why so many western govts/universities are all following the same game plan.
People want simple answers "they all know"..which requires sentience and communicating the "plans" to other countries..for the last 30 years.Zero evidence of course.
Thats why the far more dangerous and insidious answer is..group think disguised by language all marching along spouting Orwellian "good intentions".
You just described why these politicians have no business holding the reins of power. Especially when you consider that Greens hover between 5-15% in popularity but dominated the Schultz government and have also highly influenced Merz, acting as the hinge in critical parliamentary decisions like kingmakers.
Do non-leftist Germans not know this? Or do they give it absolution because it was all in the past? Considering their fixation on great-grandpa I’d think they aren’t too good with forgive and forget.
The Germans I have spoken to have a propensity to switch off entirely, even walk off in mid-sentence, if even a hint of a contentious subject rears its problematic head. They are terrified of wrongthink.
True, but look also at the intense brainwashing towards compliance. It’s all about “doing your part to support the greater good.” Do not question the basic precepts however. Trust is crucial. Hate to say it, but breaking the trust is the way this system ultimately falls apart. When they decide their government is corrupt or too stupid and has destroyed the country.
I am fairly convinced that German law, being based upon Civil Law also plays a very large role in the mindset.
For instance…. In the US, obeying traffic rules and not throwing trash are governed by civil law in our codes. How many times have we heard we should be good citizens and put our trash in the bin? We get a fine for passing through a red light. We are not doing our civic duty.
These are not bad features per se but in the US we do not regard following such codes like diligent automatons sufficient for the complete guarantee of our rights. The US Constitution and the mindset that the citizens can challenge bad laws comes from English Common Law when stems from ideas such as Natural Law, God’s laws, the DaneLaw, and Magna Carta. The rights of the citizen and preventing the state from infringing upon those rights are held as the higher ethic.
The country functions on rules, and rigorous following of rules.
The absolute clarity and clear logic is quite marked in - it is one of the most ordered EU27 member states, even now.
One could say following rules is a national pass-time.
Nordic member states come close. As a former colleague said about former GM division Saab, the Swedish are failed Germans (i.e., 'almost').
The UK is always late, always ill-equipped and yet.. and yet.... somehow still manages to surprise. A British invention will amaze - just don't ask for a repeat demo because it might not work more than once.
At the opposite end of order, Greece regards law as a serving suggestion, and anything to do with tax has to be bypassed as a national rite. Oh, and every male is called Spiros, for tax purposes.
That's the joy of countries. we can take broad swipes at each other, knowing there is a grain of truth wrapped in a form of love. Across Europe, as one heads towards the heat (i.e., south) the emotions become more prominent.
I intend to follow the prosecution of the thugs who assaulted the women first, then the brave young man.
Everyone should know without doubt that these criminals cannot be allowed freedom in this society.
If ‘officers of the law’ are unwilling or unable to dispatch force against these violent criminals, then hire some plainclothes citizens who can practice their skills on these criminals. Full indemnity for consequences included. Soft answers and continual tolerance are not a winning strategy with these people. They are imprinted w unacceptable behavior, much like all predators in the wild But as you have discovered, they are not an endangered species that should be protected. Rather, they are a dangerous, invasive species that need to be immediately eliminated. The problem w letting predators like this continue is that they will simply refine their attacks until they lose all definition of what an appropriate victim should be. Fair game, as it were. And if you lock them up w each other, it’s like a university education on how to be more subtle, vicious, and powerful in dehumanizing and demoralizing the vulnerable. So it really must be done. Eliminate them. Period.
It's not insane. It's sinister. And, of course, it's projection. The 'kind' and 'liberal' denizens of our best of all possible worlds are speedily advancing towards totalitarianism while accusing their anxious and honest critics of 'fascism' (that is to say opinions which the denizens don't like).
When the protective shield around these people becomes degraded, & it will become degraded, they will have to face the punishment their behaviour deserves.
As the old saying goes, snitches get stitches. Unfortunately, so do heroes, these days.
Rudat is a hero. Since it’s 2025 Germany, he will likely be punished while the migrants walk free. US State Department should liberate Europe from nincompoops and snitches.
The US should let the German people liberate themselves this time. Freedom isn't free and the US shouldn't have to solve everybody else's problems. If we're going to use our blood and treasure, let's "liberate" Canada first. They've got a lot of natural resources.
German people need to experience max pain, whatever that is. Intervention simply enables the slow agony. USA needs to stop being interventionist and start focusing on our own problems.
I was pregnant with my child when the Berlin Wall came down and I thought that meant he was going to be born into a world getting better for everyone. I was so happy.
And here I am knowing now that we managed to fuck up the world for our kids in ways we couldn't imagine. Well, we could imagine, couldn't we? History coming around again and kicking us in the throat.
We all have to do our best, and as this entire substack shows, there are many good people out there. Not everything is as bleak as MSM would like us to think.
Yes, I know. But still normal parents want our children's lives to be good ones in every respect. It gets a little tiring, seeing the same battles needing to be fought for--what is it now--a trillion generations already?
🤔 I’m starting to think there is something to “human nature.” Also, Cain and Abel. Also, “eternal vigilance” we were warned about. Or my personal favorite….
The patterns are unmistakable, when I read The Book. The 'stories' have been so distorted by careless humans for so long that unless you focus and look for the patterns one can miss so much. This itty bitty story in itself has so much content but it takes time and meditation and true searching to get to the heart of it. And when one finally thinks one 'gets it', it's almost all over.
Another cool thing about these 'stories' or 'myths' is when the pattern abruptly changes and then resumes. Like Enoch. Packs a whallop. Most people read over it paying no attention at all.
I was pregnant about the same time. Had so much hope my kid wasn't going to grow up with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation looming over them like it had for my cohort.
I wonder how many in the readership had the same experience. I remember it perfectly. Sitting at my dining room table looking across to the TV in the living room and seeing that remarkable moment as the wall started to be torn down.
I'd been in sixth grade when there were those internationally-publicized shootings of desperate attempted escapees by the East German guards and at least two of us in the classroom wrote (pretty lousy) short stories around the theme.
So yes--we had so much hope for our children's futures...
My two children were 6 and 1 at the time. The idea of the 'peace dividend'...that we as a human race would be 'productive' rather than 'destructive' was so promising. Yes, I was so filled with hope and see, as you do, what a fool I was. I'm so glad that as Life unfolded I chose bravery instead of cowardice, like this young man. I spoke the truth when others mocked me, was aware of and when i had the power to correct, injustice.
Spread kindness because that's truly the best way for ourselves. Even if it means being a fool.
I've never read it, but I believe Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" explores extensively this notion: "History coming around again and kicking us in the throat."
And you'll remember the absurdly titled 1990's tome "The Last Man and the End of History."
Eugyppius, I hope the German authorities are hugely embarrassed by the publicity given to the attack on this courageous young American, but I fear they may be too busy directing their energies towards the more important crime of policing internet insults.
Chancellor Merz is rather excited to be on the next train to Kyivvv. He had a lot of fun on that train recently. His friend 'little' Napoleon Macron and 'weak link' Starmer KC joined in. Oh what fun. Toot! Toot!
It seems Alexandria Occasional-Cortez could run in 2028.
Perhaps we could give the USA, to mark the 250th anniversary of the d-i-v-o-r-c-e, one of our fabled paper weights?
Tone Blurrrr (criminal), John 'Major' Tool, Lord Diddi of Cameron, Nikki Cleggi (yup, of Meta fame), Dame T May (astoundingly useless), BoJo (world class fool), 'Dishi-Rishi' Sunak-Goldman-Sachs (rich but silly), or.... yes..... Mr KR 'son of a tool' Starmer KC?
Well, the US of A is happy to fix the LNG market by blowing up a major natural gas pipeline or 4, and then ship the stuff as the price rose rapidly. Canada has the potential to also ship, although the proposed port looks like there's not many people there.
As for the 'dear' Lord Carney 'values' - Allahuhahahaha Akbar!
Amazing, isn't it, how granny-lefty politicians especially think they're practically gods and goddesses and any sort of verbal put-downs like these reported above are blasphemous and need to be stamped out. At the same time, they don't mind at all when migrants not only attack native Germans - 'Bio-Deutsche' - verbally like calling them 'kartoffel' (potato) and such, but also physically with knives, because 'it's their culture'.
Here's a nice thought experiment: what would this Green politician say if a migrant called her 'kartoffel' in public?
What is needed is another speech by Vance, at a very public european forum, calling out these particular speech issues and state that unless this stops the USA is going to stop any pretense of defending Europe.
There is no right not to be insulted, when you are provably a nincompoop.
I'm sure Donald Trump has been repeatedly insulted in German media. Could he sue under the law used by German politicians? If it could only be availed of by German politicians, that would be discriminatory, and as we all know, discrimination is Double-Plus Ungood.
He knows he’s being insulted in German media. Always has been. Remember the journalist with the big hair who laughed at Trump for his warnings on over-reliance upon Russian fuels??? That did not age well.
Vance just slapped Starmer over UK iPhone surveillance. Maybe further tariffs-sanctions are in order to draw further world attention to digital services act.
Thanks for the new article as well as the update on Rudat. I have no idea what the German broadcaster said, but Rudat struck me as a salt of the earth mid-Westerner. Nice man who has been raised to help those around him .
In Sweden, such remarks if made against a government official in the execution of their duty are punsihable by up to six months in prison, effective from 2nd of July this year.
And the way our laws work, if I was to give hypothetical and fictitious example, it could count as criminal speech anyway, if the prosecutor convinces the court that it is so.
Since Swedish courts are manned by 1-3 judes (dep. on the size and scope of the case) "advised" by 3-5 politicians and the court votes on the verdict. . . you can guess the rest, yes?
The pilot-case is up in court soon. A man walked up to police at Arlanda Airport and said a verse from an old childrens' rhyme (in English: "police, police, potato-pig"; i.e. someone who roots out stuff where's he's not invited to be), which caused one police to grab the man's arm. The man then had the temerity to "tense his arm in a manner perceived as threatening" and was arrested.
In more positive news, the artist Dan Park was released from prison a couple of weeks early, having served his second prison sentence for his art.
And of course, there's that law that makes reporting on things that miht give foreigners a negative opinion of Sweden a crime too: although it is intended for inciting terrorism and to curb espionage disguised as journalism, we all know that a law means what the men with the guns decides it to mean.
Use the 2nd to defend the 1st, Americans, because otherwise you'll lose it all - and quickly too.
The economist is owed €16100 from the pseudo politician (plus interest at 10% per minute, compound), €32200 from the 'student' (plus interest at 5% per hour, compound) and €1.61 million from the self important pseudo journalist - on the grounds his / her / zey 'reach is bigger, and so much more is owed.
This barely begins to address the deep damage done by libtards.
What a based economist and from Düsseldorf of all places. These thin skinned nincompoops are so tiresome. Since when is being a whorenalist a protected trait?
It's even more insidious in Germany. Apart from the multi billion public (i.e. government, churches, corporations, unions, lobbyists and other elites on the 'Rundfunkräte' boards) broadcasting networks, there is also considerable government influence on privately owned media. How so? Ministries and tax funded pseudo-NGOs spend millions, perhaps billions, on advertising in private newspapers, TV and maybe also YouTube. Some outlets are partly owned by political parties. 'Investigative partnership' collaborations funnel money from govt media to private media. Some local governments subsidize selected media organizations, renting them cheap offices, providing cheap loans etc. Many government officials and politicians have personal connections with private media owners and journalists too. The propaganda effort is massive, costly, and still relatively successful.
John Rudat came really close to losing an eye. His great attitude is pretty amazing.
In fact, he and his story are so perfect that I fully expect any minute now people to start claiming that's just a good make-up job and the whole thing was staged.
Indeed. And he wanted to become a model. That is now probably of the table. I'm just waiting for the loathsome leftwing press to call him a right winger and/or Trump supporter
The cordon sanitaire isn’t just constructed against AfD, it’s set up against each and every citizen who has a differing political opinion on anything the overlords decree.
The people are being totally “X’d” out of existence - pun not intended - and severely punished to boot, for having the audacity to so much as speak out against their own government, the powers that be.
It’s increasingly astonishing that the German people have tolerated this obviously ongoing process of their total erasure, even their right in having a say as to how they are governed.
Shocking and frightening really.
The UK is just as bad - possibly even worse, if that’s even possible.
Problem in Germany is that they do have a culture of "obedience" but at the moment many of them are struggling to survive from one day to the other, they are not the fortunate aliens being funded by the Government.
In Germany, I have the sense that being socially compliant offers a personal sense of superiority within the group. Whereas being identified as non-compliant makes you dirty and a cheater of society. Worthy of being shunned or worse. Like the new “Scarlet Letter” storyline. Someone ought to write a movie script and have a Vance character part of it. See how carefully and closely the line can be walked and observe how many Germans manage to “wake up” because if it.
According to me, two of the three Vierhaus accusations (the "drought in the head" one and the "snitch" one) really, really stretch the definition of insult. We're getting to a place, where mere negative or vituperative commentary directed against the politically protected classes can land you in court, it's insane.
Everything else is getting redefined, so I wouldn't be surprised if "insult" now means "anything short of fulsome praise".
All you have to do to get dragged out, taken to the gulag, and shot once you are no longer fit for forced labour, is to be the first to stop applauding Stalin.
This is nudging people towards accepting that even NOT commenting is criminal. Support is required. Think of the the Chinese sitting in the room with Xi. They clap dutifully like trained seals at everything Xi says.
Yes, but at least Xi is not destroying his country as the German political cabal is doing.
I suspect that he is, however that sort of information rarely escapes China. Far tighter controls.
Doesn’t follow.
Doesn’t follow Luis.
yes. disgusting. wow
I thought we passed that in 2005 or so?
I have anecdotes about that, from teacher-conferences, when some bespectacled harridan would just stay on stage and prolong a meeting until she ot her applause.
Like Salieri told Mozart in the movie…. “You have to give them a good bang st the end so they know it’s time to wake up and clap.”
That will arrive shortly
People always ask; how can this be happening?
Well Solzhenitsyn identified it 80 years ago:
"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's.
For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was 'terrorism'."
Laws aren't designed, and enforced, to protect the citizens, they're designed, and enforced, to protect the lawmakers. Thieves carrying knives aren't a threat to lawmakers living in gated communities, but potentially revolutionary citizens carrying knives.
#Germany2025
Now that makes you shutter.
We can appreciate the founding fathers.
The same goes for "hate." Anything less than full approval of any behavior or words someone utters is full on hate. If you don't like someone, you automatically hate them.
In effect, Antifa do this - the game is 'I'm correct, and everyone else follows or else'. The game has to change constantly because only a few know the correct code at any point, and belittling others who don't follow is a way of establishing power.
Of course this infantile game concludes with nobody free from being belittled.
See revolutions.
Not one worked.
Each time it cascaded into other revolutions where a whole bunch of other people developed parallel stories - all with the same purpose, to take and keep power.
Hope Not Hate is a false charity run by UK ex-Labour Party types.
It represents the exact opposite - it hates everyone and offers no hope at all.
Antifa.....
Interesting since there are so many Antifa now in German government. Lars Klingbeil, Vice chancellor SPD (currently in Kyiv), Nancy Faeser (the minister trying to squash AfD) and others. They’re all white college educated and wear suits and frumpy schoolmarm dresses. Reminds me of KKK in US Southern States after the civil war. Librarian by day, in the white hood by night at the bonfire. Sinister and poisonous.
The original AntiFa was the military wing of the KPD, the Communist Party of Germany. In the street-violence of Weimar Germany, they would switch sides between the Stalinist faction and the Nazis with bewildering rapidity, always calling their opposition, 'Fascists.'
When the only German Chancellor actually worse than Angela Merkel passed the 1933 Enabling Act, banning all opposition and awarding himself supreme power, AntiFa disbanded and joined the Brownshirts en masse, to the point that there were more AntiFa than original Brownshirts, which demonstrated that they had neither ethical nor ideological qualms against National Socialism. They are uniformly bad and cruel people who lust after power.
Now that’s the Intel I come here for. Thank you! That’s great! So different in USA. Here they are often trans or entitled (but neglected) kids of billionaires.
There is a perplexing correlation between extreme leftism and wealth.
Your handle pic is the original cabbage patch kids I think. 😂
Inspired by Greta Thunberg.
To hate what one identifies as hateful is a human right. Do not those German bien pensants hate Putin?
Or is there allowed hate and not allowed hate?
Your third sentence is the correct assessment.
Except Putin will not pay the fine.
Putin's Russia looks like the land of the free compared to the EU.
💯
So Throg, you’re not German?
Don't mention the war!
It is, you got it right. Go there, you'll see, I did.
The third sentence which stands alone, not the second.
I only wish it was insanity. The best case scenario is that the proponents of these laws are incredibly stupid and can't see where this is headed. The worst case scenario, of course, is that they know exactly what they are doing.
It only took the Nazis 6 years after the Nuremberg laws were passed for them to go from a policy of exclusion to extermination.
People don't think it can happen again. I beg to differ. The Nazi ideology was just an extension of the dark side of the human condition.
The signs are ominous imo. Just wait until they get a legal definition of "right wing extremists". At that point they can come up with progressively more exclusionary laws. It was only after 1935, after Jew was legally defined, that the rest of the laws were predicated on the definition.
There is talk of classifying racism, sexism and homophobia as mental illnesses. One of the first groups to sign up for the Nazi claptrap were the medical profession. So they'll be no help to stop such things.
Excellent point. The US Holocast Museum website has an amazing amount of information about propaganda and how it slowly crept into the lives of the Germans (and Jews). There were many 'blind' people. Many.
Six years. Well, 2021 and the coof mandates kicked off one level of the deception that stunned most of us. All the slur words that family members, co workers, dear long time friends threw at us 'anti-vaxxer', 'grandma killer', 'selfish' and 'right winger'....all of that hate directed at me shocked me.
What?
Jews are not IllegaL?
In Europe, virtually ALL the Jews are NOT SEMITES.
They are imposters merely committing fraud against the German Govmnt for forcing lies and gaslighting upon the people.
Yes. My Christian Persian friend loves to point out the irony of his semitism. And he is correct of course.
Persians are not Semites but Indo-Europeans, though there are Arab and Jewish minorities in Iran.
My Persian friend would disagree. He looks Arab with a very dark skin tone. Definitely not indo-european or Northern European. Not Mediterranean at all.
Reread my comment and then go look at the Nuremberg laws.
Ack! I saw "Nuremberg" and went "trials".
But, not a what-about, one cannot look at what is happening in Palestine and say," Nothing bad happened to the 'Palestinians' because really blah blah blah so as you can see there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
The Zionists through deception, $$$, war are watching their "civilizational" experiment fall apart by self-annihilation.
Ernest Judd
Exactly the kind of comment that enables racist laws. They aren't really racist because blah blah blah definition of a race. So the laws that enable rounding up large numbers of people for reasons that center around perceptions of certain loudly proclaimed racial characteristics are O.K.
Nothing bad happened to the Jews because really blah blah blah so as you can see there is no such thing as a Jew. Just undesirables and we all knew who they were.
Exactly! Evil creeps in under cover of a linguistic fog of open definitions.
Umm... the Zionists/Jews just propagated lies from the point that they were "legally defined". But even at that, there is the little issue of the FRAUD that was the "Balfour Declaration": member of the House of Lords writes a "gimme" to the Zionists at the dinner table, the letter WITHOUT the Seal of HRM, and without any consult of the residents already leaving there!
Then the violence started against the Palestinians AND the British forces there, only to be carried out for another 100 years until today.
Think Colonial Europe crusading, exploring then rape pillage plunder until the "savages" ARE SUBDUED.
Don't be such a bigot towards the Palestinians!
Ernest Judd
Did I possibly hear something about bigotry? Hmmm. I wonder where that could have been.
They know. Mistakes of that size are not made innocently.
It's targeted humiliation.
Hanlons Razor...they don`t know or understand or care where this all leads.
And are not very bright as individuals and even less so in groups..
Which explains why so many western govts/universities are all following the same game plan.
People want simple answers "they all know"..which requires sentience and communicating the "plans" to other countries..for the last 30 years.Zero evidence of course.
Thats why the far more dangerous and insidious answer is..group think disguised by language all marching along spouting Orwellian "good intentions".
You just described why these politicians have no business holding the reins of power. Especially when you consider that Greens hover between 5-15% in popularity but dominated the Schultz government and have also highly influenced Merz, acting as the hinge in critical parliamentary decisions like kingmakers.
"You just described why these politicians have no business holding the reins of power."
To the contrary -- he just described why such politicians are inevitable.
Maybe the population is just too checked out to notice.
BTW, I tried to download the app but it doesn’t like my phone so I’ll try a tablet next.
I agree with you 100%.
We have the same problems in Australia.
We don't have a bill of rights like the Americans.
They are tightening the ratchet on speech everyday...
Its sunny socialism with a baton..
Maybe if they let you keep your bread and circuses (beach and BBQ) you’ll still be happy-ish.
Until beaches and barbies are declared 'racist.'
The Greens originated as a coalition of Nazis and paedophiles. Since that inauspicious inception, they have only become worse.
Do non-leftist Germans not know this? Or do they give it absolution because it was all in the past? Considering their fixation on great-grandpa I’d think they aren’t too good with forgive and forget.
The Germans I have spoken to have a propensity to switch off entirely, even walk off in mid-sentence, if even a hint of a contentious subject rears its problematic head. They are terrified of wrongthink.
Yes beyond insane.How did we get this low? (Wanders off shaking head).
With weak morals and weak government.
True, but look also at the intense brainwashing towards compliance. It’s all about “doing your part to support the greater good.” Do not question the basic precepts however. Trust is crucial. Hate to say it, but breaking the trust is the way this system ultimately falls apart. When they decide their government is corrupt or too stupid and has destroyed the country.
I am fairly convinced that German law, being based upon Civil Law also plays a very large role in the mindset.
For instance…. In the US, obeying traffic rules and not throwing trash are governed by civil law in our codes. How many times have we heard we should be good citizens and put our trash in the bin? We get a fine for passing through a red light. We are not doing our civic duty.
These are not bad features per se but in the US we do not regard following such codes like diligent automatons sufficient for the complete guarantee of our rights. The US Constitution and the mindset that the citizens can challenge bad laws comes from English Common Law when stems from ideas such as Natural Law, God’s laws, the DaneLaw, and Magna Carta. The rights of the citizen and preventing the state from infringing upon those rights are held as the higher ethic.
I didn’t intend to get so off-track.
Now....
Germany.
The country functions on rules, and rigorous following of rules.
The absolute clarity and clear logic is quite marked in - it is one of the most ordered EU27 member states, even now.
One could say following rules is a national pass-time.
Nordic member states come close. As a former colleague said about former GM division Saab, the Swedish are failed Germans (i.e., 'almost').
The UK is always late, always ill-equipped and yet.. and yet.... somehow still manages to surprise. A British invention will amaze - just don't ask for a repeat demo because it might not work more than once.
At the opposite end of order, Greece regards law as a serving suggestion, and anything to do with tax has to be bypassed as a national rite. Oh, and every male is called Spiros, for tax purposes.
That's the joy of countries. we can take broad swipes at each other, knowing there is a grain of truth wrapped in a form of love. Across Europe, as one heads towards the heat (i.e., south) the emotions become more prominent.
Then there’s Italy. Think, chaos.
Exactly. Expensive, slow, sunny - glorious.
Loss of individuality.
We exist for the state.
Reinvent life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Actually, somewhat worse than "insanity".
It not insane. It is dictatorship.
Or oligarchy. Hey! Where’s Bernie?😂
And still, no-one actually GIVES offense. It must be TAKEN.
Dummheit, Tyrannei und Feigheit fuer das Deutsche Vaterland 🎶
I intend to follow the prosecution of the thugs who assaulted the women first, then the brave young man.
Everyone should know without doubt that these criminals cannot be allowed freedom in this society.
If ‘officers of the law’ are unwilling or unable to dispatch force against these violent criminals, then hire some plainclothes citizens who can practice their skills on these criminals. Full indemnity for consequences included. Soft answers and continual tolerance are not a winning strategy with these people. They are imprinted w unacceptable behavior, much like all predators in the wild But as you have discovered, they are not an endangered species that should be protected. Rather, they are a dangerous, invasive species that need to be immediately eliminated. The problem w letting predators like this continue is that they will simply refine their attacks until they lose all definition of what an appropriate victim should be. Fair game, as it were. And if you lock them up w each other, it’s like a university education on how to be more subtle, vicious, and powerful in dehumanizing and demoralizing the vulnerable. So it really must be done. Eliminate them. Period.
In the UK, the victim is prosecuted while the perpetrators are given free accommodation and an allowance to help with adjusting to society.
Where are the rugby lads when you need bureaucrats removed.
The truth is insulting.
It's not insane. It's sinister. And, of course, it's projection. The 'kind' and 'liberal' denizens of our best of all possible worlds are speedily advancing towards totalitarianism while accusing their anxious and honest critics of 'fascism' (that is to say opinions which the denizens don't like).
When the protective shield around these people becomes degraded, & it will become degraded, they will have to face the punishment their behaviour deserves.
As the old saying goes, snitches get stitches. Unfortunately, so do heroes, these days.
If you want to know who is in charge, ask who you can not speak out against. It seem nincompoops are in charge
Germans who still go to the brewhaus have to start noticing how uncool the authoritarianism really is.
Rudat is a hero. Since it’s 2025 Germany, he will likely be punished while the migrants walk free. US State Department should liberate Europe from nincompoops and snitches.
The US should let the German people liberate themselves this time. Freedom isn't free and the US shouldn't have to solve everybody else's problems. If we're going to use our blood and treasure, let's "liberate" Canada first. They've got a lot of natural resources.
German people need to experience max pain, whatever that is. Intervention simply enables the slow agony. USA needs to stop being interventionist and start focusing on our own problems.
1000%
The US State Department has “liberated” Germany enough as is.
It's not surprising that like Daniel Penny he's handsome, well spoken and courageous; doubtless in stark contrast to the scum the state will protect.
I was pregnant with my child when the Berlin Wall came down and I thought that meant he was going to be born into a world getting better for everyone. I was so happy.
And here I am knowing now that we managed to fuck up the world for our kids in ways we couldn't imagine. Well, we could imagine, couldn't we? History coming around again and kicking us in the throat.
Well, the big scale stuff looks grim.
But.
We all have to do our best, and as this entire substack shows, there are many good people out there. Not everything is as bleak as MSM would like us to think.
Yes, I know. But still normal parents want our children's lives to be good ones in every respect. It gets a little tiring, seeing the same battles needing to be fought for--what is it now--a trillion generations already?
🤔 I’m starting to think there is something to “human nature.” Also, Cain and Abel. Also, “eternal vigilance” we were warned about. Or my personal favorite….
“Evil (like rust) never sleeps.”
The patterns are unmistakable, when I read The Book. The 'stories' have been so distorted by careless humans for so long that unless you focus and look for the patterns one can miss so much. This itty bitty story in itself has so much content but it takes time and meditation and true searching to get to the heart of it. And when one finally thinks one 'gets it', it's almost all over.
Another cool thing about these 'stories' or 'myths' is when the pattern abruptly changes and then resumes. Like Enoch. Packs a whallop. Most people read over it paying no attention at all.
I was pregnant about the same time. Had so much hope my kid wasn't going to grow up with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation looming over them like it had for my cohort.
Gods, I was a hopeful little fool...
I wonder how many in the readership had the same experience. I remember it perfectly. Sitting at my dining room table looking across to the TV in the living room and seeing that remarkable moment as the wall started to be torn down.
I'd been in sixth grade when there were those internationally-publicized shootings of desperate attempted escapees by the East German guards and at least two of us in the classroom wrote (pretty lousy) short stories around the theme.
So yes--we had so much hope for our children's futures...
"with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation looming over them"
Ah, the Good Old Days.
My two children were 6 and 1 at the time. The idea of the 'peace dividend'...that we as a human race would be 'productive' rather than 'destructive' was so promising. Yes, I was so filled with hope and see, as you do, what a fool I was. I'm so glad that as Life unfolded I chose bravery instead of cowardice, like this young man. I spoke the truth when others mocked me, was aware of and when i had the power to correct, injustice.
Spread kindness because that's truly the best way for ourselves. Even if it means being a fool.
Who are “we?” 😂
I for one did not vote for the dementia patient nor did I willingly further the actions of the Faucist.
I've never read it, but I believe Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" explores extensively this notion: "History coming around again and kicking us in the throat."
And you'll remember the absurdly titled 1990's tome "The Last Man and the End of History."
You don't want to get me started on professional intellectuals.
Eugyppius, I hope the German authorities are hugely embarrassed by the publicity given to the attack on this courageous young American, but I fear they may be too busy directing their energies towards the more important crime of policing internet insults.
Chancellor Merz is rather excited to be on the next train to Kyivvv. He had a lot of fun on that train recently. His friend 'little' Napoleon Macron and 'weak link' Starmer KC joined in. Oh what fun. Toot! Toot!
Like a weekend at Bernie’s with coke.
😂 Nah, a Weekend at Bernie’s would require Biden present.
You mean O'Biden the Younger, 'just call me' Dr Jill or O'Biden the Elder?
Elder, definitely. All those years of rehearsal for the “Bernie” role. 😂
It seems Alexandria Occasional-Cortez could run in 2028.
Perhaps we could give the USA, to mark the 250th anniversary of the d-i-v-o-r-c-e, one of our fabled paper weights?
Tone Blurrrr (criminal), John 'Major' Tool, Lord Diddi of Cameron, Nikki Cleggi (yup, of Meta fame), Dame T May (astoundingly useless), BoJo (world class fool), 'Dishi-Rishi' Sunak-Goldman-Sachs (rich but silly), or.... yes..... Mr KR 'son of a tool' Starmer KC?
A fabulous choice of Net Zero.
"Thomas Takes A Dive."
I found a simple CGI video featuring Thomas the Tank Engine, in multiple crashes. Somebody has waaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
Internet policing is the biggest vocation in Canada.
I hear Lord Carney is a fine leader, with 119 conflicts of interest, who wants Canada to become part of Germany as long as Germany buys all the LNG.
Do you think there's space for the former Prime Minister Just-in Trud-eau to join in with the fun?
Ah. I see. Surf's up!
Would love that to come to pass.
Unfortunately Canada doesn’t have the pipelines or coastal ports to make it work.
Prime Minister Carney is preoccupied making the world understand that Islamic values are Canada’s values.
We can stone an adulterer but we cannot move fossil fuels.
Well, the US of A is happy to fix the LNG market by blowing up a major natural gas pipeline or 4, and then ship the stuff as the price rose rapidly. Canada has the potential to also ship, although the proposed port looks like there's not many people there.
As for the 'dear' Lord Carney 'values' - Allahuhahahaha Akbar!
USA already ships natural gas to Germany.
Trudeau had said there was no “business “ case, so the Americans seized the opportunity.
That’s the history of Canada.
Germany is not the only EU27 member state in need of LNG.
Overall, the shortage should ensure opportunities for all - and that includes Canada.
The USA exports only the excess.
At times supplies for export can go 'tight'.
Also - Just-in was plain wrong, and not for the first time.
Germany and the UK are moving in tandem towards utter defeat of their people from within their own states / governments .
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1959713644519780597
I don’t like it at all and it should not be happening but I’m grateful to be aware of this and sadly massive amounts of treason across EU and UK
Amazing, isn't it, how granny-lefty politicians especially think they're practically gods and goddesses and any sort of verbal put-downs like these reported above are blasphemous and need to be stamped out. At the same time, they don't mind at all when migrants not only attack native Germans - 'Bio-Deutsche' - verbally like calling them 'kartoffel' (potato) and such, but also physically with knives, because 'it's their culture'.
Here's a nice thought experiment: what would this Green politician say if a migrant called her 'kartoffel' in public?
Nothing would happen. She’d probably hand him a potato from her market bag, saying- “He must need it more than me.”
Ouch - and ye'r probably correct!
What is needed is another speech by Vance, at a very public european forum, calling out these particular speech issues and state that unless this stops the USA is going to stop any pretense of defending Europe.
There is no right not to be insulted, when you are provably a nincompoop.
I'm sure Donald Trump has been repeatedly insulted in German media. Could he sue under the law used by German politicians? If it could only be availed of by German politicians, that would be discriminatory, and as we all know, discrimination is Double-Plus Ungood.
He knows he’s being insulted in German media. Always has been. Remember the journalist with the big hair who laughed at Trump for his warnings on over-reliance upon Russian fuels??? That did not age well.
There are allowed insults and allowed hate: Putin, Trump, Vance, Xi, comming soon, Modi, Lula, all Iranians and Venezuelans except Guaidó.
The rest is civil blasphemy.
Vance just slapped Starmer over UK iPhone surveillance. Maybe further tariffs-sanctions are in order to draw further world attention to digital services act.
Thanks for the new article as well as the update on Rudat. I have no idea what the German broadcaster said, but Rudat struck me as a salt of the earth mid-Westerner. Nice man who has been raised to help those around him .
In Sweden, such remarks if made against a government official in the execution of their duty are punsihable by up to six months in prison, effective from 2nd of July this year.
And the way our laws work, if I was to give hypothetical and fictitious example, it could count as criminal speech anyway, if the prosecutor convinces the court that it is so.
Since Swedish courts are manned by 1-3 judes (dep. on the size and scope of the case) "advised" by 3-5 politicians and the court votes on the verdict. . . you can guess the rest, yes?
The pilot-case is up in court soon. A man walked up to police at Arlanda Airport and said a verse from an old childrens' rhyme (in English: "police, police, potato-pig"; i.e. someone who roots out stuff where's he's not invited to be), which caused one police to grab the man's arm. The man then had the temerity to "tense his arm in a manner perceived as threatening" and was arrested.
In more positive news, the artist Dan Park was released from prison a couple of weeks early, having served his second prison sentence for his art.
And of course, there's that law that makes reporting on things that miht give foreigners a negative opinion of Sweden a crime too: although it is intended for inciting terrorism and to curb espionage disguised as journalism, we all know that a law means what the men with the guns decides it to mean.
Use the 2nd to defend the 1st, Americans, because otherwise you'll lose it all - and quickly too.
QUOTE: Use the 2nd to defend the 1st, Americans, because otherwise you'll lose it all - and quickly too.
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The Second Amendment is the BODYGUARD of the First, and of all other Amendments and rights.
There’s always carrier pigeons. Never forget that. We def appreciate our 2A. 🇺🇸
Right. Spelling-errors that are hilarious, maybe. Our courts are manned by 1-3 /judges/, not judes!
Firstly - John Rudat is a very good man.
Secondly - the fine is back to front.
The economist is owed €16100 from the pseudo politician (plus interest at 10% per minute, compound), €32200 from the 'student' (plus interest at 5% per hour, compound) and €1.61 million from the self important pseudo journalist - on the grounds his / her / zey 'reach is bigger, and so much more is owed.
This barely begins to address the deep damage done by libtards.
But you seem to have mastered Annalena 360-degree math. 👍🏿
You are correct.
You know, I dislike hesitating to use the word 'right' meaning correct.
It's a form of self-censorship.
So, you are right, as well!
The word right has an interesting etymology. Right as is correct. Right handed is correct-handed.
Left handed is wrong-handed.
Left handed in the Middle Ages was a “sign of the devil.”
Well - I'm left handed. Now you know.
I was ambi but my aunt told my mom to make sure I was right handed.
I was told off a lot, but continued left handed.
It is interesting.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/left-versus-right-what-are-the-differences?utm_source=publication-search
Hahaha! Well done! You all may enjoy this too… There is humor.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FbXqaOt5g
Thank you! Looks interesting, at half an hour long I will save for another day.
What a based economist and from Düsseldorf of all places. These thin skinned nincompoops are so tiresome. Since when is being a whorenalist a protected trait?
When all the news is state run media the journalists become representative of the state I suppose.
It's even more insidious in Germany. Apart from the multi billion public (i.e. government, churches, corporations, unions, lobbyists and other elites on the 'Rundfunkräte' boards) broadcasting networks, there is also considerable government influence on privately owned media. How so? Ministries and tax funded pseudo-NGOs spend millions, perhaps billions, on advertising in private newspapers, TV and maybe also YouTube. Some outlets are partly owned by political parties. 'Investigative partnership' collaborations funnel money from govt media to private media. Some local governments subsidize selected media organizations, renting them cheap offices, providing cheap loans etc. Many government officials and politicians have personal connections with private media owners and journalists too. The propaganda effort is massive, costly, and still relatively successful.
John Rudat came really close to losing an eye. His great attitude is pretty amazing.
In fact, he and his story are so perfect that I fully expect any minute now people to start claiming that's just a good make-up job and the whole thing was staged.
3...2...1...
Indeed. And he wanted to become a model. That is now probably of the table. I'm just waiting for the loathsome leftwing press to call him a right winger and/or Trump supporter
He might make facial scarring fashionable.
I think he already is a model - see dailymail.co.uk article today, where there’s a photograph of him in a pose.
Part-time model, paramedic, MMA fighter. Oh my.
https://twistedmalemag.com/johnathon-rudat-top-model-interview/
My son observes that a model who fights MMA has probably already well considered the consequences of facial disfigurement.
'the worst Economics Minister Germany has ever had'
You mean 💩?
😆
Well. What else would you expect from an economist?
Maybe an economic pun 😁
The cordon sanitaire isn’t just constructed against AfD, it’s set up against each and every citizen who has a differing political opinion on anything the overlords decree.
The people are being totally “X’d” out of existence - pun not intended - and severely punished to boot, for having the audacity to so much as speak out against their own government, the powers that be.
It’s increasingly astonishing that the German people have tolerated this obviously ongoing process of their total erasure, even their right in having a say as to how they are governed.
Shocking and frightening really.
The UK is just as bad - possibly even worse, if that’s even possible.
Problem in Germany is that they do have a culture of "obedience" but at the moment many of them are struggling to survive from one day to the other, they are not the fortunate aliens being funded by the Government.
Seems to be a foundational principle of the EU.
In Germany, I have the sense that being socially compliant offers a personal sense of superiority within the group. Whereas being identified as non-compliant makes you dirty and a cheater of society. Worthy of being shunned or worse. Like the new “Scarlet Letter” storyline. Someone ought to write a movie script and have a Vance character part of it. See how carefully and closely the line can be walked and observe how many Germans manage to “wake up” because if it.