Good to see Mrs Clinton having to sample at first hand the decay endemic across the West that are the consequences of the policies she and her pals such as Angela Merkel have inflicted on us all regardless of which country we reside in.
I live in Illinois (Mordor), but to the East we have Indiana. Perhaps you could contrast the economies of Germany and Poland, and what the present German government thinks about their neighbors to the East.
But that pic of Hillary was fantastic! It's been a long time since she has had to travel with the unwashed, a long time since she had to see the world through other than a dark-tinted window of a limousine. I see that she is still grifting, and that some group of idiots is still willing to pay her.
Yesterday I was thinking of the past six years. We've had BLM, mostly peaceful with welcoming bonfires, then it rolled into the Gaza bonanza with university presidents taking a knee much like the politicians did for BLM, and now we have the Anti-Ice demonstrations with officials not just taking a knee but going on a crusade for the agenda. I just wonder how long the Western vessel will hold or if the constant battering is leading to its shattering very soon.
Yes. We have the Democrats chanting and screaming EVERY DAY. There is always some great indignity to rail against. Their politicians get their moments to remind us how stupid we are and how deceitful they can be. They color outside the lines always.
I try to be nonpartisan, but I think the Democrats are chanting and screaming because they have nothing else to offer, certainly nothing in a constructive sense.
On a discussion of Rene Girard's work, someone quipped that the problem is that we live in hyper-Christian societies but without the Christ part. Everyone is looking for a victim to protect and uphold as sacred.
her muslim girlfriend dumped her to cozy up with the beta soros boy. She gets it that she needs soros cash but it must have hurt her emotionally, and who knows physically as well
In CA, it seems it is a great way to grift. Governor Brown, who I stupidly voted for for, pushed the choo choo train, perhaps due to nostalgia playing with a train set as a child. It is the stupidest idea ever. We had (past tense) great highways. People like to drive. And for those who can't, the money should've been invested in nice buses. I used to be a subway supporter until a Latino bus organization spelled out way it didn't work in LA. I changed my mind based on the facts they presented. I still take the metro but it is underutilized considering the mind boggling costs to build them.
It's the best way to get kickbacks. Roads disperse traffic, and towns boom and bust. But trains concentrate traffic, and train stops are permanent. A government contract along a rail line is a money printer for the next hundred years.
“He needs to fire all his SPD ministers, form a minority and achieve some kind of rapprochement with the AfD. Alas, neither Merz nor anybody else in CDU leadership has the mettle for that kind of fight…”
And that’s what all this comes down to: who’s got cojones?
They all see the handwriting on the wall, but either choose to burn it all down rather than admit they’ve made a mess of things, and/or are too cowardly to even try.
The one and only reason the USA is in the process of reversing all the damage over decades incurred by insane Leftist politics is because Trump has cojones of steel, and could care less about the slings and arrows thrust at him by the tonnage on a daily basis.
Until Europe and the UK mange to find their “Trump”- or their own cojones - the madness will only get worse.
As eugyppius said, Germany and the West in general are committing suicide. Somewhat slowly. But anyone can still see it. And that it becomes harder to reverse each day. E has explained this well. (Thanks!!)
And he has explained the political frozenness in Germany. Which maybe is roughly similar to France and Britain.
We can see that the Right came back in the US.
We can see the Right growing in Germany, France, Britain (others too).
What I do not understand (or maybe accept) is that people will allow this self-destruction without making a better fight.
Has ever taken drugs?
Or so so many merely cows?
Ok, the stupid politicians, who are now somewhat stupider than typical…are ineffectual. And so you let the nation and its people commit suicide?
Are there no leaders? No large group willing to take to the street? A convincing group to make some changes? Why has that not appeared by now?
Why and how is that failed hasbeen getting invited to any event with any relevance? As Secretary of State, her only significant political appointment, she mucked everything up. The only thing she could possibly convey at a Security Conference would be how not to do things.
Oh well, something WILL happen. The german gas storage reserves are dwindling in record speed and most probably will not be enough, leading to cutting off companies in the next few months.
But noone in charge even makes a peep to not disrupt the upcoming local elections too much.
And even if we manage to come through this winter, the EU does not have enough imports to refill sufficiently for the next winter.
I'm sure this attitude comes across in my comments but I want to state it explicitly
> “eugyppius,” said absolutely nobody ever, “why has it been so long since you last updated us on Germany? Is nothing going on? Tell us something please.”
I really appreciate and respect that you are *not* like all of the other culture war commentators, and you *don't* just come to us with an outrage-du-jour (outrage-des-Tages?), but you instead only cover something when you have something meaningful to say about it. Wish more people wrote like that
Your description of German politics sounds like what would have happened in the USA if Kamala Harris had won. We may not adore Trump, but at least the USA is not in a state of sclerosis.
Here in Sweden a county politician put forth a suggestion for giving public employees the opportunity to have sex while at work.
The local council voted in the affirmative for the issue to be looked into.
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Another fun one: prostitution is illegal, for the buyer. But not for the seller. So sometimes the office of taxation go after prostitutes demanding they pay taxes on their oincome from prostitution. But said office refuses to make public how they assess how much a specific prostitute has earned.
---
In the city of Malmö, the local food safety inspection this Summer confiscated 2 240 1L jars of Nutella, because the migrants running the store inspected had smuggled them into Sweden. So far, so normal.
However, since the jars are of glass and the lids plastic and Nutella is "food", this all has to be separated before being disposed of. Only, that's not the job of any of the city's departments (33 000 employees, 10% of the city's population). And, the food safety inspection can't give themselves an exemption from the rules; that's illegal. So the jars are sitting in storage while the head inspector is trying to get our government to look into the issue.
How is that for idiocy-as-administration? Do we measure up to "the German threshhold"?
The questions have been flying fast here for a week and the politician in question has made himself unavailable.
I spoke to a man from that region yesterday and he was flustered with annoyance to put it mildly (he's from the same party). It's election year and now people just snigger when he tries to get them to vote for his party.
Some of the questions have been fun:
"Does it have to be with co-workers or can you bring your party?"
"Will lube and condoms be provided by the county?"
"Will there be a special room? If so, who handles clean linen for the bed and such?"
"What about sex toys? Will they count as tax-deductable purchases for the purpose of increased work-place satisfaction and health?"
"Can you put in for overtime when using the sex-room?"
Good to see Mrs Clinton having to sample at first hand the decay endemic across the West that are the consequences of the policies she and her pals such as Angela Merkel have inflicted on us all regardless of which country we reside in.
Why is he going to this conference? She has no official role. She is an ex- politician.
Those sorts never really retire do they. She's still years younger than Pelosi isn't she?
Does such a thing really exist?
Yes, but only in sane societies.
I remember when Merkel opened the flood gates. It was sold as a humanitarian effort.
It’s a shame she wasn’t subjected to the violence she promotes as ‘diversity.’
She looked reslly fuzzed.
She probably had the shakes because she wasn't able to down her first bottle of chardonnay of the day.
Or drink adipose or feast on "jerky."
The evil oozes out of her
I live in Illinois (Mordor), but to the East we have Indiana. Perhaps you could contrast the economies of Germany and Poland, and what the present German government thinks about their neighbors to the East.
But that pic of Hillary was fantastic! It's been a long time since she has had to travel with the unwashed, a long time since she had to see the world through other than a dark-tinted window of a limousine. I see that she is still grifting, and that some group of idiots is still willing to pay her.
Why is Mrs. Clinton at a Munich Security Conference? She is not currently a member of the US Government.
Well, one would guess its always about the networks, not the actual official governments.
Yesterday I was thinking of the past six years. We've had BLM, mostly peaceful with welcoming bonfires, then it rolled into the Gaza bonanza with university presidents taking a knee much like the politicians did for BLM, and now we have the Anti-Ice demonstrations with officials not just taking a knee but going on a crusade for the agenda. I just wonder how long the Western vessel will hold or if the constant battering is leading to its shattering very soon.
Yes. We have the Democrats chanting and screaming EVERY DAY. There is always some great indignity to rail against. Their politicians get their moments to remind us how stupid we are and how deceitful they can be. They color outside the lines always.
I try to be nonpartisan, but I think the Democrats are chanting and screaming because they have nothing else to offer, certainly nothing in a constructive sense.
On a discussion of Rene Girard's work, someone quipped that the problem is that we live in hyper-Christian societies but without the Christ part. Everyone is looking for a victim to protect and uphold as sacred.
Outrage porn is a good description, and its well-funded counterinsurgency to keep us divided, distracted, and consent to more authoritarian crackdown.
Thanks for sharing this tidbit. Looks like that old bat couldn't commandeer a limousine.
BTW, doesn't anyone recognize her? The last photo I saw showed that she isn't aging well.
her muslim girlfriend dumped her to cozy up with the beta soros boy. She gets it that she needs soros cash but it must have hurt her emotionally, and who knows physically as well
HA!
There aren't enough bitchy comments for this woman.
The hardest part of that trip would be walking from the train to the street since she is usually drunk at that time of day.
You just gave us an amusing glimpse into what is not happening in Germany. I’m confident that whatever you write about will be worth the time to read!
The only thing a Western politician loves more than trains is transfer payments. Strange they only ride them when they have to.
In CA, it seems it is a great way to grift. Governor Brown, who I stupidly voted for for, pushed the choo choo train, perhaps due to nostalgia playing with a train set as a child. It is the stupidest idea ever. We had (past tense) great highways. People like to drive. And for those who can't, the money should've been invested in nice buses. I used to be a subway supporter until a Latino bus organization spelled out way it didn't work in LA. I changed my mind based on the facts they presented. I still take the metro but it is underutilized considering the mind boggling costs to build them.
It's the best way to get kickbacks. Roads disperse traffic, and towns boom and bust. But trains concentrate traffic, and train stops are permanent. A government contract along a rail line is a money printer for the next hundred years.
One seldom thinks of airports as being temporary, but compared to railroad tracks and stations, airports are more flexible.
“He needs to fire all his SPD ministers, form a minority and achieve some kind of rapprochement with the AfD. Alas, neither Merz nor anybody else in CDU leadership has the mettle for that kind of fight…”
And that’s what all this comes down to: who’s got cojones?
They all see the handwriting on the wall, but either choose to burn it all down rather than admit they’ve made a mess of things, and/or are too cowardly to even try.
The one and only reason the USA is in the process of reversing all the damage over decades incurred by insane Leftist politics is because Trump has cojones of steel, and could care less about the slings and arrows thrust at him by the tonnage on a daily basis.
Until Europe and the UK mange to find their “Trump”- or their own cojones - the madness will only get worse.
Let me say this again.
As eugyppius said, Germany and the West in general are committing suicide. Somewhat slowly. But anyone can still see it. And that it becomes harder to reverse each day. E has explained this well. (Thanks!!)
And he has explained the political frozenness in Germany. Which maybe is roughly similar to France and Britain.
We can see that the Right came back in the US.
We can see the Right growing in Germany, France, Britain (others too).
What I do not understand (or maybe accept) is that people will allow this self-destruction without making a better fight.
Has ever taken drugs?
Or so so many merely cows?
Ok, the stupid politicians, who are now somewhat stupider than typical…are ineffectual. And so you let the nation and its people commit suicide?
Are there no leaders? No large group willing to take to the street? A convincing group to make some changes? Why has that not appeared by now?
Let me answer my CRY for mercy a bit.
Yes, I understand that many in Germany fear a populism that could create another Hitler.
Yes, for the EU literally, and for “Europe” more generally, Germany is the big guy and has commonly been the most grown up.
So, to some degree Europe is led by Germany.
Melioni is leading with some common sense.
Why not a lot more others to help lead Europe out of this terrible mess?
Too complacent (the wealthy are drunk on their wealth?).
No courage?
No eyes? (I really cannot believe that a lot of the smarter people do not see this suicide happening.)
A feeling of helplessness?
WTF!!! WTF???
Wachet Auf!!!
Wake the f**k up and do something?
Have you lost your will to live?
Why and how is that failed hasbeen getting invited to any event with any relevance? As Secretary of State, her only significant political appointment, she mucked everything up. The only thing she could possibly convey at a Security Conference would be how not to do things.
Kind of like Uncle Joe, the walking tater tot…
Oh well, something WILL happen. The german gas storage reserves are dwindling in record speed and most probably will not be enough, leading to cutting off companies in the next few months.
But noone in charge even makes a peep to not disrupt the upcoming local elections too much.
And even if we manage to come through this winter, the EU does not have enough imports to refill sufficiently for the next winter.
Take that Putin!
Why didn't she just fly on her broom?
I misread the title "Lufthansa strike ..." like "Luftwaffe strikes Hillary". A rocket on the bitch had been good...
I'm sure this attitude comes across in my comments but I want to state it explicitly
> “eugyppius,” said absolutely nobody ever, “why has it been so long since you last updated us on Germany? Is nothing going on? Tell us something please.”
I really appreciate and respect that you are *not* like all of the other culture war commentators, and you *don't* just come to us with an outrage-du-jour (outrage-des-Tages?), but you instead only cover something when you have something meaningful to say about it. Wish more people wrote like that
Your description of German politics sounds like what would have happened in the USA if Kamala Harris had won. We may not adore Trump, but at least the USA is not in a state of sclerosis.
Allow me to cheer you up then:
Here in Sweden a county politician put forth a suggestion for giving public employees the opportunity to have sex while at work.
The local council voted in the affirmative for the issue to be looked into.
---
Another fun one: prostitution is illegal, for the buyer. But not for the seller. So sometimes the office of taxation go after prostitutes demanding they pay taxes on their oincome from prostitution. But said office refuses to make public how they assess how much a specific prostitute has earned.
---
In the city of Malmö, the local food safety inspection this Summer confiscated 2 240 1L jars of Nutella, because the migrants running the store inspected had smuggled them into Sweden. So far, so normal.
However, since the jars are of glass and the lids plastic and Nutella is "food", this all has to be separated before being disposed of. Only, that's not the job of any of the city's departments (33 000 employees, 10% of the city's population). And, the food safety inspection can't give themselves an exemption from the rules; that's illegal. So the jars are sitting in storage while the head inspector is trying to get our government to look into the issue.
How is that for idiocy-as-administration? Do we measure up to "the German threshhold"?
That first item is priceless.
As a public employee, I want to know more…
The questions have been flying fast here for a week and the politician in question has made himself unavailable.
I spoke to a man from that region yesterday and he was flustered with annoyance to put it mildly (he's from the same party). It's election year and now people just snigger when he tries to get them to vote for his party.
Some of the questions have been fun:
"Does it have to be with co-workers or can you bring your party?"
"Will lube and condoms be provided by the county?"
"Will there be a special room? If so, who handles clean linen for the bed and such?"
"What about sex toys? Will they count as tax-deductable purchases for the purpose of increased work-place satisfaction and health?"
"Can you put in for overtime when using the sex-room?"
That's some of the tamer ones...
And as a taxpayer, I wanna know - WHY?
Getting the reproduction-number up above 2.1 per woman?
Sweden wins!!
I had to watch the video twice to appreciate her penguin walk.
I was mostly wondering why she didn't bother to zip up her coat.