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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

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.

Mary Lucas's avatar

Why is he going to this conference? She has no official role. She is an ex- politician.

Patrick  Clarke's avatar

Those sorts never really retire do they. She's still years younger than Pelosi isn't she?

RevelinConcentration's avatar

So European media can interview her and reassure their viewers that not all Americans are crazy like Trump. Same reason Newsom is overseas. Liberal media of the world unite.

U L's avatar

Woe be me, if I didn't suspect something dark and sinister.

Eric F. ONeill's avatar

Does such a thing really exist?

Thomas F Davis's avatar

Yes, but only in sane societies.

Lynne Correia's avatar

They're terrified of being irrelevant. They are, of course, but these little talk fests give them feels

Yukon Dave's avatar

An 80 year old ex-something. Why? That is not easy for her

CMCM's avatar

Bad ex-politicans never really go away. They persist like a bad rash. When she's six feet under she'll finally be gone.

Henrybowman's avatar

Somebody has to carry the bag.

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

I remember when Merkel opened the flood gates. It was sold as a humanitarian effort.

Andrea's avatar

It’s a shame she wasn’t subjected to the violence she promotes as ‘diversity.’

Henrybowman's avatar

"Bleach your windshield, lady?"

Ray Noack's avatar

The evil oozes out of her

KCwoofie's avatar

She looked reslly fuzzed.

ChrisC's avatar

She probably had the shakes because she wasn't able to down her first bottle of chardonnay of the day.

Wendy Lee Hermance's avatar

Or drink adipose or feast on "jerky."

Alistair Penbroke's avatar

It would be good except that she would never make the connection between her politics and the state of the trains.

Cole N. Steele's avatar

Which flunky was wheeling her bag?

Jefferson Perkins's avatar

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.

Antonia Shusta's avatar

Why is Mrs. Clinton at a Munich Security Conference? She is not currently a member of the US Government.

Knalldi's avatar

Well, one would guess its always about the networks, not the actual official governments.

Henrybowman's avatar

Maybe she had an assignation with John Kerry, fellow Busybody Without Portfolio.

Quakeress's avatar

Newsome, that Cortez woman - they aren't members of the US goverment either, are they? MUC security conference desparately tried to round up US people they "could talk to", I guess.

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

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.

KCwoofie's avatar

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.

Tardigrade's avatar

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.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

There is nothing like a hearing

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

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.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

I haven’t noticed the hyper-Christian zeitgeist at all, except where He’s welcomed.

Wendy Lee Hermance's avatar

Outrage porn is a good description, and its well-funded counterinsurgency to keep us divided, distracted, and consent to more authoritarian crackdown.

Awilson's avatar

I had not heard that term, but it is accurate. Outrage Porn.

John Haupt's avatar

We must have revolution somewhere…no, it doesn’t matter where.

RioRosie's avatar

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.

Fra Raymond's avatar

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

RioRosie's avatar

HA!

There aren't enough bitchy comments for this woman.

Carol Anne's avatar

Bwaahahahaha!!! You’re killing’ me!

Mark Bob's avatar

This is the first I heard about Huma shacking up with Son of Soros. Well, all I can say is that it's good that Huma is well past her childbearing years. Some pairings should not produce offspring.

ChrisC's avatar

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.

Grape Soda's avatar

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!

Suzie's avatar

“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.

Joseph Little's avatar

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?

Trekman's avatar

"What I do not understand (or maybe accept) is that people will allow this self-destruction without making a better fight." It frustrates me too. Here in the States, if the election were held tomorrow, Trump's party would lose the House, and perhaps the Senate. It seems the left's turmoil inducing anti-ICE and affordability tantrums are working. It was Biden and the left that created the affordability issue, but now somehow Trump is to blame? And it is protestors interfering with ICE that are creating the turmoil, but somehow, Trump is the bad guy? Now, the party that gave you the problems in the first place are now worthy of controlling congress? It's baffling. There might be a psychological explanation for it, but all I can do is shake my head. It is as if the whole damn country needs psychoanalysis.

Joseph Little's avatar

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?

Alistair Penbroke's avatar

There's nothing unique about this time. The most extreme minority can usually dominate the majority. Those who fight often die for nothing. Left-wing dominated societies are hardly ever overthrown by people fighting from within. They are defeated on the battlefield, they collapse from within or they reform to become less left wing. But they are rarely defeated at the ballot box.

Joseph Little's avatar

Well, of course I cannot predict the future.

But what choice have we?

We must fight,even if we lose. We fight for our civilization, our way of life, our children. Even for ourselves.

Let us be happy warriors.

May God bless us to see well, to tell more of the truth, and give us, too David-like, the chance to defeat Goliath.

Amen. May it be so.

We are different than they. We do not ask our people to commit suicide. We do not look for Useful Idiots to die for the cause (such as Pretti). We protect our soldiers.

Does that increase our chances of success? I certainly hope: yes.

WillyH's avatar

I think you underestimate the ignorance of the general public these days. How does one small dog control a lot of sheep, they think they have to obey it. How do men control an animal as big and powerful as a horse? The horse doesn't know any better.

Joseph Little's avatar

Typo: has everyone taken drugs or “drugs”?

Nicholas's avatar

"Trump has cojones of steel, and couldn't care less about...". There, fixed it for you.

Suzie's avatar

Oops! Thanks ! 👍😉

Nicholas's avatar

Sorry to have been a pedant, but it is a mystery to me why modern American use of English should deliberately create a form of words that mean the opposite of the natural meaning of those words.

Joseph Little's avatar

Keep talking. You and each of us will bring them to common sense.

Also: do not believe anything from MSM. And that includes the polls they trumpet. One reason: even the better ones want drama that brings clicks (I say it too fast, but you get the idea).

Hold steady.

Will Hudson's avatar

The only thing a Western politician loves more than trains is transfer payments. Strange they only ride them when they have to.

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

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.

Will Hudson's avatar

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.

Chartertopia's avatar

One seldom thinks of airports as being temporary, but compared to railroad tracks and stations, airports are more flexible.

Rikard's avatar

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.

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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.

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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"?

OTOH/IMHO's avatar

Well, if they would just fuck each other instead of the taxpayers, I could live with that.

DevonshireDozer's avatar

I think you speak for millions of tax payers all across the world.

Tardigrade's avatar

That first item is priceless.

As a public employee, I want to know more…

Rikard's avatar

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...

AndyinBC's avatar

And as a taxpayer, I wanna know - WHY?

Rikard's avatar

Getting the reproduction-number up above 2.1 per woman?

Henrybowman's avatar

"a suggestion for giving public employees the opportunity to have sex while at work."

Will it be done by raffle, or a bidding system, or how? Elaborate!

As for the Nutella, my grandson had a suggestion: "Open all the jars up, then hold a rave for the local dogs!" Alas, chocolate poisons them, but points for imagination.

Rikard's avatar

One of the questions asked on social media here is:

"Will the s-e-x appear on my performance review?"

And yes, people have asked about raffles, personal preferences and such too.

Speaking of Nutella, if that had happened in the county I live in, the head of the local Health&safety would have called a local charity to come collect the jars.

But Malmö... well, easist way to describe it in modern-day American references is:

Michigan learing center-fraud plus Detroit plus Newsom-Bass California.

Since the 1980s.

Andy Pedraza's avatar

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.

Eric F. ONeill's avatar

Kind of like Uncle Joe, the walking tater tot…

Henrybowman's avatar

She has a list of the skeletons.

Including the 30% that weren't hers in the first place.

Andy Pedraza's avatar

I think that list expired ages ago. I mean, can what she has be worse than what we already know? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Knalldi's avatar

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.

Eidein's avatar

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

Clay's avatar

Why didn't she just fly on her broom?

AntonioB's avatar

I misread the title "Lufthansa strike ..." like "Luftwaffe strikes Hillary". A rocket on the bitch had been good...

Jim Brown's avatar

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.

MR's avatar

I had to watch the video twice to appreciate her penguin walk.

Tardigrade's avatar

I was mostly wondering why she didn't bother to zip up her coat.

Henrybowman's avatar

Potable antifreeze.