You can tell who has never built anything by how casually they speak about destroying things. If that happens long enough even "sane" people become oblivious to the destruction surrounding them.
But don't give up hope yet.
What we're seeing in the US is the power of the left in America draining away before our eyes. It was always a mile wide and an inch deep. More illusion than reality.
I hope you are right because if the left comes back we are doomed . I am noticing articles in NYT WAPO LA SF …all stories about “ polyamorous marriage “ .
In 2013 I noticed stories about “ boys in girls sports” . Harvard and NYT still set the culture so I am worried .
Similar…I started to get worried when the grade schools focused on nothing but state testing scores and proper curriculum began being eroded. Yet, when they started handing out “participation trophies” and kids didn’t suffer the agony of defeat so they learned to do better next time, that was the beginning of the end.
When your bar is set to equality of outcome, what should we expect? This is how we got Justice KB Jackson. An unqualified moronic fool for all to see. Hey, but she's the right color. This is how the leftists operate. They walk in the room unzip and piss in everyone's corner. I'm astounded at how even at this late date, they still have any voters. They can't do 5th grade math either I'd bet.
Yes . What is strange that Miss Ketanji actually speaks . She is unaware of how dumb she is . So , if she didn’t speak or attempt to write at least we would wonder a bit . Her being there is an embarrassment but she makes it much worse for everyone by announcing it . Even her liberal cohorts will occasionally put their head in their hands in disbelief
Yes, I know. But I'll tell you this, they will never do anything to change. It's not in their makeup. They will double down every time. Liberalism is a mental illness. They can't build anything. All they can do is ruin things like vandals. When do you ever hear a liberal extoll on what they can do to build a better nation. What are their ideas to build a better country? They never say. All they ever say is how much they hate Trump. They need to be in power to to impose their ideas. They are not interested in anything but globalism, elite power and sacking as much personal wealth as they can. All their so called ESG positions are to those ends. They actually despise the rest of us.
No culture can sustain abnormal norms, whether it's the Shakers, the Jacobins, Pol Pot, or inbred Ivy-ish snobs. Today our current crop of insular self-proclaimed elites are just starting to realize they don't have the money (or talent or strategic sense) to keep the wheels on. We just might avoid the worst if true grifters outnumber true believers. Keep the faith, hold the line, spit out the black pill (stop reading the dying prog-globalist outlets' propaganda).
Exactly because of this I voted right 1.5 years ago. And it got better, from the perspective of all those “polyamorous marriages“ and sports, which is important to me as a father of a middle school kid. However, I am looking at the current right, at least its older generation - the one that governs the country now - and I must say that I still feel that we are doomed. The process of getting there could be different, whether it is left or right, but the result will probably be all the same, unfortunately.
I guess you are oblivious of all that's been changing in this country recently? Like the most recent SCOTUS ruling regarding drawing voting districts by race? Actually following the 15 amendment as a matter of law which clearly prohibits inserting race cutouts into the election process? Probably the most impactful positive SCOTUS ruling we'll ever be likely to see in our lives?
These things actually matter you know. And if you think we could get "there" by going left in any way shape or form, you apparently have no idea actually where "there" even is. There's night and day. There's white and black. There's left and right. There's right and wrong. Not much grey "there".
Yeah . Something is going to break There is this theory “ the Fourth Turning “ that says every 80 years or so everything crashes down and we start again . It’s not new , civilizations seem to follow a pattern . An early indicator ( but it fizzled “ was in 2010 after the 2008 Great Steal , “ Occupy “ and “ Tea Party “ locked arms for weeks outside Goldman Sachs. I don’t know , men are weak now . It’s hard to imagine the guys from the Revolutionary war and civil war and WW 2 could manifest in this kale latte culture .
ILLUSION!? I think they’re about to be GONE! Between O’Keefe‘s reporting on act blue, the fraud, the SPLC, and now the supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering by race, I don’t think there is a Democrat party. Or won’t be. God I hope I’m right. Although the left being the left, they’ll find a way. A cheating way, but a way. With the help of the globalists trying to do away with Trump and sovereignty. Just hoping we can hang on.
God I hope you are right as well. I pray on my knees God will end them. At the moment, it seems to be working. He's listening. Look at all the wonderful things. Their financial scams and frauds uncovered. Their money laundering through USAID and sham NGO's exposed. The exposure of the SPLC's malfeasance. The foreign money scams of their Act Blue exposed. Their lawfare scams outed. Iran brought to it's knees. EPA rescinded Obama's scam 2009 "Endangerment Finding" for greenhouse gases, which had previously allowed the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide. Their insane agency level regulatory powers in the wake of Supreme Court cases like Chevron/Loper Bright, demolished! Now Louisiana v. Callai!!!!! No more racial gerrymandering enforceable to the lowest county offices across all 50 states!
These are not small things. These are crushing like a house sized boulder. We are watching them bankrupted, interdicted and die painfully. What is happening right now is beyond anything in the past 70 years! It's like emerging from the dark into the light and fresh air after decades wandering blind. Praise the Lord and Donald Trump!
Man... what are you talking about? The left in the US is not going anywhere. The Trump admin has only a few short months left and it has so for achieved next to nothing in it's tenure (except for Bibi ofc).
Keeping hopeful is great and all but don't be delusional.
Like Carney, Starmer, Albanese, Sanchez and the prize clown Macron - Merz is just another globalist-appointed puppet whose job it is to run his country into the ground.
The blue-collar class are to be stripped of their jobs, communities and values, whilst the white-collar classes are to be stripped of their capital and property…….
………..nation states are to be uniformly constructed as digital prisons: money, food, water, energy and freedoms will be rationed…….later even the number of years that can be lived.
Destroying the working and middle classes, and putting us in digital prisons seems to be the plan, but I can't imagine it ever being realized. Too many people have been made suspicious by the globalists' Covid test-run, and too few have been stripped of their values. It's going to be a struggle, but the digital universe seems too fragile and too easily hacked to become a prison. Maybe it's time I re-watch The Matrix.
Most people just believe everything they are told on the evening news each night, spoon-fed by the MSM, herded into echo-chambers of compliance and self-righteous obedience. Censorship is now desirable to stop 'misinformation'. Dissent is for conspiracy theorists. So I am depressed about our future in this regard. The digital ID will be enforced. I still want to draw my pension otherwise it's over for me; so I will comply and obey, EXCEPT for any 'vaccine' or forced jab. I will not comply and would rather end myself somewhere quiet.
This is why figures like Trump are politically necessary.
Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office.
Trump’s defining characteristic is that he doesn’t care even a little about respectable opinion. This frees him to do things the political class considers scandalous but are broadly popular in the electorate. Germany needs its own Trump, but got a Merz instead.
Germany’s political system unfortunately does not facilitate the emergence of anti-establishment politicians. The price of that has been the establishment of what may be the Western world’s most deeply entrenched, and therefore wildly incompetent, political cartel.
"Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office."
This is the gist of it, 100%. Can't tolerate being seen as mean or bad, whereas Trump revels in it.
Both are absolutely true. What real every day citizens want is the truth, courage of conviction, and the ability to execute. To an extent and not too many people remember but that’s how Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota decades ago. (Compare him to the nitwit in office now). At one time citizens of Minnesota actually voted sensibly before having their electorate compromised by unfettered migration and feminization of the male.
This is all about the power of the left to enforce their world view and pressure others into using their language.
Chris Bray writes about this often regarding california republicans. If you allow the insane to set the terms of debate, to define the language and the allowable words and ideas, the debate is over before it starts.
The Zio-Kikes have you scapegoating the wrong people!
The "White Empire forced immigration gambit" has Fatmericans reeling for feeling invaded by people of different coloured skin, so the true face of Fatmerica's identity is really "bigotry based on skin pigmentation."
But whatever you do, never besmirch the Zio-Kikes.
It's still difficult to comprehend for an outsider how Germany could have transitioned from a sensible, disciplined, efficient and successful economy into what it has become now?
From an impartial outside perspective, Germany appears to have committed social and economic suicide in the name of some ill-defined progressive unicorn dream and also appears to be unable to recognize the obvious indications that it hasn't worked.
Even with the excellent inside insights of Eugyppius, I'm still unable to understand how this could have happened.
BUT, I'm not a believer in coincidences and I don't believe this is accidental. The fingerprints of the Globalist "elites" and the push towards the glorious NWO can be seen all over this, as in most Western "democracies".
Yeah, I can't figure it out either. After so many years visiting Germany, and time and again seeing their practicality and efficiency, and their non-existent tolerance for nonsense, I can't understand how they swept it all aside for these virtuous climate and immigration policies. That said, they certainly have proved they could do it better than any of their neighbors—the self-destruction, that is.
Well one small clue that I remember from my childhood was a conversation that I had/overheard between my older sister and other family members. She had worked in a factory in Germany which was unusual for an Irish person in the 1960's. The usual remarks about how efficient and successful Germany had become were being made but she remarked, "No, it's mainly because the workers are so obedient and do what they are told'.
The Germans, through intelligence and discipline, have put together an advanced society that addresses pretty much every basic need.
I think this has had the unfortunate side effect of making everyone who has been born and raised in this environment to forget how bad things could be; this, in turn, leads to mass stupidity.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Merz is "what happens when you mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles." What a pithy and brilliant description. Banality in politics can linger for a long time, but not forever.
In the US we had Washington , Lincoln and FDR ..all about 80 years apart . We need a President with actual powers not a “ deep state “ . Unfortunately, Trump is not the guy
Well, maybe during the times of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR it was not obvious that these men were transformative leaders. Maybe it is only clear in hindsight.
The red flag - First Bus. That's an 'uh-oh' moment, painted in the carriages.
The reality: The train sets off more or less on time, and then runs to a schedule which works in the land of UFOs, picking up delays at every single stop. It's that basic. If the track system was better, if there was more rolling stock, it might work - but why schedule for what is not possible?
The result - the compound delays at some point each day cancel an entire service. Then it sets off all over again.
It is beyond silly.
A schedule which neither the track, the signals or the rolling stock can support.
A journey from Lippstadt to Dusseldorf, feasible in a car within 1.5 hours during rush hour, looked like it was going to arrive after my flight took off. Which it didn't.
They don't and haven't been for several years now. It's so bad that Deutsche Bahn (the main German train operator) had to find clever ways to hide the average delay, e.g. by simply not counting cancelled trains. Funny thing is this was revealed 10 years ago by some data science dude. And it got much worse since then.
I was in Germany, primarily Bavaria, last fall. The sense of decay and world weariness was astounding to me, not having been there since 2006. Truly saddening.
Im going to say it until I'm blue in the face. The problem is WEAK men.
We are where we are in this world because men are either incapable of or refuse to be strong. Merz embodies this.
History teaches it with merciless clarity:
Peoples who obey out of fear lose not only their rights. but also their character. They become shadows of themselves. willing accomplices in their own downfall. Those who bow today out of fear will discover tomorrow that tge chains they themselves helped to carry can no longer be cast off.
Only when their own hardship finally reaches them, when the abstract warnings have turned into bitter, tangible reality, will they understand that they themselves, through their long silence, through their cowardice in the face of the truth and their willingness to be deceived, have enabled the downfall.
In the US “ White Europeans “ were about 85% of population in 1960 . Today it is 56% and falling fast.
No Country for old men …
I grew up in the 50’s . 1950-1965 ( LBJ Great Society) will never be repeated .
On Prime you can watch “ Leave it Beaver “ and “ Donna Reed “ ..yup exactly the way it was . You know , Mom Dad ( both white and biologically real ) and two well adjusted innocent kids that didn’t think they we “ in the wrong body “
The perversion in US continues with “ polyamorous marriage “ next up
Large portions of the electorate choosing suicidal paths solely to feel virtuous in opposing the "other" political party? Where have I seen this before?
Regarding the comment on Germans wanting to prove how determined they can be in persevering with their goals against all odds, it reminds me of my sister telling me my strengths were my weaknesses, which I naturally didn't agree with, but in this case I can see how it can be true.
Brilliant writing! "It is in our ethnic character to do everything longer, harder and in more determined suicidal fashion than everybody else. We must take everything to the absolute extreme to demonstrate our moral commitment, in the process proving to everyone else how stupid our ideological persuasions actually are." No one with a drop of German blood (or brains) could argue this summary.
I see myself in that. I was bring something to its conclusion, no matter the hours or effort long after I start to suspect the result will not be good.
I fear Britain would give Germany a run for its money. Unfortunately like the rest of the Anglosphere we have the obsession with DEI on top of bad policies. This is driving a seemingly irreversible demographic shift that is amplified by our ruling class demolishing our history, heritage and culture.
It is a kind of madness among our ruling elites. They are absolutely committed and they do not hide it. They genuinely view pushback against their suicidal policies as insanity and hate. I cannot fathom their mindset as they too will be harmed by the things they usher into existence.
Only today an elderly Jewish man was stabbed by a Somali seemingly wandering the area looking for Jews to harm. And yet many leading Jews want much more immigration into Britain. They are by no means the worst example. I don't understand what is going on.
You can tell who has never built anything by how casually they speak about destroying things. If that happens long enough even "sane" people become oblivious to the destruction surrounding them.
But don't give up hope yet.
What we're seeing in the US is the power of the left in America draining away before our eyes. It was always a mile wide and an inch deep. More illusion than reality.
I hope you are right because if the left comes back we are doomed . I am noticing articles in NYT WAPO LA SF …all stories about “ polyamorous marriage “ .
In 2013 I noticed stories about “ boys in girls sports” . Harvard and NYT still set the culture so I am worried .
we're not only doomed, they'll hunt us down like prey.
Lock and load.
Ammo. Lots of ammo.
Lol
The time to hoard is, all the time.
Scorched earth doesn’t even begin to plumb the depths of their depravity in exacting retribution should they regain power.
F’ing A right.
Similar…I started to get worried when the grade schools focused on nothing but state testing scores and proper curriculum began being eroded. Yet, when they started handing out “participation trophies” and kids didn’t suffer the agony of defeat so they learned to do better next time, that was the beginning of the end.
During the summer of St. Floyd in 2020 UCSD eliminated the SAT and recruited from minority neighborhood schools around San Diego .
In September 2025 , 60% of incoming Freshmen at UC San Diego could not “ round 274,518 to the nearest hundred “ …that is 5 th grade math .
When your bar is set to equality of outcome, what should we expect? This is how we got Justice KB Jackson. An unqualified moronic fool for all to see. Hey, but she's the right color. This is how the leftists operate. They walk in the room unzip and piss in everyone's corner. I'm astounded at how even at this late date, they still have any voters. They can't do 5th grade math either I'd bet.
Yes . What is strange that Miss Ketanji actually speaks . She is unaware of how dumb she is . So , if she didn’t speak or attempt to write at least we would wonder a bit . Her being there is an embarrassment but she makes it much worse for everyone by announcing it . Even her liberal cohorts will occasionally put their head in their hands in disbelief
Yes, I know. But I'll tell you this, they will never do anything to change. It's not in their makeup. They will double down every time. Liberalism is a mental illness. They can't build anything. All they can do is ruin things like vandals. When do you ever hear a liberal extoll on what they can do to build a better nation. What are their ideas to build a better country? They never say. All they ever say is how much they hate Trump. They need to be in power to to impose their ideas. They are not interested in anything but globalism, elite power and sacking as much personal wealth as they can. All their so called ESG positions are to those ends. They actually despise the rest of us.
No culture can sustain abnormal norms, whether it's the Shakers, the Jacobins, Pol Pot, or inbred Ivy-ish snobs. Today our current crop of insular self-proclaimed elites are just starting to realize they don't have the money (or talent or strategic sense) to keep the wheels on. We just might avoid the worst if true grifters outnumber true believers. Keep the faith, hold the line, spit out the black pill (stop reading the dying prog-globalist outlets' propaganda).
Exactly because of this I voted right 1.5 years ago. And it got better, from the perspective of all those “polyamorous marriages“ and sports, which is important to me as a father of a middle school kid. However, I am looking at the current right, at least its older generation - the one that governs the country now - and I must say that I still feel that we are doomed. The process of getting there could be different, whether it is left or right, but the result will probably be all the same, unfortunately.
I guess you are oblivious of all that's been changing in this country recently? Like the most recent SCOTUS ruling regarding drawing voting districts by race? Actually following the 15 amendment as a matter of law which clearly prohibits inserting race cutouts into the election process? Probably the most impactful positive SCOTUS ruling we'll ever be likely to see in our lives?
These things actually matter you know. And if you think we could get "there" by going left in any way shape or form, you apparently have no idea actually where "there" even is. There's night and day. There's white and black. There's left and right. There's right and wrong. Not much grey "there".
Yeah . Something is going to break There is this theory “ the Fourth Turning “ that says every 80 years or so everything crashes down and we start again . It’s not new , civilizations seem to follow a pattern . An early indicator ( but it fizzled “ was in 2010 after the 2008 Great Steal , “ Occupy “ and “ Tea Party “ locked arms for weeks outside Goldman Sachs. I don’t know , men are weak now . It’s hard to imagine the guys from the Revolutionary war and civil war and WW 2 could manifest in this kale latte culture .
ILLUSION!? I think they’re about to be GONE! Between O’Keefe‘s reporting on act blue, the fraud, the SPLC, and now the supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering by race, I don’t think there is a Democrat party. Or won’t be. God I hope I’m right. Although the left being the left, they’ll find a way. A cheating way, but a way. With the help of the globalists trying to do away with Trump and sovereignty. Just hoping we can hang on.
Right?! And when we take illegals out of the census in 2030 they'll lose at least 17 seats!
Crazy time to be alive.
Im thinking we'll need to build Noah's Ark to weather all the liberals tears!
Shouldn't we really be aiming to take illegals out of the country?
Best way to take them out of the census at the same time. :D
Yes.Yes.Yes.
God I hope you are right as well. I pray on my knees God will end them. At the moment, it seems to be working. He's listening. Look at all the wonderful things. Their financial scams and frauds uncovered. Their money laundering through USAID and sham NGO's exposed. The exposure of the SPLC's malfeasance. The foreign money scams of their Act Blue exposed. Their lawfare scams outed. Iran brought to it's knees. EPA rescinded Obama's scam 2009 "Endangerment Finding" for greenhouse gases, which had previously allowed the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide. Their insane agency level regulatory powers in the wake of Supreme Court cases like Chevron/Loper Bright, demolished! Now Louisiana v. Callai!!!!! No more racial gerrymandering enforceable to the lowest county offices across all 50 states!
These are not small things. These are crushing like a house sized boulder. We are watching them bankrupted, interdicted and die painfully. What is happening right now is beyond anything in the past 70 years! It's like emerging from the dark into the light and fresh air after decades wandering blind. Praise the Lord and Donald Trump!
Your last sentence is bang on. Never give up hope.
Man... what are you talking about? The left in the US is not going anywhere. The Trump admin has only a few short months left and it has so for achieved next to nothing in it's tenure (except for Bibi ofc).
Keeping hopeful is great and all but don't be delusional.
Like Carney, Starmer, Albanese, Sanchez and the prize clown Macron - Merz is just another globalist-appointed puppet whose job it is to run his country into the ground.
The blue-collar class are to be stripped of their jobs, communities and values, whilst the white-collar classes are to be stripped of their capital and property…….
………..nation states are to be uniformly constructed as digital prisons: money, food, water, energy and freedoms will be rationed…….later even the number of years that can be lived.
Merz is the German facilitator.
Destroying the working and middle classes, and putting us in digital prisons seems to be the plan, but I can't imagine it ever being realized. Too many people have been made suspicious by the globalists' Covid test-run, and too few have been stripped of their values. It's going to be a struggle, but the digital universe seems too fragile and too easily hacked to become a prison. Maybe it's time I re-watch The Matrix.
Most people just believe everything they are told on the evening news each night, spoon-fed by the MSM, herded into echo-chambers of compliance and self-righteous obedience. Censorship is now desirable to stop 'misinformation'. Dissent is for conspiracy theorists. So I am depressed about our future in this regard. The digital ID will be enforced. I still want to draw my pension otherwise it's over for me; so I will comply and obey, EXCEPT for any 'vaccine' or forced jab. I will not comply and would rather end myself somewhere quiet.
Hope you’re correct Danno.
As it stands it’s 50/50 I think.
6% of Dutch deaths are by assisted dying already!
Canada is bad also ….and it’s not just terminal patients
Canada has gone from a trickle to full on killing spree in just a few years. What the f is going on???
Culling the old and sick helps keep their universal health care solvent.
Life catches up to Science Fiction (The Jigsaw Man, Larry Niven).
The only white collar class members who
This is why figures like Trump are politically necessary.
Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office.
Trump’s defining characteristic is that he doesn’t care even a little about respectable opinion. This frees him to do things the political class considers scandalous but are broadly popular in the electorate. Germany needs its own Trump, but got a Merz instead.
Germany’s political system unfortunately does not facilitate the emergence of anti-establishment politicians. The price of that has been the establishment of what may be the Western world’s most deeply entrenched, and therefore wildly incompetent, political cartel.
"Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office."
This is the gist of it, 100%. Can't tolerate being seen as mean or bad, whereas Trump revels in it.
Both are absolutely true. What real every day citizens want is the truth, courage of conviction, and the ability to execute. To an extent and not too many people remember but that’s how Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota decades ago. (Compare him to the nitwit in office now). At one time citizens of Minnesota actually voted sensibly before having their electorate compromised by unfettered migration and feminization of the male.
This is all about the power of the left to enforce their world view and pressure others into using their language.
Chris Bray writes about this often regarding california republicans. If you allow the insane to set the terms of debate, to define the language and the allowable words and ideas, the debate is over before it starts.
The Zio-Kikes have you scapegoating the wrong people!
The "White Empire forced immigration gambit" has Fatmericans reeling for feeling invaded by people of different coloured skin, so the true face of Fatmerica's identity is really "bigotry based on skin pigmentation."
But whatever you do, never besmirch the Zio-Kikes.
Re: MN. Don't forget election fraud.
"Trump revels in it."
His enemies made a mistake by hanging 85 risible felony counts on him before his election. Now he has absolutely no "reputation" to lose.
You're absolutely right.
Basically, in today's world, what it takes is the ability to endure being called a raaaaaaacist devoid of empathy.
My empathy grows weaker by the day, while increasing my intolerance of stupidity and willful ignorance. It’s a good thing I stay mostly to myself.
It's still difficult to comprehend for an outsider how Germany could have transitioned from a sensible, disciplined, efficient and successful economy into what it has become now?
From an impartial outside perspective, Germany appears to have committed social and economic suicide in the name of some ill-defined progressive unicorn dream and also appears to be unable to recognize the obvious indications that it hasn't worked.
Even with the excellent inside insights of Eugyppius, I'm still unable to understand how this could have happened.
BUT, I'm not a believer in coincidences and I don't believe this is accidental. The fingerprints of the Globalist "elites" and the push towards the glorious NWO can be seen all over this, as in most Western "democracies".
Yeah, I can't figure it out either. After so many years visiting Germany, and time and again seeing their practicality and efficiency, and their non-existent tolerance for nonsense, I can't understand how they swept it all aside for these virtuous climate and immigration policies. That said, they certainly have proved they could do it better than any of their neighbors—the self-destruction, that is.
Precisely, they almost actually made Communism work in East Germany.
Well one small clue that I remember from my childhood was a conversation that I had/overheard between my older sister and other family members. She had worked in a factory in Germany which was unusual for an Irish person in the 1960's. The usual remarks about how efficient and successful Germany had become were being made but she remarked, "No, it's mainly because the workers are so obedient and do what they are told'.
They are also serious workers. When they work, they work. No small talk, no shooting the breeze.
Doesn't sound like a very Irish friendly workplace...
The Germans, through intelligence and discipline, have put together an advanced society that addresses pretty much every basic need.
I think this has had the unfortunate side effect of making everyone who has been born and raised in this environment to forget how bad things could be; this, in turn, leads to mass stupidity.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
My tinfoil hat insists that Yuval Noah Harari has just shut up about what he has learned how to do, and is now just busy doing it.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Merz is "what happens when you mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles." What a pithy and brilliant description. Banality in politics can linger for a long time, but not forever.
In the US we had Washington , Lincoln and FDR ..all about 80 years apart . We need a President with actual powers not a “ deep state “ . Unfortunately, Trump is not the guy
Well, maybe during the times of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR it was not obvious that these men were transformative leaders. Maybe it is only clear in hindsight.
Apart from the classic German aversion to debt. That got left off the mimeograph somehow.
And, I hear the trains don't even run on time anymore.
I had the pleasure of observing this last autumn.
The red flag - First Bus. That's an 'uh-oh' moment, painted in the carriages.
The reality: The train sets off more or less on time, and then runs to a schedule which works in the land of UFOs, picking up delays at every single stop. It's that basic. If the track system was better, if there was more rolling stock, it might work - but why schedule for what is not possible?
The result - the compound delays at some point each day cancel an entire service. Then it sets off all over again.
It is beyond silly.
A schedule which neither the track, the signals or the rolling stock can support.
A journey from Lippstadt to Dusseldorf, feasible in a car within 1.5 hours during rush hour, looked like it was going to arrive after my flight took off. Which it didn't.
I abandoned the train and took a taxi.
The car.
For when you need to get somewhere on time.
They don't and haven't been for several years now. It's so bad that Deutsche Bahn (the main German train operator) had to find clever ways to hide the average delay, e.g. by simply not counting cancelled trains. Funny thing is this was revealed 10 years ago by some data science dude. And it got much worse since then.
I was in Germany, primarily Bavaria, last fall. The sense of decay and world weariness was astounding to me, not having been there since 2006. Truly saddening.
Im going to say it until I'm blue in the face. The problem is WEAK men.
We are where we are in this world because men are either incapable of or refuse to be strong. Merz embodies this.
History teaches it with merciless clarity:
Peoples who obey out of fear lose not only their rights. but also their character. They become shadows of themselves. willing accomplices in their own downfall. Those who bow today out of fear will discover tomorrow that tge chains they themselves helped to carry can no longer be cast off.
Only when their own hardship finally reaches them, when the abstract warnings have turned into bitter, tangible reality, will they understand that they themselves, through their long silence, through their cowardice in the face of the truth and their willingness to be deceived, have enabled the downfall.
Germany is still 100% white ,right ?
In the US “ White Europeans “ were about 85% of population in 1960 . Today it is 56% and falling fast.
No Country for old men …
I grew up in the 50’s . 1950-1965 ( LBJ Great Society) will never be repeated .
On Prime you can watch “ Leave it Beaver “ and “ Donna Reed “ ..yup exactly the way it was . You know , Mom Dad ( both white and biologically real ) and two well adjusted innocent kids that didn’t think they we “ in the wrong body “
The perversion in US continues with “ polyamorous marriage “ next up
The "le 56% american" meme is at least 10 years old now. The number today must be much lower than that.
In the immortal words of Pogo (Walt Kelly): “We have me the enemy and he is us!”
Large portions of the electorate choosing suicidal paths solely to feel virtuous in opposing the "other" political party? Where have I seen this before?
I LOVE THIS WRITING: 'mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles'.
Regarding the comment on Germans wanting to prove how determined they can be in persevering with their goals against all odds, it reminds me of my sister telling me my strengths were my weaknesses, which I naturally didn't agree with, but in this case I can see how it can be true.
Yes, history's tragedies are so often about men missing their moment. For almost everyone, in general, it only comes once.
“It is in our ethnic character to do everything longer, harder and in more determined suicidal fashion than everybody else.” Would agree, but Canada😖
Anyway, condolences.
Brilliant writing! "It is in our ethnic character to do everything longer, harder and in more determined suicidal fashion than everybody else. We must take everything to the absolute extreme to demonstrate our moral commitment, in the process proving to everyone else how stupid our ideological persuasions actually are." No one with a drop of German blood (or brains) could argue this summary.
I see myself in that. I was bring something to its conclusion, no matter the hours or effort long after I start to suspect the result will not be good.
Sounds like many of my knitting projects....
Are you of German heritage?
No, I'm Irish.
I fear Britain would give Germany a run for its money. Unfortunately like the rest of the Anglosphere we have the obsession with DEI on top of bad policies. This is driving a seemingly irreversible demographic shift that is amplified by our ruling class demolishing our history, heritage and culture.
We watch Britain, Canada, Germany, and Australia in fascinated horror. They're competing in the race to the bottom.
It is a kind of madness among our ruling elites. They are absolutely committed and they do not hide it. They genuinely view pushback against their suicidal policies as insanity and hate. I cannot fathom their mindset as they too will be harmed by the things they usher into existence.
Only today an elderly Jewish man was stabbed by a Somali seemingly wandering the area looking for Jews to harm. And yet many leading Jews want much more immigration into Britain. They are by no means the worst example. I don't understand what is going on.
Yes, I think the current description of this is suicidal empathy.
lol. It's a tough call, but I think Canada might be in the best position to lean at the tape.
One things for sure, they all came out of the starting blocks at the exact same time about 25 years ago. It's been a productive 21st century for them!
It's almost as if it were planned.....:)
I'm right there with you except for the planned part.
https://x.com/AugNudl24000/status/2050207228284526993
Well now, he is serious!
That post could get you prosecuted in today’s Germany…,
yikes. Prison life is not for me. 😬
If only fumbling a plate of cake was his biggest problem …
Mexican Jumping Bean Cake With Green Chile is not for the adventurously challenged.
Perhaps a nice bratwurst next time. One with a handle.
This made me roar with laughter.