I'm aware that my posting schedule has been a little lighter than usual lately. This reflects the fact that I've decided to take advantage of the slow news cycle of the summer holidays to recharge a bit. Things will get back to normal in the coming weeks, I promise.
I ditto the above commenters - absolutely enjoy and recharge - all I can say is thank you and your posts always stand out for being for me the best when it comes to German/European politics (and the madness thereof), much appreciated (albeit triggering a significant amount of hair pulling).
"These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
Banger sentence about the boomer left. They are a human centipede of lobotomized slop. According to them, Cologne New Year mass sexual assaults were positive cultural enrichment.
AfD must be delighted to have such stupid political opponents. Do they really think that not "speaking negatively about migration during the election campaign" is actually going to stop voters from being concerned about the issue? The obvious result of this is that they are going to seem even more clueless or out of touch to most voters.
Unfortunately, this sentence also applies to the center and center right. "These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
Sorry, what speech is the right banning? I still didn’t see what speech from your comment. Thanks
Btw…. I am aware that Germany is now banning one word per year as a matter of twisted ceremony in addition to everything else. The “right” is not a part of this either.
The right is not banning speech, but the following sentence also applies to the center and center right. "These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
I will then just take this as your opinion as you do not include empirical rationale. Voicing opinion being a right of anyone living in the free world.
We suffered the same fate from 2021 - February 1, 2025 when Trump unleashed ICE . The “ round up “ continues apace with about 200,000 deported and maybe 800,000 “ self deporting “ .The numbers are difficult to verify but PEW research is stating we will have “ Net negative immigration “ for the first time in Decades .
The Border was closed in about a month . No one is even trying to come to the USA .
Videos are in the hundreds of the round ups . The whole “ immigration question “ has been resolved with even the opposition party now admitting “ yeah , we went too far “ .There are protests of course and horror stories of family separations but from what I read , the Democrats are not planning to focus on immigration in 2026 as it is now a losing issue . Come on Germany , we have showed you the way .
The irony in all this is that Germany built itself from the ashes of WWII with copious assistance of foreign workers (Gastarbeiter) who worked and paid taxes, thereby contributing to the rebuild but also the social programs. The standing joke, when I was in Germany in the early 70s was "I should learn German by going to the streets, but instead I learned Greek, Turk and Italian." These new immigrants, not German educated (reading/writing) are not employable in any meaningful fashion and immediately become a drain on the various social programs they ostensibly were brought it to support.
Except the politicians cheated on "gastarbeiter". They were meant to go home but most seem to have become permanent residents with all the social and economic benefits. I agree that at least someone in the family worked, once upon a time. Biut why oh why can politicioans not just deliver what they promised.
Looking at those three 'good' people, I can suddenly understand why so many young people despise and hate Boomers: those three are the epitome of Boomerism - and yes, they are guilty!
(And I'm just about the silent generation/boomer ...)
I found this line to be particularly striking: "...this is purely a state political decision over which the city has no influence."
*No influence*? Surely if a large percentage of a city's population expressed displeasure with a state policy, the state might deign to take at least some notice?
indeed! if you don't want the refugee centre, electing a city government opposed to it would be a first step towards doing something about that. it's not a guaranteed solution, but these wrong-tier-of-government arguments (which I've occasionally made myself in the past, and I regret that) are kind of stupid. also because dissident movements tend to grow from the ground up and to embrace primarily really big themes.
probably it will, but AfD in absolute terms is not that strong in Cologne, which is actually another reason this is dumb, because it's just unnecessary.
So the mass rape at New Years Eve back in 2016 left absolutely no imprint on them? I'm quoting from approved DW : "Packs of men were hunting down women, cornering many of them. There were sexual assaults, rapes. "
oh it left an impact on them. we are looking at the impact right here, in this post. as always they sought to assuage their cognitive dissonance by doubling down.
They choose weak, lefty cities in USA similarly. Notice that Antifa entered leftist, friendly cities in the Summer of Love. They weren’t going to get traction in blue cities. They look for, “Biggest bang for the buck.”
Brilliant. Thanks for the laugh - despite the absurdy that is modern day Germany. These double barrelled surnames are so stupid and increasingly popular amongst the lobotomised class.
Even society has been conditioned to only speak positively about minorities - whether it's (il)legal immigrants or brown people. Just have a look at the latest absurd campaign by the transport authorities in London to discourage listening to music on your phone without earphones featuring and old white man.
IYH ok you crack me up Eugyppius "Note the moral confidence – so intense as to approach the inner peace and the ignorant bliss of the recently lobotomised"
Take heart, be of good cheer. It's this sort of thing that enabled us over here to get Trump elected and them dummies over by you are going to make AfD unbeatable.
I just hope it won't take any more tragedies to help make that happen and of course if there are any more tragedies the censorship campaign will get exponentially more deranged.
Reminds me of a famous Beatles' song: Get Bach to Mozart ... 😉🙂
Reminds me also that I had once given my mother, probably as a Xmas gift when I was in my twenties, a bust of the German composer Franz Lizt (sp?). To which my father had quipped, all my frenz list ... 🥁🙂
But quite agree with you about Trump. Still an open question whether the "cure" will be worse than the disease, but some solid improvements, not least in stipulating more or less exactly what it takes to qualify as male and female ... 😉🙂
But why I've been thinking of creating a meme, a picture of Trump as Moses, The Lawgiver ... 😉🙂
Listen, after that mugshot photo there's nothing more to be memed. Indisputably greatest showman of all time. And I even actually thought the word "endearing" when he pulled that garbage truck stunt. I could hardly believe it was me, sitting on the sofa smiling fondly...
Maybe, though I got a rise out some woke-adjacent with the Moses one. Fish in a barrel maybe, but still a concept of some relevance, particularly as many are getting their knickers in a twist at the idea of Trump as king or emperor. Or "lawgiver".
One of the maybe saving graces of America is that the president is more or less emperor for 4 to 8 years. Bit of a hazard of course, but democracy tends to work only if most of the population can, as Eleanor Roosevelt once put it, exhibit some degree of self-governance, some degree of rationality. When that is lost -- as seems evident in much of the US, and the west in general -- then a Moses, with or without some stone tablets (AKA EOs), is clearly required:
We only had a brief moment of rationality when our Founders crafted them foundational documents as the finest fruit of the Western Enlightenment. The colonies had been established by venal mercantile interests or by deranged little cults determined to establish their own small tyrannies in a new land where they could make their crazy selves the majorities, and it's just a miracle we were able nevertheless to become a nation state at all.
And then in every subsequent era we had our insanities and we've always had to drag ourselves back by our bleeding fingertips and shredded nails to those foundational principles and each time we gotta hope for judges at the top who ain't lunatics themselves and sometimes hope gets itself crushed.
I'll take what I can get, right now. I got a big shopping bag and I want to fill it to the brim with revenge and retribution.
I can sympathize ... For starters, I'd like to see a bunch of "gender-affirming doctors" strung up by their nuts and left to twist in the wind, figuratively speaking of course ...
Somewhat apropos of which, this post by a Canadian, an Albertan, doctor who more or less agrees, and my comment thereon:
Yikes! Germany can’t get to hell fast enough can they. It’s like they’re doing it on purpose to spark civil war so martial law can then be imposed and the authoritarian state can be formally acknowledged.
Don't you see that immigration is just a national, not a local, issue? We are forced to carry out the dictates of our district and national leaders -- so stop blaming us! And don't pretend that our local election results have any relevance to national politics!
almost total media blackout on AfD, since all the anti-AfD propaganda in 2024 failed the new media strategy is to totally ignore the party and work on more dangerous legal solutions.
In many ways, that inadvertently makes them an even more powerful force, creating a cloak of irresistible invisibility, almost a kind of a super power.
And the People, who are no longer free to discuss and debate their thoughts on the political movements of the day by the Federal thought police, must thus needs make a more concerted effort to seek out what that secreted opposition party might have to say about some of these things the people themselves are growing increasingly uncomfortable with.
Literally every effort the powers that be are making to silence and excommunicate the opposition are having the exactly opposite intended effect. That will leave them with one and only one last arrow to pull from their quiver to rid themselves of their arch enemy: make the opposition illegal. They’ve got nowhere else to go.
How that now almost inevitable move will land with the overall citizenry remains to be seen.
I'm aware that my posting schedule has been a little lighter than usual lately. This reflects the fact that I've decided to take advantage of the slow news cycle of the summer holidays to recharge a bit. Things will get back to normal in the coming weeks, I promise.
no worries, your stuff is consistently great, although I must admit it gets harder to believe some of it is real.
Stop. Enjoy yourself, man. You have plenty of work product. Ive noticed that sometimes your best stuff comes after you've recharged.
I ditto the above commenters - absolutely enjoy and recharge - all I can say is thank you and your posts always stand out for being for me the best when it comes to German/European politics (and the madness thereof), much appreciated (albeit triggering a significant amount of hair pulling).
Hopefully you have some fishing or hunting in your schedule of late?
Was wondering if you were ill. Just keep those of us across the pond updated when necessary.
In one word...Just bend-over !!!!
"These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
Banger sentence about the boomer left. They are a human centipede of lobotomized slop. According to them, Cologne New Year mass sexual assaults were positive cultural enrichment.
Im pretty sure the terminus of moral narcissism is just good old fashion evil.
They're not even hiding it:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/29/minneapolis-shooting-reveals-democrat-partys-comfort-with-satanic-talking-points/
AfD must be delighted to have such stupid political opponents. Do they really think that not "speaking negatively about migration during the election campaign" is actually going to stop voters from being concerned about the issue? The obvious result of this is that they are going to seem even more clueless or out of touch to most voters.
It's becoming more and more clear. It really doesn't matter who we vote for. No matter who is in charge, the shit show carries on.
They are paid astroturf. Pay them enough and they will say anything.
And they call themselves a democracy.
Unfortunately, it also applies to the center and center right.
What speech is the right banning? Just curious.
Unfortunately, this sentence also applies to the center and center right. "These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
Sorry, what speech is the right banning? I still didn’t see what speech from your comment. Thanks
Btw…. I am aware that Germany is now banning one word per year as a matter of twisted ceremony in addition to everything else. The “right” is not a part of this either.
The right is not banning speech, but the following sentence also applies to the center and center right. "These are people who have not had a critical thought about anything since 1972 and whose moral narcissism is so overweening that it has finally deprived them of all contact with reality."
I will then just take this as your opinion as you do not include empirical rationale. Voicing opinion being a right of anyone living in the free world.
As an American this confirms something I’ve always believed. Too much Cologne stinks.
lol
“…. the inner peace and the ignorant bliss of the recently lobotomised.” Priceless. Grateful thanks for this, Eugyppius.
We suffered the same fate from 2021 - February 1, 2025 when Trump unleashed ICE . The “ round up “ continues apace with about 200,000 deported and maybe 800,000 “ self deporting “ .The numbers are difficult to verify but PEW research is stating we will have “ Net negative immigration “ for the first time in Decades .
The Border was closed in about a month . No one is even trying to come to the USA .
Videos are in the hundreds of the round ups . The whole “ immigration question “ has been resolved with even the opposition party now admitting “ yeah , we went too far “ .There are protests of course and horror stories of family separations but from what I read , the Democrats are not planning to focus on immigration in 2026 as it is now a losing issue . Come on Germany , we have showed you the way .
We still have plenty of illegals still in country. It will probably take decades to deal with.
True, but the millions that would have poured in during a Kamala administration never got here. In an imperfect world I’ll take it!
Meanwhile, we should try to be “Unburdened by what has been.”
The irony in all this is that Germany built itself from the ashes of WWII with copious assistance of foreign workers (Gastarbeiter) who worked and paid taxes, thereby contributing to the rebuild but also the social programs. The standing joke, when I was in Germany in the early 70s was "I should learn German by going to the streets, but instead I learned Greek, Turk and Italian." These new immigrants, not German educated (reading/writing) are not employable in any meaningful fashion and immediately become a drain on the various social programs they ostensibly were brought it to support.
Except the politicians cheated on "gastarbeiter". They were meant to go home but most seem to have become permanent residents with all the social and economic benefits. I agree that at least someone in the family worked, once upon a time. Biut why oh why can politicioans not just deliver what they promised.
Immigrants natively from Europe are fairly westernized and have a good chance of being able to assimilate.
Notice that is not who Merkel chose to bring in. Check out. Read the argument posited by his attorney:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15027723/Migrant-lived-tourist-THREE-European-countries-illegally-entering-UK-raped-15-year-old-girl.html
Looking at those three 'good' people, I can suddenly understand why so many young people despise and hate Boomers: those three are the epitome of Boomerism - and yes, they are guilty!
(And I'm just about the silent generation/boomer ...)
I found this line to be particularly striking: "...this is purely a state political decision over which the city has no influence."
*No influence*? Surely if a large percentage of a city's population expressed displeasure with a state policy, the state might deign to take at least some notice?
indeed! if you don't want the refugee centre, electing a city government opposed to it would be a first step towards doing something about that. it's not a guaranteed solution, but these wrong-tier-of-government arguments (which I've occasionally made myself in the past, and I regret that) are kind of stupid. also because dissident movements tend to grow from the ground up and to embrace primarily really big themes.
"crayon-tier" is brilliant...
I love the open and totally justified derision.
Won't this just make the AfD stronger??
probably it will, but AfD in absolute terms is not that strong in Cologne, which is actually another reason this is dumb, because it's just unnecessary.
So the mass rape at New Years Eve back in 2016 left absolutely no imprint on them? I'm quoting from approved DW : "Packs of men were hunting down women, cornering many of them. There were sexual assaults, rapes. "
oh it left an impact on them. we are looking at the impact right here, in this post. as always they sought to assuage their cognitive dissonance by doubling down.
They choose weak, lefty cities in USA similarly. Notice that Antifa entered leftist, friendly cities in the Summer of Love. They weren’t going to get traction in blue cities. They look for, “Biggest bang for the buck.”
Brilliant. Thanks for the laugh - despite the absurdy that is modern day Germany. These double barrelled surnames are so stupid and increasingly popular amongst the lobotomised class.
Even society has been conditioned to only speak positively about minorities - whether it's (il)legal immigrants or brown people. Just have a look at the latest absurd campaign by the transport authorities in London to discourage listening to music on your phone without earphones featuring and old white man.
Just say no. Play the music. Tell them your hearing is sub-optimal. As long as playing music is still lawful, ask them to show you how it’s not.
IYH ok you crack me up Eugyppius "Note the moral confidence – so intense as to approach the inner peace and the ignorant bliss of the recently lobotomised"
Büchmann for our times
Take heart, be of good cheer. It's this sort of thing that enabled us over here to get Trump elected and them dummies over by you are going to make AfD unbeatable.
I just hope it won't take any more tragedies to help make that happen and of course if there are any more tragedies the censorship campaign will get exponentially more deranged.
People of Bach and Mozart, remember who you are.
Hear Hear .
Pew research is predicting “ net negative immigration “ in USA for the first time in decades .
Don’t forget , Goethe and Einstein as well .
We need German Greatness again .
Rise up my friends . Make it happen .
A little fucking German common sense would suffice.
At this point that would take great bravery as the masses and government would both go against the outlier. (I’m all for it though!)
Reminds me of a famous Beatles' song: Get Bach to Mozart ... 😉🙂
Reminds me also that I had once given my mother, probably as a Xmas gift when I was in my twenties, a bust of the German composer Franz Lizt (sp?). To which my father had quipped, all my frenz list ... 🥁🙂
But quite agree with you about Trump. Still an open question whether the "cure" will be worse than the disease, but some solid improvements, not least in stipulating more or less exactly what it takes to qualify as male and female ... 😉🙂
But why I've been thinking of creating a meme, a picture of Trump as Moses, The Lawgiver ... 😉🙂
Listen, after that mugshot photo there's nothing more to be memed. Indisputably greatest showman of all time. And I even actually thought the word "endearing" when he pulled that garbage truck stunt. I could hardly believe it was me, sitting on the sofa smiling fondly...
Maybe, though I got a rise out some woke-adjacent with the Moses one. Fish in a barrel maybe, but still a concept of some relevance, particularly as many are getting their knickers in a twist at the idea of Trump as king or emperor. Or "lawgiver".
One of the maybe saving graces of America is that the president is more or less emperor for 4 to 8 years. Bit of a hazard of course, but democracy tends to work only if most of the population can, as Eleanor Roosevelt once put it, exhibit some degree of self-governance, some degree of rationality. When that is lost -- as seems evident in much of the US, and the west in general -- then a Moses, with or without some stone tablets (AKA EOs), is clearly required:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/824275-our-children-must-learn-to-face-full-responsibility-for-their-actions
We only had a brief moment of rationality when our Founders crafted them foundational documents as the finest fruit of the Western Enlightenment. The colonies had been established by venal mercantile interests or by deranged little cults determined to establish their own small tyrannies in a new land where they could make their crazy selves the majorities, and it's just a miracle we were able nevertheless to become a nation state at all.
And then in every subsequent era we had our insanities and we've always had to drag ourselves back by our bleeding fingertips and shredded nails to those foundational principles and each time we gotta hope for judges at the top who ain't lunatics themselves and sometimes hope gets itself crushed.
I'll take what I can get, right now. I got a big shopping bag and I want to fill it to the brim with revenge and retribution.
I can sympathize ... For starters, I'd like to see a bunch of "gender-affirming doctors" strung up by their nuts and left to twist in the wind, figuratively speaking of course ...
Somewhat apropos of which, this post by a Canadian, an Albertan, doctor who more or less agrees, and my comment thereon:
https://dredles.substack.com/p/evidence-shmevidence/comment/150102019
But I'd temper that "revenge and retribution" a bit -- a dish best served cold ... 🙂
And the say Trump’s team is sycophantic?
Yikes! Germany can’t get to hell fast enough can they. It’s like they’re doing it on purpose to spark civil war so martial law can then be imposed and the authoritarian state can be formally acknowledged.
So they appear to have their own version of the firewall/cordon sanitaire.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Don't you see that immigration is just a national, not a local, issue? We are forced to carry out the dictates of our district and national leaders -- so stop blaming us! And don't pretend that our local election results have any relevance to national politics!
Curious as to what AfD has been up to in light of all your recent reporting on all the buffoonery being perpetrated by the powers that be?
Do they even get any press at all, (even though aim sure it would be all bad), or do they literally have to meet in secret at this point?
almost total media blackout on AfD, since all the anti-AfD propaganda in 2024 failed the new media strategy is to totally ignore the party and work on more dangerous legal solutions.
It will soon be time to revive “carrier pigeons.”
Interesting~ thanks for that.
In many ways, that inadvertently makes them an even more powerful force, creating a cloak of irresistible invisibility, almost a kind of a super power.
And the People, who are no longer free to discuss and debate their thoughts on the political movements of the day by the Federal thought police, must thus needs make a more concerted effort to seek out what that secreted opposition party might have to say about some of these things the people themselves are growing increasingly uncomfortable with.
Literally every effort the powers that be are making to silence and excommunicate the opposition are having the exactly opposite intended effect. That will leave them with one and only one last arrow to pull from their quiver to rid themselves of their arch enemy: make the opposition illegal. They’ve got nowhere else to go.
How that now almost inevitable move will land with the overall citizenry remains to be seen.