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.
Indeed. “Won’t someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dedd??”
When has anyone on our side ever said we want "trans" people "dedd?"
We DON'T want you dead, "trans" people. If we did, we'd encourage your delusions about being the other gender and let the mental illness follow its course to suicide.
"Transitioning" does not fix the suicide risk. Why would it? There is no mental illness for which cutting off healthy body parts is a valid treatment.
After you follow the "trans" rabbit hole all the way to the bottom, you're left with a sterile body that is neither fish nor fowl, clearly not the body of the sex you wanted to become, but no longer having the key characteristics of your actual sex either... and the mental illness that was never treated, but instead actively enabled, is still there.
Most people will come out of their gender dysphoria in time. This shooter was no different. He wrote that he was tired of being trans, implying that he wanted to reaffirm his genuine sex, but he felt trapped in his (made-up) identity. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮.
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.
"We're the only party that hasn't signed a cultish pact to deliberately ignore the greatest problem facing Germany today. Ask us about immigration --we'll actually answer."
What Germany is doing with the concept of Democracy, is akin to what the Brits did to that 14 year old Scottish girl the other day. The right of self defense transcends rights like free speech or freedom to associate.
If you can not speak freely and openly about what should be political issues (without fear of arrest, imprisonment or fines) you are not living in a democracy. You can call it a “managed” democracy or whatever, but you are, in effect, trapped in what is, at best, a semi-authoritarian bureaucracy. You can not defend yourself politically, because you have been isolated and cut-off from talking to others, and thus forming a faction or associating effectively to promote policies or ideas that are contrary to those that the currently powerful approve of - no matter how bad the present situation is - you are politically naked; you have been told to sit down and shut up; what does this remind you of . . and don’t say democracy.
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.
Somehow all this reminds me of a Dennis Prager discussion that went something like this: "I don't care about humanity as an entity. Humanity sucks. But there are a few good people."
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 .
Now she may be dodging some of her own, as Trump pulled her Secret Service protection today (after a generous grace period beyond what she was entitled to).
Yes , it’s a problem . Our system of changing administrations every 4-8 years makes long term planning difficult. No doubt the Democrats will say little about immigration but if they win ,they will revert back to Biden
I think you’re right. There are 50M who invaded or were flown in during the Biden years, and 55M Visa overstays. The good news is that the number deported or detained is in the low thousands. The self deported population is much higher, as you said. The technology on the border is being upgraded. Still, 50 million will need longer than 3.5 years.
I’m unfamiliar with politicians having gag orders. The only way they can win is if the electorate has the same positive thoughts about illegal aliens (official American for “migrants”).
It’s not a gag order per se. Just that polling consistently shows democrats to be in the losing side of this 90-10 issue. Easier to pretend the issue doesn’t exist. They’ve already own goal’d
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.
Yes! I listened to a Border Patrol Supervisor interviewed yesterday. He cited zero immigration through the ports of entry, but approximately 9 gotaways daily. This included the northern border and seaports too.
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:
" . .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 such a large number of elected Congressmen and Congresswomen cannot exhibit some degree of self-governance, some degree of rationality, they cease to be law-makers. Rather they are lawless swill that only deserve the contempt of the people.
Transgender insanity upheld by Dem politicians as social justice and human rights is like the people being given their golden calf to worship. "Nothing is true, everything is permissable" is what they are saying.
Well, the golden calf was followed by the prophet Moses coming down from the mountain. He did not actually write the law, he said, "Let there be law, not lawlessness".
I would wear a T-shirt with Trump depicted as Moses to church. I think I could prettily easily explain to offended people the shirt was an example of irony, not of blasphemy.
> "I would wear a T-shirt with Trump depicted as Moses to church. I think I could prettily easily explain to offended people the shirt was an example of irony, not of blasphemy."
👍 I can see such a T-shirt from Etsy for sale now, won't be able to keep the shelves stocked ... 😉🙂
Somewhat more seriously, I'm reminded of a quip attributed, apparently falsely, to Mark Twain:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
He’s the Law Enforcement! The last admin (really don’t know who it was at this point) but his admin began ruining us on Day 1. I tried to respect the Office. Eventually that was not possible.
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.”
Perhaps you misunderstand the color codes. Prior to 2000, the Democrats were always denoted by red and the Republicans were always blue. When the 2000 election rolled around, all of the news media had mysteriously switched the colors around. No one spoke a word about it. Red now meant Republican, and blue meant Democrat. I guess calling the Democrats red was a little too on-the-nose for the Democrat media, who like to pretend they're not red.
This is not true. The colors did reverse, but much earlier. Nancy Reagan was famous for wearing Republican red. Blue was associated with the earliest Republicans, and this remained so until sometime during the 20th century. I wrote this off the top of my head so I don’t remember the exact circumstances of the change. Of course everyone knows that red has been associated with communism since the Bolsheviks. So it’s a bit odd that here in the US it became the Republican color. Everyone needs to understand that many of the early Republicans were radical abolitionists. The social justice activists used to be Republicans. More than the color changed over the years.
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 ...)
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.
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.
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"
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.
"They have done this because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside even though it is plainly and objectively retarded."
"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."
If you ever decide that Germany is too busy committing suicide to properly run a country (spoiler alert: it is), we should start a petition to have you be the United States press secretary. Not because you're a big Trump fan, but because you're refreshingly honest about what is being reported. Call these morons out for being morons. They need to hear it.
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.
"Note the moral confidence – so intense as to approach the inner peace and the ignorant bliss of the recently lobotomised. 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'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.
I haven't experienced such escalating levels of suspension of disbelief since I read the Lensman Series.
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).
Was wondering if you were ill. Just keep those of us across the pond updated when necessary.
As the famous American cartoonist Gary Larson once quipped: “My brain is full”. You sir can write faster than I can read.
https://theproseandthepassion.wordpress.com/2022/06/13/our-brains-are-full/
Hopefully you have some fishing or hunting in your schedule of late?
You're entitled to a break now and then. We'll be here waiting for your next post.
Enjoy the bit of summer left.
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/
Indeed. “Won’t someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dedd??”
When has anyone on our side ever said we want "trans" people "dedd?"
We DON'T want you dead, "trans" people. If we did, we'd encourage your delusions about being the other gender and let the mental illness follow its course to suicide.
"Transitioning" does not fix the suicide risk. Why would it? There is no mental illness for which cutting off healthy body parts is a valid treatment.
After you follow the "trans" rabbit hole all the way to the bottom, you're left with a sterile body that is neither fish nor fowl, clearly not the body of the sex you wanted to become, but no longer having the key characteristics of your actual sex either... and the mental illness that was never treated, but instead actively enabled, is still there.
Most people will come out of their gender dysphoria in time. This shooter was no different. He wrote that he was tired of being trans, implying that he wanted to reaffirm his genuine sex, but he felt trapped in his (made-up) identity. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮.
Well said
I don't know Ryan, can evil really be this stupid? These people just seem to be incredibly retarded.
Lolol. Exactly. Retarded with a pinch of evil
Only "a pinch"?
Dollop.
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.
Until we stop them.
I can immediately imagine the based AfD ads.
"We're the only party that hasn't signed a cultish pact to deliberately ignore the greatest problem facing Germany today. Ask us about immigration --we'll actually answer."
They are paid astroturf. Pay them enough and they will say anything.
And they call themselves a democracy.
What Germany is doing with the concept of Democracy, is akin to what the Brits did to that 14 year old Scottish girl the other day. The right of self defense transcends rights like free speech or freedom to associate.
If you can not speak freely and openly about what should be political issues (without fear of arrest, imprisonment or fines) you are not living in a democracy. You can call it a “managed” democracy or whatever, but you are, in effect, trapped in what is, at best, a semi-authoritarian bureaucracy. You can not defend yourself politically, because you have been isolated and cut-off from talking to others, and thus forming a faction or associating effectively to promote policies or ideas that are contrary to those that the currently powerful approve of - no matter how bad the present situation is - you are politically naked; you have been told to sit down and shut up; what does this remind you of . . and don’t say democracy.
Brilliantly and concisely stated.
make the word tyranny great again.
That was my first thought looking at the picture. "Boomers... had to be"
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 guess if you just SAY that three times, it makes it true.
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.
Somehow all this reminds me of a Dennis Prager discussion that went something like this: "I don't care about humanity as an entity. Humanity sucks. But there are a few good people."
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.
Agreed, peak German dry humor!
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.”
We dodged a bullet with Harris .
Now she may be dodging some of her own, as Trump pulled her Secret Service protection today (after a generous grace period beyond what she was entitled to).
she's not substantial enough for anyone to bother with.
Yes , it’s a problem . Our system of changing administrations every 4-8 years makes long term planning difficult. No doubt the Democrats will say little about immigration but if they win ,they will revert back to Biden
Trump should make a stink about that beforehand.
I think you’re right. There are 50M who invaded or were flown in during the Biden years, and 55M Visa overstays. The good news is that the number deported or detained is in the low thousands. The self deported population is much higher, as you said. The technology on the border is being upgraded. Still, 50 million will need longer than 3.5 years.
I’m unfamiliar with politicians having gag orders. The only way they can win is if the electorate has the same positive thoughts about illegal aliens (official American for “migrants”).
It’s not a gag order per se. Just that polling consistently shows democrats to be in the losing side of this 90-10 issue. Easier to pretend the issue doesn’t exist. They’ve already own goal’d
In my neck of the woods in the USA, the reduction since January in immigration-related chaos is quite easily observable.
Indeed, every week things are calmer than the last.
Rush hour traffic in LA has improved too.
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!)
"Düsseldorf Girl" needed?
Yes! I listened to a Border Patrol Supervisor interviewed yesterday. He cited zero immigration through the ports of entry, but approximately 9 gotaways daily. This included the northern border and seaports too.
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 ... 🙂
" . .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 such a large number of elected Congressmen and Congresswomen cannot exhibit some degree of self-governance, some degree of rationality, they cease to be law-makers. Rather they are lawless swill that only deserve the contempt of the people.
Transgender insanity upheld by Dem politicians as social justice and human rights is like the people being given their golden calf to worship. "Nothing is true, everything is permissable" is what they are saying.
Well, the golden calf was followed by the prophet Moses coming down from the mountain. He did not actually write the law, he said, "Let there be law, not lawlessness".
I would wear a T-shirt with Trump depicted as Moses to church. I think I could prettily easily explain to offended people the shirt was an example of irony, not of blasphemy.
> "I would wear a T-shirt with Trump depicted as Moses to church. I think I could prettily easily explain to offended people the shirt was an example of irony, not of blasphemy."
👍 I can see such a T-shirt from Etsy for sale now, won't be able to keep the shelves stocked ... 😉🙂
Somewhat more seriously, I'm reminded of a quip attributed, apparently falsely, to Mark Twain:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14916-it-could-probably-be-shown-by-facts-and-figures-that
He’s the Law Enforcement! The last admin (really don’t know who it was at this point) but his admin began ruining us on Day 1. I tried to respect the Office. Eventually that was not possible.
"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.”
(Red?)
Can't name many red cities offhand anyway... Red and city just don't go together well.
Seattle, Portland, et al
Perhaps you misunderstand the color codes. Prior to 2000, the Democrats were always denoted by red and the Republicans were always blue. When the 2000 election rolled around, all of the news media had mysteriously switched the colors around. No one spoke a word about it. Red now meant Republican, and blue meant Democrat. I guess calling the Democrats red was a little too on-the-nose for the Democrat media, who like to pretend they're not red.
This is not true. The colors did reverse, but much earlier. Nancy Reagan was famous for wearing Republican red. Blue was associated with the earliest Republicans, and this remained so until sometime during the 20th century. I wrote this off the top of my head so I don’t remember the exact circumstances of the change. Of course everyone knows that red has been associated with communism since the Bolsheviks. So it’s a bit odd that here in the US it became the Republican color. Everyone needs to understand that many of the early Republicans were radical abolitionists. The social justice activists used to be Republicans. More than the color changed over the years.
Thanks! I was aware. Red has communist connotations. The convo was about how radical left gravitates towards friendly populations.
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 really disagree with all of the generalizations being made about boomers and actually all generations now.
Maybe it’s more to do with having eyes to see, ears to hear, and a brain in your head to think with than what generation you were born into.
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
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.
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
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.
So they appear to have their own version of the firewall/cordon sanitaire.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
"They have done this because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside even though it is plainly and objectively retarded."
"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."
If you ever decide that Germany is too busy committing suicide to properly run a country (spoiler alert: it is), we should start a petition to have you be the United States press secretary. Not because you're a big Trump fan, but because you're refreshingly honest about what is being reported. Call these morons out for being morons. They need to hear it.
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.
Utterly brilliant! I particularly like:
"Note the moral confidence – so intense as to approach the inner peace and the ignorant bliss of the recently lobotomised. 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."
Outstanding.