Political desperation in Germany will backfire. It’s a warning to the US.
Poll Source: Polling for Next Federal Election
Since October 20, AfD has polled 26 percent in 10 of 12 polls. Those poll results put AfD in first place 8 of 12 times with two additional ties for first.
Political Desperation Sets In
Eurointelligence comments on Desperate in Berlin
Here at Eurointelligence, we have often used the expression: from complacency to panic. Complacency is the defining characteristic of many European politicians, and almost a prerequisite for political success in some European countries. The story gets interesting when that complacency hits limits of reality and logic. It is happening in Germany right now.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, has effectively called for a ban of the AfD. His old party, the SPD, is in terminal decline. Its decline is easy to see in electoral results, but in the centres of power in Berlin, it has been overshadowed by the party’s relative success. It had two chancellors in the last 25 years, and has been part of coalition government every year since 1998, except for four. The party is polling at 15%. It is the party of pensioners and welfare recipients. It is hard to see why it is declining.
The German establishment is not used to losing. What bad losers with a low IQ do everywhere is start to point fingers. The polls have the AfD at a firm level of 26%, up from 22% in the last elections. There are signs of a cyclical economic upswing, but none that will bring lasting joy.
The most likely consequence of Steinmeier’s comments is to drive more voters into the hands of the AfD. Once you go after your opponents through the legal system, this is when you start to lose. It happened in the US. It is happening in France. Vladimir Putin is a politician who bans opposition parties. But he controls the legal system. If you are trying to play this game in a country like Germany, you will fail.
A political ban is hard to do in Germany. The Constitutional Court only ever banned two parties: the Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands in 1952, a Nazi party, and the Communist Party in 1956. In both of those cases the constitutional argument was clear cut. These were parties that would not have allowed free elections had they won power. The procedure to ban the far-right NPD failed, despite the fact that this party was de facto a neo-Nazi party. The AfD also has members with far-right views, but it does not meet the criteria for a ban. It’s not even close. The German constitutions sets a high bar. It is not enough to conclude that certain policies may violate the Constitution. What matters is that the party, once in power, respects constitutional rule.
So if you want to beat the AfD, you will have to do this yourself in elections. Politicians like Steinmeier do not know how to do this, and in their desperation end up driving more voters away.
US Warning
Here is the key paragraph:
Once you go after your opponents through the legal system, this is when you start to lose. It happened in the US. It is happening in France. Vladimir Putin is a politician who bans opposition parties. But he controls the legal system. If you are trying to play this game in a country like Germany, you will fail.
It happened in France and the US. Trump capitalized on a system that tried to rig the election against him.
Trump is now making the same mistake on his political enemies. He wants to control the US legal system but has not succeeded.
He blames an activist court for his losses. But he is the most activist president in US history.
Targeted Individuals
ABC News comments Here’s a list of the individuals, including John Bolton, targeted so far by the Trump administration
- John Bolton, former national security adviser
- James Comey, former FBI Director
- Letitia James, New York attorney general
- Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve governor
- Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor
- Adam Schiff, United States senator
- Jack Smith, former special counsel
- Miles Taylor, former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
The security revocation list seems endless.
Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes
President Trump all but ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes, in a series of weekend posts that questioned the lack of action and named one of his former personal attorneys as a new prosecutor to helm some of the investigations.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Trump wrote in a social-media post, addressed to “Pam,” that called for cases against several of his adversaries: New York Attorney General Letitia James, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and Sen. Adam Schiff.
Trump continued: “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
Trump’s demand came after he ousted a top federal prosecutor in Virginia who was pressured to bring criminal charges against James and Comey but hadn’t done so.
Later on Saturday night, Trump in a gaggle with reporters said, “I just want people to act. They have to act. And we want to act fast.”
The series of comments were Trump’s most explicit demand to date that Bondi target his enemies and showed how far he has gone in asserting control over the Justice Department’s traditionally independent decision-making in criminal investigations.
“There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization,” Schiff (D., Calif.) wrote on X. “It’s all out in the open.”
Former federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis said Trump’s stance was fundamentally at odds with the mission of the Justice Department, which “is supposed to be investigating and prosecuting federal crimes based on where the facts and the law take them, not based on the political preferences or the score-settling proclivities of the president. This is a core component of what we mean when we talk about the rule of law.”
Kravis, now a partner at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, said Trump’s comments also could backfire if the department brings the cases he wants, because they give defendants an avenue to argue that such prosecutions are driven by improper motivations. Normally that defense strategy doesn’t work, “but this is the one-in-a-million case where you’re probably going to get some traction,” he said.
Adam Schiff
“There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.” said Schiff.
How can anyone disagree?
Shocking Abuse of Power
On April 16, NBC News reported Federal judge calls Trump’s order targeting prominent law firm a ‘shocking abuse of power’
U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan, speaking from the bench in her Washington, D.C., courtroom Tuesday, said Trump’s order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey was part of a “personal vendetta.”
“The framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power,” AliKhan said.
Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms Correctly Smacked Again by the Courts
On May 24, I noted Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms Correctly Smacked Again by the Courts
Even if you adore [Trump/Biden], for whatever reason, you are a big problem if you refuse to criticize clear violations of the constitution no matter who is in the White House.
Weaponization Irony
Without a doubt Biden illegally weaponized the Justice Department against Trump. So did New York State in it’s preposterous tax case against Trump.
I defended Trump numerous times over this weaponization. In response I was accused of being “Extreme Right”.
The weaponization backfired. It is one of the reasons Trump won.
Trump’s response is even worse. He is targeting law firms just for defending someone.
The cult foolishly cheers.
The Circular Blame Game
Trump Pardons for Sale, What’s the Going Price?
On May 27, I addressed the question Trump Pardons for Sale, What’s the Going Price?
$1 Million for a Pardon
The New York Times reports Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
That’s a free link. Spare me the sap about the source. If you think it is factually incorrect, comment away.
Government for Sale and the Trump Pardon 3-Step
On October 23, 2005 I commented Government for Sale and the Trump Pardon 3-Step
1: Commit Crime 2: Praise Trump and Make Big Donations 3: Get pardon
Government is for sale. Doesn’t that make you proud of Trump?
Hoot of the Day Hypocrisy
A reader commented to my post.
“Biden: no one is above the law. I will not Pardon Hunter ! Please point me to all the articles and the outrage about that when they were occurring .”
What an amazing hoot.
Please consider President Biden, a Hypocrite and a Liar, Pardons His Son Hunter
Even if I didn’t write that (and attack Biden on flouting the Supreme Court many times) since when do two wrongs make a right?
Whataboutism is a feeble argument. The irony in this case is that I did comment and have blasted Biden repeatedly for many things.
Very few people are willing to look at both sides, and the comment is from one of the most one-sided Trump supporters on my blog.
Big Epstein Coverup Is Underway, a Pardon Coming to Hide the Facts
On July 22, 2025 I noted Big Epstein Coverup Is Underway, a Pardon Coming to Hide the Facts
Step One: Johnson shuts down the House early to block a vote on Epstein.
Today, I am pleased to report AZ representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in Today.
She will become the 218th signature on a petition that would trigger a House floor vote on release additional files on Jeffrey Epstein.
The Pattern
Trump has targeted political opponents out of revenge. He has pardoned crooks if they make big enough political donations.
The cult’s only response is to look away if not outright praise Trump’s government for sale corruption and targeting of political opponents.
“If most of these people, ex Christie perhaps, committed actual crimes. Should they get away with them?”
Trump has committed crimes and belongs in prison IMO.
OK two wrongs do not make a right.
But Trump does not give a damn about right or wrong. It is 100% political targeting and your assertion they committed crimes.
In retrospect I do see you cleverly said “If”
But the rest of what I said stands out in spades. To repeat: It is 100% political targeting and your assertion they MAY have committed crimes.
Reader 2: “How can anyone disagree?”
Mish: Sorry. What Schiff said is obviously true. But you are free to disagree.
Importantly, that does not mean Schiff is innocent of wrongdoing. I never said that.
I simply said his assertion was obviously true. The record speaks for itself. And for the record, I think Schiff is at best sleazy.
How much did Denise Rich donate to various Bill and Hillary Clinton election and fund raising campaigns in order to gain a pardon for her ex-husband who was then living in Switzerland? He had been found guilty of US tax evasion. A Google search thought that it was over $1 million.
The attitude of the EU to democracy is shameful. When they think they are winning democracy is great…..when they think they are going to lose they pull out all the anti-democratic stops to rig elections. EU leadership are a vile bunch of corrupt incompetents.
Mish, you are complaining that the most BASE HUMAN INSTINCT, that of RETRIBUTION, is wrong or weird. If I get hit, I hit back. My dad taught me that.
And, it worked. When a bully, Tommy, in school pushed my best friend in Grade school, my friend knocked him out with one swing.
That bully never tried that again with any of my close circles of pals. Later, I eliminated him in HS in a wrestling match to decide who would wrestle at 154. I went on to State championships in my sophomore to senior years and won scholarships.
WINNERS arise from Domination.
Tommy was VERY quiet after that and years later, in my 20’s, I spotted him working the counter at a local Auto Parts Store.
Tommy was a loser. I was already a boss in Electronics…in my mid-20’s. I was a winner.
Thus, Political Will is loaded with base instincts. It is human. Trump is swinging back and to say that it is wrong makes the argument that INSTINCTS are wrong.
One distinction I would make is that you did not succeed by targeting Tommy and trying to make him suffer. You succeeded because of your own hard work and determination and you left Tommy alone. Trump should resist the temptation for revenge. He won. He’s president. He should show some class and maturity by not taking revenge but that is not his style.
Uh. Russia has opposition parties in the Duma.
The USA doesn’t even have opposition parties.
California has “opposition parties” in its legislature. Does that matter for the policies that get enacted?
I’ve realized that having civil rights is more important, particularly in situations where you are always outvoted.
If the U.S. had 2 opposing parties instead of a UniParty®, then maybe things would be different.
If everything is “just theater”, then the Democrats are behaving like actors who have forgotten their lines and stand there frozen, not knowing what to do.
Some aspects of the attempt to create a globalized liberal world order, some articles of faith, did not stand up to their experimental tests. The backlash indicates the world is going to go more harsh, more zero-sum, for awhile at least. In that case, some populations will be devalued, whatever fake name is plastered on that. Who? The elders? Some other generational cohort? Certain ethnic groups? It can be orderly or else it will be chaotic. I mean, barring some unrecognizable productivity miracle, but even then, people are sorting themselves into smaller affiliated groups. At some perhaps instinctive level the attempt to assimilate them across global groups has stretched further than they accept. Simply wishing for the old liberal articles of faith to hold, will not erase this. The globalized liberal order tried to eat a meal it could not, or will not, digest. It will expel or sort accordingly. I’m not praising it or otherwise, just honestly observing and speculatively opining.
“There are signs of a German cyclical economic upswing, but none that will bring lasting joy.”
Not according to the Big Read in the FT today – Can anything halt the decline of German Industry.
The borderless caliphate had counties bosses and community organization leaders. They spread Islam directly to the people and supervised them. Community organization leaders put a spell on the US. Jihad (Antifa and BLM) destabilized our civilization.
Drivel. as usual
Germany has been a big loser because of America’s 20 year war in Iraq and Afghanistan and more recently, America’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war. The wars have generated lots of emigrants leaving numerous Moslem countries in the Middle East, as well as Ukrainians leaving their homeland. Germany has been a recipient of many of these immigrants, at considerable cost to Germany’s economy. Then there are the significant costs to Germany related to its loss of cheap energy from Russia. Most articles I read on the Russia-Ukraine war fail to emphasize the role played by American neo-cons in stirring up trouble in that part of the world at least since the Maidan Revolution of 2014. I can understand why so many Germans are upset with the old line parties.
In the 50’s and the 60’s Germany imported Turks to do all the dirty works. During Syria civil war over a million Syrian settled in Germany, besides Africans, Egyptian, Afghans… Ukrainian immigrant coexist and integrate. Muslims immigrants don’t. They came to conquer and spread Islam.
Not quite true. First wave of immigrants after ’45 were actually Italians, making Germany a much nicer place to live in, thanks to Italian restaurants and ice cream parlors and a flavor of Italian life style cropping up everywhere.
Turkish immigrants came much later, 60ies, 70ies and now forming a mainstay of German economy.
Working on a Mercedes or BMW assembly line could of course be termed as “dirty work” but the jobs were well paid and much sought after, also by natives. “Were” as “in the past” with the automobile industry or what is left of it having become highly automated long ago.
They lost Russia’s cheap gas, and then they shut down their nuclear plants all by themselves. Industrial suicide. The immigrants (vast majority still on welfare, and almost none of them from a warzone) was the cherry on the top.
You have he same problem in all western countries: crony financial system is killing the real economy just to try to survive.
The Magna Carta (1215): Bolton, Comey, Fatma, Schiff, Jack Smith…are not above the law.
Germany tried to integrate millions of immigrants. The gov tried to narrow the gap between the two cultures. Migrants were offered schools, language, democratic system and legal advice. They were very tolerant. They tried to coexist with them. They believed that the western civilization is superior to Muslim civilization ==> pluralism didn’t work. The Muslims have a different moral code. They came to spread Islam. They didn’t come to coexist and integrate. They came to replace.
Germans can throw them out if they dont want to comply with the german law.If they dont,then you cant blame germans to vote for AFD.
Same thing in the whole europe.
I was reading about a German Christmas shopping event that was being cancelled due to the terrorism problem. The city wouldn’t pay for security. The government is ignoring the safety concerns of the people, which is driving more voters toward the AFD.
The desire to overthrow Assad, one of the “7 nations in 5 years” that General Wesley Clark spoke of, has precipitated turmoil in Europe.
Almost all cities in Germany have cancelled outdoors Christmas markets and celebrations for this year. The security cost is too high.
Not true. So far “a couple”, certainly only a fraction of a percent out of a total of 3000 German Christmas markets have been cancelled for security reasons so far.
That they all now look like a heavily fortified castle complex surrounded by concrete blocks is a different matter. The good old Christmas spirit certainly is gone, victim of mass immigration (Coudenhove-Kalergi plan to destroy European and especially German national identities, a conspiracy theory of course, i.e. most likely true)
The overthrow of Assad was primarily a US initiative (though with Turkish, Israeli, and Al Queda participation), primarily because he was friendly with Israel’s nemesis Iran and crimping Greater Israel. So that now Syria is ruled by Al Queda, who is killing Syrian Christians. Isn’t it great what our tax dollars go to? Israel First after all. Voting has NOTHING to do with any of it.
Long before that, one of Henry Kissingers “strategic” initiatives in the context of repatriating exiled Palestinians that backfired at the time, and set off the Iranian Hizbollah suicide bombers – didn’t exist until then, terrorizing the world since then – employed by Assad against a US base in Lebanon which was subsequently closed, a temporary victory for Syria. Thank you very much to the US for another bit of terror brought to the world.
This is fantastic to promote more FEAR!
Dems did some sketchy lawfare stuff. But if each side doubles down in perpetrating opposite vengeance abuses, or as now, goes 20x in revenge, the whole system grows dangerously unstable on an accelerating path.
There is a natural order in all things, even politics.
“He blames an activist court for his losses. But he is the most activist president in US history.”
You sit there in this ivory tower acting like these lunatic, leftist judges are NOT ACTIVIST which is just blatant head stuck in the freaking sand.
America’s legal system is riddled with far more leftist / activist judges than there is on the right. This is a fact!
As such, I call massive BS on the first part of your statement.
The Dems started this 10 years ago with their massive campaign to end Trump’s political career as well as any number of his allies.
USAID as a single example has turned the Federal government into one big Dem money laundering scheme for giving all sorts of taxpayer monies to lunatic leftist at all levels inside & outside of government.
Where do you think Antifa & all this Jew hatred came from? It sure as hell didn’t come from right-wingers or Trump trying to correct the course of the USS America which under Brain Dead Joe Biden was headed towards an iceberg the size of Russia.
Given the totality of what Trump has been fighting against, it’s comical to think that Trump would or should do nothing. Just let it ride seems to be your position. No attempt at justice. Well, if there’s no justice, then people will continue doing crazy things & America move closer towards civil war. This Trump lawfare is an extension of what’s going on around the country in uber liberal cities. They’re flouting US laws & letting criminals kill & do all sorts of bad things without real punishment.
Charlie Kirk lost his life for speaking truth about what’s going on in America. And there are untold numbers of people in America that cheered on his death. There’s something deeply wrong with the left, Mish, and you might want to readjust your reporting a bit to cover more of this stuff that’s the real root cause.
Finally, if you agree that Biden’s DOJ & NY DOJ entered into lawfare against Trump, then you should be willing to say that Trump needs to hold these people accountable. Why are you okay with letting them off the hook?
“The Dems started this 10 years ago with their massive campaign to end Trump’s political career as well as any number of his allies.”
Lol. Trump’s doing a great job of ending his own career. 33% approval rating, worse than Biden!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-approval-government-shutdown-apnorc-9daa3f130fedc9cf9b5acf3de31e93f4
Midterms and impeachment coming right up!
If Beverly thinks the Mamdani’s of the world are a better option, then that’s how she’ll cast her vote. And all that means is the civil war will start sooner than most of us would think it can. But no worries for you. You’ll be hanging out with Xi in SE Asia somewhere.
If anyone thinks Trump is scary, just wait for what the Dems have in store.
They’ll end the filibuster, pack SCOTUS, trounce 1A right with a bum rush towards European style censorship, raise taxes on the rich to 90%, enshrine wokeness in the Constitution & most importantly remove the 2A from existence. And when that happens, make sure you’ve got as much ammo as you can possibly put your hands on.
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“There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.” said Schiff.
It is well known how corrupt Schiff is. Democrats ran a 4 year coup against Trump in retaliation for winning the 2016 election. It’s all out in the open, now. Democrats are trying to evade justice for their corrupt abuse of power.
Agreed. Schiff may well be the worst modern-day politician, corrupt to the core.
Spent four years saying he had the goods on Trump to prove he was an agent of the Russian government. Easily the sleaziest politician in the United States.
Everytime I hear Bondi and Leavitt speak Its like listening to a Nazi newsreel circa 1930. They and the ICE commisioner make me want to throw up every time They speak.
There goes another Nazi’ism, continually diluting what the word really means.
Simple people have vivid imaginations.
When the attitude and mindset (self righteousness/arrogance)is obvious its the idiots who can’t see it that have the problem.
So let’s see here…you are equating ICE and deportation with the Nazis round up of the Jews. By the way, you do realize that the the National Socialists(Nazis) and International Socialists(communists) both firmly sit on the left side of the political aisle!? Well that simple fact aside, lets take your love for bringing up the Nazis. They rounded up Jews, who were legal citizens of Germany, all born in Germany, and sent them to gas chambers. ICE is rounding up illegal immigrants, who broke our immigration laws, and sending them back to their country of origin. They are not sending them to the gas chambers or to the gulag. I am pretty sure we need to give some further thought to the comparisons we make lest they make us look like dumb asses.
Reading all the comments just make me laugh. You guys have no idea what’s coming. If you think things are bad now, wait till the political parties turn into a choice of socialist Nazis or socialist Caliphates.
No, it’s not going to happen next week or next month or next year but it’s coming and then you’ll see some real sh!t happening with persecutions. Suggest you go read some poetry, start with Martin Niemöller.
G.E.S?
You started this comment good then you added socialist caliphates, then everything became BS. Let me help you with a new revised addition.
Reading all the comments just make me laugh. You guys have no idea what’s coming. If you think things are bad now, wait till the Markets collapse, property collapses & chaos erupts. Wait until marshal law is enacted & the army are on the streets, lockdowns, arrest of political opposition members, protestors & anyone who refuses to comply.
Yes,this can happen any time, next week, next month or next year, it’s coming and then you’ll see some horrifying sh!t happening. Suggest you get ready cuz poetry doesn’t do Fuck all to help, the time for action has long passed.
So you agree but you’re angry so you feel the need to lash out. OK. Get some help. I’ve written about the upcoming crash and collapse on the Trumptanic virtually every post, that’s a given already.
As for the nazi or caliphate, that’s where the youth vote is at right now. If you’re not aware then you’re not paying attention.
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington
The claim that I first floated in this space last week, quoting a DC insider who said that in his estimation, “between 30 and 40 percent” of the Zoomers who work in official Republican Washington are fans of Nick Fuentes — that’s true. Was confirmed multiple times by Zoomers who live in that world.
The time of the boomer is over, it’s gen Z and Millenials that will rule now.
Why do you keep accusing me of anger? Are you that low on EQ ability? I am not angry, I’m teaching you not to bullshit, you have no idea what a caliphate is. There is no caliphate anywhere in the world & never will be, that’s history. As I said I commented hours ago below that my belief is the US is now in a state of collapse, speeding towards a fascist dictatorship, mirroring Germany in 1933 onwards. Don’t over exaggerate, the truth is already the worse case. Words matter, this isn’t a joke, the US collapse will take the whole world down. This is not about anger, hate or spitefulness, it’s about waking the sheeple up, showing them the truth, being neutral & truthful. Go support sports teams, political parties are not to be supported they are to be criticised & held accountable for their wrongs. So now you may understand I agree with some of what you say cuz I said it hours ago & if you didn’t copy some of that yourself, yes I agree.
Sheeple have been asleep so long they are comatose and aint going to wake up. You’re trying to save the world or America at the least and it’s not going to happen. All empires collapse eventually, it’s starts now or later but same fate.
All you really need now is a good exit strategy. That’s it.
I’m not trying to save anyone, you misunderstand, this is just my personality. You are correct, they will sleepwalk into collapse & chaos. Nothing I do or say will change anything, all empires do die, faster & faster if you know history. I just speak the truth & my opinion, I couldn’t care less if sheeple are too ignorant to even comprehend the possibility.But yes I agree.
I went to my men’s discipleship group last night, and I asked my group leader who works for our church: does the church have plans to be a central collecting point members / surrounding family for something like the grid going down hard.
A few other guys were there early with me. One guy was like, “If that happens, I’m just going to fire up the grill one last time.”
He’s a sheeple for sure.
Hurry up & execute your exfil to SE Asia. Please!
Gen Z & millennials will rule over ashes, these two generations have the lowest skills in history, they are weak, confused, saddled with debt, can’t do basic maths, they are ruined. Obviously they will outlive previous generations like nasty boomers but rule over what? With what is the question.
The boomers actually peddled bicycles and pushed skateboards and scooters, no EVs.
Nick Fuentes & Mamdani have one common denominator: Israel.
Nick doesn’t travel much further east than Cicero Avenue most of the time.
Nick is Pat Buchanan reincarnated. All good and a better sense of humor.
Covid will kill us all before all that!
fourth turning is playing out. good book by neal howe
Caliphate my ass, bigot thinking. How the hell is that gonna happen, stopping blaming the non existent bogey man.
Do you have any redeeming character traits?
Ask ya mum
Any gazillionaire here in the comment thread who happens to be idling a private jet at the south gate of MDW can always run down 63rd Street a couple of blocks to the White Castle while they plan their exit strategy. Sliders are always a great choice for an in-flight meal, especially for end of the world scenarios.
“gazillionaire”? What’s that then? Nothing you ever post makes any sense. You got millionaires, billionaires & you can possibly with future hyperinflation get trillionaires, quadrillionaires, sextillionaires, septillionaires, octillionaires, there are no such thing as a gazillionaires & never will be. Kindergarten speak fromm Avery2 once again.
In China hospitals and maternity wards go bk. Schools and kindergartens are closing. The elderly are dying from air pollution. China’s birthrate is falling. Women don’t want to make babies. The gov offer vouchers for children. A clerk can write marriage certificates in bars for drunken couples. Teachers get promotions if they make a baby. People aren’t getting married bc of the cost of rent and housing and the high unemployment.
Witness the demise of the EU; it’s two strongest members leading the way.
troops on the ground in Ukraine!?
elimination of nuclear power generation!
ban on gas powered cars…
support for the destruction of energy delivery via nord stream…
open borders, refugee mayhem in every city centre…
Brussels arrogance…
And more I probably forgot.
I doubt I’ll ever make it a destination trip again.
Good, no one wants you there, the US is far worse. Ya on ya way to a civil war & I do not have to tell you how many weapons of war ya’ll got.
Fuck off Jack
Ya welcome, you like giving it but when you get a backhander all you got is “Fuck of Jack”, nice name by the way, Harry.
Ya? Where’d you learn to use Ya? Eh? Fuck off.
Ya mum Harry, I learnt it from ya mum. For a person who’s every response is “Fuck off” you have zero right to talk to me about language or anything else for that matter. I didn’t use “eh”, that’s just you confused by ya own lack of intelligence.
And it’s “Where did” not “where’d” and you talk about using “Ya” which is actually normal speak. Don’t tell me, ya response will be, grunt grunt “Fuck off”.
It’s not Vladimir Putin who bans opposition parties, but Vladimir Zelensky. The score is one to eleven, respectively. But that’s EU “intelligence” for you.
Russia has less than half as many people in prisons (per 100,000 population) as the US. Less than half! One might hesitate a little to think he understands modern Russia.
Once You accept the child rape, the rest is easy.
I can’t believe I voted for Trump in 2024. I did so reluctantly. I was an RFK Jr supporter. I met Bobby twice at his early fundraisers in Dallas. I believed in him. I went to the Save the Republic rally in DC several months earlier, where RFK Jr and many former celebrity Democrats and other Trump republicans like Tulsi gabbard and Colonel MacGregor spoke, essentially endorsing Trump due to the clear and present Danger of the Harris/Walz ticket. We did not believe in Trump- but we felt once again that we had to take a chance on him because the alternative was even more frightening. All the rest of my family voted for Jill Stein.
Now I see that the gamble failed-again. Trump is truly frightening. I cannot even begin to count the ways. If you get you get news from FoxNews, there is no way you will understand what I just said.
Thanks for an honest reply. People can agree or disagree. But I am tired of the “X is Better than Y” stuff.
I wrote in “Mish” for president because I did not like either of them
Only a sucker votes in a rigged corrupt game, ya basically endorsing this system by taking part.
And who cares if I door don’t endorse it?
Ya conscience, ya morals, ya ethics. Do you just do things if others care or not? Dumb ass question.
Your answer is dumbasses?
carry on.
So you copy me, no real comeback hey. Ya as dumb as ya name.
“We did not believe in Trump” . . . but we voted for him anyway.
What a pile of BS. You’re a Trump hater just like 98% of the posters here. You just try to wrap it up like a pig & a poke.
If you don’t understand how Trump 2.0 has turned into the total opposite of what he campaigned on, Robert Barnes gave a master class on it yesterday: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MjEkOKoHcg
Listen to the middle of Nick Fuentes’ show last night.
For reference, the communist party of West Germany was banned in 1957 on similar grounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany_v._the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany. And at that time, it was huge in the polls.
You have to study countries history to learn how they behave.
Anti democratic then and now.
Strangely peoples like Elon Musk don t complain about the communist party ban which is still in place over most of eastern Europe.
ABC News comments Here’s a list of the individuals, including John Bolton, targeted so far by the Trump administration
If most of these people, ex Christie perhaps, committed actual crimes. Should they get away with them?
“If most of these people, ex Christie perhaps, committed actual crimes. Should they get away with them?”
Trump has committed crimes and belongs in prison IMO.
OK two wrongs do not make a right.
But Trump does not give a damn about right or wrong. It is 100% political targeting and your assertion they committed crimes.
In retrospect I do see you cleverly said “If”
But the rest of what I said stands out in spades. To repeat: It is 100% political targeting and your assertion they MAY have committed crimes.
If Trump was not so damn blatant about what he is doing, you would have a better case.
What should worry you is the amount of dumb ass comments that get upvoted, the saying “The people get the government they deserve” is very true, most Americans are totally corrupt & devoid of any morals.
I think you go can away now. Not only is this incredibly boring but you have revealled yourself. Off now, to another target, asshole.
Depends on the crime(s). Petty stuff that wouldn’t see regular people serve serious jail time for are mostly a waste of tax payer money to do the investigations and prosecutions.
They’re all criminals, that’s the point. That includes The Grifter in Chief, the Senate & the house, all of em. The difference between the past & now is that they used cover each others backs, now in a collapse they are hunting each other down cuz only one party can rule in a dictatorship which they all seek.
One criminal calling another criminal a criminal.
The beginning of the end, the west is in full collapse, law of the jungle. A fight for dictatorship. Those who do not learn the lesson of history are doomed to repeat it, NAZIsm.
Germany inches close to agreement on contentious military service but questions remain
https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/12/germany-inches-close-to-agreement-on-contentious-military-service-bill-but-questions-remai
Vlad has no interest in becoming a slumlord.
If they can’t get enough volunteers in the German military (and they probably can’t), they’ll go to the conscription (aka, slavery) model. Consistent with other trends in Germany.
“How can anyone disagree?”
How diplomatic of you to let others type the obvious answer, I’m happy to fall on that sword given your prodigious and useful postings!
A: Claim whataboutism (which is not accurate), or be a sworn Trump Cultist
Sorry. What Schiff said is obviously true. But you are free to disagree.
Importantly, that does not mean Schiff is innocent of wrongdoing. I never said that.
I simply said his assertion was obviously true. The record speaks for itself. And for the record, I think Schiff is at best sleazy.