GER politics thread

[Skybird]

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She may be able to half the voters for the AfD and make these her own. But nevertheless one thing must not be forgotten though: she is in her core and essence still a Marxist-Stalinist (in clever disguise), and quite russophile and supportive of Putin (like the AfD).



In other words, I do not trust her one bit more than the AfD, the Greens, the SPD, the CDU, the FDP. Means: I trust none of them at all.

[Rockstar]

Wow did Olaf finally grow a pair? “We must finally deport on a large scale those who have no right to stay in Germany”, says German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz in interview, reversing the open door policy of his predecessor Angela Merkel.

https://www.spiegel.de/international...1-285086d39d38


I heard little Slovenia recently enacted border controls to prevent influx of migrants too.

Sounds racist too me.

[Skybird]

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The Economics Minister's top officials have presented an industrial strategy that is actually a damage assessment. In it, they settle accounts with the government's actions and also with Robert Habeck.

"Subversive art is an act of resistance and a call for change," says street artist Banksy. As an expression of his own subversiveness, he never appears in public. He does appear, but as a phenomenon. He lets art speak for itself.

The top officials of the Minister of Economics have now done the same to Banksy. Under the cover name Robert Habeck, they have presented an industrial strategy that is in fact a damage assessment.

[Rockstar]

These days in Germany, the native Germans are more likely to be arrested for showing the German flag because it might offend migrants and make them feel unwelcome or unsafe.

That is how ridiculous Europe has become.

[Skybird]

A German church official is quoted as saying that Germany has the capacity for many, many more migrants. There can be no talk of the absorption capacity being exhausted until the limit of national self-sacrifice has been crossed.

The stupidity of the self-righteous is truly boundless. The Protestant Church is now even more left-wing than the left-wing political parties. The last Protestant church congresses were really Green party congresses. The number of people leaving the church is at an all-time high in both denominations. I predict that both denominations will degenerate into insignificance in Germany around the middle of the century, because the Catholics have to deal with their paedophile problem and don't get it solved.


And both churches even will no longer be needed. Instead, the new churches of faith have a massive influx amongst the young who were politically indoctoinated since their Kindergarden days: the climate sect, Fridays for the Future and The Last Generation. They believe in all sorts of nonsense until the head smokes and the soul starves.

Switching off thinking and just believing seems to be a basic human need. What would Mr Spock say?

[Rockstar]

So Skybird did you hear Pakistan recently forced 1.7 million Afghan refugees out of their country? Not a German political topic now, but any bets on where they’re probably heading?

[Jimbuna]

Armed police officers wave cars off the motorway going from Poland to Germany.

They're searching for people-smugglers and their desperate cargo.

This is the German government's latest bid to show it is getting a grip on rising levels of irregular migration.

But, as we found in a rural border district, there's little sense of control.

Altenberg is a small town in Saxony, right by the Czech Republic.

Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort.

The local mayor, Markus Wiesenberg, says that - in this area alone - smugglers drop off people as often as once a day.

"The trafficker disappears and probably picks up the next load."

New arrivals put a strain on local services, he says, as well as local people.

"Sometimes they find sleeping bags and campfires in the woods and they are worried for their children."

Migration is looming large in the national debate after the far right is seen to have capitalized on the issue, fuelling recent gains in regional elections.

Ministers ordered "temporary" checks last month on Germany's land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

The controls were renewed this week, as they have been for years on the border with Austria, and they are all within the EU's supposedly border-free Schengen Zone.

Registered illegal entries into Germany this year are set to be their highest since 2016.

The country remains a top destination for asylum seekers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67238144

[Skybird]

The renwables have created a planned eocnoym scheme in Germany that costs the tax payer additonal billions. As if energy prices here would not already cost the industry three times and more than in the US, for example.



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[Rockstar]

Germany's high court strikes down up to $840 billion in government spending. Throwing the ruling coalition into chaos and freezing all public spending "for the rest of the year."

Germany's GDP is already shrinking. This could make it worse.

[Skybird]

^ So far the discussion covers only slushfunds of a total of some 60 + ~200 billions, but the whole principle by which the left wants to circumvent the constitutional debt limit to spend more than there is money, stinks to heaven. Point is the CDU-government of federal states also in parts want to ease the brake - first, to advertise themselves as available to the SPD as a grand coalition partner if the SPD - the chancellor party - would fire the Green chaotic ones, and second many CDU minister presidents want to spend beyond the limits, too.

I think in the medium and long run they all will agree to give up the debt brake. That equals the habit in the US to every year extend the debt ceiling in the US. In other words: everywhere you see that the self-obligation of states to limit their increasing of debts get bypassed. Its all just theatre and stage play to please some of the electorate that knows that this endless spending frenzy must destroy the financial fundament of the state and society. Alibi.

Especially despicable is that the Greens claim the financial turmoils now to be due to the Ukraine war, which is not true, but it is due to their murdering of the basis of the German economy for green follies. The lion'S share of the raises in energy prices in Germany are state-driven and Green-wanted, Putin just added a bit to what the Germans decided for all by themselves. Energy prices in germany for the industry are more than three times as high as in the US, for private househiolds they are amongst the most expensive prices in the world, too. Days ago a huge industry association reported that the ammount of medium and big businesses in Germany considering to give up and either shut down or leave the country, has climbed from 26% before summer to now 46 or 48%. The number of shut down stores in the city centre is also visible here in my hometown. One third of individual restaurants has shut down, bakers die out, in the past ten years around half of the bakers in my vicinty have given up - you see, that is a long lasting trend with basic roots, not just a temporary hickup. Long running family businesses with tradition in the region have given up. Lacking workers due to demographic factors and a huge raise to state-paid financial incentives to not work at all so that even those migrants who got a working permission do not want to work, add to the mess. The pool of labourers erodes. Specialists get scared away by overboarding bureaucracy, too.

Germany is in free fall. Since years. The fall just accelerates. Nobody there being realistic about it. I dont expect to see it drastically reversing that again in my life (both education level from schools and working mentality are dramatically changing for the worse, too, so where should the change come from?), since I see it as a fundamental civilizational decline. The ammount of inner rotting and corruption is such that it compares to a biological body having formed blood and bone cancer. The metastases are everywhere, in every single sentence spoken and in every decision made by politicians - they now even get distributed through the air. The total implicit debt of the German state is several hundred percent above the officially published numbers.

[Skybird]

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Delusion is a false assessment of reality to which the person concerned adamantly adheres. He will then interpret observations that serve his erroneous conviction as evidence, and those that contradict it as a conspiracy. But he is not a liar, he is just sick.

These psychological disorders are harmless as long as they concern issues that have no relevance to the practical conduct of life. However, if they lead to actions that harm the person concerned, or even outsiders, then society must take care of the person.

For example, if your mistress is convinced that her dachshund is a corgi from the royal English court, you can safely leave her in this belief. But if she also believes that she lives in England and therefore has to drive on the left-hand side of the road, then intervention is necessary.

In German politics, the symptoms of delusional disorders have been becoming increasingly clear for years now. Clearly, decisions and actions are increasingly characterized by a denial of reality, and there is no doubt that said actions also have consequences for outsiders. Civil society should therefore take up the cause.

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This year, there have already been 45 insolvencies of Germany's largest industrial companies, which is more than twice as many as in each of the last two years (2022: 26, 2021: 17) and corresponds to the record level from the first year of coronavirus, when many things generally collapsed. Only this time it's not corona, but political intention. A study by a major insurer compares the extent of the destruction with the consequences that can otherwise only be observed as consequences of war.

[Skybird]

He nails three topics that probably will bring down Germany in the next 20-30 years.

[Skybird]

On Bu(/a)bble man. Yes, he is struck with his head in an alternate reality bubble.
Yes, he babbles twisted garlands of words and meaningless phrases. He has always believed himself to be above the law, above the constitution, beyond any obligation. He is also blasé, devious, self-important, a dazzler. And in all his incompetence: above all dangerous. To wreak so much destruction in just two years would normally require a major war with an external enemy. Germany's greatest enemies are within - and they have the bridge: helm, nav, comms, weapons, everything.

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The Federal Constitutional Court and another high court have now found three serious violations of the constitution within a few days. And the gang of criminals announces that it will simply carry on as before and counter this with further violations of the constitution.

This shows not only the criminal attitude of this criminal cabinet, but also Germany's desperate financial situation. What drugs are to the junkie, debts are to the parties. Procurement crime knows no scruples or limits - anything goes if it secures drug consumption for even just the running day.

And Bubble Olaf hails himself for being flawless, superior, unerring, and all he does is wonderful. He has an abundance of applause for himself, unencumbered by any self-doubt.

Never before has there been such a bad government in Germany. And after sixteen years of Merkel's general anaesthetic, that's saying something.

What do we learn from this? It can always get worse.

[Skybird]

[Focus] German pupils performed worse than ever before in the international Pisa performance study in 2022.


In reading, maths and science, these are the lowest scores ever measured for Germany in the Pisa study. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced in Berlin on Tuesday that average performance had also fallen drastically internationally.

[Skybird]

Why has Germany become the sick man of Europe?
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