AfD Wins Another Regional Election in Germany; Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament

The SPD are the socialists.

Parties need to garner at least 5.0% of the vote to get one seat. The "center-right" party -- now really a left-wing party due to endless coalitions with the left -- won about 4.9%.

Chancellor Merz admitted this is a "disaster"

Don't get excited -- AfD failed to win an outright majority and the far left did almost as well. Thanks to the usual "firewall" f***ery, all of the left-wing parties will join in a coalition to exclude the top vote-getting party completely.

Still: The trend.

German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Axios:

Far-right AfD wins again as Germany's Merz slides

Germany's ruling center-right party, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union, was shut out of a state parliament for the first time Sunday as the far-right Alternative for Germany scored its second victory this month.
Why it matters: The result marks the third state election AfD has won -- and its second this month -- underscoring its growing strength even as Germany's other major parties refuse to govern with it.
Driving the news: Merz, who has low approval ratings, told reporters that "reforms have to come."

By "reforms," he does not mean that the CDU will embrace the AfD's winning issue of immigration realism.

He means that the CDU will join with the communists to ban the AfD and further restrict speech so that no one can publicly agitate for immigration realism.

AfD won about 38% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the CDU recorded its worst result in any German state election since World War II. The CDU fell from 13% to 4.9% and lost all representation.
In Berlin's state election, the Left more than doubled its vote share to 25.7% and finished first for the first time.
Flashback: AfD won its first state election in Thuringia in 2024, though other parties kept it out of government because they refused to enter into a coalition.

They refuse to enter coalitions (when they're asked at all) because the other parties refuse to cede ground on the only issue AfD is running on. They want the AfD's support without giving the AfD any actual ground on their main issue.

Earlier this month, it won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, but fell just three seats short of a majority. It is now seeking enough outside support to form Germany's first far-right state government since World War II.
Vice President JD Vance met with AfD's co-leader days before last year's federal election and told the Munich Security Conference there was "no room for firewalls," referring to mainstream parties' refusal to govern with the AfD.
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Germany's domestic intelligence service continues to monitor AfD nationally as a suspected extremist organization. A court in February blocked the agency from classifying the entire party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization while a broader case proceeds.
The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave. It also wants to abandon the euro, lift Russian sanctions and end weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

Merz says he has no intention to resign, but others are demanding he step aside to allow another cuck to fail.

BERLIN -- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pledged to overhaul his party's platform and decision-making processes after suffering another humiliating election defeat, calling the result a "major turning point."

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"It is a dramatic and unprecedented result for the CDU ... an entire state parliamentary caucus has been eliminated from the state legislature," Merz told reporters Monday at his party's headquarters in Berlin. "We will feel its repercussions for a long time," he added.
Party officials had warned that an outcome below 5% for the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would unleash a storm of criticism and renew calls for a change in leadership, or Kanzlertausch.
But Merz is clinging to power -- for now.
Unless he steps aside voluntarily, forcing a leadership change risks triggering a snap election at a time when polls show the far right to be the country's most popular party -- making such a move unlikely for the time being. That could quickly change if party members begin speaking out against him.
That's why Merz has vowed to chart a new course for the CDU, announcing consultations in the coming days to unite the party's rank and file behind him.
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"We will discuss the party's work and structure, our platform, and the CDU's public image," he said. "To be frank, we no longer have satisfactory answers to too many questions. And that is something we will and must change."

Here is the change he's considering.

During a meeting with science students, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly derided the principle of freedom of speech and defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens from American-style libertarianism on the internet.
What would have typically been an unremarkable photo-op for the increasingly unpopular German leader drew condemnation over a major gaffe (read: accidentally revealing his true feelings) as Merz held court at the Chancellery with the winners of the 'Youth Researchers' competition on Tuesday.
When pressed by a young student on whether his plans to end online anonymity would impede personal liberties, Chancellor Merz reacted indignantly, declaring: "Please, no one comes to me with free speech... That has nothing to do with free speech anymore."
The supposedly conservative politician -- who made sure to use English when repeating the phrase "free speech" as if to mock the very concept -- said that he rejects the "libertarian understanding of politics," which he claimed emanates from the United States.
Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet.
The Chancellor complained that in the "analogue world" of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks "hygiene".
He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.
Yet, it is doubtful that any amount of censorship from Berlin would bolster the Chancellor's faltering coalition government, which rumours suggest may be on its last legs.

That article was from five days ago.

Beege Wellborn:

[Bloomberg:] "We can't sugarcoat it, it was a disaster," Merz told reporters in Berlin in a statement earlier directly after exit polls were released, breaking with a past practice for chancellors to speak the day after an election. He gathered senior CDU officials to party headquarters, where he sought to gauge their support for his leadership.

The far left party Der Linke, which just means The Left, was fueled, of course, by the Karen Vote.

And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.
71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.
51% of women under 25 voted for the party that is the direct, legal and organizational successor to communist party that ruled East Germany as a dictatorship between 1949 to 1989.

But are they really the Karens we're used to? Or New Foreign Karens?

Jo Bhakdi
@JOBhakdi

Germans wonder how young people , especially women , could vote majority communist in Berlin.
They wonder what went wrong : do they not have a dad ? Don't they think? Don't they have loyalty to their country?
But those who ask these questions picture the wrong "young women" in their mind.
Yes, they have a dad. Yes, they are deeply loyal to their country. But neither their dad nor their country are German.
Young people with a migration background make up nearly 50% of all children and teenagers living in Berlin.
The new version of the communist parties in Sweden and Germany are not delusional white female liberals. They are clan-connected invasion machines.
They are not dumb, they are not naive, they are not pampered.
They are brutal, determined and ready to plunder.
And if you were a young woman in that crowd, you also would vote communist. Because you want to live.

Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.

How are you? Did you get some good rest in?

🚨HOLY SMOKES! 🇩🇪 Germany�s RIGHT-WING party [AfD] is heading for its SECOND consecutive VICTORY in a regional election! 🤯

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— JackTheRippler �️ (@RippleXrpie) September 20, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM

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Posted by: GF at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (h6DRu)

2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (ExV1e)

3 S'up, Ace? Happy Monday!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (bFu5X)

4 There are only two things to do in response:

Import more of Syria and outlaw the AfD party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (SvJcA)

5 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:15 PM (dpXJq)

6 2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Only if the Reichstag burns.

Oh, that's scheduled for next week.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

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6 2 I assume they're about to ban AfD.

Only if the Reichstag burns.

Oh, that's scheduled for next week.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

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To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM (SvJcA)

8 I assume they're about to ban AfD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:14 PM (ExV1e)

Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (dpXJq)

9 Imagine the outrage from the left if AfD called for an end to free speech.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

10 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (NnhvP)

11 Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.
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It's going to be interesting when those two ideologies go to war with each other in Europe.

My money will be on Islam. Sure it's a brutal, repressive, and violent culture, but it at least provides a "future" for its people. Not a good one, but there is one.

Communism always ends in nihilism and death because there is no hope of anything more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (FZ29D)

12 Don't go away mad, Fred, just go away.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (2UnvF)

13 10 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

They would be more likely to survive as a country if the Russians invaded them than if the muzzies take over.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

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Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.

And once again, the dark night of fascism is forever descending on the United States...and landing in Europe.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

15 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

16 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM

And also to be fair, he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

17 It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
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Accidents happen.

Posted by: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (oqH4h)

18 Do they have gladiator movies in Germany?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (No5q8)

19 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?

Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull @ 623 E. 68th Street at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (Fn+3X)

20 Pull quote from ace - “ Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist”. Plan accordingly, America.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Gqar8)

21 They would be more likely to survive as a country if the Russians invaded them than if the muzzies take over.

Russia has its hands full with Ukraine and now Estonia. They'd need at least...2 battalions and a motocross squad to overpower the Germans.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

22
German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

That's when Fred's belt breaks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (Cqx++)

23 Chancellor Merz admitted this is a "disaster"

Oh, Fred!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (hGTKn)

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15 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It was that mentally-challenged Dutch kid.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

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I did say communist.

How is that different from mentally-challenged?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (SvJcA)

25 Liberty? Democracy? Freedom of speech?

Fascist American ideas.
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (dpXJq)

Thank goodness that our tax dollars go towards defending them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

26 16 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:16 PM

And also to be fair, he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

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Not even FDR killed Hitler!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (SvJcA)

27 But Merz is clinging to power -- for now.
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Ethel knows better.

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

28 " Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament"

/golf clap

Posted by: Liz Cheney at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (r7+Q7)

29 The media always refer AfD as far right but never anyone else as far left.

Posted by: dantesed at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (p3pWU)

30 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?
Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull @ 623 E. 68th Street

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (hGTKn)

31 I did say communist.

How is that different from mentally-challenged?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Valid point.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

32 Merz is a toad and Germany is slowly figuring out they've been screwed.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 12:17 PM (NnhvP)

His problem is that he lacks the sizzling Aryan sex appeal of Angela Merkel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

33 Angela Merkel was the appointed destructor.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (d7mRD)

34 "Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament"

Would love to see a Downfall parody of the election. 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (hGTKn)

35 >>How are you? Did you get some good rest in?

Got a ride in on my new Gravel Bike yesterday...
after installing a new dishwasher and washing machine on Saturday.
Slept like the dead last night.

Heading up to the Hospital with Dad for a consultation with the heart surgeon in a few hours.

Also, wishing all the best on Yom Kippur to the tribe.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (zdXqn)

36 Maybe they are waking up... Not really holding my breath on that... Meanwhile, it looks like the powers that be are trying to send us in the other direction...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (+gK6I)

37 Re: Paramount

Looks like someone blinked.

https://instapundit.com/824308/

Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:22 PM (dpXJq)

38 My money will be on Islam. Sure it's a brutal, repressive, and violent culture, but it at least provides a "future" for its people. Not a good one, but there is one.

Communism always ends in nihilism and death because there is no hope of anything more.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Ahem, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and various other Muslim shitholes are actually worse than the Commies. Chaotic evil versus lawful evil if you will.

Basically, Islam worships warlordism which is why it veers from violent repressive asshole dictators to civil war where the new warlords try to supplant the old one. It only appears united because they are unified in hating Christians, atheists, and Jews. But when those aren't available, they go to war against themselves.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

40 Might be hard to rent a beer hall for a Beer Hall Putsch with Oktoberfest going on.

Posted by: Reinheitsgebot of 1516 at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (Fn+3X)

41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (5myRl)

42 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
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Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

43 39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

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"We need to shrink the size and scope of government," is just not in the blood of those who remained in Europe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (SvJcA)

44 hi ace!

had a great weekend. the eagles won!

other than that lots of fun stuff and decent weather even if some rain yesterday

Germany is fooked. I actually have hope for Greece and Italy tho so

too bad for the barbarians

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (j+aD2)

45 39 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

Yep.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (Gqar8)

46 Might be hard to rent a beer hall for a Beer Hall Putsch with Oktoberfest going on.
Posted by: Reinheitsgebot of 1516

Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (hGTKn)

47 42 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
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Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

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And Ellison should enforce diversity statements from all employees that say, "Diversity is bad," for anyone who wants to move with the company.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (SvJcA)

48 "How are you?"

Fettle fine and horse healthy.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

49 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

Pfffffft.

Posted by: Costco Xmas decorations in August at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

50 >>Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Definitely, this.
I can't believe that any corporation would sit in California while they atrophy talent and money to the other states.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (zdXqn)

51 The Chancellor complained that in the "analogue world" of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks "hygiene".

You know who else was on about "hygiene"?

Posted by: Three guesses at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (TbWk/)

52 And remember, this "far right" party in Germany is 100% in favor of all the other socialist programs, same as all the other parties.

They just want restrictions on immigration.

That's it.
They don't want more freedom, smaller government or less spending.
Just a few hundred less dark skins immigrating in each year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (3cUTc)

53 In completely unrelated news, USAID is still dead.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (viF8m)

54 Lawsuit settled, merger allowed to proceed. Guess Paramount threatening to bail on California worked. Although there were concessions.
Posted by: Robert
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Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.
Posted by: whig

Paramount: We said no brown M&M's in the dressing room! We're outta here!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (hGTKn)

55 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christmas starts right after Labor Day!
-- CostCo Decoration Department

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

56 Muslim AND Communist ... this is not the change that Western Civilization needs. I guess Free and Christian is less popular? Or they are just not willing to fight the rapists and murderers and thieves that have united under Islam?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (vbXSk)

57 >>I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM

All non-commies are far right in Europe.

Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (2Xqig)

58 41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.

The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

59 50 >>Paramount should wait a year or so and then bail. Not much that California can do about it.

Definitely, this.
I can't believe that any corporation would sit in California while they atrophy talent and money to the other states.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (zdXqn)

But - the weather is Sooo nice!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (Gqar8)

60 OT: I see that oil is way down which is going to lead to several people complaining about the price of gasoline. It should be noted that eleven US refineries have stopped processing crude oil since 2020. That's driving a lot of the price of diesel/gasoline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

61 58
"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.

The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

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Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (SvJcA)

62 I should have tried sending in a mail-in vote to Germany. For the lulz.

Posted by: gp at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

63 Ahem, Libya, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and various other Muslim shitholes are actually worse than the Commies. Chaotic evil versus lawful evil if you will.

Basically, Islam worships warlordism which is why it veers from violent repressive asshole dictators to civil war where the new warlords try to supplant the old one. It only appears united because they are unified in hating Christians, atheists, and Jews. But when those aren't available, they go to war against themselves.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (dpXJq)

64 57 >>I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".

Posted by: Ian S.

Ah yes, the AfD who is headed by a lesbian who is married to someone from Sri Lanka IRRC. Nothing says far right more than that.

I think the gays know what is coming--extermination and enslavement by the Muzzies far more than the ridiculous uni students.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

65 49 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

Pfffffft.
Posted by: Costco Xmas decorations in August at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

Amateurs.

Posted by: Target seasonal section at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (TbWk/)

66 >>Christmas starts right after Labor Day!
-- CostCo Decoration Department

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:26 PM

When Halloween candy goes on discount, it's Christmas.

Posted by: Walmart at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (2Xqig)

67 61

Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (SvJcA)

Maybe the good ones have already left.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:28 PM (Gqar8)

68 The only thing is that I hope that the puppet masters behind the globaloney politicians that are the frontmen gets some love too from the People they have screwed.

Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

70 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

"Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

71 60 OT: I see that oil is way down which is going to lead to several people complaining about the price of gasoline. It should be noted that eleven US refineries have stopped processing crude oil since 2020. That's driving a lot of the price of diesel/gasoline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

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Traffic out of the Gulf region is completely recovered when combining S2S transfers, regular traffic with AIS off, and pipelines, and has been for weeks. The Saudi pipeline that was attacked? It was actually only running at half capacity (roughly 3.5 million barrels a day rather than the max of 7 million), and it reportedly saw almost no actual stoppage of movement because of the attack and minimal use.

Ukraine attacking refining facilities in Russia is having a greater effect on gas prices than Iran now.

And, yes, our diminished refining capacity is a major player as well. I think the US government has legal authority to force the shut down facilities back into production if an emergency gets declared.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (SvJcA)

72
Just "far-right"? Must be squishes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (eRlcH)

73 >>Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

That sounds like the US for decades before the loudmouth real estate developer from Queens came along.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (viF8m)

74 LOL.. So the rest of the News corps are not gonna cover the White House because Trump gave the ax to some of their brethren ? And that's a bad thing how ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (+gK6I)

75 68

Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

That would be So Awesome!! Take his son and his faux wife along to, bonus time. A man can dream.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar8)

76 Its just very much like the GOP here where had they just been credible on illegal immigration, a candidacy like Trump would have seemed silly.

But they were determined EVERY time they were in power to try and shove an amnesty down our throat. Or cut a deal with Democrats because they hated this wing of the party.

So now, not only is illegal immigration getting addressed like it should, ALL immigration is now being curtailed (like it should).

You literally had Republicans candidates running for President like Ted Cruz promising more mexican immigrants.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (eu7DR)

77 69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

=======

Turns out the 1933 conviction of Van der Lubbe was right, even if investigated and prosecuted by Nazis.

All the left has is the unsupported idea that he was a Nazi plant in communist circles. They can't even point to anyone else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (SvJcA)

78 What's all this fuss about Pomeranians? I think they're one of the cutest dog breeds ever! And they're really smart, too...

What? Oh.
Never mind...

Posted by: Emily Litella at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (2Ez/1)

79 I think the gays know what is coming--extermination and enslavement by the Muzzies far more than the ridiculous uni students.

They do, which is why it's funnier that the activists have to pretend that "Free Palestine" (with purchase of equal or lesser value) is the world's most important issue.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

80
Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

_________

6D chess!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:31 PM (eRlcH)

81
52 And remember, this "far right" party in Germany is 100% in favor of all the other socialist programs, same as all the other parties.

They just want restrictions on immigration.

That's it.
They don't want more freedom, smaller government or less spending.
Just a few hundred less dark skins immigrating in each year.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM (3cUTc

Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (2UJ+q)

82 73 >>Europeans are a servile, docile people who will accept the fiction of elections heavily weighted against the wishes of the people without material complaint.

That sounds like the US for decades before the loudmouth real estate developer from Queens came along.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:30 PM (viF8m)

Sadly, you are spot-on.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Gqar8)

83 I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?
Posted by: Robert
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There, the Ottoman Caliphs liked to practice fratricide and kill off each other. And Erdogan is rather stupid if he thinks he can recreate a new Ottoman Empire. Turks and Iranians are outsiders to the core of Islam which is explicitly biased toward Arabs. It is just that Arabs get to fighting each other and the Iranians and Turks have gotten to take advantage of internal schisms.

There is a reason that a lot of people in these countries want to live in the West such as doctors, engineers, etc. (not the imported street trash that Red Cross and the other NGOs bring in). But then they revert back to the same trash culture as the numbers build in the countries that they escaped to. And their kids embrace it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (E4rtv)

84 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Vote" becomes rigged, then the people's voice will come out in other ways, less nice than the first. If you want to see the sights in Euroland, best go now because I think things will get spicy soon enough.

Ouiji Board: Come in 1939.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (hGTKn)

85 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hungary is part of NATO. Seems cut and dry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (d7mRD)

86 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

87 19 Fred Mertz was a fine landlord, but who thought he could run a large country?
Posted by: Mrs. Trumbull

"Friedrich, you got some 'splainin' to do!"

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Av6i5)

88 Afternoon Ace.
I'll say this for Merz. He's only achieved becoming the third worst Chancellor in German history . He'd have to go a long way to reach Merkel at #2. #1 is way out of reach, I hope..

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (taL2t)

89 Octoberfest in September. Makes sense.
What's next? Christmas in November?

"Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

We could call it Tabfest.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

90 Maybe Germany needs to be broken up again. Multi-state Germany is historically natural and may be safer for German neighbors. That way, East Germany (ironically, now the sane Germans) could keep third world trash out, and the rest of Germany could work out their guilty daddy issues on their own. Of course, the EU with its free movement of "workers" requirement would throw a wrench in that. Time for Germex?

I've been thinking lately that the Morganthau Plan may have been the best for Germany.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (6yK+O)

91 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere.

Allowing Malaysia to execute an old man would not actually be likely to help Republicans in the midterms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

92 69 To be fair to Hitler, it's pretty much conclusive by this point that communists did start that fire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

Fuck this, I'm out.

Posted by: Billy Joel at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (TbWk/)

93 Ewerup is boned. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (TezPK)

94 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:34 PM (ccf/V)

95 "85 Soros has been convicted and given the death penalty in Hungary and Malaysia. If Trump wants to overwhelmingly win the midterms, Maduro-ing him to one of those two countries would do wonders.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hungary is part of NATO. Seems cut and dry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (d7mRD) "

What a fine idea.

If only.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (VyBeY)

96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (vTZFs)

97 41 They are already working on a route through the legal system to ban the AfD. If people won't vote for the "right" party, then they won't be allowed to vote.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)

98 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.

71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.

For people that hold America in such contempt they sure like to ape our voting patterns.

Posted by: Second look at repealing the 19th at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

99 In Berlin's state election, the Left more than doubled its vote share to 25.7% and finished first for the first time.
__________________________________

A couple things about the Far Left dominating in Berline. First, there are just under 500,000 Muslims living there. Secondly, the moment the Far Left made their stride, The Central Council of Jews in Germany protested the result pointing out that those candidates start each appearance with a call for Jewish deaths by repeating the "From the River to the Sea" mantra.

It's interesting because previously, it was the AfD that was the recipient of a constructed narrative that they are the "second coming of the Nazis". In fact, the Associated Press went so far as to state after the Saxony massive win for AfD that it was the first time since WW2 that the Far Right dominated that election...which is nonsense since the WW2 Nazis were Authoritarian Socialists. But, NOW, the Central Council of Jews is targetting the Far Left with that narrative which puts those opposing AfD in a conundrum. They can't ignore the Jewish Council's concerns...there is still a lot of guilt in that country. And it weakens the narrative against AfD.

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (dIske)

100 Wait -- so the Reichstag Fire was a false flag of a double-reverse psyop Reichstag Fire-style false flag psyop? History is finally coming into focus.
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

F*** this, I'm out.

Posted by: Billy Joel

But...but...but Vienna waits for you!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

101 Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.
Posted by: Piper
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Problem for Euroland is that they lived in a fool's paradise which meant worshipping idiotic ideals like Net Zero, soft power, and endless immigration from Islamic states (probably a backdoor deal to get cheaper oil is my guess). They kissed Russian ass for years for cheap nat gas and oil as well and spent all the money on socialism rather than NATO, building up their own economies, and internal cohesion.

Now the bills are coming due and it is unlikely that the US is going to continue to foot the bill regardless of party now. And China is destroying what remains of any Euro industrial power along with expensive oil. And other than a few Eastern Euro nations like Poland, their military power could be taken on by a pack of gay Cub Scouts.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (E4rtv)

102
Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys.

__________

Is it socialism or social democracy? The first is a top-down imposition. The second is an organic consensus that, really, can only come about in a ethnically-homogeneous society.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (eRlcH)

103 96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.
Posted by: Oddbob

The left is going so far left so fast, that I end up going right just by standing still.

Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (Av6i5)

104 "George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere. "

the kid could be written off as collateral damage.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 12:36 PM (VyBeY)

105
In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35

That has been the rallying cry here, too.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (2UJ+q)

106 Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)

I had to socialize the economy to save the free market!

Posted by: George W. Bush at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk/)

107 I'm constantly amused that AfD, which is pretty literally the US Democrat Party, except anti-illegal-immigration, is "far right".
Posted by: Ian S.

True, but they know that if they do acquire the leadership position they'll run head long into the EU mafia and will have to fight to neuter it. Which is a 'rightist' project if there ever was one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (HeG1i)

108 86 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
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Interesting, but what do you base that on? I've read a good explanation of why "0 AD" is likely not the birth year, but I've also read a good explantion (from John Chrysostom (circa 400 AD) on why December 25 (or Jan 6 Old Calendar) is surprisingly accurate.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (6yK+O)

109 And by here I mean democrats, not here as in on this blog and us.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (2UJ+q)

110 98 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight.

71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens.

For people that hold America in such contempt they sure like to ape our voting patterns.
Posted by: Second look at repealing the 19th
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Universities have become anti Western, anti Reason, and anti white. AWFLs pick that up as they unconsciously try to pivot to whatever culture vibe they think is winning.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

111 Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (Gqar8)

112 96 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (vTZFs)

========

The right today has gone left.

We're essentially the Democrat Party from 1985, minus the small contingent that's open to Soviet infiltration of our government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (SvJcA)

113 True, but they know that if they do acquire the leadership position they'll run head long into the EU mafia and will have to fight to neuter it. Which is a 'rightist' project if there ever was one.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2026 12:37 PM (HeG1i)

The head of AfD has pledged to pull Germany out of the EU should they ever hold power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

114 111 Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (Gqar

And non-bianary

Posted by: Reverend Talarico at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (+gK6I)

115 I read something many years ago...don't ask by who, I can't recall...that argued Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.

Second look at an Ottoman Khalif? Rubio have an opening in his schedule?
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:27 PM (dpXJq)
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Yeah, Islam *requires* a strong man at the helm to have any sort of chance at being semi-functional, (i.e., less dysfunctional than the alternative.)

Whenever that's gone, the entire country just collapses into violence and chaos (Libya, Syria, Iraq, etc.).

It's only a matter of time until Turkey resumes that pattern.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (FZ29D)

116 In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.

A new Crusade will happen.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

117 104 "George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.. His son, Alex, is the current problem child of that bloodline but Alex hasn't been convicted of anything, anywhere. "

the kid could be written off as collateral damage.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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Soros Sr. is reportedly ga ga and now confined to a bedroom suffering from severe dementia. Biden is probably in better shape.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

118 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany!

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Knispel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (6VpiA)

119 The left is going so far left so fast, that I end up going right just by standing still.

TRVTH

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (vTZFs)

120 Driving the news: Merz, who has low approval ratings, told reporters that "reforms have to come."

Get in the helicopter. I have a few ideas on how to start the reform.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (svLOV)

121
Problem for Euroland is that they lived in a fool's paradise which meant worshipping idiotic ideals like Net Zero, soft power, and endless immigration from Islamic states (probably a backdoor deal to get cheaper oil is my guess).

__________

A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that. They don't innovate, they don't monetize what they do innovate, they regulate the life out of what they do monetize. They're collapsing demographically and becoming uncompetitive due to surging energy costs and stupid policies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (eRlcH)

122 Seems like the same thing as happening here. The left is going further left, the right is going further right, and the so-called middle is going nuts.

Not actually true. The right's positions have not moved in many decades, but the left is sprinting farther left.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

123 121
A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that. They don't innovate, they don't monetize what they do innovate, they regulate the life out of what they do monetize. They're collapsing demographically and becoming uncompetitive due to surging energy costs and stupid policies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:40 PM (eRlcH)

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Importing Syria was supposed to save them, though.

That's what Merkel promised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (SvJcA)

124 Germany has clung to it's socialist roots of the 1930's, just they call it left or center-right, while they call the socialist Notsees "far right" and lump them with what we would call the right, which is far from socialist, communist, or Notsee as can be.

Words matter; language matters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

125 I'm still betting on the Bloody French being the first to revolt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)

126
Soros Sr. is reportedly ga ga and now confined to a bedroom suffering from severe dementia. Biden is probably in better shape.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

________

Cadaver Trial II

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (eRlcH)

127 When the entire web of worldwide "intelligence" operatives is finally torn down, then we will some fun stuff.

Not a coincidence that Christopher Steele was British intel.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (viF8m)

128 I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (+gK6I)

129 Out: We must destroy the village in order to save it!

In: We must destroy democracy in order to save it!
Posted by: zombie at September 21, 2026 12:35 PM (Av6i5)
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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (FZ29D)

130 I expect the German politicians to kill democracy in order to save it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (l3cgK)

131 Universities have become anti Western, anti Reason, and anti white. AWFLs pick that up as they unconsciously try to pivot to whatever culture vibe they think is winning.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

Which is determined for them by the TikTok algorithm.

Posted by: Selection bias by proxy at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (TbWk/)

132 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (Gqar8)

133
I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (+gK6I)

__________

Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

134 Oddly enough, I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?

Posted by: wow - totally obvious it seems at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (anL5R)

135 125 I'm still betting on the Bloody French being the first to revolt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 21, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)

Their muzzie enclaves are already revolting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

136 George Soros is 96 and uninvolved in the day-to-day operations of Destroy America Inc.

I know, but the pour encourager les autres effect would be massive. Just hint that, say, Reid Hoffman is next.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (2ocoG)

137 I don't see how Germany comes out of this as anything other then just another third world hellhole. Their economy is collapsing due to decades of insane energy policies, and rather than fix it they are engaging in all of this political fuckery to see who gets to preside over the ruins.

No matter who wins, there's going to be nothing left worth winning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (edUvp)

138 53 In completely unrelated news, USAID is still dead.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:25 PM

Boy, that's a strange coincidence.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (q2usZ)

139 Islam was kept under control by the Ottomans and it has been out of control since extinguishing that empire.
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The (former) people of Constantinople, the Greeks, the Serbs, most of Eastern Europe, and (almost) the Spanairds and Austrians would probably differ. Ottomans only mellowed and began decline when the method of succession was changed.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (6yK+O)

140 134 Oddly enough, I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?

Posted by: wow - totally obvious it seems at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (anL5R)

Time for you to go to the showers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)

141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

142 @101 whig, Pax Americana allowed the Western Europeans to engage in all kind of foolish political behavior. They didn't have to worry about fighting their neighbors because we were their keeping the peace. Now the stupid is collapsing in on itself

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (taL2t)

143 132 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:42 PM (Gqar

This. They were not kept hard by the struggle, but allowed to grow weak from the luxury. All of the benefit, none of the demands.

This really is the entire story of the West.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (Y/06r)

144 Decades ago, I read Heinrich Böll's acclaimed novel Group Portrait With Lady concerned primarily with German civilians under the Nazis. (The novel was published in 1971 and I must've read it around then.) Near the end, the setting shifts to postwar Germany and the author seems to suggest that anti-Muslim feeling concerning guest workers is similar to anti-Jewish feeling under the Nazis. I was uncomfortable with that even then but had no idea what was to come.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (ndZc7)

145 Importing Syria was supposed to save them, though.

That's what Merkel promised.

To be fair, who doesn't look at Syria and say "We need to get us some of that!"

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

146 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that

Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (KaLR8)

147 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

148 The right today has gone left.

We're essentially the Democrat Party from 1985, minus the small contingent that's open to Soviet infiltration of our government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't agree actually except on spending. And that was baked into the cake when Eisenhower signalled his acceptance of the New Deal and Nixon/Ford did not roll back the Great Society. Both thought fighting Communism was more important than trying to roll back the New Deal. Thus, the entitlement explosion was baked into the cake. And the Dems, desperate for new voters, decided to replace Americans with foreigners and the Bush GOPe corporatists thought cheap labor and American imperialism via Invade the World and Invite the World was just dandy.

Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge absent the fiscal situation. And he is dragging the GOP along when it desperately wants to keep its junior status in the uniparty. Remains to be seen if it endures past his term in office.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

149 Exactly this - Europe is interesting. But socialism is what they know, and they have been told their whole lives we are rude cowboys. Which is why they are shocked when they meet us and realize it’s not like that at all. Except for our insistence on freedom and guns to stay free.
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Interesting anecdote on X:
Guy asks his Canadian friend about his country becoming India/Pakistan.
And he shrugs and says, "everything will go back to normal once Trump is gone."

And ... that's the whole worldwide--they literally believe all these actual threats are just "Trump the stupid cowboy ruining everything."
And that the soft, cozy dreamworld of Before Trump will return as soon as he's gone.

So yeah, some of us alive today are going to witness millions starving and being killed by their own governments.
Again.
Just like the left did in the last century.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (3cUTc)

150 >>I guess I really should care about this, but we've got our own problems here which concern me more...

All part of the same puzzle.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (viF8m)

151 It is sad, but I think Nukes were a cultural mistake. They have... made the game board static. And stasis leads to decadence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Y/06r)

152 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

This seems important:

When is Titties And Beer Day?
It's national titties and beer day on the 26th March.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ccf/V)

153 The calculations of Christ's birth year/day are quite involved and too complicated to cover in a comment here. Check the Timeline at ebiblefellowship.org for specifics. Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History.... at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

154 Our problems are solvable.

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But it'll be ugly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

155 defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens "

Zombie Ben Franklin waves...

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (pfXMo)

156 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?
Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen savior?

Posted by: Coconuts? In Mercia? at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

157 Yeah, but Pomerania is a really small state.
You can carry it around in your handbag.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (HZM7t)

158 154 Our problems are solvable.

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But it'll be ugly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

And only when they can no longer be ignored.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

159 Merz could successfully implement his left-wing wolf in right-wing sheep's clothing using the one weird trick that consists of doing what the majority of the country wants on immigration policy. But he'd rather his party electorally dies out than picks up this winning issue. And this is across nearly the entire West. Why?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Dv3i1)

160 By "reforms," he does not mean that the CDU will embrace the AfD's winning issue of immigration realism.

He means that the CDU will join with the communists to ban the AfD and further restrict speech so that no one can publicly agitate for immigration realism.

Consider for a moment that the one thing the *Christian* Democrat Union won't negotiate on is importing millions of Muslims to replace their Christian population

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

161
A Trump can only come from our Constitutional system. No outsider could ever govern nor even be in power in a parliamentary system. You have to be a creature of the machine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (eRlcH)

162 141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar8)

163 >>But it'll be ugly.

It's been ugly for a very long time.

Payback is a happy thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (viF8m)

164 142 @101 whig, Pax Americana allowed the Western Europeans to engage in all kind of foolish political behavior. They didn't have to worry about fighting their neighbors because we were their keeping the peace. Now the stupid is collapsing in on itself
Posted by: Smell the Glove

US was a single parent and the Euro kid in the basement has grown into a 50 year old degenerate that lives by sponging off undeserved protection of house and home and cheating on trade deals from Uncle Sam.

Trump is telling Euroland to get out of the basement and get a job essentially because we are tired of paying for backstabbing, prissy, and tedious champagne socialists on other people's tab.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

165 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany!
Posted by: Zombie Kurt Knispel at September 21, 2026 12:39 PM (6VpiA)

***

I fundamentally disagree.
The German troops I served with in the 70's were some badass mofos.
The German troops I served with in the 90's were as well.
My only worry is will they be enough?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)

166 i think men can become women by saying that they are women

and hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (dKX8/)

167 I am made uncomfortable by German Fascistic Lefty Politicians speaking about "hygiene". I can't quite reason out why. Any thoughts?"

That ain't water

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (pfXMo)

168 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.

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A Libra. Makes sense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

169 It is sad, but I think Nukes were a cultural mistake. They have... made the game board static. And stasis leads to decadence.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Y/06r)
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Nukes by themselves are not necessarily a cultural mistake.

It's possible that the mutual reluctance to ever unleash them by the United States and the Soviet Union is part of the problem, though.

It's been so long since anyone has really witnessed the destructive power of a fully functional nuclear warhead that we've all forgotten WHY we don't use nukes as a first resort.

I can think of a few hotspots around the world that may need to learn that lesson, though...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (FZ29D)

170 Germany is kaput. The country is so feminized from years and years of generational guilt for WW Eleven handed down and hammered into them. The US wasted so much blood and treasure protecting these idiots and they still managed to do themselves in.

At least Japan is snapping out of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

171 147 What's next? Christmas in November?
Posted by: rickb223

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.
Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History at September 21, 2026 12:32 PM (Fn+3X)

AM or PM?

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 12:45 PM (dpXJq)

Christmas was set to December 25th in order to coopt the date from the Teutonic German's festivals of the lengthening of the day. This was common practice for the Universal Church back in the day.
There's a reason you find Trees during Christmas, or bunnies, chicks, eggs, and grass for Easter. Halloween (All Hallows Eve), St. Valentine's day, and others as well.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (l3cgK)

172 Posted by: Sid at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (dKX8/)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (ccf/V)

173 We protected the Euros so long from the big bad Soviet Bear that they were free to lapse into whatever degeneracy they cared to. Devolution, up close.

Yes and no. There's an alternate timeline where we still protect them but the Euros aren't passive pussies. Eastern Europe shows that way.

The Euros' problem is simple. Right now, even people like Elon who should know better, are trumpeting that AI can make people so productive that most of the population can just live on welfare/UBI/whatever you wanna call it. The Euros made that same exact call about industrialization in the early 1900s and went all in on implementing it.

The results are obvious: they're all weak and soft and their economies are a joke. They've missed every major technological leap of the last 100 years. California, even now, obliterates them economically, never mind the US as a whole.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

174 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Well, here with the Horde...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (2WIwB)

175 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that
Posted by: Doof

T&Bfest.
F Coke.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (hGTKn)

176 Germany's domestic intelligence service continues to monitor AfD nationally as a suspected extremist organization. A court in February blocked the agency from classifying the entire party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization while a broader case proceeds.

Remember AFD isn't a right wing party. They aren't a moderate party. They are a left wing party with a rational immigration policy.

So disagreeing with ANYTHING the ruling technocrats want is not allowed.

But...they are saving muh Democracies!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

177 A welfare state is funded by a robust economy. And Europe is no longer that.

Of course we have a robust economy. -- 47 European agencies created to fine US companies

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

178 "Importing the third world increases GDP. Just look at Canada."
-the left, not at all nonsense

*0.5% GDP growth for the entire last decade*
-Canada

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (SvJcA)

179 162 141
Our problems are solvable. Theirs aren't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 12:43 PM (eRlcH)

I hope you're right... About our problems
Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?
Posted by: tubal

Depends, containment is a very difficult strategy to pursue (US Cold War policy from Truman to Reagan) over the years simply because people get tired of politics ruling everything.

But Civil Wars, even if one wins, leave scars at least a century or more after. Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

180 The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave.

If one group of politicians bring in millions of foreigners to replace your native population this is the only rational way to resolve that, well, without violence.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

181 152 "Octoberfest" is a celebration of tits and beer. It should be year round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

This seems important:

When is Titties And Beer Day?
It's national titties and beer day on the 26th March.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ccf/V)

https://tinyurl.com/2fwa74wc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (l3cgK)

182 The price of gasoline and diesel is primarily being affected by NATO weapons being launched into Russia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (9X5dH)

183 I fundamentally disagree.
The German troops I served with in the 70's were some badass mofos.
The German troops I served with in the 90's were as well.
My only worry is will they be enough?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)
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Germany society is highly segmented as are most European countries. There is a distinct class for everyone in society, and you are pretty much locked into it at birth.

Germany therefore does have a warrior class, and they are very proud of that distinction. Is what you are born to do.

But they also believe in order, and are terrified of chaos. So they stay within the system, hoping for the best, and to be honest, they are grinding down the Establishment. Trying to ban opposition parties is a sign of weakness, and the AfD is only going to get stronger.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (ZOv7s)

184 Musk is - Musk. Ultimately he is a man on HIS mission. Any benefits/ liabilites related to him are incidental.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar8)

185 AfD's share needs to increase to about 45% before they'll have sufficient seats to form majority governments. There may come a time when the Christian Social Union breaks ranks with Merz and a minority faction of the CDU balks at co-operating with the post-communists and begins working with AfD. Not happened yet.

Posted by: Art Deco at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (pawNB)

186 But Civil Wars, even if one wins, leave scars at least a century or more after. Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.

To say nothing of the Great Ginger vs Maryanne cataclysm.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

187 We could call it Tabfest.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:33 PM (hGTKn)

The Coca Cola company may have a problem with that
Posted by: Doof

T&Bfest.
F Coke.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:50 PM (hGTKn)

TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties und Beer

Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (KaLR8)

188

"young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties"

Gosh, what does this tell us.....

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (och2J)

189 >>A Trump can only come from our Constitutional system. No outsider could ever govern nor even be in power in a parliamentary system. You have to be a creature of the machine.

Our constitutional system shot Trump in the head. I know nobody pays attention to the media but does it strike anyone as odd that the asshole who shot Trump had significant portions of his FBI files deleted and he was cremated within days of his death, paid for by an anonymous source? Can you imagine the media outrage if somebody shot Obama in the head?

Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

190 Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet.

False information like the clot shot stops the spread of COVID?

Personal Degradation like a gay orgy?

Discrimination like arresting Christians for reading from the Bible?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

191 Democracy is so icky when people don't vote the way they're supposed to.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (2UnvF)

192 Oh I think they will. But I am convinced that blood will be shed. For the remission of our sins, so to speak. Grim thought, but matters here have gone that far now. How can we reconcile with our enemies, internal? Where is the evidence of their flexibility, a desire to reconcile?
Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar

There is none. They want us dead and our children to be their sexual playthings. There is no path to reconciliation. We can suppress, marginalize, contain, but that's the best we could hope for. Any gesture of reconciliation on their side can only be taken as a hudna, a deception, a period on non-conflict that lasts only as long as necessary for them to regroup and resume their attacks.

Posted by: Hate to be the bearer of bad news at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

193 >>>German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Really? You could do better riffing here.

How about a Merzder, for starters?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)

194 plicated to cover in a comment here. Check the Timeline at ebiblefellowship.org for specifics. Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Posted by: Biblical Calendar of History.... at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (Fn+3X)

2060.

Posted by: Sir Isaac Newton at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (l3cgK)

195
TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties ünd Beer
Posted by: Doof at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM

Corrected for shits & grins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)

196 Some, like the French and Russian Revolutions, cast dark shadows centuries after the events.
Posted by: whig

Hey, leave me outta this.
-- Barnabas Collins

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:54 PM (77rzZ)

197 189

Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

One election away, Jack, always. Our system, the double edged sword.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8)

198 It ain't just the Krauts who are awakening.

Serious question: why should Englishmen fight to defend the prerogatives of a ruling class that has utterly failed in its duty to the people it governs? And not only that, but seems to actively despise them?

https://tinyurl.com/yn6b8vua

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

199 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (ZRXCd)

200 At least Japan is snapping out of it.

Japan never decided that "the economy is good enough and now we can have a massive welfare state and 4 work days a week". Europe did, as per my comment #173.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

201 He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.

They ran this script in Romania too, they argued the anti-EU candidate won because of Russian made videos supporting him.

But...so what? They are already subjected to endless EU propaganda and honestly is seeing one bit of "misinformation" poisons you ability to vote rationally then you should just end the fiction of democracy

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

202 "young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties"

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Like bailing water into the Titanic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM (ndZc7)

203 Mittelsch-Merz?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (gk7+G)

204 Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde – oder?

Von DW,
“Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde. Das stammt von DW;

Holocaust-Überlebende über den „sehr gefährlichen“ Sieg der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt”

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (mMbvc)

205 "Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet."

Just like Biden did with Twitter and with other tech companies during Covid.
Never forget they shutdown everyone that questioned anything about their Lefty Covid narrative.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

206 159 Merz could successfully implement his left-wing wolf in right-wing sheep's clothing using the one weird trick that consists of doing what the majority of the country wants on immigration policy. But he'd rather his party electorally dies out than picks up this winning issue. And this is across nearly the entire West. Why?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
==========
Because Merz is taking orders from WEF types that want this. Same as UK prime ministers regardless of party and about as true for Meloni, etc.

I think the WEF types want an implosion of civilization to kill off a fair chunk of the bourgeoise leaving only peasants and aristos. To do that, they have to impoverish, demoralize, and destroy the middle class. Basically to revert to feudalism.

I think the only possibility that may allow the people to reassert control over these ghouls is by doing the same thing their ancestors did to smash feudalism. The rise of kings versus aristos and a revitalized Church that ostracizes anti social feudal aristos with deviant tendencies.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

207 >>>German papers are calling this the "Merzpocalypse."

Really? You could do better riffing here.

How about a Merzder, for starters?

It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

208 158 154 Our problems are solvable.

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But it'll be ugly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

And only when they can no longer be ignored.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 21, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

If we wait until Islamic immigration becomes a mainstream issue it will be too late. The window to make a change is still open, but the ongoing revolt against sanity by the blue states will eventually slam the window shut.

Posted by: Polka will never die at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (pSaNK)

209 Our constitutional system shot Trump in the head. I know nobody pays attention to the media but does it strike anyone as odd that the asshole who shot Trump had significant portions of his FBI files deleted and he was cremated within days of his death, paid for by an anonymous source? Can you imagine the media outrage if somebody shot Obama in the head?

Where we are today is somewhat of a miracle but we are far from out of the woods.
Posted by: JackStraw

And in a complete coincidence, Biden dropped out of the race that weekend. Complete coincidence.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (9X5dH)

210 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM

That's how you know the right hasn't moved but the left has: Trump's policies were non-controversial coming from Bill Clinton in 1995. Hillary had farther left ambitions but was ultimately foiled.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

211 191 Democracy is so icky when people don't vote the way they're supposed to.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 21, 2026 12:53 PM (2UnvF)

And of course, this being a smart military blog and all, we know that the US was founded as a republic, not a democracy, and that the Founding Fathers expressly eschewed democracy because of the enormous danger to liberty and prosperity such a system would pose.

Posted by: A Republic, dammit, if you can keep it at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

212 TUB. Use the German "und" instead of "and".

Titties und Beer
Posted by: Doof

Perfection!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (hGTKn)

213 And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.

Because many of those young women are employed by the government at do nothing jobs that still give them money and status.

For all the bad press Trump's $5k checks got the left works by bribing people, of course often with their own money.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

214 US was a single parent and the Euro kid in the basement has grown into a 50 year old degenerate that lives by sponging off undeserved protection of house and home and cheating on trade deals from Uncle Sam.
Trump is telling Euroland to get out of the basement and get a job essentially because we are tired of paying for backstabbing, prissy, and tedious champagne socialists on other people's tab.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

Hahahaha! This is about my neighbors 2 blocks over, isn't it?

Posted by: Europe Is A Monster Child at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (6VpiA)

215 Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde – oder?

Von DW,
“Du wusstest doch, dass es so kommen würde. Das stammt von DW;

Holocaust-Überlebende über den „sehr gefährlichen“ Sieg der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt”
Posted by: Marcus T

I don't even know where to begin with the "Gesundheits" on this one.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

216 Germany's modern Basic Law (constitution) is basically an overcompensation for Weimar, so it is a parliament, but snap elections or dismissing the Chancellor is much harder to do because of Bad Mustache Man.

If you look at the run-up to him gaining power, you see an almost French series of failed governments, snap elections, fragile coalitions and so the current system is designed to prevent that from happening and it worked pretty well for a long time.

But the Establishment is out of ideas and now wants to change the rules rather than solve problems, and so you have the same story across all of Western Europe - only the "radical" or "extreme" parties offer a solution and the solution to stop them is to coalition governments which accomplish nothing other than defying popular opinion.

The problem with the firewall is that the AfD is no longer a newcomer, and in efforts to stop it, clowns like Merz actually make them seem reasonable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (ZOv7s)

217 I think the only possibility that may allow the people to reassert control over these ghouls is by doing the same thing their ancestors did to smash feudalism. The rise of kings versus aristos and a revitalized Church that ostracizes anti social feudal aristos with deviant tendencies.

*cough*

Posted by: Mademoiselle Le Guillotine at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

218
210 Trump is probably the most conservative president in actions since Calvin Coolidge.
---------------------------
And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 21, 2026 12:55 PM

That's how you know the right hasn't moved but the left has: Trump's policies were non-controversial coming from Bill Clinton in 1995. Hillary had farther left ambitions but was ultimately foiled.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

=====

Obama gave speeches on the Senate floor saying that W was letting in too many illegal immigrants and not doing enough to help the American worker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (SvJcA)

219 >>One election away, Jack, always. Our system, the double edged sword.

Imagine your entire life was built around feeding off the government tits and beer and life for you was good. Master of the universe.

Then some loudmouth crashed your party and tore your life apart. We're winning now in ways most of us didn't think possible a decade ago but evil never goes away. It plots and it wants revenge.

Probably shouldn't let that happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (viF8m)

220 Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.

Didn't some book say something about the date being unknowable?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2026 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

221 Like bailing water into the Titanic.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (hGTKn)

222 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

"Boobs" is the better term, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

223 I feel like Merz and Carney were the result of someone making a bet on Polymarket that those countries couldn't do worse than Merkel and Trudeau, respectively.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

224 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

"Boobs" is the better term, anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

That's tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (ccf/V)

225 I guess I should note, rather than shit on the AdF too much, the notion that some break, any break at all, from the ruling, dominant, suffocating left is revolutionary.

If the people are allowed ideas about immigration, they'll get other ideas as well.

Because, it's the hole in the dam that could bring down the whole thing.

And I think the left knows it, that their hold is that tenuous, by how rabid they are in attacking a fellow "liberal in all-but immigration" party.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 21, 2026 12:59 PM (3cUTc)

226 Die Grünen und antideutsche Gruppen (mit viel Einfluss und Geld von außen) haben sich in der CDU manifestiert. Dazu gehörten auch die Russen, die ein starkes Deutschland als Bedrohung ansahen und denen die Wiedervereinigung peinlich war. Die Menschen haben nun all die

Posted by: Marcus T at September 21, 2026 01:00 PM (mMbvc)

227 The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave. It also wants to abandon the euro, lift Russian sanctions and end weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
.......

Sounds about right.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:00 PM (UjdFS)

228 153. ...Some folks have spent thousands of hours studying this.
Flood of Noah's Day-4990 BC.
King David ascends throne-1007 BC
Probable Date of the end of all things visible-2033 AD.
------------------------------------------------
That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

And I am certainly sticking with December 25. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (6yK+O)

229 One thing about the increased gas prices- I have an older Ford truck the needed the A/C unit recharged, so I tried driving with windows down on warm days until I had time to put it in the shop. Well I got 30 more miles per tank by doing that. And that's less money my state (WA) collects in carbon tax. TYVM

Posted by: Rex B at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (R0XxO)

230 Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)

231 Boobs and Beer. Let's keep it alliterative.

That "Titties and Beer" song from the ONT has been stuck in my head for months now, so I don't think you need the alliteration.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (2ocoG)

232 230 Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)

=======

It's what their bible the Communist Manifesto outlines.

The Communist Manifesto is holy writ and not to be questioned. Only the high priests in academia can truly interpret it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (SvJcA)

233 Obama gave speeches on the Senate floor saying that W was letting in too many illegal immigrants and not doing enough to help the American worker
==
Of course I never mean a word of what I say.

Posted by: Jugears at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (anL5R)

234 It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

You'd expect at least SOME technical competence to outweigh pure mediocrity.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (dK+Kv)

235 And in a complete coincidence, Biden dropped out of the race that weekend. Complete coincidence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 21, 2026 12:57 PM (9X5dH)
---
I was in full Spanish Civil War 2.0 coming to the US in those days and predicted that if Trump opened up a 5-point lead he would be assassinated, and that's exactly what happened, but the shooter missed.

That was a miracle. It was such an easy shot, and they set everything up for him to do it, and he had lots of practice to do it. And CNN came to film it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ZOv7s)

236 That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Harold Camping

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

237 The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ndZc7)

238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar8)

239 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (ndZc7)

F*ck them too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)

240 236 That's the same reasoning that led to the "End of The World" in 666 AD, 1000 AD, 1492 AD, and many dates in the last hundred years. Sorry, not buying that at all. And before you say, "But it's in Bible!" see Matthew 24:36.

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Zombie Harold Camping
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

Hah!!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (Gqar8)

241 Bono hardest hit.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (UjdFS)

242 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

welp

there you go

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)

243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

244 Titten und bier!
Titten und bier!
Ich bin ein kleiner Junge
Liebt der Titten und Bier!

Posted by: Deutsche baby! at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

245 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

246
welp

there you go
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (j+aD2)

It's just not the win they think it is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)

247 Losing my religion?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (NFX2v)

248 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

They can all F' themselves...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (+gK6I)

249 And he is still basically a 1990s Democrat
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I am not sure that is true. Trump on social issues has been trampling DEI and he was instrumental in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. His military policy is a direct repudiation of the gutless Democrats after the Class of 1974 and the antithesis of Carterism.
==========
Avoiding entitlements is political realism as unless you have an alternative for a lot of desperate folks, you will get your ass voted out of office by messing with Medicare and Social Security. So Trump is going after Medicaid which is riddled with fraud and whose recipients vote Democrat anyway by fraud or by temperament.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

250 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Plenty of smaller outlets with less overhead will happily take the spot.

Probably some dude with just an X subscription model.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (SvJcA)

251 245 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Heh, nah, that other one!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqar8)

252 In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist.
_-_
...and one of them has nukes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (W3++v)

253 I was in full Spanish Civil War 2.0 coming to the US in those days and predicted that if Trump opened up a 5-point lead he would be assassinated, and that's exactly what happened, but the shooter missed.

That was a miracle. It was such an easy shot, and they set everything up for him to do it, and he had lots of practice to do it. And CNN came to film it.

yep

it was a MIRACLE - he moved his head just enough!!!

I was floating on air after I knew he just avoided something I could almost FEEL that's how close it came

so when TPTB posted "on behalf of Biden" I just laughed

but it really isn't funny, what they did. can you imagine how pissed Jill was!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

254 251 245 238 These discussions always put an old REM song into my head.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:02 PM (Gqar

"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Heh, nah, that other one!

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqar

"Everybody Hurts"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (l3cgK)

255 "Importing the third world increases GDP. Just look at Canada."
-the left, not at all nonsense

*0.5% GDP growth for the entire last decade*
-Canada

And over the last ten years Canada has had a 30% increase in inflation officially.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

256 Boobies and beer,
Boobies and beer,
Everyone wishes for boobies and beer.

How do you measure their worth?
Just by the pleasure they give here on earth.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

257
What's all this fuss about Pomeranians? I think they're one of the cutest dog breeds ever! And they're really smart, too...

___________

At a show in Lexington outdoors, Nina Fetter was taking a Pomeranian puppy around. Halfway through, said pup thought it was a fine time to roll in the grass. Nina was fuming while everyone watching, the judge included, was paralyzed with laughter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 01:05 PM (eRlcH)

258 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation
___

Adult Swim is a pool event.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (Dv3i1)

259 >>Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.

The really funny part is Fox's WH correspondent who also happens to be the current head of the WH press association said banning CNN, Politico, etc. was a violation of the 1st amendment.

Some of the dumbest humans on the planet are in the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

260 It's surprising given the German reputation for lighthearted fun and whimsy.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)
---
Germans have a tremendous sense of humor and are great people to party with. I recall taking a castle tour and the same day bikers descended on the town. These were Germans, so clean cut, wearing motosuits on their BMW machines. Not a beard in sight.

But they seemed to be having a blast, chugging beer and singing drinking songs. I mean Oktoberfest is very much a thing.

Germans don't have any filter in terms of coarse language. When Merkel was first wrecking things the word "shitstorm" was introduced and regularly appeared in headlines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ZOv7s)

261 well somebody better film those events bc they are my favorite thing to watch

PDJT is so funny

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (j+aD2)

262
"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Even REM admitted that was a shitty f*cking song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

263 249 Avoiding entitlements is political realism as unless you have an alternative for a lot of desperate folks, you will get your ass voted out of office by messing with Medicare and Social Security. So Trump is going after Medicaid which is riddled with fraud and whose recipients vote Democrat anyway by fraud or by temperament.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

=========

One of my key political moments was when I learned about the Oregon double-blind study on Medicaid that found that the spending did absolutely nothing to increase health outcomes compared to having no insurance.

It did make people feel slightly better about their finances, though. It was the only positive felt.

And it didn't lead to a stampede to end or even curtail the program. It just kept growing without question.

Not just at the uniparty level, which made sense, but even on the dissident left and right that is always fighting with the establishment. Hardly a peep.

No one actually gave a shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (SvJcA)

264 248 243 Fox News refuses to film Trump pool events after CNN is blocked from White House video rotation

Imagine setting what's left of your reputation on fire to defend Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

They can all F' themselves...
Posted by: It's me donna

I refuse to listen or watch Faux shit anyway so hard for me to do it harder than I already have.

They can f*ck off and die with the rest of the decaying mainstream media as well and the Murdochs are shitty people who run shitty globalist news networks and publications. WSJ being a leftist shithole is no accident nor is Faux being involved in trying to substantiate that there was no voter fraud in 2020 and that the Faux call for AZ for Biden early started the whole mess.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

265
Some of the dumbest humans on the planet are in the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

This is not true! I'm smaht. Don't ya think I'm smaht?

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

266 262
"Shiny Happy People"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

Even REM admitted that was a shitty f*cking song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

Was it because they were shiny, happy, or was it because they were holding hands?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK)

267 I am not sure that is true. Trump on social issues has been trampling DEI and he was instrumental in getting Roe v. Wade overturned.

In the 90s the Democrats officially opposed

Gay Marriage
Racial quotas in hiring
Open homosexuality in the military
Illegal immigration
Transexual rights
and on and on

The only area where Trump really stands out is his abortion views. But this is because the Dems went extreme left over this time frame

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

268 1. Destroy the middle class
2. ????
3. Peace and prosperity for the new aristocracy

I'm trying to figure out if they actually believe this, or why it's even necessary. Don't they already pretty much have 3 without the need for 1 and 2?

I think our would-be aristocrats all want to be able to use the peasants as their very own game of The Sims, like their ancestors in the 1400s did. Order random hot chicks on the street to come to your castle and Kamala you, have someone killed if they annoy you, that sort of thing.

As much as they have elevated power and privilege in modern Western society, the rule of law is still a thing and they do go to prison for violating it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (2ocoG)

269 Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.
Posted by: rickb223

Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (LfiSD)

270 269 Cliff Clavin Trivia: after all this time, the pool
On the Titanic is still full of water.
Posted by: rickb223

Did the Titanic have a pool? I wouldn't think so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (LfiSD)

it's ALL pool...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)

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