We’ve all been so focused on the internal divisions in the U.S. and with Davos trying to run the table here that we’ve neglected somewhat old theses about the potential breakup of the European Union.
The EU is a mess. Everyone knows this. Its banks are zombies. Its bond markets oxymorons. Its trade relations with the world degrading. And its relationship with the people it nominally governs is turning toxic.
Moreover, it is led by a bunch of unelected, horrific women who are all the very definition of midwits and ideologues. These are the faces that you want to look at when you consider why women shouldn’t run countries, companies or even school boards.
Hell, the older I get, the less I think women should even vote, but we’ll leave my wife’s wisdom aside for now.
Honestly, the only woman not pictured here who should be is French President Emmanuel Macron.
These women were all placed in these positions by Klaus Schwab and George Soros to effect the transformation of the EU from a loose quasi-government into a full technocratic police state. Reading Armstong’s comments (linked above) leads you to believe that there is no internal resistance to this plan.
They intent to default on all public debt and replace even pensions with Guaranteed Basic Income. They are moving toward these end goals step by step so the people do not realize what is taking place.
For now, there is still the short-term risk that the dollar rises because Europe has utterly been destroyed and Schwab is in full control. Every strategic person in a key position is also on his board at the WEF.
I do not think, however, that this is the case.
Just like what’s happened here in the U.S. with the placement and selection of various leaders into particularly powerful positions to act as gatekeepers of the New Normal proposed by Davos, they have run into staunch opposition at the lower levels of government.
Here we have state governors, routinely ignored or targeted for destruction by Davos, in open revolt. Well, the same thing is happening in Europe.
Now these evil witches will, of course, ignore people taking to the streets in France or Italy. They will suffer the salient criticisms from people like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. They do this because they know that the system protects them and believe the momentum of the project is greater than that of the opposition.
But, that may also be a bad assumption on their part.
Because things look to be shifting in places where they think they have the most control and therefore gives them the power to stay on their righteous path. That place is Germany. Because when I see German government house organ, Die Welt, declare fighting inflation is more important than what is happening in Italy, there is a lot more going on than just German hysteria, as the mainstream European press (read: Davos) would have you believe.
DW buries the lede about why Germans hate inflation at the end of the article even with the provocative headline:
The German citizens are particularly affected by the devaluation of money, as they prefer to put their assets into the savings book or the overnight money account. But these are forms of investment where inflation hits unhindered. Economists therefore ask how German citizens will react to this unfamiliar situation.
“Germans have a particularly large amount of savings in cash and in non-interest-bearing bank accounts, the value of which is now threatened by rising inflation,” says Schnabl. That could increase the willingness to spend money. This in turn could lead to the fact that the providers use the increased willingness to pay for stronger price increases. Then the risk of an inflation spiral would even increase.
Since cash for depositors in the EU is being taxed at 0.6% annually, 3% inflation in Germany is literally wiping out the middle class there. DW even reminds ECB President Christine Lagarde that she hasn’t even mentioned inflation running ahead of her 2% target, because, well, like Powell she believes it’s “transitory.”
And shouldn’t that necessitate ending all the alphabet QE programs? We’ve reached her target, after all?
Moreover, with gold prices effectively suppressed to be one of the worst asset classes in the world for 2021, Germans have no option there as well.
Let’s also not forget that Germany now records all gold transactions greater than €2000. Why would they change that rule just before embarking on massive QE and spending knowing full well what that central bank policy will do to German savers? Hmm… I wonder.
The official Davos position is summed up in this tweet from a German economic ‘journalist.’
The tweeter is an idiot who believes in all of the Davosian dogma — Climate Change, EU fiscal unity and and neo-Keynesianism if not outright MMT.
Ignore his bias. What’s important is that Die Welt is talking about inflation in these terms a month out from the German Elections where party support can, at best, be described as fluid.
Anyone notice something here? There’s 5% missing from the total. Could be rounding errors, could be something else.
Davos’ goal is to get the Green party installed, officially, into the national government after years of Angela Merkel getting them installed as the minor party with the whip hand at the State level to control the German Upper House, the Bundesrat.
Note however that since the flooding in May that the Greens have not gotten a bounce at all. The argument that this flooding was because of Climate Change didn’t stick. The argument isn’t working. Rising inflation and the Greens bloodthirsty foreign policy set them back a lot, revealing the mind of the German voter about what’s really important, not what they tell pollsters.
With the polls as they currently stand there is likely no way to keep the Greens out, unless they fall back below the 16% Chasm of public support and crater even further. While the FDP and AfD have both been rising in support, their rise hasn’t been fast enough to materially change the electoral calculus, unless the polls in Germany are as fake as they are here in the U.S.
And that’s not been my experience, so I’ll take them at face value. But also understand that a lot can happen in the next three weeks. Because polls this fluid also point to a public that simply doesn’t know what to do.
A significant break could still occur like it did in 2017 when AfD upside surprised polling by 3-5% and took enough to force Merkel into a scramble for months to form a government.
The problem for Davos is that people are not monolithic in how they respond to stimuli, as I discussed at length in this month’s issue of the Gold Goats ‘n Guns Newsletter. They have screwed the pooch by making everyone’s lives so tenuous in their moronic program to destroy the old economic order and ‘build back better’ that anything is now possible.
Because when people are under truly existential stress they make decisions three to six sigmas away from normal, not less than one. And all of those women who Davos put in charge are the very definition of people who can only see options in terms of gradualism — small, incremental changes leading to small, incremental outcomes.
That’s what a midwit is, someone just smart enough to run the production line but not smart enough to deal with it when it breaks.
Davos hasn’t gradually pushed us in the past eighteen months. They’ve broken the world. What they are hoping is people’s normalcy bias dampens their response to these catastrophic (in mathematical terms) changes.
That means people shifting from the German equivalent of Republicans (CDU) to Democrats (SPD), but not even considering the Libertarians (AfD). The German people had their one-night-stand with the Greens in 2020, between elections, but now it’s time for serious decisions.
And the net effect has been to shift the SPD further to the left and now even consider a government with Die Linke, the remnant of the old German communist party.
So, it looks like Davos is going to get the German government of their dreams. But will it matter? Because if this happens Germany will be signing up for the very thing that the German people explicitly DO NOT WANT — massive inflation to pay for the ‘sins’ of countries like France and Italy.
Inflation is ultimately where the rubber meets the road in Germany. And the German industrial class that still needs a weak euro to keep exports high cannot at the same time accept high internal inflation which brings with it rising interest rates and a destruction of the middle class.
Germany is at a crossroads financially. It can’t go forward without going backwards.
Conversely, France, Italy and Spain all need low interest rates and a relatively strong euro to keep them where they are.
To stay solvent they also need a compliant Germany who will monetize all the debt with the ECB acting as the go-between. Remember the ECB doesn’t have the capacity to keep up its various alphabet soup programs going (that all boil down to debt purchases) without the consent of the Bundesbanke in Germany.
The German political polling is therefore at odds with the needs of the German politically-powerful. Because Die Welt running an article that calls German inflation more important than Italy’s future is like the New York Times saying Jerome Powell needs to raise interest rates by 200 bps tomorrow.
So, what does this all mean?
It means that we’re rapidly approaching that moment Jim Rickards has been talking about for more than ten years, the breaking of the European Union into a Northern currency bloc led by the Germans, Dutch and Danes and the remnant EU led by those financially weakened by the euro’s unstable structure for the past thirty years — Italy, France and Spain.
Italy is the prize here. It’s the one country both sides want to validate their vision of the future. I don’t know if there can be the compromise that will allow for a complete scrapping of the current system and replace it with a direct digital euro issued from the ECB that is acceptable to Germans.
The signs are there in Germany that is only possible if they control the purse strings. With Lagarde in charge of the ECB that will not happen. It has been Merkel’s plan to sell Germany out to Davos on this point, manipulating the German electorate into making a confused and disastrous decision at the polls in a couple of weeks.
She may have ultimately succeeded. We’ll see.
But it won’t be a stable arrangement if the hard left parties — SPD, Greens, Die Linke — can’t secure a full majority of seats in the Bundestag (German Lower House). If they don’t and either/both AfD and FDP upside surprise then the CDU/CSU will have to be in coalition talks.
The numbers just don’t work otherwise.
Not that a CDU/CSU run by Armin Laschet is any great shakes, by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, even Die Linke understands that the EU is Germany’s enemy.
The real threat is the one Merkel faced in 2017, which is if they can’t come to an arrangement on a government, the polls will shift even farther away from them in any re-vote. There you can expect FDP and AfD to make real, lasting gains.
So, don’t expect that at all. This will be Davos’ best shot to gain final control over Germany.
Because this Die Welt article is saying that the money behind the CSU/CDU will not go along with what Merkel has maneuvered them into. This is a major shot across the bow.
It’s saying, point blank, they have reached their limit. I firmly believe that Merkel thought she could bribe them with Nordstream 2 to get them off her back but, as always, she’s underestimated the German people’s antipathy to both inflation and creeping totalitarianism, especially in the former East Germany.
Here’s the latest INSA poll from Germany. 7% missing. Undecideds are rising.
Another five points by AfD/FDP and the German elections are a push. We’ll soon enter the polling blackout period there, so it will be anyone’s guess how this shakes out.
That’s how close it will be, barring any cheating.
All of this said, the odds are that Davos gets its way here and we will have a repeat of what happened when Helmut Kohl brought Germany into the euro by decree because he knew they would never vote for it. This time they may vote for their own destruction simply because they cannot break free of the propaganda.
That programming runs deep in Europe. When I look at polls looking at 2nd round voting preferences in France they all say the same thing, “Anyone but Marine Le Pen.” Even Macron is preferred over Le Pen still, the man that protesting against is literally the only growth industry in present-day France.
But all of that said, even if the Germans vote badly, the government formed will be so weak that it won’t survive for long. And then we have the same situation in Germany that we have in the U.S., a weak government with no real mandate trying to force a complete political revolution onto a people that will rapidly become the worst kind of ungovernable.
And then we’ll see how much Germans prefer listening to the harangues of unelected harpies in Brussels rather than their own desires.
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AdD is painted as nazi. I wonder how many people are comfortable to say that they will vote it
That is the main problem… just like here in the U.S. too many people virtue signaling thanks to crude propaganda
Nope, the opposite.
You think that the Davosians are trying to install national leaders that will agree to pursue their Great Reset, and believe that will fail.
Whereas actually they are installing imbeciles to manufacture chaos, so we beg for it.
And that will succeed.
I don’t think that is a workable plan. That may be their intention, but that will not work. Chaos is not controllable.
Even manufactured chaos?
If all chaos is uncontrollable, what’s the point of wargaming?
Give me some accelerants and a flashlight, and I’ll get a thousand screaming people to leave a crowded smoke-filled theatre by your chosen door
https://syrianews.cc/ivermectin-wonder-drug-and-msm-scourge-of-misinformation-must-stop/
Interesting image of Lobservateur news site which says India Bar Association has initiated proceedings against the WHO representative for misinformation on ivermectin. Been trying to dig deeper but it seems to have been memory holed
The immigrant population in Germany is “voting left” — or more precisely they are voting for large welfare checks for themselves. Some of that money gets sent “home” (back to their country of origin), meaning they don’t consider Germany to be their home. These people have zero loyalty to Berlin, and even less to Brussels. Their loyalty is to steady welfare checks. Call it welfare, call it UBI, call it helicopter money — but it better keep coming and each check had better be bigger than the last. The minute Berlin says no, or suggests diverting the free money toward EU goals, the left will rebel. They aren’t voting “left”, they are voting for free stuff.
The Greens in Germany, like the Greens in Switzerland, enjoyed strong support in concept, but the instant people started asking for specifics that support collapsed. As soon as the Swiss people got wind of the staggering costs of the “Green new deal” (the Swiss equivalent) and support for endless taxation and disruption of everyday life collapsed. All else equal, a clean environment is nice… but if my taxes are going to double to fund a bunch of lazy eco-bureaucrats, then no deal. The Swiss soundly rejected the eco-nonsense in referendums.
Germany’s Greens are (were) the same. There was strong initial support to the broad idea of environment — but the minute things got specific and German taxpayers (aka not immigrants) got wind of the price tag, the Greens were out. Even the immigrants had reservations that the cost of eco-nonsense would cut into their welfare checks.
The German population is “leaning AfD” — or more precisely they are voting against the CDU and SPD, voting against the major parties that are seen to have abandoned the German population. Whether Germany was abandoned for immigrants or abandoned for Brussels… they feel abandoned. These people see Brussels as the enemy, and their voting number is labove 11% (and likely above the 15% threshold for automatic representation). Even the 11% polls are way above AfD’s historical 2-3% numbers. Its not clear how many are “pro AfD” versus anti CDU/SPD, but they are expressing their disgust by voting AfD.
From Berlin’s viewpoint, the best case scenario is a new government will be run by a very weak coalition that will struggle to maintain the status quo — and will have tenuous support from business or from labor. “Power of the purse” in Germany lies with business and labor.
For all the nonsense, peoples around the world aren’t so different after all.
Californians are really big on environment, but they also want big houses with central A/C and water fountains and greenery. Take the water and electricity from other states; let somebody else sacrifice. Californians are big on social welfare, but they also have the largest homeless population living one block away from IPO billionaires. Californians love the idea of progressive taxes — provided someone else is being progressively taxed. California runs constant deficits and has staggering debts. Support for all this progressive nonsense was strong when “the other guy” was paying… but when state tax deductions were capped at $10K, when Sacramento started pushing higher taxes and Newsome pushed for endless covid lockdowns (political power disguised as public health) — Californians wanted to move out of state.
Californians support free stuff, they are not actually progressive.
Look at the progressives in NYC — Jaime Dimon thinks progressiveness is great when other people pay taxes and ATM fees, while he collects $30 million paycheck. David Salomon thinks the lockdown is a great idea when he flies a helicopter to his DJ gig in the Hamptons; the helicopter ride is a non-taxable business expense of course. When “DJ Solly” saw other Goldman employees also in the Hamptons, he demanded everyone else get back to the office and pay taxes and earn money for his helicopter rides. Work and sacrifice are for other people, the progressives like their free stuff.
Same for the left wingers in Europe. They say they support “progressive” government… until they have to pay the bill themselves. Then support evaporates.
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The problem with socialism, a very wise woman said in the 1970s, is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money / free stuff.
The only German politician of any not speaking common sense on the full range of issues is Sahra Wagenknecht, of Die Linke. She also does a wonderful job of skewering Die Grüne, as well as the urban elites of her own party for their anti-German-people platforms. It’s a shame she can’t form a respectable party based on policies that are pro-German people, but old beliefs die hard in Deutschland.
Whatever happens, there will be a placeholder government in Berlin. None of the parties have a mandate for anything.
When all the choices are bad, dumb voters choose deadlock. Smart voters choose to neuter the beast.
Japan has a new PM every year; same idiot different name. The US chose between a kardashian and a dementia patient for president, and a clown car full of losers in Congress. France has had four sissies in row. Italy had the bunga bunga room, followed by a herd of losers.
Merkel sold out German industry with her Green no Fukashima here decision — so now Russia holds Germany’s fate and German industry is probably better off as a result. Moscow is more stable than Berlin or Brussels.
Canada has a sissy with big hair who doesn’t grasp that Alberta oil literally pays all of Canada’s bills. One may like or dislike this fact, but it is reality. Kill fossil fuels, Ottawa is bankrupt. Period. Amen. End of discussion.
Australia may have killer spiders and sharks, but their politicians are just stupid. One Aussie bureaucrat thinks Australia will remain locked down for the next 100 years, taking booster shots every 4 months. Apparently Aussies will fight each other to the death on a rugby pitch, but they are too sissy to stand up to their own politicians?
I noticed George Soros has bought himself another un-earned academic degree, and was criticizing China from a safe distance. He isn’t allowed to visit Russia anymore (Russia has promised Soros will have a “terrible accident” on the runway). Something tells me Soros will not be allowed in Chinese airspace now either.
Of course, Obama is still taking orders from Soros. You do not understand the dark side — Obama cannot defy his master. Biden will eat his ice cream, while Obama’s minions do whatever Soros tells them to do. They will act surprised when most of the country ignores their new laws.
One of the best comments ever! Thanks
Pretty much James. The lamest are being told by the dumbest to crush the skeptics and we’re looking at them saying, “You know we can see you, right?”
HA HA HA HA!!!!
Last week, Joint Chief General Mark Milley offered to help the Taliban fight ISIS-K, with dimwit SecDef Austin bobbing his head nearby.
Today, a Taliban spokesman officially rejected the offer for Milley / Austin to “help”.
Two morons who proved themselves incapable of executing a retreat even after seven months preparation is not someone the Taliban (or anyone else with common sense) wants “helping”.
Armstrong said this about gold which makes sense based on history….not sure about 2026…
In the face of these objectives, do you really think they will simply let gold provide some alternative currency to circumvent their dreams? I believe gold will end up as an underground BARTER type of currency and they may even terminate the ability to trade gold as they did prior to 1968 in London and 1975 in the USA. If they do that, we are probably looking at 2026. Until then, equities have been the alternative to government debt. The old ideas of money and the ability of gold to provide a hedge against this sort of tyranny would only exist in the black market.
IN germany, you can bet upon the election results. Taken as a whole, these bets are indicative of the voting results:
https://boerse.prognosys.de/markt/btw-2021
I’m sorry but i stop reading when you wondered why women were allow to vote. Maybe it was a joke, but it’s a very bad one. The world is govern by man and look where we are now, near the cliff !!!
I’m so sorry, dude, you will not shame me… it was somewhat sarcastic.
Tom, I totally agree that women should not be allowed to vote. (Waits for the inevitable hysteria… :) ).
But neither should men. Voting (in other words majority rule) is illegitimate on its face. Why? because at its foundations it is noting but an appeal to numbers (superior force).
Far too many people forget about what government is (in modern times, simply a group of people who won a popularity contest). They then get to give orders to the big men with guns. That is the very essence of government.
Rothbard explains it far better than I ever could, in his
short book; Anatomy of the State.
https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state
Agreed. Don’t vote, it only encourages them
When it comes to who “governs” the world, it makes no difference if it is female or male, it is not an Identity Politics issue. Luongo gets that, and that is where the obvious humour is. For those who don’t know what IP is it is when an evil serpent like Hillary says: if you attack me you attack ALL women. Or when Obama says: if you attack me you are racist and hate all half white dudes.
It’s a woman’s biology to want to be taken care of. Women are ideally suited to raising children. That’s what they want to do and they are good at it. They want a man to bring the bacon home–the more bacon the better. They want to be taken care of. Politicians know this. They know that socialist ideas resonate well with women and women, more than men, will stupidly piss away the freedoms that our forebears, mostly men, fought and died for to satisfy their biological need to be taken care of while they raise the kids.
Women make decisions based on emotion.
LAW and GOVERNANCE must be OBJECTIVE.
Actually, there are more female political leaders, more female business leaders, more female central bankers, more female judges, more female teachers, more women voting and working and ordering our societies than ever before in human history.
And as you say, we are near the cliff.
Presumably the cliff edge can only be averted if women run everything?
Or like government – the problems of today are the result of the solutions of yesterday.
Again, peak of the cycle. It’s not a linear projection… too much of one thing leads to the opposite. Women are out of control and need to be reined in, want to be reined in.
When the men finally step up and say, “No Mas” that’s when this bullshit ends. I think we are far closer to the tipping point than you want to admit because you are scared, Ivor.
You don’t dare to dream b/c, like most of us, you’ve been horribly abused by these fucking people.
China has correctly labeled George Soros as the terrorist financier that he is. The guy might be too old to carry weapons himself, but he has financed terrorism all over Europe not to mention his backing of violent antifa extremists in Portland OR and Seattle WA.
Washington DC supports some terrorists, like antifa and the mujadeen (pre-al qaeda). But they get upset when other countries behave the same way.
Who has transferred the most weapons to terrorists? Is it France? Is it Egypt? Is it North Korea?
Until recently, a case could be made that it was Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, boxing up Qaddafi’s arsenal in Libya and shipping it to “moderate” terrorists in Syria.
But last month Joe Biden transferred at least $87 billion dollars worth of state of the art weaponry to the Taliban. He did it knowingly and deliberately, all the while looking at his watch instead of showing half respect to the US soldiers he got killed.
Joe Biden has now overtaken George Soros as the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Biden and those around him are Obama’s puppets.
Both Merkel and Markus Söder are publicly less than optimistic about CDU/CSU chances. Appropriately so. If Annalene Baerbock (DieGrünen candidate with CV integrity issues) and Christian Lindner (opportunistic FDP kingmaker) can both fit into the garage apartment in Olaf Scholz’s SPD house for at least an election cycle, a decent working coalition that would receive much public support is more likely than some of the other possible mixes. Alternativ für Deutschland has suffered from an image problem in a nation that isn’t unfamiliar with that, not that both didn’t largely deserve it. I know nothing about Die Linke. But it seems unlikely that either of them will move anywhere near five points unless the polls are wrong. I agree that that’s also unlikely. Die Welt does take a little interpretation, even in German, veiled derogatory references to people the present leadership is soon going to be working with ( or for). Is it that Angela Merkel had to plump for Armin Laschet as successor because he isn’t CSU? or a Bavarian(Söder) who hero-worshipped Franz-Josef Strauss couldn’t pull the North and East states? Even the biggest Bavarian newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung) wasn’t liking his chances particularly a couple of months ago. Olaf Scholz as Finance Minister has familiarity with the WEF. what all this is going to mean? I’m beyond not sure. And I used to have everything figured out. Good post on an interesting political machination.
Is Barnier only running in France to strip support from Le Pen and leave globalist puppet Macron in power?
Yes.
Break up to make up. It’s prophesied.
The Germanic speakers (strong), vs the Latin speakers (weak).
Remeber it was the “barbarc” Germans who fought the Roman Empire for centuies…..Finally, in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would ever again rule from a post in Italy, leading many to cite 476 as the year the Western Empire suffered its deathblow….history.com
But Gibbon pointed out the German invasion of the Western Roman Empire was more complex…. delicious history…
https://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap9.htm
And fortunately, as Peter Heather pointed out in his history of the Roman Empire, that even after Constantine took the elite, educated and wealthy to his new city Constantinople and the Germaniic tribes gradually took over the former Roman territory, there remained what Heather called “romanness” throughout the old empire….concentrations of civilized people who still used the correct language, style and laws in their communities…pods of the old days so to speak.
Luckily Ghengis Kahn was just out for an afternoon stroll and posed no threat to Rome
The victors get to fill the history books with whatever BS we want to, but in the interest of not lying to ourselves too much: we might want to dig a little deeper than the Germans did it”.. in 1910ish, the Austrian-Hungarian / Hapsburg empire had been the dominant force in Europe for a very long time.
They over-spent, went deep into debt, had a bunch of cadavers running the place (that sounds really familiar? can’t put my finger on who though?).
So one day, a Serb went and shot the Arch Duke of the cemetary. A Serb shot an Austrian royal — no Germans involved (yet). The British and the French both saw an opportunity to be the next global power. The Germans were geographically caught in the middle. Everyone had signed documents promising to go to war over the most absurd pretenses.
The Germans “lost” a war they didn’t start (doesn’t make them innocent, just saying they didnt start it). The French lost also, but they had the right allies. The Hapsburgs were walking corpses, so no one even bothered to blame them. The French, against the advice of nearly everyone, insisted on the Treaty of Versailles which was designed to (sooner or later) put a crazy man in charge of Germany.
The French acted quite surprised when the completely expected came to pass, and part deux of the war to end all wars commenced. This time the Germans started the fighting, but if we are being honest the treaty of versailles basically assured it was a question of when not if. The French lost part deux also, but once again they had the right allies. This time, those same allies told the French to STFU on reparations, we are not doing part trois of the war to end all wars.
Its fun to blame the Germans for everything, and they did lose both acts of the war.
But if you live in a country that sounds like Mer-ca when spoken fast, keep in mind who has trillions in unpayable debts and an ice cream eating dumb @ss in the oval office. He can’t protect the border, won’t even try. He failed to execute a retreat out of Afghanistan, even with months of preparation. He racked up trillions in additional debt, on top of a sizable pile we already had. He alienated at least half the country. He politicized the military. He has repeatedly lied and bungled covid responses. He has covered for dozens of corrupt bureaucrats — including the bureaucrat that diverted taxpayer money to pay for the research to create covid (and then lied about it over and over and over). …. and the dementia patient has only been in office a few months.
The Chinese are learning from England’s rather botched efforts to take the Hapsburg’s place in the global pecking order. Too bad Mer-ca continues to rack up more unpayble debts and elected a walking corpse as “leader” / tyrant
Hitler did a good post-mortem in Mein Kampf of what went wrong in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bottom line was the German-speaking part of the Empire let the more diverse side based in the east gain too much influence. A fine example of our modern day DIE.
I don’t care what subset of Austria or hapsbergs are to blame. Don’t care about Germany getting blamed or not.
I highlighted the stupidity of endless spending, endless debt, and a government dominated by semi-animated corpses.
Since you inexplicably focused on Austria, I guess you somehow missed the very obvious similarities with the Washington DC crowd? I don’t think I was being subtle. Are you such an obtuse academic that you missed the comparison?
F#ck Biden. F#ck pelosi. F#ck McConnell, yellen, soros, fauci, Schumer… F#ck all the other useless corpses taking out trillions in debt they will never repay.
And f#ck this @Cato guy who bickers over academic minutia while missing the big picture.
Tom, you’ve thrown light on the Davosians, enough that I went and looked at the 1240 or so pictures of the WEF Young Global Leaders. Annalene Baerbock is there. So is Macron, jacinda ardern, Ibram x kendi, Maria bartiromo, Pete buttigieg, Tulsi gabbard, Adam kinzinger, Marissa Mayer, Peter thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg. The Crown Prince and princess of Norway, the prime minister of Finland, numerous government and academic influencers, and Joseph p Kennedy III, plus enough Black Rock management to buy every rental property on the planet. Fifty-two Chinese, thirty Japanese, a couple of Taiwanese, and five Russians. I counted. It only just registered how entrenched they are. I went into it expecting some sort of Schwab-Jugend. It’s much more threatening than that. And is making me rethink a lot of my ideas. The Europe of my youth has disappeared and what’s left in it’s place resembles a dog’s breakfast.
A live debate between the three German candidates with English translation at dw.com at 1745UTC or quarter to one on Sunday afternoon (the 12th) in the central time zone, usa. Schwab and Soros will be watching.
So, is that what the colors of the modern German flag represent? Flames against a night sky? A harkening to Viking torch carrying and bonfire rituals, or the flames of a burning village or battlefield from a night time raid, something Vikings, Prussians and modern Germans were well known for… or just a straight up representation of the flames and darkness of Hell?….. or all of the above?
And thoughts on Querdenken….
Incompetent apparatchik sycophants are incompetent apparatchik sycophants whether male or female. If the female variety is being placed in positions of power where neither they nor their male counterparts have any right to be, it is because they attract some female votes to support the status quo and because females are seen by a public brainwashed by advertising and mass media as not threatening. (How anyone can see Mme Clinton as non threatening is beyond me, but it takes all kinds.)
As far as wanting to be cared for, that might describe those women who have sufficient beauty, wealth and access to power (usually through family connections) to feel confident of attracting powerful men. Most of us plain women are perfectly well able to take care of ourselves, thank you very much, and are not at all interested in being consolation prizes for incompetent males, or playing the role of the town tramp. There are plenty of ways to find pleasure and satisfaction in life outside of the bedroom and the local bar.