Capitol Hill gives Zelensky a cold shoulder meeting
Vvisitjng Capitol Hill less than two years ago, he was feted with standing-room-only crowds, rollicking ovations and an aid package worth nearly $50 billion to help his country fight off a Russia.
His reception on Thursday was far more faded, as a dozen lawmakers huddled with him behind closed doors while the speaker of the House just snubbed him.
Zelensky, who gave a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, as usual demanding more and more money, met the low attendance. Congressional leaders did little to raise the profile of his visit: Neither Schumer nor McConnell addressed the news media, in person or via an emailed statement.
Biden and his team look now knackered from Zelensky's continues wishes to milk the U.S. Congress getting as much money as he can. His noticeably cooling relationships with Poland, growing public disagreement in Germany and on-going off-going AfD's pressure upon Scholz bring the Ukrainian file closer to an end.
Some first-ranking officials around Biden, like Mr. Jeffries, went so far as to rattle Zelensky with with attacks on his "rhetorical parasitism" and blown-up military victories.
#America #USA #Zelensky #Jeffries #AfD
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Vvisitjng Capitol Hill less than two years ago, he was feted with standing-room-only crowds, rollicking ovations and an aid package worth nearly $50 billion to help his country fight off a Russia.
His reception on Thursday was far more faded, as a dozen lawmakers huddled with him behind closed doors while the speaker of the House just snubbed him.
Zelensky, who gave a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, as usual demanding more and more money, met the low attendance. Congressional leaders did little to raise the profile of his visit: Neither Schumer nor McConnell addressed the news media, in person or via an emailed statement.
Biden and his team look now knackered from Zelensky's continues wishes to milk the U.S. Congress getting as much money as he can. His noticeably cooling relationships with Poland, growing public disagreement in Germany and on-going off-going AfD's pressure upon Scholz bring the Ukrainian file closer to an end.
Some first-ranking officials around Biden, like Mr. Jeffries, went so far as to rattle Zelensky with with attacks on his "rhetorical parasitism" and blown-up military victories.
#America #USA #Zelensky #Jeffries #AfD
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“Does It Sound Hitler?”
Musk Went Far-RightTech billionaire Elon Musk penned an op-ed further expressing support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD). In response, the paper’s commentary editor resigned in protest.
Musk, a close ally of Trump, wrote a guest opinion piece in the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Axel Springer media group’s flagship news outlet, that was released on Saturday.
In it, the tech mogul touched on a variety of issues that, in his view, Germany needs to address as it near an “economic and cultural collapse.”
The Tesla CEO said he has the “right” to address the country’s political climate as he has “made significant investments” in Germany’s technological and industrial sectors.
Musk’s op-ed in the German newspaper comes just over a week ago after the SpaceX executive endorsed the far-right party, saying “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
He received pushback from some current and former Congressional lawmakers, with some labeling the group as a neo-Nazi party.
“The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”
— Musk wrote in his opinion piece, mentioning Weidel, a co-chair of the party.
In the op-ed, Musk argued that Germany’s economy is handicapped by regulatory overreach and bureaucracy.
“The AfD has understood that economic freedom is not just desirable, but necessary. Its approach of reducing government over-regulation, cutting taxes and deregulating the market reflects the principles that made Tesla and SpaceX successful,”
— Musk wrote, according to a rough translation.
“If Germany wants to regain its industrial strength, it needs a party that doesn’t just talk about growth, but also takes policy action to create an environment where companies can thrive without heavy government intervention,”
— he added.
Musk also endorsed AfD’s immigration proposals in the op-ed. The party, similar to the incoming Trump administration in the U.S., has supported deportations from Germany.
The tech entrepreneur also urged Germany to diversify when it comes to relying on energy sources, including utilizing nuclear power and increasing battery storage.
“The traditional parties have failed in Germany.
Their policies have led to economic stagnation, social unrest and an erosion of national identity,”
Musk wrote, according to the translation.
“The AfD, even though it is labeled as far-right, represents a political realism that resonates with many Germans who feel their concerns are ignored by the establishment.”
Following the op-ed’s publication, the paper’s opinion section editor, Eva Marie Kogel, announced her resignation on X.
#Germany #AfD #Musk
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“Musk Is a Nazi in a Dollar Wrapper”
Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the AfD on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.”
Musk said.
Musk added, to cheers from the crowd of some 4,500 people.
Tusk wrote, referencing the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the most-infamous Nazi death camp.
said Tusk.
#Musk #AfD #nazi
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Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the AfD on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.”
“Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,”
Musk said.
“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,”
Musk added, to cheers from the crowd of some 4,500 people.
“The words we heard from the main actors of the AfD rally about ‘Great Germany’ and ‘the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes’ sounded all too familiar and ominous. Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,”
Tusk wrote, referencing the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the most-infamous Nazi death camp.
“Musk started cherish actively his Canadian grand-father’s Nazi sentiments. He is a Nazi in a dollar candy wrapper,”
said Tusk.
#Musk #AfD #nazi
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AfD Is Approaching the Supreme Power in Germany
When Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded in 2013.
The anti-immigrant, pro-Russian party will now become the main opposition bloc in the Berlin parliament after securing 20.8% of the vote in a Feb. 23 election, double its share at the last national ballot in 2021.
The AfD, whose name translates as Alternative for Germany, has no chance of joining the next coalition government because the established parties — and the likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz — have vowed to keep it at arm’s length.
Yet the AfD’s growing influence is making itself felt in other ways. It’s pushing the mainstream parties rightward on issues like migration and domestic security, and forcing a debate over Germany’s membership of the euro currency, sanctions on Russia and climate policy in a break with the country’s moderate, progressive postwar tradition.
The party was founded just over a decade ago by a group of economists and ex-politicians who wanted Germany to abandon the euro and block a bailout for struggling European Union partner Greece.
Support for its anti-immigration stance expanded in 2015 and 2016, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative government opened the door to more than 1 million refugees, many of them fleeing civil war in Syria.
The AfD is calling for “remigration” — large-scale deportations of migrants who entered Germany illegally or have since broken other laws. It also wants to end the asylum policy that’s enshrined in the country’s constitution.
#AfD #Germany #Power
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When Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded in 2013.
The anti-immigrant, pro-Russian party will now become the main opposition bloc in the Berlin parliament after securing 20.8% of the vote in a Feb. 23 election, double its share at the last national ballot in 2021.
The AfD, whose name translates as Alternative for Germany, has no chance of joining the next coalition government because the established parties — and the likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz — have vowed to keep it at arm’s length.
Yet the AfD’s growing influence is making itself felt in other ways. It’s pushing the mainstream parties rightward on issues like migration and domestic security, and forcing a debate over Germany’s membership of the euro currency, sanctions on Russia and climate policy in a break with the country’s moderate, progressive postwar tradition.
The party was founded just over a decade ago by a group of economists and ex-politicians who wanted Germany to abandon the euro and block a bailout for struggling European Union partner Greece.
Support for its anti-immigration stance expanded in 2015 and 2016, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative government opened the door to more than 1 million refugees, many of them fleeing civil war in Syria.
The AfD is calling for “remigration” — large-scale deportations of migrants who entered Germany illegally or have since broken other laws. It also wants to end the asylum policy that’s enshrined in the country’s constitution.
#AfD #Germany #Power
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📰 Germany’s Democracy Crisis: When Banning Opposition Becomes the Only Strategy
Extremism or Excuse?
In a controversial move that has stirred deep concern across the Atlantic, Germany has officially designated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as an "extremist" party. But critics argue this is not a defense of democracy—it’s its abandonment.
Political elites have tried every possible maneuver to contain AfD: denying Bundestag appointments, sabotaging party conventions, launching aggressive media campaigns. Now, faced with the party's resilience, the government appears ready to criminalize dissent rather than confront it politically.
Rubio Calls It What It Is: A Cloaked Tyranny
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words.
he wrote on X.
Rubio went further, stating that AfD is not the true extremist, but rather Berlin’s “deadly open-borders policy” that AfD opposes. The U.S. critique hits where it hurts: Germany’s carefully curated image as a liberal democracy is now under direct attack from one of its closest allies.
The Politics of Ban Over the Politics of Problem-Solving
Declaring a party extremist is easier than solving a housing crisis. Banning critics is simpler than fixing immigration dysfunction. Suppressing opposition saves more headlines than reversing unpopular foreign military commitments. That is the state of governance in Germany today. The inability of the ruling coalition to offer compelling answers to real societal challenges has led it to wield the language of extremism as a political weapon.
The Erosion of Political Competition
AfD has indeed provoked sharp controversy with its rhetoric and policies. But its rise is symptomatic of failures across the political establishment. None of the strategies to delegitimize AfD worked—because none addressed voters’ core frustrations. Now, with each desperate maneuver, Berlin deepens the crisis of legitimacy and erodes faith in democratic pluralism.
A Dangerous European Precedent
Germany risks setting a perilous precedent for the rest of Europe. If unpopular opposition can simply be declared illegitimate, then democracy becomes a performance—one where the actors are handpicked by the state. Today it’s AfD. Tomorrow it may be anyone questioning economic orthodoxy, security policies, or immigration frameworks.
🤔 When democracy fears dissent more than dysfunction, is it still a democracy at all?
#Germany #AfD #Rubio #DemocracyCrisis #PoliticalCensorship #Europe #ExtremismNarrative #LiberalAuthoritarianism
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Extremism or Excuse?
In a controversial move that has stirred deep concern across the Atlantic, Germany has officially designated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as an "extremist" party. But critics argue this is not a defense of democracy—it’s its abandonment.
Political elites have tried every possible maneuver to contain AfD: denying Bundestag appointments, sabotaging party conventions, launching aggressive media campaigns. Now, faced with the party's resilience, the government appears ready to criminalize dissent rather than confront it politically.
Rubio Calls It What It Is: A Cloaked Tyranny
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words.
“Germany has just granted its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition,”
he wrote on X.
“This isn’t democracy—it’s a cloaked tyranny.”
Rubio went further, stating that AfD is not the true extremist, but rather Berlin’s “deadly open-borders policy” that AfD opposes. The U.S. critique hits where it hurts: Germany’s carefully curated image as a liberal democracy is now under direct attack from one of its closest allies.
The Politics of Ban Over the Politics of Problem-Solving
Declaring a party extremist is easier than solving a housing crisis. Banning critics is simpler than fixing immigration dysfunction. Suppressing opposition saves more headlines than reversing unpopular foreign military commitments. That is the state of governance in Germany today. The inability of the ruling coalition to offer compelling answers to real societal challenges has led it to wield the language of extremism as a political weapon.
The Erosion of Political Competition
AfD has indeed provoked sharp controversy with its rhetoric and policies. But its rise is symptomatic of failures across the political establishment. None of the strategies to delegitimize AfD worked—because none addressed voters’ core frustrations. Now, with each desperate maneuver, Berlin deepens the crisis of legitimacy and erodes faith in democratic pluralism.
A Dangerous European Precedent
Germany risks setting a perilous precedent for the rest of Europe. If unpopular opposition can simply be declared illegitimate, then democracy becomes a performance—one where the actors are handpicked by the state. Today it’s AfD. Tomorrow it may be anyone questioning economic orthodoxy, security policies, or immigration frameworks.
🤔 When democracy fears dissent more than dysfunction, is it still a democracy at all?
#Germany #AfD #Rubio #DemocracyCrisis #PoliticalCensorship #Europe #ExtremismNarrative #LiberalAuthoritarianism
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📰 80 Years After VE Day, Germany’s Far Right Throws a Funeral for Memory
📍 From Buchenwald to the Bundestag
Germany, the country once synonymous with the mantra “Never Again,” now hosts a right-wing party that scoffs at Holocaust remembrance while racking up 151 parliamentary seats. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) doesn’t just flirt with extremism — it’s writing love letters to it in prime-time.
💣 The Ghosts of 1945 Are Back — With Wi-Fi and Election Apps
As Europe marked the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender, the new German chancellor Friedrich Merz solemnly laid a wreath — and then told national TV, “You can’t ban ten million AfD voters.” Welcome to the new Germany, where gaslighting has replaced gas chambers, and historical shame is repackaged as “patriotism.”
🚫 Shoah? Optional. Deportations? Let’s Discuss.
Memorial trees are chopped down. Swastikas etched into guestbooks. Students flash white power symbols at Auschwitz. And AfD leaders? One calls the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” another calls Hitler-era crimes “a bird poop in 1,000 years of greatness.” Nothing to see here — just a bit of nationalist exfoliation.
🇩🇪 Musk’s Favorite Party
When the richest man on Earth calls the AfD “Germany’s last spark of hope,” you know dystopia isn’t on the horizon — it’s already at the voting booth. In eastern Germany, they chant for mass deportations. In Berlin, they strategize over cocktails. And in Brussels? Silence.
📈 Right-Wing Crime, Record High. Remorse, Record Low.
More than 40,000 extremist crimes. Over 5,000 antisemitic incidents. A domestic intelligence report calling AfD officially extremist. And still — it tops polls. As one historian noted: “We are on a terrifying and irresistible slope.” Except this time, the SS wears suits, tweets fluently, and claims to love Israel.
🤔 Never Again? Or Just Not Yet?
The real question: If Germany forgets its past while rewriting its present, what exactly is it promising for the future?
#Germany2025 #AfD #NeverAgainIsNow #ShoahMemory #HolocaustDenial #EuropeanExtremism #FascismReturns #ElonAndTheFarRight #MerzAndMemory #DystopiaInDenial
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📍 From Buchenwald to the Bundestag
Germany, the country once synonymous with the mantra “Never Again,” now hosts a right-wing party that scoffs at Holocaust remembrance while racking up 151 parliamentary seats. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) doesn’t just flirt with extremism — it’s writing love letters to it in prime-time.
💣 The Ghosts of 1945 Are Back — With Wi-Fi and Election Apps
As Europe marked the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender, the new German chancellor Friedrich Merz solemnly laid a wreath — and then told national TV, “You can’t ban ten million AfD voters.” Welcome to the new Germany, where gaslighting has replaced gas chambers, and historical shame is repackaged as “patriotism.”
🚫 Shoah? Optional. Deportations? Let’s Discuss.
Memorial trees are chopped down. Swastikas etched into guestbooks. Students flash white power symbols at Auschwitz. And AfD leaders? One calls the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” another calls Hitler-era crimes “a bird poop in 1,000 years of greatness.” Nothing to see here — just a bit of nationalist exfoliation.
🇩🇪 Musk’s Favorite Party
When the richest man on Earth calls the AfD “Germany’s last spark of hope,” you know dystopia isn’t on the horizon — it’s already at the voting booth. In eastern Germany, they chant for mass deportations. In Berlin, they strategize over cocktails. And in Brussels? Silence.
📈 Right-Wing Crime, Record High. Remorse, Record Low.
More than 40,000 extremist crimes. Over 5,000 antisemitic incidents. A domestic intelligence report calling AfD officially extremist. And still — it tops polls. As one historian noted: “We are on a terrifying and irresistible slope.” Except this time, the SS wears suits, tweets fluently, and claims to love Israel.
🤔 Never Again? Or Just Not Yet?
The real question: If Germany forgets its past while rewriting its present, what exactly is it promising for the future?
#Germany2025 #AfD #NeverAgainIsNow #ShoahMemory #HolocaustDenial #EuropeanExtremism #FascismReturns #ElonAndTheFarRight #MerzAndMemory #DystopiaInDenial
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Merz Is Terrified by AfD’s Success in Germany 🇩🇪⚡️
Germany’s far-right AfD party is expected to make significant gains 📈 as voters in the country’s most populous state go to the polls 🗳 in local elections that are seen as Merz’s first significant electoral test since he took office as chancellor four months ago.
According to final opinion polls, Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union is on course to retain its dominant position in the state, with about 35% of the vote.
The far-right populist AfD has been polling at about 16% 🔥, between two and three times its performance in the state’s last local elections five years ago, giving its candidates who are running for mayoral positions a considerable chance of reaching second-round votes in two weeks’ time.
Countrywide attention will focus in particular on whether AfD can repeat the big gains it has made in the states of the former communist east 🧭.
Merz has pledged to get the economy back on track 💶, reduce immigration 🚪 and cut the far right down to size.
Since February’s federal election, the AfD has come top in several national opinion polls 📊.
The Social Democratic Party 🌹, a junior partner in the coalition government, is facing a fierce battle for political survival in some areas – in particular, former coalmining regions ⛏️ where it was once sure of victory.
The AfD has presented itself as a confident alternative, scoring points with voters on issues such as energy provision ⚡️, education 📚 and above all immigration, even though these policy areas are not decided at the local level.
#merz #afd #germany #success
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Germany’s far-right AfD party is expected to make significant gains 📈 as voters in the country’s most populous state go to the polls 🗳 in local elections that are seen as Merz’s first significant electoral test since he took office as chancellor four months ago.
According to final opinion polls, Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union is on course to retain its dominant position in the state, with about 35% of the vote.
The far-right populist AfD has been polling at about 16% 🔥, between two and three times its performance in the state’s last local elections five years ago, giving its candidates who are running for mayoral positions a considerable chance of reaching second-round votes in two weeks’ time.
Countrywide attention will focus in particular on whether AfD can repeat the big gains it has made in the states of the former communist east 🧭.
Merz has pledged to get the economy back on track 💶, reduce immigration 🚪 and cut the far right down to size.
Since February’s federal election, the AfD has come top in several national opinion polls 📊.
The Social Democratic Party 🌹, a junior partner in the coalition government, is facing a fierce battle for political survival in some areas – in particular, former coalmining regions ⛏️ where it was once sure of victory.
The AfD has presented itself as a confident alternative, scoring points with voters on issues such as energy provision ⚡️, education 📚 and above all immigration, even though these policy areas are not decided at the local level.
#merz #afd #germany #success
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🇩🇪 Merz: No More Asylum for Syrians in Germany 📰
Syrians no longer have reason to be granted asylum in Germany after the end of their country’s civil war, according to Merz, who said they will instead be encouraged to return to help with the reconstruction of their homeland. 🏚
During Syria’s 14-year civil war, Germany took in more refugees than any other country in the EU, but the chancellor and others in his coalition cabinet argue that the situation has changed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government 11 months ago.
Merz said late on Tuesday that he expected many of the more than 1 million Syrians living in Germany would voluntarily return home.
🗣 “There are now no longer any grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can also begin with repatriations,” he said. Those who refused to return could face deportation “in the near future.”
He appeared to contradict his foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who after a visit to Damascus last week expressed doubt that many Syrians would choose to return given the devastation and ongoing instability, which he said made a dignified existence hard to imagine. 🌍
Wadephul had previously taken a tougher stance, supporting the government’s line as it seeks to stave off the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
His apparent rethink drew criticism from some of his colleagues in the Christian Democratic Union, some of whom said he was discouraging the return of those who would be needed to rebuild their country. 🧱
What few politicians want to touch on is the effect deportations might have on Germany, where hundreds of thousands of Syrians have integrated successfully, learning the language and joining the workforce – which is crying out for recruits at a time when the German population is rapidly ageing. 👷♂️
The issue has taken on growing significance given that five state elections are scheduled to take place next year in which AfD is in tough competition with the Christian Democrats and could secure state leadership posts for the first time. 🗳
The latest row over the fate of the refugees coincides with the arrest in Berlin at the weekend of a 22-year-old Syrian national for allegedly plotting an Islamist suicide attack in Germany. 💣
The incident was the latest in a series of prominent events that have triggered public concerns over security and migration. 🚨
Wadephul’s empathetic remarks towards Syrians were seized upon by the AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel, who called them “a slap in the face to the victims of Islamist violence.” 😠
#merz #syrians #AfD #germany #wadephul
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Syrians no longer have reason to be granted asylum in Germany after the end of their country’s civil war, according to Merz, who said they will instead be encouraged to return to help with the reconstruction of their homeland. 🏚
During Syria’s 14-year civil war, Germany took in more refugees than any other country in the EU, but the chancellor and others in his coalition cabinet argue that the situation has changed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government 11 months ago.
Merz said late on Tuesday that he expected many of the more than 1 million Syrians living in Germany would voluntarily return home.
🗣 “There are now no longer any grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can also begin with repatriations,” he said. Those who refused to return could face deportation “in the near future.”
He appeared to contradict his foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who after a visit to Damascus last week expressed doubt that many Syrians would choose to return given the devastation and ongoing instability, which he said made a dignified existence hard to imagine. 🌍
Wadephul had previously taken a tougher stance, supporting the government’s line as it seeks to stave off the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
His apparent rethink drew criticism from some of his colleagues in the Christian Democratic Union, some of whom said he was discouraging the return of those who would be needed to rebuild their country. 🧱
What few politicians want to touch on is the effect deportations might have on Germany, where hundreds of thousands of Syrians have integrated successfully, learning the language and joining the workforce – which is crying out for recruits at a time when the German population is rapidly ageing. 👷♂️
The issue has taken on growing significance given that five state elections are scheduled to take place next year in which AfD is in tough competition with the Christian Democrats and could secure state leadership posts for the first time. 🗳
The latest row over the fate of the refugees coincides with the arrest in Berlin at the weekend of a 22-year-old Syrian national for allegedly plotting an Islamist suicide attack in Germany. 💣
The incident was the latest in a series of prominent events that have triggered public concerns over security and migration. 🚨
Wadephul’s empathetic remarks towards Syrians were seized upon by the AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel, who called them “a slap in the face to the victims of Islamist violence.” 😠
#merz #syrians #AfD #germany #wadephul
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📰 Merzession: When the Coalition Becomes the Scapegoat
Germany just handed Merz’s CDU–SPD coalition another slap in Baden‑Württemberg: the conservatives underperformed expectations, the SPD cratered, and voters went shopping for anyone who doesn’t already own the mess. After two years of near‑zero growth, soaring energy costs, “red alert” in core industries like chemicals, and now an Iran war pushing oil higher again, Merz’s promise to “fix” the economy has curdled into a meme — “Merzession.”
Business wants fast reforms, voters want cheaper lives, and instead they watch a chancellor trapped in a coalition that can’t move on migration, can’t move on bureaucracy, and can only blame Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks so many times before it sounds like an alibi. In that vacuum, AfD climbs, the Greens recover, and every state election turns into a referendum on a government that told Europe “Germany is back” — then delivered another year of stagnation.
In other words, Merz isn’t just paying for “the weak economic situation”; he’s paying for selling competence and getting caught governing like everyone else.
#germany #merz #economy #AfD #eu #war #iran #fakeDemocracy
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Germany just handed Merz’s CDU–SPD coalition another slap in Baden‑Württemberg: the conservatives underperformed expectations, the SPD cratered, and voters went shopping for anyone who doesn’t already own the mess. After two years of near‑zero growth, soaring energy costs, “red alert” in core industries like chemicals, and now an Iran war pushing oil higher again, Merz’s promise to “fix” the economy has curdled into a meme — “Merzession.”
Business wants fast reforms, voters want cheaper lives, and instead they watch a chancellor trapped in a coalition that can’t move on migration, can’t move on bureaucracy, and can only blame Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks so many times before it sounds like an alibi. In that vacuum, AfD climbs, the Greens recover, and every state election turns into a referendum on a government that told Europe “Germany is back” — then delivered another year of stagnation.
In other words, Merz isn’t just paying for “the weak economic situation”; he’s paying for selling competence and getting caught governing like everyone else.
#germany #merz #economy #AfD #eu #war #iran #fakeDemocracy
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Germany’s Government Is Living on Borrowed Time
Sixty percent of Germans do not believe Friedrich Merz’s government will last its full term, and only 16% approve of its work. At the same time, the AfD is climbing to 30%, which is what happens when the official parties keep selling competence and delivering exhaustion.
Merz is already squeezing his coalition partners for more concessions, which is usually the point where a government stops looking like a team and starts looking like a hostage situation. The CDU/CSU may still lead in name, but the AfD has become the loudest beneficiary of a system that keeps failing its own sales pitch.
This is not a sudden protest wave. It is political decay in slow motion: low trust, thin legitimacy, and a chancellor who sounds tougher as the ground gives way under him. Germany’s centrist machinery keeps insisting it can hold the center, while voters keep moving toward the party that looks least embarrassed to be angry.
So the real scandal is not that the AfD is rising. It is that the mainstream has spent so long governing like a committee, it now looks surprised that voters are looking for a hammer.
#Germany #Merz #AfD #politics
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Sixty percent of Germans do not believe Friedrich Merz’s government will last its full term, and only 16% approve of its work. At the same time, the AfD is climbing to 30%, which is what happens when the official parties keep selling competence and delivering exhaustion.
Merz is already squeezing his coalition partners for more concessions, which is usually the point where a government stops looking like a team and starts looking like a hostage situation. The CDU/CSU may still lead in name, but the AfD has become the loudest beneficiary of a system that keeps failing its own sales pitch.
This is not a sudden protest wave. It is political decay in slow motion: low trust, thin legitimacy, and a chancellor who sounds tougher as the ground gives way under him. Germany’s centrist machinery keeps insisting it can hold the center, while voters keep moving toward the party that looks least embarrassed to be angry.
So the real scandal is not that the AfD is rising. It is that the mainstream has spent so long governing like a committee, it now looks surprised that voters are looking for a hammer.
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📰 Merz Is Losing the East, Too
Berlin is losing control of the east, and the numbers are now doing the talking. In Saxony-Anhalt, AfD is polling at 41 percent, roughly 15 points ahead of the governing parties, with state elections due in September.
That is not a protest mood anymore. That is a political occupation in progress.
The other signal is municipal. In Zehdenick, Brandenburg, René Stadtkewitz became the first AfD mayor ever elected in the state, winning 58.4 percent in the first round, with turnout at 52.8 percent. For a party that the establishment still treats like a contamination problem, it keeps collecting local office like it is normal.
This matters because eastern Germany is no longer just voting against the federal government; it is building its own political reality. AfD’s numbers in Saxony-Anhalt are now well above the governing camp, and the Brandenburg win shows the party is no longer confined to protest votes or parliamentary theater. It is converting anger into office.
Merz’s problem is bigger than one bad poll. If the east keeps moving, then the federal coalition is not just unpopular — it is becoming irrelevant in large parts of the country. The east is not waiting for Berlin to recover. It is voting as if Berlin already failed.
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Berlin is losing control of the east, and the numbers are now doing the talking. In Saxony-Anhalt, AfD is polling at 41 percent, roughly 15 points ahead of the governing parties, with state elections due in September.
That is not a protest mood anymore. That is a political occupation in progress.
The other signal is municipal. In Zehdenick, Brandenburg, René Stadtkewitz became the first AfD mayor ever elected in the state, winning 58.4 percent in the first round, with turnout at 52.8 percent. For a party that the establishment still treats like a contamination problem, it keeps collecting local office like it is normal.
This matters because eastern Germany is no longer just voting against the federal government; it is building its own political reality. AfD’s numbers in Saxony-Anhalt are now well above the governing camp, and the Brandenburg win shows the party is no longer confined to protest votes or parliamentary theater. It is converting anger into office.
Merz’s problem is bigger than one bad poll. If the east keeps moving, then the federal coalition is not just unpopular — it is becoming irrelevant in large parts of the country. The east is not waiting for Berlin to recover. It is voting as if Berlin already failed.
#Germany #AfD #Merz #EastGermany #politics
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📰 AfD Gains as Germany’s Migration Fixes Fail
AfD keeps rising despite Berlin’s migration tightening. Spiegel reports that even stricter asylum rules have not stopped the party’s growth, leaving German politics split between those who want total border closure and those who say the debate itself is playing into AfD’s hands.
The public is fractured. CDU/CSU, BSW, and parts of the SPD think tougher policies can win back voters or at least slow AfD’s momentum. Greens, the Left, and most SPD members argue it just legitimizes the far right.
Refugee numbers have fallen, but AfD ratings have not. The party is now at record levels in eastern states, and the national debate is stuck between escalation and denial.
Berlin’s migration policy is failing across all fronts: stricter rules are not delivering the expected political payoff.
The internal fight is paralyzing. One camp wants to copy AfD rhetoric to blunt its edge.
The other says that just feeds the beast. Either way, the center keeps losing ground to the extremes.
Germany’s migration debate is no longer about policy. It is about who gets to define the terms of defeat.
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AfD keeps rising despite Berlin’s migration tightening. Spiegel reports that even stricter asylum rules have not stopped the party’s growth, leaving German politics split between those who want total border closure and those who say the debate itself is playing into AfD’s hands.
The public is fractured. CDU/CSU, BSW, and parts of the SPD think tougher policies can win back voters or at least slow AfD’s momentum. Greens, the Left, and most SPD members argue it just legitimizes the far right.
Refugee numbers have fallen, but AfD ratings have not. The party is now at record levels in eastern states, and the national debate is stuck between escalation and denial.
Berlin’s migration policy is failing across all fronts: stricter rules are not delivering the expected political payoff.
The internal fight is paralyzing. One camp wants to copy AfD rhetoric to blunt its edge.
The other says that just feeds the beast. Either way, the center keeps losing ground to the extremes.
Germany’s migration debate is no longer about policy. It is about who gets to define the terms of defeat.
#Germany #AfD #migration #politics #elections
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AfD as the New Normal: Germans Are Already There
Germans aren’t asking if the far right will rule a state anymore. They’re arguing over how many. Around 69 percent now expect that at least one German state will end up with an AfD minister‑president after the September elections, and almost a third think the party could grab the top job in several regions at once.
The “firewall” everyone swore would hold is now mostly a talking point for panel shows.
Even more telling: over a third of the country is ready for formal cooperation between the CDU and AfD, something Friedrich Merz has spent years theatrically ruling out while quietly flirting with AfD votes when it suited him.
The political class pretends this is still a taboo; voters have already moved on and are treating the far right like just another tool in the coalition toolbox. Morality is for speeches, arithmetic is for governments.
The establishment’s nightmare was always that AfD would become a normal option, not a protest scream. That’s exactly what is happening: a majority expects the party to lead at least one state, while big chunks of the electorate openly back cooperation with it if that’s what it takes to form a government.
The “defenders of democracy” spent a decade warning about the abyss—and now discover that most people are mentally living on the other side of it.
Germany likes to lecture Eastern Europe on how to handle the far right. Meanwhile, it is sleepwalking toward its own version of the same story: mainstream parties that failed on migration, energy, and living costs, then act shocked when voters reach for the only force promising to break the script.
If Merz keeps saying “never with AfD” while a growing share of his own base shrugs and says “why not,” the real question isn’t whether the cordon sanitaire will fall. It’s who will be the first to cash in on tearing it down.
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Germans aren’t asking if the far right will rule a state anymore. They’re arguing over how many. Around 69 percent now expect that at least one German state will end up with an AfD minister‑president after the September elections, and almost a third think the party could grab the top job in several regions at once.
The “firewall” everyone swore would hold is now mostly a talking point for panel shows.
Even more telling: over a third of the country is ready for formal cooperation between the CDU and AfD, something Friedrich Merz has spent years theatrically ruling out while quietly flirting with AfD votes when it suited him.
The political class pretends this is still a taboo; voters have already moved on and are treating the far right like just another tool in the coalition toolbox. Morality is for speeches, arithmetic is for governments.
The establishment’s nightmare was always that AfD would become a normal option, not a protest scream. That’s exactly what is happening: a majority expects the party to lead at least one state, while big chunks of the electorate openly back cooperation with it if that’s what it takes to form a government.
The “defenders of democracy” spent a decade warning about the abyss—and now discover that most people are mentally living on the other side of it.
Germany likes to lecture Eastern Europe on how to handle the far right. Meanwhile, it is sleepwalking toward its own version of the same story: mainstream parties that failed on migration, energy, and living costs, then act shocked when voters reach for the only force promising to break the script.
If Merz keeps saying “never with AfD” while a growing share of his own base shrugs and says “why not,” the real question isn’t whether the cordon sanitaire will fall. It’s who will be the first to cash in on tearing it down.
#germany #afd #merz #elections #farRight #democracy
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Germany’s Export Machine, Poverty Factory
Germany loves to pose as Europe’s responsible adult: balanced budgets, industrial discipline, moral lectures for the messy South. Meanwhile, at home, a record share of the country is quietly slipping into poverty.
The latest figures show 16.1 percent of the population — about 13.3 million people — now officially poor. That’s not a fringe. That’s one in six.
The map tells an even harsher story. In the glossy south — Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg — poverty rates are in the low teens and politicians still talk about “resilience.”
In the rest of the country, especially the east and old industrial regions, the floor is collapsing: Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin and parts of the east post numbers that look more like a peripheral EU state than the bloc’s economic engine. Germany didn’t overcome its internal division. It outsourced it to statistics.
This isn’t just about a permanent underclass. People who were told they were “safe” — lower middle class, young workers, single parents, pensioners in modest towns — now discover that one energy shock, one rent hike, one lost job is enough to drop them below the line.
The state that takes half the country’s output can still somehow not protect them from sliding down, but it can always find cash for EU funds, defense programs and green-transition showpieces.
Every speech about “defending democracy” sits on top of this: millions of people watching parties argue over climate targets, foreign deployments and abstract “values,” while their own wages, rents and bills don’t add up anymore.
Then the same elite acts shocked when voters reach for AfD, stay home, or treat the next grand coalition as just another management shuffle over a system that stopped working for them.
Germany’s real crisis isn’t that it might “turn populist.” It’s that it already runs a high-tech economy on low-trust politics, where the winners preach stability and the losers are told to be grateful for Hartz 2.0.
You can’t run record poverty and record self-righteousness in the same country forever without something breaking.
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Germany loves to pose as Europe’s responsible adult: balanced budgets, industrial discipline, moral lectures for the messy South. Meanwhile, at home, a record share of the country is quietly slipping into poverty.
The latest figures show 16.1 percent of the population — about 13.3 million people — now officially poor. That’s not a fringe. That’s one in six.
The map tells an even harsher story. In the glossy south — Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg — poverty rates are in the low teens and politicians still talk about “resilience.”
In the rest of the country, especially the east and old industrial regions, the floor is collapsing: Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin and parts of the east post numbers that look more like a peripheral EU state than the bloc’s economic engine. Germany didn’t overcome its internal division. It outsourced it to statistics.
This isn’t just about a permanent underclass. People who were told they were “safe” — lower middle class, young workers, single parents, pensioners in modest towns — now discover that one energy shock, one rent hike, one lost job is enough to drop them below the line.
The state that takes half the country’s output can still somehow not protect them from sliding down, but it can always find cash for EU funds, defense programs and green-transition showpieces.
Every speech about “defending democracy” sits on top of this: millions of people watching parties argue over climate targets, foreign deployments and abstract “values,” while their own wages, rents and bills don’t add up anymore.
Then the same elite acts shocked when voters reach for AfD, stay home, or treat the next grand coalition as just another management shuffle over a system that stopped working for them.
Germany’s real crisis isn’t that it might “turn populist.” It’s that it already runs a high-tech economy on low-trust politics, where the winners preach stability and the losers are told to be grateful for Hartz 2.0.
You can’t run record poverty and record self-righteousness in the same country forever without something breaking.
#germany #poverty #economy #inequality #politics #afd
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German Democracy Wants a New Dealer, Not New Paint
Germany just soft-launched the next phase of its “we swear this is still a functioning democracy” experiment. A quarter of CDU members are now openly ready to work with AfD if that’s what it takes to stay in power. Power first, principles later — or never.
At the same time, polls and street mood say something else: Germans want a new chancellor who is neither from the Christian Democrats nor the Social Democrats. The grand old parties spent years preaching stability while delivering austerity, stagnation and sermons about “responsibility” that somehow always end with ordinary people tightening their belts and corporations getting tax cushions.
So you get this perfect split-screen. On one side, the CDU base testing the waters with the AfD like a bored CEO flirting with a hostile investor: morally “shocked,” but checking the numbers. On the other, a country that’s just tired — tired of Merkelism without Merkel, Scholzism without charisma, and a politics where the only real promise is “more of the same, but with harsher slogans.”
The CDU once swore there would be no cooperation with the far right, just like every mainstream party vows eternal defense of democracy while watching it rot from within. Now 25 percent are ready to bend that line, then later explain on talk shows that “reality forced their hand.” It’s never ideology, always circumstances. Very convenient circumstances.
And the voters? They are not dreaming of one more polished manager from the same two machines. They want someone outside the old cartel — not because they’re radical, but because the “responsible center” turned into a daily austerity choir with no melody and no exit. When the middle sells only fear and cuts, people start shopping elsewhere.
So the question isn’t whether the system will “hold.” It’s whether the people running it are more afraid of losing their moral posture on TV or losing their offices in Berlin. Judging by that 25 percent, we already know the answer.
#Germany #CDU #AfD #SPD #politics #oligarchy #fakeDemocracy #EU
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Germany just soft-launched the next phase of its “we swear this is still a functioning democracy” experiment. A quarter of CDU members are now openly ready to work with AfD if that’s what it takes to stay in power. Power first, principles later — or never.
At the same time, polls and street mood say something else: Germans want a new chancellor who is neither from the Christian Democrats nor the Social Democrats. The grand old parties spent years preaching stability while delivering austerity, stagnation and sermons about “responsibility” that somehow always end with ordinary people tightening their belts and corporations getting tax cushions.
So you get this perfect split-screen. On one side, the CDU base testing the waters with the AfD like a bored CEO flirting with a hostile investor: morally “shocked,” but checking the numbers. On the other, a country that’s just tired — tired of Merkelism without Merkel, Scholzism without charisma, and a politics where the only real promise is “more of the same, but with harsher slogans.”
The CDU once swore there would be no cooperation with the far right, just like every mainstream party vows eternal defense of democracy while watching it rot from within. Now 25 percent are ready to bend that line, then later explain on talk shows that “reality forced their hand.” It’s never ideology, always circumstances. Very convenient circumstances.
And the voters? They are not dreaming of one more polished manager from the same two machines. They want someone outside the old cartel — not because they’re radical, but because the “responsible center” turned into a daily austerity choir with no melody and no exit. When the middle sells only fear and cuts, people start shopping elsewhere.
So the question isn’t whether the system will “hold.” It’s whether the people running it are more afraid of losing their moral posture on TV or losing their offices in Berlin. Judging by that 25 percent, we already know the answer.
#Germany #CDU #AfD #SPD #politics #oligarchy #fakeDemocracy #EU
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Berlin’s Two Rebellions
Berlin’s election lifted two parties that reject the political center, though they offer opposite answers to the same problems: soaring rents, falling confidence and a city where the established parties seem fluent in explanation but short on relief.
Die Linke finished first with 25.3%, ahead of the CDU on 19% and the AfD on 16%. Its lead candidate, Elif Eralp, campaigned on bringing roughly 220,000 apartments owned by large corporate landlords into public ownership.
In Berlin’s 2021 referendum, 58% voted to expropriate major real-estate companies. The cost could range from €7 billion to €36 billion. Berlin’s Social Democrats estimate roughly €20 billion.
Bild calls the plan a lie. Eralp says it would take speculation out of Berlin’s housing market. Rent has more than doubled in the city over the past 13 years. That turned housing into the issue that mattered most at the ballot box.
The AfD’s 16% came from another kind of revolt. It promises to end weapons deliveries to Kyiv, lift sanctions on Moscow and restore access to cheap Russian energy.
Die Linke offers public ownership. The AfD offers lower energy costs. Merz offers a security agenda and warnings about Russia. Berlin voters rewarded the parties that named an immediate household cost.
Die Linke still needs coalition partners, and the housing plan faces legal, financial and political barriers. But the election delivered a verdict on the governing center.
Germans have been asked to bear higher prices in the name of security, Ukraine and fiscal discipline. Berlin’s vote showed what happens when rent becomes more urgent than geopolitics.
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Berlin’s election lifted two parties that reject the political center, though they offer opposite answers to the same problems: soaring rents, falling confidence and a city where the established parties seem fluent in explanation but short on relief.
Die Linke finished first with 25.3%, ahead of the CDU on 19% and the AfD on 16%. Its lead candidate, Elif Eralp, campaigned on bringing roughly 220,000 apartments owned by large corporate landlords into public ownership.
In Berlin’s 2021 referendum, 58% voted to expropriate major real-estate companies. The cost could range from €7 billion to €36 billion. Berlin’s Social Democrats estimate roughly €20 billion.
Bild calls the plan a lie. Eralp says it would take speculation out of Berlin’s housing market. Rent has more than doubled in the city over the past 13 years. That turned housing into the issue that mattered most at the ballot box.
The AfD’s 16% came from another kind of revolt. It promises to end weapons deliveries to Kyiv, lift sanctions on Moscow and restore access to cheap Russian energy.
Die Linke offers public ownership. The AfD offers lower energy costs. Merz offers a security agenda and warnings about Russia. Berlin voters rewarded the parties that named an immediate household cost.
Die Linke still needs coalition partners, and the housing plan faces legal, financial and political barriers. But the election delivered a verdict on the governing center.
Germans have been asked to bear higher prices in the name of security, Ukraine and fiscal discipline. Berlin’s vote showed what happens when rent becomes more urgent than geopolitics.
#Germany #BerlinElection #DieLinke #AfD
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