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Europe
German voters punish Merkel in regional elections
2016-03-14
Good. More, please.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party was humiliated in key regional elections on Sunday as voters delivered their verdict at the ballot box about her open-door refugee policies.
Rightist populism does seem to be sweeping the EU and America. Wonder why? Could it be that the voters have figured out that the establishment elites hate their countries, hate their people, and don't give a fig what happens to the rest of us so long as they get theirs?
Exit poll results in three out of 16 German states foretell a wipeout in next year's general election as the hard-right capitalized on public disquiet and altered the political landscape forever.

Baden-Wuerttemberg - solidly middle class and home to blue chip companies like Porsche and Daimler - was won by the Green Party after Merkel's CDU lost nearly 11 percent support since the last vote there in 2011. And the Alternative for Germany - AfD anti-immigrant party - garnered 12.5 percent of the votes, propelling a party that her supporters call 'Nazis in pinstripes' into the local parliament.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  "But the AfD is no more Nazi than any other party in Germany."

I beg to differ. Not every AfD member or voter is a Nazi or has Nazi sympathies, but the AfD has a very unsavory brown flavor.
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-03-14 22:53  

#15  Thing, I'm going to assume this is your idea of a joke.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 18:43  

#14  I think he encouraged it, puts other people into a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I think at least some of the people in the EU are his agents, tasked with starting a civil war one way or another, because once the ball gets rolling and the "middle" gets eaten out of the society it doesn't matter if the invaders win or if (for example) Marie Le Pen wins, for instance the latter thinks it's "right" and "conservative" to get closer, friendlier relations with the current Iranian government.

For example, he didn't "make" Ozero not bomb Assad, but Ozero cooperated with Putin in this endeavour (and is proud of it; I guess now we know what the Flexibility is about).. He even paid for the current Russian/Iranian offensive in Syria, which started right after he sent over the 150 billion or whatever it was to Iran).

As another example, take Ma Merkel. If she weren't a sort-of soviet agent of one sort or another, she'd have prosecuted Schroeder (the German PM who dismantled large parts of their power generation in favor of natural gas, not the cartoon character) when he went straight from a government position dismantling German industry to a seat on the board of Gazprom.

My guess is, Putin's burning through assets within the German government in order to start the civil war while at the same time funding the alt.right "resistance" fighting the other side. Because he thinks he can cut off places like Eastern Europe and well, Israel (whose next generation worth of naval corvettes is currently on order from Germany) from military resupply. Once-in-a-lifetime chance before someone who's less of a crackhead becomes President.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-03-14 17:39  

#13  Well, thing, did Putin force EU to accept these refthuggis? How did you do that?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 16:45  

#12  ...and his talented crew of 'Reset' experts.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-14 12:51  

#11  Putin?!?

I see Turkey/ISIS, to blame anyone else seems to be totally delusional.


Don't forget Baraq.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-03-14 12:13  

#10  So, BP, do you think it was an accident that the flow of refugees increased greatly when Putin entered the conflict and started bombing people? Maybe a vast coincidence?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-03-14 12:03  

#9  No plans to change course. Heckofajob Merkie!

It is kinda German.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 10:38  

#8  No plans to change course. Heckofajob Merkie!
Posted by: regular joe   2016-03-14 09:26  

#7  Putin?!?

I see Turkey/ISIS, to blame anyone else seems to be totally delusional.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-03-14 08:21  

#6  Or, I think, nowadays he's well understood.

p.s. Keep in mind that any other Russian leader would've been doing exactly the same.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 07:49  

#5  No, actually he's a swell fellow. He's just chronically misunderstood.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-14 07:36  

#4  Putin is the new Illuminati/Elders of Zion, Besoeker?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 07:31  

#3  Asked if Merkel should now overhaul her refugee policy, the CDU's general secretary Peter Tauber said: 'I don't see that need.'

Something about an admission of error, denial, etc. Or is it an element of Putin's greater 'wreck euro' plan ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-03-14 07:17  

#2  But the refugees keep flowing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-14 04:12  

#1  Screw Her.
Posted by: Newc   2016-03-14 00:46  

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