h/t Instapundit
Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany’s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939‐and increasingly in the present‐usually bear the brunt of this national meltdown.
Germany is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, its financial leader, and its trusted and responsible political center. Often it plays those roles superbly. But recently, it’s been cracking up‐in a way that is hauntingly familiar to its European neighbors. On mass immigration, it is beginning to terrify the nearby nations of Eastern Europe. On Brexit, it bullies the British. On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans. On Russia, it irks the Baltic States and makes the Scandinavians uneasy by doing business with the Russian energy interests. And on all matters American, it increasingly seems incensed.
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Merkel is a piece of Dreck. Just who the heck does she think she is allowing over a million "immigrants" into Europe without one European country having any say in the matter? Penalize Italy or Hungary for her decision (with help from Brussels)? Sickening.
#4
On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans.
Here I disagree. The Euro was imposed on Germany by France after reunification.
The Maastricht treaty turned out to be a scheme for enabling southern European loan fraud on a gigantic scale. When the fraud was exposed it turned into an economic suicide pact.
#5
The article has its bizarre moments. Treating Germany as a monolithic entity, homogeneous from top to bottom. A Bavarian is a Brandenburger is a Silesian.
Another problem can be the result of "No consensus" in a Parliamentary country. The country wanders rudderless because to make a ruling coalition the deals must be struck and lesser, radical groups demand a hand at the helm. The Greens want "No Nukes', for example, and to the Inner Circle it is a price easier to pay than exile to minority status...
#7
Somehow I imagine that at some point the Arabs in Germany will push to far and we'll see the Germans snap again, and all of that industriousness that is the German character will be turned to revenge of sorts. The difference being that this time most of the world will stay out of the way.
h/t Instapundit
One of the mysteries of the deep state is just how deep it is. Like the Kryptos sculpture in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency, it has proven remarkably resistant to decoding since its emergence in the aftermath of World War II, after the creation of the CIA. It is, in a very real sense, its own cipher, hiding in plain sight all along and just daring the civilians to call it by its name: the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party.
As it happens, the leaders of the PBFP sat for a group portrait the other day. The occasion was the funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush, wife of George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush and mother of George Walker Bush, American presidents 41 and 43, respectively. Also in the photograph was the man who beat Poppy, William Jefferson Blythe III, more commonly known as Bill Clinton; and Barack Hussein Obama II, also known as Barry Soetoro, the man who succeeded George W. Bush. And their wives, of course, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, former senator from New York, former secretary of state in the Obama Administration, and the defeated candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
...The picture is less evocative of a group portrait of past presidents as it is of a family, in this case the Kennedys, with Poppy sitting in for old Joe, the crippled paterfamilias, surrounded by the offspring who went on to wreak so much havoc upon the American body politic. For, like some Biblical genealogy, Bush I begat Clinton who begat Bush II, who would have begotten Clinton II were in not for Obama, who might have begotten either Clinton II redux or Bush III (Jeb!) were it not for Trump.
If it all sounds rather incestuous, that’s because it is.
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Wow. Melania looks like Daniel in the lions' den.
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They hated Reagan too but he was so overwhelmingly popular that they couldn't touch him so they hunkered down and waited him out.
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PBFP? Just call them "globalists". Amounts to the same thing, starting with abandonment of national sovereignty and the US constitution as written & intended.
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It's Friday before a long weekend. I can hardly wait to find out what this evening's data dump is going to be. "That professor who wasn't spying on Trump had an evil twin who was" (page 3 of the NYT sports section)
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.The picture is less evocative of a group portrait of past presidents as it is of a family, in this case the Kennedys, Borgias
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