When you say Merz is an Atlanticist, you must mean he is aligned with the Democrat party foreign policy and intelligence blob, the Atlantic Council crowd and the anti-Trump EU ... the latter three will recognize an ally in him for their own failing anti-Trump campaign on a European level. Friedrich Merz is all in for censorship, just like they are ... Anyway, Germany will muddle through four years of escalating political and economic malaise ... The sole hope to end it is that some force from outside, like TRUMP, bursts their tragic complacency. Otherwise, decline ... and 50% and rising of the country's foreign-born ... Bye bye, Germany.
The conservative Wall Street Journal continued taking swipes at Donald Trump this week with two editorials, published in as many days, that called out the U.S. president’s purported bid to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The newspaper’s editorial board called out what it described as “the looming rehabilitation” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, facilitated by Trump, as negotiations to end the conflict, which Putin began with the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, start between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia. Ukrainian officials were notably not invited to participate in the meeting to decide their fate.
The Journal reminded readers of just some of the horrors of Putin’s brutal campaign in Ukraine — such as the killing or maiming of hundreds of thousands of people, the targeting of civilian homes, and the kidnapping of Ukrainian-born children. It contrasted all that, and more, with Trump’s talk about inviting Putin to America.
“We realize that the ruthless men who rule much of the world can’t be ignored. But usually, those men aren’t rewarded with a visit to the U.S., as Mr. Trump hinted last week before they’ve made any compromises,” said the board.
“Any peace Mr. Putin strikes has to be made with all of his legacy of destruction in mind,” it concluded
That WSJ article speaks for the neocon-captured Uniparty, IMO. Do check out a more nuanced summary (below link), of Scott Horton's new book that documents (the bipartisan) provocation of Russia going back to James Baker's meeting with Gorbachev in 1990 where assurances were given that NATO wouldn't move an inch eastward, if Soviets removed troops from East Germany. 'Provoked' recounts every step along the way over last 35 years, of moving NATO ever eastward, and Russia responses. A huge, missed opportunity by the West not to invite Russia into NATO when Putin asked about it in 2000. What to do about the West Defense industry (and all those US jobs) absent a common enemy? Once Putin saw that door closed, he reverted to his thuggish ways. And our ‘best and brightest’ couldn’t be happier to keep the MIC gravy train going. Did you know that Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and majority of members of Council on Foreign Relations opposed NATO membership to former Soviet Republics back in 1990’s? The modern press never tells us this. Did you know both France and Germany opposed NATO membership to Ukraine in 2008? Again, our media doesn't bother to ask why that was the case. USA just saw a ‘weak’ Russian bear during last 3 decades and ignored all signs of a coming war. And that’s in part, why MAGA voted this antiquated Twentieth Century thinking out. The EU will now suffer for USA stupidity on Ukraine, by jacking up their Defense spending and cutting back on the Welfare State. These countries are already suffering (and some of it very much their own doing) for USA stupidity in Iraq, which destabilized the entire Middle East, and helped fuel mass Sharia-migration into the EU.
I think Trump and his team are in tune with the concept, evidenced by wiping out Soleimani under 45 and the more recent ‘Hell to Pay’ rhetoric under 47. Biden and Obama, not so much.
https://www.jns.org/a-deep-state-doesnt-get-any-deeper-than-this/ This is what Bibi is up against internally a aDeep State that is ultra woke and more interested in mowing the grass and pleasing the American Deep State than in winning wars and protecting Israelis from Hamas
“ CDU leader Friedrich Merz, a businessman and committed Atlanticist who now looks set to become Germany’s next chancellor, has promised to toughen Germany’s immigration laws, slash regulations to promote economic growth, and assume a leading role in Europe’s efforts to resist the Trump administration.”
On the contrary, Merz’s own victory speech stated explicitly that “Germany’s borders will remain open.”
That does not sound at all like toughening up on immigration.
Let’s see what happens on any further releases of hostages in a Gaza It appears that the IDF is gearing up for further war in Gaza and that Hamas is engaged in 20/20 hindsight for the consumption of its supporters as to the consequences of 10/7 which should never be seen as having any truthfulness
Donald Trump stoked criticism and alarm when he posted a statement seemingly suggesting the nation's laws don't apply to him.
"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," Trump wrote on his personal X and Truth Social accounts on Saturday.
The White House later shared the statement from its official X account but didn't elaborate on why he posted it or what he meant by it. Although its exact origins are unclear, the quote is often attributed to Napoleon, the French general who effectively declared himself emperor in the early 1800s.
Trump has also said of himself: "Long live the king."
But Brooks was a comedian, a very funny one, who was joking. We have a president, once a reality show star who enjoyed saying, "You're fired," and now is able to fire tens of thousands of people at will, who is serious about being the king and wearing the crown, which his accolades placed on his head for a photo shoot. Long Live King Trump, aka Caligula.
Trump loves to troll the Left and he specifically goads their most ridiculous claims, such as “he’s a dictator!” They need to take a beat.
As for the bureaucracy it has become an unconstitutional Leviathan which has come to believe it answers to no one. The Constitution would beg to disagree. Congress long ago abdicated it’s ONE JOB, which is to make law to that now apparent 4th branch of government and the Trump administration is cutting them to down to size, up to and including getting rid of them altogether and restoring the government to its actual and lawfully correct parameters. He is fully within his rights as Chief of the Executive branch to do so, according to Article II of the Constitution.
Republic Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) pushed back on Elon Musk’s approach to downsizing the federal workforce on Sunday, saying the efforts of DOGE, Musk’s initiative, need to include “compassion” for the workers.
“If I could say one thing to Elon Musk it’s: Please put a dose of compassion in this. “These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. It’s a false narrative to say we have to cut and be cruel to do it as well.”
FYI, I'm a liberal Democrat. I'm not a "communist left wing Marxist," the label you give to anyone on the Lef. In fact, that's what Putin is, even though Trump refuses to call the thug, murdering dictator anything but his "good friend." Talk about revisionist history in the making, since Putin DID ATTACK UKRAINE and start the war and will end up the victor, thanks to Trump.
All my friends are liberal Dems who have criticized the Left. But right now, it is the Right that is totally out of control and lacks any rachamim or hesed. You should be ashamed of yourselves but instead you are gloating.
You are lucky not to have friends or family fired by the Richest Man in the World, but I do: a 40 year old, hard working man with a young family who will have to sell his house. Multiply that by thousands. King Trump (by his own admission) and Court Jester Musk are going power-mad. I guess it's better than Trump making fun of the disabled which was a favorite target when he had the time. What a narcissistic and horrific human being.
This will be my last comment. There is no point.
Good luck to our country.
Good luck to our country and our integrity as a nation.
I see there is no point voicing my concerns to Tablet readers who make these, to me, appalling comments.
Carol, I think it’s great that now both Left and Right are complaining about DOGE. To me, it means Trump is over the target. Congress and prior POTUS had decades of opportunity to take the actions DOGE is now doing. Like, lots and lots of opportunities. But they just said words about it, filled their reelection campaign coffers but never took action for the long-term interests of the people they represent. Now we have a ‘Man in the Arena’ actually doing something to rein in our out of control debt. And the people are cheering! It feels like Sen. John Curtis and others like him are fearful and angry that the spotlight of ‘perceived power’ is no longer on them. Well, the US Constitution gives Congress lots of power (Article 1). Congress simply needs to reassert itself and use that power directly. Rather than abdicating its powers to the agencies, many of which are under the control and purview of the Executive branch. The agencies are not Constitutionally defined. But Congress is. Get back to the basics of direct legislation. I’m all for that, and so are a lot of MAGA. It means change will happen slower. But it also means that change will be well argued out, consensus achieved, and stand up to Judicial/SCOTUS review.
In his introduction to the play, Camus reminds us that “Caligula rejects friendship and love, basic human solidarity, right and wrong — leveling everything through his destructive rage.”
Carol, Trump likes to troll. A lot. Look at Gulf of America, Canada as 51st State and taking over Greenland as other, recent examples. There's a lot of other examples, too. It's just words though. For me, I don't get triggered by them. I watch actual actions instead. And yes, I'll be much more satisfied when Trump's EO's get codified into law, by Congress.
You are lucky not to get triggered when Trump refuses to call Putin a dictator or when Trump boasts that, "if you lie enough, people will believe you, you know what I mean?".
His multi-billionaire Court Jester is even worse:
The world’s richest man and government official Elon Musk accused federal workers of unfairly getting rich off the taxpayer’s dime, citing, without evidence, “quite a few” with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. Musk’s own companies have accepted over $20 billion in taxpayer funds in the form of contracts, tax breaks, and other subsidies.
"Witkoff said, “I would say at this point, for sure, [Hamas] can’t be any part of governance in Gaza”" /// This Witkoff character seems to be a holdover from all the ineffective US policies of the last decade, whose only song is 'two separate states, two separate states...". Trump may be right in this case - who believes that Hamas or 'the Palestinians' will ever behave like a State with a rule of law?
They're "aligned" to the extent that anyone declares for Trump. It's a Trumpist cabinet, not a Republican or Democratic one. That's how we ended up with fruity-nutty crunchy-granola leftists like Gabbard, RFK Jr., and others. It's completely incoherent, and I wonder how long some of these people will last in such a loony tunes administration.
I think this anti-Globalist administration is going to do just fine, and even thrive. The zeitgeist has shifted back to common sense. The new GOP coalition intent on shaving our debt, rooting out ‘woke’ and shifting back to Strong God ways are here for the next decade, if not longer. Giddy-up!
When you say Merz is an Atlanticist, you must mean he is aligned with the Democrat party foreign policy and intelligence blob, the Atlantic Council crowd and the anti-Trump EU ... the latter three will recognize an ally in him for their own failing anti-Trump campaign on a European level. Friedrich Merz is all in for censorship, just like they are ... Anyway, Germany will muddle through four years of escalating political and economic malaise ... The sole hope to end it is that some force from outside, like TRUMP, bursts their tragic complacency. Otherwise, decline ... and 50% and rising of the country's foreign-born ... Bye bye, Germany.
The conservative Wall Street Journal continued taking swipes at Donald Trump this week with two editorials, published in as many days, that called out the U.S. president’s purported bid to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The newspaper’s editorial board called out what it described as “the looming rehabilitation” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, facilitated by Trump, as negotiations to end the conflict, which Putin began with the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, start between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia. Ukrainian officials were notably not invited to participate in the meeting to decide their fate.
The Journal reminded readers of just some of the horrors of Putin’s brutal campaign in Ukraine — such as the killing or maiming of hundreds of thousands of people, the targeting of civilian homes, and the kidnapping of Ukrainian-born children. It contrasted all that, and more, with Trump’s talk about inviting Putin to America.
“We realize that the ruthless men who rule much of the world can’t be ignored. But usually, those men aren’t rewarded with a visit to the U.S., as Mr. Trump hinted last week before they’ve made any compromises,” said the board.
“Any peace Mr. Putin strikes has to be made with all of his legacy of destruction in mind,” it concluded
That WSJ article speaks for the neocon-captured Uniparty, IMO. Do check out a more nuanced summary (below link), of Scott Horton's new book that documents (the bipartisan) provocation of Russia going back to James Baker's meeting with Gorbachev in 1990 where assurances were given that NATO wouldn't move an inch eastward, if Soviets removed troops from East Germany. 'Provoked' recounts every step along the way over last 35 years, of moving NATO ever eastward, and Russia responses. A huge, missed opportunity by the West not to invite Russia into NATO when Putin asked about it in 2000. What to do about the West Defense industry (and all those US jobs) absent a common enemy? Once Putin saw that door closed, he reverted to his thuggish ways. And our ‘best and brightest’ couldn’t be happier to keep the MIC gravy train going. Did you know that Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and majority of members of Council on Foreign Relations opposed NATO membership to former Soviet Republics back in 1990’s? The modern press never tells us this. Did you know both France and Germany opposed NATO membership to Ukraine in 2008? Again, our media doesn't bother to ask why that was the case. USA just saw a ‘weak’ Russian bear during last 3 decades and ignored all signs of a coming war. And that’s in part, why MAGA voted this antiquated Twentieth Century thinking out. The EU will now suffer for USA stupidity on Ukraine, by jacking up their Defense spending and cutting back on the Welfare State. These countries are already suffering (and some of it very much their own doing) for USA stupidity in Iraq, which destabilized the entire Middle East, and helped fuel mass Sharia-migration into the EU.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-first-draft-of-the-ukraine-wars-history/
Lee Smith’s 2010 book ‘The Strong Horse’ should be required reading for future US foreign policy leaders who work the Middle East:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6592568-the-strong-horse
I think Trump and his team are in tune with the concept, evidenced by wiping out Soleimani under 45 and the more recent ‘Hell to Pay’ rhetoric under 47. Biden and Obama, not so much.
He is rapidly moving in way over his head. The economics is illiterate, and the rest is a cartoon simultaneously sinister and dumb.
Maybe it is not a rise of far-right wing views but just a human desire to not be murdered by Islamists, radical or othetwise.
https://www.jns.org/a-deep-state-doesnt-get-any-deeper-than-this/ This is what Bibi is up against internally a aDeep State that is ultra woke and more interested in mowing the grass and pleasing the American Deep State than in winning wars and protecting Israelis from Hamas
“ CDU leader Friedrich Merz, a businessman and committed Atlanticist who now looks set to become Germany’s next chancellor, has promised to toughen Germany’s immigration laws, slash regulations to promote economic growth, and assume a leading role in Europe’s efforts to resist the Trump administration.”
On the contrary, Merz’s own victory speech stated explicitly that “Germany’s borders will remain open.”
That does not sound at all like toughening up on immigration.
Let’s see what happens on any further releases of hostages in a Gaza It appears that the IDF is gearing up for further war in Gaza and that Hamas is engaged in 20/20 hindsight for the consumption of its supporters as to the consequences of 10/7 which should never be seen as having any truthfulness
Donald Trump stoked criticism and alarm when he posted a statement seemingly suggesting the nation's laws don't apply to him.
"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," Trump wrote on his personal X and Truth Social accounts on Saturday.
The White House later shared the statement from its official X account but didn't elaborate on why he posted it or what he meant by it. Although its exact origins are unclear, the quote is often attributed to Napoleon, the French general who effectively declared himself emperor in the early 1800s.
Trump has also said of himself: "Long live the king."
So did Tom Petty !
But Brooks was a comedian, a very funny one, who was joking. We have a president, once a reality show star who enjoyed saying, "You're fired," and now is able to fire tens of thousands of people at will, who is serious about being the king and wearing the crown, which his accolades placed on his head for a photo shoot. Long Live King Trump, aka Caligula.
Trump loves to troll the Left and he specifically goads their most ridiculous claims, such as “he’s a dictator!” They need to take a beat.
As for the bureaucracy it has become an unconstitutional Leviathan which has come to believe it answers to no one. The Constitution would beg to disagree. Congress long ago abdicated it’s ONE JOB, which is to make law to that now apparent 4th branch of government and the Trump administration is cutting them to down to size, up to and including getting rid of them altogether and restoring the government to its actual and lawfully correct parameters. He is fully within his rights as Chief of the Executive branch to do so, according to Article II of the Constitution.
Republic Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) pushed back on Elon Musk’s approach to downsizing the federal workforce on Sunday, saying the efforts of DOGE, Musk’s initiative, need to include “compassion” for the workers.
“If I could say one thing to Elon Musk it’s: Please put a dose of compassion in this. “These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. It’s a false narrative to say we have to cut and be cruel to do it as well.”
FYI, I'm a liberal Democrat. I'm not a "communist left wing Marxist," the label you give to anyone on the Lef. In fact, that's what Putin is, even though Trump refuses to call the thug, murdering dictator anything but his "good friend." Talk about revisionist history in the making, since Putin DID ATTACK UKRAINE and start the war and will end up the victor, thanks to Trump.
All my friends are liberal Dems who have criticized the Left. But right now, it is the Right that is totally out of control and lacks any rachamim or hesed. You should be ashamed of yourselves but instead you are gloating.
You are lucky not to have friends or family fired by the Richest Man in the World, but I do: a 40 year old, hard working man with a young family who will have to sell his house. Multiply that by thousands. King Trump (by his own admission) and Court Jester Musk are going power-mad. I guess it's better than Trump making fun of the disabled which was a favorite target when he had the time. What a narcissistic and horrific human being.
This will be my last comment. There is no point.
Good luck to our country.
Good luck to our country and our integrity as a nation.
I see there is no point voicing my concerns to Tablet readers who make these, to me, appalling comments.
Carol, I think it’s great that now both Left and Right are complaining about DOGE. To me, it means Trump is over the target. Congress and prior POTUS had decades of opportunity to take the actions DOGE is now doing. Like, lots and lots of opportunities. But they just said words about it, filled their reelection campaign coffers but never took action for the long-term interests of the people they represent. Now we have a ‘Man in the Arena’ actually doing something to rein in our out of control debt. And the people are cheering! It feels like Sen. John Curtis and others like him are fearful and angry that the spotlight of ‘perceived power’ is no longer on them. Well, the US Constitution gives Congress lots of power (Article 1). Congress simply needs to reassert itself and use that power directly. Rather than abdicating its powers to the agencies, many of which are under the control and purview of the Executive branch. The agencies are not Constitutionally defined. But Congress is. Get back to the basics of direct legislation. I’m all for that, and so are a lot of MAGA. It means change will happen slower. But it also means that change will be well argued out, consensus achieved, and stand up to Judicial/SCOTUS review.
Carol, which King would you rather have? Trump (Caligula) or Biden/Harris (Commodus)?
In his introduction to the play, Camus reminds us that “Caligula rejects friendship and love, basic human solidarity, right and wrong — leveling everything through his destructive rage.”
Carol, Trump likes to troll. A lot. Look at Gulf of America, Canada as 51st State and taking over Greenland as other, recent examples. There's a lot of other examples, too. It's just words though. For me, I don't get triggered by them. I watch actual actions instead. And yes, I'll be much more satisfied when Trump's EO's get codified into law, by Congress.
You are lucky not to get triggered when Trump refuses to call Putin a dictator or when Trump boasts that, "if you lie enough, people will believe you, you know what I mean?".
His multi-billionaire Court Jester is even worse:
The world’s richest man and government official Elon Musk accused federal workers of unfairly getting rich off the taxpayer’s dime, citing, without evidence, “quite a few” with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. Musk’s own companies have accepted over $20 billion in taxpayer funds in the form of contracts, tax breaks, and other subsidies.
We both knew our history of what a bad emperor Commodus was!
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"Witkoff said, “I would say at this point, for sure, [Hamas] can’t be any part of governance in Gaza”" /// This Witkoff character seems to be a holdover from all the ineffective US policies of the last decade, whose only song is 'two separate states, two separate states...". Trump may be right in this case - who believes that Hamas or 'the Palestinians' will ever behave like a State with a rule of law?
They're "aligned" to the extent that anyone declares for Trump. It's a Trumpist cabinet, not a Republican or Democratic one. That's how we ended up with fruity-nutty crunchy-granola leftists like Gabbard, RFK Jr., and others. It's completely incoherent, and I wonder how long some of these people will last in such a loony tunes administration.
I think this anti-Globalist administration is going to do just fine, and even thrive. The zeitgeist has shifted back to common sense. The new GOP coalition intent on shaving our debt, rooting out ‘woke’ and shifting back to Strong God ways are here for the next decade, if not longer. Giddy-up!
Deutschland ist tot wandelnd.