“Fascist” Just Doesn’t Work Anymore

September 25, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, High Art, Hostility, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Antifas, Conspiracies, Cults, Der Spiegel, Fake News, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Leftists, Liberals, Media, Paranoia, QAnon, The Left Leave a comment

I know. Why don’t we give “QAnon” a try?

It is, after all, “the most dangerous cult of our times.”

Traditionally weak in the argument department, those of the leftist fringe normally call those who don’t agree with them “racists,” “Nazis,” “bigots” or “Fascists,” to name a few, but now their marketing department has discovered that these insults just don’t have the customer appeal they once enjoyed. This is they have now introduced a new product: “QAnon.” Guaranteed to to bludgeon thought criminals into line every time. At least until the next product comes along.

QAnon’s Inexorable Spread Beyond the U.S. – The bizarre, pro-Trump cult known as QAnon has been gaining followers in the United States for months. Now, the conspiracy theory has begun spreading to Germany. It’s followers believe that the coronavirus is a weapon of the elite in their quest to enslave the world.

Germans Still Dropping Like Flies

September 24, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hustle (Hoax), Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deaths, German, Germans, Germany, Government Waste, Hysteria, Lockdowns, Mass Hysteria, Pandemic, Panic Leave a comment

At a staggering rate of roughly two (2) deaths per day, Germans are desperately searching for new ways to decrease the Corona death toll.

Their COVID-tracing app not being accepted by the public as they were told to accept it, COVID-prepared hospitals pracically empty, German children attending school regularly again without any Corona irregularities and quadrillions of zillions of stimulus euros planned to be burned both this year and the next, the German public is concerned the government just isn’t doing enough.

There always is the Querkopf (oddball) or two, of course. For example, the chief executive of German health-care group Fresenius has warned that the country may have been overly focused on the pandemic, ignoring other areas of business and society that have suffered.

“Even though a lot has been done in the right way, my criticism is that we have focused too exclusively on the coronavirus and we have ignored all the collateral damage that has been going on and continues to go on.”

Always Look On The Bright Side Of The Worst Recession In Post-War History

September 23, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Horror, Hurt Feelings, Hype, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Economy, German, Germans, Germany, Government Waste, Polls, Recession, Stimulus, Stimulus plan, Surveys Leave a comment

A $256.15 quadrillion zillion stimulus package of their own money taken from them by their government and given back to them as a gift (to be paid back to the government by their grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on should they ever have any) has lifted German spirits.

Sort of. But just keep smiling through the Coronavirus stimulus party anyway, Germany.

German consumer morale improved less than expected heading into October, a survey showed on Wednesday, putting a damper on hopes that household spending in Europe’s largest economy will be strong enough to drive a quick recovery from the COVID-19 shock.

The GfK institute said its consumer sentiment index, based on a survey of around 2,000 Germans, edged up to -1.6 heading into October from an upwardly revised -1.7 in the previous month.

Time To Start The Next Berlin Airlift

September 21, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, High Art, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Asylum Seekers, Berlin, Berlin Airlift, EU, Europe, German, Germans, Germany, Guilt, Immigration, Migrants, Moria, Refugees Leave a comment

Only this time it will be migrants flown directly to Berlin – where they could be evenly distrubuted among needy, migrant-free German families all accross the country. It’s just a plan of mine, I admint, but still.

More going it alone (again) is the way to go, Germany. We get it. You can’t help it. And it’s not like anyone else in Europe is interested in your guilt neurosis. My plan would solve everybody’s problems. Whoever wants to come to Europe gets a free ride to Germany for a free lunch German life later and the German guilt obsession would be cured for good. Not.

Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Berlin and other German cities, urging the European Union to take in migrants left without shelter after a fire destroyed their biggest camp in Greece. The EU is set to unveil proposals this week on how to help the 12,000 people left without shelter.

“We have space.”

Can’t Reach The Current Planned Level Of Carbon Emission Reduction?

September 17, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, CO2, Economy, EU, European Commission, German, Germans, Germany, Government spending, Government Waste, Industry, Regulation Leave a comment

I know. Let’s introduce an even higher and more unrealistic new level of carbon emission reduction we can’t reach!

Then everybody’s happy. Except those folks who still have to live in the real world.

German industry sceptical of EU’s new 2030 climate goals – The European Commission will present today (17 September) detailed proposals to reduce carbon emissions in the EU by 55% below 1990 levels by 2030. While German industry officially welcomes the new ambitions, it is also clearly sceptical.

The increase of the current target for 2030 by a further 15% would mean a roughly fivefold increase in the efforts of the 27 EU member states, BDI President Dieter Kempf emphasised at the beginning of his speech.

And according to BDI calculations, Germany alone would have to invest €2.3 trillion to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. “You can work out who of the other 26 countries can afford to do this. The level of ambition not only differs greatly within the EU, but also globally,” said Kempf.

The Next German One-Time Exception

September 16, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Angela Merkel, Arson, Arsonists, Asylum Seekers, Blackmail, Borders, EU, Fires, German, Germans, Germany, Greece, Lesbos, Migrants, Moria, Refugees Leave a comment

After making clear to the public how unacceptable it is for Germans to go it alone (Alleingang), the German government went alone yet again.

While stressing how important it is to find a “European solution” to the migrant crisis (which will never come) and how all European countries must share in bearing the burden of taking in the migrants Germany invited to Europe in the first place (another German Alleingang), the Germans have decided to unilaterally take in a large number of migrants who set fire to their refugee camp for this very purpose. They know how Germans tick much better than the Germans do.

Germany to take in some 1,500 migrants from Greece – Angela Merkel’s government has said Germany will take in additional migrants from Greece and in particular Lesbos. More than 12,000 people were left homeless by fires at the refugee camp Moria.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Vs. Coronavirus Anxiety Syndrome

September 13, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Angst, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Fear, German, Germans, Germany, Hypochondria, Polls, Surveys, Syndromes Leave a comment

Which syndrome has Germans more disturbed?

Like, duh. TDS wins hands down.

Germans fear Donald Trump more than coronavirus – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump tops the list of things Germans fear the most, a new survey found.

Trump ranks number one this year on Germans’ list of fears at 53%. The US president has topped the R+V fear scale as early as 2018.

More Debt Is The New Normal

September 8, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Corona, COVID-19, Debt, Euro, Eurozone, German, Germans, Germany, Government, Government Waste, Spending Leave a comment

In Germany too.

The govenment might not directly admit it but the days when they at least strove to reach a balanced budget (black zero) are over.

Germany’s spending to counter the coronavirus crisis and modernize its economy means the country shouldn’t return to a balanced budget anytime soon, according to a senior Finance Ministry official…

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government abandoned its balanced-budget policy this year and is set to borrow about 218 billion euros ($258 billion). A deficit of more than 80 billion euros is set for next year to fight the fallout from the pandemic, people familiar with the matter have said…

Germany’s constitutional debt brake obliges the government to keep debt under control. In good times, the rule allows for a structural deficit of 0.35% of gross domestic product. In times of recession, new borrowing can go up in proportion with the economic decline.

“A balanced budget isn’t obligatory.”

What Can We Ban Today?

September 1, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bans, Freedom, German, Germans, Germany, Laws, Motorcycles, Regulations, Restrictions, Verbote Leave a comment

It’s been twenty-four hours at least. Our fingers are getting itchy.

I know, riding your motorcycle on Sundays!

Noise in Germany keeps a strict schedule. Every night after 10 p.m. and on Sundays, Germans are required by a medley of federal, state and local laws to keep schtum. That means no spin cycles, no vacuuming, no power tools and no mowing the lawn.

As the world went into lockdown this spring, a drop in noise levels was recorded across the globe. But in most of Germany, it wasn’t much quieter than an average Sunday, when socializing is done sotto voce and the peal of church bells is about as loud as it gets.

“Many villagers have stopped using their gardens on sunny weekends.”

Berlin Cancels Protest By Protestors Who “Question Democracy”

August 27, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Health, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Demonstrations, Face Masks, Free speech, German, Germans, Germany, Masks, Protests Leave a comment

By, well, cancelling Democracy itself.

Berlin bans large weekend protests against coronavirus restrictions, citing health grounds – The city government of Berlin has called off several planned weekend protests, the largest of which on Saturday expected to draw 20,000 people or more. The organizers plan to challenge the move in court.

Anyone who does not conform to the red-redder-green party line is immediately labeled a right-wing extremist. Works every time.

Observing Hermann

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