Category Archives: Hard Facts

Everybody’s doing it!

January 27, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Just look at all the “ban Trump” moves in The Banana Republic.

“Germans seeking to ban democracy to save democracy.” They’re planning the banning of the AfD. Why? Because their ranks keep growing with disguntled voters from the established parties that refuse to give these voters what they want. An end to the migrant madness, for example. The Germans have this saying: “Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen.” That means “he who will not hear must feel.” It’s clear that the established parties’ necessary pain threshold has not yet been reached but try to avoid this pain they must.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

What else is new?

January 26, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

This has always been the case.

News this is not but it’s amusing to see the media pretend it is.

German defence minister says military is unfit for problems Europe faces – Boris Pistorius says Germany must be ready to confront Putin as he considers allowing non-nationals to join armed forces.

“Planes are nothing, planning is everything”

January 25, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness Tags: , , Leave a comment

Especially if you’re flying German government planes.

German government flight woes continue on way to Djibouti – It’s not the first time problems with flights have stalled German diplomacy. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was headed for talks in Djibouti, but the Luftwaffe plane lacked a permit to fly over Eritrea.

Does Germany have a choice?

January 24, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

The Germans are running out. They will soon be in the minority.

In their own country.

Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army – A senior lawmaker has told DW a potential scheme could include people not just from current EU members, but also from candidate countries, and provide a quicker path to German citizenship.

“We must finally start deporting people on a grand scale”

January 22, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said this months ago. He has always been ahead of his time, I guess.

That’s why the current fabricated frenzy about the AfD party allegedly planning the same thing doesn’t make much sense. But Scholz is a social democratic (socialist) goody-two-shoes kinda guy so the mass deportation he is demanding must be a nicer and more “social” kind. If he says “we have to deport people more often and faster,” nobody cares. That it’s all talk and no walk and none of these deportations will ever take place in Germany is another story altogether.

Funny what a few months and the continued success of of the AfD at the polls can make. But nothing has been orchestrated here, folks. Just move along please.

“Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil abschieben.”

German of the day: Fehlbetrag

January 21, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means shortfall, deficit, missing amount.

You know, like when a government can’t burn the money it wants to burn because it already turned it to ashes?

Shortfalls could challenge Germany’s generosity – Germany has been one of the biggest spenders in the world on everything from social welfare to foreign aid. But national income has fallen and Germany’s government is dealing with a budget shortfall.

Hysterical mass demonstrations against the “deportation AfD”

January 20, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

You know. That tired old German ritual of “fighting the Nazis of 1933 today?”

Certainly is a convenient backdrop if you’re a government quietly approving a law that would ease dual citizenship in the background. The public debate of which would otherwise be quite controversial. It almost seems as if these protests are being used as a distraction. It almost seems as if the whole thing was planned.

Germany’s parliament approves easing dual citizenship – German lawmakers have voted in favor of changing the law, which would open up the possibility of dual citizenship to swaths of the population. The bill would also reduce the time needed to qualify for naturalization.

German of the day: “Wie kommt es zu dem extremen Winterwetter?”

January 18, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means: “What causes the extreme winter weather?”

In January. In Germany.

This was a real question asked and addressed by Germany’s ARD state TV channel. And they were serious. It wasn’t meant to be a joke. But it certainly is.

“Climate crisis” hysteria has brought us to the point where perfectly natural seasonal weather is now seen as a threat in need of an explanation and a solution.

Germans are growing glummer?

January 17, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts Tags: , , , , 1 Comment

Thank goodness!

Maybe everything is finally getting back to normal.

Austrians happiest in EU, while Germans grow glummer – Despite the pandemic and war, most Europeans reported they were quite satisfied with their lives in a 2022 survey. Austria came out top, while Germany and Bulgaria brought up the rear.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Austrians rated their overall life satisfaction at 7.9, putting them ahead of Finland, Poland and Romania, each scoring 7.7. The EU average, calculated using survey data from each of the 27 member states gathered in 2022, was 7.1.