Tops.
This guy rocks.
120 days: German man sets world record for living under water – To celebrate, Rudiger Koch toasted with champagne and smoked a cigar before leaping into the Caribbean Sea.y rocks.
120 days: German man sets world record for living under water – To celebrate, Rudiger Koch toasted with champagne and smoked a cigar before leaping into the Caribbean Sea.
It’s a Volkssport (popular national pastime) here. It’s just what Germans do.
People resent living in a political system that takes at least half of what you earn and they “pay it back” every opportunity they get. And twenty sick days a year is nothing. Berlin cops and firemen, for instance, are “sick” more than twice that amount every year.
German bosses are blaming the country’s economic woes on ‘work-shy’ Gen Z calling in sick nearly 20 times a year – Germany is in a structural crisis—with falling exports, soaring energy prices, and weakening competitiveness in its most important sectors. But according to the bosses of Germany’s biggest businesses, the real problem is its workers taking too much sick leave.
Several German employers have lamented a record-breaking year for absences linked to illness.
Hmmm. That’s a tough one.
What can stop the rise of populism in Germany? How about taking care of the problem you created? You know, like the voters have been demanding you to do for nearly ten years now? Until the migrant madness ends, this “populism” you fear won’t.
What can stop the rise of populism in Germany and elsewhere?
Populist parties are on the rise in Germany as they are all over the world. What can open societies do to protect democracy?
“We have to realize that party democracy is losing structure and strength. Party democracy is changing into a movement democracy, which is much more volatile.”
But I’m not a young German.
The race was extremely close: “Aura” is the German youth word of the year 2024, with a wafer-thin lead over “Talahon” and a new interpretation of “scissors.”
Talahon: An adherent of an urban subculture of males aged between about 13 and 25, typically but not necessarily of Middle Eastern origin, characterized, among other things, by a passion for German hip hop and wearing counterfeit designer labels.
Why should Germans worry about that?
Vater Staat (Father State) has everything under control. Wie immer (as usual).
Germans fear rising cost of living – Inflation, migration, expensive housing — these are the things that most people in Germany are worried about, according to the latest study “Germans’ Fears 2024.”
They were good at secret house searches, for instance.
Will German police get to do secret house searches?
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans.
At first glance, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s (SPD) proposal is reminiscent of a method practiced by the “the Stasi,” the Ministry for State Security of the former communist East Germany, whose secret police infiltrated the homes of suspected regime opponents in order to tap their phones.
At second glance too.
Only different.
Whereas with the 80-20 Rule (aka Pareto Principle) 80% of a company’s revenue is generated by 20% of its customers, when it comes to German elections, 80% of voters are very conservative regarding certain issues (“irregular” migration, for instance) but are ruled by 20% of those who aren’t.
German government reeling after state election defeats – The results of state elections in Saxony and Thuringia are disastrous for the parties that make up Germany’s coalition government. What will be the nationwide consequences from the regional votes?
And nope. And learn how to cope. Already.
And while you’re at it, wash your mouth out with soap.
German voters have high hopes for Kamala Harris – Respondents to a monthly trend survey had a clear preference for the Democrats’ new presidential candidate.
German media have reported on the shift in the political mood in the US over the past two weeks since President Joe Biden bowed out of the race. The new candidate, Kamala Harris, is seen to be scoring points against the Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump.
Respondents to Germany’s monthly Deutschlandtrend survey by pollster infratest dimap have a clear preference: of the 1,300 eligible voters surveyed between August 5 and 7, a whopping 77% said they believe Vice President Kamala Harris is more suitable for the presidency, while only 10% favor Donald Trump.
And they normally blindly believe any survey they are presented with.
No sooner has Joe Biden stepped down to make way for Kamala Harris than the first effects are apparently already being felt. Initial polls show the Vice President ahead…
Of the ten Democratic candidates surveyed, she performed best against Trump. In addition, 65 percent of Democratic supporters surveyed supported Harris’ candidacy as the party’s frontrunner, doubling her score from the previous month.
Not in their German blood. In their Leftist Brain blood.
Musk blasts German satirist over Trump assassination joke.
“Chancellor, what is this?” wrote Musk on X quoting a post by German climate change denier Naomi Seibt, in which she warns her followers about the German satirist Sebastian Hotz, also known as “El Hotzo”.
In his tweet, Musk questions why the German government employs Hotz, a claim made by right-wing Youtuber Naomi Seibt.
“I think it’s absolutely fantastic when fascists die.”
“The demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply. The further fascism recedes into history the more self-proclaimed anti-fascists call people fascist who aren’t, a cost-free exercise bringing personal and political advantage.”
– Douglas Murray
Observing Hermann 