I’m desperately hoping for these things:

1. the AfD gets disbanded as soon as possible. If Germany keeps dragging its feet it just gives them more ammunition. The legality is clear on this. And I know, there will be protest from their constituency, and ranting and raving and pulling of hairs, but it just needs to be done.
2. the - some - other parties figure out how to use social media properly. Die Linke seems to have it down rn. I’m not sure if this requires bringing “cool” people to the front while “uncool” people do the actual work / hold the actual power in the back, but if it does, just make it so! Because it certainly would be better than uncool people like Merz being the populist face of the party while at the same time making policy that seems to aim more at saving face than actual policy.

Tyrants all over the world are cheering you on, Donny! Keep kneecapping America!

Seriously, VOA must be the one American “Freedom of Speech” thing I could get behind: broadcast where press freedom is oppressed. Give the people there a choice, a second opinion.

Just like with USAID he just doesn’t understand that it also means soft power. He really wants to cut down on the USA’s global influence. And none of his aides is telling him what’s what. That alone is circumstantial evidencve that Putin is pulling strings.

I was going to say something like “I liked the USA better when it had no clue about foreign politics” but then I realised that maybe that’s just because we weren’t the target before. Is Europe now part of the USA’s definition of Middle East?

My first thought when I saw the headline!

BTW, the AfD immediately complained to JD Vance and asked him to do something. That’s going to backfire hard.

Nobody’s doing this. You’re arguing against your own fantasies.

They broke the law. You’re arguing for changing the constitution* to let the AfD continue practicing unconstitutional* politics, because you don’t want to make the AfD stronger?

* “Grundgesetz” - close enough

I hate this so much, helplessly watching a people getting destroyed in real time.

+1 for Canada - Europe axis and more collab. We just might be able to stand up to the 2 biggest bullies on the planet.

the so-called ‘freest nation on earth’

No-one but themselves ever called it that.