Germany megathread

[Middle-aged Europe]

Lambrecht should resign or Scholz fire her. Not just that this new year's video was tasteless, she's also incompetent and seems overwhelmed with the job. As were all of her CDU predecessors.

At this point, I think we should have a indepdendent/non-partisan Defense Minister from the outside who's a proven manager of large and complex organisations. In this time, this position isn't a job for a partisan hack. It requires someone with effective managing qualities, knowledge of defense issues and leadership qualities.

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1609956411391328258

Sometime earlier today I saw an article (was it the Tagesspiegel, maybe?) which praised air force chief of staff Ingo Gerhartz as one of the few German generals who seems to know that he's doing these days.
 I don't actually know whether we have any laws preventing uniformed personnel from immediately becoming government ministers like the U.S. (without a waiver) does?

[Pick Up the Phone]

Lambrecht should resign or Scholz fire her. Not just that this new year's video was tasteless, she's also incompetent and seems overwhelmed with the job. As were all of her CDU predecessors.

At this point, I think we should have a indepdendent/non-partisan Defense Minister from the outside who's a proven manager of large and complex organisations. In this time, this position isn't a job for a partisan hack. It requires someone with effective managing qualities, knowledge of defense issues and leadership qualities.

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1609956411391328258

I don’t see why, to be honest.

A resignation would spell the end of Lambrecht’s political career, and she is clearly not ready to do this. So Scholz would need to fire her, but this may not help him either. After all, Lambrecht is a great punching bag and the more the media focuses on her incompetence and tone-deafness. the less attention it pays to Scholz’s own lack of leadership, the SPD’s ambiguous relationship to the Bundeswehr, or the more structural problems at hand… besides, given that Scholz is committed to parity, he would need to replace her with another woman from Hesse (consider that Faeser may also step down this year), and I don’t see anyone in the SPD who could realistically take over.

Lambrecht is a tragic figure, of course. Everybody knows she wanted to become Minister of the Interior, but Olaf Scholz can be a cruel God…

(Also disagree with the CDU part: Guttenberg was popular and Jung also did a solid job. Von der Leyen was out of her depth, but at least she tried. AKK… well, she was bad but not as bad as Lambrecht is. And back then, nobody cared about the military anyway.)

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Lambrecht should resign or Scholz fire her. Not just that this new year's video was tasteless, she's also incompetent and seems overwhelmed with the job. As were all of her CDU predecessors.

At this point, I think we should have a indepdendent/non-partisan Defense Minister from the outside who's a proven manager of large and complex organisations. In this time, this position isn't a job for a partisan hack. It requires someone with effective managing qualities, knowledge of defense issues and leadership qualities.

There seems to be a catfight going on between Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser; the former wants to occupy the latter's post and therefore hopes that Faeser will be nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for this year's Hesse state election. Faeser reacted quite sulkily when confronted with Lambrecht's plans at a press conference. I'd also like to show you a funny video of Faeser displaying her countenance expressing fantasies of violence covered up by a veneer of vicious politeness during said press conference, but alas MAE forbade me from posting heute show clips...

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So, we're not gonna talk about the terrorist attacks from New Year's Eve?
Just because they were committed by a "protected group" that is supported and glorified by the Atlas Antifa?
If I weren't the only member who had to deal with the medical emergencies at hand, caused by PUTP's comrades, this community would change their perception of immigration from certain countries.

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Okay, we obviously aren't gonna talk about the civil war-like state in Berlin and terrorist attacks sparked off by the red, green, and blood-red key constituency... 😒

Berlin New Year's Eve 2022/2023 = Cologne New Year's Eve 2015/16 2.0

https://twitter.com/mz_storymakers/status/1609619441112711171
https://twitter.com/zukunft37/status/1609176728412520454?s=20
https://twitter.com/edtmeier/status/1609921108207190016?s=20
https://twitter.com/Georg_Pazderski/status/1609476138648174594?s=20
https://twitter.com/DrLuetke/status/1609768334949756929?s=20
https://twitter.com/radelabenteurer/status/1609739535419572224?s=20
https://twitter.com/FrankReich9/status/1609878252201336832?s=20
The most disgusting video of all 🤬🤢🤮:

https://twitter.com/Freedom21Miss/status/1609903238593011715?s=20
By the way, here is the infamous self-made Instagram story by Evelyn Hamann Christine Lambrecht:

https://twitter.com/mz_storymakers/status/1609629747369091075?s=20

[PSOL]

Who the hell cares about migrants in 2022

[Middle-aged Europe]

Who the hell cares about migrants in 2022

To be honest, I was kind of busy at work today forwarding six e-mails to the state criminal police. Death threats against a politician whose name shall not be named here. Well, and against the politician's children too. Can only deal with one kind of "terrorist" at the same time, and usually the "terrorist" who manages to affect me personally in some way tends to win out here.

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Who the hell cares about migrants in 2022

Welcome to the Germany megathread!

In those "incidents" that have been dominating national headlines, again, the usual "suspects" who do care about migration are the common occupational groups that have to care about the ever so failed integration of migrants from certain regions of the world in the failed city-state of Berlin:
policemen, firefighters, paramedics, nurses and doctors who work at the emergency room etc.

[Pick Up the Phone]

So, we're not gonna talk about the terrorist attacks from New Year's Eve?

Terrorist attacks? In which parallel universe?

Just because they were committed by a "protected group" that is supported and glorified by the Atlas Antifa?

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

If I weren't the only member who had to deal with the medical emergencies at hand, caused by PUTP's comrades…

I usually don’t like to repeat myself but seriously…

this community would change their perception of immigration from certain countries.

…what is wrong with you?

Have you ever considered going to a specialist? Seeing Antifa terrorists everywhere cannot be healthy.

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90% nothing
9% limited action in Eastern Ukraine
<1% rest combined

I must say these Russia threads have reached an astonishing level of delusion.

Nothing will happen. At least nothing that goes beyond limited action in Eastern Ukraine. No WW3. No Russo-American war. No nukes. No NATO involvement. Nothing.

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Terrorist attacks? In which parallel universe?

Criminals who try and/or manage to assault or murder security forces and rescue workers - be it Querdenker, Islamists/integration-resistant migrants, or Antifa fascists -  refuse steadfastly to accept our state monopoly on legitimate violence and moreover try to undermine our rule of law and are therefore terrorists by definition.

Seeing Antifa terrorists everywhere cannot be healthy.

I wasn't even referring to the Antifa, if anything to the Migrantifa, but I have to agree: If you find yourself surrounded by Antifa/Migrantifa/Querdenker terrorists, your life expectancy will start to shrink rapidly...

[PSOL]

Hades, if it makes you feel better, the SPD-Grüne-FDP government is working hard to destroy the Euro and the German economy by not taking in much Russian gas and closing nuclear power plants. It will take a year of this government to ensure that it becomes impossible to ensure heat in people’s homes next winter—scaring off migrants from warmer climates.

You just got to give it time for the government to enact its agenda of making Germany so awful that many migrants stop moving there.

[CumbrianLefty]

Hopefully by next winter we will all be less dependent on Russian gas anyway.

[🇺🇦 Purple 🦄 Unicorn 🇮🇱]

Hopefully by next winter we will all be less dependent on Russian gas anyway.

This winter so far has been very mild here in Germany and Western Europe and we have not frozen to death as a result.

I am sure Putin is mad about it.

[President Johnson]

Plot for a potential terrorist attack was detected, one man arrested. Investigation is ongoing.

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1611969167636283392

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

As usual the debate is polarized between "There is no problem at all, what are you talking about, what about right-wing violence?" on one hand and "It's just in the DNA of the K*nacken to behave like this" on the other.

But yeah, I don't really get the fetishization of Berlin, and specifically Neukölln and Kreuzberg. I live directly on Sonnenallee and stepped outside for a few minutes at midnight, then went right back inside once I saw that the fireworks were being shot horizontally and intentionally into balconies and into traffic.

Whether it's the young white lefty-left radicals rioting every May 1st, or young Arab+Turkish men on New Years, widespread anti-social behavior, garbage and graffiti everywhere, etc. it's really disgusting that people act like this. It's like sh*tting in your own bed and then being proud of it. Can't have a nice neighborhood. Also, it must really suck to be a police officer in Berlin.

The reaction amongst most of my social circles, both at work and in the community, which spans the class divide and also German vs. foreigner, is mostly one of tiredness about both the attacks and the debate that we all know will follow the exact same lines, and then nothing meaningful will be done to fund the police and social services more or solve the fundamental problem of a youth underclass, whether it be in Neukölln or Marzahn.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Wonderful news!

Christian Lindner has been suspected of concealing a loan for his private house when he prepared a ministerial greeting* for a private bank in Karlsruhe in May 2022. Because after the meeting he had another loan from the same bank, he is now threatened with criminal proceedings for possibly benefitting personally from his position.

The corruption unit of the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office is currently examining the lifting of Lindner's immunity as a member of parliament in order to be able to formally investigate.


*how do I properly translate "Minister-Grußworts" here? It literally translates as "ministerial greeting words" but what does that mean?

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

The traffic light coalition, with the support of Health Minister Lauterbach, will amend the Transfusion Law to end the discrimination against homosexual men donating blood. Changes are in effect from April 1st.

[omar04]

what are the FDP's constituencies?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

what are the FDP's constituencies?

The wealthy self-employed.

[President Johnson]

Word is out that Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is about resign. I would welcome her exit, she's unfortunately not up to the job.

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Word is out that Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is about resign. I would welcome her exit, she's unfortunately not up to the job.

And Eva "terrorist attacks are so funny" Högl is reported to become her successor.

https://twitter.com/Maleo252/status/932971993011556352

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As usual the debate is polarized between "There is no problem at all, what are you talking about, what about right-wing violence?" on one hand and "It's just in the DNA of the K*nacken to behave like this" on the other.

Interesting what kind of vernacular you pick up through living in Berlin.
But let me tell you, most Germans, including Lyndon, MAE, Astatine, and PUTP, don't even know how to spell that very word correctly...

[Middle-aged Europe]

Word is out that Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is about resign. I would welcome her exit, she's unfortunately not up to the job.

About time that Lambrecht finally goes. Lackluster defence ministers are bad enough, but it's even worse in an ongoing international crisis situation like Ukraine.

Ironically (but perhaps not so coincidentally in a final-nail-in-the-coffin kind of way?) it came the same day a ZDF-Politbarometer poll showed that 60% of the population and 50% of the SPD electorate wanted Lambrecht's resignation.

[🇺🇦 Purple 🦄 Unicorn 🇮🇱]

Word is out that Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is about resign. I would welcome her exit, she's unfortunately not up to the job.

And Eva "terrorist attacks are so funny" Högl is reported to become her successor.

Another candidate has been mentioned to replace her: Siemtje Möller (SPD).



I don't know much about her, but it's good to see Christine "Fettnäpfchen" Lambrecht gone soon.