Germany: Angela Merkel chides own party over far-right help

[hellsbelle@sh.itjust.works]

My favorite gif of Merkel ...

https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/angela-merkel-putin-rolling-eyes-gif-12518353

[hk65@sopuli.xyz]

Just an Eastern European perspective on her.

She and her party basically ensured Orbán's consolidation of power, which at times was very visible. Orbán basically let German car manufacturers underpay workers and abuse them by eroding labour protections, in exchange Orbán was never seriously sanctioned by Brussels for eroding the rule of law. He used EU money to destroy the opposition, and here we are.

The current actual inquiries and sanctions started right as she retired.

Fuck Merkel, she got us on this track.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Foo. I went to find the gif of trump "massaging" merkel at their first summit and didn't find it. Anyone remember?

Trump comes up behind her and starts rubbing her shoulders and she's all like "Ew! Get away from me you freakin rapist creep"

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Yeah I understand she had more than a little bit to do with the current, uh, situation. There.

[hellsbelle@sh.itjust.works]

Lol. That was George Bush who did that one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVvrNJHiuj8

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

To be honest I know very little about Merkel/German pol since I am from US but it seems pretty obvious leaders like her set the stage for fascism in Germany as they did here in the US.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Oh god you're right!

Fuck. We've had fucking shitheaded assholes for sooooooo long they're all jelling together.

[hk65@sopuli.xyz]

IDK why are you downvoted, Germany has made insane decisions like making the country dependent on Russian gas for quick profits while giving zero fucks about what's happening in Russia.

[hk65@sopuli.xyz]

Funnily enough, just as she was out of the picture, and more reasonable people could turn off the infinite money faucet being almost completely stolen, the Orbán regime is crumbling. They might be out by next year.

[industrystandard@lemmy.world]

Is the the woman who shut down working Nuclear power plants?

Liberal who sled right telling Liberal who sled further right to not do that. Oh the irony

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

I still think about how disgusting the whole period was where Germany and the rest of the EU was shitting on Greece for being so irresponsible, and it was just pathetic hearing Germans throw that insult at Greece.

I say that from my glass house, throwing rocks at my own glass windows of course.

[volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee]

Oh I don't interpret this as a condescending insult, I thank you for your on point analysis and am happily throwing some rocks.

I also cannot believe that after 16 fucking years of status quo under CDU and Merkel, of nothing moving forward, our minimally left-green leaning government got blamed for everything going wrong in our country and the world and how do you dare not to fix everything within less than 4 years you morons. And the solution - elect the CDU of course! Good thing I stopped drinking or I'd end up in the hospital after the next election.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Well, the US ended up in the hospital after this election, so take heart at least knowing you are beating the US in terms of wellbeing right now!