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2016-03-14 Europe
German voters punish Merkel in regional elections
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Posted by Steve White 2016-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Screw Her.
Posted by Newc 2016-03-14 00:46||   2016-03-14 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 But the refugees keep flowing.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 04:12||   2016-03-14 04:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Asked if Merkel should now overhaul her refugee policy, the CDU's general secretary Peter Tauber said: 'I don't see that need.'

Something about an admission of error, denial, etc. Or is it an element of Putin's greater 'wreck euro' plan ?
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-14 07:17||   2016-03-14 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin is the new Illuminati/Elders of Zion, Besoeker?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 07:31||   2016-03-14 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 No, actually he's a swell fellow. He's just chronically misunderstood.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-14 07:36||   2016-03-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Or, I think, nowadays he's well understood.

p.s. Keep in mind that any other Russian leader would've been doing exactly the same.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 07:49||   2016-03-14 07:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Putin?!?

I see Turkey/ISIS, to blame anyone else seems to be totally delusional.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-03-14 08:21||   2016-03-14 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 No plans to change course. Heckofajob Merkie!
Posted by regular joe 2016-03-14 09:26||   2016-03-14 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 No plans to change course. Heckofajob Merkie!

It is kinda German.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 10:38||   2016-03-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 So, BP, do you think it was an accident that the flow of refugees increased greatly when Putin entered the conflict and started bombing people? Maybe a vast coincidence?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-14 12:03||   2016-03-14 12:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Putin?!?

I see Turkey/ISIS, to blame anyone else seems to be totally delusional.

Don't forget Baraq.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-14 12:13||   2016-03-14 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 ...and his talented crew of 'Reset' experts.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-14 12:51||   2016-03-14 12:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, thing, did Putin force EU to accept these refthuggis? How did you do that?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 16:45||   2016-03-14 16:45|| Front Page Top

#14 I think he encouraged it, puts other people into a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I think at least some of the people in the EU are his agents, tasked with starting a civil war one way or another, because once the ball gets rolling and the "middle" gets eaten out of the society it doesn't matter if the invaders win or if (for example) Marie Le Pen wins, for instance the latter thinks it's "right" and "conservative" to get closer, friendlier relations with the current Iranian government.

For example, he didn't "make" Ozero not bomb Assad, but Ozero cooperated with Putin in this endeavour (and is proud of it; I guess now we know what the Flexibility is about).. He even paid for the current Russian/Iranian offensive in Syria, which started right after he sent over the 150 billion or whatever it was to Iran).

As another example, take Ma Merkel. If she weren't a sort-of soviet agent of one sort or another, she'd have prosecuted Schroeder (the German PM who dismantled large parts of their power generation in favor of natural gas, not the cartoon character) when he went straight from a government position dismantling German industry to a seat on the board of Gazprom.

My guess is, Putin's burning through assets within the German government in order to start the civil war while at the same time funding the alt.right "resistance" fighting the other side. Because he thinks he can cut off places like Eastern Europe and well, Israel (whose next generation worth of naval corvettes is currently on order from Germany) from military resupply. Once-in-a-lifetime chance before someone who's less of a crackhead becomes President.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-14 17:39||   2016-03-14 17:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Thing, I'm going to assume this is your idea of a joke.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-14 18:43||   2016-03-14 18:43|| Front Page Top

#16 "But the AfD is no more Nazi than any other party in Germany."

I beg to differ. Not every AfD member or voter is a Nazi or has Nazi sympathies, but the AfD has a very unsavory brown flavor.
Posted by European Conservative 2016-03-14 22:53||   2016-03-14 22:53|| Front Page Top

22:53 European Conservative
22:19 Frank G
22:08 Skidmark
21:37 Dale
21:17 JosephMendiola
21:09 Procopius2k
20:49 Blossom Unains5562
20:39 Tennessee
20:22 Bov Flimbers
19:47 Besoeker
18:47 g(r)omgoru
18:43 g(r)omgoru
18:28 Skidmark
18:22 gorb
18:19 Dale
18:00 Ebbang Uluque6305
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