Category: Politik

Election on November 5 2024 — beware of Trump

There are 14 days to go until election day in the USA. It is important to remember once again how devastating a second Trump presidency would be for the USA and the rest of the world.
If all the crazy things Trump has said in the last few months (Hannibal Lector, electrocuted, eat pets…) don’t seem to bother anyone, the danger of an authoritarian USA should make more sensible people rethink. Here are some points that come to mind:

• Defaming and threatening domestic opponents: Trump has a clear image of where the enemy sits for him. These are not external opponents such as Iran, Russia or China. First and foremost are the internal enemies. He wants to deploy the National Guard and army against them. (Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-suggests-hell-use-the-military-on-the-enemy-from-within-the-u-s-if-hes-reelected)
• Vague allusions to a regime that functions without elections. Before Christians, Trump famously announced ‘you won’t have to vote any more’. (Source: West Palm Beach, Turning Point USA Believers Summit (August 2024))
• Dealing with the acts of insurrection on 6 January 2020: Trump is fundamentally lying about his own part in this attempted coup: ‘Be there, will be wild.’ was the slogan he used to invite his supporters to Washington. Trump is also spreading lies about the consequences of the uprising. According to what he says, no people were harmed on 6 January 2020.
• And one more thing: during his first presidency, many of those who may have originally supported him were counting on ‘grown-ups’ around him to prevent the worst from happening. It must be made clear here that there is no such thing as ‘grown-ups’ in the American constitution. All kinds of forces can exert influence on Trump, who is soft on wax and lacks a clear concept
• Trump has brought JD Vance on board. He is a supporter of ‘Project 2025’, which aims to systematically promote people who conform to this project to positions of power.

All in all, there are good reasons not to give this Humpty Dumpty Trump and his acolyte JD Vance the opportunity to eliminate the democratic constitution of the USA.
Vote blue or skip voting this time.

[also published as post on linked.in]

Comment to this absurdity by Kiffness

I take this video as the ultimate joke, but miss a hint to the  Vanityfair article. And somehow I’m afraid that there are Americans who believe everything put on the media…

Post scriptum November 6: They really voted for that scumbag, I can’t grasp it.
The more absurd something is, the more Americans are going to believe it.
What a disgrace for the (still) leading power in the west.
To illustrate the absurdity further I add something I found in my neighborhood at the Ehrenfeld station.

A lie is a lie is a lie

“Die Fahnen hoch, die Reihen fest geschlossen…”

The American presidential election campaign is good for many a surprise and provides endless satirical material that writers of the future will draw on for decades to come. A striking example:

In Springfield, Ohio, a cat went missing and turned up a few days later. End of story* End of story? No way! JD Vance used an unproven allegation by a neighbour of the cat’s owner to construct a story about pet-eating Haitians.

Trump spread this blunt lie during his tv debate with Kamala Harris. Trump spread this blunt lie during his televised debate with Kamala Harris. But that’s not the end of the story for the people who live in Springfield. Haitians, fleeing very great hardship in Haiti and blameless, were threatened and two schools had to temporarily close after JD Vance and Trump’s lie.

But this is not the end of the story for people who live in Springfield. Haitians were threatened and two schools had to be closed in the aftermath of JD Vance’ and Trump’s lie. A group of Proud Boys came to Springfield and tried to exert their power on the streets. Not much different than what the SA did in Nazi Germany: they occupied the streets and threatened anyone they considered enemies by their presence alone.

Americans, think twice before voting for these Trump and Vance characters …

* https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/cat-at-center-of-jd-vance-pet-eating-claims-is-alive-and-well [thanks to your fact checking and your article]

“numbers” (Nobel laureates) and “numbers” (Trump’s word salad)

List of American Nobel laureates since the year 2000 (kind of real numbers):

Chemistry: 34
Economics: 43
Peace: 4
Physics: 33
Physiology or Medicine: 32
Literature: 2

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Nobel_laureates#

Compare these real “numbers” with the crap Donald Trump says on a simple question about “child care” and the “specific piece of legislation [to] advance”.

Source: https://youtu.be/Y9qL64xsumw?si=pMFMGW0_TRdT_XpR

It’s part of the “the Emperors New Clothes” game that the audience dares to clap for this incoherent stuff. America, you can do much better and renounce on voting for such an incompetent and dangerous person!

#Seth_Meyers #us_presidential_election #Trump #Emperors_new_clothes_game

The weirdo #2 — New Jersey 13 / 5 / 2024 Hannibal Lector

It’s the usual Trump style: Donald starts with the topic ‘migrant flood’, rows his arms back and forth a lot and ends up with… surprise … the character Hannibal Lector. This is what happened on 13. May 24 in New Jersey.

The sentence that interested me and others:

The late great Hannibal Lector. He’s a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner.

For people who don’t know what to do with this novel The Silence of the Lambs, which was made into a film with Anthony Hopkins and the main character Hannibal Lector by novelist Thomas Harris: It’s about an extremely educated cannibal who cruelly kills several people in order to then eat them. What is supposed to connect the two topics of immigration and Hannibal Lector? Of course there is NOTHING. The attempted joke “He oftentimes would have people for dinner.” turns the subjects, guests, into objects, meat. This reversal figure is nothing new in our days. It’s quite typical for the humiliating style of Donald Trump.

It reassures me a little that most of the commentators on the film snippet think Trump is just as nuts as I do:

“The Late Great Hannibal Lecter” Trump’s Mind is Literally Melting
and Untethered from Reality. • Does anyone know the context • Diarrhea of the mouth. • Getting more bizarre as his mental decline gets worse.

Let’s see what else the great Donald produces in the coming weeks and months. If we hadn’t learnt that enough Americans seem to approve of such nonsense, we could only laugh our heads off…

Biden calls it «genocide»

File source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Den_armenske_leder_Papasian_ved_Der-ez-Zor_-_PA_0699_U_36_150.jpg

April 24th is an important date for every Armenian. This is the day when a whole nation – regardless of Armenian nationals at home or the Armenian people in the diaspora – commemorates the genocide. It happened during the 1915 and 1916 years in what was later called Turkey. It’s called Aghet by Armenians.

Therefore, Armenians were glad when Joe Biden acknowledged this historical fact on this Saturday. He clearly classified the violent breech of international law as genocide. Turkey in general denies this genocide against all facts.

Mille gracie, Mr Draghi

Appeasement politics weren’t that successful in the past. Think of Hitler and Munich 1938 or Stalin in the thirties and fourties. Therefore I appreciate very much that Mr Draghi called Erdogan a “dictator” on Thursday. That’s clearly his main feature as you can see in his behaviour. Want some samples?

• Everyone who can menace his power is called “terrorist”, even if nice and peaceful people are concerned like Mr Kavala who is only fighting for human rights.
• Elections like that for the mayor of Istanbul are repeated if the outcome is unpleasant for Erdogan.
• To butter up the ultra nationalists Erdogan left the Istanbul Convention recently. This Convention was meant to blame violence against women. The need of protecting women rights can be clearly seen when you consider the hundreds of Turkish women murdered (470 in 2019) or hurt each year.
• Despite having a number of elected MPs the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is effectively detained from exercising its rights of participation.

That’s what sensible people call a dictatorship and Erdogan therefore a “dictator”. Well done, Mr Draghi.

Do something about the obstruction politics of Poland and Hungary, EU!

Since years Poland and Hungary try to block any attempt of the European Union to sanction politics adversary to the rule of law. It’s well known that Poland for example undermines the independence of its judges. Hungary in comparison is going straight in direction to an authoritarian state. Mr Orbán is supported by an entourage that receives much money in reverse, some of it being of EU origin. Other steps of Hungarian government look strange as well. So this year 16,000 ventilators were bought from China at fourfold the prices the EU pays. This number of ventilators, however, can’t be used by skilled operators in an adequate number of high care units. Actually Poland and Hungary together with Slovenia are blocking a Covid-19 relief fond of 750 billion Euros. Some parts of it are coupled with complying to rule of law standards.

It’s clear that the EU can’t be a super state controlling everything, but it can’t be fooled by authoritarian countries either. First step to comment on that: Throw out the Hungarian Fidesz party of Mr Orbán of the EPP / EVP (Europaeische Volkspartei). If all fails there could be a very radical remedy: dissolve the EU and reestablish it afterwards without those countries that don’t comply with certain standards of democracy and human rights.