Six days ago, in Marsberg, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the U.S. approach to Iran, saying Washington was being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership” and demanding the conflict end “as quickly as possible.”
Three days ago, President Trump responded with an announcement that U.S. troops in Germany would be drawn down, and there would be a 25% tariff on all imported European autos. {GO DEEP}
Suddenly, Friedrich Merz reverses his position:
Imagine that.
But seriously folks, when people argue that it’s not about the economics of the thing – remind them, it’s always about the economics of the thing.
Germany is facing a perfect storm of economic consequences following their decision to chase the climate change agenda (Build Back Better) and eliminate their coal and nuclear power plants. Combine the German/EU policy to stop purchasing cheap LNG and oil from Russia, in addition to skyrocketing energy costs from oil/gas flows from the Middle East, and the outcome is rising manufacturing costs leading to massive layoffs.
The German industrial economy is the heart of the EU economy, and President Trump is now hitting them both right where it hurts.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is already facing serious political issues within Germany as the economy continues to contract. The political opposition parties are on the rise and Merz is in a very precarious position. President Trump is exploiting this vulnerability by apply further economic pressure on Germany.
Just yesterday….
Via Bloomberg – “Germany’s automotive industry pleaded for an urgent de-escalation in the tariff dispute between the US and the European Union and called for immediate talks between the two sides after President Donald Trump said he would increase auto tariffs on the bloc next week.” (read more)
Let him cook.
President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw at least 5,000 US troops from Germany has raised concerns among residents living near Ramstein Air Base. pic.twitter.com/hllQNYiuYg
— DW News (@dwnews) May 3, 2026
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Smells like…… Victory !
Smells like sauerkraut (I am sorry, forgive me).
…approved…
better than kimchee
😆
Sauerkraut Shenandoah Valley, Virginia version
Two cans of sauerkraut, 1 medium-sized onion, diced, a tablespoon of bacon grease, and 2 to 3 tablespoons of brown sugar. Cook until it’s mushy. Mmmmmmm
I grew up eating it that way. I still make it from time to time.
I am over 70 years old (well over the hill).
As a resident of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, thanks for posting! Maybe add a pinch of caraway seeds.
Bacon grease improves pretty much everything!
Cheers!
The smell of victory!
I’ll just have a rum coke on the rocks with a spritz and a garnish of lime…
Didn’t PDJT say sometime over the weekend that the number withdrawn might be over 5000?
Yes he did.
I’ve heard and read a lot about the strategies and the outcomes, but I can’t recall if I heard anyone say that this was going to be the beginning of the end for the *eu, but it could be a great additional benefit. As the eu goes, so goes the NWO.
Hopefully the globalists are defeated once and for all as collateral damage in the iran conflict.
*I use lower case letters for those I despise like the eu, bidet, obummer, clintons, gore, soros, rothschilds, committe of 300 and others.
We can’t despise them enough.
I always refer to obummer as barry sotoero, his birth name in Africa.
….or just plain BO….maybe osama/obama….
I just call him ‘the kenyan’.
I was racking my brain trying to remember where he was born. Thank you for that.
Indeed he did
How many troops will it take to provide security for Cuba?
Merz of the Coalition of the Three Stooges will never learn…
Missed opportunity for “lear”. Shame really. Carry on.
Darn it…
When will they ever learn? President Trump does not play.
Foolish Europeans with their arrogant bluster..
Leftards never learn, they have to be taught.
Oh, they have already been taught, by Satanists.
Do you think they can be saved? Possibly, but only by an exorcist.
By God, using the exorcist.
Europe has always thought itself superior to the USA, while we worked our fingers to the bone providing for all their posh welfare for illegals and over a month of vacation time a year for their citizens. Time to give them some comuppance, imho.
A song comes to mind: it’s to late to apologize…🎶
“It’s a little too late to do the right thing now” (Tanya Tucker?)
A Proverb comes to mind: (LXE Proverbs 21:3) “To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.”
Merz is finding himself in quite a pickle now. Not mentioned in the summary by Sundance is the fact that there is a precipitous population of muslims in Germany now and as they are increasing in number, as always happens, their demands are increasing. With the aforementioned layoffs as a strong possibility due to the tariffs, this will only add more discontent to the masses already upset that the government imported these ideological opposites into the country. I am anticipating some serious upheaval in the coming months.
Merkel-Reich sucks.
It will come. Just dont know which country will set it off.
Yep. A pickle puts it mildly. The cow and/or horse is out of the barn already. Second thoughts about just how to manage allowing thousands of humans of a culture that does not mix with the existing one is NOT going to work out for Germany in that they have no clue about what they have wrought.
The Germans have experience in dealing with undesirables.
” I am anticipating some serious upheaval in the coming months.”
I certainly hope so.
When you combine Greta Green,male Muslims and unchecked hubris what could go wrong?
Europe is becoming
Eurabia.
The question becomes,
In the coming decade:
How many
Real
Germans
French
British
Spanish
Italian
Belgian, etc
‘Refugees’
Do we admit to the US?
Because there will be many – similar to those of the Jewish faith in the 1930’s – who can see No Future for themselves
In the Europe of the 2030’s.
Global vomitting.
President Trump posted this afternoon again
Perfect as always is our President. How he keeps his sense of humor in these times is why I love him so much.
You have to play the hand your dealt, and the US and Trump have a damn good hand. Its not called Trumping in for nothing. I think Merz got Euchred.
Its driving them nuts.
Numero Uno!
Perfect caption to that image…
(I wondered how many here recognized the game from which those cards were borrowed….)
So…. is the Bundeskanzler going to threaten to remove the 20,000 German troops who have been stationed in Kentucky and Wyoming for the last seventy years, where they have protected the US and provided economic support to the local areas?
No? I thought not.
The fact that these German neighbors of Ramstein use the tones they do in talking about the issue illustrateshow cluelessly dependent (nowhere NEAR “co-dependant) they are, more than anything President Trump might say.
Each of those who made commented in the viewo GREW UP believing that the support, money, and blood of the United States was a given for them.
sarcasm
Pigeon English,
Yep!
80 years.
80 years!
Even Ike said (in 1951), that if in 10 years, NATO still looked the same, it will not have fulfilled its purpose.
Time for reappraisal and readjustment.
It’s always about the money.
Bring home the military-
Their purpose for being there has been compromised by an inept backstabbing dependent coalition of deadbeat “politicians.”
Agree, Sundance. Let him cook! Bring our troops home. We can use more MEN here.
The United States of America adds a new territory. the European United States
I find ut humorous that Trump hasn’t made that offer. Of course they’d say it was an invasion plan.
I think many Europeans would vote for it.
We don’t want to rule and be responsible for Europe …. Why would Russia want that problem?
A neighbor has an elephant …. Why would you want it? What would you do with it? What and how do you feed it?
Sarcasm Allan. Sarcasm
I can only imagine how much of a mess adding the new territories would be.
Annex Alberta and Saskatchewan – okay you’re talking of the only good core areas of Canada…but the rest?
Then adding Europe’s nasty political mess on top of that? Ew.
Europe is precisely in the mess they are in because they cannot escape their DNA: aristocracy is bred into them, and they are consistently trying to find some way BACK to some version of feudalism (or its close approximation, communism). They have very little understanding of real human rights, and are consistently trying to make new elites at the top, then trying to pull the ladder up so the common people are at the mercy of their so-called “betters”.
That’s what the WEF’s 2030 agenda, the Great Reset, an all the other world domination schemes are all about.
We even have this trouble to an extent here in the States. The Democrats and RINO’s have the same attitude as the Europeans – they are indeed relics of the old Tories in the Revolutionary War, who were proudly loyal to England and King George.
None of them understand that President Trump is not of that mold – he is truly for the common people.
No, leave Europe alone, and let them stew in their own mess. They will be Muslim provinces soon enough.
No, simply buy out Greenland (where the people there actually want our presence) from Denmark, because western Europe never has shared our values, and only wants our money and protection…gold digger style.
See my response to Allan
Naw….too many mooselums and liberals….I think we should stand pat. Want to bring in new territory? Start with Cuba and california.
…my response is always, “Then you don’t know what economics is about. You probably took a course in college.”
President Trump is putting his degree in Economics from Wharton to good use, would you say?
My interpretation of the statement, “You probably took a course in college.” means that they took A course/ONE course and think that they know as much as PDJT.
I once tried to explain to a TDS infected friend about “TARIFFS!!! We’re all going to die!!!” I had a double major in college with one of them being economics (way before we got woke). She swatted me away and said that she took a class in supply and demand to get an investment license so she didn’t need me to explain anything to her.
I agree with all of this and I also agree that big things are happening (UAE leaving OPEC)…..but I need some reassurance here. I make enough money where $4.40 a gallon for gas is irritating but not life changing. I agree that Iran is the worst of the worst and I’m proud to have a president who is willing to take on the problem. However, there still is a huge cost problem in this country and Trump will be blamed during the midterms whether it’s his fault or not. Presidents live and die by fuel prices and right now those aren’t looking good. I know we have time until the midterms but we have to win them. Trump can’t be a lame duck for half of his second term. Gas prices must fall end of story or we lose the midterms.
Gas has been as high as 5.02 back in 2022 and it was more than likely higher in certain areas of the country. What I also know is 2% inflation is baked into the economy. Gas prices are manipulated by lots of factors. Just ask your State to stop the gas tax.
What should be a bigger concern is the government giving away billions and billions upon billions of dollars to illegal border jumpers. And everything would be cheaper without the thing called the Fed Reserve having the Treasury printing money to pay for it all, plus keeping rates high so the debt is never paid off. The Fed Reserve is a Private Bank and should not be controlling the money supply.
Yea verily. I live in PA and there is a 50 cent state tax on gas. Smart people round here drive 10 miles to buy gas in Ohio. Not really sure what PA gains from this tax, but Shapiro is our guvnur.
Dear Josh, bless his heart, used to be the ATTY General in PA. Elephants memory here (on some things), but he unilaterally seized the day and decided how people could vote in PA during the plandemic. He sent my Mother a mail in ballot when she had already passed away. I was so angry I tore it up. Wish I had saved it as evidence that the vote was rigged by Shapiro.
He’s been crying like a baby since his home was attacked by someone during one of his religious days. How about him attacking the right to a LEGAL election?
Think as Guvnor that should take precedence in what comes for him down the line. Really tired of his caterwauling.
As of the end of last year, PA’s gasoline tax was $0.587/gal, fourth in the country behind CA ($0.709/gal); IL ($0.664/gal) and WA ($0.59/gal).
Oh, I would love to see 5.02/gal again here in CA. Some areas here are nearing $8.00/gal.
I feel for you Littledickens, but it is California. The State is run by filthy commie tyrants.
Its too bad our country has become a country of whiners. People have not yet come to realize we are in a state of war internally and externally with the forces of evil, bent on our destruction.
People should look and see what people went through during WW2 when it came to gas food and utility cost and availability. What they should do is thank the good Lord things are different in our time, so far anyway.
Gas prices are important; so is the Midterms and politics and national pride and religion and hatreds and life itself; but none of those things matter a whit when a radical Islamic jihadist gains possession of nuclear weapons. These people cut off heads, incinerate cage fulls of people, fly airplanes into skyscrapers, rape and kill children AND WILL DETONATE NUCLEAR BOMBS TO KILL MASSIVE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE! How precious will your gasoline be to you when they come for you?
“Yep, I am going to run to the polls and vote for a Demonrat because gas prices are higher than I like” said no more who s true MAGA.
Germany was getting all the natural gas it could use virtually free from Russia via the Nordstream Pipelines. The combination of German engineering and plentiful Russian natural resources was an unstoppable economic freight train of prosperity. It powered the heart of German automobile manufacturing with low cost natural gas to Mercedes Benz, BMW, Porsche and Volkswagen.
Why would the German government cheer the destruction of their own economy? 🤔
Klaus Schwab told them to.
They’ll own nothing & be happy eating ze bugs.
Seriously that was for the indigenous proletariat. The ruling class never suffers.
The folks pushing these scams (“you’ll own nothing”) are not doing so for some altruistic reasons. They want to be in the club that owns everything. In their mind, you will own nothing because they’ve taken it all.
Well, they can’t take it with them. As we know, there aren’t any U-Haul trailers being pulled by a hearse.
Everything “renewable” or “green” or “sustainable” or or …
Has been sheer stupidity.
The sun is not matched to our energy demand.
Wind is flat out erratic.
Short of pumping water up to a reservoir, we have no sensible energy storage.
And they hate dams.
Batteries are a joke. Burning brightly.
Getting rid of a reliable, safe, nuclear fleet of reactors that provided 30+% of their power needs,
went beyond stupidity through idiocy to just downright evil.
Then pushing a war against your cheap supplier of gas, supporting the people who blow up your supply, and picking economic fights with your security backup that can backup your gas supply
How can one people let their leaders do all this to them? And worse, immigration?
I should have read your post first before replying. Great minds think alike :-).
Well, I agree with MOST of what you said.
I HIGHLY disagree with your statement “The sun is not matched to our energy demand.” The sun IS the source of of our energy. From food, to energy to life—without the sun, there’s nothing. What was one of the original sources of energy? Wood—and it is renewable—all from the sun.
The sun CAN provide the energy we need—it already does—we just need better, more efficient ways of capturing it, storing it and being able to use it.
The big problem is, when it’s not efficient and/or cost-effective and it’s shoved down our throats like it is and it MUST be used—even though we have better sources of cheaper captured and stored energy. Those should be used until we can get to the point that it makes economical sense to use it.
The potential problem is, if it can be harnessed, the cost may be very inexpensive at some point. If it becomes ubiquitous, that threatens power—of corporations, governments and crooked leaders, because it can break their control.
I haven’t researched it enough to have an opinion, but I’ve seen it out there about engines that can breakdown water and power equipment but was prevented because of what I mentioned above—power, control, profits. You’ll have to decide for yourself. But, getting back to Sundance’s main point—it’s ALL about the economics.
Maybe their leaders are elected the same way we elected Sleepy Joe?
Yes….as someone said recently, we are coming out of 50 years of stupid…..
Because destruction of their economy, culture, and people is the intentional goal.
End
That’s a trillion dollar question. Ask Merz why he is/was in cahoots with Victoria Nuland and Zelinsky. He blew up his own country’s life support system, and continues to embrace a cultural invasion of his borders. It will take a lot of sauerkraut to undo what he has done.
The Germans, Brits and the rest of the EU want a return to the Dark Ages. They are going to get it.
Feudalism 101. They own/control Everything, and everyone else is a tenant peasant.
“Why would the German government cheer the destruction of their own economy? ”
You could ask that of Carney and pretty much every other Western leader. People here in Canada say that Carney is determined to become a billionaire at all costs, so every policy he has come up with has run through his Brookfield company or whatever it’s called.
I doubt that Carney is motivated by money; he already has enough and he knows he will never have as much as Trump, so there is no use trying.
WEF types are driven by resentment, not at Trump but at average people.
What is the point of being a billionaire if a concrete mixer driver or retail worker or plumber can watch a movie on their own big screen TV in their own living room? Or take an airplane trip across country or ocean. Or have access to the wide variety of food in any average grocery store? Yeltsin lamented that not even Gorbachev had access to such varieties of food.
What is the point of being a billionaire if an average person doesn’t GAF how much money they have and would not recognize them to bow as they rode by?
One way to make average people notice is to make them to notice that their country and their standard of living is being destroyed.
The peons must be put in their place.
“What is the point of being a billionaire if an average person doesn’t GAF how much money they have and would not recognize them to bow as they rode by?
One way to make average people notice is to make them notice that their country and their standard of living is being destroyed.”
fascinating point.
always wondered why, after having accumulated a gazillion dollars,
people like bill gates don’t just retire to a good life and charitable works
instead of demanding public attention.
they do seem to crave universal acknowledgment of their “superiority” to the rest of us.
except we couldn’t care less about them, unless, just as you say,
they start messing with our lives.
there’s a psychological disorder in there somewhere waiting to be catalogued,
probably under “advanced inferiority complex” or “royalty envy”. 😆
“there’s a psychological disorder in there somewhere waiting to be catalogued”
‘burn the place to the ground in order to rule over the ashes ‘ itus / itis …….
Exactly why they told us “Safe and Effective” when they knew it was the opposite.
Sadly, you are correct.
The climate change agenda has been a concerted effort by many who sought to benefit financially. A herd mentality developed, similar to the pandemic experience. European leaders who went along with this and intentionally wrecked their industries are no different than the governor of California (who not coincidentally is a member of the WEF). They are unconcerned since they are affluent, well-connected and will simply move on to pursue other forms of grift. Note that private jet usage amongst the billionaire class has been unaffected by the climate change agenda and the parties in Davos continue unabated. These are important data points.
On Sunday_s one hour prime time talk on German’s public broadcaster ARD, Herr Merz renewed his Iran remarks about Iran war but dismissed suggestions that resident Trumps’d decision to reduce U.S. troop levels in Germany, dismissing was political retaliation.
BTW: Every figure named for cutting troops (in Germany) should be at least doubled, as relatives will also move out of the country. This has also devasting impact on communities hostin U.S. soldiers!
Germany’s Merz Denies His Iran War Spat With Trump Prompted US Troop Cuts – Newsweek
Ramstein mayor warns of ‘disastrous’ fallout from US troop withdrawal – NewsBreak
My father was stationed in Frankfurt Germany in 1965. I was 7. The kids would spend our money at the local Trinkhall – where I discovered gummi bears and Pez….LOL. But the adults shopped at the army PX for groceries and household goods. Not sure how much economic spillage occurred to the local economy.
Trump reminds me of MasterBlaster from ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’
Master: “Who run Bartertown?”
Aunty: “MasterBlaster runs Bartertown”
Master: “Say LOUDER…..who…runs…BarterTown?”
Aunty: “MasterBlaster runs BarterTown!!”
Master: “Embargo….lifted”
Merz reminds me of Colonel Klink from Hogan’s Heroes.
FAFO. The days of Germany using the United States military as it’s cudgel are over.
Legt euch nicht mit uns an! Deutschland kann nicht die Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte haben und sie gleichzeitig verspeisen. Die Zeit, in der ihr das amerikanische Militär als euren Knüppel benutzt habt, ist vorbei.
Merz can go Fahrvergnügen himself.
The economic multiplier effect of spending and re-spending the military payroll in Germany is probably similar to a manufacturing plant, which has an average multiplier of 10. So, each US military person based in Germany supports TEN German jobs by spending and re-spending that cash there. Those supported jobs aren’t just near the base, but are located all across Germany as the products they purchase are made all over the place. It will NOT be just a local effect, but will be a hit to the German economy spread across the country. An annual 1.4 billion Euro hit to the German economy.
Sounds like someone took him aside and explained economics to him.
On another note, I also can’t help wondering, since we have effectively neutered European countries militarily by making them dependent on the US for their defense, once they are required to provide for it themselves and remilitarize, how long will it be before they start ANOTHER intra-Western European war that America will have to go put an end to …. again.
Nobody is going to go back to the EU to rescue a bunch of major Islamic countries with attitudes. They can wallow in their own poop.
I’m afraid I do not share that sentiment. Because the European globalists in power are willing to sell their people out to an islamic invasion, does that mean we must then refuse the remaining Christians’ calls for rescue? Viewing the issue on a global scale rather than just a European scale, just as we concluded that we would rather fight the communists “over there” and the nazis “over there,” I would much prefer to fight islamic invaders “over there.”
Oh, and am I the only one who wonders how long it will be before the new Obama Center in Chicago begins broadcasting calls to prayer from its roof?
The topic was the EU having another intra-European war, or starting one with Russia. In both cases, the answer is absolutely, unequivocally NO!
In regards to their Islamic problem, as long as they are unwilling to help themselves, then absolutely no. They really should have zero problems resolving that themselves. Stop importing disaster and expel those they have. Let them use their own people (and military and police) to free themselves from the self-inflicted damage. It takes only a will and backbone to resolve.
Now, once they clean up their own act – if there were an attempted ARMED invasion by Islamic nations – that would be a different story.
“How long will it be before they start ANOTHER intra-Western European war that America will have to go put an end to …. again.”
It won’t matter. They will be a collection of muslim provinces by that time. There will nothing “Christian” left to save, and nothing of human rights left to rescue.
They’ve had two strikes. Strike three and they’re out.
Who will BE the ‘Europeans’ of 2050 or 2060?
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of almost every european country is FAR below 2.1 – considered replacement level.
The TFR for Italy is now 1.14.
Spain and Portugal and Greece are not far behind.
In another generation,
Native, indigenous Europeans will be disappearing at an increasingly rapid rate.
The Great Replacement is underway.
Demography is destiny.
And the destiny of Europe is sealed.
Kahdaffi said 25 +/- years ago by 2050 the Muslim Conquest of Europe would be complete, without firing a single shot.
the thing that pisses me off the most is that Germany has ruined its country. it has become such a liberal shitshow. how weird the pendulum of its cultural heritage has bent so far over the other arc, it’s not even the same country anymore. they have allowed their our ideology in the scams known as diversity, inclusiveness and new green deal to completely ruin any chances that this once great society out of the reconstruction into self realized ruin. It’s embarassing and its going to hurt so so many people.
Well, history is in the making…and this time, again through pain and suffering. Perhaps, just perhaps Germany can become that engineering and manufacturing titan again and focus itself in building for a future that isn’t wasted on dumb dumb projects.
Just perhaps this will lead to germany’s own MGGA movement. But first, they need to reclaim freedom of speech and start taking border security and citizenship more seriously.
God Bless America
And someday, God Bless Germany too!
I spent 18 months near Ramstein practicing target aquisition on the aircraft that went in and out of there.
If there was a large American withdrawl from that area, the local economies would be devastated and the locals would be very unhappy because they’ve been milking the American GIs since world war eleven, or maybe before.
Speak coarsely and carry the big market for goods. The power of our economy has always been there, given away by most. Irks me greatly.
Screw the EU and especially Germany and France. Pull out of NATO. Let them fend for themselves. See how quickly their socialist BS failcascades into crawling back to us on all fours.
Precisely-
The coalition europissant style governments are feckless and incapable of delivering what is required-
they’re so spoiled on American taxpayers’ $$ for defense, local economic dependency- including having an American market for goods.
Let them go – and be the European Union of States EUS.
Bring our military home.
There’s no Russian (Communist) threat –
NATO IS USELESS
It’s amazing to be that people still have to try to test Trump!
They will spew BS, thinking Trump is just running his mouth, after years or Trump backing up his words with the Actions, you would think these idiots would learn by now.
I’m hoping that Merz is backed down enough that the auro tariffs don’t occur.
My youngest is a real go getter. Married, 25, only attended college for half year. Works
at a great paying job. Great enough paying that he closed on his first home 2 month ago.
The downside: He works at a German auto dealership. So, in our case the tariffs could
grossly affect everything he has been able to accomplish to date. So, I’m hoping that
Merz plays nice enough that the tariffs don’t occur.
Also, the Germans that are assembling the cars probably don’t suck, but the people
that are in charge of their country absolutely suck . To the nth degree.
Sounds like you have a great kid. Don’t worry. If the company he works for runs into trouble he can take his skills and go to another company—one that’s producing cars here. Or even another industry. People like him—go getters, people with initiative tend to be okay.
best of luck.
He’ll jump to another venture. Quality workers at anything are in short supply. I wish him well!
“Silly euros, US troops are for real allies…”
I think something we are all having to learn is that Trump often says things for the setup that he may or may not intend to follow through with unless he absolutely has to. And the threat is intentionally overblown to ensure he gets to his idea of the middle. The threat to Iran to wipe out a civilization is a case in point. That made no sense, since it would mostly hurt the Iranians he is concerned about. But it got the world’s attention and set the starting bid really high.
We are used to everything in government being done privately behind the scenes, and we learn about it when the negotiating is over. Even though the people put DC elites in power and they live off of our contributions, they act like they are the Board and we are the janitors. With Trump, however, we are the board members. We witness the negotiation as public discourse, as if we are entitled to know (we are). The art of a deal is to start out high (higher cost, bigger threat) to give yourself negotiating room. We are witnessing that. But the public isn’t used to that and politicians and the media aren’t smart enough to benefit from it. So while we watch Trump negotiate, the media treats the negotiations as a settled contract and grouse about nonexistent terms being violated when no agreement even exists. And the rest of us are sitting in the board room, but we look like a deer in the headlights. While we witness Trump’s radical different business model of running the government.
Well said Glee. Half of what I am experiencing re Trump, I think, is the ART OF THE DEAL. You summarized it. Thank you!
Succinctly stated.
The economics is the means….it is ultimately about the politics of the thing.
Don’t you just love it when you have a president to fight for your country in every front.😎
The Germans will always have Oktoberfest, …, maybe.
yes, muslims dont drink
Or eat pork sausages.
Leverage is not just a river in Egypt, Merz you idiot (TBF, he’s been spoiled by five prior POTUS eunuchs).
Germany President FRIEDRICH MERZ thinks President Trump is gullible. Insulting the U.S. President in this way ensures that Germany must find another sugar-daddy, or become self-sufficient with protecting itself.
Well, there is always those 70 bazillion mooselums to fall back on….and you have liberals in the bullpen. Yep,bring in the left hander.
Do stupid things win stupid prizes …
The more Donald Trump operates in the world, the more the rest of the world acts like keystone cops.
President Trump does not think he is Jesus. He behaves more like the rough and Tumble John the Baptist. A voice in the desert not afraid to herald what is True and Good and call ridiculous what is ridiculous.
Those leaders who are level headed stand back in amazement and gratitude because, through all of Donalds bluster is a kind hearted grandpa with a twinkle of love in his eye for the innocent and hard working. He is encouraging to those who seek to do good
But don’t mess with Grandpa unless you want to see the Lion come out.
“President Trump does not think he is Jesus. He behaves more like the rough and Tumble John the Baptist. A voice in the desert not afraid to herald what is True and Good and call ridiculous what is ridiculous.”
Well said CountryDoc!
Appreciate your words!
BLESSINGS
There are few more ridiculous people in this world than Fredo Merz.
Who’s humiliated now?
Headline in the fading PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, now owned by a non-profit based in Pittsburgh and facing a more limited circulation, reads: “POWER DEMANDS SAVE OLD PLANTS,” with a sub-headline, “Coal-burning facilities stay online thanks to AI, electricity grid needs.”
Meanwhile, China keeps building plants that burn Manchurian coal in great quantities. Since AI needs the electricity, suddenly burning coal in the United States will not end human life on planet Earth just like, to climate activists, Chinese burning coal causes them no consternation whatsoever. Nothing is more convincing that climate change is a bunch of nonsense than this sort of thing. If doing something was going to end life on a planet, it shouldn’t matter what the excuse is for doing it.
Hair on fire on Monday should mean hair on fire on Tuesday.
The global warming scam is Graft at it’s finest. The “1st world countries” are all bullshitted into
raising their cost of producing goods into the territory where it’s no longer economically feasiable.
By creating green laws, local ordinances governing the production. Meanwhile, the 3rd world countries
have their costs of production lowered by polluting at will to levels that would make the skies above
Pittsburgh in 1958 look squeaky clean. And, guess where all the backing money is dumped?
It ain’t here. Also, as a Dayton raised brat. Since we’ve had decades for the dust to settle: How
many people here think, in retrospect, that the UAW’s constant strikes were done to further
all this? That the UAW back when was acting as double agents, similar to what we’ve just seen
with the SPLC and the Klan?
I flew into Pittsburgh in 1983. First flight. Upon approach I was astounded to see the brown cloud which encircled the city.
The President orders 5,000 American troops to leave Germany and the dollar loss to Germany is so large, the top German guy gets a quick attitude adjustment. ALL American troops should be brought home from Germany. We have spent WAAAAY too much money keeping them there for TOO LONG. It’s been a welfare system for Germany since the end of WWII.
What ever happened to Macroni in all of this? Last read of him was Marco asking if he spoke for himself or others? No reply as Elvis would sing.
I just keep thinking of the German people getting whiplash from the horrible “leadership”. Watching your own government, like we did under Obama and Biden, absolutely destroy you, feeling helpless because elections are rigged, is very disappointing and frustrating.
Europeans must have drank some crazy kool aid. They constantly cut their nose to spite their face. It’s a mental problem….
Forget this guy with his silly little tuft of a forelock.
Continue with the drawdown, Mr. President. And, love the “Cuba Libre” pix!!
German Hillary (as el Rushbo called her) opened the door to Germany wide for third world barbarians just as many other European countries did. Those countries’ unique cultures have been destroyed and they are in financial tatters. It’s not difficult to see why these countries refuse to participate in any kinetic action against Muslim Iran. Their Muslim populations may explode in anger. The last thing any unarmed native European wants to see is a Muslim with a machete. Christian churches burning, thousands on the streets worshipping Allah, Christmas Market massacres. Meanwhile Christians are not allowed to individually pray silently in front of an abortion slaughter house. To do so is to risk being arrested. We have witnessed this in Jolly Old England. England: They held off Napolean. They held off the Spanish Armada. They held off Hitler. But they would not hold off tens of thousands of third worlders crossing the English Channel in rafts. Why? Political correctness as destroyed a once strong and proud nation. We mourn.
Ouch! That must have really been painful for dear Friedrich to make that post.
Pass the Winnamins and Cheetos!!
The EU members will move heaven and earth to make sure the Dems win the midterms and 2028 election. They are holding on to the thought that the new Congress will stop President Trump in his tracks. They are counting on it.
Thune has to go and the SAVE act has to pass. Now! Time is of the essence if the moves of the UniParty are to be countered. Every Conservative political entity should be in battle mode by now. Unfortunately I don’t see it happening.
The movers and shakers are asleep at the wheel. Summer is coming and everyone is in vacation mode.
We lived in Germany for one tour, yes Americans spent a lot of money. We lived in a German house, very nice, well kept, nice neighborhood. If all those military members and families leave, there goes the money too. Lot’s of foreign nationals work on those bases, others benefit from American dollars spent in town. Its always money. It was a great time, we loved it but things have changed dramatically. Not sure it would be so nice now. There’s no place like home!!
Trump drinks tea while Merz is still drinking Kool-Aid, because that’s the globalists’ fav beverage!
Western leaders like to pose for group photo-ops while their countries economies go straight to hell!
Considering what Merz and Merkle, (remember her?), have done to Germany over the last dozen years or so, it’s safe to say that country would be far more prosperous if they’d had no leaders at all!
Germany: You did this to yourself. Your own incompetence of leadership did this. You bear the consequences of your own bad choices. Your people have every right to be angry, and to remove you.