This next storyline needs context to understand appropriately what just happened.
In February of this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz travelled for the first time in his business and life to China. Merz a lawyer by training, worked in business and corporate life doing mergers and acquisitions (Blackrock), but had never been to China. Despite his upward climb in German politics, his worldview was always dominated by an internal acceptance that Germany was the industrial heart of the European Union.
Chancellor Merz believed that Germany was unrivaled within industrial manufacturing, particularly in aeronautics and mechanical engineering (auto sector). So, when Merz went to China -while he held no trade capabilities as an outcome of the EU collective controlling everything- he also had no idea what Chinese industrial capacitary actually looked like.
To say Chancellor Merz was stunned by the advancements in robotics and industrial manufacturing within China would be an understatement. Merz was shocked not only by the technological capability, but also by the Chinese industrial work ethic and capabilities of the workforce.
Merz returned to Germany and immediately began discussing how Chinese industrial capacity was far beyond anything he previously estimated. Merz was shook. His reaction was, essentially, the #1 industrial nation within the EU confronting a reality of years of industrial complacency. Immediately he began talking about how things in Germany must change; how the German workforce must immediately start to get serious about productivity and production capacity.
That was late February and early March.
Today, Friedrich Merz announced a series of reforms, radical modifications within the German industrial workforce.
German workers are no longer allowed to call in sick. The German government will now adopt a policy to make sure all workers report to their jobs, or else.
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The German workforce may not like this at all.
There is a certain, shall we say, “Fascist irony,” when you think about mandated private sector productivity compliance and the relationship with official government policy.
Germany’s coalition government has announced a wide-ranging package of pension, tax and labor reforms aimed at boosting economic growth and strengthening competitiveness. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the measures would create jobs, reduce bureaucracy and preserve key social welfare protections.
The 34-point plan includes income tax relief for low- and middle-income households as well as a gradual increase in the retirement age.
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the greatest story never told, part 2
Germany surrendered its sovereignty (AND MANHOOD) when they did NOTHING in response to the Nordstream pipeline destruction. 🙁
Because they were complicit.
Blowing up Nordstream took pressure off of the German government. If there was no pipeline to get gas from Russia, the German citizens would stop protesting against the Ukraine war to get their heat turned back on.
Hmmmmm. Funny that!….,
Make Germany Industrious Again?
While cooperating with the Secret Societies to deindustrialize German Industry and scavenge upon the rotting carcass like George Soros on a Wednesday? While taking on the dead weight of Islamic invaders? And poking Russia with a stick?
You mad, Fritz?
The unions will have his guts for garters.
Hopefully
Work your asses off you dumb Germans so you can support those TANNED INVADERS who sit on their asses pumping out those babies living off welfare that you pay for in your hard earned taxes. And while you are at work slaving away we will let them rape your young girls and you will like it. HEIL HITLER
So depressing, but your statement rings true.
Replace “dumb Germans” with complacent Americans, and wonder how in the hell we got here!
The basic, simple answer is COMMUNISM.
From the Frankfurt School to FDR to today.
Quiet, patient infiltration designed to rot our institutions and society from within.
Die in Hell, you commie bastards!
like invading poland without tanks.
Arbeit macht frei 2026
More like: Arbeite schneller 2026
This is what happens when you don’t have a world view. Countries that sit on their hands thinking they will be powerful forever will eventually find out they lost opportunity.
Oh, they have a world view. TheGipperLives summarized it comment before yours.
And ShainS took a good whack at it next comment down.
OUT: “You vill eat ze bugs.”
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: “Arbeit macht frei.”
How’s that European style “socialism” working out for you now? At least they get “free” health care to get the Drs note to call out of work. Maybe that goes away soon too. They probably just need more windmills.
Climate insanity = no investment in industry
Can’t call in “sick”, if it’s communicable that’s a really bad idea. Your entire workplace will
serve as a petri dish for respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses. The policy will not enhance but diminish productivity.
That’s only one grave misjudgement from Merz.
I’m sure those crappy masks will solve that problem. Definitely this time.
And those fake PCR tests. Guess they’re free in Germany & $55 a pair here at home.
Seriously!!!!!
Since the USA freebies have stopped, a dose of reality has been administered globally. I’m not sorry, we were being bled dry by WEF.
Will Merz’s new rules apply to the invading hordes, all those neurosurgeons and nuclear physicists?
While the industrious native Germans are off being more industrious, the vibrant newcomers will be happy to watch over their flock, their towns, their families.
Auctung!
Oh course not! That would be racist!!! /s
EU’s only concern is more migrants
They might consider their power sources and ditch the green new deal garbage and produce some energy.
That happens when you’re kept in a bubble. First Angela, the Fred. What else can Germany expect?
From the “context”, German execs clearly indulged the “sick-can’t come in” plea. Just another feather-bedding trick to get paid for doing nothing which placading the unions.
I’d say Mertz was growing a set, although it’s hard to make something out of nothing.
A set of what, exactly? LOL
And I’ll tell you what actually happens next:
“HE goes.”
With a whimper, not with a shout.
Not because of what “he suddenly discovered,” a few months ago, but because of years prior.
The liberals ruined German cars by over regulations. The same problem US car manufacturers have been relived of by President Trump.
I hope Merz will change his opinion of coal power after his China trip, and will approve more coal power for Germany.
“Last year [2025], China installed almost 70 gigawatts of new coal power capacity more than it took off the grid.” ( From the Feb. 27, 2026 article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/02/27/chinas-new-coal-power-installations-reach-18-year-high/ )
Merz – taken in largely by Chinese propaganda.
He’s never watched the YT show called The China Show which shows the action behind the rice curtain in China.
The show airs with new episodes Fridays 5 pm eastern time. https://www.youtube.com/@thechinashow
This is the basic question how the Germany going to advance when they believe in the phony green energy scam. Without energy you don’t have anything.
Germany is supposed to have world class engineers.
There’s no escaping the laws of thermodynamics or economics. Industry needs lots of inexpensive energy.
Nearly all of the good engineers will do as they are told, like in the VW diesel engine debacle. In diesel-gate, the engineers were given an impossible task and were threatened with termination if they did not find a solution, so they made a cycle-beater and passed the test. They have been told that co2 is bad and they believe it, so the engineers will ignore the laws of both thermodynamics and economics to keep their jobs.
Until Audi lays off a few hundred thousand, of course. Maybe it will change then, but the culture in Germany is one of compliance.
It’s hard to let go of the green idol when your soul is married to it.
President Trump never believed it, thank God.
Kind of like defending the Fauci shots after the truth has come out. Cognitive dissonance.
Interesting. I have a German colleague who is running a project to close a manufacturing site. He said the big thing for them was getting approval from the Worker’s Council which seems to mean ensuring they either find them jobs or give them large severance packages. I wonder what the workers council will think of this.
europe is f**ked
Europe has been F’d for centuries. They just got used to it…. taught from birth that totalitarian imperialism was normal.
Whatever was “demokratik” has always been artificial – for show only.
Interesting…Merz as attorney was over M&A with Blackrock prior. He must have been the typical bean counter without a clue how the business runs.
Merz as Chancellor of Germany is just now figuring out that China has been
successfully playing the role of proverbial Blackrock.
Germany is the prized take-over acquisition.
Or maybe the fire-sale acquisition….you know, 10-cents on the dollar.
It’s now like the Board of Directors (Germany’s administration) has figured out they were supposed to keep running the business no matter what.
When the DW news gal listed Germany’s longterm problems, she didn’t mention the muslims who are raping and knifing people, and using cars to mow down groups of people.
Perhaps just an oversight.
Are you referring to those ‘Tanned Europeans’?
Maybe those’Tanned Europeans’ who mow down people at the Christmas Markets? Those people?
If Germany had not imported the 3rd world .
If Germany had decided not to go green, net zero, shut down nuclear power
If they had not blown up cheap oil and gas imports from Russia.
The German workforce did not do any of it, but now they have the consequences
of all those bad decisions.
Welfare (Bürgergeld): Of the 3.92 million employable individuals collecting basic “citizens’ money” (unemployment and state welfare benefits), 62.5% possess an immigrant background . [1]
General Welfare Spending: Non-German nationals account for 47.4% (about €22.2 billion) of the overall €46.9 billion basic welfare expenditure, with German citizens accounting for the remaining 52.6%
Africans: Around 1 million individuals . Major sub-Saharan groups include immigrants from Nigeria, Eritrea, Ghana, and Cameroon
Germany is home to between 6.6 and 7.0 million Muslims , 1 to 2 million Arabs , and approximately 1 million people of African descent.
Are ”refugees”still welcome?
If by “refugees” you mean the native German people of Germany, then, no.
They are being overrun and will be outnumbered sooner rather than later. And, when they are in the minority, they will not be given the advantages liberals give minorities for political reasons.
Their country will be taken over.
What is going to be very interesting very soon is what happens when these EU Countries cannot afford to pay for the welfare benefits for these REFUGEES? Will you have Civil War breaking out in these Countries for just the basic necessities for survival? With no manufacturing you have no revenue, no revenue means no wages which means no taxes which means no money for welfare benefits. Good luck Germany.
What happens then is the native Germanic stock becomes the refugees-minus the welfare bennies.
Cultural enrichment ain’t cheap, eh? But don’t worry, diversity is their strength.
Volkswagen, the exemplar of German industrial might, is laying off over 100,000 workers and closing several iconic plants.
De-Naxification and the fall of the Berlin Wall/reunification broke Germany’s cultural back. They haven’t been the same since….
When you add in the EU, Greenies, and migration, the challenges for Germany to build a critical mass and get back on its feet are daunting, AT BEST. And IT WILL NEVER SUCCEED using EuroTrash rules and tools.
And Merkel killed any last vestiges of the military and police forces being virtuous, male-dominated rallying points for social order under a Divine Creator….
….though I will NEVER underestimate what a single pissed off Aus, er, Deutchlander with an outsized ego and even larger inferiority complex can do with Europe’s still-largest culture and best geopositioning.
China and Russia have what Germany can only dream of: a cohesive national identity and muscular central government that can marshal the resources and will to implement decisive national strategies.
Author Ralph Peters offered decades ago that Europe would return back to its cultural roots and warrior DNA and throw off (even violently) both internationalism and migration. Unfortunately, the time and the Caucasian birthrate are not on its side.
Western culture continues to decline and fall, one domino at a time. It will be painful watching Germany in its death throes, though I hope for the best! 🙁
….though I will NEVER underestimate
The spirit of the German people.
So, the German government – a group who thinks it’s okay to subscribe to a heated car seat – was wowed by the Chinese – a communist toilet that routinely kills political dissidents, eats dogs, and tries to destroy white nations.
I’m not impressed by either of them. It does remind me to be grateful that I’m an American, so there’s that. Happy 250th, everybody!
By China’s “Advancements” I would assume that what is really meant is “China’s Theft of Technology from America,” and the 1990’s legislation passed by the Uniparty here (thank you Traitors Billy Jeff Clinton and Eye of Newt Gingrich) to sell other technology to them, including defense technology, which they had not yet stolen!
A pox on all of them!
Clintons along with Obama’s gang have done incalculable damage to this great country of ours. But God and Donald J Trump!
That had to hurt.
Earth to Merz – you can’t mandate productivity.
You took Germany’s national heritage and squandered it on Green Fantasies.
Now you’ll take it out on the German work force and it ain’t their fault Mr. High & Mighty.
So.. he found out, contrary to popular belief, they are entitled and their poo does stink ..
“gradual increase in the retirement age”
That will never fly. The last time an attempt to increase the retirement age was made in France there were riots. Good luck with them telling those getting ready to retire and live comfortably in their nanny state. They pay something like 50% taxes with the promise of early comfortable retirement. The govt has spent their citizens pensions on illegals. It’ll be interesting to watch this play out.
Pfft. You mean starting in the 60’s inviting in all those Turk gastarbeiters didn’t give you everything you needed?
How’s that power grid lookin’?
Not a single 1 of them is as smart as they think they are. The Bible states be humble, do not be proud, find a way to love your neighbor. 5000 years of war on the continent and they have absolutely nothing to show for it. 2 million people are dead or wounded, fighting for Soetero’s piano player, right at this very moment.
It is quite amazing when you think about it. Payback is really a BITCH. The EU, a collection of Countries who have for centuries have fought wars around the world killing millions upon millions, taking over Countries and enslaving their people all over the world and now look at them. They are being overrun by Muslims who in a very few short years will overrun every one of their Countries and there is no way they can stop it.
The Bible, being the Holy Word of God, is full of righteous truths and wisdom like that.
Europe’s biggest problem is that their people have turned their backs to God. Christianity/faith in God through His Son Jesus Christ has atrophied in Europe to such a degree that God has left them to wallow in their own sinfulness.
Almighty God will not be mocked-or ignored.
Merz is AKA William Frawley
more like fredrich paulus.
AI search on BASF:
“BASF, the world’s largest chemical producer, is shutting down 11 production plants at its flagship complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany, due to high energy costs and reduced competitiveness.
The closures, announced in 2024, affect critical facilities producing ammonia, caprolactam, soda ash, and toluene diisocyanate (TDI).
This strategic shift involves moving investment to a new €10 billion site in Zhanjiang, China, while cutting approximately 700 jobs at the German site and reducing global CO2 emissions by 4%.
Other German chemical firms, such as INEOS (closing plants in Rheinberg and Gladbeck) and Dow (shutting facilities in Böhlen, Schkopau, and Leuna), are also halting production, reflecting a broader crisis in Europe’s chemical sector driven by energy prices and policy costs.”
If I remember correctly, BASF was closed after the Nordstream Pipeline bombing.
How is that shift to China going to reduce emissions? China produces five or more times the CO2 of Germany, and brings a new coal fired powerplant on every two weeks. Virtue signaling nonsense……
Good information. Treepers are very knowledgeable.
Does Germany give benefits to illegals?
Yes
It seems they must be applying for amnesty, see post below.
And NO birthright citizenship.
Some important things they are getting right,
Note the birthright citizen law…
Who can and can’t vote in Germany’s 2025 election? https://share.google/KQROqyxB1mB5dpyQs
His hardnosed reforms sound like a prelude to replacing German workers with robots. I think at Blackrock they would call it a mass constructive discharge, or “quiet firing” on a national scale.
German workers unions might want to inquire if he didn’t place an order for 100,000 robots while he was in China.
But there won’t be any reconsideration to dumping billions in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s reached its limit with Ukraine and by extension, the EU, starting with Germany.
This is a good development It’s like Churchill realizing the threat and responding to it. We should not look upon this as too little too late, we should look upon this As an opportunity
The Chinese were given German manufacturing technology and IP . I’ve a first hand account.
About 20 years ago I was developing software components used by auto manufactures in assembly lines. We sometimes held training sessions for their engineers. One of those classes was set up for a major German carmaker.
Over beers one night, the lead engineer told me they had recently built a state of the art plant in China to produce cars for the Chinese market. He returned to China a year later to install upgrades and found out the Chinese had replicated everything down the road and were producing Chinese cars.
He was furious. Upon getting home to Germany he started his way up the management chain with his report. He was told to forget about it. They already knew. Basically the executives told him they had no choice. No transfer of technology meant losing capital and market access to other countries.
VW (in 1998) had a lot of Chinese males seconded to Wolfsburg. They spoke German and kept to themselves outside of work.
They spoke German because the Chinese Military Dictatorship had carefully trained them to subvert Germany.
Moving the deck chairs on the titanic after it has hit the iceberg so to speak.
The irony of someone in the government (which makes nothing) telling workers in the private sectors (which actually make products) that they cannot call in sick is peak level government hubris.
Merz should force everyone in government to work a second job in the industrial private sector. Share the burden and all that tripe.
Musk built Tesla’s most advanced manufacturing plant in Shanghai 6 years ago. China’s got it all now – everything.
Maybe they should dump the green new deal a m d kick out the migrants.
Sad.
Classical Conditioning (aka Pavlov Learning) need be apply to nearly all german and eu dogs. And, before any criticize my thought recall that this was (WWII; is) the “german culture/mindset” – comply; go along to get along; be a good, obedient soldier; think only of yourself and self interest.
Sad but that is where the german, now eu “commoners'” perspective is. There is no understanding of “individual liberty” or hope for the future. They all simply live for the present day.
Tragic.
The US must distance itself from such toxic culture(s); allow inevitable self destruction. Then offer assistance.
Forgot Godlessness.
Now he needs to fix his power and migrant problems.
Hey dude, welcome to MAGA-LAND!! We have been here since 2016, with a brief hiatus, and wondered when your train was going to pull into the station. Your next mission, should you decide to accept it, is to begin the deportation process!!!
Germany went all in on the climate scam. Theyre twisted in knots trying serve thar master while realizing theyre decades behind in productoon and manufacturing.
Meanwhile back in the states (hat tip New York Dolls) PDJT is positioning the US to survive and thrive (while the media, corporatist globalists and DC work to stop him) and Canada, the EU and their buddies obsess over the Ukraine like its still tbe 1960s cold war.
I hope Aussies are paying attention too.
“Personality Crisis” or “Trash”?
Good luck. You’ve allowed the Chinese into your country all ready.
They will outwork you and for Pennie’s on the dollar
It’s over for anyone who suggests you have to work harder.
If Germany thinks that they can find new markets in China to sell into….they are wrong. China will require that they lower barriers and then China will flood them with goods at a price at which German industry cannot compete.
I feel sorry for the German subjects who are propagandized by their leadership.
Already happening and here in uk we are also being flooded.