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the German national election was today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_German_federal_election#Opinion_polls

will see how well the German Right (center left and conservative right) does today

before today's election, the German Right was CDU, FDP, and AfD, and is 362 seats (out of a total of 733 seats in German Parliament)

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OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething says

AD says

the German Right was CDU, FDP, and AfD

About 52.8% votes for the German Right which is CDU, FDP, and AfD with about 83% of the votes counted. It was a clear rebuke of the German Left and especially their open border policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_German_federal_election

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Patrick says

So true

Patrick says

Ironic, since the British general who wrote the novel "The Third World War" way back in the 1970s predicted that West Germany would never want to reunite with East Germany since the West Germans did not want a massive influx of leftist voters.

Too much unjustified dooming all over.

AfD is the 2nd biggest party in Germany now, 20+% more seats than the biggest left party, SPD .

Both SPD and the Greens lost a shitload of seats, and Die Linke's gains didn't offset the losses of the other two left parties.

In a NORMAL State, CDU/CSU would be bringing in AfD for a Right Government.

Or stealing AfD's platform in the next election.

The real question is how scared CDU/CSU is and how that weighs against neoliberal devotion.

AmericanKulak says

Both SPD and the Greens lost a shitload of seats, and Die Linke's gains didn't offset the losses of the other two left parties.

each German terrorist act like a car driving into a crowd or a stabbing in public equated to at least a 2% drop in the polls for them

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AfD has 20% of the Bundestag.

The only potential alternative to a coalition with AfD as junior partner to CDU is a "Kenya Coalition": Red-Black-Green.

Which will piss off many CDU/CSU voters as the government will increase taxes, regulation, etc.

https://nitter.poast.org/MarioNawfal/status/1894705218069078201#m

GERMANY RESTARTS AFGHAN REFUGEE FLIGHTS IN POST ELECTION U-TURN

Germany’s back in the Afghan refugee game, landing 155 in Berlin yesterday after a sly election-time pause.

The CDU and SPD, fresh off dodging an AfD surge, greenlit the move, with 3,000 more queued up in Islamabad - part of 48,000 taken since 2021, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions.

The halt came after brutal attacks by Afghan nationals - like the rampage in Munich, killing 2 and injuring 28, or the Aschaffenburg daycare stabbings that killed a toddler.

The Interior Ministry blamed 'logistics,' but critics smell political optics.

Ex-Interior Minister Horst Seehofer once admitted some evacuees were rapists and on terror watchlists.

Yet, CDU’s Friedrich Merz, once hawkish, now shrugs, 'No one wants closed borders.'

Source: ZeroHedge

AD says

CDU, FDP

Those two are about as 'right' as some young fool who answers pollsters 'yes' to 'Do you support socialism'.

Germany's Overton Window is quite different.

The_Deplorable says

https://babylonbee.com/news/germany-commits-to-100-electric-vehicle-terror-attacks-by-2035

Seems to be a theme today:

https://genesiustimes.com/aoc-horrified-terrorists-are-running-over-people-with-gas-powered-cars-instead-of-electric-vehicles/

https://genesiustimes.com/cnn-more-cars-mysteriously-drive-themselves-into-german-pedestrians/

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1896893488568127781

https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1897863493258252634

@ActivePatriotUK
NURSE IN GERMANY SENDS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD (An open letter - Eye opener)

Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and the other Munich hospitals are unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main hospitals. Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff, and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants. Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units. Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we in Europe do not know how to treat.

If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy; they learn they have to pay cash, this leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children to the pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them yourselves. So the police are not only guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also the large pharmacies.

We ask openly where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front of TV cameras with signs at train stations ? Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.

Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. Only a minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy. If this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to the Czech republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even for double the salary back home. I came to Germany to work, not to Africa or the Middle East! Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see, but worth the read...especially the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for 800 euros and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just wait with their hands outstretched, waiting for free, and when they don't get it, they throw a fit. I really don't need this, but I am afraid that if I return home, at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their systems, cannot handle this, then guaranteed, back home will be total chaos...

You - who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely no idea what kind of badly behaved desperadoes these people are, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of patients every day of this is just a question of time.

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8 month old on the brink of death, who they dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died two days later, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The pediatric physician had to undergo surgery and the two nurses are recovering in the ICU. Nobody has been punished. The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform you through e-mail. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis infected urine into a nurses face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum, he would have gone straight to jail and later to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened. And so I ask: Where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their uncomplicated, safe lives. 1/2

8:14 PM · Mar 6, 2025

As someone who spent over a year in Germany in the early 1990's, I'm greatly saddened at the extent to which that country has chosen cultural suicide. I lived there, learned their language, even fell in love with a German girl from Hamburg.

It's being proved even more bitterly true than when it was back then - you can never go back. Your experiences were in a unique time and place, and to recount them today is to invite mockery and derision.

Sic transit gloria mundi . . .

stereotomy says

As someone who spent over a year in Germany in the early 1990's, I'm greatly saddened at the extent to which that country has chosen cultural suicide. I lived there, learned their language, even fell in love with a German girl from Hamburg.

It's being proved even more bitterly true than when it was back then - you can never go back. Your experiences were in a unique time and place, and to recount them today is to invite mockery and derision.

Sic transit gloria mundi . . .

Now we know how the Roman Empire fell.

stereotomy says

As someone who spent over a year in Germany in the early 1990's, I'm greatly saddened at the extent to which that country has chosen cultural suicide. I lived there, learned their language, even fell in love with a German girl from Hamburg.

It's being proved even more bitterly true than when it was back then - you can never go back. Your experiences were in a unique time and place, and to recount them today is to invite mockery and derision.

Sic transit gloria mundi . . .

It's still a great place, just need to know which parts to avoid, just like in the US.

stereotomy says

As someone who spent over a year in Germany in the early 1990's, I'm greatly saddened at the extent to which that country has chosen cultural suicide. I lived there, learned their language, even fell in love with a German girl from Hamburg.

@stereotomy We're similar that way. I lived there three times: a summer in high school, and two years in the 1980's.

I also had a German girlfriend from Hamburg!

Patrick says

I also had a German girlfriend from Hamburg!

Ironisch, wenn das gleiche Mädchen.

Heißt sie Christiane?

@stereotomy

Patrick says

Heißt sie Christiane?

Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie es wissen wollen?

Warum nicht? Es ist shon so lange her.

Patrick says

Heißt sie Christiane?

stereotomy

Nein, sie heist Sandra.

There is increasing fear in Germany that F-35 jets purchased for the German army can be "turned off" remotely by Washington. This fear is shared by defense and security specialists.

Joachim Schranzhofer, head of communications at Hensoldt:

"The F-35 kill switch is not just a rumor. A simpler way is through a mission planning system that will not allow the fighter to land."

Wolfgang Ischinger, former diplomat and head of the Munich Security Conference:

"If we fear that the US could do the same to the German F-35 fighter jets as they did to Ukraine, we should consider canceling the contract."

Source: Bild

RWSGFY says

There is increasing fear in Germany that F-35 jets purchased for the German army can be "turned off" remotely by Washingto

During the 1st Gulf War, Iraqi Mirage planes had their weapons deactivated remotely by the French.

Yep, BMW made aircraft engines before they did cars. That center part of the BMW emblems signifies a spinning propeller.

Defense companies jack up Germany’s auto industry to make weapons fast.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Germany’s economy should embrace the pivot from cars to defense equipment as a major growth driver, according to a proposal by the country’s leading defense industry group.

The Federal Association of the German Security and Defense Industry (BDSV) pitched the idea last week while hailing the incoming government’s pledge to continue expanding the defense budget drastically. To overcome production bottlenecks, the argument goes, why not repurpose manufacturing capabilities of Germany’s famed, but ailing, automobile sector?

The idea is part of a package of measures advanced by the defense industry that seeks to inject the same type of urgency into military manufacturing that animated German leaders when it came to substituting Russian gas in the country’s energy mix following Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

In Brussels and national capitals here, there will be fresh money to spend on defense. At the same time, the continent’s production sites were never intended for mass output. The European Union has nevertheless unveiled a plan, dubbed “ReArm Europe,” that could funnel more than €800 billion ($868 billion) to defense spending across the Union’s 27 member states.

The push coincides with a remarkable breakdown in the transatlantic partnership with the United States. Germany and Europe more broadly have long relied on weapons imports from the U.S. to meet their domestic needs, even though the continent is home to a host of significant arms manufacturers itself.

Redirecting the German auto sector to produce tanks, shells and other military gear is not an entirely new idea. In June 2024, auto parts giant Continental and arms behemoth Rheinmetall signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the retraining of auto workers affected by layoffs in the shrinking industry.

“The far-reaching changes in all industries can only be mastered together,” said Continental’s board member for human resources and sustainability, Ariane Reinhart. Rheinmetall, meanwhile, gloated about the defense sector boom in a joint press release and was quick to point out the company expected 40% more profits in 2024 than just a year before.

The agreement outlined various means for Rheinmetall, itself an automotive company, to recruit trained workers, including holding events at automotive plants and offering employment at defense factories near locations that were shutting down or downsizing.

Last month, the defense giant announced it would repurpose two factories in Berlin and Neuss that previously made car parts to produce primarily military goods instead.

Rheinmetall’s operating profit in its weapons segment nearly doubled to €339 million ($368 million) in the first nine months of 2024, while its automotive business declined by 3.8% to €74 million ($80 million) during the same period.

Other defense players are getting involved, too, with sensor specialist Hensoldt reportedly in talks to hire 200 workers from auto parts suppliers Continental and Bosch, according to Reuters.

And German-French joint venture KNDS recently acquired a historic rail car plant in Görlitz from French train maker Alstom. The factory will be retooled to produce components for military vehicles, including the Leopard 2 battle tank and Puma infantry fighting vehicle.

In an email to defense news, Hans Christoph Atzpodien, the head of the German defense industry lobbying group, said he expected “wholly new dimensions to the question of arms demand,” including the need for faster deliveries, not just higher volume.

The government should support the transition by providing means for retraining and covering the costs for relocation of employees, he argued.
One key bottleneck lies in security screenings for would-be weapons builders, the BDSV association said. Such background checks can take many weeks or longer, a process that must be accelerated dramatically, according to the industry group.

Meanwhile, other sectors of the economy are itching for a piece of the pie, Atzpodien said, including the machine building, steel and construction industries.
“In general, I am quite sure that we will soon enter a mode in which a great many economic resources from other sectors will now be harnessed for armaments,” he said.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/03/10/defense-companies-jack-up-germanys-auto-industry-to-make-weapons-fast/

DeportLibtards says

Proving once again that Globalist imbecility is breathtaking!

https://x.com/AXChristoforou/status/1908428164323258714