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Elon Musk has described the AfD as "the only hope for Germany."

While the focus in German politics seems to be on immigration, the CDU under Merkel moved left on a lot of other policies, too, and the AfD is also calling them out on those, as they have continued under Merz. Recently, it has been Merz' huge deficit spending, where AfD is accusing the CDU of bankrupting Germany. For some time, it has been the CDU sticking to Merkel's climate policy, whose high electric rates are hollowing out German industry. AfD wants to abandon the nutty Net zero ideology. With a substantial majority of German welfare spending going to illegal migrants, AfD wants to take a meat ax to that.

The CDU lost its way under Merkel, and that is not surprising when one understands that in her youth, Merkel was the chief of ideology for the youth wing of the East German Communist Party. Merz claimed he was going to change that, but by forming a coalition with the Social Democrats instead of the AfD, he locked his party into Merkel's destructive policies because the Social Democrats will not let him move to the right at all.

Commented: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 @ 11:48 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

JS: Good one - "Woke Mind Virus." If Elon never does another good thing the rest of his days, he did coin the very appropriate phrase - "Woke Mind Virus."

Commented: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 @ 11:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

Amazing! When the very first word in his immediately preceding comment was "Hitler", Bob has the audacity to claim he "never referenced Hitler". Does such nonsense come from the "woke mind virus"?

Commented: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 @ 11:20 am By: John Steed

Buddy, I didn’t reference Hitler, you did.

Commented: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 @ 9:10 am By: big Bob

Big BOB: Why do you Leftists always reference "Hitler?"

Are you Leftists so myopic that you can't find any other symbols to juxtapose in reference against good Americans?

Commented: Monday, September 21st, 2026 @ 11:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Here is the difference. The left, like Bob, will either hero worship someone like an Obama, an AOC, a Bernie Sanders, or whoever, or they will choose a designated villain, which at the moment is Trump. They channel all their feelings through personalities, for or against. Conservatives, on the other hand sit back and evaluate principles and issues. We vote based on who best represents those principles and issues.

Trump has a lot of good policies, but some are so-so and some not so good. Overall, he is doing a lot of the right things. Would I consider a Trump endorsement as a reason to vote for someone? Heck no. I have seen him make some good endorsements and some bad endorsements. I will always evaluate the issues and candidates and make up my own mind. The left seems incapable of doing that these days.

Commented: Monday, September 21st, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Big Bob: Unlike the Democratic Socialist and Non Patriot Left, the last time I checked, President Trump has not sought to have anyone killed except the murderous enemies of this Representative Republic.

Commented: Monday, September 21st, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Two nut-job far left loons tried to impede law enforcement with the loons own deadly weapons, one of them striking an ICE officer with her vehicle, and the other striking an ICE officer physically while he had brought his own pistol to his confrontation with ICE. Play silly games, win stupid prizes. Both won their Darwin awards. No sensible person assaults a law enforcement officer at all, and certain not with a deadly weapon. There are consequences. That was clear self defense, NOT "murder". Only a stinking socialist would call it a "murder".

Firing generals? I seem to remember Obama starting that game by widespread forced retirement of many traditional war-fighting generals and admirals and replacing them with "woke" replacements.

Rogue Obama judges and Biden judges who abuse power to play politics are a big threat to democracy. They have been trying to thwart our immigration laws, among others, and need to be removed from office.

As I read the original post, Bob's commentary has nothing to do with its topic. He is trying to hijack it for his own purposes.

Commented: Monday, September 21st, 2026 @ 9:03 am By: borderhawk

Ukraine just blew up another huge Russian refinery, this one right in Moscow, 8 or 9 miles from the Kremlin itself. They need to do this to stop the invasion of their own country, but it is not going to help the worldwide shortage of refined petroleum products.
www.zerohedge.com

Russia is not going to get BACK TO EXPORTING GAS AND DIESEL ANY TIME SOON.

Commented: Sunday, September 20th, 2026 @ 3:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When illegal aliens make up a double digit percentage of the population, it means the government is NOT doing its duties to its own citizens to catch and deport the interlopers. It is particularly bad when the invaders are also committing lots of other crimes while there.

Commented: Sunday, September 20th, 2026 @ 9:12 am By: Conservative Voter

Roy Cooper has always been pathetic, whether it is closing NC for years because of his very poor choices, and thoughtlessness during Covid, or working diligently to put boys and men in women's bathrooms and lockers, Roy Cooper's values are a crap shoot, depending on the Leftist political wind.

Roy Cooper may not be politically or governmentally bright, but he has taken a solid shine to Leftism.

Commented: Saturday, September 19th, 2026 @ 8:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The lengths you will go to prop up the trump administration is astounding. But I get it. The other day Trump said he will cutoff disaster relief to western NC should a Cooper win in Nov

Think about that. What kind of sick human being says that?

Commented: Saturday, September 19th, 2026 @ 8:17 am By: Big Bob