I’m hosting family, so this won’t be a long post, but the story of Friedrich Merz’s debt brake overhaul continues to be one of the greatest political farces I have ever seen, and I need to get this off my chest.
Let us summarise, briefly, what has happened so far:
- The CDU is the party of fiscal responsibility. His Triviality the Pigeon Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented himself throughout the campaign as an unusual fan of Germany’s constitutionally-anchored debt break. He told everybody that he could not imagine ever borrowing in excess of 0.35% of annual GDP, so interested was he in limiting the tax burden of future generations.
- All of the while, Merz and his advisers were scheming in secret about how they might overhaul the debt brake, firstly because they could not give the slightest shit about the tax burdens of future generations, and secondly because they spent the months since November 2023 observing what happens when a government that has no ideas is also deprived of money. “I have no ideas,” Merz said to himself during this time. “What happens if like Olaf Scholz I also end up with no money?”
- Exactly two weeks ago, US President Donald J. Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had a verbal spat in the Oval Office. This spat put the fear of God into the Eurocrat establishment, for whom the Ukraine war has become a sacred and essentially religious cause. Merz capitalised on the panic to unveil his massive debt spending plan. He and his would-be coalition partners, the Social Democrats, announced that they wished to spend €500 billion of debt on “infrastructure” and untold hundreds of billions of debt on defence. This would entail adjustments to the debt brake, in the same way setting your house on fire would entail adjustments to your living arrangements.
- This massive spending package will require a constitutional amendment, which can only be achieved with a two-thirds vote of the Bundestag. In the newly elected Bundestag, Die Linke and AfD will be in a position to block this amendment and Merz will be stuck with the debt brake. Thus Merz wants to break the debt brake in the final days of the old Bundestag – a strategy that has put him in the amazing position of grovelling before the election’s biggest losers. Specifically, Merz has spent the past few days feverishly negotiating with the Green Party, who will not even have any role in his Government, just to get it to sign off on his insane spending plans.
I wrote a lot here and on X about the election nightmare scenario I called the “Kenyapocalypse” – a hypothetical in which the Greens and the Social Democrats would each be too weak to give the Union parties a majority on their own, such that Friedrich Merz would be forced to negotiate a coalition deal with both of them at once. In the end, Kenyapocalypse did not happen; the CDU avoided it by a razor’s breadth. Merz, however, turns out to be such a monumental retard that he has managed to recreate a simulacrum of Kenyapocalypse for himself. The man has been on his knees kissing not only Social Democrat but also Green ass for days. He has been begging the Greens to sign onto his debt plan, and the Greens have finally agreed, in return for the following concessions:
- The “defence” funding that will be exempt from the debt brake is to be defined as widely as possible. All kinds of things will count as debt brake-exempt “defence” spending now, probably including various climate nonsense.
- The €500 billion “infrastructure” debt is to include €100 billion specifically earmarked for the “Climate and Transformation Fund” – the central financial instrument of the energy transition. This is basically infinity windmill money, you might as well set it on fire. Beyond this specific allocation, any projects that contribute to making Germany “climate neutral by 2045” will also be eligible for the €500 billion exception. This whole thing will be a massive wad of debt for Green nonsense and I would like to take this moment to laugh at everyone who told me how happy I should be that Merz was trying to fix Germany’s bridges with this debt bullshit. Nothing of the sort is going to happen.
- You will note that the explicit goal of achieving “climate neutrality” by 2045 is slated to be among the very few positive political points anchored in the German constitution. “Climate neutrality” is a more expansive concept than mere “carbon neutrality” or Net Zero. It describes a utopian state of affairs in which human actions have no influence on the climate whatsoever.
These are prizes the Greens could not achieve even at the height of their influence in the 2021 elections. Strictly speaking, the entire traffic light coalition fell apart over a matter of €3 billion. Now the Greens are getting €100 billion for free, all because Merz is determined to become Chancellor whatever the cost.
This deal is an abomination and I despair that it can no longer be stopped. The constitutional court in Karlsruhe has rejected attempts to block this manoeuvre, which I expected – the old Bundestag, as long as it still exists, cannot be limited in its prerogatives. The best option now is for Alternative für Deutschland and Die Linke (the Left Party) to join forces and compel the new Bundestag to constitute itself, ahead of the scheduled vote by the old Bundestag. For this, we need a mere 25% of the new Bundestag to agree, but the Left Party is so far withholding its cooperation. There is but one true opposition party in Germany, and that is the AfD. Love it or hate it, it is on the right side of these issues again and again, and I hope it can bring Die Linke around.
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Where Germany goes Kneel follows so we can expect more grotesque spending, more eco madness, huge debt and massive tax hikes. Added to which food prices are going to go through the roof. Kneel is definitely going to brew things up this summer.
Thebowlerhatfarmer
Warnings on food prices:
https://youtu.be/XR0-6OWXCzE?si=v9RIFSWsjPZdq1sI
Is it true that Yusuf is maybe getting sacked from Reform? Not sure if you’ve heard anything…?
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1901202723501986055
Rumours Mogs. Actually Useless cannot be sacked because he jointly owns Reform with Farage.
Oh, go and vote Conservative. You know you want to.
I’ll vote Reform if it was run by a donkey!
It’s not for the fact they’ll do anything better, it’s to show the uniparty they are not the only choice anymore
And by the way, a donkey would certainly do less economic damage to the country by doing nothing!
Ahhhhhhhhh!
All of this makes me think of what it must have been like to be an ordinary Czech or Hungarian or East German in the late 1940s as they discovered communism had descended on them and were powerless to do anything about it except run away if they could. Or like Iranians in 1979 who from one day to the next found themselves in a radical Islamic state.
Europe (whether we like it or not, together with the UK) is morphing into a climate fundamentalist cult superstate. And it feels as if our choices are to watch as they take away our cars, our food and transform our lives with ever more intrusive totalitarian measures, or escape to somewhere else, watch the nightmare unfold from afar and wait to see how long it takes before it collapses.
Europe (whether we like it or not, together with the UK) is morphing into a climate fundamentalist cult superstate.
I am frustrated that the bulk of the population seems oblivious, or uncaring, about the perilous state we find ourselves in. If I were 40 years younger, I’d seriously consider my options. But as it stands, I’m staying here to fight until I am taken down.
By the late 1940s, the Czechs were busy with plundering, murdering and chasing away of all Germans who had been living in the supposed ‘Czech’ territory for about 1000 years, as decreed by the Allied Control Council in the name of Stalin, democracy and human rights.
Unless a party has a detailed manifesto, winning a General Election will be pointless, as the House of Lords will veto EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING.
And Farage is stopping this manifesto from ever being assembled. It needs many people, with a variety of specializations, from STEM, Medicine, Business, (even Football Clubs), Supply Chain Management, Finance, Manufacturing, Mining, and a will to enforce our laws, not foreign laws. Without that the political effort will be wasted, as well as another five years.
And Nigel has let the cat out of the bag, in the first two minutes:
https://youtu.be/HnZ7jsuK7ws
Give everyone time to pause, and let things stew for a while. Some serious thinking needs to be done.
Das Theater des Absurden.
The legacy of Frau Doktor Merkel of Karl Marx University Leipzig ever nearer fruition.
Genau!
Who could have thought that Kurt Schwitters (inventor of Merz) would prove to be so prophetic.
Lifted from Wikipedia:
The use of found objects clearly being ‘climate neutral’ – he was a pioneer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merz_(art_style)
All stand to attention for Das 20-Jahre Reich of Energy Fortress Germany.
It will be a peculiar fortress, keeping Energy at bay.
Good. Let the German Empire fail. Let it deindustrialise.
Fewer assets and resources to be given to Mahometans when they take over.
By all means please go bankrupt.
Really? Germany going bankrupt simply means more immigrants heading for the British Isles.
Indeed. More shyte on the way to UK.
I’m afraid but the Amuricans who also just lost an election are going to come for you, too, and feverishly reciting the meanwhile seriously dated WWII script won’t save you.
Perfection would be if Britain had some Manufacturing to sell to the Germans.
What a catastrophe.
Friedrich Merz, BlackRock, WEF. QED.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, STUPID!!!!
Must be democracy day again — a prospective chancellor who has yet to take an oath of office conspiring with its supposed to political enemies, including the chameleon-SED with the 5000 names, to change the constitution to spend €€€ of borrowed money on climate projects and polit-quangos associated with these parties (the so-called Zivilgesellschaft) before the “Nazis” can prevent that by actually occupying the parliamentary seats they’ve supposedly acquired by vote.
Can someone remind me who voted for that? And how come they’re still following the political directives of the Biden administration to the letter if Germany’s so “sovereign” and governed by true representatives of the German people?
Here we have a photograph of a pair of Beta-males.
They would be overdressed in nappies.
The left guy (Friedrich Merz) is descended from a family of catholic, French aristocrats, he’s a lawyer and has sat on the board of 15 different companies, among them Ernst & Young and BlackRock, which made him into a multimillionaire. He’s still a board member of five of them, including Ernst & Young. This guy is a shark trying his best to look like a sheep because that’s presumably helpful to him.
He probably couldn’t care less that he’s not a Andrew Tate style guy, especially at 69 and in a marriage with the same woman since 1981.
Geemany is so communist (thanks to the east German commies entering West German poltics) that it will collapse.
Germany has fecked up Europe several times in the last 150 years, since it became unified under Prussian domination. It should have been broken up after the last war into 5 small countries, never again to be unified.
Germany has such influence over Europe that anything they do affects the continent, usually badly. Collapse is now inevitable. Civil wars across Europe and the UK are not far away now.
Down with Deutchland!
Remigration!
Did you notice the French guy who recently boasted that “we”, that is, he and his pals, killed the Romanian presidential election and would do the same for German elections should this become necessary?
I’m afraid but your country has been a junior partner in a plot to restore French hegemony to the continent for about “the last 120 years” and the outcome was absolutely not pretty, neither for Britain which is no longer world power because of the enormous costs of that nor for the millions of people who got robbed and murdered and driven from their homes by the Russian allies of France. But you’ve now certainly atoned for opposing Napeoleon who’s presumably laughing in his grave because of that.
Straight out of the 2TK play book, absence of integrity.
What on earth do they think Germany’s great wealth was founded on?
Cheap Russian Gas?