When you hang around a lot of south will rise again types it’s hard to believe a country can move on. - ThreadSky

schooley.bsky.social • 18 days ago

When you hang around a lot of south will rise again types it’s hard to believe a country can move on.

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe

TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day

MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

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dunc99.bsky.social•18 days ago

Trumps paternal grandparent was a german draft dodger.

blkshrink.bsky.social•18 days ago

mrgrumpeepantz.bsky.social•18 days ago

Trump is an incredible idiot.

talgje56.bsky.social•17 days ago

Putins orange puppet won’t help Ukraine- he’s got too much to lose - sickening!

myanulrich.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ignoramus!

normalleigh53.bsky.social•18 days ago

Two mistakes:
1. Trump doesn't know what D Day is.
2. The German Chancellor thinks Trump's going to go against Russia and side with Ukraine.

fingenanz.bsky.social•18 days ago

No, the German chancellor doesn’t think that.
We in Germany try to delay the US from pulling their support and security guarantees as long as possible.
We need time to rearm.

There is a different tone in German compared to English media appearances.

normalleigh53.bsky.social•18 days ago

So you believe the Chancellor is aware of Trump's devotion to Putin?

fingenanz.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yes of course.

fingenanz.bsky.social•18 days ago

The conservatives in Germany were against any debt for decades.
The whole debt for rearmament was announced because of Trumps meeting with selensky in the White House.

fingenanz.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is in election night.
Just switch on the subtitles at 38:55.
Since then the public communication has changed in order to appease the US for now.

https://youtu.be/hsmkyrEbh1k?si=20Xel8HBOPUxWRSd

normalleigh53.bsky.social•18 days ago

Good to know. The Chancellor appears to be a gentleman.

foglightmj.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is devastating. In the Oval Office, the president of The United States is openly siding with the Nazis in WWII.
Many of us have family members who gave everything to defeat Nazis, educate others about that history, and believe that in the United States of America that kind of hate has no home.

davelindsay.bsky.social•18 days ago

The saving grace of Germans, including Merz, is that when encountering a personality like Trump’s, they spit out flat bureaucratic declarative sentences.

davidgoodhand.com•18 days ago

You could describe the US Civil War as liberating the Southern people from a slave-holding elite, but I am afraid their modern descendants would reply that they want to be ruled by a slave-holding elite.

wormwood23.bsky.social•18 days ago

Mertz: We have this thing called “growth”.

Trump: You should really get that checked out. You know we have great healthcare here in America.

john-h-nordrhein.bsky.social•18 days ago

So glad that we don't have wide-spread 'lost cause' revisionism about WW2 in Germany.

geminipsyche.bsky.social•18 days ago

dank8870.bsky.social•18 days ago

Holy COW! What an ignorant statement from Trump.

szunflower.bsky.social•18 days ago

And on top of telling Trump he was wrong about it not being a good day, he should have added that NO COUNTRY WANTS TO BE UNDER A DICTATOR OR GOVERNES BY NAZIS.

szunflower.bsky.social•18 days ago

Good for Merz for talking so strongly and clearly about support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia. I would have like him to say “that is not correct, it was actually a very good day”

cmhoskins.bsky.social•18 days ago

Exactly! lol

rustee1320.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is severe cognitive decline. 2547.

farmhousechic.bsky.social•18 days ago

Has he posted about how he came up with the term holocaust? It's an old timey sort of word. A big, beautiful word. Holocaust. Holocaust. Caust. Things caust more under Biden. In fact it was Biden who built those summer camps in your country. And it was discrimination.

guerillawomaning.bsky.social•18 days ago

Well, done👏

theknave144.bsky.social•17 days ago

What a weave you have woven there! 😂

guerillawomaning.bsky.social•18 days ago

It seems that we’ve forgotten what the role of POTUS is meant to represent. We are supposed to, as a society, select our best and brightest to represent us amongst the best and brightest of other countries.

Pretty simple, right ? And yet.

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social•18 days ago

Trump kind of doesn't look like himself here. I think we need to start accusing him of using body doubles. It will be fun.

mitz73.bsky.social•18 days ago

He had no clue!

gorangirldad.bsky.social•18 days ago

We never truly moved on. We would’ve been much better off if we had done one of two things:

1 . Taken a proper stance and given appropriate treatment to those who supported slavery, some form of closure - Nuremberg-style reckoning

2. Gone our separate ways and seen where we each ended up.

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•18 days ago

Would be sad for a family that had openly mocked military service and hold white supremacist values

wasatchu.bsky.social•18 days ago

1. It is not just the 'South will rise again' types. It is the Islamaphobes, the Christian Nationalists, basically anyone who is a repug. There is nothing in the repug programs, policies, and or practices which reflect what America once stood for. There is no Liberty and Justice for All. No General

wasatchu.bsky.social•18 days ago

2. welfare. No one person, one vote. No give me your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. True, we have never had these, but the promise was there. That promise no longer exists. What we have is a cult, an anti-American cult. We have traitors in heart, mind, and action. Some are

wasatchu.bsky.social•18 days ago

3. agents of a foreign power (Russia). They have always been with us. They were the Tories of the Revolution. The slavers of the Civil War. And now, the techo-fascists and Koch-Libertarians. Because they exist, we haven't moved on. Minimum wage is stuck at 2009. There is no national healthcare.

wasatchu.bsky.social•18 days ago

4. Education has become too expensive (it wasn't when I was growing up). We aren't making progress because they don't want us to. They made money the arbiter of justice. They have bribed and cooerced. They are traitors and should be treated as such. Maybe not overtly, but tacitly. They voted for

wasatchu.bsky.social•18 days ago

5. the fascists. They voted for the racists. The misogynists. They voted for the homephobes. They voted for the corrupt, the stupid, the ideological. They are the good Germans of America. If we want to move on we don't need them. When the dust settles, they should lose their citizenship, their vote.