Whoa, just to clear up a few things clear since this kinda took off:
1. As others have pointed out, if there is any poll movement, it is very small. I found the idea too funny not to share, and we all need a laugh.
2. I am not a news source!
3. Nobody likes JD Vance.
Thank you for the clarification. Some commentary on your points:
1: aFd hate is good, and funny is appreciated
2: no worries!
3: that's the kind of hard hitting fact-based journalism I expect from this esteemed account. 😁
Perhaps more correctly it's to pay unemployment benefits to the 3-5% unemployed that our current economic "systems" require there to be, to help keep inflation low.
That is, to avoid the civil unrest that would occur if unemployment benefits weren't paid to the necessary unemployed.
Could also be compounded by Alice Weidel, on a live talk show, telling the director of a non-profit elderly care network he wouldn't be having staff shortages "if he paid his employees better". Among other lovely things.
You love to see it. I have a theory that every country sees foreign right wingers as scarier and more extreme than their own. The Democrats attacked Trump over his links to Nigel Farage, whereas in Britain, Farage was criticised for his links to Trump. Maybe Germans feel the same way about Vance?
A small silver lining is that Trump and co is a wake-up call to people who were alt-right curious that might hopefully get them to stick with the boring option over rolling the dice.
Yeah, there is some variability there - if anything AfD seems flat. The one constant is a spike for die Linke - I'm assuming a good % coming from Sahra Wagenknecht but maybe some from die Grüne and smaller parties as well.
I mean... the American liberal media flooded us with constant examples of Vance being a piece some awkward, cringe piece of shit and tried convincing us that it would affect Trump's image and look what happened...
I don't think that bigots who've already decided to vote Afd will change their minds.
There was a lot of reporting during the campaign that Vance's unlikeability was dragging the Trump campaign down too. Not sure this leads to the conclusion the headline implies.
Wouldn’t it be magnificent if Trump/Vance turn German voters away from the AfD and Canadians away from Polievre? That would be the first (and maybe the only) good thing they do.
1/ How did we get here? How did we get to the point where a US VP lays a wreath at Dachau, then goes to meet Alice Weidel, the leader of the Neo-Nazi AfD? How far up your backside do you have to be to attack Germany because it has laws against Holocaust denial &
2/ spreading Nazi propaganda after visiting a Holocaust concentration camp? How can Americans pretend you didn’t see that? I don’t know, I just don’t know.
vice president maybelline confuses speaking in a strong tone with speaking from a strong position. all he and petey and little marco and trumple are doing is driving the EU away from us. they will boot us from NATO soon.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill (which he'd like), JD Vance is a non-entity, wrapped in a vacuum, wrapped in a nullity. The realest thing about him is the eyeliner.
If you see his pre-beard photos, he's got a chubby little baby face. I guess it's hard to be taken seriously as a nutzee when you look like a cross between a cherub and a chipmunk with cheeks full of nuts.
*resisting the urge to joke about JD having a mouthful of someone's nuts*
No, the realest thing about him is the threat he poses to couches. If I owned a furniture store, I would cite J.D. Vance's existence as the reason why store funds are being spent on the paperwork to own some sort of drum-fed shotgun, and enough rock salt shells to keep it fed for years.
not sure though, look at the last lot of results and maybe a % off but all easy within MOE, what we can say is that Linke have benefited and the Union dropped a bit
Trump, for all of his clear vileness and complete lack of compassion as a statesman, did have the charisma of an A-list celebrity. Vance has literally none of that. Democrats might be licking their chops in 2028 if the economy falls apart and they select cultural moderate who's not ultra woke
I mean the man is odious. I’m originally from a state in Germany that currently has a 30% vote share for the AfD, I hope it’s MUCH less than that now that Vance meddled.
It's hard to be optimistic in hellworld but it does kind of look like Trump, Musk, and Vance are screwing up the United States but at the same time accidentally thwarting the global right-wing resurgence.
And Musk. Musk is such a cunt that good blue blood German Nazis look at him like a turd on their Aryan jackboots, much like they did with other fascists.
This sort of thing is why I am not really afraid of Vance in the event that Trump dies of some disease or another. He's so deeply unlikable, no one was drawn to vote for Trump because he picked Vance, Trump doesn't even like Vance.
Yeah, why not. Trump's already broken every single other law and norm so I don't see why he wouldn't say Vance can't advance to president through some stupid-ass EO if he felt like he was about to die.
The whole MAGA shtick is only popular in the US. Sure there are groups outside the US it appeals to, but they're all fringe elements unlike in massive swaths of the US.
"I had that sort of awed feeling one gets sometimes, when one has a close-up of the workings of Providence and realizes that nothing is put into this world without a purpose ... and that the meanest creatures have their uses." P. G. Wodehouse 😁
If Canada becomes the 51st state there would be a heavy migration north (the military and more resource collecting jobs) so those are red jobs so the voting in Canada could turn the other way once Canada becomes fully utilized!
Realistically I doubt it will do that much, but we may very well be able to avoid the Con majority that seemed like a near certainty just a couple of months ago.
Elon and Trump wreaking havoc in the US and beyond is spooking ordinary voters who might’ve been more open to conservative and right-wing politics. Now Tesla sales are crashing around the world, especially in Europe, because of Elon’s interference.
realitvly recent poll conducted in the second largest city in germany. While certainly not an indicator of the country as a whole - it seems to show a similar effect.
Sooner we realize that all of them are bunch of incompetent dilettantes the better for the whole world... We need that kid now to tell us that "The emperor" has no clothes at all...
I hope that's true. I'm here in Germany, and I still see them polling very comfortably in second place. They have a real shot at becoming the strongest party here on Sunday, which would trigger a constitutional crisis. We have 4 days left to prevent that from happening..
The European far-right has been funded and bought by Putin for the last 20 years. And before that, of course, they hated the USA for having destroyed Hitler.
Thus, anti-americanism is high among both the far-right and the far-left.
And as it takes time to shift their perceptions, what Vance and Musk are doing is probably not efficient, right now.
But don't rejoice too soon. It takes time, but that's a finite amount of time. Back in the days, they hated Russia too.
'We do very well see brown, but it sits mostly in a diaper at home, plus on the forearm & face of this VP.'
Shit is real.
Horseshoe-Overload.
Counting down for when Blonde Turd Geert Wilders sees real colours....
(he praised JDV unequivocally, but oddly stepped back from supporting NL->UKR troops)
Its not only Vance. Americans always underestimate the influence of anti-Americanism in Europe. Many Europeans, including right-wingers, hate their arrogance and ignorance and have absolutely no desire to replicate it. Trump has amplified that a thousand fold.
They haven’t really “liked” us as a country but now they’ve ditched being polite about it. They like some of us as individuals but wonder what the hell is wrong with our country.
Twice last year the far-right was supposed to have amazing results in Europe in big countries, and twice is flopped miserably. I have more hope in their sanity.
This is the logical fallacy with these right-wing nutters. They think they are a part of the same movement, when in reality they are all ultra-nationalists and in conflict with each other.
But stupid is what stupid does.
Hope so, however, I have 2 German friends, both medical consultants, who tell me that most of their (well educated, professionals) friends, are voting AfD and that many of them used to vote for the Greens.
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1. As others have pointed out, if there is any poll movement, it is very small. I found the idea too funny not to share, and we all need a laugh.
2. I am not a news source!
3. Nobody likes JD Vance.
1: aFd hate is good, and funny is appreciated
2: no worries!
3: that's the kind of hard hitting fact-based journalism I expect from this esteemed account. 😁
Instead of money comes from the state that creates the currency & banks that create loans
Then why do we pay taxes ?
Self governance
Also, states declare a legal unit of account
Then impose a tax or fee/fine payable only in that unit of account
Now Americans want dollars, Brits want pounds, etc
https://bsky.app/profile/ausmmt.bsky.social/post/3lijnaeffii2i
Everything from lack of productive capacity to too much bank lending
That is, to avoid the civil unrest that would occur if unemployment benefits weren't paid to the necessary unemployed.
Infinitely + or - X Tax = Infinity
Also, a Job Guarantee could set the minimum wage
Versus unemployment to keep wages low
They emptied their sacks all over "Hillbilly Elegy", which we now know is mostly myth.
But Thiel got his Trojan Horse in & JD is a choked McNugget away from the presidency.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/sonntagsfrage-umfragen-zu-bundestagswahl-landtagswahl-europawahl-a-944816.html
I don't think that bigots who've already decided to vote Afd will change their minds.
#PierrePoilievreIsBroken
You better support CSU and Ukraine!
It's probably too optimistic, but... if only a few percentage points of voters get turned off, that could be enough, at least for now
*resisting the urge to joke about JD having a mouthful of someone's nuts*
he is widely considered to have "won" the debate against Walz
https://bsky.app/profile/groda.eu/post/3lii3oscrbc2i
"Mr. Hillbilly" - if the moniker fits...
Wonder if the German’s have a word for that…
https://youtu.be/IZU-Sba5Ssg?si=LAu7KxoWzI7kqLu1
Nobody wants this shit .
Politico polling average shows a slight down tick since he spoke, but nothing that would move them out of second place.
As he is a harbinger of death in Appalachia.
Finally the job has gone to someone for whom it is a fair trade.
Thus, anti-americanism is high among both the far-right and the far-left.
But don't rejoice too soon. It takes time, but that's a finite amount of time. Back in the days, they hated Russia too.
Shit is real.
Horseshoe-Overload.
Counting down for when Blonde Turd Geert Wilders sees real colours....
(he praised JDV unequivocally, but oddly stepped back from supporting NL->UKR troops)
Actual dipshits out there who're like "Ya, I was all ready to cast my vote for Mr. Himmler, but that sofaficker really put me off the whole project."
America is teaching the world a valuable lesson.
But stupid is what stupid does.