A man, a plan, a canal: Fascism.

Wait, that doesn’t work.

Much like Nazism was not adopted by most Germans, Trumpism does not reflect the vast majority of Americans’ beliefs.

One of the first rules of being a strongman is that you flood the zone with the particular brand of shit that inflates your support, such that people start to believe resistance is futile.

Unfortunately, it works.

You have to concentrate them.

There’s definitely irony.

People have often asked who my idol is. Easy: Ernie Blake. Ernst Bloch, which was not going to go over so well, so, name change. He founded a ski area and set my life in a direction. He fled Germany in the '30s and became an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.

It’s actually somewhat wild to think about. Imagine us putting Muslims in crucial roles for the War on Terror.

And fleeing is the best choice. The U.S. can plant its own fucking trees (which it won’t) while I finally feel a sense of relief on a trans-Atlantic flight.

Oh, just now? Come on. He ran on dismantling the government, and somehow people thought he was kidding. That, and immigrants were causing all our problems.

I don’t see how we get ourselves out of this peacefully. Despite the party line being that everything will be better for business, what happens when domestic crops are left to rot in the fields because “the terrorists” were deported?

So, the 20% fentanyl tariff still applies.

When can I sign up for your newsletter?

I’m not a fan of you accusing me of being altered. It’s not a great look for you, either.

And I’m also not a fan of being talked down to. I’m going to leave it there, as you’re making assumptions and twisting my words to make what you said somehow make sense.

Having lived in Germany in the '90s and given current political winds, I don’t see AfD being able to get very far. Granted, this was the presumption of the NSDAP at first, and that didn’t go well.

But Germany has the benefit of “well, we done fucked up” that we do not in the states. Prior art has to be domestic to many voters, and we don’t have that.

Remember those AT&T ads from the '90s? “You will.”

We got all of those things and more. You know who didn’t bring it to you? AT&T.

This is a bunch of “facts” that reflects your experience as a television consumer.

Religiosity does not predict odds of committing homicide. Domestic violence is indicative of higher risk, but “always” going to murder is an absurd extrapolation that isn’t statistically backed up. My ex liked hitting me and throwing things at me, yet here I am.

I’ve no idea what you’re on about with making this a class issue. Rich people are just as likely to kill their spouses; they just know how to get away with it by outsourcing.

Germany will be among the last to fall. They have some guardrails up for all the Reich reasons.

Oil by the ton is not how anyone measures it (barrels) in market speak, and cubic metres is not how anyone measures natural gas (therms/mmBTU). This feels like deliberate obfuscation to make this sound more impressive than it is or at least to be so confusing that no one understands what it means.

We also don’t know the grade of crude, which makes a huge difference.

There’s a nonzero chance this is as described by both Heritage and Halevi on the surface. I don’t think we’re getting the full story, as this is about appearances, which don’t win wars (as the U.S. has repeatedly needed to learn).

CDU/CSU weren’t even nominally Christian in the '90s. It was weird to live somewhere with a secular party with “Christian” in the name and then come home to the beginnings of christofascism under the veneer of secularism. Strange times we live in.

The German government is legally obliged to ensure the human rights to social security and to an adequate standard of living contained in international treaties it has promised to uphold. Related treaties, standards, and guidance on social security, from UN and European human rights bodies, set out requirements for social security benefits to be adequate.

Germany’s Constitutional Court has developed jurisprudence on the minimum subsistence level required to live in dignity. This requires the state to ensure that people are left with at least enough of their earnings to cover their necessary living expenses, and to guarantee a minimum level of participation in social, cultural, and political life.

And here we see the gulf between legal requirements and implementation even in still-functioning democracies. It’s still surreal that Germany is holding but the U.S. has failed.

It’s certainly a crucial part of the path. But that’s at GA. By the time you’re doing specialist reporting?

This is worth a second response. In 1999, we ran out of reporters without considering that the State of the University was that night. So, who’s picked to cover this? Worst possible choice: me.

Great. Columnist sent to cover hard news.

Excerpts include UW President Richard McCormick “stressed the need for panhandling” on A1.

Someone sends me to cover a field I’m not familiar with? That’s malpractice.

It’s relevant to her expertise in the area. It also calls into question the overall state of the outlet that this is considered an acceptable bio.

Questioning sources is just as important as discussing the contents.