Completely off topic, but I figured maybe if I post this it will get a discussion started. I submit that the DOGE stuff has been titillating and is designed to rally the MGA faithful, but to what end? Most of us here have had some queasy feelings about Trumps embrace of the Zionist state and his rhetoric was off putting leading many of to ask what is going on? Could that end be to distract us from what is really going on? After all how and why did so many big players suddenly embrace Trump? Why is Silicon Valley movers and shakers on board with Trump? All go questions then Catherine Austin Fitts enters the picture and this Solaris study was dropped onto Lew Rockwell's site: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/no_author/trump-administration-digital-control-grid-coming-together-at-high-speed/
I really like CAF. Have been reading her for years making many of the same arguments about digital control, hyper-financialization, and the coming neo-feudalism generally, but in context of the prior lefty/globalist/expert-class regimes. It is exactly Trump's Israel policies and the sudden, ardent SV embrace (same people who'd monetize their own mothers out of existence, but now care about "America") that give me the greatest pause that The Who were right about that old/new bosses bit.
Just to add some history I had to look it up myself - just taken/understood from what I read
The Two top parties currently are the CDU and AFD
Current government leader Sholz's party SPD (Social Democratic Party) took a 10 % hit in votes - a terrible performance and is in Third place
( Sholz will be gone but maybe the EU Commission will hire him; would Not surprise me, toed the company line )
What is interesting is that the CDU party (Christian Democratic Union) has consistently stated that it will not work with the AfD party (Alternative für Deutschland) in Germany. Though they appear to share similarities
Noting the CDU had to change it's position over the last few years from what was an open immigration stance under Merkel to a more closed position - this likely had a lot to do with the growth of the AfD.
The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union) political position is an illegal immigration freeze advocating permanent border controls at Germany’s nine land borders and to turn back undocumented entrants and boost deportations
The CDU has apparently claimed they are fearful of violating EU rules and regulations
The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) political position is against most all migration into Germany and the EU requesting closing Germany’s borders entirely to undocumented entrants, rejecting asylum seekers at the border, and establishing a five-year freeze on immigration and naturalizations
I found this map interesting, which shows AfD coming in first in almost every state/region that was in old East Germany. In 2021, AfD came in first in about half of the states/regions in the southern half of old East Germany. For now, the former East Germany has moved conservative.
Completely off topic, but I figured maybe if I post this it will get a discussion started. I submit that the DOGE stuff has been titillating and is designed to rally the MGA faithful, but to what end? Most of us here have had some queasy feelings about Trumps embrace of the Zionist state and his rhetoric was off putting leading many of to ask what is going on? Could that end be to distract us from what is really going on? After all how and why did so many big players suddenly embrace Trump? Why is Silicon Valley movers and shakers on board with Trump? All go questions then Catherine Austin Fitts enters the picture and this Solaris study was dropped onto Lew Rockwell's site: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/no_author/trump-administration-digital-control-grid-coming-together-at-high-speed/
Hmmmmmm!
I really like CAF. Have been reading her for years making many of the same arguments about digital control, hyper-financialization, and the coming neo-feudalism generally, but in context of the prior lefty/globalist/expert-class regimes. It is exactly Trump's Israel policies and the sudden, ardent SV embrace (same people who'd monetize their own mothers out of existence, but now care about "America") that give me the greatest pause that The Who were right about that old/new bosses bit.
What does SV mean?
I was wondering what Steve Bannon was going on about with respect to Musk. There are those who sense there's more than than meets the eye.
Results are starting to look even more favorable for AfD.
AfD: 20.8% ... that's up from the initial claim of 19.5, and percentage wise that's significant.
CDU: 28.6% ... That's down from the initial claim of over 29.
How does the establishment freeze out AfD?
Just to add some history I had to look it up myself - just taken/understood from what I read
The Two top parties currently are the CDU and AFD
Current government leader Sholz's party SPD (Social Democratic Party) took a 10 % hit in votes - a terrible performance and is in Third place
( Sholz will be gone but maybe the EU Commission will hire him; would Not surprise me, toed the company line )
What is interesting is that the CDU party (Christian Democratic Union) has consistently stated that it will not work with the AfD party (Alternative für Deutschland) in Germany. Though they appear to share similarities
Noting the CDU had to change it's position over the last few years from what was an open immigration stance under Merkel to a more closed position - this likely had a lot to do with the growth of the AfD.
The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union) political position is an illegal immigration freeze advocating permanent border controls at Germany’s nine land borders and to turn back undocumented entrants and boost deportations
The CDU has apparently claimed they are fearful of violating EU rules and regulations
The AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) political position is against most all migration into Germany and the EU requesting closing Germany’s borders entirely to undocumented entrants, rejecting asylum seekers at the border, and establishing a five-year freeze on immigration and naturalizations
If Trump's agenda is successful, it will spread like wildfire to politically corrupt states like Germany. It'll be fun to watch the cascade.
I hope so, Bob, but we Euros are a different kettle of fish to Americans.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-germanys-cdu-wins-elections-populist-conservative-afd/
I found this map interesting, which shows AfD coming in first in almost every state/region that was in old East Germany. In 2021, AfD came in first in about half of the states/regions in the southern half of old East Germany. For now, the former East Germany has moved conservative.
Things could get interesting if they try to firewall the AfD again. They can't be kept out forever.
Merz, Mr. Blackrock himself: https://unherd.com/2025/02/will-merz-sell-germany-to-blackrock/