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Angela Merkel 'to give up CDU chair after 18 years', after German voters punish party in regional poll
The Telegraph/UK, Oct 29, 2018

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will not stand again as leader of her centre-right CDU, a party source told AFP Monday, a clear sign that the German leader is preparing for her eventual succession after a series of regional vote defeats.

National news agency DPA said she planned to remain chancellor even as she gives up the top party job.

"She will not stand again for the chairmanship of her party" when it meets at a congress in December to elect a new leader, said the source within the Christian Democratic Union.

Mrs Merkel has chaired the CDU for 18 years and has until now insisted that the presidency of the party went hand in hand with the chancellorship post.

In power as chancellor for 13 years, Mrs Merkel has become greatly weakened since last year's general election, when voters handed her an inconclusive result that forced her to form an uneasy coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats.

Mrs Merkel is due to hold a press conference at 1pm (12pm GMT).


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/29/angela-merkel-give-cdu-chair-18-years/

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It will be interesting to see how long she lasts as Chancellor.

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I’d like to think it was the Trump Effect that lead to her demise, but it’s more likely that it was the unconstrained “migration” (3rd world invasion) she foolishly welcomed with open arms.

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Merkel is a milquetoast, snivelling coward, who hates her own country and culture. She, like most idiot Liberals, thinks that she can make 'reparations' for the past by allowing millions of primitive savages to invade her country. Of course, this is obviously a form of insanity.

Merkel's name will go down in history alongside Chamberlain as an abject fool who almost destroyed her own country with a kind of retarded naiveté.
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EXCLUSIVE: Alternative for Germany MP Petr Bystron Responds to Angela Merkel’s Plan to Step Down in 2021
by Cassandra Fairbanks October 29, 2018

Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Petr Bystron is not satisfied with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s announcement that she will be stepping down in 2021.

Bystron told The Gateway Pundit that she should have stepped down in 2017, after her party’s dramatic losses in the federal elections.    ...

"Merkel has damaged Germany and Europe more than anyone would have thought possible only four years ago. Just last week, we found out an 18-year-old girl was gang-raped by alleged Syrian refugees on Oct. 13 in Freiburg by people who were here illegally, had criminal records, and never should have been let in in the first place. How many other young women will have to have their live destroyed or even ended violently until Angela Merkel finally leaves?” Bystron demanded.  ...More at Gateway Pundit
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She'll be stepping down a lot sooner than she realizes and no tears will be shed.

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240b wrote:
"Merkel's name will go down in history alongside Chamberlain as an abject fool who almost destroyed her own country with a kind of retarded naiveté."

Almost...???

I think it's "almost" too late for that qualifier.

There was an article posted here yesterday that claims 42% of all those under the age of 6 in Germany are now "migrants".

Demographics are destiny.
What does this bode for the future there?

Again...  "almost"....???

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Angela Merkel 'to give up CDU chair after 18 years', after German voters punish party in regional poll
The Telegraph/UK, Oct 29, 2018

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will not stand again as leader of her centre-right CDU, a party source told AFP Monday, a clear sign that the German leader is preparing for her eventual succession after a series of regional vote defeats.

National news agency DPA said she planned to remain chancellor even as she gives up the top party job.

"She will not stand again for the chairmanship of her party" when it meets at a congress in December to elect a new leader, said the source within the Christian Democratic Union.

Mrs Merkel has chaired the CDU for 18 years and has until now insisted that the presidency of the party went hand in hand with the chancellorship post.

In power as chancellor for 13 years, Mrs Merkel has become greatly weakened since last year's general election, when voters handed her an inconclusive result that forced her to form an uneasy coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats.

Mrs Merkel is due to hold a press conference at 1pm (12pm GMT).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/29/angela-merkel-give-cdu-chair-18-years/

The Christian Democratic Union doesn't sound very "center-right" to me, considering that their CDU President Angela Merkel has clearly shown by her actions on the international stage that she is a highly connected globalist--which makes her a leftist in these days.  And the fact that Merkel was able to get the help of the Social Democrats (pure leftists who claim to be "center-left") to form a governing coalition tends to confirm that she is a smarmy Socialist, not anywhere on the right.

Merkel's political gamesmanship, landing her the Chancellor's job in the past and now confirming her in it again (?), reminds me of the confusing terminology of the group that got Hitler installed as Chancellor (despite the fact that he had never won a popular election).  If I recall my readings in history correctly, the main group in Germany's parliament that gave us Hitler was the group known as the Christian Social Democrats.  (They were a predominantly Catholic group of "progressives.") 

That's what you get when you combine the terminology of "Christian Democratic Union" with that of "Social Democrats"--which is a cute warning, it seems to me, that German politics is probably even more dysfunctional than ours. 

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Nazi is an. acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party

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Nazi is an. acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party

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Nazi is an. acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party


Note that it doesn't have the word "Nationalist" in it, but it sure does have the word "Socialist" in it.

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The Christian Democratic Union doesn't sound very "center-right" to me, considering that their CDU President Angela Merkel has clearly shown by her actions on the international stage that she is a highly connected globalist--which makes her a leftist in these days.

Our political paradigm is not the same as in other countries. In Europe Barack Obama would have been right wing.
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Our political paradigm is not the same as in other countries. In Europe Barack Obama would have been right wing.

That's probably correct.  The terms "left" and "right" are terms that grew out of Socialism itself, because "Left Wing" and "Right Wing" were the terms coined by Stalin.  The Left Wing of Socialism, in Stalin's model, was International Socialism--i.e. Communism.  The Right Wing of Socialism, again, according to Stalin, was National Socialism--i.e. Nazism.

As I seem to recall from my own reading, America's mid-Twentieth-Century radical libs (all of whom where at least proto-Communists and in many cases were diehard devotees of Stalin himself) soon coopted Stalin's terms "Left" and "Right" and deliberately used the term "Right Wing" to smear their political opponents.  After all, the Nazis were the nationalistic enemies of globalistic Stalinists--so, the globalism-oriented American Socialists used the term "Right Wing" as a ridiculously broad brush to paint all of their own political enemies (all patriotic and therefore necessarily nationalistic [not to mention capitalistic] Americans) as veritable Nazis.  This terminological switcheroo was patently dishonest in that it automatically trashes any American who genuinely loves America as it was Constituted and at the same time obscures the pivotally important fact that such Americans are decidedly anti-Socialists--certainly not Nazis (not even close!).

One of the spookiest things about the confusion in American politics is that the godless, lawless Globalist Socialists can pull out and use their Nazi-name-calling meme practically any time patriotic Americans insist that law and order be maintained in defense of domestic (national!) peace and safety.  For example, any American President who decides to use our police or our military (omigosh) to defend our borders or to defend our civil society against domestic enemies (for example, Alinskyite rioters) is sure to be labeled as a totalitarian monster.

("Yeah, Right-Wingers are just like that!  They are heartless deplorables who hate people of other ethnicities and religions.  And they like GUNS [omigosh].")

This propaganda backlash will surely hit Trump very soon.  The whole mess is a matter of ideological smoke and mirrors, mainly because of stupid people who have been easily fooled by the self-righteous liars on the "Left."

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The above essay will hopefully explain why I said earlier on this thread that the mess being seen in German is at least somewhat comparable to the mess in America.  (Oh, it gets even worse.  For example, Prescott Bush was a banker for the Nazis.  And his son George Bush 41 is clearly a Global Socialist--who used the phrase "New World Order" 200 times in his speeches.  He also clearly lied in his confirmation hearing for the position of CIA Director and ought to be a person of interest, at least, in the earlier CIA plot that killed JFK.  No kidding.)

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A reflection.
Actually, the right/left political divide evolved from a very mundane
event, viz; seating arrangements in the Assemble' Francais of 1789.
The Monarchists and Roman Catholic Clergy sat on the Right while
supporters of Danton, St.Just, Robespierre; among many, on the Left.

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A reflection.
Actually, the right/left political divide evolved from a very mundane
event, viz; seating arrangements in the Assemble' Francais of 1789.
The Monarchists and Roman Catholic Clergy sat on the Right while
supporters of Danton, St.Just, Robespierre; among many, on the Left.

Yep.  I'm aware of that account.  Still, it is credibly reported that Stalin was the guy who used that obvious (mundane) left-versus-right dichotomy to talk about the two wings of government power-grabbers in the Twentieth Century.  I believe Stalin's influence definitely does account for his American admirers' usage of "Right Winger" as a label to besmirch all patriotic Americans as Hitlerian in their ideology.  (After all, wasn't Hitler an ardent, uncompromising nationalist?)