Sid Farkas said:

---

wsj op/ed on rise of the afd in Germany...nailed it

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-afds-rise-is-angela-merkels-legacy-15d277b0?st=y1uHmT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Quote:

---

The comfortable establishment explanation is that Germans are losing their minds and therefore need more guidance, correction and information from the establishment they are rebelling against. The less comfortable one is that today's political wreckage has a long prehistory, much of it written during the Angela Merkel era.

Ms. Merkel, who served as chancellor from 2005 through 2021, was for years treated as the great grown-up of Western politics: steady, pragmatic, reassuringly unexcitable. In retrospect, she looks more like the archetypal establishment tribune - brilliant at reading and managing insider consensus but incapable of noticing when the consensus itself had become the problem.

---

---

She should go down as the architect of their current upheaval. And she destroyed their ability to be energy independent.

Wonder if they get so much per head, in UN bucks(which we are paying for btw)?

We damn sure should never shed another drop of American blood for those dumb sobs. This ought to finish them off in short order.

nortex97 said:

---

The newest ministry of truth is born.

See….see…told you so pic.twitter.com/Td1IzoldK4

— Grok_Slow (@grok_slow) September 24, 2026

Of course, 'muh, russians' are the pretext/excuse.

Quote:

---

BREAKING PM Andy Burnham has announced plans for a new National Centre for Information Defence to improve community cohesion and prevent a "distorted and untrue narrative about Britain".

The new centre will draw up expertise and best practice, and ensure the UK has the defensive capability necessary to combat information warfare and build national resilience.

Mr Burnham said: "There is no national security without a strong, cohesive society. That's the starting point for everything we hold dear and everything we want to achieve. But the fact is that it has been under attack.

"In recent years we have seen an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment in the UK and many of our allies.

"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fears. They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles.

"Forged the branding of 28 British organisations including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far right narratives. And we have evidence that they tried to interfere with the 2019 General Election.

"We also know that they have tried to stoke tensions and unrest in the wake of horrific events. The idea that anyone would try to use such things to their advantage is just repulsive but it is what they do."

More now at @GBNEWS.

---

No budget announced yet. I'm sure this will be a small/efficient operation as with all government censorship entities.

---

Have Roger Waters or David Gilmour commented on this?

One more nail in the UK coffin.

Birmingham city council has moved to ban the English and British flags.

They have done this in the “interest of public safety.”

They propose instead to hoist the Pakistani flag.

Banning our own flag in our own country? Whoever proposed this should be deported at once.

This… pic.twitter.com/eTcSREJqVm

— Sedd (@SeddSezz) September 29, 2026

Death of a country update. https://t.co/Yv3drgwpVT

— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) September 28, 2026

"Unlock the inherent generosity" = commit suicide

It's just incredible at this point.

GDP per Capita is worse than the lowest US state, Mississippi.

Logical to bring in more refugees who contribute nothing and take everything from government coffeers.

Return of the King when William takes over?

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

GDP per Capita is worse than the lowest US state, Mississippi.

Logical to bring in more refugees who contribute nothing and take everything from government coffeers.

Return of the King when William takes over?

---

That's probably the only hope they have left and I'm not sure even his authority will matter at this point. They might likely just ignore him.

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

GDP per Capita is worse than the lowest US state, Mississippi.

Logical to bring in more refugees who contribute nothing and take everything from government coffeers.

Return of the King when William takes over?

---

It will probably be too late by then.

"Unlock the inherent generosity" translates to more stealing and taxes from the hard working UK taxpayer. Shabana Mahmood…. what a joke. It's already bad enough in the UK, this program will just accelerate the downfall. The UK is truly lost.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/09/30/uk-police-officers-taught-that-farage-spreads-anti-muslim-hate/

Quote:

---

British police officers who attended the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime Conference in 2025 were treated to a heavy-handed seminar in which delegates were taught that Islam is compatible with British values, that women are not oppressed by Islam, and that views expressed by mainstream British politicians should be legally actionable, according to footage leaked to a British newspaper.

---

Quote:

---

The Daily Telegraph stated the presentation to officers was given by former cop, Abbas Najib, who now runs the Better Communities Bradford activism group, and that it was intended to bust "myths and misconceptions about Islam". The session told the audience that "Muslims, the immigrant, the brown person" are scapegoated by society, while the problems are actually down to "the rich", the report states.
Several prominent British politicians were used to illustrate hate crime, with top politicians now involved with Reform UK featuring heavily, among them Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Michael Gove, and Matt Goodwin. Najib is reported to have said that if Islamosceptic remarks by such politicians had been said about Jewish communities instead, the politicians would have been arrested, and that the same approach should apply to scepticism of Islam.
Attendees were challenged to consider whether Nigel Farage speaking causes physical hate crimes to happen in real life, and to "draw your own conclusions".

---

So Farage and the conservatives are what is wrong with Britain today. Damned right wing nationalists.

Burnham wants to go almost full communist. Goodness gracious.

Quote:

---

...delivering an emotional and upbeat pitch that eschewed the oft-repeated promises of short-term economic growth and instead focused on a long-term vision of big state intervention aimed at uniting Britain's political left wing.

The planwhich could fundamentally alter the country's political trajectoryraises the prospect of years of tax increases to come and the U.K. state growing to a size more comparable to its European peers.

---

Quote:

---

he wants to make the case for the U.K. to undo Brexit either in part or in full and draw far closer to the European Union.

Decades of privatization, started under Margaret Thatcher, could be rolled back.

The nationalized healthcare system would be expanded to include elderly care, funded in part by trimming the growth in state pensions.

He also pledged to overhaul the voting system, to move it away from a winner-takes-all system, opening the path to more European-style coalition governments.

---

Quote:

---

During his hourlong speech, he didn't mention cutting government spending, or ways to get Britain's lethargic economy growing faster that don't involve state intervention

---

Quote:

---

In Burnham's reading, Britain's woes can be traced back to the 1980s and the weakening of the state after years of creeping privatizations. He wants the government to have greater direct control over utilities, housing, energy and transport so that it has the levers to respond to voters' needs, rather than relying on market forces to do the lifting instead. He used the word "control" 24 times, according to a transcript of his speech.

---

He's now leading over Reform because people are just flat stupid.

Quote:

---

Under Burnham, Labour is repairing the damage inflicted by the wooden Starmer, and now narrowly leads in the polls over the anti-immigration Reform U.K.

---

But reality...

Quote:

---

The question now is what happens when the Burnham bounce collides with fiscal reality. The U.K.'s borrowing costs are at the highest levels since the financial crisis in 2008, and the highest among the Group of Seven countries. Its debt is approaching 96% of GDP after a splurge of borrowing after the pandemic. In the fall, his Labour government is expected to raise the tax burden for a third year in a row, which could further crimp economic growth. Meanwhile, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey isn't hinting at any major cuts to the fast-growing welfare state.

---

Yeah they have hit 6% long term before anyone else, with no signs of slowing down.

BREAKING: The UK’s 30Y Government Bond yield rises to 6.02%, its highest level since January 1997.

That’s a total of +564 basis points since the low seen in 2020. pic.twitter.com/U3qq3hXE0i

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 1, 2026

Vote Labour/Left/Democrat! Open borders, that will solve it all.

Hard to believe this is the nation that elected this leader not so long ago.

They are a long ways from that though. Labour is now the militant party that fantasizes locking up dissenters (wrong think over Russia, because of course).

Quote:

---

Britain's Labour Party is not traditionally thought of as a bastion of militarism or authoritarianism. Yet listening to some of what its top figures have been saying recently might cause one to doubt the conventional wisdom on that.

Consider what Labour Party strategist Paul Richards said in a GB News interview earlier this month. Asked how the UK might respond to an increased Russian threat, Richardswho has worked for two Labour governmentsgave a disturbing answer. "We'd have to lock some people up," he said, "some of the pro-Russian voices, people who say there isn't a threat, [and say] 'Don't fight for your country, don't go to war for Burnham.'"

His comments are not a one-off. They reflect a worrying trend among Britain's political mainstreamthe old parties, media, and think tankswhich has increasingly adopted a siege mentality informed by the far-fetched expectation of imminent war with Russia.

Nor is the trend restricted to Britain. It spans the entire Western world. And it helps explain why the centrist political forces previously seen as "reasonable" are losing ground to the supposed "fringe." Apocalyptic millenarianism is no longer the domain of radical obscurantists, but of people like NATO's secretary-general Mark Rutte, who in 2025 seemed to foretell with relish a conflict between Europe and Russia on the scale of the SecondWorld War. "Imagine it," he said, "a conflict reaching every home, every workplace, destruction, mass mobilisation, millions displaced, widespread suffering and extreme losses."

It is politicians branded as far right or far left radicals who, surprisingly, have emerged as the main opposition to this unhinged bellicosity.

---

It's incredible because there, as elsewhere, they increasingly rely on their imported islamic voters to support them. Same in Germany:

Quote:

---

And the polls suggest German voters have little appetite for risking their country's future in such a gambit.

The AfD and other insurgent parties thrive when their opponents lean into hawkishness and authoritarianism, but so far there is little evidence the establishment understands this. Indeed, European political elites are doubling down. They recently invited Zelensky's former press secretary, Iulia Mendel, to speak in front of the European Parliament. But Mendel is a vocal critic of her former boss, and so the parliament's centrist leadership banned her from entering after Zelensky's government imposed sanctions on her (an extrajudicial punishment he is routinely applying to political rivals). By banning Mendel from speaking and turning a blind eye on Zelensky's abuse of power, the center once again chooses delusion and bellicosity over a genuine commitment to democracy.

Meanwhile, alternatives like the AfD will continue to fill the vacant space left in the middle of the political spectrum.

---

Quote:

---

Inflation in the eurozone rose to its highest level in three years last month, driven by accelerating energy prices, although a recent jump in government bond yields may make the European Central Bank wary of lifting its key interest rate again.

Consumer prices were 3.8% higher in September than the same month of last year, up from an annual rate of inflation of 3.2% in August, the European Union's statistics office Eurostat said Friday. That was the fastest rise in prices since September 2023.

---

Good.

https://t.co/pARuJxyDlB pic.twitter.com/X6WTC7R22J

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) October 3, 2026

Your average Western welfare state now steals twice as much as literal Communist regimes 😬 https://t.co/kacoNz7YoM

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) October 3, 2026

BREAKING:

🇪🇸 Spain’s far-left PM Pedro Sánchez’s government has collapsed

Sánchez has dissolved parliament and called a snap election for November 29, 2026, pulling forward the vote originally set for 2027.

The trigger was a major defeat on October 2, when right-wing…

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2026

Good to see. Sounds like the marxist has run out of other people's money.

In Europe now you are seeing the direct results of left wing governance.

Good. Hopefully, Spain rejects this communist and they get back to sane leadership. But I won't hold my breath.

Meanwhile, Burnham going full speed ahead with communism.

USD strengthening as reserve currency. The EU is a disaster.

Quote:

---

Globally, investors are flocking to safety, helping push the dollar close to an almost 18-month peak against a basket of currencies.

Supporting the greenback is a selloff in the euro: Markets are fretting about France's financial health, after new figures last week highlighted its ballooning public debt. French government bond yields have climbed to their highest levels since 2002, knocking the euro overall. France's stock market index also fell 1% today.

---

YouBet said:

---

USD strengthening as reserve currency. The EU is a disaster.

Quote:

---

Globally, investors are flocking to safety, helping push the dollar close to an almost 18-month peak against a basket of currencies.

Supporting the greenback is a selloff in the euro: Markets are fretting about France's financial health, after new figures last week highlighted its ballooning public debt. French government bond yields have climbed to their highest levels since 2002, knocking the euro overall. France's stock market index also fell 1% today.

---

---

The whole world is a disaster Europe is just the shortest midget. We're lamenting the Islamization of Europe but the truth is birth rates are so low I'm not sure they could stop an actual invasion if they had to. I don't think there's a world where Europe survives as is regardless of what happens with their Muslim invaders. Even if they commit to mass deportations and actually do it they still can't protect their own borders.

LOYAL AG said:

---

YouBet said:

---

USD strengthening as reserve currency. The EU is a disaster.

Quote:

---

Globally, investors are flocking to safety, helping push the dollar close to an almost 18-month peak against a basket of currencies.

Supporting the greenback is a selloff in the euro: Markets are fretting about France's financial health, after new figures last week highlighted its ballooning public debt. French government bond yields have climbed to their highest levels since 2002, knocking the euro overall. France's stock market index also fell 1% today.

---

---

The whole world is a disaster Europe is just the shortest midget. We're lamenting the Islamization of Europe but the truth is birth rates are so low I'm not sure they could stop an actual invasion if they had to. I don't think there's a world where Europe survives as is regardless of what happens with their Muslim invaders. Even if they commit to mass deportations and actually do it they still can't protect their own borders.

---

I believe you are correct which is why I think the EU as we know it will collapse within 5 years. You will have Central and Eastern EU countries finally see the writing on the wall and pull out to try and protect themselves. Ironically, this could mean cozying back up to Russia since Russia will at least try and fight off Islamization.

American WTI fell as Brent (European) diverged at a historical amount over diesel threats/talks.

Europe is out of luck, as usual. And their energy policy is to double down on fail:

“They all act as if you can sanction your way out of this crisis.”

Europe’s energy problems are worsening. @Raphfel examines the decision and impact of European leaders to double down on this failing strategy. He explains how the consequences of this, has resulted in… pic.twitter.com/Au5PlQxnuj

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) October 4, 2026

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/10/07/grotesque-golden-trump-statue-installed-in-european-parliament/

https://instagr.am/p/DeLp3x-MUN2

Yeah… that's just.. wow.. even if up for only 3 days the fact it went up at all says a lot about the USA being respected worldwide (much to rubio's chagrin)

texasnativeforumvisitor said:

---

Yeah… that's just.. wow.. even if up for only 3 days the fact it went up at all says a lot about the USA being respected worldwide (much to rubio's chagrin)

---

Meh. I have a general rule that I don't care about the opinion of people who aren't themselves respectable. Europe is destroying itself and Trump has told them as much. People that are failing rarely react well to being told they're their own worst enemy. The sculptor is a great example, by the way. He comments about Trump preventing them from fighting the climate crisis while Islam is raping and pillaging European citizens across the entire western EU.

To me this is today's reminder that liberals aren't serious people and shouldn't be taken seriously. If we could keep them away from important jobs that would be great, unfortunately we can't which is why we see the EU destroying their own economy in the name of climate change while the Muslim horde is conquering the continent. If Trump appeared before the EU today and told them they have to change course on immigration or they will lose their homelands they would laugh in his face like they did in 2019 when he told Germany they needed to fix their energy policies before they become dependent on Russia.

So yeah, the opinion of EU leaders isn't going to move the needle for me. They're toxic to their own countries and honestly if I'm Trump I welcome their ridicule. Probably means I'm doing something right.

texasnativeforumvisitor said:

---

Yeah… that's just.. wow.. even if up for only 3 days the fact it went up at all says a lot about the USA being respected worldwide (much to rubio's chagrin)

---

How much benefit did those countries provide us when we were "respected" back when Chicago Jesus was in charge? I'll give you a hint...NOTHING.

We also were providing them billions through USAID and straight out bribes like the one Biden orchestrated to keep the pressure off his son's position on the board of Burisma.

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

GDP per Capita is worse than the lowest US state, Mississippi.

Logical to bring in more refugees who contribute nothing and take everything from government coffeers.

Return of the King when William takes over?

---

William won't be any better than his daddy, except for the fact that he may be faithful to his beautiful wife.

An article by HRH The Prince of Wales on Christians in the Middle East

https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/article-hrh-prince-wales-christians-middle-east

This article was published in the pan-Arabic newspaper 'Asharq Alawsat' on Monday 26 May 2014:


"For more than twenty years, I have tried to build bridges between Islam and Christianity and to dispel ignorance and misunderstanding between them. Islam is the second largest faith community in the world and the second largest in Britain, and so bridges between Islam and Christianity are something that must concern every responsible person. That is one of the reasons I have been happy to be involved in many faith bridge-building projects, including helping establish the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and setting up the Prince's School for Traditional Arts in 2004. In 2008, I was honoured to be the first Westerner and Christian to receive an honorary doctorate from the 1000 year-old Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and will continue, God willing, to build bridges whenever possible."

"I have for some time felt great concern about those of all faith communities in the Middle East who are suffering so grievously at the present time. The rights of all people of faith in the Middle East should be respected. But it saddens me deeply that the ancient Christian communities are among those facing growing difficulties, despite the fact that part of their long and deeply-rooted history in the region is testimony to the tolerance and understanding Muslim leaders have shown in the past. It seems to me that the bridges of understanding which matter to us all are being deliberately destroyed by militant fundamentalists with a vested interest in doing so and this is achieved through intimidation, false accusation and organized persecution. It is my fervent hope and prayer that this should cease."

The man is a pandering fence walker. He hasn't taken a strong stance again Islam or the obvious open-border immigration takeover of the UK. Sure, he condemns political and religious violence, but he (like most others on the left in the UK) never condemns the violent, despicable, criminal, terroristic and other acts (not to mention the rhetoric) committed by the radicalized Islam community.

texasnativeforumvisitor said:

---

Yeah… that's just.. wow.. even if up for only 3 days the fact it went up at all says a lot about the USA being respected worldwide (much to rubio's chagrin)

---

It says more about how petty and stupid Western Europe is, frankly. It's a funny statue but is a childish attempt to obscure their own reality.

Orange Man Bad...while France burns from Muslims, the UK moves closer to Islamo-communism, and Spain's current communist leader calls snap elections to try and solidify his far left wing rule. All the while they have destroyed their ability to manage their own destiny because they have outsourced their energy production and their culture.

So, yeah, got'em....I guess.

One of the more unintentionally (I think) comical headlines this week was Tehran summoning the French ambassador about concerns they were using brutal tactics vs. their islamic rioters.

Iran summoned the French ambassador to Tehran Pierre Cochard over the violent suppression of student protests in Paris.

The Iranian MFA spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei called on France to respect human rights and refrain from using excessive force.

He contrasted France's earlier… pic.twitter.com/zVRbFIQIbf

— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) October 7, 2026

The irony to me is too thick. I think the IRGC are also on the UN human rights commission, and are vice-chair of the democracy panel or some such crap at the UN.

They took it down, but whatever, the lack of respect is just another indicia/data point as to why we should be getting out of Nato as soon as humanly possible.

BREAKING: The disgusting statue has been removed thanks to the work of U.S. ambassador to the European Union Andy Puzder. https://t.co/ysCNNRhroX

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 8, 2026

I didn't even read what it said until now. The irony of the statement on that statue is just so unbelievable I can hardly process it.

Europe castigating Trump about burdening people while you have Brussels and EU governments literally jailing people for speech and thought. Absolutely incredible.