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3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Germans need to get it together. They're currently scrambling to try to quickly hold a second round of votes. 

Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s chancellor fails in parliament in a stunning defeat

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BERLIN (AP) — In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II failed by six votes in parliament on Tuesday, a stunning defeat as he had been widely expected to win smoothly.

A candidate for chancellor has never failed to win on the first ballot since the end of the war. The loss triggered a stock market slide: the DAX, the index of major German companies, was down 1.8% following the vote.

Merz needed a majority of 316 out of 630 votes. He only received 310 votes — well short of the 328 seats held by his coalition, which is also one of the slimmest postwar majorities. Because the vote was held by secret ballot, it was not immediately clear — and might never be known — who had defected from Merz’s camp.

Merz’s coalition is led by his center-right Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. They are joined by the center-left Social Democrats, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party. The parties were now to regroup to discuss the next step but it was also unclear how long the process could take.


Merz is seeking to take the helm of the 27-nation European Union’ s most populous member after Scholz’s government collapsed last year and a national election was held in February. Scholz, despite his official farewell on Monday, remains in a caretaker role until a new chancellor takes over.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-government-merz-coalition-98e9007ea41b8bbd36be8d09baefb632

 

1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Merz did a good job pissing off some of the coalition he needed to get elected in the lead up to the vote. He lost a lot of the goodwill he would have had prior to taking the role.

Merz just elected chancellor. Probably a good thing for Ukraine as long as this doesn't weaken him too significantly.

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1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

 

Merz just elected chancellor. Probably a good thing for Ukraine as long as this doesn't weaken him too significantly.

He worked with AfD on an immigration bill months ago. There were protests and he went to the German tax authorities looking into the tax free status of some organizations that helped organize the protests. He's not exactly in a great position unless he starts to prove himself to his coalition partners.

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i’m cross posting this in both Ukraine threads.  It is interesting that Turkey gives no fucks what Russia thinks.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that when all the people left Russia in 2022 - a hell of a lot of spooks pretending to be fleeing foes of Putin set up shop in every country who would take them. The answer is to deport every one of the sons of bitches

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On 5/8/2025 at 9:51 AM, Gatorubet said:

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i’m cross posting this in both Ukraine threads.  It is interesting that Turkey gives no fucks what Russia thinks.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that when all the people left Russia in 2022 - a hell of a lot of spooks pretending to be fleeing foes of Putin set up shop in every country who would take them. The answer is to deport every one of the sons of bitches

Historically they've been geopolitical foes, so, not surprising (S-400 purchase aside). 

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Historically they've been geopolitical foes, so, not surprising (S-400 purchase aside). 

Yet in my time in Turkey I saw tons of Russian tourists. I wonder how much they spend in Turkey. Less now, I’m sure.
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Russian tourists are  a plague. They go anywhere cheap and act like dicks. Like Americans in Paris.

Turks want to increase their zone of influence. They smell a weak russia. Fuckers will pounce like a dude overcharging you for double apple at a hookah house.

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Russian tourists are  a plague. They go anywhere cheap and act like dicks. Like Americans in Paris.
Turks want to increase their zone of influence. They smell a weak russia. Fuckers will pounce like a dude overcharging you for double apple at a hookah house.

I was in a very nice hotel in Helsinki once. They had a glass elevator in their quite formal lobby. I’m sitting there having my coffee and pulla, when I see these two dudes dressed only in robes get on and ride all the way down about four floors. Clearly going to the sauna. Nope. They get out and walk up to the hostess stand to be seated for breakfast. The hostess, a firm but fair Finn, was not having it. She told them in no uncertain terms there was no way they were coming into her dining room with just a robe between their Russian bodies and the fine guests of the hotel who weren’t trying to see any of that. The robe boys? Russians of course. I’ve seen this a million times in various ways. The ugly American gets a bad rap, but Russian and Chinese tourists are the worst.

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20 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

I think the clear solution is for the US to give Ukraine as many weapons as they need to kill ALL of the russians.

That's been the solution for more than a few years.

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12 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Russian tourists are  a plague. They go anywhere cheap and act like dicks. Like Americans in Paris.

Turks want to increase their zone of influence. They smell a weak russia. Fuckers will pounce like a dude overcharging you for double apple at a hookah house.

Russians, Americans, and Israelis are the worst tourists in the world and I don't think anyone else comes particularly close. In no particular order.

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57 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

I think the clear solution is for the US to give Ukraine as many weapons as they need to kill ALL of the russians.

36 minutes ago, Deej said:

That's been the solution for more than a few years.

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20 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Russians, Americans, and Israelis are the worst tourists in the world and I don't think anyone else comes particularly close. In no particular order.

The Brits would like to have a word. 

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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

Russians, Americans, and Israelis are the worst tourists in the world and I don't think anyone else comes particularly close. In no particular order.

Brits, Mexicans, and Italians need to be in the conversation.

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2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


I was in a very nice hotel in Helsinki once. They had a glass elevator in their quite formal lobby. I’m sitting there having my coffee and pulla, when I see these two dudes dressed only in robes get on and ride all the way down about four floors. Clearly going to the sauna. Nope. They get out and walk up to the hostess stand to be seated for breakfast. The hostess, a firm but fair Finn, was not having it. She told them in no uncertain terms there was no way they were coming into her dining room with just a robe between their Russian bodies and the fine guests of the hotel who weren’t trying to see any of that. The robe boys? Russians of course. I’ve seen this a million times in various ways. The ugly American gets a bad rap, but Russian and Chinese tourists are the worst.

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Likely gangsters used to always getting their own way.

Posted
2 hours ago, Parliament said:

Likely gangsters used to always getting their own way.

Maybe. Or just the Russian equivalent of redneck assholes, the like of which may even frequent this very site!

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I was in a very nice hotel in Helsinki once. They had a glass elevator in their quite formal lobby. I’m sitting there having my coffee and pulla, when I see these two dudes dressed only in robes get on and ride all the way down about four floors. Clearly going to the sauna. Nope. They get out and walk up to the hostess stand to be seated for breakfast. The hostess, a firm but fair Finn, was not having it. She told them in no uncertain terms there was no way they were coming into her dining room with just a robe between their Russian bodies and the fine guests of the hotel who weren’t trying to see any of that. The robe boys? Russians of course. I’ve seen this a million times in various ways. The ugly American gets a bad rap, but Russian and Chinese tourists are the worst.

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As in Helsinki Sweden?
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