Alex Schulte

Westphalian🐴 in the Rhineland🐐 | traveller🗺 | finance | centrist | #SCP06🖤⚪️💚 / PRIVATE ACCT.

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

I believe this is the scenario described in 99 Luftbalons

[Karina Moessbauer @K_Moessbauer]

Habeck kam im Februar mit der „unausgegorenen Idee um die Ecke, Sozialabgaben auf Kapitalerträge einzuführen, um das Milliardenloch bei den Krankenkassen zu stopfen“.
Schwarz-Rot lässt nun exakt das von der Kommission prüfen („weitere Einkunftsarten“ zB Kapitalerträge oder Mieteinnahmen), um das Milliardenloch bei den Rente zu stopfen.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an den „schlechtesten Wirtschaftsminister aller Zeiten“. Er wirkt über seine Amtszeit hinweg. Chapeau!

[Tomasz Drabowicz @tomdrabowicz]

Yes, I remeber Obama mocking Romney's strong anti-Putin policy saying: "The 80s called and they want their FP back". Obama won, and we are living now with the consequences of his 2012 victory.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

A bit of history: France decided to get its own fully independent nuclear deterrent the last time the U.S. aligned itself with Moscow against its European allies (France and UK) — the 1956 Suez crisis.

[Nikolaus Blome @NikolausBlome]

Wer jetzt Kenia kriegt, wird sich demnächst nach der FDP sehnen. #Bundestagswahl2025

[Johannes Boie @johannesboie]

Merz ist die letzte Patrone. Wenn Migration und Wirtschaft jetzt nicht drastisch neu aufgegleist werden, wählt Deutschland bald wie Sachsen heute. Es ist zu hoffen, dass ein potentieller Koalitionspartner dies begreift.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Enough talking, it’s time to act! 1. Let’s finance our aid for Ukraine from the Russian frozen assets. 2. Let’s strengthen air policing, the Baltic sentry and the EU borders with Russia. 3. Let’s swiftly adopt new fiscal rules to finance the EU security and defence. Now!

[Jan Claas Behrends @jcbehrends]

Das strategische Denken muss in diesem Land ganz neu gelernt werden.
Unsere Politiker brauchen Geopolitik, Russland, China 101.
Wir müssen raus aus der Prozinzialität.
Wir sind am Nullpunkt.
Bitte retweeten, wenn Sie das auch denken.

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

The US is experimenting with being the first country in the world ruled by social media plebiscites, where anonymous users and their oligarch leader take down legislation in Congress. Populism for the 21st century.

[Klaus Adam @klaus_adam]

Ernsthafte Frage: Wo in unserem 🇩🇪 Wahlkampf sind die Strategien gegen die #Wachstumskrise?

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

Events in Syria once again illustrate that war is far too complex to be fully controlled by politicians or generals, marked by chance, friction, and unintended consequences: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Hamas’ attack on Israel in 2023 directly led to the partial collapse of Russia’s strategic position in the Middle East, even if Latakia and Tartus are (temporarily) saved, and Iran’s proxy strategy by 2024. They also underscore that war remains, above all, a contest of wills: if one side’s will to fight for its cause collapses, no amount of military hardware or firepower can save it. Will Damascus join the ranks of Saigon and Kabul as examples of the fastest and most complete moral and organizational collapse of a military force and its regime?

[Julius Betschka @JuliusBetschka]

Was Friedrich Merz bei seiner Rede am 16. Oktober im Bundestag wirklich und wörtlich gesagt hat:

Die Angriffe auf Krankenhäuser, Wohnhäuser durch Russland müssen aufhören, sonst wird Taurus geliefert.

That’s it.

[Gert Wöllmann @Gert_Woellmann]

Angebotsorientierte Wirtschaft be like …
#Degrowth

[Jan Claas Behrends @jcbehrends]

Dass sich #Scholz heute als großer Verteidiger der #Ukraine 🇺🇦 inszeniert, ist vielleicht der verlogenste Moment des 🚥 Ampelendes.

[Serap Güler @SerapGueler]

Lindner entlässt Scholz.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Jan von Hein @JanvonHein1]

Dieser Tweet dürfte als eine der größten Dummheiten aller Zeiten in die Geschichte der deutschen Außenpolitik eingehen.

[Hendrik Wieduwilt @hwieduwilt]

Der #TrustedFlagger trendet - es ist wirklich genau dieselbe Tragik wie bei der DSGVO: Die EU hat mit dem DSA ein Gesetz beschlossen, das keine öffentliche Debatte in Deutschland überlebt hätte. Jetzt ist es zu spät.

[Bundesliga Brasil 2 @bundesliga_br2]

TOOOOOOOOORRRR do Preußen Münster, Batmaz empata no Greuther Fürth 1-1

#SGFSCP
#Bundesliga