@EYakoby Something tells me MBS has no idea he is supposed to have said something like that. Propaganda is getting increasingly divorced from any semblance of reality.
Le 20 février 1916, à la veille du début de la bataille de Verdun, un Officier écrit, pour la dernière fois, à sa femme…
Ma très chère et très aimée Marie,
Dieu l’a ainsi décidé, cette lettre est la dernière que vous lirez de moi !
Je l’écris après avoir reçu l’ordre de diriger une attaque qui doit entraîner les plus grands sacrifices – le mien en particulier.
Je la confie à un officier du 232ème, le lieutenant Ruez, qui vous la fera parvenir, quand mon sacrifice aura été accompli.
J’offre volontiers ma vie à la France, en vue de la grandeur de laquelle j’ai toujours travaillé et vécu.
Je partirai en Chrétien, après avoir accompli mes devoirs religieux.
Ceci sera pour votre âme si chrétienne la meilleure des consolations pendant notre séparation momentanée ; ce sera un exemple pour nos chers enfants.
En vous quittant ainsi, je vous laisserai, je l’espère, un souvenir qui vous soutiendra dans la vie.
Soyez assurée que je vous aime comme je vous ai toujours aimée et que j’emporte dans le cœur notre image chérie, ainsi que celles de mes quatre enfants, dans l’âme desquels vous me ferez revivre.
Le temps nous manque pour adresser un dernier adieu à ma bonne et vénérée mère, je vous prie de lui annoncer ma mort au Champ d’Honneur. Venant de vous qu’elle affectionne particulièrement, ce coup lui sera moins rude.
Dites-lui que son âme a forgé la mienne et que je l’embrasse du fond de mon cœur, ainsi que mon père qui fut mon modèle.
Je n’oublie aucun des nôtres dans ma dernière vision de la Vie.
Mon baiser le plus affectueux à mes chers petits Pierre, Louis, Anne et Charlotte ;
à vous mon plus tendre adieu et au Revoir !
Votre Paul
#11novembre
@JefteAnibal@EduFrende Saint Anthony must have thought that was the easiest thing to grant in a long time. :) Sweet story. Did they name a son Antonio after the saint?
@Milajoy The best thing would be for the most popular among the few more honest republican leaders to abandon the GOP and form their own party that will actually contend in elections. Just a third party w/o name recognition doesn’t stand a chance, and GOP is beyond reforming.
@EricLDaugh Did you really think it's just Thune who is the problem? They are ALL in it, with maybe a handful of exceptions (unless they are in on the game too and just create the optics to fool us). If they didn't like his leadership, they would have ousted him after a couple of months.
@manupen33@0xKasper_ Same ugly face, but lacks intelligence and oratory skills of the original. That case when the history that occurred as a tragedy is repeating itself as a farce.
@infodexx For me personally, rural Tyrol takes the prize. I could barely understand some of the older folks when they claimed to speak Hochdeutsch to me (and not at all when they talked among themselves).
@CityJournal OK, thanks for this post. I will make sure I go to anything I want to hear this year, before he is out. Who knows what shit show it will become next year. I also know better than to give BSO any donations.
@JoeStorm1313 Sometimes, I even post it, and then think better of it 2 seconds later. I guess I just need to get it out of my system, it's not about whether the other party sees it.
@sfrantzman I love watching people twist themselves into a pretzel to explain why math ain't mathing. Anything to avoid questioning the propaganda they've been fed.
@SuperMajority18 You really think they will progress beyond talking about a 'plan' to actually doing anything? Hah. Had they wanted to, they would have done it already. They are just ladling on the bullshit, and you keep eagerly asking for seconds. No wonder they don't bother *doing*.
@mazin2a So, that’s a happy ending - you both ended up in happy marriages instead of being stuck in a miserable one. Or are you a selfish animal who just can’t stand to see his ex happy with someone else, forgets the current wife and goes on to ruin both your marriage and your ex’s?
@nikitheblogger The chancellor Germany of 2026 deserves. It’s a bit sad because I actually liked Germany in 2003-2006… but Mertz exposed all the rot hiding behind pleasant facades even better than Scholz did.