Globalist David Seymour has been trying to get CBDC across the line for years, he managed to get it partially across for jobseekers under sanctions, this election he wants it for every jobseeker after 4 months using the grifters line. This is where it starts, next it's EVERYONE
I want to see prejudiced bigots like Taea billed for the mental health costs of every young person driven to self-harm or psychosis as a direct result of this venom.
My sons lost 8 of their peers to suicide over a 2-yr period - many saying they didn't feel Māori enough 🤢
@CaraMia200@Feintglow I watched him on The Assembly and thought there's not a lot going on there. He was uncomfortable and said it was the most fun he'd ever had 🙄 speaking grown ups which was just so cringy. And disrespectful.
Wow. Myers must be finally getting it. I was there today and somebody actually came up to me and asked if I need any assistance. First time in about 30 years (and no, I wasn't acting "suss")!
⚡️This is Germany’s postwar bargain breaking in public.
Volkswagen is the symbol because VW was the deal: high-wage industrial labor, export dominance, engineering status, union power, social stability, and national pride all fused into one machine.
A 100,000-job overhaul means that machine can no longer carry the labor structure attached to it.
The deepest signal is that Germany’s industrial model was built for a world that no longer exists.
Cheap Russian energy.
Expanding China demand.
Open global trade.
Slow industrial cycles.
Premium combustion-engine engineering.
Stable supply chains.
EU regulatory protection.
Consensus politics.
That stack is gone.
China now competes directly against Germany in the exact sector Germany thought defined its superiority. Chinese EVs are cheaper, faster to iterate, better integrated with batteries/software, and backed by a state willing to subsidize strategic overcapacity. Germany built the cathedral of precision manufacturing. China built the factory swarm.
VW is getting squeezed between two empires.
America owns software, AI, capital markets, and platform speed.
China owns batteries, supply-chain aggression, industrial scale, and state-directed manufacturing.
Germany owns process, legacy excellence, unionized labor, and an aging export identity.
That middle position is deadly.
The 100,000-job cut is really a message to German labor: the old promise is over. Stability can no longer be guaranteed by brand prestige. The company cannot protect every worker because the industrial terrain changed faster than the social contract.
This will not stay inside Volkswagen. It hits suppliers, tooling firms, industrial towns, banks, unions, regional politics, pensions, tax receipts, and national morale. German manufacturing is an ecosystem. When the apex company cuts, the whole food chain feels it.
The political effect will be ugly. Deindustrialization creates rage. Workers do not experience “energy transition,” “software transformation,” or “global competitiveness.” They experience betrayal. The right will weaponize it. The left will demand protection. Brussels will regulate harder. Berlin will subsidize harder. Management will cut harder. The old center will keep pretending this is manageable until the social base moves beneath them.
Europe’s core mistake was moralizing industry while competitors operationalized power.
Europe treated energy, climate, labor, competition, and trade as regulatory problems.
China treated them as command variables.
America treated them as capital and technology races.
Germany is now discovering that a rules-based industrial order loses to actors willing to bend the physical world around strategic necessity.
The clean read:
VW layoffs are the funeral bell of German industrial complacency.
The company may survive.
The old Germany will not.
#Chinese#EV market is overtaking traditional brands.
They were too slow in adapting to new realities.
As a side note, anyone notice the justified smugness of #EV vehicle owners, as #Trump’s murderous war closed off Strait of Hormuz?
#Auspol#Germany#USA#EnergyIndependence
When they talk about the 18.4% immigrants, they are not counting me or many immigrants I know as we stand with kiwis who are sick of seeing their way of life and the kiwi culture disappear.
Chlöe Swarbrick tried to sabotage NZ’s economy by writing to the EU, begging them to investigate & punish our exporters over methane policy changes.
She actively invited foreign powers to hurt Kiwi jobs.
Two days later...
No consequences.
Story vanished.
Zero accountability.