This will be my last post in the foreseeable time since I'll delete the account after I've posted this so I better make it count. Partly because things suck and partly because I decided to do more praxis instead of stewing online.
There's no reason to beat the dead horse that's tariffs and Trump so just a quick update, they had numbers and the numbers were really good like low inflation much lower than anticipated while Fed says 3% inflation for the year and that they don't see the need to do anything about it, meanwhile Bonds keep going up as people flee the US Dollar into gold, yen and swiss franc and other currencies like I said. US 10YR Bonds are going even higher as stock markets crap themselves as capital is fleeing the USA because shits fucked.
So I'll focus on my original hatred the germans. There's a new poll AfD is now highest polling but honestly who cares at this point, elections are still far away and there's honestly not much of a difference between CDU and AfD, it's like Pepsi and Coke, could be that they got boosted by all this fear and uncertainty could be a bigger incoming trend it's too early to tell but then again CDU is determined to go all in on what the AfD wants.
Anyways coalition time this is the new cabinet
Economy: CDU They just put a pretty incompetent guy in here who's micro fixation is getting rid of the VAT
Finance: SPD
Interior: Alexander Dobrindt CSU This guy is a massive piece of shit, racist, fascist you name it and a huge Zionist and someone that is in the pocket of car lobbies that talked about there being a 'Anti-Deportation-Industry' in germany, calling climate activists like Last Generation and XR, climate RAF something which considering he is bavarian and how criminal the police and state is there in its repression is really fucking bad.
Labour: SPD
Defence: SPD <- Guy under Scholz who is quite popular keeps his position
Infrastructure: CDU
Health: CDU
Ecology: CDU
Foreign: CDU
Family: CDU
Digital: CDU
Justice: SPD
Education: CSU <- Again these are like absolute freaks
Agricultural: CSU
Foreign Aid/Development: SPD
What did interest me about their new coalition, what they have in their 'Koalitionsvertrag', their coalition contract. So what they are going to focus on, it's a 146 page document that I've read. Well mostly the first couple of pages about how germany is under attack I skimmed because I don't care for the lamentations of the germans how things are totally unfair.
Economy
There is a ton of stuff here and most of it is really vague but the things they do mention over and over again are words like 'pragmatism, flexibility and de-regulation'. In short companies should be much less regulated and free to do whatever with a specific point being german car manufacturers who don't have to worry too much about CO2 emissions from their cars. They offset this by going 'Now you can get subsidies for EV vehicles going up to 100k' so germans will buy the newest electric Porsche or whatever.
One small thing they want to accomplish is bring down energy cost by 5 cent per kWh so that combined with less regulations might mean that they will ease sanctions on Russia to get that gas back and get cheap energy again.
Green Policies
This of course means when it comes to green policies they do a big talk about how they are comitted to goals and things, but they do not mention actual policies and my take on this is that they'll do fuck all regarding emissions and we might even see more rollbacks on those pesky laws that make polluting harmful because the overall message to me is 'All Hail the Economy' and they'll sacrifice the environment at its altar. Climate protections will get optimised aka they will get removed
National Security
Yeah guess what massive more surveillance and shit because of other countries waging 'hybrid warfare against the german state'. Now I know what you are thinking bombing Nordstream but no Germany has been in a sort of mania about Russia secretly bombing germany so that plus the 'antisemitism' will get used for a massive expansion of the surveillance state designating and deporting people for political activism which we already saw with Pro-Palestine EU-Citizens getting deported without any courts. And considering that there's even conspiracy theories that green activists are actually working for Putin there will be a massive political repression.
Social Policy
They'll reform the Bürgergeld aka former Hartz IV aka benefits will get slashed again. Oh also consumer protection is also gone.
Asylum Policy
I don't know what to tell you shit's fucked it'll be extremely fucked and will go against EU rights and law, International rights and laws, it'll be fucking bad.
This is mostly it there's other stuff but most is really vague and they've got some of the best german word people out there to write up gems like
Die klimapolitischen Sektorleitlinien werden wir flexibilisieren
Which I mean words have no meaning.
One thing that is notably absent is anything concerning combatting the rise of right-wing extremism, fascism, nazism. AfD is quite clearly a nazi party and they are permitted because well Germany is a nazi country but I think it should be repeated again that in this coalition that ran on 'we are going to stop the AfD'. They didn't put a single thing against the AfD.
Cheers
notceps