Germany is built on lies, and the widespread Untertan mentality has made large parts of the population so obedient and uncritical that most Germans either fail to see through this fraud or deliberately look away, which is even worse. As journalist Julian Reichelt has correctly pointed out, the left-leaning German establishment has governed on the basis of systematic lies. Almost nothing they told the population about energy, migration, COVID, climate, the economy, the media, NGOs, or the state itself turned out to be true. As this woke ideological construct collapses and the damage becomes undeniable, the response of the ruling class is not accountability or self-reflection, but intensified censorship, surveillance, intimidation, and the criminalization of dissent. This is the behavior of an authoritarian system that knows it has lost the argument and now relies on coercion to maintain power. @JReichelt put it clearly: “Almost nothing we were told over the last ten years was true. The country and its people were hoisted onto an ideological structure of lies that is now collapsing beneath us and threatens to drag Germany’s economy, culture, and identity down with it. In their fear of accountability and historical shame, those in power have nothing left but a hopeless fight against the words of the citizens. They know very well that nothing they said was true. It was not true that nuclear power is bad for the environment. It was not true that wind and solar power send no bill. The claim that they would not be more expensive than an ice cream cone was false. The entire concept of the Energiewende turned out to be a central-planning monstrosity. No skilled workers are coming. That was not true. They are not paying for our pensions. That was not true either. They were never more valuable than gold. They are not going back. The claim that Islamization and subjugation are not taking place was false. The idea that children are particularly contagious was not true. No, the government is not planning lockdowns. That was not true. The claim that there were no side effects was false. The promise that they would never impose mandatory vaccination was false. No, the virus did not come from bat soup in a market. That was not true. The green economic miracle was not true. The economic turnaround was not true. The world would not envy us for all our wind farms. That was not true. The horror scenarios about the climate, later quietly walked back as ‘not plausible,’ were also not true. The claim that millions of Germans would be deported was not true. The claim that public broadcasters report in a balanced way is simply false. The claim that the NGO complex would be properly scrutinized was ultimately not true. The claim that there is no shadow state, no invisible deep state, was false. No, those in power do not deliberately want to mix the German people through illegal migration. That was apparently also not true, if one listens to Germany’s labor minister.” #AchtungReichelt It is both shocking and telling how the German center-left establishment parties built an entire country on lies, wishful thinking, and propaganda. It is equally disgraceful how mainstream media, state employees, police officers, teachers, and the broader administrative class helped carry, repeat, and enforce these lies. Reichelt’s list could have gone much further, because far more in Germany has turned out to be false: It was not true that open borders would make Germany safer. It was not true that internal security would remain stable and that violence would not rise. It was not true that deindustrialization was merely right-wing scaremongering. It was not true that Germany would remain an attractive and competitive industrial location. It was not true that the Energiewende would lower electricity prices and guarantee supply security. It was not true that citizens would not become poorer through climate policy, CO₂ taxes, and heating bans. It was not true that “hate and incitement” laws would only be used against genuine extremists. It was not true that freedom of speech in Germany is not being restricted. It was not true that the Brandmauer protects democracy rather than the power of the old parties. It was not true that the CDU would become clearly conservative again after Merkel. It was not true that Friedrich Merz would bring about real political change. It was not true that the German justice system acts in a completely apolitical and independent manner. It was not true that the state solves problems by spending more money, accumulating more debt, and creating more bureaucracy. It was not true that the government would modernize Germany and make it fit for the future. It was not true that Germany has learned from its history and is immune to authoritarian developments. Germany’s left-leaning establishment parties no longer protect truth, citizens, or democracy. They protect only themselves, their bloated bureaucracy, and their own machinery of power. For a long time now, this has no longer been about the well-being of the country or the interests of the people. Many Germans are either complicit because they work for the state, dependent on the state, or willing to tolerate the lies because they are too obedient, too comfortable, or too afraid to confront reality. This is the condition of a people deformed by the Untertan mentality, systematic brainwashing, and decades of leftist-green indoctrination. It is also the behavior of an authoritarian system that knows it has lost the argument and now relies on coercion to preserve power. Unfortunately, this is not new in German history. It is no coincidence that two of the most brutal dictatorships in human history emerged on German soil from a population shaped by the same mentality of obedience and authoritarian submission. Both began with lies.

Nearly a century ago, BMW collaborated closely with Hitler's National Socialist regime and profited handsomely from the German war economy during World War II, in an era when "Kauft nicht bei Juden" was the order of the day. How historically illiterate can one be at BMW's Munich headquarters, under the owning families Quandt and Klatten of all people, given that key members of the Quandt family were active members of the Nazi Party and deeply involved in Hitler's war economy? BMW, already under strain, with its stock down 45% this year alone and still falling, has just withdrawn its offer of an official car for Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament president after AfD politician Tobias Rausch was elected to the post. Instead of finally staying out of politics in light of its own dark Nazi past, BMW cannot help itself and has to meddle again. Back then it was the National Socialists BMW made common cause with. Today it is apparently the socialists of red-red-green, the center-left wing of the CDU/CSU and other woke groups that the company wants to align itself with, under the leftist Brandmauer-style slogan "don't sell to AfD members." Business should stay out of party politics, a lesson BMW of all companies should have learned by now from its neck-deep political involvement in the Third Reich. But even leaving the history lesson aside, that is not a lofty principle for a global company. It is common sense for anyone who sells to the whole country and beyond, and who has to defend its home market against increasingly successful Chinese brands and, above all, against @ElonMusk, who, oh irony, is a major AfD supporter and a strong @Alice_Weidel fan. So a major German company declaring, in effect, "we do not sell to AfD members" is something else entirely, and completely out of place in a democratic country. The firm is closely tied to the Nazi era, rose in those years to become one of the most important armaments manufacturers of Hitler's Third Reich, built aero engines for the Luftwaffe and used tens of thousands of forced laborers, including concentration camp prisoners. Its workforce grew from around 6,000 in 1933 to 56,000 in 1944 at the height of wartime production, roughly half of them forced labor, and revenue climbed from 32.5 million Reichsmarks in 1933 to 750 million by 1944. A company with that dark political history now pandering to the socialists of the day once again, with this kind of gesture, is not only foolish. It is repugnant and historically illiterate. Because once again it is the left that poses the greatest danger to Jews in Germany. Back then it was the National Socialists. Today it is the radical socialists of red-red-green and their Jew-hating immigrant supporters, and even surveys of German Jews themselves name Muslim and left-wing milieus as the main source of the hostility they actually face in everyday life and on the streets of Germany. Look no further than the looming red-red-green coalition in Berlin and the proximity of those parties to open antisemitism. For BMW, the decision can speed up a decline that is already underway. Picking a fight at home with 30% to 40% of the electorate is a stupid mistake and poor business. The AfD already polls at 31% nationwide, with a current INSA potential of 36.5% once voting intention and reserve are added. In some states it already sits between a whopping 40% and 50%, and the trend is still up. By contrast, the $BMW share keeps falling and is down almost half this year, now trading only slightly above 50 euros, with tens of billions in market value already wiped out and no bottom in sight. So whether it is wise to alienate such a large share of the home market right now, of all times, is not a hard question. The woke leftist constituencies BMW appears to be courting with this anti-AfD course cannot buy anywhere near enough cars to replace the orders now being cancelled by conservative and right-wing customers all over Germany and beyond. On social media the backlash is already running, and BMW is in for a rude awakening. And by the way, speaking of fate loving irony, since BMW chose to target Elon Musk's favorite German party of all parties: his Tesla Model Y was Germany's best-selling car in September 2026, not merely the best-selling electric car, far ahead of any competitor, and BMW trails Tesla by an even wider margin than VW does. So Munich might want to take a more modest tone and, this time, stay out of politics. The better alternative to a BMW is already on the road, and it comes with AI-powered Full Self-Driving technology that BMW drivers can only dream of. So there is no other way to put it: BMW has maneuvered itself into a dangerous political corner, historically illiterate once again. Bud Light, Target, Cracker Barrel, Nike and Jaguar are the precedents. Perhaps BMW's Munich headquarters has already forgotten that Jaguar registered just two (2) new cars in the EU in the first eight months of 2026, down from 2,845 a year earlier. Go woke, go broke, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump like to say in America, gloatingly, but not without reason. For BMW, though, this is about far more than a further financial slide and a share price that will most likely keep falling in what is already a very difficult time for German carmakers. It is, in part, about finally standing on the right side of history for once instead of choosing the wrong side yet again. Or, if BMW's own history shows that the company has no understanding of politics and no instinct for picking the right side, about simply staying out of politics and remaining neutral. Cobbler, stick to your last. Or, as Elon Musk asked a suddenly woke Jaguar in 2024: "Do you sell cars?" nitter.cf/elonmusk/status/185891…

Elon Musk is right about the invasion-like conditions in Europe right now. But one thing needs to be added: this has been building for years and decades, and it has developed a momentum of its own, a mass, an inertia, that cannot simply be reversed. You cannot just say stop and expect it to end. The people rioting on the streets of France are second and third generation immigrants, and they have held French citizenship since the first generation. And then there is the fertility rate, the point @ElonMusk keeps raising, and rightly so. France as a whole is down to about 1.6 children per woman and falling, the lowest level since the Second World War. For European women born in France with no migration background at all, the figure is around 1.3 to 1.4, while immigrant women are at roughly 2.2, women from the Maghreb at around 2.5, and women of sub-Saharan origin above 3. That is what turns the momentum into something closer to a moment of inertia. The gap keeps widening. The original European French have fewer and fewer children and are dying out, while the immigrant population has more and more. That is a self-reinforcing dynamic. And it is not only the fertility rate that is pulling the two curves apart. The immigration itself, or the invasion, as Elon Musk calls it, continues unabated. Every day, every week, every month, more immigrants arrive, legally and above all illegally, e.g. on the boats. Each new arrival adds to the base from which the next generation grows, and that makes the gap worse still. Demography and immigration are not two separate problems. They compound each other. I believe France is a country where it may already be too late to turn things around. Even if Marine Le Pen becomes president, Jordan Bardella becomes prime minister and the RN takes over the government, which is foreseeable, they cannot deport their way out of this. They will not deport millions, soon tens of millions, of French citizens. The RN is too moderate for that, and Le Pen and her prime minister are far too tame. So the honest conclusion is that nothing fundamental in France may really change, even under Marine Le Pen. Sad but true.

Go woke, go broke.

Dann soll Karin Prien doch gleich bei den Grünen oder der SPD anheuern. Die Zeichen der Zeit zeigen in die genau entgegengesetzte Richtung. Während die CDU unter Helmut Kohl noch richtig verortet war, ist sie unter Merkel und Merz ohne jede Not viel zu weit nach links abgedriftet. Nur dadurch wurde der AfD die rechte Flanke nicht nur geöffnet, sondern gleich ohne jede Gegenwehr überlassen. Vielleicht sollte sich @PrienKarin einmal vergegenwärtigen, dass CDU/CSU bei Bundestagswahlen früher sogar über 50% hatten und dass sich genau diese über 50% derzeit auf CDU/CSU und AfD aufteilen. Woher kommt das wohl? Weil die CDU zu weit rechts steht oder zu konservativ ist? Wohl kaum. Natürlich konnte die AfD nur deshalb so stark werden, weil CDU/CSU sich viel zu sehr nach links geöffnet haben. Wie kann man nur so realitätsfern sein. Ihr linken CDUler seid genau daran schuld, und dank euch werden CDU/CSU künftig nur noch als Juniorpartner mit der AfD regieren können. Hätte die CDU nach der letzten Bundestagswahl einfach nur das umgesetzt, was Merz versprochen hat, wäre die AfD nicht größer geworden und hätte sich irgendwo auf SPD- und Grünen-Niveau bei 15% eingependelt. Aber nein, die CDU musste sich ja komplett verbiegen und alle Versprechen brechen, um sich dem linken Rand noch weiter anzubiedern. Lieber die Seele verkaufen und die eigenen Werte verraten, für die die CDU einmal stand, als nicht an die Macht zu kommen und nicht Minister oder Kanzler zu werden. Dank dieses unnötigen Linkskurses werden CDU/CSU bald auf SPD- und Grünen-Niveau von 15% fallen, und die AfD marschiert weiter Richtung 35% und wird sich langfristig als stärkste deutsche Partei etablieren. Dank euch linken CDUlern, die ihr das Erbe von Adenauer und Kohl längst vergessen habt. Selbst ein Helmut Schmidt, seines Zeichens Kanzler der SPD, stand politisch weiter rechts und war konservativer als diese Neo-CDU, die ganz offensichtlich keiner mehr will. Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich Leute wie Boris Rhein durchsetzen, dass er Merz möglichst bald ablöst und die CDU so ihren Platz in der Mitte und auch rechts der Mitte wiederfindet, der ihr historisch immer schon gehörte.

The CDU/CSU in Germany must finally embrace more of Adenauer’s legacy (“mehr Adenauer wagen”) if they want to avoid becoming just another 15% party like the SPD and Greens. The CDU, in particular, must break away from its one-sided leftward drift and find a true balance that includes its center-right faction. Only then can it regain strength and consolidate its current 30% support in the long term. Long gone are the days when the CDU/CSU commanded over 50% of the vote (50.2% in 1957) or even over 40% (41.5% in 2013). And if they don’t act soon, the time when they still polled above 30% will also become a distant memory. The party must break the decades-long downward trend and return to its roots, reinstating the conservative values that once made it great. The CDU’s increasingly left-leaning course under Angela Merkel—and now, apparently, under Friedrich Merz—is one of the main reasons for the rise of the AfD. Many voters see the CDU as indistinguishable from the SPD and Greens. As a result, much of the center-right electorate has been left politically homeless—many have turned to the AfD, while others have become frustrated non-voters. Under Merkel, the CDU underwent extreme social democratization, whether in energy policy (nuclear phase-out), immigration policy (“Wir schaffen das!”), EU policy, or cultural issues like gender and climate. This alienated its traditional voter base and left a significant center-right political void that the AfD has successfully occupied. Another major issue is that, despite decades of declining election results, the CDU continues to form coalitions exclusively with left-wing parties rather than building a center-right alternative. This reinforces the perception that conservative voters in Germany have no real choice—except for the AfD. The CDU has essentially become a sister party to the SPD, a reality its own voters have long since recognized. Therefore, the CDU urgently needs to reclaim Adenauer’s legacy. The Adenauer-era CDU was exactly where today’s massive conservative voter bloc, positioned between the CDU/CSU and the AfD, currently stands. Adenauer was a staunch advocate of Germany’s close ties to the West and a strong partnership with America. He believed in a well-equipped Bundeswehr capable of fulfilling its role within NATO. He championed a strong, free-market economy—not the centrally controlled economy we see today under the leftist SPD and Greens, but a truly free and competitive market. He was also a firm opponent of communism in all its forms, including German socialism—a critical conservative stance the modern CDU seems to have completely abandoned. Additionally, Adenauer was a leader of stability and the rule of law. He was a law-and-order chancellor. The crime wave and immigration crisis currently plaguing Germany would never have happened under his leadership, as he stood for strictly defined immigration policies that prioritized national security and social stability. If one takes these points into account, the CDU doesn’t need to reinvent itself but rather undergo a renaissance of its own values. A return to its roots, a rediscovery of the principles that once made it great—these are the same principles that made Adenauer one of Germany’s greatest chancellors and helped Helmut Kohl achieve historic success. If the CDU fails to realign with its original principles, it will continue its downward trajectory, leaving the door wide open for the AfD to fill the void. The bottom line is clear: the AfD is this strong because the CDU has abandoned its traditional values and no longer offers a clear conservative alternative. And there could be no better time for such a renaissance of conservative values than now—at a moment when Germany has the strongest possible allies for such a realignment in the U.S.: President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, who would fully support Germany in reclaiming its conservative identity—if only its leaders had the will to do so.