If the analysis is the domestic effect of sovereign states’ governmental policies, as we’ve been discussing so far based on the article above, it doesn’t relate. If you want to change the terms of the discussion to global immigration patterns that’s a whole different analysis. But “exporting border enforcement” would…

Of course it’s a factor. I just don’t buy that it was just immigration that brought about populism, even though that is indeed the legitimation the AfD seeks; one could just as easily craft arguments blaming any other fundamental ideological stance of Merkel’s longtime coalition.

I’m German, you enormous doofus.

That train is never late.

Oh god now I need a shower, thanks so much.

More like the first pleasurable post-bang cig, but I’m down for it.

Merkel’s immigration policies were not popular with a certain segment of the German public. I’d caution against confusing cause and effect, though — acting in a welcoming non-racist way does not create racists and xenophobes, it just brings them out of the woodwork. Taking from that the lesson that one shouldn’t be…

We had civility, you assholes. You called it “political correctness” and mocked it.

The few Trump voters I know personally are largely wealthy country-club Republicans who dislike Trump but “love his policies”. They appear to honestly believe the mainstream of conservatism is still based on an ethical understanding of gentleman’s honor — which is in its own way truly no less delusional than the…

*involuntary snort*

a boy named Fucknut

doh double post, never mind

I remain utterly perplexed that anyone in America doesn’t understand how this entire administration functions exactly like a mobbed-up asshole.

Just as an aside, this has been by far the best part of Chris Christie’s re-emergence from the bowels of hell this week:

The most vulnerable of us, at that. :(

I used to teach literature to some of the scions of the monied at various ivy leagues, and while most were fine, there truly were some who questioned every attempt to get them to conform to actual standards of writing, on, one must presume, the basis that icky pedestrian rules had never been understood to apply to…

If you treat the help like they are bugs than you are irredeemable, imo.

You are entirely correct, and I know the “dignity of the office” is bullshit and all, but it would be incredibly refreshing not to have to listen to the helpless peals of laughter every time I speak to my German relatives about US politics.

I can’t think of anything more insulting than being called Corey Lewandowski, really.

Team Biden, I strongly suspect.