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That was a military coup in a country that had run its economy into the ground by being a fascist dictatorship for decades, which pissed off the people, including the military, somewhat. When the fascists originally took power, the military had gone along with it.

He already offered 100k, but what is an offer from a grifter well known for not paying his bills worth?

They won’t provide any infrastructure though. They’ll be happy to say it’s for the “service” of administrating Greenland and for the “security” provided.

Anyone believing in getting money promised by a grifter well known for not paying his bills deserves to be cheated.

And he played their stupidity just right.

It should be, but I don’t recall any military in history that actually has disobeyed a fascist dictator in the process of seizing power.

You better respect the couch man’s authority or else he will come to your home and fuck your couch.

I think the real issue here is that he publicly lied about working continuously and tirelessly to remedy the situation, to the point of locking himself in in his office, while in fact, he was just playing tennis.

On the other hand, a politician at this level not being a blatant and unashamed liar would be more surprising than him actually being one.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case with German politicians. They are living in their own reality.

Dear Mr Vance, go fuck a couch and stop shitting out of your mouth.

He does not (and cannot) do anything to help anyone, but pretending is part of the job. If the mayor does not want that part of the job, he’s not fit for it and should be doing something else. Like, coaching tennis or something.

Actually, those PR visits are even counter productive, as those big wigs and their entourage require space and protection, so they’re tying up resources that would be more urgently needed elsewhere. In Spain the residents had the right idea when they chased away visiting political big wigs by pelting them with mud after that fatal flash flood last year.

In that particular case, different pylons were required, as they had been made out of a type of outdated steel that turns very brittle when cold.

Better keep high level politicians away from disasters, they are only there for the PR, anyway. I don’t have an exact grasp of what Berlin’s disaster response law is like, but I assume that the responsibility for setting up and running a crisis staff would be with the affected district mayor, and on state level (Berlin is a city state after all), the immediate responsibility would be with the senator of the interior.

I’m wondering what a politician would bring to a PR visit at a power outage, the rubber boots customary for floods certainly aren’t going to work, maybe an extension cord?

The Mayor playing tennis is only the snowflake on the tip of the iceberg of Berlin just doing Berlin things for decades.

Prolonged large scale power outages have been a hot topic in Germany since 2005, when particularly heavy snowfall during a harsh winter storm brought down a bunch of pylons carrying medium and high voltage transmission lines and plunged 25 municipalities housing 250.000 people in the Münsterland region into darkness. (some of them for weeks) The problem was exacerbated by the large size of the affected region, impassable roads due to downed trees, and the heavy snow load also overwhelming the roof on quite a number of buildings. (German Wikipedia article on the event, section about the power outage)

Since then, all over Germany, plans and more or less thorough preparations for responding to such an event have been made. For example public buildings suitable as emergency shelters were equipped with emergency power supplies, mobile heaters and generators have been procured, response plans for power outages were created, or updated.

The outage in Berlin was/is of a comparatively limited scale (both area and affected number of people wise, also there were practically no exacerbating circumstances), yet Berlin was caught rather unprepared and the response was chaotic. So, as typical for Berlin, its administration must have been playing games (maybe even Tennis) instead of doing their homework for the last 20 years.

But what should we do with the toxic byproducts of this kind of energy production?

If he had decency he would now self-expel.

Mentioning Merz and Decency in the same sentence is such grave violation of all laws of logic and human decency that it makes me want to violently expel my stomach’s contents.

Merz is a pathological liar (even more so than the usual politicians), he also has categorically denied cooperating with the AfD and even threatened anyone in the CDU to do so with expulsion from the party, only a few weeks before cooperating with them himself.

If he tells you that the sun is shining outside, better bring an umbrella and a flashlight, because most likely you’ll actually find pitch black night and pouring rain.