I just returned from Berlin this morning and wanted to share a few pictures and recommendations for those on the blog who may want to visit this extraordinary city. This is a city that has something for everyone from food to music to art to history.
Speaking at the World Forum on free speech was hardly an inviting prospect. As expected, many of the leading anti-free speech figures, including Hillary Clinton, gathered with their European allies in Berlin. I heard other Americans fueling the common narrative that democracy is dying in the United States and that we are now an autocracy. However, I had one key ally here, my friend and great civil libertarian Nadine Strossen. We both spoke on the need for Europe to increase protections for free speech:
Former President Bill Clinton received the top award at the World Forum. Ironically, at the dinner, I was seated virtually next to the Clintons at the adjoining table. It was a curious spot since I testified in favor of his impeachment and have been arguably the most vocal critic of Hillary Clinton over her pronounced anti-free speech views. Surrounded by world leaders who praised his record as president, Clinton gave a short but very personal speech in accepting the award.
Once the business end of the trip was satisfied, I was able to explore this extraordinary and vibrant city. I have found Germans to be unfailingly friendly and helpful. It is also easy to be an American tourist in Berlin. Many Germans speak English, and you will find it easy to navigate. If there was one disappointing aspect, it was the level of graffiti throughout the city. No site or surface seems spared anywhere in the city.
One of the highlights was visiting the Berlin Cathedral on the famed Museum Island. Initially built in 1894 by order of Emperor William II, the cathedral was heavily damaged in World War II but lovingly restored. It is magnificent.
The pipe organ, built by Wilhelm Sauer, towers above the space with its massive dome.
It also contains the dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern).
I then ventured to the top of the dome. This may be a challenge for many of our viewers and you should not start if you have doubts (they emphasize that you can only go forward on the hundreds of steps on the narrowing series of stone and wooden steps:
However, if you can manage it, the payoff is considerable with a panoramic view of this lovely city:
That view is a great start to any exploration of the city. What you find is a city with large parks, public art, and beautiful buildings along its gentle rivers:
One nice thing about Berlin is that you always have a reference point in the Fernsehturm next to the Alexanderplatz. The tallest structure in the city, the television tower offers an instant locational point:
As you walk through the city, you will see an abundance of pubs and restaurants, including many cafes. The food in Berlin is wonderful from the traditional goulash (like the deer goulash below) to the Schnitzel. However, it is the beer that is a particular joy. Every restaurant has different beers, and you cannot go wrong. While I am a bit wimpy in preferring the lighter beer, it was fun to try a range of options.
You can visit World War II and Cold War sites. One popular start is the iconic Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing point between East and West Berlin featured in every spy movie of the period. I am afraid that the visit may prove underwhelming. All that remains is the famous guard house, though an assortment of American fast-food restaurants now guards the checkpoint:
A visit to the Berlin Wall Memorial is more substantive and memorable. A display shows the hundreds of those killed trying to escape communism, including jumping from windows to land in West Berlin. You can ascend a nearby tower to oversee the wall area. Portions of the wall are preserved as is a guard tower:
Some of these victims jumped from homes that bordered the line. These homes were largely in East Berlin, but they extended a few feet into West Berlin. Before the East Germans tore down the homes, they were an irresistible temptation. Indeed, the first victim was an older woman who followed the practice of attaching a note to a rock and dropping it out the window. The idea was for the local firefighters to wait below to catch you, but on this occasion, an actual fire had to be put out.
As the police came knocking as part of the sweep of the area on her apartment building at Bernauer Strasse 48 , nurse Ida Siekmann decided that there was no turning back. She threw a mattress out the window and tried to land on it. She suffered broken bones and died on the way to the Lazarus Hospital.
This exhibit shows how these buildings extended beyond the wall line (shown by the rectangular sign):
One can also visit World War II sites including the Soviet monument to the thousands of Soviet soldiers who died in the battle for Berlin. Ironically, Stalin’s obsession with capturing Berlin led to a vastly increased number of casualties. Indeed, some historians believe that the Soviets killed more of their own soldiers than did the collapsing Wehrmacht. For many Berliners, the memorial must have brought painful memories, particularly in light of the systemic raping of German women by Soviet troops as retaliation for the German atrocities committed in Russia.
The memorial is guarded by T-32 tanks and the famed Russian ML-20 152mm gun-howitzer artillery pieces:
Of course, the iconic image of Berlin remains the 18th Century Brandenburg Gate.
In day or dusk or night, it is an inspiring sight:
Berlin is a truly unique city and well worth an extended visit. Berlin’s history is inextricably linked to our own from the defeat of the Nazis to the Berlin airlift to the Cold War to fall of the Berlin Wall.
From the people to the food to the history, Berlin is wundervoll.
More domestic terrorism, Driver cuts off, harasses Tesla owner in Lynnwood, WA
“He goes, ‘You need to sell your car. This is a Nazi car. You’re driving it, you need to sell your car.’”
“I could only see his eyes. He also had a large bag in front of him and baggy clothes. I had no idea if I was safe or not. It certainly felt very threatening and harassing,” Leigh said.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/caught-video-driver-cuts-off-harasses-tesla-owner-lynnwood
Which makes me think it is time to look at buying a Tesla. They are an amazing car company and their navigation technology is light years ahead of their competitors.
How truly bizarre! People are mad at cars.
E.M.
Only goes to show how deranged and dangerous woke leftists are. The label of ‘domestic terrorist’ is very fitting.
Trump is looking into sending Tesla terrorists to El Salvador. Makes sense to me, at least for the ones fire-bombing cars and dealerships, or shooting bullets into them.
Hello NotSoOld:
Smiled at your comment. Perhaps the Tesla Terrorists should be forced to drive around in the Venezuela-Iran joint car model, the Venirauto Turpial (short for Venezuela-Iran). (Don’t know if they still make them.)
Maybe with a sign in the back window “Venezuela-Iran Cars: You Drug, I’ll Drive.”
(-point being…, I do not think El Salvador manufactures any of its own cars. Venezuelan autos are greatly cheaper …and closer..
But…”Some of the most sought-after models for import to El Salvador include luxury brands like Tesla, Cadillac, and Lincoln…” https://www.auto4export.com/blog/importing-used-or-salvage-vehicles-from-the-united-states-into-el-salvador-including-toyota)
OMFK
And George Gigi EB or Dennis will go full rant that you can not do that – they are US citizens.
Which is true.
But we can dream of a country where the people who do not want to be here ….. Leave
First, many of the tesla terrorists have not yet been caught, so we don’t know if they are US citizens.
As for the ones that are, are you saying Trump is legally prohibited from sending them to a prison in El Salvador under an agreement with that nation? Perhaps you are right, but what is your legal source for that claim?
Upstate,
They have gone off the rails! Off the deep end! First they were mad at statues and now they hate American made cars that support advanced technology and are “good for the environment.”
Truly deranged!
I would love to know how we went from a country that is in deep trouble financially to hating a person who is looking into the budget and operational systems. Doge must have uncovered a hornet’s nest of graft and slush funds.
Could it be that the Marxists have the goal of destroying the United States?
E.M.
Off the rails is right!
Oh, I do believe they want to destroy America as we know it and reshape it into some weird, sick dystopia where they are in charge forever. The fun part is they keep doubling down on the stupid and crazy which alienates their own base. That is why the Democrat party is so unpopular. Yet, despite more and more sane and normal, traditional and moderate Democrats saying the quiet part out loud, they just keep on doing what they are doing. And failing.
The parasites are mad at their host.
Parasites typically kill their host in the end…
if the host is sufficiently oblivious.
Professor please address the case of Mahmoud Khalid
No.
There is no case.
Mom ood Cauli id is a criminal illegal alien who must be deported.
Returning to Berlin is high on my bucket list. I was last there in 1975 when it was the GDR (DDR) and Berlin was a split city inside a communist country. Soviet troops were having military operations along the roadside. West Berlin was in the American Sector and crossing to East Berlin was a big deal. We spent all of the day and well into the night on the East side. There were still bombed out neighborhoods from World War 2. It was a memorial experience and one I cannot forget.
We drove in from Hamburg. Now, the scars of war are replaced with new construction. The separation was not just a wall but a complex of barbed wire guard towers, and an array of impediments for those who would dare cross. Sad days and a reminder that there are always those forces that wish to control people’s lives.
the GDR had one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.
What the heck are you talking, scars or war?
What crazy time machine did you travel on?
ATS – E.M. was reporting what he actually saw with his own eyes. You are desputing that ?
No the GDR – East Germany did NOT have one of the Highest GDP/capita in the world. It was a failing state.
It produced crappy cars no one outside the USSR would buy. West Germany spent hundreds of Billions trying to bring east Germany into the 20th century, it still lags behind.
And most of those afD Nazi’s that you left wing nuts worry about are in EAST Germany.
#74. The disturbing graffiti. Was there evidence of an Islamic presence?
It takes time to censor speech, thought. The USA has compromised. New normatives are established. What’s all the crowing about…
Okay, this headline sounds like the Babylon Bee but it’s real: Iceland’s minister for children resigns after admitting her pregnancy is from a 15-year-old boy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14524397/iceland-minister-children-boy-pregnant-quits.html
#74. I read the article, OMFK. I’m only sorry I cannot un-read it.
What glorious pictures and lovely account of your trip, Jonathan! You and Nadine Strossen are heroes in the free speech movement. Keep up the good fight! As for Hillary Clinton, I do wonder how she would feel if she were the one who was silenced by the censorship movement.
Winning! UAE agrees to invest $1.4 trillion in US jobs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/21/uae-commits-to-1point4-trillion-investment-framework-in-us-white-house.html
This after Apple agrees to invest $500 billion, Nvidia agrees to invest several hundred billion . . .
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ai-chipmaker-nvidia-invest-billions-us-amid-trump-onshoring-push-ceo
. . . and the $500 billion investment pledge by Stargate per SoftBank CEO Masayoshi, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison.
Columbia is implimenting the Governments requirements to avoid losing $500M in research grants.
Breaking: a federal judge has ruled that God overstepped his authority; Adam and Eve can return to the Garden of Eden.
Other federal judge orders include:
– Owning a Tesla is unconstitutional
– Tim Walz is straight
– Trump is not allowed to move his head during the next assassination attempt
– Israel must return all hostages to Gaza
– DOGE must restore inefficiencies to all government agencies
Good one
Turley has not commented here – but he did on Fox.
Where he said that there is zero doubt that Trump is allowed to deport these people.
Right now this fight is really over whether Trump can use the AEA to expedite the process, and that is all.
He noted that the national security issue is getting really tense – the government often uses but never allows the national security claim to actually get litigated in court.
I expect there will be an agreement between Boasberg and DOJ over what information they provide.
Someone in state department confirmed there was over a months worth of high level negotiations over these flights and there is absolutely no way that State wants the broad discovery that Boasberg is demanding – it would undermine our foreign relationships if high level communications with the representatives of foreign governments were made public.
Further Boasberg has major problems with this case – here is nosuch think as a class action habeaus claim, further habeus claims must be filed in the district court where the person being deported is or was – NOT DC. Boasberg has massive problems with jurisdiction over this case.
The Plantiffs at the ACLU waived habeus to get the claim into Boasberg’s court – that poses serious problems, because many of the claims you are hearing on the news about allegedly deporting the wrong person – those are habeaus claims.
The 5 plantifs in the case were removed from the planes and are still in the US.
Again Boasbergs jurisdiction is limited to the plantiffs – not anyone who Might have been on the plane.
At the same time – even the AEA allows an actual Habeus claim – this case is NOT a habeaus case.
It is near certain that some court somewhere has atleast sufficient authority to demand the names of those on the planes.
Then we have a recent poll that has 63% of americans supporting the immediate deportation of ALL illegal aliens – my gfuess is support for deporting Tren De ARugua to El Salvador is far higher than that.
Boasberg and State/DOJ are playing a game of chicken with each other.
My prediction is there is going to be some kind of face saving agreement with Boasberg.
DOJ/State have a risk that higher courts toss their national security claim, and/or reject the application of the AEA.
I do not think either of those are likely, but they are a high risk roll of the dice.
Conversely Boasberg does not have a plantiff anymore – it would be trivial for an appelate court – or SCOTUS to tell him that his case is confined to the 5 people who the ACLU is representing.
Boasbergs case gets worse the more I learn.
The ACLU filed the case and asked for a temporary injunction BEFORE Trump issued the EO and findings required to invoke the AEA – as a result many of their initial claims were both speculative and wrong.
The Judge should have dismissed the case and asked the ACLU to refile when they were capable of making an actual claim.
Next the case was filed on behalf of 5 plantiffs none of whom were on these planes.
When the judge learned that he converted the case into a class action case.
Again a way out over his skis legal maneuver. Because they did not have the EO and presidential finding when they filed the case – the class action is for a class hat is different from those that the the EO and presidential finding invoking the AEA apply to.
We heard all this nonsense about Trump having crappy legal representation during his first term. Either Trump has brought in better people or more likely the legal teams here – knowing what they are up against are working hard to assure that the unforced errors are on the part of the left. This BTW has been true of many of the cases thus far – the left suess making ill informed claims – the Judges issue TRO’s based on false claims, The court then has to revise its TRO – it does so badly with bad results, has to reissue the TRO and in the process discovers by the time it is dealing with reality there is little or nothing left to order.
Regardless, it is Boasberg and the ACLU that are trying to game the system.
There is no legitimate basis for this case to the tried by this judge – we have a system of court specifically for immigration matters. where a case has an issue that warrants review by a federal district court – it is the district court in the region in which the person being deported is currently – which would have been Texas.
There is already rulings by Boasberg that the presidents power to declare war is not reviewable by the courts – I do not understand that ruling – because it is the presidents war powers that are unreviewable. the power to declare war rests with congress. But the president can assert that an act of war has occured and excerise some war powers on that basis. That is SORT of what has occured.
ARegardless Boasberg has accepted that the AEA is not reviewable – except as a habeus matter, with respect to a foreign war.
He is claiming that the other clauses of the AEA are cases of first impression – that is arguably correct. But absent a constitutional violation, of a specific clause of the AEA the legal presumption is that if one application of the law was found non-reviewable the others are presumptively non-reviewable. That does NOT preclude a Marbury vs. Madison decision – which essentially – the courts have final authority to decide what the constitution says and in this case we decided that the constitution say we do not have power. Regardless the presumptions are against issuing a TRO, and the courts only certain is in determining that each of the individual deportees actually is who the administration claims and that they meed the requirements of the EO and AEA.
There are other issues – because while Boasberg is having issues ranting that his order may have been violated – it CLEARLY was not.
He is now demanding to know why the planes did not return to the US – but his order – both the verbal and written one was that the planes could not take off. They took off before either order was issued, the written order is significantly different from the oral order – it is more clear and and narrow – which is why outside of actions inside the courtroom oral orders are NOT generally binding. Boasberg’s written order issued approx 2hrs later is more clear and more narrowly and closer to correctly written. And DOJ/State complied with it – no planes took off with Tren De Araugua members for El Salvador after the order was issued. By the time the written order was issued the planes were within minutes of landing.
I do not think Boasberg has jursidiction over this case at all – it must be removed to a federal judge in TX.
At that point the court would have legitimate grounds to demand the identities of all those deported for the purpose of determining if they were properly deported under the AEA or other deportation authorities. But those are individual cases – there is no possible class here.
The only proper class would be people legally in the US that were denied due process in deportation.
Darren, thank you for the clean up!!
“You didn’t have anything like that Jan. 6,” Trump said, referring to the 2021 riot that left several people dead.
On a rare occasion, trump tells the truth. The people targeting Tesla’s are destroying property. The Jan 6 rioters beat the sh-t out of people, causing at least one death. They mainly attacked people, not property.
So ya, the Jan 6 rioters are nothing like those torching Teslas.
Those people torching Teslas are domestic terrorists.
Upstate – The Bee is reporting on one such incident where the terrorist saw her own image in the Tesla window:
According to sources, a leftist reportedly smashed a Tesla after seeing a terrifying image of a fascist in the car’s window. The incident occurred late yesterday afternoon in the parking lot of a local Target store, where the suspect claimed to have seen a hateful totalitarian psychopath in the window of a Tesla Cybertruck, leading her to take matters into her own hands and attempt to destroy the vehicle.
The whole story is here:
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberal-smashes-tesla-after-seeing-terrifying-image-of-fascist-in-window
OldManFromKS,
While it may be satire as we all know, the Bee is satire, except people who watch CNN, MSNBC or The View who cannot tell the difference, it does make a degree of sense.
Simply cannot tell the difference, as in incoherent and hysterical…
aka irrational.
What if all women were like Karoline Leavitt?
Lovely and talented?
Brilliant and logical, calm and orderly, and stoic.
And an absolute hammer!
Yup
A heavily made up ignorant liar, uninformed, an arrogant toady for a malignant narcissist who sexually assaulted a woman and who brags about grabbing women’s genitalia—which reasonable women find offensive. This loser defends the worst president in recent history who has to cheat to get power and who is destroying democracy. She has a beak-like mouth she tries to compensate for by plastering on lipstick outside the lip line which only emphasizes her cheapness— as if her lying and obvious incompetence weren’t sufficient to prove these points. Because she is incompetent and lies, she is an embarrassment to the United States and the female gender. This loser doesn’t just lie, she has the gall to talk down to legitimate journalists and bristles when she gets caught lying or saying something stupid— which is every day.
Take your meds
You don’t matter anymore
https://youtu.be/ygBo9Fmq5l4
It would be fabulous!!
Exactly.
Remember, we all see you as domestic terrorists. I look forward to AG Bondi pushing for charges of domestic terrorism of those who commit arson, violence, intimidation of Tesla employees or property. You support pro-Hamas terrorists. You are evil. You and the leftists Democrat party are evil. This is a war of good against evil. You are on the side of evil. You must be defeated. Just look at what you support. Biological men in women’s sports. Pornography in elementary schools. Drag queen story hour. The mutilation of children. And keeping it from the parents. You support state education over parents choice. You support censorship. You are anti-free speech. You are for open borders and bringing in violent criminal gangs who assault, rape and murder women and children. You defend those very violent criminal gangs. You support and defend pro-Hamas terrorists here in our country. You are the face of evil.
2 unarmed citizens murdered by cops – both women.
Get your facts straight.
Yes, two people at the capitol on J6 were murdered by the CP.
Beyonf that there are usually a couple of thousand deaths everyday in the US and likely the same on J6 – but aside from Rose Boylan and Alishi Babbit none died at the J6 protests, and non died because of the J6 protests.
Though there were several suicides of people being persecuted by Courts like Boasbergs and Garland’s fascist DOJ.
One of Glenn Reynolds recomendations for cleaning up the Judiciary was congress requiring cameras in courtrooms – that is inside congresses powers, and many of the J6 attorney’s have said – these cases would have gone radically differently if video of the judges was on the nightly news.
BT – there is not a single protester who beat anyone to death, or whose violenced caused anyone to die.
AGAIN Only Rose Boylan and Alishi Babbit died on that day and they were murdered by the CP – not protestors.
AGAIN thousands of people accross the country including DC died on J6 2021 for causes having nothing to do with J6
The only other deaths that are directly attributed to J6 are those of people who persecuted by Garlnand’d DOJ committed suicide.
There is no claim that anyone died at the hands of protestors.
Correct J6 protestors are nothing like those torching teslas.
There is a pretty significant difference between tossing a molatov cocktail anywhere and protesting a rigged election at the US capitol.
There was not a single firearm AT THE CAPITOL in the hands of a protestor on J6. There was not a single Molotov cocktail.
There was no arson. Certainly no on torched a vehicle containing massive amounts of lithium that could go off like a bomb.
There was some property damaged at the capitol – but protestors did not go to the capitol with the intention of damaging property – they broke windows to get into a government created free speech forum that as unconstitutional locked.
That is radically different than deliberately destroying private property.
The purpose of the Tesla bombings is to use violence to send a political message.
While the purpose of the violence on J6 was to regain the oportunity to excercise their first amendment right to free speech and to petition the government.
Jonathan: Yes, visiting Germany is a treat–the history, the historic buildings, the rivers and, of course, the beer. I have never visited Berlin but my wife and I have close German friends. They live in a small village outside Stuttgart. Some of the buildings there date back 800 years. We enjoy the smaller towns and driving through the beautiful country sides.
At the Tucson Festival of Books you were on a panel in which you said you expected a “battle royal” at the World Forum in Berlin. Why did you expect that? Probably because Germans, with the history of WWII, have a different view of “free speech”. They do not tolerate neo-Nazi hate speech or displays of the Nazi flag. Germans rejected the neo-Nazi NfD party in the last election.
And Germans have a poor view of DJT and Elon Musk. The latter because he came to Germany and backed the NfD. Musk is now persona non grata in Germany. A poll in the last few days shows 94% of Germans say they won’t buy a Tesla. Tesla sales have plummeted 70% in the first two months of this year–although EV sales generally in Germany are up. The son of our friends outside Stuttgart bought a Tesla about 3-4 yrs ago. He now regrets that decision. He has tried to sell his car but he can’t find a buyer!
I suspect you got somewhat of a cold reception in Berlin. And it’s not just because you were seated next to the Clinton’s. It’s probably because you back Musk’s form of “free speech” that considers Social Security a “ponzi scheme”, who was never elected to any office but fired thousands of federal workers–taking away their “free speech” rights because they represent the “deep state”–and that this same person supports right-wing fascist parties in Europe. In the name of “free speech” you continue to support Musk. No wonder you expected to get into a “battle royal” in Berlin!
Some parasocial relationships are dangerous. Some are just sad.
Keep importing muzzies and this will all change.
Musk does not need germany.
“Germans have a poor view of DJT and Elon Musk. ”
You seem to think that the afd is not Germans.
The afd exists because of the failures of the German government.
I know very little about the afd – aside from what the MSM reports – but for good reason I do not trust the MSM.
It is possible that the afd is only mouthing its claim to be pro-free speech.
It is possible that the afd’s leader is the lesbian female version of hitler.
But then again we were told that Georgia Meloni was a fascist – and she has done quite well as the prime minister of Italy.
Over and over – in Italy, France, England, Germany, Romainia, Denmark Sweden – we see what YOU call the far right rising to power – just as Trump has in the US.
And throughout all the same countries we see those on the left using every power they can – including violating their own laws constitutions and the rights of people to prevent that.
One of the problems when extremists – such as the left extremists who have LOST power in the US, and who still hold power through much of europe, is that the more vigoously they resist the FACT that they have alienated the ACTUAL people, the more certain that they will be driven from power – by FORCE if nececary and that it is entirely possible that those driving them from power will be even more totalitarian than they are.
But contra your claims that Europeans are somehow united in their hatred for Trump – European countries clearly have rapidly rising versions of their own MAGA movements that with near certainty will come to power soon.
Georgia Meloni came to power in Italy and so far has not only proved not to be the 2nd coming of Musollini, but governed well and has excellent support by the Italian people.
Marine La Penn will with near certainty take power in the next French election. Even now, it is nearly impossible for France to form a government without her.
Germany has pretty mucht he same problem with the afd – it is near impossible to form a govenrment without afd.
in the UK the left has the largest majority in parliment it has ever had in an election where it got the least popular support of any winning party in UK history. Since that election their popularity has declined radically and they will lose to BOTH major opposition parties in the next election.
It is a virtual certainty that Nial Farage will be the next Prime Minister of England. The only question is whether Starmers Government fails before that.
That is every major govenrment in Europe – but the same things are happening in most of the smaller european governments.
The Fact is that European Democratic socialism that has warmed the cockles of those of you on the left is failing. It has been failing for over 40 years. Many of the countries that you have fawned over have had more conservative government working to slowly dismantal all the failing leftis bunkum that you have sold over the years.
Thje nations like Germany, France, England that are seeing possibly more extrene transitions is the consequence of having resisted so tooth and nail for so long.
Contra your claim that Europe hates Trump, it is ancient european elites – dinosaurs that are clinging to power that hate Trump. Most ordinary french, Germans. English are not even thinking of trump – they are trying to figure out how to get rid of the elitist dinosaurs that are corruptly clining to power and thwarting the will of the people.
94% of Germans wont buy a Tesla. How is that surprising.
I would bet that 94% of Germans will not buy a BMW or Audi either.
It is likely that 94% of germans can not afford to buy a car. Certainly it is the majority.
Europe is in bad shape – it has been in bad shape for decades BEFORE the Ukraine war.
It has had almost no growth for 40 years It has fallen significantly behind the US in standard of living.
The working class int he US is better off than the middle class in germany.
But all of this has gotten worse recently. The european version of the “green New Deal” has left europe with failing manufacturing, high energy costs, unreliable energy and slow deindustrialization – and all that BEFORE the ukraine war made things even worse.
It should be no sureprise that Meloni came to power in Itally, that Le Penn will in France, that afd will in Germany and that Farage will be the next English PM.
95% of Germans will probably have to buy a chinese car – if they can buy one at all -0 it is all they can afford.
Dennis – if polled I would say that I will not buy a Tesla.
That has nothing to do with Musk, it is because I need a vehicle that can travel a couple of hundred miles in a day stopping briefly to refuel. EV’s are improving – but they are NOT yet to the point where they will function for some of the work I do.
Conversely while my wife is unlikely to buy another car in her lifetime – she would be better served by a Tesla than the Honda she bought 10 years ago. an that Honda is an excellent car.
Dennis, it is clear – that as in the US – that the people you know – in the US and in Europe are all part of the elite leftist minority that has ruled much of the world for 40 years and is now failing.
You live in a bubble that is losing power.
Of course they hate Trump and the growing majorities in the world that are struggling to throw them out of power.
America is suffering a coup d’état and rebellion by the Juristocracy, and Professor Turley is vacationing in communist Germany?
If I am not wrong, freedom of speech in Germany consists of speech approved by the de facto communist government; the born, raised, and steeped communist Frau Comrade General Secretary Angela Merkel served as a de facto dictator for sixteen (16) years and only recently left office; German tariffs on the U.S. are excessive; Germany failed to meet its NATO budgetary requirements, etc. ad Marx.
Did the Good Professor just defect from the Constitution to the Communist Manifesto and back into the Deep Deep State “Swamp”?
Or did you defect from reality sir?
Respond with the brilliance of substance or descend into the abyss of ad hominem; the choice is yours, sir.
Hate to say it, but once the Wall came down there was nowhere left to put the graphitti but on all of the buildings.
The enemy within…MAGA
MAGA influencer Ricci Wynne, 39, known as Raw Ricci, has been on Fox News, specifically on Jesse Watters’s show and Tucker Carlson’s. Wynne has a massive Instagram following, totaling more than 102,000 fans. But he’s too busy for Fox News right now since he was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of producing child sex abuse material.
@Baby
Really; nobody cares. That isn’t a message for you, Baby, it is a message for the people throwing their money down a toilet paying you. Meh. Nobody cares.
@Baby
Oh, and PS: 102,000? You do realize there are over 300,000,000 people in this country, right? That is basically a lemonade stand in 2025. I’m sure the lemonade stand is all revved up, though.
People do not seem to grasp the massive numbers required for the victory we had in November. Hint: it was just a bit more than a lemonade stand.
The real enemies within, Cori Bush’s Husband Indicted For Pandemic Fraud
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/03/20/breaking-rep-cori-bushs-husband-indicted-for-pandemic-fraud/
Sounds like drugs
I got to go to Berlin when I was 17 on an exchange. The Wall was still up. It’s an incredible city. Glad you had fun and lots of beer.
The BEST of Bach’s Brandenburgs, imo….Absolutely thrilling!
Cindy – beautiful! Actually heard it on the radio this morning while on the road 😊 🎼 🎶 🎵
oldmanfromkansas—-Oh how enjoyable for you….I’ll tell ya, it’s challenging to play, but so much fun! Glad you like it too.
I did not expect to like Berlin but it quickly became my favorite city. Thank you for sharing your photos and impressions! I agree with you about the graffiti.
I would love to hear or read your speech. If it does not show up on YouTube soon, can you share it?
I went through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1970s when visiting West Berlin, and ended up spending an afternoon in East Berlin. Very interesting experience: very quiet, gray, dark, almost nobody out on the street. Wide boulevards with maybe two cars as far as the eye could see. However, the trams went by every so often and they were packed as tight as sardines with working-age people, all looking downward with a frown, nobody talking or smiling.
West Berlin by contrast was colorful, noisy, and lively, kind of like Midtown Manhattan with its party atmosphere, albeit the buildings were not quite as tall as in NYC. Interesting train ride in and out of West Berlin too. Some people don’t know but you had to go through East Germany to get to West Berlin. Change of country, passports out, German Shepard dogs outside the train sniffing underneath, gruff scary looking East German border guards walking through the train with weapons and checking the passports of the passengers. Ironically, as soon as we entered East Germany from the west, the sky grew dark and foreboding. I thought that was appropriate – nature seemed to know and want to imitate the authoritarian traits of the communist government.
East Berlin was like a slave city. Those people going to work were paying damages to the UK, France, Soviets for the wars. How many years? 60? 80?
No, they were not. They were slaves of the Communist government, which was not paying anything to the Allies. You may be getting mixed up with the reparations after WWI, which were not repeated after WWII.
#74. In a different world perhaps. They paid until the 80s. Then Reagan finally said, take down the wall. He did not add , the debt is paid.
Typical trump supporting idiot…
Lawler slammed the decision to close the only Social Security hearing office in the Hudson Valley in a statement on Thursday. He said that concerns about mold in the office “don’t justify abandoning folks in the Lower Hudson Valley.”
He thought they would only close offices in democratic districts.
Close yours, not mine. Idiot.
@Baby
*shakes head, and that’s all*.
Honey, no.
hmmm…….I don’t think calling yourself a “baby” is working out for you. You might want to think about growing up? Just a thought from an adult.
Your welcome, young’un.
So Lawler says the office closed over mold and you jump immediately to politics ?
Regardless, meaningful cuts in governemnt spending will mean cuts in red and blue districts.
If there is an actual problem – there are many ways to solve it.
ONE of those
There are district magistrates all over the country who will be happy to rent their offices for occasional Social Secutity hearings
Are those of you one the left incapable of thinking outside of what has already been done ?
Trump Ramps Up Attacks On Judges, Calls Out Justice John Roberts
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-roberts-judges_n_67dc9e95e4b0f519c38c7501
So you call out unelected private citizen McCaskill for inflammatory rhetoric but go on vacation when our (gag, using the our word) president irresponsibly, dangerously does much worse.
Wonder how friendly the German people were after Trump has stabbed Ukraine and Germany in the back.
“All we are saying, is give [WAR] a chance.”
– John Lennon
Justice Roberts does not support the Constitution, the Acts of Congress, the President, or the Vote of Americans.
The Supreme Court of 1869 found that because secession is not prohibited, secession is prohibited, and the Supreme Court of 1973 found abortion to be a federal, constitutional right and freedom, but the Supreme Court of 2025 cannot find that the head of the executive branch may exercise executive power exclusively as the Constitution does, and it cannot find that an Act of Congress gives the President the power to order particular aliens and enemies “to depart out of the territory of the United States” “during the continuance of this act” or “whenever…any…predatory incursion shall be perpetrated….”
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FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
At the Second Session,
Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
An Act Concerning Aliens.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States,…
An Act Respecting Alien Enemies
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.
How do the people of Germany feel? Well, all those military aged males are likely hoping Trump can negotiate a peace deal and avoid WWIII and them going off to die in a war that never should of been started in the first place. Likely so do the rest of the military aged males in the rest of the EU.
@Upstate
I don’t honestly know if this is still the case, perhaps someone can confirm, but for friends I had from Germany in the past, minimal military service was still a requirement after school, you didn’t get out of it.
Can you imagine if our American young people had no choice but to serve in the military for at least a year? We have become ridiculous people in America, by all means let us continue to turn the tide on people who are just privileged and bored, because in our recent past, that’s all that’s going on. They are privileged, and bored.
James,
Just read that the Ukrainian military are deploying wheeled, armed with a machine gun, remotely controlled vehicles to the front lines as their manpower problem persist. The Ukrainian government is also considering lowering the draft age from 25 to 18 and older. So there is another large group of military aged men who are also likely hoping for Trump to get a peace deal and soon.
I recall when during the Biden admin and as he escalated the conflict, getting us that much more closer to WWIII, all of a sudden, it was a trending search on Google for “can I be drafted?” Another trending Google search was “how can I get out of a draft?” Our American young having no choice but to serve in the military? Something tells me we, as a country, would be a lot less inclined to get into any kind of conflict. And I think bringing back the draft would be a good idea. About a year or so ago, the US Army War College wrote a paper suggesting the all volunteer fighting force we have now has become obsolete and conscription/draft may be required if the US was to get into a major, long term conflict.
Alternatively, they may suffer a “blood lust”
https://youtu.be/F_p1JC3z2kU
Or
Better!
@Matt
No, we don’t. But continue stewing in your self-inflicted rage. We’d help you if we could. And heaven forbid the Professor just share something nice on the blog he owns and runs. The hate in your heart will be your undoing; count on it.
Matt in the Article YOU linked to the only mention by Trump of Roberts was
“If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!”
That is not an attack on Roberts.
It is however a correct statement.
As Turley noted elsewhere – the courts have lost legitimacy and credibility – with BOTH the right and the left.
That is EXTREMELY dangerous.
Roberts recent remarks decrying criticism of judges and decrying impeachment are both recognition by Roberts that the judiciary faces a serious credibility problem.
But they are an effort to fix the problem by blaming those who have lost faith in judges. It should be no shock that fell flat.
The left repeatedly advised Biden to ignore the supreme court – during his term.
Contra the MSM Trump has repeatedly stated that he will obey bogus court orders and appeal them.
But the message that the courts are way out over their skis is
True
Resonates with Trump’s supporters.
Repeats the same argument made by those on the left.
To the extent we have a “constitutional crisis” right now – it is that the courts have lost credibility
They did this themselves.
It is the left that caused this by politicizing the law over the past 20+ years.
Politics has absolutely no place in the judicial system.
While it has always been present, it was also always recognized as a flaw
until the left pretended it was a feature.
Judges are required to make decision –
only on the cases before them,
only on the issues before them,
only on the parties legitimately before them,
only on the law and constitution.
It is not the courts role to decide the right answer to political questions.
Only to decide whether political decisions are lawful or constitutional – nothing more.
Conservatives like to talk about “originalism” – which is just another term for following the centuries old rules for statutory interpretation.
The critical aspect of “originalism” is that when those rules for statutory interpretation are applied scrupulously by two different judges with two different political biases they still should produce the same outcome.
It is a REQUIREMENT that courts decide the same issue the same way regardless of politics, and that they do so this year and 20 years from now – unless the law or constitution are changed.
People are free to change – and a true living constitution means when we believe the constitution is no longer working as it is – judges and the courts do NOT change it – the people change it – by amending or replacing it.
We can not acheive that perfectly. But it is still the only legitimate goal.
The problem is that is NOT what law schools are teaching anymore, that is not how fudges on the left are acting anymore.
And that creates a mess.
It is bad enough that prosecutors do not apply the law uniformly.
That different administrations have their own spin on he law,
That congress has its spin too.
We have complete and total chaos when the courts no longer function as the anchor.
it is NOT the job of the courts to advance the political goals of anyone.
it is not their job to decide what is right and what is wrong.
It is their job to decide what the constitution says and what the law says – and to do so in an essentially ROTE fashion that will consistently produce the same results.
This is critical because it means that if we change the law or constitution – that future decisions of he courts will reflect those changes.
The politicized courts we have are the ACTUAL cause of chaos even anarchy.
John Say,
Well said.