Switzerland was famous (or infamous) for staying neutral in World War II. It simply would not take a side between the Nazis and the rest of the world. However, when it comes to free speech, Switzerland has declared war on anyone who challenges certain orthodox positions, including gender policies. Just ask Emanuel Brünisholz.Brünisholz is reportedly about to start a 10-day prison stint due to his voicing skepticism about claims that skeletons are transgender.
There is very little coverage of this story. Free speech cases are often downplayed by European media. So, we have only limited information coming from conservative sites.
In 2022, he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner on the controversy. Some, including academics in the United States, are now claiming that you really cannot gauge the sex of individuals from their skeletons.
The wind-instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded and posted a comment that said, “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”
Brünisholz then received a knock on his door from the Burgdorf police and then a prosecution letter for engaging in “hate speech” and “publicly belittling” comments based on sexual orientation under the Swiss Criminal Code. He was convicted and fined 500 Swiss Francs.
If true, this sounds like just another absurd use of a criminal charge to silence those with opposing views. However, a court actually convicted him and then another court upheld the conviction. He was ordered to pay a fine or go to jail. He is now going to jail for simply expressing his view, a view supported by many scientists and citizens.
“LGBTQI means lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, queer and intersex, and denotes therefore different sexual orientations. It’s a loose group of people who consider themselves a part of the aforementioned sexual orientations. Therefore, LGBTQI is a group of people with specific sexual orientations.”
The case is only the latest example of how free speech is in a free fall in Europe. I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year’s forum embraced the slogan “A New World Order with European Values.” That “new world order” is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union.
Many Americans are allied with the EU and attempting to introduce such anti-free speech laws in the United States. Others are speaking in Europe and inviting the EU to hit U.S. companies with sanctions for failing to censor Americans.
Yet, there remain brave free speech advocates and groups still struggling to restore this indispensable right to their countries. By going to jail, Brünisholz is bringing needed attention to the crackdown on free speech in that country. Despite the disgraceful role of the courts in this effort, citizens like Brünisholz show that the cause of free speech is alive in Europe.
No! Not the Swiss! Just when the Swedes were coming to their senses, the Swiss have gone insane. Is nothing sacred??????? 🙁
The irony is he’s exactly right. You can judge from the skeleton whether it’s a male or a female
IKR. It’s crazy.
This transgender skeleton stuff has been long debunked. Galileo must be spinning in his grave.
Calling it “the nuclear option,” House Speaker Mike Johnson opted on Tuesday to enter a medically induced coma to avoid swearing in newly elected Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva.
Johnson spoke to reporters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center moments before doctors administered pentobarbital through an intravenous tube connected to his left arm.
“I’m doing this as a last resort,” he said. “I was really hoping that people would forget about the Epstein files or that the Rapture would happen, but no such luck.”
A Republican colleague who visited Johnson’s bedside hours after he fell into the coma said that the Speaker “seemed like his usual self.”
Millions Gather To Express Total Ignorance About Political System
U.S. — Millions of Americans took to the streets today in order to express to the world their total and absolute ignorance about the political system they live in.
Several major cities including Boston, New York City and Chicago saw over one hundred thousand residents show up to proclaim their abject incomprehension of governance.
“The world needs to understand how incredibly little we know,” said local man Roger McMahon, who had joined the march. “I really do not think the greater population appreciates how completely uneducated and illiterate we are when it comes to our own political system. That’s why I’m here marching. We’re going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class.”
Rallygoers marched throughout the day on Saturday, chanting various slogans such as “Where do I live?” and “How does government work?”
“It’s incredibly inspiring, seeing so many people walking arm in arm saying ‘Hey, I don’t know anything,'” said local woman Barbara Samson. “It feels incredible to be part of this movement of telling people that I’m a real dullard.”
At publishing time, the rest of the world had politely told the rallygoers that the message had been received.
https://babylonbee.com/news/millions-gather-to-express-total-ignorance-about-political-system
“Calling it “the nuclear option,” House Speaker Mike Johnson opted on Tuesday to enter a medically induced coma to avoid swearing in newly elected Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva.”
Are your socks too tight this morning, little Bolshevik Birthing Boy? Some mental anguish leaving you typing random sentences?. Speaking of you Democrat commies in a self-induced coma… they have taken your vital signs for you:
More Bad News for Democrats: DNC Focus Groups See The Party as Weak and Woke
Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn’t just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.
When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”
The focus group research, shared first with POLITICO, represents the latest troubling pulse check for a party still sorting through the wreckage of its election losses and looking for a path to rebuild. Without a clear party leader and with losses across nearly every demographic in November, Democrats are walking into a second Trump presidency without a unified strategy to improve their electoral prospects. And while some Democrats blame Biden and still others blame “losing hold of culture,” the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats’ problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.
The focus groups offer “a pretty scathing rebuke” of the Democratic Party brand, said Rachael Russell, director of polling and analytics at Navigator Research, a project within the Hub Project, which is a Democratic nonprofit group.
Typical lib… another YAWN… You got nothing
I am going to attempt to engage in wokespeak.
We need such wonderful and enlightened laws here!! No free speech for Nazis and a “Nazi” is anyone with whom I disagree.
How did I do s@@tlibs?
antonio
Gender refers to sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation). Trans indicates a state or process of divergence. The transgender spectrum includes simulants who are clearly a drag on other trans who seek to socially distance from their queer brothers and sisters #NoJudgment #NoLabels #PoliticalCongruence(“=”)
And here we thought the woke insanity was just limited to parts of America.
And here we thought the woke insanity was just limited to parts of America.
Woke cultural cancer BEGAN here in America. Not in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Canada.
It’s a feature, not a bug, of the partnership between Obama and Black Liars & Marxists circa 2010. And as often happens with American culture, our rock star president Obama then helped spread the cultural Marxist Woke cancer to the rest of the world. We can and should jeer and point out how self destructive it is of those who embrace it.
But it began here and spread from here, not anywhere else. We need to eradicate our Democrat Woke cancer here, rather than being distracted by where it has spread elsewhere.
Why not add a “D” for delusional to LGBTQI+ (LGBTQI+D) to make it all inclusive and obviate the need for more alphabet in the future?
LOL… sounds great
Vincente,
Sounds good to me!
How about “D” for “Deviant” for the Democrat Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe?
“. . . you really cannot gauge the sex of individuals from their skeletons.”
Say goodbye to the science of physical anthropology. Killed by the “party of science.”
Its the SWISS BABY!!! Their policies and logic are just like their cheese – FULL OF HOLES AND DEAD SPACE!
The anonymous comment, likening Swiss free speech policies to “cheese – full of holes and dead space,” reflects a rhetorical strategy aimed more at provocation than substantive critique. While satire and metaphor can enrich discourse, in this case, the analogy oversimplifies a complex legal and philosophical framework. Switzerland’s approach to free speech, grounded in Article 16 of the Federal Constitution, seeks to balance individual liberty with social responsibility — a principle also reflected in international human rights norms such as Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Furthermore, the choice to make such a claim anonymously raises concerns about the commitment to open and accountable dialogue. In academic and civic discourse, the willingness to attach one’s identity to an argument is not merely a formality; it is a mark of intellectual integrity and responsibility. Anonymity can be justified in contexts where safety or censorship are real concerns — but in this instance, it appears to function as a shield for rhetoric that is more inflammatory than informed.
Engaging critically with national policies is essential in any democracy, but doing so demands clarity, evidence, and the courage to stand behind one’s words — not just volume or anonymity.
“While satire and metaphor can enrich discourse, in this case, the analogy oversimplifies a complex legal and philosophical framework. ”
That’s quite an impressive word salad you put together there – much more coherent than Kamala Harris could do. One could call it a “rehtorical strategy aimed more at provocation than substantive critique”, as you might say.
There’s nothing “complex legal and philosophical framework” about a country who jails people for nothing more than expressing an opinion that the government will not tolerate being allowed to be expressed or heard by their citizenry.
Their country – their rules. But if you want to defend this type of censorship and jailing of people for simply expressing an opinion as was done here as anything other than police state fascism, you are going to have to do much, much better than the word salad you presented.
OMG-the Swiss are telling us that all those years of watching BONES on TV was a total fabrication. 12 years of tv wasted. I think I need a Xanax to help me through the day.
Obviously the Swiss Army Knife has some flaws in its character and design.
Just because those high mountains keep out invading armies does not mean those mountains are any good at keeping out insane ideas. I wonder if they have any Cantons that now follow Sharia Law. Is that not the next step?
The disillusionment expressed here touches on broader themes of cultural mythology, epistemic trust, and the symbolic authority of national identity. The invocation of BONES, a television show centered on forensic science and rational deduction, contrasts popular representations of scientific infallibility with the perceived irrationality or ideological inconsistency now attributed to Switzerland.
The reference to the “Swiss Army Knife” functions as an extended metaphor for Swiss efficiency and reliability — its “flaws” symbolizing cracks in a once-unassailable reputation for neutrality, pragmatism, and technical perfection. Such metaphors reveal the psychological shock that occurs when a culture or nation known for precision is seen as embracing what the speaker considers “insane ideas.”
The rhetorical question about Sharia Law underscores a fear of cultural or ideological transformation — specifically, the anxiety that pluralism or liberal democracy might erode traditional Western legal and ethical frameworks. From a sociopolitical standpoint, this reflects broader Western debates over multiculturalism, secularism, and national identity. And I suggest you have a close look what may happen in New York with a new major.
However, empirically, Switzerland remains a federal secular democracy, with its cantons retaining significant autonomy under a unified constitutional framework. No canton follows or recognizes religious law as a civil authority. The remark, therefore, should be interpreted less as factual commentary and more as satirical hyperbole, capturing cultural unease rather than actual governance trends.
“From a sociopolitical standpoint, this reflects broader Western debates over multiculturalism, secularism, and national identity ”
That’s your SECOND impressive word salad you put together there – again, much more coherent than Kamala Harris could do. One could call it a “rhetorical strategy aimed more at provocation than substantive critique”, as you might say.
The subject is that the Swiss have decided to jail a man as their version of punitive censorship, with his crime being that he disagreed that skeletons could establish whether a person had been a tranny or not.
That’s the subject, not meandering and aimless discussions – is that good or bad? Can you deal with the subject, rather than creating word salads to defend it?
Their country – their rules. But if you want to defend this type of censorship and jailing of people for simply expressing an opinion as was done here as anything other than police state fascism, you are going to have to do much, much better than the word salads you keep throwing at the wall to see if they stick.
“The disillusionment expressed here touches on . . .”
That comment is a terrific example of what Nietzsche called: Muddy your waters to make them appear deep.
so the skeleton may reflect Bio-gender ONLY, but the spirit-genders are often trapped in the wrong skeletons…they’ll need some professional, Aura-detecting, psuedo-seance, necromancer to truly read which gender(s) inhabited the skeletal frame with any scientific certainty.
Perhaps, when there is question as to the sex of a skeleton, they should bring it to Sedona, AZ. There are lots of businesses that claim they can take their aura photos and make a determination. If that fails all the energy vortexes and crystal readers could possible make that decision for those that rely on science only.
A lot of nuts in Sedona spending their time moving rocks around.
“bring it to Sedona, AZ”
I love Sedona (and Jerome) as a place to visit and vacation, but I can imagine that living there full time could be a strain on one’s sanity…
“ There is very little coverage of this story. Free speech cases are often downplayed by European media. So, we have only limited information coming from conservative sites.”
Likely because it’s a stupid story and it gives Professor Turley an opportunity to make it a much bigger deal than it is. It’s also likely there is more to it than just being jailed for expressing the opinion. According to Turley this guy had a choice, pay a fine OR go to jail. I guess he chose jail over paying a fine. 10 days in a Swiss jail is luxurious compared to what we have.
Unlike here in the EU they interpret speech to also be conduct. Professor Turley holds that while speech is protected under the 1st amendment conduct should not be. The Swiss and most of the EU are doing what Turley agrees with. Conduct is punishable. They view certain speech as conduct also. We shouldn’t be critical of how the EU enacts its laws. We have similar anti-free speech measures here. We punish college students for expressing their views, particularly anti-Israeli views. Our own federal government and some states threaten punishment or punish those who express their views like pro-Palestinian support. Professor Turley remains strangely silent on that subject while he goes to great lengths to seek out odd barely noticeable stories such as these to make a big deal about them.
Is thought conduct?
Speech is, in the EU. A thought not expressed is not conduct.
Hateful conduct can involve speech in some EU nations.
Xray: “We punish college students for expressing their views…particularly anti Israel.”
Not true. You totally mischaracterize what has happened on college campuses. College students get punished for behavior that violates the school’s code of conduct including harassing other students, taking over buildings, blocking entrances, physically assaulting, and destroying property. They are free to robotically chant all the mindless anti Israel slogans their stupid brain can make up.
Tryingtoclaryfi,
Rumeyza Ozturk and Mhamoud Khalil were not engaging in violence or broke rules of conduct. Neither committed a crime.
The Trump administration, the government, sought to punish them for daring to express their views or exercise their free speech rights. Ozturk’s “offense” was co-writing an Op-Ed critical of Israel. The Trump administration wanted to deport her because they didn’t like what she did. Khalil was grabbed and put on a fast track to deportation because he dared organize to organize a protest and negotiate with a school administration to arrive at a peaceful solution to the pro-Palestinian protests at the time. Both were being punished for exercising their 1st amendment rights. Professor Turley never defended them depite the fact that it was a clear violation of their free speech rights.
The professor seems to find these odd out of the way stories to exemplify anti-free speech while completely ignoring our own egregious anti-free speech tactics by the Trump administration. The only reason the Professor won’t openly criticize Trump is because he is also bound to be targeted for “investigation” or being smeared. as a leftist.
Professor Turley has to deal with his own hypocrisy before criticizing others.
George/X posted Professor Turley has to deal with his own hypocrisy before criticizing others.
How about you acknowledge and deal with your own hypocrisy, false moral supremacy, outright lies and errors before claiming credibility to judge whether others are hypocritical?
It’s never too late to at least try and attempt to win some credibility and trust from the readers here who have to watch you use our host’s blog as though it were your own.
For example, your claims a few short weeks ago as a self-identifying Confederate Constitutional expert, that it was unconstitutional for the president to take command of the national guard and deploy it to Democrat shyte hole cities like Portland. Well, even the Ninth Circus says you were completely wrong, George/X.
Any excuses or comments now that even the Ninth Circus has disagreed with your public display of your ignorance?
Appeals court lets Trump deploy Oregon National Guard to Portland
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-national-guard-portland-appeals-court/
So you celebrate on 911? Champagne, X?
george
Our own federal government and some states threaten punishment or punish those who express their views like pro-Palestinian support.
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Wrong again. The government will punish when these loons go way beyond protesting, as we have seen in far to many colleges.
“Wrong again. The government will punish when these loons go way beyond protesting, as we have seen in far to many colleges.”
Dustoff, don’t offer George/X the excuse that he was merely in error while supposedly offering a good faith argument.
George/X was doing what he always does with that one lonely arrow in his communist quiver: lyin’ and denyin’ like a Biden.
Did Ozturk and Khalil go way beyond protesting? The government did not even charge them with a crime. So what did they do to deserve deportation?
Here are the facts: In late 2022, Swiss citizen Emanuel Brünisholz published a comment on Facebook referring to LGBTQI individuals as “mentally ill” and asserting that their identities contradict biological reality. He was subsequently reported to the police by ten individuals across seven different cantons!
Among those complainants were at least two journalists affiliated with Swiss mainstream media outlets. According to police documentation cited in Swiss and German reporting, this coordinated complaint strategy mirrors methods observed in Germany, where similar collective filings were used in 2022 across several Bundesländer (federal states) to prompt investigations under hate-speech and anti-discrimination laws.
“Likely because it’s a stupid story and it gives Professor Turley an opportunity to make it a much bigger deal than it is. The Swiss and most of the EU are doing what Turley agrees with.”
Lyin’ and denyin’ like a proud Biden again. Oh yeah… we’re sure Professor Turley agrees with the Swiss and George/X that free speech like this should result in criminal charges and prisons.
George/X… back to get your daily sexual gratification of coming here to follow your host around, yapping at his heels like the fat lady’s stray Pomeranian.
Seeing as you’re back… you DID notice that your claim that it was unconstitutional for the President to use the National Guard in Portland just get tossed out on it’s ass by the Ninth Circus, no less. You noticed that you bombed on your claim the president couldn’t legitimately do that, right?
Got any more cutting edge constitutional interpretations as Portland gets ready to welcome the National Guard now that command of those troops has been pried from the insurrectionist hands of that lower court judge who claimed she was actually the Commander In Chief who controlled them?
“We have similar anti-free speech measures here.
George/X, lyin’ and denyin’ as always. George/X has had been in a long term love affair with police state fascism since Obama started openly using it in his first term. To get affirmation from Switzerland that police state fascism should be acceptable when directed against anybody who questions Tranny magic just made George/X’s day.
The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC and their equally vile members like George/X.
I don’t know if the mental illness among the left is at an all-time high, but it seems to be in my lifetime which began at the very end of the fifties. Fascism, although not in its most extreme form, is as widespread as ever.
Mental illness defines the left.
Follow the Science, until it offends a liberal.
I can’t believe Switzerland has gone so far down the path of derangement and censorship. A beautiful reputation based on centuries of neutrality and freedom is now in danger of being lost.
The Swiss are just Germans without the sense of humor.
The anonymous remark thus reveals more about the speaker’s assumptions than about either culture described. It perpetuates a simplistic hierarchy of wit and emotional expression while neglecting the deep pluralism, historical independence, and linguistic nuance that characterize Switzerland.
In scholarly terms, this is a textbook case of ethnocentric projection — interpreting another culture through one’s own evaluative lens rather than through empirical understanding. A genuinely informed comparison would recognize both nations as distinct, internally complex societies whose humor and identity are products of specific histories, languages, and political traditions — not caricatures on a continental stage.
In scholarly terms, this is a textbook case of ethnocentric projection — interpreting another culture through one’s own evaluative lens rather than through empirical understanding.
In equally scholarly terms, this is a textbook case of Democrat Dishonest Gaslighting — attempting to distract and deflect by using a meandering word salad to justify Swiss censorship by way of police state fascism.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator of those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
“In scholarly terms . . .”
In other words: In academic gibberish . . .
“. . . interpreting another culture through one’s own evaluative lens . . .”
You mean like you just did.
Those who spout absurdities aren’t big fans of consistency.
“You mean like you just did? Those who spout absurdities aren’t big fans of consistency.”
Very elegant ass-kicking you just administered to that pompous oaf, Sam.
You are correct. Read ma real facts: In late 2022, Swiss citizen Emanuel Brünisholz published a comment on Facebook referring to LGBTQI individuals as “mentally ill” and asserting that their identities contradict biological reality. He was subsequently reported to the police by ten individuals across seven different cantons.
Among those complainants were at least two journalists affiliated with Swiss mainstream media outlets. According to police documentation cited in Swiss and German reporting, this coordinated complaint strategy mirrors methods observed in Germany, where similar collective filings were used in 2022 across several Bundesländer (federal states) to prompt investigations under hate-speech and anti-discrimination laws.
“A beautiful reputation based on centuries of neutrality and freedom is now in danger of being lost.”
With respect, if you see Switzerland and their reputation over the centuries as that, you’ve never spent any real time inside Switzerland.
And you know little of their actual reputation – not just their collusion with Hitler, but also their reputation of being amoral mercenaries willing to do anything for any despot. As long as the price was right, of course.
If your pubic arch is >90 degrees, you’re a female (better for giving birth, vs. the male pubic arch, which is <90 degrees). Simple biology.
Not simply biology for the scientifically illiterate, seemingly now the majority of government run public school graduates.
Ireland and Sweden were also neutral during WWII. Switzerland has been neutral for hundreds of years. They were completely surrounded by the Axis Powers. What were they supposed to do Dr. Turley?
They did shoot trolls who swarmed the internet back in those days.
Name one Irish or Swede who expressed a neutral stance during WWII. Provide the date they stated your claim, the location of where their alleged statement was made, how many words were used, how many listeners were present, the LGBTQIA+furry status, and their favorite color.
“Ireland and Sweden were also neutral during WWII.”
You are seriously mistaken.
Ireland was instrumental in helping the Allies, including during the D-Day invasion.
Sweden collaborated with the Nazis, and surrendered quicker than did France.
France was one of the LAST of the European countries to have the country cease fighting while the government continued in exile in England. France began fighting Germany when it came to the aid of its allie Poland (along with England) when Hitler attacked Poland in Sept 1939. France continued that fighting as Germany swept through the Low Countries as those countries collapsed/surrendered to Germany.
France was the last of them to fall to the German blitzkreig, with their government joining other countries whose free troops were fighting from exile in England.
“France was one . . .”
Seriously?
It took France all of 6 weeks to surrender to Germany.
Sam, after a long period of so-called phony war.
Seriously? It took France all of 6 weeks to surrender to Germany.
Seriously Sam… have you thought of making a change and looking at France other than through a soda straw?
France first engaged with Germany in WWII on September 3, 1939, its forces fighting beside Poland’s two days after Hitler invaded Poland. It fought Germany first beside the armies of Poland, and when Poland capitulated, then the Low Countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Poland capitulated October 6, 1939. The French fought on.
Luxembourg surrendered May 10, 1940. The French fought on.
The Netherlands surrendered May 15, 1940. The French fought on.
Belgium capitulated May 28, 1940. The French fought on.
France fought on alone, finally capitulating a month later on June 25, 1940 as their government and surviving Free French retreated to England – long enough to save the English who they had entered the war beside, by winning them the time to flee France and back to England.
Most standard calendars would call that about nine months, Sam – not six weeks. I can provide you with a link to historical calendars to 1939 and 1940 if you can’t find any.
The Free French, with the French government in exile in England, then continued fighting beside England and Commonwealth nations in Africa and the Middle East.
If you would like to continue expanding your current small amount of knowledge of WWII history, you can search and read about the Free French stopping Rommel at Bir Hacheim in the Sahara Desert in May 1942 to stop Rommel’s attempt to take the Suez Canal.
That was months before we had a single set of American boots yet on any battlefield (McArthur having surrendered Guam, Wake and Corrigador within days of Pearl Harbor – not even six weeks… just sayin’).
Brigadier General Marie-Pierre Koenig’s 4,000 Free French, with no tanks, stopped Rommel’s 90,000 men and tanks for two weeks, before managing a successful fighting withdrawal after exhausting all their water and almost all their munitions. It was a fighting withdrawal at night with a lot of hand to hand combat between the French and the Germans trying to prevent their escape.
A tactical defeat for Koenig and the Free French; a strategic disaster for Rommel as it prevented him from seizing his objective: the Suez Canal. Would have really sucked for us to finally enter WWII to find Rommel held the logistically important Suez Canal.
They did that by themselves – the British once again leaving the French alone to defend the Suez canal while they worked on building defensive positions for their forces at El Alamein. It was remarkably similar to how two years earlier the English had left the French to fight alone to secure a pocket around Dunkirk to allow them to escape back home to England.
To be fair, many Americans believe WWII and the fight against Germany only began almost three years later, when we were bombed into joining that war we had watched being fought up until that time.
Would you like some references to military history books, now that you know the history of France fighting the Nazis from the first day of WWII up to the day we finally showed up nearly three years later, Sam?
“France first engaged with Germany . . .”
If you wish to be a Francophile, stick to loving French pastries.
That “heroic” effort in, e.g., Poland, was in fact France’s “Western betrayal” and a “Phoney War” — a faux war that lasted “about nine months.”
By the time Germany arrived at its borders, France had already neutered itself with its socialist policies. (See Léon Blum)
Sam, you have it wrong about Ireland and Sweden. The governmental stance was neutrality. Not so for some individuals and companies.
Sweden: “The governmental stance was neutrality.”
BS.
It granted transit to German troops and weapons, and *the government* exported valuable minerals to feed Hitler’s war machine.
So-called “transgender” people have been made a sacred caste. All a person has to do is claim they are transgender, then any written or spoken words they do not like are punishable, while they may say and do things things the rest of us are held accountable for. It’s insane that violent, trans-claiming male rapists are being assigned to female prisons and locked up with female cellmates. This and people being jailed for stating basic scientific facts are IMHO the ultimate proof so-called “transgender” people are a sacred caste.
Don’t look at “Swiss WWII neutrality through rose-colors glasses. They were supposedly neutral because they were the bankers of the 3rd Reich, but also the Allies. They have no claim to moral superiority.
Switzerland also closed their eyes to, and allowed, the Nazis to send trainloads of Jews, Gypsies – all those headed to their work camps, gas chambers, and ovens – over their railways. But it had to be done at night, out of sight of the Swiss population, lest they be offended. Think of it as earlier despicable censorship of what the mind could see if it had been permitted to be done in the open!
Switzerland went far beyond more than just “armed neutrality” to minimize the threat of Hitler paying them a house call. That included being banksters for Hitler’s stolen gold and agreeing to refuse refugees who were identified as Jews.
Switzerland’s reputation as a freedom loving country isn’t quite as sterling as so many want to believe. Visited there often when stationed in Europe, usually on a motorcycle on a two week leave pass. Magnificent eye candy riding their roads and highways in the mountains, expensive for tourists compared to surrounding countries, people nice but businesses humorless unless they see a lot of money in your hands. But certainly not as freedom loving as they are presented.
And frankly, Swiss arrogance is such that they don’t really care what the rest of the world thinks about them jailing people for questioning Tranny theology, any more than they care about what the rest of the world thinks about them colluding with Hitler to keep themselves safe.
The repairman is correct. While hand size is a clue, the pelvic bones are the tell.
LOL.. I’m glad someone gets it
I wouldn’t travel to Europe if I were you.
I wouldn’t travel to Europe if I were you.
The reluctance of Europeans to travel to the United States today is not rooted in xenophobia but in a rational evaluation of perceived risk and in growing discomfort with what they see as the moral and civic direction of American politics.
While the U.S. remains a major global destination, the current sociopolitical climate — marked by periodic unrest and an administration that often appears emotionally detached from public suffering — has eroded some of the mutual trust and admiration that once defined transatlantic travel culture.
In short: if an American warns, “Don’t go to Europe,” the European might calmly reply, “We could say the same about visiting the U.S. these days.”
The reluctance of Europeans to travel to the United States today is not rooted in xenophobia but in a rational evaluation of perceived risk and in growing discomfort with what they see as the moral and civic direction of American politics.
How does a Harvard intellectual “elite” explain in one short sentence the reluctance of Europeans to travel to America when out of the public eye and in private to their Tranny friends at home?
BBBBUUUTTTT…. MUH TRUMP!!!!!
Let’s look at the obvious reason. A male has one rib missing…
Prove me wrong?
Globalists want to BREAK YOUR Will!
FIGHT BACK against their insanity!