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7 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
That's actually a very pertinent point. Helmut Kohl was THE reunification Chancellor, but then he threw it all away through scandals. Gerhard Schröder was the reform Chancellor, but too Russia-friendly by half. Merkel has done a very reasonable job, throughout many crises
While I strongly disagreed with some of her decisions, there was that fillip of sheer irony of the time when Angela Merkel was too Christian for @DouthatNYT.

Easily. In some ways, Germany could have done much better against #COVID19 (state/federal fights haven't helped). But in a LOT of ways, no mentioning names, Germany could have done FAR worse. Merkel deserves a lot of the credit for that

Energy politics (which I disagreed with, but which were very popular); internal politics (zero tolerance for neonazis); the entire course of COVID_19; free speech, being at the M100 Media Award to Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard; 2010 debt crisis

In a way, that's a very old-style German thing, still very present. "Mehr Schein als Sein", ≈ "more glitter than substance", is still a very German condemnation. Seems to me partly a holdover from social unrest in the 1920's & 1930's

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Just a few words about myself, since many of you are new to me. I have my own standards of judgment and conduct. Most of the time, I try to stay polite. Sometimes I don't. There are reasons for that.
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Yes, I can, you ignoramus by choice. Flu has an R0 lower than #COVID19; early days yet, but it seems the measures against COVID_19 have worked even better against the flu. As for "pneumonia", lol, you're aware that COVID_19 causes pneumonia too? Plus opportunistic bacteria? Etc.?
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OK. CNN News now saying Trump's Twitter account locked for the next 12 hours. Several tweets on it also now deleted. CNN also saying the White House has called a "lid", i.e. no announcements from the WH for a while.
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with thanks to @Daemond6:

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Listening to Biden live, speaking (on CNN). He's being eminently sensible, and measured in tone. He strikes a good line.
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Republican. At least one more adult. The drama-queens storming the Capitol have zero idea of how real institional power works, in a large nation. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine, as the drama-queens will find out.

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At this stage, no amount of dishonesty, gaslighting & smokescreen will save you, @FiveRights and @JamesDelingpole (who just retweeted this). Get a grip. There will be arrests, arrest sheets, concrete details, for all time.
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You idiots. Now you've just made everything 100x worse for yourselves, you've discredited yourselves forever. There's no coming back from this and getting taken seriously ever again, except as criminals.
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At least someone is being an adult and has some sort of grasp on reality.

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