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February 28, 2005

Jobless Rate Hits All-Time Record

I don't know. If I were the French, I'd start to get a little anxious when a bunch of Germans find themselves unemployed and looking for something -- let's say a "party" of some sort -- to belong to.

posted by Ace at 03:41 PM

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Not to mention the marching and the singing in beer halls.

Posted by: Cracker Barrel Philosopher on February 28, 2005 03:58 PM

The mystic chords of ALL THREE STANZAS of Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Alles are starting to resonate.

I think the French might want to start practicing now. It'd give them a headstart.

They could also put up signs outside their homes saying "Welcome, we've kept your beds warm."

Lastly, perhaps some of the progeny of the Vichy regime could start having strategy meetings. That'd get everything just about right.

KCTrio

Posted by: KCTrio on February 28, 2005 04:07 PM

And when inflation heats to hyperinflation, they'll be saying: Ich ben ein Nazi!

Posted by: 72VIRGINS on February 28, 2005 04:09 PM

How long will it take before they figure out some way to blame it on the Jews, I mean OFFICIALLY blame it on the Jews? And if it's this bad now what will it be like after we pull our troops out? Gotta suck to be German right about now....

Posted by: bullwinkle on February 28, 2005 04:19 PM

This could be self-correcting:

Germans get restless
French white flag factories can't keep up with demand
Germans emigrate to fill the extra positions
Employment returns to acceptable levels

I don't think we have anything to worry about this time.

Posted by: PlacidPundit on February 28, 2005 04:25 PM

Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Allies ...

Posted by: who? on February 28, 2005 04:56 PM

Reminds me of one of my favorite French-bashing jokes--

Q: Why are the boulevards of Paris lined with trees?

A: Because the Germans prefer to march in the shade.

Posted by: utron on February 28, 2005 05:03 PM

Reminds me of my favorite French-bashing non-joke anecdote:

When I was in Paris, I commented on how it looked different from so many European cities, in that so much of its gorgeous old architechture remained pristine.

And then I sort of got pissed off when I realized, "Ah. Right. They gave up too fucking fast to get bombed like the rest of Europe."

Posted by: ace on February 28, 2005 05:11 PM

Ace, I heard the flip side of your anecdote from a German businessman I did some research for.

At the end of the project he thanked me for my help, and said, "You Americans have really done a lot for German industry, you know that?"

I mumbled something about how the Marshall Plan was a good deal for everybody concerned, and he said: "The Marshall Plan was great, helping us build new industrial plant after the war. But even better was during the war, when you destroyed 96 percent of the outdated equipment."

Posted by: utron on February 28, 2005 05:18 PM

Same is said of the Japanese post WW2. We re-built their economy with all the "newest" shit.

Posted by: fat kid on February 28, 2005 05:29 PM

Everyday I work to get the EU Constitution passed, because hell they deserve it!

Posted by: Iblis on February 28, 2005 05:33 PM

Speaking of French bashing, am I the only one to notice that the Statue of Liberty is the thing from France that can hold an arm straight up without everyone with a half-mile gagging?

Posted by: bullwinkle on February 28, 2005 07:22 PM

Who?

Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Allies

Very, very funny pun. Sorry I missed that. Great handiwork.

KCTrio

Posted by: KCTrio on February 28, 2005 07:29 PM

Bullwinkle:

Nice, very nice. I think the reason for this is that, once she was brought to America, our fine company (you know, the one controlled by some weird satanic cult with the crescent moon and stars logo) Proctor and Gamble, must have taken care of that problem.

Some kind of deodorant for copper-clad torch-bearing gals. Industrial sized.

Of course, Lady Liberty's deodorant is probably being manufactured in China or someother un-American place, with decilning manufacturing here in the US and all. But the stuff is applied here in the US. If this outsourcing stuff continues, even the guys doing the deodorant application will probably be foreign workers (I guess that would be in-sourcing from an outsource).

KCTrio

Posted by: KCTrio on February 28, 2005 07:36 PM

Okay, but if the French get invaded again, we are not going to save them this time. Got it?

Posted by: Naaman on February 28, 2005 10:32 PM

I say we save them again. Definitely.

Then when they start swindling and insulting our soldiers (as they most surely will), we say, "Psyche!!" and turn around and annex France, make it the 51st state (we'll call it New Texas), and deport all the French to Germany.

This will accomplish several objectives;
1. It will totally fuck up the E.U., which will actually improve it.
2. The Brits will thank us and call us their 'Special Extra Good Friend Country Forever and Ever Amen.'
3. 'Frogs and Krauts,' a reality show based in Berlin, will be a smash hit.

I think you can see where I'm going with this, and that I need more coffee.

Posted by: lauraw on March 1, 2005 11:44 AM

It'll make me smile when I hear another "Why can't we be more like Europe? HA!

Posted by: Ammobob on March 1, 2005 12:30 PM

Hmm. Given that both France and Germany are in the EU, would it be an invasion? I mean, being in the EU gives the citizens of one country the right to move into the others, right? I mean, that's what all this discussion about the Dutch leaving Holland is all about.

Someday, the French might just wake up and realize they've been invaded via soft power...

Posted by: Anachronda on March 1, 2005 05:44 PM

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

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