Posted on 07/10/2019 12:45:39 PM PDT by dynachrome
She’s old...she’s shakin’ because she is soon to face Ultimate Judgment.
No need to be ashamed of a neuro condition.
But time to step down or come out with how it would affect your ability to serve.
She doesnt exhibit “pill rolling”...where the hands shake as if oscillating around the the forearm bone long axis. That can be seen if the.patient is not intentionallg using the hands.
Could be something else beside Parkinsons.
I also thought maybe withdrawal symptoms.
She will be dead by this time next year.
Is there a Merkel-Hillary shaken martini special I haven’t heard about yet?
This crud was some of the “humor” in the new MAD. Where was the irreverence? Where was that calling out of the obvious bias of the former head of the ACLU as a court justice?
The MAD artists of olde were top flight artists who worked in advertising and magazine covers, album covers, etc. in addition to their MAD work. This is computer crap by an unskilled knownothing.
Some folks in Germany are now suggesting epilepsy. If you look at the normal epilepsy symptoms....shaking of legs/arms, anxiety or panic coming upon the person, confusion on the person’s face, staring for an extended period of time...all would add up to epilepsy.
They came out this morning and announced blood tests had been done and shown nothing to be an issue. I think she knows the problem and is simply delaying all of this. Summer vacation period for German politicians would start up shortly and run to the end of August. There are three German state elections in September/October period....all probably being a negative for her party (CDU). I think she’s got a date in her mind, after that election period to announce the epilepsy and resign by November.
Yep - I suppose many here are crossing their fingers that she comes down with something really bad, but I can’t bring myself to wish such on even the worst dregs....
ditto
What are her polls on her job like in Deutchland?.............
In 2017, roughly two-thirds of Germans said in a poll that they’d like a new Chancellor (they weren’t negative, just that a change ought to occur). The CDU Party (her party) had not put anyone out in front for four years as the likely replacement. So they got Merkel and the CDU as the biggest vote getting out of that election (it’s a mixed result because roughly 70-percent of voters voted for other parties).
Once that 2017 coalition cleared up....things were positive, and I’d say 70-percent of Germans were ‘satisfied’. It’s not like the Chancellor (no matter who it is) really fixes or resolves anything.
So presently (summer 2019), it’s an odd development over the past year. The Green Party has surged...their guy Habeck has gained a lot of attention, and the Greens are now in the 25-to-28 percent level (still number two). The partner to Merkel in this coalition (the SPD party, left-of-center)...is screwed up and has lost a lot of voter respect. I don’t think the SPD can recover, and they are marginally at 15-percent.
Merkel won’t run again. No one is sure who’d come out of the party....there’s maybe five names I’d throw into the hat but you can’t say it helps or matters.
Some suggest that because of the Greens, and downward trend of the SPD....there’s something serious to occur in 2021 (the next election) and the Greens could put together a government.
The way the rules are...Merkel could resign/retire, and if the coalition group (CDU-CSU-SPD) could agree on the replacement Chancellor....there would be no new election until 2021. If the SPD says no to the candidate from the CDU....the replacement individual would have to try to convince the alternate group (Greens, FDP) to join for this temp coalition. No way to predict this outcome.
Job-wise, I’d say that Germans would mostly say that Merkel hasn’t been a failure...not like past guy. Maybe 30-percent are negative or frustrated with her style. Maybe another 30-percent simply don’t care...she can’t help them or hurt them...would be their answer. Historians will probably say in the future that Brandt, Kohl and Schmidt were better adapted for the job (they were mayors, governors, or bureaucrats). Merkel was simply a professor brought in by Kohl to be a East German face for the CDU. Because of Kohl’s spiral ten years later...she was the only one around who wasn’t tainted and able to pick up the leadership role. She just didn’t have the tools you’d typically expect for Chancellor.
It has been my observation that the electorate in any country is usually divided 40-40-20.
40 on the right and left and the mushy middle 20 who can be swayed by either side according to the condition of the economy and the well-being of the citizenry.
If ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is the main issue, which I think it will be, the Right and FAR Right will be the new coalition..................
I generally agree with that 40-40-20 deal. However, in most European countries...you have multiple parties. So use Germany as an example. There are seven significant parties, and at least 30 minor parties (they make up five to seven percent of national voting). Because of this multiple party business...parties are continually having to take on issues that they would normally oppose.
A good example of this....nuke power in Germany. Ten years ago...Merkel’s party was still pro-nuke and the energy business knew what to expect. After Fukushima, all of that changed within six months. The nuke plants now have an end-date and can’t build or renovate anymore. This was triggered by Merkel’s CDU Party.
You can discuss the problems likely to occur in ten to fifteen years with higher energy costs and having to buy power via European neighbors...but it was their political decision to make.
Even on open-door immigration, the German position by Merkel is that the population is decreasing, and the industry of Germany will have a major problem in two or three decades (lacking sufficient manpower). In their mind, the open-door has some merit. About half the population would disagree...saying that various problems are triggered by this open-door immigration policy.
There’s probably twenty-odd problems confronting Germans and immigration is simply one of those.
All politics is local, or so the saying goes.
The Roman citizen is more concerned with the pebble in his shoe than what the government is doing................
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