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Pandemic made my last year in office the hardest, says emotional Merkel
Reuters ^ | December 31, 2020

Posted on 12/31/2020 11:18:03 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Angela Merkel said in her last New Year's address to the nation as German chancellor that 2020 was by far the most difficult of her 15-year leadership, yet the start of vaccinations against COVID-19 made 2021 a year of hope.

In a rare show of emotion, Merkel, who steered Germany and the European Union through the 2008 financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis a year later and the migrant crisis five years ago, condemned a protest movement opposed to lockdowns and said she would get vaccinated when the shot is widely available.

"Let me tell you something personal in conclusion: in nine months a parliamentary election will take place and I won't be running again," said Merkel, 66. "Today is therefore in all likelihood the last time I am able to deliver a New Year's address to you


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1 posted on 12/31/2020 11:18:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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2 posted on 12/31/2020 11:19:15 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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The Weeping Statist


3 posted on 12/31/2020 11:21:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; bitt; SkyDancer; justiceseeker93; mosaicwolf; radu; Kathy in Alaska; ...

Sound like the Wuhan bio-weapon?

75 years ago, Hermann Göring testified at the Nuremberg Trials. He was asked, “How did you make the German people go along with all this?” And he said, “It’s not anything to do with Nazism. It has to do with human nature. You can do this in a Nazi regime. You can do it in a Socialist regime. You can do it in a Communist regime. You can do it in a monarchy or a democracy. The only thing the government needs to make people into slaves is fear.”


4 posted on 12/31/2020 11:21:43 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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She does needs a Bush neck rub!


5 posted on 12/31/2020 11:22:09 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“The time has come,” the FRAU MERKEL said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”


6 posted on 12/31/2020 11:23:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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“I weep for you,” the FRAU MERKEL said:
“I deeply sympathize.”
With sobs and tears she sorted out
Those of the largest size,


7 posted on 12/31/2020 11:24:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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8 posted on 12/31/2020 11:25:54 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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Maybe Merkel Jugend can comfort her.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 11:27:46 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Yes, Merkel has had a tough year in the bunker.


10 posted on 12/31/2020 11:28:12 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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At least she’s leaving at a decent age. Unlike here in the US where we have ancient evil crones and slobbering drooling alzheimer patients who cling to political office well into their late 70s and 80s.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 11:32:25 AM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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She as most world _leaders_ have become evil to the core; either completely confused by their demonic religions or eagerly aiding in the destruction of reality and humanity.


12 posted on 12/31/2020 11:36:28 AM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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13 posted on 12/31/2020 11:39:18 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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He was right.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 11:40:58 AM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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I’ve got a suspicion it was harder on her nation’s people.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 11:41:39 AM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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You know, President Trump has stood alone against all the f***ing left, half the right, 95% of the media and the deep state/swamp, and he’s still FIGHTING, not whining about how ‘hard it is’.

I have tremendous admiration for this man.

Go take a Midol, Angela, ya wuss!


16 posted on 12/31/2020 11:42:39 AM PST by DJ Frisat (If you're not black, your life apparently doesn't matter...)
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Hau ab!


17 posted on 12/31/2020 11:56:36 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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You think it was hard for you ... think how hard it was for the peasants .... it was like they were back in East Germany under the communists this year!!!!!!!!


18 posted on 12/31/2020 1:10:31 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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May it be her last year on the planet as well.


19 posted on 12/31/2020 1:59:28 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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Boo bloody hoo

Suck it up and blame Trump you globalist hack


20 posted on 12/31/2020 3:00:04 PM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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