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Just one more word: this Hopkins guy maybe didn’t know that using any kind of Nazi symbols, even for satirical purposes, is pretty much a no-no here.

My idea - if I could draw reasonably well - would have been to show Lauterbach in a straitjacket, shouting “dannggg danngg” all the time, while wearing a chamberpot (with some absurd floral pattern painted on its side) instead of a hat.

It would have brought the necessary point across quite well.

I would have been afraid to do what Hopkins did either, although - as an autistic, whose great-uncle was offed by the Nazis (he was mentally handicapped as well) - I would certainly be let off the hook in court. On grounds of being “non compos mentis”.

Still it was saddening to see some not-so-friendly types on this thread show their true colors towards my country - and thus to me as well, I am afraid...

Sorry for this little rant, and thanks to everyone who took the time reading it. It’s back to my radiation therapy for me now. Could you pray for me, if this is not asking too much?

All the best for all of you :-)

Thank you for your kind thoughts on America. Prayer sent for your welfare and well being.

I take Ivermectin weekly as a prophylactic against illness including cancers. I give it to my dog monthly rather than pay for the more expensive heart worm medicine -whose active ingredient is Ivermectin. It appears to have helped significantly reduce the size of the dog’s tumors.

Good morning, and thanks for the comment. Our time in Germany was most pleasant, for the most part, and I am saddened at the turn of events there. When the usual guilt cropped into my friends' and neighbors' conversations, I would always seek to "absolve" because the "sins of the fathers" cannot forever burn in following generations. It made and makes no sense.

With one of my neighbors, we spoke at length about the last century, and when I mentioned I had read "Mein Kampf" he was startled at first. (It was and remains available online.) The new reprint with footnotes and all as "disclaimers" and "explanations" doesn't change the text, when all is said and done. He'd asked why I did. I've read it and Marx' work, as well as the Koran in translation of course, and much of Mao's pomposity. Being informed makes sense when so many pretend to knowledge. In a conversation with an "academic" holding forth on Marx, for example, I;d asked what he, the professor, thought about the value theory of labor. He didn't know, because it turns out he didn't read as much as he said he did. Ditto with Hitler and Goebbels (especially). From them we know without a question that the NSDAP was anti-capitalist. This comes as a surprise to today's "educated" youth tricked into thinking anit-capitalism and more is "cool."

"Lauterbach in a straitjacket" would be quite the thing. An interview with Maischberger (ARD or Eins?) some time back during Covid showed his contempt for the average working man. DItto with Baerbock, and certainly ditto with a few others. As BASF and others move production outside of Germany, the effects will amplify sadly. From Merkel forward, it seems the politicians there are most interested in being trendy, rather than stand on principles.

The Constitution engraved on those glass panels along the Spree near the Bundestag (and oddly so near media offices across the street) seems to be more of a classy graffiti than a living work. Sad. Best wishes to you from our sea island., one among many. Bleib 'gesund, Menes.