Friday the 14th of February (3 Days Later)
Though of course I know 'stuff all' about the woman primed and prepared, preened & predetermined to follow on in the not inconsiderable, even arguably herculean steps of the soon to retire, globally-respected and certainly redoubtable German Chancellor, the Eastern German-born and bred Angela Merkel...
...yes, off-hand I even *cannot state her name - my 'extensive', hastily-scribbled, copious notes thereabouts having been 'nicely' secreted to some obscure corner of the house (amidst the dust of my various and sundry pads et al) ever since hearing the news item upon a weekday edition of RNZ National's 'World Watch' midday radio programme (a couple days back)...
the two (main) 'issues' which were seen to have precipitated her premature downfall/demise were such as have been the bread-and-butter of my blogging of recent times, indeed even upon February 11th itself (when I made my initial, title-only blogpost thereabouts)...
To wit,
1: Making a joke at the expense of the ever super-sensitive trans (et al) community
2: Having the gall, the sheer temerity to essentially 'call out' the (internet-located) perennially outraged
...and for those 'high crimes and misdemeanours', doubtless worthy of the German equivalent of the threatened repercussions for the sort of things 'the Donald' has only recently emerged seriously 'scathed' through...
...she's evidently no longer a German leadership prospect, and so will no longer stand in succession line after Ms Merkel...
Utterly predictable, yes, but hardly a good development, especially not so for a nation which had heretofore pretty well dug itself absolutely and completely out of the rather sordid hole into which a one-time Chancellor with delusions of a new world order fashioned after his Aryan fantasies had well and truly dug the nation 70-some years ago now...
*Evidently (the tongue-tier) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, though popularly referred to as 'AKK'.
Though of course I know 'stuff all' about the woman primed and prepared, preened & predetermined to follow on in the not inconsiderable, even arguably herculean steps of the soon to retire, globally-respected and certainly redoubtable German Chancellor, the Eastern German-born and bred Angela Merkel...
...yes, off-hand I even *cannot state her name - my 'extensive', hastily-scribbled, copious notes thereabouts having been 'nicely' secreted to some obscure corner of the house (amidst the dust of my various and sundry pads et al) ever since hearing the news item upon a weekday edition of RNZ National's 'World Watch' midday radio programme (a couple days back)...
the two (main) 'issues' which were seen to have precipitated her premature downfall/demise were such as have been the bread-and-butter of my blogging of recent times, indeed even upon February 11th itself (when I made my initial, title-only blogpost thereabouts)...
To wit,
1: Making a joke at the expense of the ever super-sensitive trans (et al) community
2: Having the gall, the sheer temerity to essentially 'call out' the (internet-located) perennially outraged
...and for those 'high crimes and misdemeanours', doubtless worthy of the German equivalent of the threatened repercussions for the sort of things 'the Donald' has only recently emerged seriously 'scathed' through...
...she's evidently no longer a German leadership prospect, and so will no longer stand in succession line after Ms Merkel...
Utterly predictable, yes, but hardly a good development, especially not so for a nation which had heretofore pretty well dug itself absolutely and completely out of the rather sordid hole into which a one-time Chancellor with delusions of a new world order fashioned after his Aryan fantasies had well and truly dug the nation 70-some years ago now...
*Evidently (the tongue-tier) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, though popularly referred to as 'AKK'.
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