Torsten Prochnow

Barack Hussein Obama wasted $34 million and 18 months on a failed attempt to fix the leaking Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris then proposed a staggering $300 million and 3 years for the exact same job. Donald Trump solved the entire problem for just $2 million using a simple industrial coating. This is the difference between leftist career politicians and a real leader. The establishment throws hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at problems and delivers nothing but excuses and failure. Donald Trump cuts through the bureaucracy, ignores the nonsense, and actually gets results.

The worst thing happening in the world today is Western governments turning against their own citizens. The absolute worst.

A wealthy private sector makes the nation rich. A wealthy public sector makes the nation poor. That's just how reality works.

The increasingly authoritarian German government is at it again. It is now forcing asymptomatic people into 6 weeks of quarantine over hantavirus, with no way to test out of it, not even with a negative result. When challenged on the evidence or legal foundation for this blatant restriction of basic rights, the authorities had nothing meaningful to offer. Even more disgraceful is that large parts of the German population are once again accepting it without resistance. No protests, no outrage, nothing. Anyone who now thinks Germans will only react once they are personally affected in large numbers has clearly never understood the depth of the German Untertan mentality that continues to define this country. The COVID years already revealed the true face of this system: armed police units chasing ordinary citizens through the streets with patrol cars, flashing lights, and full sirens simply for not wearing a mask or not following social distancing rules. That was not an accident. It was the systematic and predictable result of a population conditioned to obey and a state that expects nothing less. The same pattern is now reappearing. Officials will once again hide behind “I’m only following orders” and “I’m just doing my job,” while fundamental rights are quietly eroded. And far too many Germans will once again look the other way and let it happen to them all over again. Civil liberties are not optional extras that can be suspended whenever the unelected bureaucracy feels like declaring the next emergency. Fundamental rights must come first. They must not be sacrificed to bureaucratic overreach simply because a handful of official “experts” decide to manufacture the next crisis. If this continues, Germany is not merely drifting toward darker times. It is walking straight back into authoritarian territory, and those who remain passive are enabling it. Democracy dies in darkness, and when it comes to freedom in Germany, it is getting darker by the day.

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🇩🇪 A German teenage boy was prosecuted by the police for blaming slow internet on Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Germany's police opened a formal criminal investigation into a teenager who insulted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on X (formerly known as Twitter) over experiencing slow download speeds for a video game called Fortnite. The teenager posted a frustrated tweet cursing out Olaf Scholz because a 37.9 GB Fortnite update was crawling at an incredibly slow 173 KB/s, a rate that would take over 60 hours to complete. Despite garnering only 503 views, the tweet caught the attention of German authorities. The police eventually dropped the criminal proceedings after the teenager was forced to delete the post.

@ben_brechtken Not many people understand this: when 100,000 jobs disappear in the private sector and 100,000 jobs are added in the public sector, the economy does not break even. It suffers the damage of 200,000 jobs.

The mood of hundreds of millions of people around the world toward their own incompetent, authoritarian governments right now: fed up, angry, and done.

In Germany, there is a name for this: the Untertan mentality, a deep-rooted habit of obedience and deference to authority. Germans know it better than almost anyone. Some might even say they invented it and spent centuries perfecting and embracing it.

Cynthia West, who says she was dating Thomas Massie, has claimed that shortly after his previous wife died, Massie was having sex with Lauren Boebert while also dating both West and the woman who later became his current wife. Got it?

Friedrich Merz is a disgrace to Germany, and he is continuing the decline of the CDU that already began under Angela Merkel. To insult and belittle the United States in this way is completely unworthy of a German chancellor. Merz should be ashamed of this arrogant, condescending, deeply ungrateful, and historically ignorant attitude. The CDU was once a proud and genuinely conservative party, one that even secured more than 50% of the vote in German federal elections. Today, the CDU has moved so far to the left and drifted so far from its core positions that true party giants like Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl would be turning in their graves. Adenauer was a great transatlanticist and a genuine friend of America, above all in the sense of Germany’s firm anchoring in the West. He wanted the young Federal Republic to be firmly embedded in the Western alliance, politically, militarily, and economically. For him, the United States was the decisive protective power against the Soviet Union and the most important guarantor of Germany’s recovery, security, and sovereignty. Germany’s accession to NATO in 1955 as a close partner of the United States was a central pillar of this policy. Adenauer clearly believed in the German-American partnership. For him, the United States was Germany’s most important foreign and security policy ally. At the same time, his policy was not “America instead of Europe,” but America together with Europe and within NATO. His position was clear: Germany belongs firmly in the West, and without the United States, German security is unthinkable. Under Adenauer, it would have been inconceivable to repeatedly insult the United States and its people in the clumsy and undignified manner that Merz continues to do. Helmut Kohl also stood firmly in the Adenauer tradition and was a strong believer in America. Kohl was a convinced transatlanticist who knew that German reunification would hardly have been possible without American support. His relationship of trust with Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush was particularly important. This stood in stark contrast to the superficial and distant relationship Merz has with Trump. Merz was never able to build a genuine friendship with Trump, whether because the SPD never allowed him to or because he himself proved incapable of doing so. The Helmut Kohl Foundation itself has emphasized that Kohl was always aware of the importance of the United States for the security of the Federal Republic and therefore worked to build reliable relationships of trust with American presidents. It would have been unthinkable for Kohl to stumble from one diplomatic blunder into the next, as Merz has done, by repeatedly offending and alienating the Americans within a very short period of time. With Merkel and Merz, however, everything changed, and the negative transformation of this vital relationship began. They continue to claim formally that they support the transatlantic partnership, yet politically, emotionally, and rhetorically they are light-years away from the classic Adenauer and Kohl approach. For both Merkel and Merz, politics has always been far more about personal power preservation than about the good of the country or the careful maintenance of Germany’s crucial relationship with the United States. Under Trump’s first term, Merkel focused heavily on European “independence” and maximum distance from both Trump and the United States. Having been socialized in the socialist GDR and active in various regime institutions, while remaining very keen to keep her Stasi file out of public view, she repeatedly gave Trump the cold shoulder and made no secret of her dislike for him. The image from the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, which went around the world, remains unforgettable: Merkel standing with an ice-cold expression in front of Trump while other heads of state and government gathered around them. Internationally, that photograph was widely interpreted as a symbol of distance and rejection toward Trump, and Merkel herself never seriously contradicted that interpretation. Merkel systematically kept Trump at a distance, publicly criticized him, and created what was probably the coldest relationship in history between a German chancellor and a U.S. president. Unlike almost every other American president of the postwar era, Trump was never invited by Merkel for an official bilateral state visit to Germany. It could hardly have been more anti-American. Until Merz became chancellor. Merz, too, only calls himself a transatlanticist on paper. In reality, and in true Merkel fashion, he constantly speaks negatively about the United States and the American people. He has now even stated that he would not advise his own children to go to the United States to study, work, or live there. Rhetorically, this marks a massive break with the traditional tone of the Adenauer and Kohl CDU toward America and amounts to nothing less than a betrayal of Germany’s traditional transatlantic values. Merz is seamlessly continuing where Merkel left off. With his anti-Americanism, Merz now stands almost in line with the leftist SPD, the left-wing Greens, and the radical far-left Die Linke. In the tone of his criticism of the United States, he has moved far closer to green-social democratic anti-American skepticism than anything that would have been typical for a classical CDU in the tradition of Adenauer and Kohl. A traditional CDU would have addressed differences with Washington internally, strategically, and loyally within the alliance, rather than publicly portraying the United States as an undesirable place to live, study, or work, which ultimately only harms Germany itself. One only needs to look at the first withdrawal of American troops from Germany since World War II, which Trump recently announced as a punitive response to yet another embarrassing diplomatic derailment by Merz. This is precisely what happens when a German chancellor and CDU leader believes he can constantly provoke and insult the most important ally without consequences. Merz continues to forget that neither he nor Germany play in the same league as Trump and the United States, and that it would have been far wiser and far more beneficial to stand side by side with America instead of repeatedly provoking and insulting it. Merz has not only severely damaged Germany. He has also diluted a central element of the CDU’s brand: Western alignment, NATO, and the United States as Germany’s indispensable partner. Even Helmut Schmidt, a Social Democrat, would probably have maintained a better relationship with Trump than Merz has. That alone says a great deal. Perhaps Merz should have learned from Schmidt, who repeatedly emphasized in interviews, books, and speeches that personal trust and direct human relationships between leading politicians play a central role, especially in foreign policy. His exceptionally close and successful partnership with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing demonstrated exactly that. In any case, Merz and Germany will soon feel what it means to constantly annoy Trump and regularly offend the United States, and they will pay a heavy price for it. Troop withdrawals, punitive tariffs, frosty economic relations, blocked technology transfers, and much more are all on the table, and rightly so. Trump has a wide range of possible responses at his disposal, and he will use them. Merz has not merely continued Merkel’s course in key areas. He has intensified it and harmed Germany even more than Merkel already did. Under these two center-left leaders, the CDU has transformed over many years from a clearly traditional-conservative, pro-business, freedom-oriented, and transatlantic center-right party into a party shaped by center-left bureaucracy, state surveillance, censorship, restrictions on free speech, and a pronounced leftist form of anti-Americanism. In doing so, Merz has betrayed the legacy of his party and the inner soul of the CDU. This betrayal has created a huge representation gap and a political vacuum to the right of the increasingly left-leaning CDU, leaving tens of millions of German voters politically homeless. In a country facing ever larger crises and serious problems, while America under Trump is regaining strength and momentum, many voters do not see this course as modernization. They see it for what it is: a cold-blooded betrayal of traditional CDU values for the sake of personal ambition and power preservation. That is why almost one-third of Germans are now looking for a new political home exactly where the CDU itself once stood: to the right of center. Large numbers of workers, employees, self-employed people, entrepreneurs, and even entire families and neighborhoods that would once have proudly voted for the CDU of Adenauer and Kohl are now ashamed of Chancellor Merz. They will no longer vote for this CDU, which, entirely through its own fault, now stands at only slightly above 20% in the polls. Merz has continued what Merkel began: the steady march of the CDU from center-right to center-left. By doing so, the party has long since crossed the electoral Rubicon, and that is the reason it is failing. Where the CDU once stood, there is now a large void, and others are filling it. And so the hope remains, and will hopefully soon become certainty, that German-American relations will receive a fresh start in the not-too-distant future under new German leadership.

Wenn in der Industrie 100.000 Jobs wegfallen und beim Staat 100.000 Jobs hinzukommen, reden wir über einen volkswirtschaftlichen Schaden von 200.000 Arbeitsplätzen.

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🚨BREAKING:🚨MAN RUMORED TO BE MALE PROSTITUTE FOUND DEAD IN INDIANA HOME OF MIKE PENCE: POLICE - Law enforcement reportedly responded to the Indiana home of DISGRACED former Vice President Mike Pence this afternoon after a 911 call was placed to summon help for an unconscious man who was not breathing. Upon arrival, police and paramedics discovered that the man was deceased in a bedroom at the Pence home - and identified the individual as "a male in his early 20's" but did not reveal the man's name to the public. No cause of death has been named either - but the former Vice President and his wife Karen were allegedly home at the time of this incident. Rumors are beginning to circulate that the young man was A MALE PROSTITUTE that was hired by Mike Pence and was known by one of the responding officers as a frequent "special guest" at the Pence household - but as of right now, details are sketchy and no official word on who this man was or the manner of his death is known. An active police investigation is said to be underway. Stay tuned for updates on this MYSTERIOUS BREAKING BOMBSHELL as they become available... What do YOU think happened in this SUSPICIOUS death of Mike Pence's apparent CALL BOY?

I don’t think people understand what is going to happen to Germany in 10-15 years time: huge unemployment by deliberate economic suicide combined with millions of structurally unemployable welfare-entitled migrants will cause a total collapse of the welfare state and civil-war like circumstances.

🇩🇪 Nearly half a million jobs vanished in Germany during the first quarter of 2026 From January to March, the number of jobs in Germany shrank by 486,000 — the third consecutive quarterly decline, with manufacturing and construction being the worst affected. While employment continues to grow across the Eurozone and the EU, Germany is falling further and further behind.

🇩🇪 German authorities aggressively prosecute joke tweets with 500 views against politicians … but then they complains about not having enough resources to clamp down on rapists and knife crime.

A German teenager was issued with an arrest warrant for “insulting a politician” (an actual crime in Germany). He criticised Olaf Schulz the former Chancellor- for slow internet speeds! The charges were only dropped when the kid deleted the post. But he has published his arrest warrant.

The jury’s statute-of-limitations ruling in Musk v. OpenAI is a real setback for Elon Musk and his legal team, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Musk now has a difficult appeal ahead. Appellate courts rarely like overturning jury findings on factual questions, especially when the issue is when someone knew, or reasonably should have known, enough to bring a claim. But none of that changes the bigger picture. OpenAI began as a nonprofit with a mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. Under Sam Altman, that mission was steadily hollowed out and replaced by a structure that enriched insiders, empowered Microsoft, and turned a supposed public-interest project into one of the most valuable commercial AI machines on earth. That is the real scandal. The jury never reached the merits. It did not decide whether Altman and OpenAI betrayed the founding mission. It did not decide whether the nonprofit structure was abused. It did not decide whether the public-facing “for humanity” language became little more than branding while the company moved toward profit, control, and corporate capture. The case was stopped on timing. The hard part for @ElonMusk is that OpenAI can point to early warning signs: the for-profit subsidiary, Microsoft’s 2019 investment, and Musk’s own 2020 statement that OpenAI was “essentially captured by Microsoft.” That makes the appeal difficult, because the jury concluded he had enough red flags by around 2021. Musk’s counterargument is still important: early red flags are not the same as discovering the full scale of the betrayal. The real magnitude only became undeniable later, after ChatGPT exploded, Microsoft’s influence deepened, the valuation soared, and OpenAI’s commercial direction became impossible to ignore. Whether the Ninth Circuit accepts that is uncertain. Legally, this is an uphill battle. But morally and politically, Musk is right to keep forcing the issue. Sam Altman should not get a free pass for transforming a nonprofit mission into a private power machine while still hiding behind the language of humanity, safety, and public benefit.

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