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kpete

(72,024 posts) Wed Dec 9, 2020, 11:02 AM Dec 2020

Brava Angela Merkel

What leadership looks and sounds like (with subtitles)

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Brava Angela Merkel (Original Post) kpete Dec 2020 OP

Merkel is having to fight internally at the Bundestag the AFD and others opposing her lockdown Pachamama Dec 2020 #1

Great leadership! cp Dec 2020 #2

Brava, indeed! niyad Dec 2020 #3

A slight difference in leadership between Germany and the US, don't you think? BobTheSubgenius Dec 2020 #4

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)

1. Merkel is having to fight internally at the Bundestag the AFD and others opposing her lockdown

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2020, 11:36 AM

Dec 2020

At least they have the ability to implement nationwide mandates compared to us in the US. But the "Querdenker" and the AFD are fighting hard and they have the same propaganda and disinformation machine through social media and internet that have people in Germany fighting mad.

I admire Merkel and this speech (likely done like many others where she is constantly booed by the AFD (their Neo-Nazi party) is taking a stand and by her standards, very impassioned and from the heart. She is right.

cp

(6,668 posts)

2. Great leadership!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:16 PM

Dec 2020

From the heart--and mind. Thank you.

niyad

(113,600 posts)

3. Brava, indeed!

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Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:26 PM

Dec 2020

BobTheSubgenius

(11,572 posts)

4. A slight difference in leadership between Germany and the US, don't you think?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2020, 01:53 PM

Dec 2020

How many people would faint dead away if they ever heard the phrase "from the bottom of my heart" coming from a Presidential dais? Even the concept of HAVING a heart is beyond him.

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