German Humor is Better Than Biden and Entire America - So Far, Surprisingly

Dedicated to close friend of mine, very caring, confident that I will end up (pairing) with NOT German. Looking forward to learning Mandarin, Hebrew, Danish (but not Danis who kill my mom)

Berlin 11.11am

(With 5 languages in this note)

(Around 10.05am Berlin time, Sept 6th, or 4.05am DC)

I’m speechless. And waiting until 80 minutes (before start to writing) to make sure the Government Team or admin-social media for Chancellery, and admin for the personal account of the Chancellor, just joked-then-delete this photo. 

But no, this is not a drill, this is not a joke. 

Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor, from SPD, uses a “pirate-style” of photo on his (DUAL) account: Chancellery account and his personal account. Literally in Germany, The Pirate Party Germany (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland), commonly known as Pirates (German: Piraten), is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006, although it only has 5,541 members.

In less than 1 hour, his feed-photo in X - formerly known as TWITTER, already reached 1.4 million engagements, the fastest ever for his account. In 3 hours, reached 2.6 million engagements. In Instagram, 3 hours gets 81k likes, also fastest ever for him.

Between G7 members, only Biden and Scholz, or, only the U.S. and Germany using dual accounts of state heads: US with POTUS and personal account (BarackObama, RealDonaldTrump, JoeBiden); Germany with BUNDESKANZLERIN and OlafScholz. Former Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel never ever set up her personal account in Instagram and Twitter. With 16 years (2005-2021), Merkel is still the longest leader in Western Hemisphere since the 19th century.

Mitch McConnell: 81 years old. Nancy Pelosi: 83 years old. Donald Trump: 77 years old. Joe Biden: 80 years old. Bernie Sanders: 82 years old (his birthday September 8th, 4 days from now). Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein: 90 years old. Olaf Scholz is just 65 years old, 15 years younger than Biden. Olaf Scholz also 5 '7 ft (170cm — just the same as me, 172 cm), Biden arguably high if compared with other (current leader), 6 ft (183 cm). Trump is taller than Biden, 6’3 ft (191 cm). Scholz got another call: one of short-triumvirate Europe, because Macron only 173 cm and Rishi Sunak only 170 cm. The 4th biggest economy in Europe (if Russia does not count as “EUROPE”), Italy, has a PM (Giorgia Meloni) with only 160 cm.

26 Hours ago, “I think if he runs on a strong progressive agenda he's not only going to win, he's going to win by a strong vote," Sen. Bernie Sanders said on “Face The Nation” about President Biden, a solid sign that Sanders may not run for Primary Democrat 2024. With lead until 40-50 percent if compared with another GOP candidate, 2024 Election likely Biden v Trump again. 

The central error that most US pundits have made since 2015—and continue to make—is they analyze Trump through the prism of US politics. None of this makes sense unless you understand how authoritarian-style cults of personality work. That’s what this is. WSJ Latest Poll, Trump is the top choice of 59% of GOP primary voters, up 11 percentage points since April, when the Journal tested a slightly different field of potential and declared candidates. Also WSJ Latest Poll, although the candidates are only three years apart, 73% of voters said they feel Biden is too old to seek a second term, compared with 47% of voters who said the same of Trump. Two-thirds of Democrats said Biden was too old to run again.

The U.S. election is more than a year away, but governments have already begun to contemplate the return of Donald Trump. Some, like Beijing and Moscow, see potential benefits in a transactional leader willing to strike deals. For China, Trump was the leader who ignited trade tensions with the U.S. while a Biden presidency held out the prospect of a return to a previous era in which many U.S. policymakers supported free trade in the belief that it would liberalize China.

Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to have another scary episode in the media gaggle, 2 times, months ago and August 30. June 2nd, 2023, President Joe Biden is "fine" after tripping and falling over at an event in Colorado.

And days ago, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fell while jogging. And with good humor. With a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the right side of his face — the result of a jogging accident. “Am excited to see the memes," the chancellor wrote in the caption. Again, Scholz is not too old like Biden. But he can laugh at himself after fell. 

Scholz fell while running in his hometown of Potsdam which is located 28 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of the German capital Berlin.

In a profile on his party’s website, Scholz says that he hated sports when he was at school but acquired a taste for it from his wife, Britta Ernst. “Today I jog as often as I can,” he says.

Scholz says he tries to find time for jogging, rowing or walking two or three times a week and also enjoys cycling.

To deflect any possible worries about his health, on the photo, which appears to have been taken at the chancellery, Scholz smiled slightly and also wrote: “Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is!”

Scholz fell while jogging on Saturday and sustained bruises to his face, prompting him to cancel some appointments this weekend, the government said. However, he was expected to attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi. In comparison, Chinese President Xi Jinping preferred to meet with the Benin president instead of meeting with Biden, in the Delhi G20 summit. Why does the leader of an unknown African country get to meet Xi Jinping, but the leader of the current hegemon superpower can't? 

An AP-NORC poll published last week found that 77 percent of American adults think President Biden is “too old to be effective for four more years”; 51 percent of respondents said the same thing of Donald Trump.

Biden is slightly more than three-and-a-half years older than Trump. He’s currently 80 and would be 82 years and two months old on January 20, 2025 if inaugurated for a second term. Trump is 77 now, and would be 78 years and roughly seven months old on 1/20/25.

Mitch McConnell freezing up at public appearance last week (via Reuters). What if this happened to Biden?

The relatively large gap in assessments of the candidates may partly reflect tactical answers on behalf of partisan respondents. Among Democrats, roughly equal numbers say that Biden and Trump are too old — presumably they respond that way because it’s hard to single out the other party’s candidate for being too old when your guy is even older. Among Republicans, however, 89 percent say that Biden is too old while only 28 percent say the same of Trump.

However, the differences can’t entirely be chalked up to partisanship — 74 percent of independents also said that Biden was too old, while just 48 percent said that of Trump.

Obviously some of this comes down to voters’ subjective views of the candidates and the way their age and health is portrayed in the media. However, I don’t think voters’ assessments are entirely subjective, or at least not necessarily so. The 3.6-year age difference between Biden and Trump is potentially meaningful, at least based on broad population-level statistics.

The age of Biden and Trump during their potential second terms corresponds to infection point at which the risk of death begins to increase meaningly every year. I’d say the increase is exponential, but it’s actually slightly steeper than that. (I’ve drawn a faint, dashed exponential-fit curve in the graphic for comparison; you can see that it doesn’t ramp up as steeply as the thicker curve that reflects the CDC numbers.) The late 70s and early 80s are a period when medical problems often get much worse for the typical American man.

At age 70 — Trump’s age when he was inaugurated for his first term — the risk of death in the upcoming year for a white American man is 2.4 percent. By age 78 —Trump’s age in 2025 — the risk has roughly doubled to 4.9 percent. At 82 — Biden’s age if he’s reinaugurated in 2025 — it’s increased further to 7.3 percent. And the risk of dying is 11.0 percent by age 86, which would be Biden’s age at the end of his second term.

Back to Germany. 

I was working alongside the Berlin and Munich team. I can say very honestly, blatantly, that Germans are the most serious people in the universe, dry humor, or, less humor. So, Olaf Scholz’ new PR strategy is really interesting, rebranding Germany with a joke-because jog(ing).

This is a tribute to a close friend of mine, very caring, very confident that I will end up (pairing) with NOT German. I am looking forward to learning (autodidact) Mandarin, Hebrew, Danish (but not Danis who killed my mom —- My mom still alive, neary killed because rammed by trailer truck because doxx by IR UGM), German, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Thai, to mitigate my “forever friend in life” maybe not Indonesian citizenship.

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Würde wählen. Gute Besserung auch von uns. Der Kanzler mit blutigen Schrammen im Gesicht, das rechte Auge von einer schwarzen Augenklappe verdeckt: Ein Foto des Bundespresseamtes zeigt, welche Folgen ein Sportunfall für Olaf Scholz hat.

Der Regierungschef veröffentlichte das Foto auf der Plattform X (vormals Twitter) und nahm sich im Begleittext – in Erwartung entsprechender Netzreaktionen – ein wenig selbst auf die Schippe: »Wer den Schaden hat… Bin gespannt auf die Memes. Danke für die guten Wünsche, sieht schlimmer aus, als es ist!«, schrieb er.

Scholz hatte beim Joggen einen Unfall erlitten. Er sei gestürzt und habe sich Prellungen im Gesicht zugezogen, teilte eine Sprecherin der Bundesregierung am Wochenende mit.

Dem Kanzler gehe es den Umständen entsprechend gut, sagte Regierungssprecher Steffen Hebestreit am Montag. »Er war heute morgen ganz gut gelaunt, sieht aber noch etwas ramponiert aus.

Seine anstehenden Termine wird der Kanzler nach Auskunft des Regierungssprechers wahrnehmen – unter anderem einen Besuch des St. Michael-Jahresempfangs der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz am Montagabend sowie die Eröffnung der Automesse IAA am Dienstag in München. Nach dem Unfall hatte Scholz am Wochenende Wahlkampftermine in Hessen abgesagt, dort wird am 8. Oktober ein neuer Landtag gewählt. Scholz’ Innenministerin Nancy Faeser ist SPD-Spitzenkandidatin.

Auf der Website der SPD heißt es über Scholz, er jogge, so oft es geht, und mache etwa dreimal die Woche Sport – gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Britta Ernst.

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Olaf Scholz pubblica la foto con la sua ferita al volto dopo la sua recente caduta mentre faceva jogging: "Aspetto con ansia i meme. Grazie per gli auguri"

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Victime d’une violente chute au cours de son jogging, ce week-end, le chancelier allemand Olaf Scholz arbore un bandeau sur l’œil sur Instagram + X / Twitter, ce matin. On voit les erraflures sur son visage. Le bandeau sur l'oeil dissimule son oeil droit gonflé mais sans blessure grave.

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Szef niemieckiego rządu Olaf Scholz wywrócił się podczas joggingu i upadł na twarz. Po małej przerwie wraca do obowiązków kanclerskich.

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