Considered unlikely to go through in time, AFAIK

Instead they’d prefer the debt brake to be gone for good or for the spending to be more on line with their policies. There’s also an element of being taken for granted.

AFAICT (hadn’t heard that one yet) it’s about the fiscal exemption being used to take infra financing out of the budget, so the budget can be used for voter gifts they don’t agree with (credits for car commuters, tax exemptions for restaurants, higher pensions for mothers of a specific generation)

I desperately need him to be the inspiration for the next Bond villain.

Wie sehr verhandeln die Parteien denn überhaupt über einzelne Personen? Ich dachte eher die Auswahl obliegt da der jeweiligen Partei und die Koa-Partner dürfen da nicht reinreden.

Nudeln im Martini? Spirelli oder Schmetterling?

I wonder if there is some other historical example of a de-something-ification that Vance could have used? Maybe a process that was the inspiration for de-Ba‘athification? Why wouldn’t he use that as an inspiration again?

very funny that i have a quote tweet calling this “right wing bullshit” because few people can store leftovers for a week or two. “you should learn how to cook and be responsible with your money as much as that is possible” is not “right wing bullshit,” it is basic life advice.

Still hoping they’ll let him be Bond one more time LIKE THIS, a few years down the road. The end of NTTD be damned.

To me the most instructive comparison is a basketball game where every made bucket is 1 point and a made half-court shot is 15 points and the end of the game.