{"id":2217,"date":"2026-07-10T05:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:04:41","slug":"the-emperor-has-no-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/10\/the-emperor-has-no-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor Has No Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"

After watching our chancellor at the NATO summit and during the last session in parliament, we can conclude that he has completely lost contact with reality.<\/p>\n

At least to the reality that the people he is supposed to govern inhabit.<\/p>\n

We understand that the American president suffers from frontotemporal dementia. But what about our chancellor?<\/p>\n

He’s gutting the social fabric of our society and then berates the populace, demanding that we put in more effort and be prepared to go to battle for him.<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Let me repeat that: No.<\/p>\n

Friedrich Merz is a danger to Europe and to our democracy.<\/p>\n

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(University, Cologne, 7\/7\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After watching our chancellor at the NATO summit and during the last session in parliament, we can conclude that he has completely lost contact with reality. At least to the reality that the people he is supposed to govern inhabit. We understand that the American president suffers from frontotemporal dementia. But what about our chancellor? … Continue reading The Emperor Has No Clothes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-zL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}