{"id":14357,"date":"2024-07-22T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14357"},"modified":"2024-07-23T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:17:00","slug":"newspaper-gives-fascist-geography-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14357","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper gives fascist geography lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An interesting mini-drama has played out on social media this morning in the wake of incumbent US president Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to step down from the impending campaign in that country&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The dramatis personae are as follows:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Huber\">Johannes Huber<\/a>, a member of the far-right <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternative_for_Germany\">AfD<\/a> party who serves as a member of the Federal Parliament (<abbr title=\"Mitglied des Bundestages\">MdB<\/abbr>); and<\/li>\r\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/\">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/a> (FAZ), one of Germany&#8217;s major newspapers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>In common with the characteristics of the species <em>homo politicus<\/em>, i.e. approaching each and every subject with an open mouth, Huber took one look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1e5xpdzkd8o\">news of Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to step down from the forthcoming US presidential election<\/a> (<em>called a general election in the USA. Ed.<\/em>), got straight on to X\/Twitter to post the words &#8216;<em>Biden is not my President!&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Note the exclamation mark. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/huber_biden.jpg\" alt=\"Exchange of posts reads Huber - Biden is not my president! FAZ reply Dear Johannes Huber MP, correct, your president is Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Best wishes\" width=\"501\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/huber_biden.jpg 501w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/huber_biden-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>This enabled the FAZ to reply sarcastically to the MdB in question &#8216;<em>Dear Johannes Huber MP, correct, your president is Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Best wishes<\/em>&#8216;, giving him both a timely geography lesson reminding him not so subtly that he is in fact a German citizen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Meanwhile in the actual presidential campaign itself, Biden has formally endorsed his vice-president Kamala Harris to be the Democrats&#8217; candidate; and Harris looks like she&#8217;s relishing the prospect of putting victim-playing egomaniac and disgraced former president Donald John Trump in his place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_14381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14381\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/harris_trump.jpg\" alt=\"Kamala Harris post I prosecuted sex predators. Trump is one. I shut down for-profit scam colleges. He ran one. I held big banks accountable. He's owned by them. I'm not just prepared to take on Trump, I'm prepared to beat him\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/harris_trump.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/harris_trump-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>The next few months promise to be interesting times indeed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting mini-drama has played out on social media this morning in the wake of incumbent US president Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to step down from the impending campaign in that country&#8217;s presidential election. 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