Monday, April 27, 2026

Germany's Merz Says Iran Is Humiliating U.S. as Talks Stall

"The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," [German Chancellor Friedrich Merz] said during a talk to students in the town of Marsberg. "An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible," he added at the venue in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Posted by qcp at 11:31 AM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

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I hope it continues.

I hope Israel has to Abide by an Agreement crafted by others that does not benefit Them.

Trump is a Dope. He's not very Intelligent, that's obvious to anyone at this point.

Netanyahu is the Real Menace.

He needs to be Boxed in and Destroyed.

By Trump's inconsistencies, would be Ironic and Fitting.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-04-27 10:03 AM

Trump lost his war on Feb. 28, 2026.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-04-27 10:27 AM

Trump has been humiliating the US for years now.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-04-27 10:41 AM

American voters have been humiliating America since 1964 (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution).

#4 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-27 11:41 AM

"To better understand the president's foreign policy, one must study the behavior of small children. ... Intellectual honesty does not seem to be the hallmark of this administration's foreign policy. A more helpful way of understanding the president's whims is to think of him as a small child who develops an obsessive fixation on a new toy before losing all interest. You can wait him out or try to appease him, but you can't talk him into a rational assessment of cost versus benefit, or assume his stated preference will hold true for very long."

Jonathan Chait

#5 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-04-27 11:53 AM

What happened to the necrotic orange chomo's boast of having all the cards?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-04-27 12:03 PM

And this is after Pete Hegseth got rid of woke, DEI, beards and all those terrible military officials who put country before Trump.

I thought changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War, fighting for Jesus and returning to a warrior ethos was supposed to make the US military unstoppable?

I guess there's a difference between acting tough and being tough. Hegseth and Trump are paper tigers playing with their toys.

#7 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-04-27 12:44 PM

#7

Turns out that all that significantly weakens the US military.

Fortunately, significantly weakening the US military is actually a very good thing for the rest of the world, and ultimately for the US too.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-04-27 12:50 PM

"Weakened US military" will be the rallying cry for why we need to cut social programs and spend 5% GDP on Department of War.

Republicans started a war they can't win, with the goal of emptying the public Treasury. All in the name of protecting the public.

Republicans who are dumb can't figure that out. They'll always believe the Iranian Sky is about to be Falling on them at any moment. They don't understand what Smedley Butler said.

Republicans who know the truth, they don't really mind, because a tiny bit of the grift trickles down into their brokerage accounts.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-27 01:23 PM

The orange baby ------- woman raping grifting orange pig traitor is an embarrassment to us all but if Iranian baby lusting woman beating murdering scum think they are any better, than that is a sick joke. The world is being held hostage by these two horrible groups of people and maybe the only good thing that will come of all this war, death and economic disaster are that the world really starts to make plans to get away from fossil fuels as the main way to drive our economies and keep us warm, cool and fed?

#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2026-04-27 01:25 PM

tru*m-p has repeatedly bragged .about the inv5inc1ib2le po9wer of the American military; you can bet that Russia and China are loving8 this war an5d the humiliation rainin9g down on Trump2's arrogant yet stupid head!

#11 | Posted by danni at 2026-04-27 02:51 PM

Yeah we all know.

Most importantly the orange chomo knows it too.

That's why he staged another assassination attempt.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-28 07:07 AM

I'm* n6o*t .qu4i4te con5vinc4ed yet that it7 was staged, I am suspicious though. The one thing that prevents me from b5elievin6g the "staged" theory is the would be assasin j9ust doesn't3 3fit the part. 2He's pretty well educated and has an estab1lished career, apparently lives in a very nice home which2. now h5e'l5l never return to. Is he hiding a large payoff somewhere? *I do real5i8ze that some, as yet unknown, billionaire almost anything is possible- but 5until we 2have information indicating or, at least, hinting it's staged, I am very skeptical of that theory.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2026-04-28 09:25 AM

What happened to the necrotic orange chomo's boast of having all the cards?
#6 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

The Iranians are far beyond what MAGAJesus considers his masterclass game of "War," having failed to grasp the intricacies of "Go Fish."

#14 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-04-28 09:34 AM

An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership

Thanks, MAGA dumbf*&^s.

Remember you chose this and will forever be responsible for it. We're going to make sure we rub your nose in it every chance we get, idiots.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-28 05:03 PM

Imagine thinking Israel will abide by an agreement. And imagine thinking that getting bombed and having your leadership killed is "humiliating" the country that did it.

I suppose if we bombed the dorks in Germany who said this their claim would be that they humiliated us too.

#16 | Posted by THEBULL at 2026-04-29 07:17 AM

And imagine thinking that getting bombed and having your leadership killed is "humiliating" the country that did it.

That's not what's humiliating, dips*&^.

The fact that Trump and his idiot minions didn't have a plan for the obvious response that's a clear threat to the entire global economy and then clowning Trump over and over with his "peace negotiations" is what is humiliating.

He looks like an impotent old fool, especially since he claims to be this master negotiator bithnithman.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-29 10:51 AM

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