Reading both of these on the same day, it was almost as if it was a Friday the 13th or som...
Well, it's for sure Friday the 13th because this entire post vaporized just as I was finishing it.
So let me see what I remember.
The first thing to hit Germany in a confluence of feminine evil arrived at the Munich Security Conference. It's a global gathering of the important and self-important, and this year's event is shaping up to be a perfect shriekfest of epic TDS proportions.
The theme, as I understand it, is:
TRUMP RUINS EVERYTHING
Organisers expect more than 60 heads of state and government, and around 100 foreign and defence ministers, to gather in Munich's Bayerischer Hof from Friday through Sunday. In total, more than 1,000 delegates from 120 countries are set to attend.
The 2026 Munich Security Report, titled “Under Destruction” and published last Monday, sets a stark tone.
It argues that the post-1945 order led by the United States is now being actively dismantled by “wrecking-ball politics” – not only by revisionist powers, but by movements inside Western democracies that favour demolition over reform.
The most powerful of the “demolition men”, it contends, is US President Donald Trump, whose administration has slashed foreign aid, walked away from key multilateral bodies and imposed sweeping tariffs that defy World Trade Organization rules.
According to the report, Trump’s second term has seen a “renunciation of core elements” of traditional US strategy: faith in multilateral institutions, support for an open trading system, and the role of “leader of the free world”.
No one on Earth fits that description or knows that tune better than Hillary Clinton. For some reason, she is a regular at this gathering.
What was so remarkable wasn't the pomp and circumstance with which her august and robust figure arrived, but rather the lack of it.
You see, for all her omnipotence, the surly employees at Lufthansa chose this weekend to stage one of their periodic work actions, and so there were no connecting flights from Berlin to Munich for such an eminent personage as herself.
Madam La Hill was forced to take a more plebian conveyance - the choo choo - which turned a one-hour tour into four hours of viewing the local countryside as it slowly passed by during the myriad stops on the route.
...Whether the train journey was planned from the outset, or whether the former Secretary of State and former US First Lady had to switch from air to rail due to the Lufthansa strike , is unknown. However, only two flights departed from Berlin to Munich today; most connections were canceled due to the strike. So: roughly four hours by train instead of one hour by plane.
It seems the sexy name of the line - 'Inner City Express' - is a bit of a public relations lie, too.
Lufthansa strike forces Hillary Clinton to take the purgatorial Deutsche Bahn to the Munich Security Conference just like everybody else
Yesterday Lufthansa pilots and cabin crews went on strike, forcing Hillary Clinton to slum her way on the train to the Munich Security Conference.
In this video, you can see the former First Lady and U.S. Secretary of State disembarking from her filthy Deutsche Bahn Intercity Express from Berlin, which had naturally suffered an electrical fault that disabled the restaurant car and with that, all possibility of coffee. Munich Central Station is one of the worst train stations in all of Germany; the place is awash in trash and smells always of urine and french fries. It is a very minor pleasure, watching political elites being forced to navigate the very same dysfunctional landscape all of us have to deal with every day.
Das Bild diplomatically called the outage on the train 'typical.'
... A typical train experience was included: due to a power outage, there were reportedly no hot drinks available for half the journey.
What had to be an insult to injury was the lack of fanfare the bedraggled former Secretary of State received when clomping out of the traincar in Munich.
Not a soul noticed her.
Hillary Clinton arrives by train from Berlin for the Munich Security Conference, MSC.
— Michaela Kuefner (@MKuefner) February 12, 2026
Germany experience so far:
No hassle from people asking about those files.
No hot drinks because of a power failure in the bistro for half the trip. pic.twitter.com/YtBGEInqWT
Pique should make her speech even more pithy...or is that pissy? Riveting under any circumstances, I am sure.
She always is.
Now, I did say there were two, a double strike as it were.
The second wicked witch is far more alarming than a peevish grifter haranguing like-minded whiners at a conference for a few days.
There are rumors afloat in Germany that the leaderless, rudderless Green party is looking for someone new to take the helm, and become not only their saviour - returning their former luster - but also as a candidate to replace the current German president.
Reportedly, they have settled on a candidate who is coyly signaling she's not interested, but speculation refuses to die.
Guess who?
Why only the woman who got Germany to the miserable state it's in to begin with, that's who.
Guten Tag, Mutti Merkel
The German greens nominating disgraced former German Chancellor Merkel should surprise nobody. https://t.co/pyiSELgyGq https://t.co/6BboN1INZZ
— Pieter Cleppe (@pietercleppe) February 12, 2026
Seriously.
This is what they've got.
'That's ABSURD!' sayeth her spokesman.
He's not kidding anyone - it makes perfect sense.
The Greens proposing Merkel makes perfect sense. She shut down the nuclear plants, opened the borders, and killed the CDU’s conservative wing. She governed Green for 16 years without joining the party.
— MünzenMeister (@MuenzenMeister) February 12, 2026
Merkel's spent all fall keeping her face front and center while completely ignoring the results of her 16 years in power.
Current Chancellor Friedrich Merz was once considered her arch-rival, but he's polling about as well as Chicago's Bear of Little Brains right now.
It doesn't help matters that Merkel publicly chastized him when Merz attempted a rapprochement with Alice Weidel's Alternative for Germany (AfD) to get some governing done. After the public embarrassment, Merz scuttled away from AfD like a scalded crab, going on to flail from disaster and broken promise to near catastrophe ever since.
You know Merkel has to be malignantly steaming like Shelob at the back of her cave, waiting for something to knock the buffoon off the stage.
To be fair, no one can stand Merz.
🇮🇹🇩🇪Meloni is a good BS detector.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 18, 2025
She can’t take Merz and rolls her eyes.
pic.twitter.com/omF6g9i1pu
But it does make one wonder if Merkel's ego won't be the least little bit pricked when her worst nightmare is back in the Oval Office and he's publicly dissing her in front of the world while the flaccid creature who represents Germany sputters ineffectually.
Donald Trump has heaped criticism on the former German chancellor Angela Merkel for opening up her country to refugees, telling her successor: “I told her it shouldn’t have happened.”
During an appearance with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Thursday, Trump was asked about the sweeping travel restrictions on 19 countries that he announced the previous day.
“We want to keep bad people out of our country … of course, you have a little problem too with some of the people that were allowed into your country,” Trump said to Merz, in an apparent reference to a number of attacks in Germany involving refugees.
...He was referring to Merkel, but did not call her by name. The former chancellor visited the White House in 2017, during Trump’s first term of office, when she was given a grilling by Trump over her so-called open-door policy, which allowed around 1 million refugees – mainly from Syria and Iraq – into Germany.
...In the end, all the criticism was levied at Merkel, a former political rival of Merz. Trump also made a dig about Merkel’s enthusiasm for the building of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which brought gas from Russia to Europe.
Can she resist the siren call and the chance to swing back into battle against the Bad Orange Man?
Can she?
Oh, to have a crystal ball.
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