Olli Schulz

Crying people?

Okay, I saw Luisa Neubauer, who somehow did a election campaign for Kamala Harris. Sorry, I have to say that very briefly.

the same. I saw that and thought, I can understand why you do that, but you unfortunately smell, even as a used person, you unfortunately smell that the priority list is perhaps a little bit confused.

And I don't know if you can now somehow with camera team from door to door, if there are not perhaps more urgent problems and perhaps also other people, whether it is perhaps helpful, the energy that you put into your own self-actualization, maybe to distribute to more people, because I think that's what it comes down to now, above all.

So not just keeping together, that's also such a flask, but I think that you can out of this madness. I mean, he's a fascist, he's a racist, he's a convict, a criminal offender, a criminal offender, he's a reckless economic criminal. It's completely insane to vote for him, it's completely indisputable. But now, again in four years, to fall into a tangle or hold something together.

No, it has to come from that at some point that you really do something. And it's always said easily and yes, yes, in the podcast there is talk and you always say yes, but when, if not now? And now they are in power. I think a positive thought is also not so really positive, but if you, if you exclude many substitutes, now Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on the zenith of their power.

On the actual zenith of your work. You always thought it could get worse, but now it's even worse. But now, for me, such a, not such an excitement has set in, but such a certain cold with a look at it and such a certain pragmatism, now not in the sense of you have to deal with it now, but you have to accept that this is the reality and not an exceptional appearance.

And always these whispers like, we Americans are not like that. No, no, you are like that. You're like that. Obviously you're like that. And not 100,000 or with a small majority, but with a large majority. And everyone actually saw it coming. And those who didn't see it coming didn't want to have it true. America is not like that. Yes, America is like that.

Yes, but fortunately there are other things. And I think, first of all, the realization, that's obviously what we're dealing with now. And that doesn't mean that you're going to break all the bridges, that you're going to raise the contacts. But I think you just have to be clear and above all now really look around Europe and look at what is happening here.

I wrote down a few comforting thoughts that have helped me a bit in the last few days. It's the hope podcast. Maybe a little bit, but thoughtful thoughts from which you can maybe develop new things.

Because if a continent has made it, of course with millions of deaths and wars, but at least if a continent has experience with it, different interests in partly bloody, that doesn't necessarily have to be again, but in dispute, then somehow to moderate so that you become one, if even fragile, but at least... Now, since almost 100 years, a stable intermediate solution has come, then it is Europe.

We have it longer than the United States of America. We are much more experienced in dealing with each other and also with the moderating of different interests. And we have to, I think, from this experience, really look at how we can do it, to stand up closed to the outside. Because now we are, I have the feeling, we are stuck.

We have an irrational player on the western side, an irrational player on the eastern side and another irrational player from our perspective on the eastern side. And there is no such thing as a definition of who we are. And so far we have not really had the real need to develop that.

And I always find that in negotiations or even if you, I don't know, there is a nice sentence, if you want to negotiate and want to be successful, then you really have to think like that. And I didn't have the feeling that we were at a point so far Where we could really say, we mean it that way, because the necessity didn't really feel like a necessity to us.

And I don't know if... I don't know if he's lucky, it's completely out of the question that Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor. How should it be otherwise? What do you think it will be otherwise?

I'm sorry if I just wanted to say that. Did you see him with the Taylor Swift band on Twitter again? Robert has been on Twitter since last Thursday or Friday night. Dude, I don't know. I understand the intellectual approach of Robert Habeck. I don't know if they...

We can't afford to take sides in these times.

Yes, but let me talk about it at the end. This is so long already, so long, on such a long way, if we look back.

bin ich ganz froh, dass wir gerade als Land Deutschland nicht in der Lage sind, hier den quasi das Selbstbewusstsein, was wir jetzt finden müssen, so superdeutsch zu dominieren. Es geht doch nicht um superdeutsch, es geht um europäisches Grundgefühl. Es geht jetzt darum, dass Europa...

It manages to look forward closed and self-consciously and to assert itself against the new blocks that are no longer in friendly connection with us like the last 80 years, but obviously in competition, in a kind of competition and in any case no longer in unconditional adhesion, although it was never unconditional. And I'm very happy.