Opinie Antonie Kerstholt: 'Een crisis onder alle crisissen'

Eens met Jesse #Klaver die het openbreken van het pensioenakkoord afwijst. Daarmee maakt deze minderheidscoalitie de Tweede Kamer en de polder boos. En het is wéér een bevestiging van het beeld van de onbetrouwbare overheid.

Ik vindt het zó erg dat D66 de asielwetten van Faber gaat uitvoeren. Hoe kan ik volgende keer nog op de partij van mijn vader stemmen?

MOB concludeert dat coalitieakkoord neerkomt op een heilloze voortzetting van het beleid van Rutte IV, met opnieuw D66, VVD en CDA aan het roer. Ook toen liet D66 na om fundamentele keuzes af te dwingen. Dat dreigt nu opnieuw te gebeuren, met desastreuze gevolgen voor natuur, economie en rechtsstaat

"Het is gemakkelijk om mooie ambities te presenteren, maar als vaste maatregelen ontbreken stellen ze niet zoveel voor. Het is ook gemakkelijk om miljarden te reserveren, maar als die niet op de juiste manier wordt ingezet is het vooral geld over de balk smijten." www.raoulbeunen.nl?p=1611

In het regeerakkoord staat waarschijnlijk allerlei wisselgeld om medewerking van GL-PvdA mee te kopen. Niet intrappen. Qua klimaat, milieu, stikstof, Schiphol moet het kabinet zich gewoon aan wetten en verdragen houden. Dat lijken ze niet van plan, maar er zou niet over onderhandeld moeten worden.

Om er dan achter te komen dat nuttige mensen ineens allemaal taken krijgen die niets bijdragen aan het resultaat.

I'm optimistic that the Trump era may come to an end in the next couple of years. I see a lot of performative aggression that just ends up pissing everybody off. Economic policy is disastrous, but the USA hasn't gotten the full bill for that yet. I am not so optimistic about what comes next. 1/

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

Just a reminder that as of now, Iran is still run by cruel theocrats, Venezuela is still run by far-left socialists, Russia is still run by a destructive dictatorship, and Ukraine is still run by a vibrant democracy.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

Aanstaande premier vindt het gelukkig niet 'te vroeg om te oordelen'

Uw kabinet, live vanuit de Stad van het Internationale recht:

The Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian infrastructure are getting more and more numerous. In this December it has reached a new record, reaching 26 strikes, and this only accounts for until the 24th. This is reported by Bloomberg. Since Christmas, 7 more Russian oil and gas facilities were struck.

"She has taken a mainstream liberal party and steered it towards the radical right, replacing its traditional voter base with embittered PVV supporters. She proclaimed the party’s worst electoral result in half a century as a triumph for herself." www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/danc...

De chaos die met name door de VVD is ontstaan.... Het buitenland ziet het scherp, nu de VVD-leden nog....

Het zegt iets over de Nederlandse politiek als de @speld.nl de situatie het best kan duiden. speld.nl/2025/12/04/j...

Waarom ik sinds 2022 niet meer op de SP stem.

Trump’s problem is that while he may truly want to end this war, and the cost to Ukraine is probably pretty irrelevant to him, Russia clearly does not want the war to end. Trump may think that he’s working with Putin, but Putin isn’t working with him.

De realiteit van de Nederlandse formatie: (1) De VVD zal de blokkade van GLPVDA ten minste tot de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen volhouden. En het is maar de vraag of ze daarna nog inbinden. (2) D66 wil niet over rechts, CDA wil niet over links. 1/

The current election results in the USA show that Trump and the GOP are deeply unpopular now. Moving to electoral autocracy like Turkey and Hungary won't keep them in power. The only option that might let them cling to power is to try to establish an outright dictatorship.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦, since 1955:

This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?

Klaver: Dit is een experiment aangegaan met de #PVV om een kabinet te maken. Dat is na 11 maanden geklapt. Jullie blijven ruzie maken in plaats van landsbelang voorop te stellen. Nu is er voor de 2e keer een kabinetscrisis. Jullie wijzen naar elkaar en nemen geen verantwoordelijkheid.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Ik hoop niet dat het Douwe Bob akkefietje Yeşilgöz nog voor de verkiezingen haar kop kost. De VVD moet deze gifbeker wel echt helemaal leeg drinken.

The Dems are talking about retaliatory gerrymandering of blue states like NY and California. But that is easier said than done. These states have constitutional protections against gerrymandering. So it would have be approved by a referendum. And that will be a steep climb, even in deep-blue states.

The jobs report confirms that the US economy is not growing anymore. Which was to be expected.

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

This is the kind of gap between rank and file voters and the party establishment that will likely cause some real havoc and disruption in the party's politics and primaries. In a different way, it's what gave rise to Trump in GOP.

Harrowing @spiegel.de cover story (in English, no paywall) on the starvation in Gaza: “Gaza - A Crime” www.spiegel.de/internationa...

If there's one thing you watch today, make it this Bob Geldof criticises Israel for what they're doing in Gaza Then criticises Trevor Philips for making excuses for what Israel is doing in Gaza Part 1/3

Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

After its genocide in Gaza, Israel has no future anymore. Smart and decent Israelis will go elsewhere. That is already happening. The West -sick and tired of defending the undefensible- will turn against Israel. All that is left for Israel in the next decades is a painful decline and reckoning.

Zohran Mamdani is very much not an antisemite. Signed: Your very very Zionist and Jewish friend.

After Moody's downgrade of the US credit rating, 30 year US treasuries are now north of 5% and 10 year US treasuries are now north of 4.5%.

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

30% is an enormously high tariff!

For folks saying,"Ignore the Pope thing! He wants to offend you! Don't you get it!" I have this rule I follow. I say what I think. I don't get into second order head games in which I think I'm outwitting someone else by strategically not saying what I think. Perhaps Im simple. But that's how I roll.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economy shrinks by 0.3% in first quarter of 2025, first drop in three years as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses. www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr...

Trump is not going to do a referendum before killing democracy. Unpopularity makes a full self-coup more difficult but not impossible. He still has plenty of goons at various fed police agencies willing to do his bidding. And a GOP dominated congress not willing to do anything to stop him.

The ultra-nationalists in the current government are putting Israel on a course from which it can't survive long-term. Jewish organizations like AIPAC demanding "unconditional support" are not helping Israel here.

Trump: We're going to sign a new trade deal every day for 90 days. Gary Cohn: In 14 days shelves will start to empty out. Trump might not even have one deal before that happens, and will be nowhere on a deal with China.

Worth noting Trump's popularity is cratering but the vast majority of people still have not felt much, if any, impact from tariffs. Same for DOGE; systems are cracking but lumbering along on the resilience built into them, which is deteriorating. The storm isn't even here yet.

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