Merz filed nearly 5000 complaints against online critics
Merz didn’t just lose the plot, he turned the Chancellery into a personal Gestapo office, hand-signing nearly 5,000 criminal complaints, without shame, against ordinary citizens who mocked him online. Five thousand. In a "democracy". Over "insults". One welfare recipient had his home raided and his phone confiscated because he called Merz a “little Nazi.”
A court later ruled the search illegal, but the message was unmistakable: the German state now treats wounded pride as a police matter. And while Merz postured about donating all compensation to charity, he quietly outsourced this vengeful crusade to a company that pockets 50% of the damages. A pay-to-punish racket dressed up as moral leadership. It doesn’t speak of confidence, it speaks of a political class cracking under the weight of its own irrelevance.
The approval numbers say the rest. Merz is languishing below 23 percent. Starmer is at 22. Macron, whose entire presidency is now underpinned by contempt for French citizens —is at 11. These aren’t leaders; they’re custodians of a collapsing order that commands zero respect. Nobody likes warmongers. And Europe’s citizens, finally, are saying it out loud.
Merz’s meltdown is not an isolated tantrum, it’s the domestic expression of the broader censorship machine Brussels has constructed through the Digital Services Act. At the top you have EU technocrats threatening platforms like X with financial execution if they don’t enforce Brussels’ Orwellian speech orthodoxy. At the bottom you have the German Chancellor himself filing thousands of criminal complaints and sending police to people’s doors. It’s the same instinct, censorship from above, intimidation from below. Europe claims it is defending democracy from Russia; what it’s actually doing is defending the EU establishment from its own citizens. The war failed, the sanctions backfired, industries controlled demo'd, and the voters rebelled. So the elites reached for the only tool they trust, repression.
Germany, once the industrial heart of Europe, is now an economy running on emergency generators, energy insecurity, shuttered factories, and a middle class squeezed to the breaking point. And Merz’s answer, in the middle of this economic wreckage, isn’t strategy or vision or accountability. It’s lawsuits. Raids. Surveillance. Turning well deserved dissent into a criminal matter. It’s the reflex of a ruling class that knows it has broken something fundamental and is terrified of the coming reckoning.
Meanwhile, the multipolar world is moving on. Russia spent the past four years rebuilding its industries, redirecting its energy corridors, strengthening its alliances across Eurasia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. It treated the conflict as existential and acted like a sovereign Power preparing for the long haul. Europe, under Merz, Macron, Starmer, von der Leyen, and the rest of the war-party clique, treated it as a moral vanity project, now they spend their days policing memes and filing criminal complaints against broke citizens on social welfare. A continent that once built cathedrals now builds blacklists. A union that once promised prosperity now polices sarcasm. A political class that once claimed to represent “European values” now hides behind censorship decrees and police warrants.
Merz’s 5,000 complaints aren’t about defending democracy, they’re about insulating a discredited elite from accountability. They know the reckoning is coming. They know they can’t censor their way out of geopolitical ruin, raid their way out of industrial collapse, or sue their way out of a proxy war they already lost. So they panic. They tighten the screws. They lash out at their own people. But once a population sees the mask slip, there is no turning back. Because when Europe finally wakes from this nightmare, the anger will not be directed east. It will be directed upward, toward the warmongers who tried to silence an entire continent to save themselves
