11-16-2023, 10:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-16-2023, 10:04 AM by Besticus Maximus.)
tweet deleted :(
My dude you are a member of NATO 
The Turks would have to be the most dumb fucks in the world. Just thick as dog shit and nasty to boot.
(11-17-2023, 10:40 PM)Potato wrote: The Turks would have to be the most dumb fucks in the world. Just thick as dog shit and nasty to boot.
It's mostly for domestic consumption. Erdogan rails against US forces and Israel, Turks go and protest at the US airbase, Turkish police shows up to drive them away with tear gas.
And guess who is behind it all? The jews 
They don't want "NATO" there for a simple reason. French, Dutch and Ingerland ships patrolling the Black Sea would really fuck up the illegal arms, oil and goods trade as well as the human trafficking operations.
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After they succesfully derailed the campaigns of the center right and a number of populist challengers the Dutch left is panicking.
Geert Wilders has suddenly surged in the polls with only 3 days to go until the election.
They don't understand that calling Wilders 'extreme right' doesn't work if their own voters march alongside raging anti-semites in Free Palestine protests.
Not to mention all their campaign messaging is about Frans Timmermans and the climate with some LGBTQ+ glitters sprinkled in.
But polls clearly show people care the most about healthcare, costs of living, housing and migration and the least about the climate.
So even if people agree with the left in general that the ruling liberal conservative parties messed up they switch to Wilders instead.
11-19-2023, 11:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2023, 11:42 PM by Nintex.)
Holy fuck, he won.
So much for democracy in the Global South yet again. Thanks, Elon. 
Argentina, the new capital of cosplay
Congratulations to the new loon. Surely he can't be as bad as the previous loon?
Nutters in charge of states is never a good thing, this lad seems off the reservation. Could do without him starting a war in the falklands tbf.
(11-20-2023, 12:41 PM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Nutters in charge of states is never a good thing, this lad seems off the reservation. Could do without him starting a war in the falklands tbf. You don't have to worry about that, he wants to cut ties with China, Cuba and other communists and enhance ties with the US, UK and Europe.
(11-20-2023, 08:49 PM)Nintex wrote: (11-20-2023, 12:41 PM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Nutters in charge of states is never a good thing, this lad seems off the reservation. Could do without him starting a war in the falklands tbf. You don't have to worry about that, he wants to cut ties with China, Cuba and other communists and enhance ties with the US, UK and Europe.
I think you missed the important word in Besticus's statement.*
*Emphasis is mine
(11-20-2023, 08:49 PM)Nintex wrote: (11-20-2023, 12:41 PM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Nutters in charge of states is never a good thing, this lad seems off the reservation. Could do without him starting a war in the falklands tbf. You don't have to worry about that, he wants to cut ties with China, Cuba and other communists and enhance ties with the US, UK and Europe.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1836895/argentina-javier-milei-falkland-islands-uk
Quote:'Non-negotiable': Argentina's president wants to wrestle Falkland Islands back from UK
Despite claiming Margaret Thatcher was on of the "great leaders in the history of humanity", Milei said he would be looking into solutions for the Malvinas Islands, as he calls the Falklands, to return to Argentina.
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Has he ever seen the complete freaks who inhabit the Falklands 
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11-21-2023, 01:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2023, 01:45 PM by Propagandhim.)
Don't know what kind of foreign currency reserves Argentina has to manage a transition to dollarization... and removal of a central bank is always some crackpot idea in a world where everyone else controls their money. Privatizing the pension system seems good though. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
11-21-2023, 04:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2023, 04:30 PM by Nintex.)
He's not taking half measures.
11-21-2023, 11:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2023, 11:55 PM by Nintex.)
Tommorow is voting day.
Polls show a tight race between 4 parties.
- VVD ("liberal" conservatives that literally fucked up everything but deny any wrong doing, their new Kurdish dom mommy leader pledges to solve the issues they created - kind of a Sunak situation but they forced this vote themselves)
- PVV (a party of literally 1 guy and a few associates who has been hiding in a bunker for 20 years because he hates Islam )
- GroenLinks-PvdA (frankenstein monster of climate marxism lead by Frans Timmermans)
- NSC (new party formed by the most capable bureaucrats lead by anti-corruption autisty Pieter Omtzigt, which has lost ground to the PVV as the 'angry vote' because he's indecisive about becoming prime minister and not governing with GroenLinks-PvdA)
The key issues
- Healthcare (waiting lists, high costs, staff shortages)
- Uncontrolled migration (50% of university students are foreigners, companies hire cheap labour from Poland/Bulgaria and finally we admit ~85% of all asylum seekers of which over 50% end up on welfare)
- Rampant inflation (cost of living basically, highest energy prices in Europe, went up like 900%)
- Housing shortage (affordable homes have been sold off to investors, nothing is being build because of government regulations)
- Broken tax system (expats have to pay 30% less tax, income is taxed far less than labour and there are many more tax loopholes like this. Because of intertwined benefits working more means earning less in most cases)
- Long COVID / COVID (government has blocked any serious research or compensation for COVID/Long COVID)
- Various government scandals courtesy of the VVD, trust in government is at an all time low
- Climate (in a dril budget way we have nearly 35 billion parked in a climate fund)
About 50% of the voters are still unsure who to vote for, which is a new record in indecisiveness.
The expectation is that those voters will continue to flock to the PVV and GroenLinks-PvdA.
FVD could also surprise, because they've been very active on TikTok posting memes about Minecraft and Andrew Tate and won the 'school elections' with the PVV which is sort of a mock election for high school students. I think most people will strategically vote for PVV or GroenLinks-PvdA though at the expense of VVD, NSC and various small parties.
The fun part begins after the elections because no one wants to govern with the PVV, GroenLinks-PvdA doesn't want to govern with the VVD and NSC would rather not govern with VVD either. If you combine all the left/right wing parties into two camps the split would be something like 65% - 75% for the right and 35% - 25% for the left.
(11-21-2023, 11:53 PM)Nintex wrote: FVD could also surprise, because they've been very active on TikTok posting memes about Minecraft and Andrew Tate
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Good.
Voted for them as well. Strategic vote, normally I would've voted for the Socialist Party but our politics badly needs a shake-up. Fuck em.
It's starting to sink in that we've finally taken our country back from the soulless corporate menace and the climate cult 
Wilders + Omtzigt being the big winners is the best possible outcome.
Wilders for the short term solutions and Omtzigt for the long term vision and new government structures.
The VVD can try to force new elections hoping for a better outcome but that will only make their loss bigger.
The left has a ceiling, votes between D66 and GroenLinks-PvdA have merely been swapped.
11-23-2023, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-23-2023, 10:27 AM by Sman.)
I keep asking my SO to go to the Netherlands for a vacation since I have never been there (stop flights in Schipol don't count). She keeps vetoing this since she went there so many times as a teen/young adult.
Now she has another excuse to say no. 
Nintex, elections have consequences!
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This is what the far-right Dutch media and fascist Dutch government gets for platforming Wilders instead of deplatforming him completely. 
This morning Wilders jokingly said they won with a campaign budget of barely 3 Euro.
Which is true, because he didn't run any TV ads, news paper ads or online ads. Because of his security situation he doesn't do any big political rallies either.
As far as deplatforming goes, he does do most debates but he rarely shows up or is invited on TV outside of that. The answer of many commentators that he gets death threats from Muslims all over the world and lives in hiding is usually that he deserves it.
That is the one thing that is probably glossed over in the foreign press. They like to compare Wilders to Trump, Milei, Orban or Bolsonaro but unlike them Wilders doesn't have a massive political movement or party behind him, big rallies or millions in campaign funds to reach voters.
He's just "Geertje" as we call him here.
The left has started to protest against his election win
Fascinating that the silent majority is suddenly making its voice heard across the world and Twitter lefties everywhere are about 3 seconds away from storming government buildings in protest.
I think people get very carried away with grand narratives. Sometimes things are just events. This dutch election seems to be a child of circumstances.
For those wondering what the Party platform is like
Spoiler: migration (click to show)(click to hide)
• Stop asylum and implement a completely restrictive immigration policy.
• Opt-out of EU regulations on asylum and migration, terminate the UN Refugee Convention.
• Reinstate Dutch border control, push back asylum seekers trying to enter the Netherlands from our safe neighboring countries.
• Make illegal residence a criminal offense: detain and deport illegal immigrants.
• Prohibit shelter, food, and support for illegal immigrants.
• Criminal asylum seekers will be detained or deported, criminal status holders will lose their residence permits.
• No compulsory law: never obligate municipalities to accommodate asylum seekers.
• Combat "procedure stacking" (repeatedly filing asylum applications).
• Revoke temporary asylum permits for Syrians as parts of Syria are deemed safe.
• Status holders who go on vacation to their country of origin will immediately lose their residence permit.
• Netherlands is not an Islamic country: no Islamic schools, Qurans, and mosques.
• Aim for less Islam in the Netherlands through reduced non-Western immigration and the introduction of a complete asylum stop.
• Ban dual nationality.
• Ban the wearing of Islamic headscarves in government buildings, including the Parliament.
• Introduce work permits for EU citizens.
• Significantly restrict the number of foreign students.
Spoiler: economy (click to show)(click to hide)
Restore your economic security with the following purchasing power package:
Reduce VAT on groceries from 9% to 0.
Lower energy bills (reduced taxes and VAT).
Decrease social rents.
Increase the statutory minimum wage.
Raise housing allowance.
Abolish the own-risk payment in healthcare.
Lower fuel excise taxes.
Increase senior citizen discount.
Maintain the General Old Age Pension Act (IOAOW).
Eliminate the aviation tax.
No unnecessary extra rules and obligations for self-employed individuals (zzp’ers): Affordable voluntary insurance for disability and pension.
No EU interference with Dutch social security and the labor market.
Protect social and sheltered employment for people with work disabilities.
Halt the influx of labor migrants: Introduce work permits.
Protect the welfare state: Combat benefit fraud.
End the export of benefits (with the exception of AOW).
Revoke the Future Pensions Act.
Lower the AOW retirement age to 65. Spoiler: safety (click to show)(click to hide)
• Increase the number of police officers by 10,000, with a significant presence of officers on the streets and the reopening of police stations in neighborhoods.
• Implement zero tolerance for street thugs; deploy the military against street terrorists if necessary.
• Reinstate true life sentences.
• Deport criminal foreigners and individuals with dual nationality after denaturalization: mandatory remigration for criminals.
• Enforce robust minimum sentences and higher maximum sentences, eliminating community service sentences.
• Prosecute all cases of violence and sexual offenses, with no statute of limitations.
• Preventively detain Jihad sympathizers through administrative detention.
• Impose life imprisonment for convicted terrorists.
• Offenders must bear all costs related to their crimes, prosecution, and punishment.
• Apply adult criminal law for offenses of violence and sexual crimes from the age of 14.
• Enforce a strict regime in prisons; prisoners must wear uniforms and engage in 40 hours of weekly labor.
• Significantly reduce prison conditions, redirecting the proceeds to elderly care.
• Implement a digital pillory for perpetrators of violent and sexual crimes.
• Abolish TBS (Dutch forensic psychiatric treatment for offenders).
• No early release. The full prison sentence must be served.
• Double the penalty for selling drugs to minors. Spoiler: healthcare (click to show)(click to hide) • Abolish the own-risk payment in healthcare.
• Use surplus funds in healthcare to reduce health insurance premiums.
• Remove acute care from market dynamics.
• Include dental care in the basic healthcare package.
• No waiting time for medications after a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency.
• Increase staffing levels in healthcare, for instance by hiring new personnel, making it more attractive for current healthcare workers to work more hours, and addressing administrative time and overhead.
• Establish a healthcare crisis reserve for healthcare workers.
• Maintain crucial protective equipment, medications, and equipment in-house.
• Create additional nursing home spots and senior citizen homes.
• Reintroduce care facilities.
• Reduce waiting lists in youth care.
• Consolidate elderly care back into a single law.
• Consolidate care for individuals with lifelong disabilities into a single law.
• Ban profit distribution in healthcare.
• Stop excessive paternalism. The government can provide information but does not dictate whether you smoke, drink, or what you eat. No sugar tax and no meat tax. Spoiler: urban development (click to show)(click to hide) • Lower social rents.
• Increase housing allowance.
• Build more homes for the Dutch people: more social rental homes, more mid-range rental homes, and more homes for purchase.
• Not only build within urban areas but also in suburban and rural areas.
• Add new streets in cities and villages.
• Ensure municipalities grant building permits more swiftly and shorten procedures.
• Remove obstructive nitrogen regulations.
• Do not prioritize refugees in the allocation of social rental homes, but give priority to Dutch citizens.
• Cease the process of making homes gas-free.
• Avoid mandatory heat pumps.
• Allow permanent residence in vacation homes. Spoiler: energy (click to show)(click to hide) • Keep coal and gas power plants operational.
• Construct new nuclear power plants.
• Avoid the use of Groningen gas, and instead, increase and expedite gas and oil extraction in the North Sea, with no export of Dutch gas.
• Establish long-term contracts for importing (liquefied) gas.
• Cease the costly reduction of CO2 emissions.
• Withdraw from the UN Climate Agreement; repeal the Climate Act.
• Eliminate the Climate Fund, while allocating additional funds for dike elevation and River Space projects.
• Abandon SDE++ and other climate subsidies.
• Reject wind turbines and solar parks.
• Oppose the use of biomass.
• Reduce energy taxes.
• Decrease VAT on energy.
• Reject aviation and meat taxes.
• Expedite damage settlement and house reinforcement in Groningen.
• Maintain the solar panel offset scheme. Spoiler: farming, fisheries and animals (click to show)(click to hide) • Allow farmers to farm and fishermen to fish!
• Provide farmers with a positive future outlook and a fair price.
• Repeal or at least ease nitrogen regulations.
• Eliminate the nitrogen fund.
• No mandatory buyouts; no expropriation.
• Legalize those who reported under the Programmatic Approach to Nitrogen (PAS).
• Remove critical deposition values (KDWs) from the law.
• Prioritize our national food supply.
• Oppose a ban on pulse fishing.
• Give fishermen space; do not fill the sea with wind turbine parks.
• Expand the animal police.
• Crack down on animal abusers, illegal traders, unscrupulous breeders, poachers, trophy hunters, and recreational hunting.
• Establish a professional National Animal Ambulance.
• Irreversibly stun animals before slaughter.
• Ban ritual slaughter.
• Provide financial assistance to low-income seniors for veterinary costs for sick pets. Spoiler: culture (click to show)(click to hide) • Constitutionally establish the dominance of Judeo-Christian and humanistic roots as the leading culture in the Netherlands.
• Implement a system with an elected mayor.
• Introduce a binding referendum.
• Abolish the Senate (Eerste Kamer).
• Cease government funding and subsidies for various left-leaning organizations such as Milieudefensie.
• Municipalities do not cooperate with gender-related measures, climate initiatives, and diversity policies.
• Remove the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism.
• Revoke apologies for the historical slavery and police actions.
• No government information in Arabic/Turkish.
• End subsidies for arts and culture.
• Stop left-wing criticism against historical figures.
• Preserve traditional celebrations: Black Pete, Christmas, and Easter.
• Promote the use of Dutch products with a recognizable (red-white-blue) certification mark.
• Completely terminate funding for the Dutch Public Broadcasting System (NPO).
• Implement a 20% salary reduction for ministers, members of parliament, and European Parliament members.
• Subject the Royal Family to taxation and reduce the contribution to the Royal Family by 20%.
• Abolish the severance pay arrangement for politicians, replacing it with unemployment benefits similar to those for employees. Spoiler: education (click to show)(click to hide) • Prefer an emphasis on traditional teaching methods over educational innovation.
• Advocate for the political neutrality of teachers.
• End the indoctrination of children in schools.
• Promote smaller-scale education.
• Place a renewed focus on language and mathematics.
• Increase the number of teachers in classrooms.
• Prohibit the presence of unqualified teachers in classrooms.
• Allocate a maximum of 20% of the education budget to administrative overhead, with a minimum of 80% directed to classrooms.
• Maintain Article 23 of the Constitution, guaranteeing freedom for special education.
• Enforce a ban on Islamic education, citing it as a threat to freedom and values.
• Establish continuous learning paths from vocational education to higher education.
• Significantly limit the number of foreign students. Spoiler: defense (click to show)(click to hide) • Maintain the independence of the Dutch Armed Forces, opposing the formation of an EU army and any merger with the German army.
• Retain financial resources and defense equipment, such as F16s, for the Dutch military rather than allocating them to Ukraine.
• Advocate for the removal of Turkey from NATO.
• Include the defense of the Dutch border as part of the national defense strategy, using the military for border control to halt any influx of asylum seekers.
• Establish a Backpay scheme to recognize and financially compensate widows for the salaries of their deceased husbands. Spoiler: mobility (click to show)(click to hide) • Increase the construction of roads.
• Reduce fuel excise taxes.
• Oppose road pricing.
• Raise the maximum speed limit to 140 km/h.
• Reject a ban on the sale of gasoline and diesel cars.
• Eliminate all environmental zones.
• Merge NS (Dutch Railways) and ProRail into a single large Dutch Railway Company.
• Hold NS accountable for punctuality.
• Ensure sufficient trains and seating during peak hours.
• Ensure affordable and safe public transportation.
• Support Schiphol Airport's expansion.
• Repeal the aviation tax.
• Implement additional measures against flooding in Limburg, Noord-Brabant, and Gelderland, including investing in river space. Provide financial support for damage compensation in Limburg. Spoiler: foreign policy (click to show)(click to hide) • Relocate the Dutch embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
• Downscale diplomatic relations with Sharia countries and impose requirements on diplomats.
• Implement a complete halt on development aid.
• Eliminate the position of the Minister for Development Cooperation.
• Oppose the introduction of a digital euro.
• Focus on intensive collaboration with other nations while maintaining national sovereignty, without forming a political union like the EU.
• Conduct a binding referendum on this matter.
Until the Nexit referendum is held:
• Work towards repatriating funds from Brussels and reducing the EU contribution.
• Oppose the transfer of powers to the EU and work towards reclaiming them.
• Maintain and restore all veto rights.
• Reject further EU expansion or steps in that direction.
• Immediately end the monthly relocation of the European Parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg.
• Do not display the EU flag on government buildings and in the Parliament; only the national flag should be flown in the Netherlands.
I agree that first and foremost elections are won by parties and individuals and grand narratives are bullshit, but there is definitely a general consensus that "lefty bullshit"* is on the nose with the general public and has been for some time.
The Labor Party won our most recent federal election after losing a number of unlosable elections. They won because the centre right government continued to be at the mercy of the conservative Christian right and were a complete basket case (although not as bad as the Tories over there).
After a bit of a honeymoon period, the government is facing up to the reality that their pet projects in climate change, gender fuckery and fucking with industrial relations in favour of the unions that nobody joins are not exactly popular and shit is starting to sour. They're just lucky the opposition have decided literal Voldemort is their man.
If there's a grand narrative it's that people are moving back to the sensible centre, which means that if there's no sensible centre they will vote opposite to what is currently in power.
*I specifically used quotes there because what I really mean is the bullshit open borders immigration, trans terrorism and other garbage that has about as much in common with leftist political ideology as Nintex's left testicle.
(11-23-2023, 09:31 PM)Nintex wrote: For those wondering what the Party platform is like
Spoiler: migration (click to show)(click to hide)
• Stop asylum and implement a completely restrictive immigration policy.
• Opt-out of EU regulations on asylum and migration, terminate the UN Refugee Convention.
• Reinstate Dutch border control, push back asylum seekers trying to enter the Netherlands from our safe neighboring countries.
• Make illegal residence a criminal offense: detain and deport illegal immigrants.
• Prohibit shelter, food, and support for illegal immigrants.
• Criminal asylum seekers will be detained or deported, criminal status holders will lose their residence permits.
• No compulsory law: never obligate municipalities to accommodate asylum seekers.
• Combat "procedure stacking" (repeatedly filing asylum applications).
• Revoke temporary asylum permits for Syrians as parts of Syria are deemed safe.
• Status holders who go on vacation to their country of origin will immediately lose their residence permit.
• Netherlands is not an Islamic country: no Islamic schools, Qurans, and mosques.
• Aim for less Islam in the Netherlands through reduced non-Western immigration and the introduction of a complete asylum stop.
• Ban dual nationality.
• Ban the wearing of Islamic headscarves in government buildings, including the Parliament.
• Introduce work permits for EU citizens.
• Significantly restrict the number of foreign students.
Spoiler: economy (click to show)(click to hide)
Restore your economic security with the following purchasing power package:
Reduce VAT on groceries from 9% to 0.
Lower energy bills (reduced taxes and VAT).
Decrease social rents.
Increase the statutory minimum wage.
Raise housing allowance.
Abolish the own-risk payment in healthcare.
Lower fuel excise taxes.
Increase senior citizen discount.
Maintain the General Old Age Pension Act (IOAOW).
Eliminate the aviation tax.
No unnecessary extra rules and obligations for self-employed individuals (zzp’ers): Affordable voluntary insurance for disability and pension.
No EU interference with Dutch social security and the labor market.
Protect social and sheltered employment for people with work disabilities.
Halt the influx of labor migrants: Introduce work permits.
Protect the welfare state: Combat benefit fraud.
End the export of benefits (with the exception of AOW).
Revoke the Future Pensions Act.
Lower the AOW retirement age to 65. Spoiler: safety (click to show)(click to hide)
• Increase the number of police officers by 10,000, with a significant presence of officers on the streets and the reopening of police stations in neighborhoods.
• Implement zero tolerance for street thugs; deploy the military against street terrorists if necessary.
• Reinstate true life sentences.
• Deport criminal foreigners and individuals with dual nationality after denaturalization: mandatory remigration for criminals.
• Enforce robust minimum sentences and higher maximum sentences, eliminating community service sentences.
• Prosecute all cases of violence and sexual offenses, with no statute of limitations.
• Preventively detain Jihad sympathizers through administrative detention.
• Impose life imprisonment for convicted terrorists.
• Offenders must bear all costs related to their crimes, prosecution, and punishment.
• Apply adult criminal law for offenses of violence and sexual crimes from the age of 14.
• Enforce a strict regime in prisons; prisoners must wear uniforms and engage in 40 hours of weekly labor.
• Significantly reduce prison conditions, redirecting the proceeds to elderly care.
• Implement a digital pillory for perpetrators of violent and sexual crimes.
• Abolish TBS (Dutch forensic psychiatric treatment for offenders).
• No early release. The full prison sentence must be served.
• Double the penalty for selling drugs to minors. Spoiler: healthcare (click to show)(click to hide) • Abolish the own-risk payment in healthcare.
• Use surplus funds in healthcare to reduce health insurance premiums.
• Remove acute care from market dynamics.
• Include dental care in the basic healthcare package.
• No waiting time for medications after a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency.
• Increase staffing levels in healthcare, for instance by hiring new personnel, making it more attractive for current healthcare workers to work more hours, and addressing administrative time and overhead.
• Establish a healthcare crisis reserve for healthcare workers.
• Maintain crucial protective equipment, medications, and equipment in-house.
• Create additional nursing home spots and senior citizen homes.
• Reintroduce care facilities.
• Reduce waiting lists in youth care.
• Consolidate elderly care back into a single law.
• Consolidate care for individuals with lifelong disabilities into a single law.
• Ban profit distribution in healthcare.
• Stop excessive paternalism. The government can provide information but does not dictate whether you smoke, drink, or what you eat. No sugar tax and no meat tax. Spoiler: urban development (click to show)(click to hide) • Lower social rents.
• Increase housing allowance.
• Build more homes for the Dutch people: more social rental homes, more mid-range rental homes, and more homes for purchase.
• Not only build within urban areas but also in suburban and rural areas.
• Add new streets in cities and villages.
• Ensure municipalities grant building permits more swiftly and shorten procedures.
• Remove obstructive nitrogen regulations.
• Do not prioritize refugees in the allocation of social rental homes, but give priority to Dutch citizens.
• Cease the process of making homes gas-free.
• Avoid mandatory heat pumps.
• Allow permanent residence in vacation homes. Spoiler: energy (click to show)(click to hide) • Keep coal and gas power plants operational.
• Construct new nuclear power plants.
• Avoid the use of Groningen gas, and instead, increase and expedite gas and oil extraction in the North Sea, with no export of Dutch gas.
• Establish long-term contracts for importing (liquefied) gas.
• Cease the costly reduction of CO2 emissions.
• Withdraw from the UN Climate Agreement; repeal the Climate Act.
• Eliminate the Climate Fund, while allocating additional funds for dike elevation and River Space projects.
• Abandon SDE++ and other climate subsidies.
• Reject wind turbines and solar parks.
• Oppose the use of biomass.
• Reduce energy taxes.
• Decrease VAT on energy.
• Reject aviation and meat taxes.
• Expedite damage settlement and house reinforcement in Groningen.
• Maintain the solar panel offset scheme. Spoiler: farming, fisheries and animals (click to show)(click to hide) • Allow farmers to farm and fishermen to fish!
• Provide farmers with a positive future outlook and a fair price.
• Repeal or at least ease nitrogen regulations.
• Eliminate the nitrogen fund.
• No mandatory buyouts; no expropriation.
• Legalize those who reported under the Programmatic Approach to Nitrogen (PAS).
• Remove critical deposition values (KDWs) from the law.
• Prioritize our national food supply.
• Oppose a ban on pulse fishing.
• Give fishermen space; do not fill the sea with wind turbine parks.
• Expand the animal police.
• Crack down on animal abusers, illegal traders, unscrupulous breeders, poachers, trophy hunters, and recreational hunting.
• Establish a professional National Animal Ambulance.
• Irreversibly stun animals before slaughter.
• Ban ritual slaughter.
• Provide financial assistance to low-income seniors for veterinary costs for sick pets. Spoiler: culture (click to show)(click to hide) • Constitutionally establish the dominance of Judeo-Christian and humanistic roots as the leading culture in the Netherlands.
• Implement a system with an elected mayor.
• Introduce a binding referendum.
• Abolish the Senate (Eerste Kamer).
• Cease government funding and subsidies for various left-leaning organizations such as Milieudefensie.
• Municipalities do not cooperate with gender-related measures, climate initiatives, and diversity policies.
• Remove the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism.
• Revoke apologies for the historical slavery and police actions.
• No government information in Arabic/Turkish.
• End subsidies for arts and culture.
• Stop left-wing criticism against historical figures.
• Preserve traditional celebrations: Black Pete, Christmas, and Easter.
• Promote the use of Dutch products with a recognizable (red-white-blue) certification mark.
• Completely terminate funding for the Dutch Public Broadcasting System (NPO).
• Implement a 20% salary reduction for ministers, members of parliament, and European Parliament members.
• Subject the Royal Family to taxation and reduce the contribution to the Royal Family by 20%.
• Abolish the severance pay arrangement for politicians, replacing it with unemployment benefits similar to those for employees. Spoiler: education (click to show)(click to hide) • Prefer an emphasis on traditional teaching methods over educational innovation.
• Advocate for the political neutrality of teachers.
• End the indoctrination of children in schools.
• Promote smaller-scale education.
• Place a renewed focus on language and mathematics.
• Increase the number of teachers in classrooms.
• Prohibit the presence of unqualified teachers in classrooms.
• Allocate a maximum of 20% of the education budget to administrative overhead, with a minimum of 80% directed to classrooms.
• Maintain Article 23 of the Constitution, guaranteeing freedom for special education.
• Enforce a ban on Islamic education, citing it as a threat to freedom and values.
• Establish continuous learning paths from vocational education to higher education.
• Significantly limit the number of foreign students. Spoiler: defense (click to show)(click to hide) • Maintain the independence of the Dutch Armed Forces, opposing the formation of an EU army and any merger with the German army.
• Retain financial resources and defense equipment, such as F16s, for the Dutch military rather than allocating them to Ukraine.
• Advocate for the removal of Turkey from NATO.
• Include the defense of the Dutch border as part of the national defense strategy, using the military for border control to halt any influx of asylum seekers.
• Establish a Backpay scheme to recognize and financially compensate widows for the salaries of their deceased husbands. Spoiler: mobility (click to show)(click to hide) • Increase the construction of roads.
• Reduce fuel excise taxes.
• Oppose road pricing.
• Raise the maximum speed limit to 140 km/h.
• Reject a ban on the sale of gasoline and diesel cars.
• Eliminate all environmental zones.
• Merge NS (Dutch Railways) and ProRail into a single large Dutch Railway Company.
• Hold NS accountable for punctuality.
• Ensure sufficient trains and seating during peak hours.
• Ensure affordable and safe public transportation.
• Support Schiphol Airport's expansion.
• Repeal the aviation tax.
• Implement additional measures against flooding in Limburg, Noord-Brabant, and Gelderland, including investing in river space. Provide financial support for damage compensation in Limburg. Spoiler: foreign policy (click to show)(click to hide) • Relocate the Dutch embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
• Downscale diplomatic relations with Sharia countries and impose requirements on diplomats.
• Implement a complete halt on development aid.
• Eliminate the position of the Minister for Development Cooperation.
• Oppose the introduction of a digital euro.
• Focus on intensive collaboration with other nations while maintaining national sovereignty, without forming a political union like the EU.
• Conduct a binding referendum on this matter.
Until the Nexit referendum is held:
• Work towards repatriating funds from Brussels and reducing the EU contribution.
• Oppose the transfer of powers to the EU and work towards reclaiming them.
• Maintain and restore all veto rights.
• Reject further EU expansion or steps in that direction.
• Immediately end the monthly relocation of the European Parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg.
• Do not display the EU flag on government buildings and in the Parliament; only the national flag should be flown in the Netherlands.
i noticed a lot of increase in spending and a lot of decrease in tax income, so how is he gonna pay for all of this? i assume someone has asked him that question pre election?
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