True, thanks to power hungry politicians, but I disagree with with the hate that we the American people get for it. I love my country but hate my government & therefore don't trust them.
Volker Pispers, the sharpest tongue in Germany. Unfortunately, his political statements cannot be dismissed out of hand. He gets straight to the point. The Program is old, but still relevant. Greetings from Germany.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende lies dir dann mal bitte alles über Allende durch, Volker hat das alles mit Absicht weggelassen... weil er eben keine Ahnung hat oder mit Absicht unterschlägt. Allende war der kommende Hitler oder Putin also war es schon sehr gut das er entfernt wurde.
Aber mittlerweile hat er kapituliert. Die Leute bleiben blöde und wählen immer noch die Parteien die ihnen das Geld aus der Tasche ziehen. Ich kann ihn verstehen, sehr gut sogar.
Volker Piepers isn‘t clever (@7:05), he‘s politically informed and intelligent, probably one of the brightest satirical comedians around. Thanks for promoting him! Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Thx 4 the vid mate. You can watch everything of Volker Pispers no mater wich topic. Every single Show is very good researched. Greetings from germany 😊
I dunno if someone else already pointed that out but "telekinesis" has nothing to do with knowing things before they happen, telekinesis is the ability to move (or physically impact) things/objects (matter) with your mind. Not to be confused with "telepathy", the ability to communicate with others via mind without using your voice or signs etc. or just read other's minds, and also not to be confused with "precognition", which finally would be what you intended to mean, that is knowing things before they happen by a higher level of instinct or foreseeing the future...
7:50 The deeper joke in that was that Merkel was never opposed to the Socialist dictatorship, oppression, murder in East Germany. She passed school with rare awards of ideological purity and later worked in key position for the Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda - Yes that was a thing. George Orwell didn't write about a "warning of the future D:" - Instead George Orwell simply wrote what Socialists already did, as well as what they dreamed of doing if technology improved. Merkel wanted to become head of the Green Party after reunification, a Maoist party pretending to be for environmental protection but only making a dime on it while also standing for the legalization of... well the same things Michelle Focault did to children and wanted to be legal. They rejected her, and she turned towards the Conservative Party, the Christian Democratic Union. Where she bit off every possible competition, thus removed all sources of competence out of that party, and then moved the entire thing across the center and into Left field. She was a mole and a traitor, if there ever was one.
Great Video. Many Germans don't know much about the world either (me too :)! Mr. Pisper is one of this rare humans with a sharpest sense to understand what is hapening in the world.
Hello Joel. He seemed a bit like a German version of Ben Elton, who after stints like this in 1980s was involved with "Blackadder". Funny, one of my friend's cousins in Germany had a record collection including one by Christie Moore about Santiago Bay. A lot of this seemed like low hanging fruit.
Everytime when I was in the USA, I learned, the people in the USA are not the problem. The people I met were exactly as beautiful as the country itselfe. The Problem is politics with this two Parties, they play the same role like the two Parties in the TV Shows Denver Clan or Dallas. Two Families of corrupted very rich people they say what to do. Like the bad guys in Schools, they steal the bread from the weaker kids. I really love the USA. And I really love Russia or any other country. The problems are never the people. The Problems are their politicians.
The CIA armed and trained the Taliban to help them throw Russia out of Afghanistan. I Repeat ....... The CIA armed and trained the Taliban to help them throw Russia out of Afghanistan. Nice Job USA.
@@trevorporter4776 It all started with the Saurrevolution (1978) in Afghanistan, with which Afghan communists took charge of the country. The U.S. not being a fan of communists, aided the Mujahideen, Islamistic terror groups, who were trying to take over. Now the Afghan leadership eventually began trying to solve the issue diplomatically, which the Russians didn't like, they didn't want the Islamists gaining power, so in order to insert their own communist government, which continue fighting no matter what, they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The important thing to note here is that the U.S. armed the Mujahideen BEFORE Russia invaded, they just increased the amount of weapons and money they sent after the Russian invasion. Another important thing is, that the Taliban didn't exist then, they were formed in 1994 from former Mujahideen.
No they are not. Don't get me wrong. I like Pispers and I think this is a good show. But he is also very biased to the left and he has not all facts right. Allende The CIA did several operations in Chile and they supported the junta with money and weapons but there were not involved directly in the coup. Actually it was the CIA's fault that Allende got elected in first place. The tried to kidnap general Rene Schneider to prevent the election of Allende. Schneider got shot and died three days later. After this the PDC (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile, the Christian Democratic Party in Chile) backed the election of Allende. Allende was a socialist and he nationalized industry. His politics was disputed. The opposition and his partner PDC was not happy with him. Allende hat not a majority anymore and lost the confidence of the congress in a vote. CIA had not to be so convincing I guess. The CIA was not invboled in the planning of the coupe. The knew it by forhand, an agent reported it to the headquarter and they also informed the BND about it. But they did not make the planning. By listening to Volker you might imagine that the role of the CIA was bigger than it actually was. He says nothing about the Soviet Union. The Sviet Uniuon occupied Iran withe the British in 2nd World war. The British took there troops back, the Soviets did not. And they separated parts of Iran. Head of state was Reza Shah Palavi whoi resigend and his son Moihammed Reza Palavi followed. About his terror regime. Just a theory by me. But how much was it a fault of the Soviet Union? There was a real foreign danger getting control / getting back control over the country. Palave problaby saw in the Soviet Union a real danger because it was for him. It wasn't like that the USA decided that Iran would be a nice bullwark against communism.
Not everything he said is a fact. He said Bush wasn't democratically elected which there is no proof of that and that would mean Trump wasn't democratically elected either which means Americans aren't as stupid as people think they are and that they were scammed by certain people in power, I don't believe in that, it goes against the nature of American naivety especially when it comes to foreign policy. Nobody would have put Trump in power if they knew that Trump would wipe his ass with top secret documents while they were sleeping.
While that is true that there are a lot of facts in it, if you leave out things it can still sound exaggerated. I don't know much about this part of history, but I could imagine there is more background to the conflicts/wars than just the USA telling people to attack. Like some backstory about Iraq and Iran being enemies already, but Iran was too powerful to fear any attack from Iraq if Iraq had no support, but now Iran was weakened and/or lost its support.
@@LJJ22 In the end it all comes back around to the war on communism. The US backed alot of poeple with the goal to have a shield against Russia/China, and more often than not it backfired and made everything much worse. They learned their lession in Vietnam and decided to wage war by proxy, so they dont have to send their own troops in. So they backed good upstanding people like Saddam Hussein fir example. How that turned out we all know. And after heavily supporting Osama bin Laden to fight their war for them it finally bit them in the ass. That was a long time coming and entirely the result of their own meddling in foreign affairs.
Hey morejps....i am no mainstream thinking guy...i am one of your subscribers from germany cologne. Germany is no Free country ..germamy until now Has no peace Contract from the USA , Russia and England.thats no all allyies . Search for a vid from Mathes Haug....S.H.A.E.F. Gesetzt....translated SHAEF.laws. Search for the Dr Mathes Haug vid..."SHAEF Gesetze weiter hin gültig" I am sorry its pure german...you habe to translate It Best wishes from Cologne Germany.
I know this hurts. It always hurts when you're confronted with the idiocy of a government that does things in your name, even if you don't agree with them. Especially when you're faced with present day consequences of actions committed by idiots way before your own birth that still echoes down history right until today. You can't do anything about the past, you're not guilty for what happened before. You're only responsible to try to change what's happening right now. But now you may have a glimpse into how Germans feel about our own history. Anyone born after WW2 has no guilt for actions committed back then. But most Germans feel a sort of second-hand shame and embarrassment for it, as well as a responsibility to make certain something like that never happens again. Edit: Volker Pispers has a PhD in history, so what he is saying is accurate. Sure, he puts his spin on it for comedic effect. But this is typical for German political cabaret. It is brutally honest satire, sometimes stepping into cynicism. But usually whatever they say is factually true. Because by staying factually true they can't be critically targeted or sued for defamation and slander. In Germany the freedom of expression ends where someone impugns the dignity and honor of someone else which is the highest human right: human dignity. So satirists have to be careful not to make factually wrong claims. How they spin the story to make it both entertaining AND enlightening is limited by the skill and talent of the satirist. Volker Pispers was one of the best in his field.
It isnt "idiocy" ... it is EVIL ... and most people need to remember that "government = 95% UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS!" Bureaucrats are responsible for the information which politicians have to make their laws and probably assist in writing these laws as well.
Indeed, brilliantly put! This comment should be required reading for all english speaking reaction RUclipsrs before diving into German (or any European, for that matter) political satire.
And yet, I still feel a great responsibility towards what you call *German history*, because my great-grandmother was incarcerated twice into a concentration camp and only got out there by shere luck… in the end, she got liberated by the US troops which liberated Dachau. She was lucky as hell and could even celebrate her 102 birthday, but she never forgot what she endured before. All of that happened, because she kept asking about the fate of her Jewish neighbours, which she never ever saw again…
@@willybauer5496 Us Germans have to live with our country's history, we must study it, we must never forget it. We all have the responsibility to never, ever let anything like that happen here again...and if we can, we must also do everything we can to do keep anything like that happen anywhere else. We know what our ancestors did, we know how they failed, we must be better than that.
This program was recorded in 2004, almost twenty years ago. Merkel only became German chancellor in 2005 but Pispers was already roasting her back then. 😂
Etwa nicht aus gutem Grund? Die meisten mögen es vergessen haben, aber unter Helmut, dem Dicken, war sie schon 2 mal Bundesministerin. Und damals, hat sie sich auch schon nicht mit Ruhm bekleckert. Als Umweltministerin, hatte sie sogar richtigen Bockmist gebaut, mit einem Schaden von 1 Milliarde Euro (Schacht Konrad). Das ist so, als würde man Andy Scheuer und seinen Zwillingsbruder ins Kanzleramt hieven. Das würde doch auch niemand bei klarem Verstand machen! Die Leute haben alle ein Gedächtnis, wie es meine Oma gesagt hätte, von 12 bis es läutet...
If you think America is acting like that "to keep the international peace" you dont know anything about American interventions in the last 70 years and didnt understand a single thing Pispers is saying here.
Volkers shows are NOT comedy but satire. Also this is a history lesson for everyone he guessed in this show. Of course he wrapped it like comedy. Keep in mind that the winner writes history to his advantage (history books). Volkers remarks depend on real history. But so is the point of view from "outside". I wrote it several times before, but if you want more objective news about your own country read news from foreign countries about your country. That works for every country in this beautyful world! Love your reactions because of your open mind! Keep going on! 4 more parts to go. Many names of german politicians and sometimes you need the geographical and historical background, to completely understand his kind of humor. His show about capitalism is a must.
One can see that you did not feel too well with the fires shot toward the US, but I'm glad you decided to continue with part 2 anyway! He's rather a political cabaret artist than a comedian, so there might be some exaggerations, but actually he's rather acurate regarding the facts but put them in words that sound comical to absurd, making people laugh but think about at the same time. He's enormously intelligent and knowledgeable, and while this show is almost 20 years old (Gerhard Schröder was the chancellor before Angela merkel, who was in power for 16 years), in the past 2 years quite some Americans reacted to this show. And all the while he fires his shots in all directions, including his own country, "Jeder kriegt sein Fett weg", as we say in Germany.
Its not Comedy young man . We in Deutschland have a long tradition called political cabaret. And dont get it wrong "the Americans" are not you and your fellow countrymen. Its the political industrial military complex that plays the games Pispers is talking about.
@@olika9076 it’s in this case 100% he picked it from the pentagon. I studied history, this r all numbers from the US government, so it could only be worse. They wouldn’t make themselves more disgusting. U could also read the pentagon papers about Korea. It was as horrible. And the uS was proud to hire fundamentalists for osama, that’s now isis. It’s all their doing, and they shared it proudly. Iran was West friendly, they especially liked the US for their fight of independence, but US and the UK didn’t want to pay for that oil, and didn’t want the people profit from it. The US stole it
Some mistakes, but mostly correct. The stationing of soldiers at the holy sites of islam for example. US soldiers where never stationed at the holy sites, these cities are off limit for non muslims (Mekka and Medina, Jerusalem is not a holy city in islam, that was made up later. Not once mentioned in the Quran). And US soldiers where invited by the islamic authority in KSA, the royal family. So in some parts he exaggerates or is not 100% correct, but mostly it's fine.
watch the rest :) it's a good lesson on recent global history and a reckoning what the A-list players in international power-politics of our lifetime have been up to... and it's not comedy as in jokes and making fun of people, it's political satire: spitting ugly truths about the peole in power in such a way so that you tensely want to hear more, then releasing the tension with some word play, irony, sarcasm, pointing out how absurd and ridiculous and contradictory and hypocritical our leaders and their actions can be...
It's actually a documentary. I have watched several US reactions and I think yours is one of the best. You don't just laugh about the satire but you get the points that he makes. I thank you for that.
He did not retire, he resigned, and by his own words he gave up because he saw no change in his country beside a change for the worse. The results we can see at present...
Just look at Myanmar... what they could have done with 2 million $... that would have solved the whole issue... I blame Britain for that one, tbh... just like in Hong Kong they did NOTHING! Shame on the Commonwealth
Happy to see people outside of Germany to agree to the work of this man, he is a genius which deserves to be honored! Sadly he isnt active that much anymore and the younger Germans dont know him anymore....
@@leonardchurch7675Schwachsinnige Behauptung! Suchen Sie nach finanziellen UNTERSTÜTZER des "kleinen Österreicher" damals und werden erst dann verstehen, von was Sie schreiben!
I know it is rough at times for you, i lived many years in the US ahd have been exposed to the narratives there. I respect you for trying to look beyond the general narrow american view of yhe world. 👍
The facts he presents are not exagerated, the connections and conclusions he draws are not exagerated as they are part of history by now. The way he presents those facts and conclusions are "Volker Pispers style". He presents them in a way you have to laugh, the alternative being embarassed beyond measure. Sit back, get comfortable and enjoy the ride through history, which so more or less common knowledge in the educated (rest of the) world but afaik not taught or discussed within US schools or society.
Germany is probably the most brainwashed nation out there. The amount of historical BS I've seen spewed in the comments of this channel is insane. 99% of accepted history is completely false. Up is down, left is right etc etc. History is written by the victor, a d unfortunately the wrong people have won on numerous occasions.
As an American living in Austria now, I am amazed how American politicians, military (mostly retired), and diplomats are quite willing to speak frankly and honestly in documentaries made in Europe, but they would not dream of it in the states. Therefore, many truths are disclosed to the rest of the world that they choose to keep a secret from Americans. One documentary I am thinking of in particular is about Gorbechev and how he wanted a loan of just a few million to set up a democratic government in Russia after Perestroika. The USA, and thus NATO (at their push) turned him down flat and backed Yeltsin, who USA saw as a drunk and easy puppet. We now see how that backfired. You won't ever see that German documentary played in the USA, but Americans who were deeply involved in all of that were more than willing to sit down and be interviewed for the documentary. That's one reason many Americans think of Reagan as a great man. Boy, are they foolish.
he is not a comedian, a "kabaretist" is something different, political satire based on facts without exaggerations, this is important since they get fact checked, this is why shows like "die anstalt" always have source refferences to every show on their homepage.
The point with German political satire is: there might be some polemics, but there is way too much truth in there to be brushed aside. There have been times when people accepted the heute Show over the regular news because they thought the satire was closer to the truth
Please make a reaction video about Billy Wilder's One Two Three. This sheds light on the historical relationship between post-war Germany and the USA and how people think about each other. Nobody has made a video like this before. And I would find it very exciting to see and hear a young person like you doing it, maybe as a reaction series. And then a tutorial "How to built a Yankee doodle cuckoo clock. 😁😁
That one goes through to part 5 - and it is absolutely great! It has been making the rounds among Americans reacting to German videos - and I love the takes of all of you guys! Please continue the series!
Volker is amazing, i saw last week a video that was nearly 15 years old and everything he said back than is still true today. Its like this man know the feature.
V you speak in this cas as an F. 😀😀 It's Folker or Pholker, but not Wolker. He has since retired from the stage. Overall, he is not without controversy. It's because he criticized everyone and everyone without standing up for anything. Unlike other political cabaret artists. The important thing is: he is not a comedian, he is a cabaret artist. A big difference in Germany. Comedians are only interested in laughs, political cabaret artists have a message. Trevor Noah, for example, would be a cabaret artist.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Ja, deshalb steht da auch der Konjunktiv. Trevor Noah wäre hier zu Lande ein Kabarettist, kein Comedian. Obwohl die BILD und RTL das inzwischen alles durcheinander schmeißt. Aber er macht politisches Kabarett.
Ich weiß schon, wer Trevor Noah ist. Schade, dass er mit der Show aufgehört hat. Ich es immer extrem lustig, wie Klepper die Trumpisten und Impfgegner aufgemischt hat. Ganz besonders geil, war sein Einsatz am 6 . Januar...@@Frohds14
A young American watches German political cabaret - and understands it. Maybe the world isn't lost after all. Greetings from Germany. PS: Georg Schramm is also brilliant. He stopped at some point because he realized that nothing could be improved in politics with cabaret.
Just found your channel and I am so happy about it. I’m from Germany and to me it is really cool and refreshing to see somebody from US who is reflecting about humor and history and who is not blind for the US role in the world. Don’t get me wrong - I am happy for all good stuff the US is bringing to the world (especially for the Germans it is so important what US army did to finish the world war 2) , but it is just good to see that you are not blind for the problems as well (hope my English is not that bad - greetings and hugs from Germany) ❤
Good to see Volker's video pop up lately. Be sure to check out the full thing. This is important stuff to know, especially for Americans, because knowing the truth about how you're being manipulated, empowers you to change the future.
With „keep the international peace“ you mean „secure Americas influence & oil sources in other regions by removing other governments and implementing their own ‚proconsuls‘“
Joel, it's Folker, not Wolker ;D A german V is always pronounced like an F (as well as as an Z like an TS). =) Finally you yet have also seen the very popular Pispers satires translated into english, like so many other US-american and british channels here in YT did already. And you liked it as well as all the others. It's all true, no embellishments and no whitewashing. Finally he is historian, he calls the smut by its name. There's another sharp and hilarious tongue in germany, Georg Schramm, but I don't know if someone has translated him. Thanks for your apt comments and don't be feeling upset because the critique. It's of course about the unbearable Bully US politics, that only makes the world unpeaceful. The USA government and military is friend to no one, only always egoistic, greedy and dangerous. And not reformable, because you always vote for the same unfortunately outdated 2 parties full of millionaires, that are not interested in representing their own people. So you need a complete new REALLY democratic system like in Switzerland and better, with more INDEPENDENT parties and referendums. This ruthless Globalists try to prevent it, so you citizens must push it through, to to get rid of this hostile foreign rule. You surely can imagine which criminals I mean.
@@sebastiant4597 It depends. The character "V" itself is pronounced "fau" in German. Sometimes V is pronounced W like in "vegan", "vegetarisch", "virtuell", "virtuos", "Viskosität" or "Vokabel", but most often V is pronounced F like in "viel(e)", all words with the prefixes "ver-" and "vor-" like in "Vorsilbe" (= prefix), or when I say to my men "vögelt mich", and like in Volk(er). But there seems to be no explicit rule when to pronounce it F and when W. You just have to know it. Maybe we should have another Rechtschreibreform about this topic!
@@najalundgren3565 Thanks for you afford, I am pretty sure you'll figure out what all the words in the first set V=W have in common and why they are the least helpful to evaluate German, Germanic or Nordic pronunciation. Or do you really want to discuss the pronunciation of V as in VIP in German? (Which actually will lead to one of the nicest treats in the ethical standards of German pronunciation.)
It's not exaggerated for comedy. The comedy lies in the facts. Thats the german humor. The USA didn't do mistakes defending the freedom, they didn't ever care about freedom. It was always about the oil and they didn't care how many millions of innocent people died for that. Don't get that twisted.
I am impressed that a young US man is trying to understand how Germany is working. Great. In case you will watch this video till the end please take an extra look (ear) when he is talking about teacher and schools. Brilliant. In case you will visit in the future: in Bremerhaven you will find "Das Auswandererhaus". A museum about people who emigrate to US etc. And a must to do: walking on the ground of Northsea (like Cuxhaven to island Neuwerk).
When you say ... america is a police ... that's what Volker means when he says - naive is't cutting it, when you descibe the people in america. America is defending their own economic interests with their military and special units everywhere in the world - that has nothing to do with policing or protecting.
Volker Pispers is not your ordenary comedian. Everything he says is well reseached and aside from some mean comments absolutely true. 😅 You should watch the rest, even though it might hurt. Also, his take in capitalism ist gold ❤
It is a good thing that you expose yourself to such content even though the truth can be painfull. But I do not like that you try to justify these murders of electec leaders and military invasions with "peace keeping missions". Because that is obviously a lie in most cases.
hey @morejps you said that it has to be taken with "a grain of salt", and that it "was exceggerated" due to comedy. But in my opinion it is a quite accurate and neutral observation of the topics by Volker Piepers. He is a political analyst who communicated the topics and his opinions "objectively" which turned everything into a tragic comedy rather than just comedy. Not much exceggeration to be found. side note: some of the translations are not very accurate so the jokes sometimes are difficult to be understood, but content wise it is accurate.
thank you dear, for bringing this, I know that man, he is also really critical to Germany and the people, who don t want to look through msm news, but take the biase..God bless you, take care. best wishes from Germany and Switzerland.
Step one: you learn or know about the things he is talking about. 2. you have an opinion about that... THEN : listen to him, and possibly you get an Idea about it, if you are intelligent and open minded. Otherwise it´s nice to you overwelmed by information... it´s somehow funny, but boring !
Not one little bit of salt, all facts otherwise he could be sued here in Germany, no shitty freedom of Words here mate, here you still have to watch what you say in public as liars are not really liked here, we have no GOP here, we have the AfD but even they watch what they say cause it might blow up in their faces.
The US doesn't intervene to keep the "international peace". Never has. Never will. It's geopolitics. Usually US military interventionism boils down to one of three things: - Weaken Russia/USSR - Stabilize Europe - Protect US access to and control of oil prices. The last two are about economics, because US jobs depend on a stable Europe that purchases US services and tech. Weakening Russia is about US security. US intervention in Syria: Aimed to oust Assad, who refused to allow pipelines to be built from Quatar to Europe, which would have introduced a competitor to Russian oil and gas deliveries to Europe. Vietnam: Weaken Russia/USSR Yogoslavia: Stabilize Europe Ukraine: Stabilize Europe and weaken Russia. Etc etc etc
Nice of you to check this out. But lighten up, it is comedy. He also takes the piss outa german politicians as you noticed. And that is exactly the way to do comedy, tell the the ugly truth in a funny way that people reflect on it when they leave the show. Please check out more german comedy, some of it is absolutely up to par with the best of british comedy. I'm not british nor german so think i can say this without backlash 😂
@@macdieter23558 Why build a wall where you don't need one. Why build up a border between genres that flow into each other.. Only for looking down on others? Sad.
No !!! It’s NOT exaggerated ! Just the truth behind the scenes ! And it’s not comedy ! It’s satire at its best ! Ans satire normally doesn’t lie ; just tells what’s going on in words and contexts that make you smile ( or going: booaaaaahhh ) I’m no Left wing guy ( nor right / GOP ) …. just for information
Peace keeping??? Are you realy so naive, that you believe that anything the US did in this area, brought peace to anybody??? It's all about the oil, my slow friend.
Please don't say, "peace-keeping role". That's a misnomer. Their real purpose is to disrupt and destabilize. Think about it. When has their intervention ever really worked out in a targeted nation's favor? Yes, please watch the subsequent parts of this.
This is not comedy this is satire. Let's say it's is comedy with serious backgrounds ... real backgrounds. And actually it isn't even funny except the way he is talking about. So I hope he makes us thinking about all these things and gives us a clou about how politicians are doing their job. And they're all the same here and there.
I think the point he is making is that whilst the US always try to frame it as international peace keeping, in the past they acted completely in their own interests, and supported human rights violators getting into power simply for economic benefits for the US.
The thing is Pispers is not a comedian at all, in Germany we call this "Kabarett". In my opinion this isn't even funny at all because it is just the plain truth without all the stuff newspapers and news channels add to confuse the population about the main goals of those in charge. I was heartbroken when Pispers declared to step down. His voice is gravely missed - there is noone in sight following his example in german political Kabarett.
I did not like the justification at the end. You said “a lot of it was true”. I know it is hard but see it as it is: 95% of what he said is true, especially the big events. How they went was probably not that easy but don’t justify. If you justify you don’t take it as you should.
Even if the US has made many mistakes in the past, a world with the US as leader is still better than a world with China or Russia as leader! Volker Pispers has also often criticized German politics, so you do not have to be ashamed as an American 😉
Yea but that dosen't sell as good to the public like "us good guys vs them Bad guys " Better we insult the politicle Opposition as the worse of humanety and ignoring the own wrongs that will deeefenetly not lead to a broken politikle landscape right... Right?
Your reactions strengthen my faith in humanity. Its very sad that Volker Pispers now gets famous outside of germany cause he retired a few years ago. His words: "I do cabaret for like 30 years now and many topics remain the same. People laughing about the same things and are understanding what going on through my words, but nothing changes and after all Im sick of it" Greetings from germany
The US isn't a peace police. They get the most profit out of wars and Volker isn't a comedian, he makes satire.
True, thanks to power hungry politicians, but I disagree with with the hate that we the American people get for it. I love my country but hate my government & therefore don't trust them.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwi hate US government but i love country girls. I even sub one of them because how cute they're. I wish i can marry them
@@boboboy8189 Hahaha 🤣😁👍
@@boboboy8189 Are you American or German?🙂
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw i'm from south east Asia.
Volker Pispers, the sharpest tongue in Germany. Unfortunately, his political statements cannot be dismissed out of hand. He gets straight to the point. The Program is old, but still relevant.
Greetings from Germany.
Sharpest tongue in Germany? Georg Schramm?
Well Georg Schramm, Max Uthoff, Hagen Rether etc. etc. did similar sharp programs. They only have not the bigger attention Volker has.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer Sorry, i correct myself!! "One of the sharpest tongues"!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende lies dir dann mal bitte alles über Allende durch, Volker hat das alles mit Absicht weggelassen... weil er eben keine Ahnung hat oder mit Absicht unterschlägt. Allende war der kommende Hitler oder Putin also war es schon sehr gut das er entfernt wurde.
Aber mittlerweile hat er kapituliert. Die Leute bleiben blöde und wählen immer noch die Parteien die ihnen das Geld aus der Tasche ziehen. Ich kann ihn verstehen, sehr gut sogar.
There are 5 parts, its a MUST to see … and to learn.
Finde es echt Mega dass dir sowas gefällt, Volker Pispers ist Legende. Macht dich zu einem meiner Lieblingsamerikaner😅
Volker Piepers isn‘t clever (@7:05), he‘s politically informed and intelligent, probably one of the brightest satirical comedians around. Thanks for promoting him! Greetings from Cologne, Germany
No, No, No, it is not exaggerated what this comedian had to say. Indeed, Peace for all of us.
Thx 4 the vid mate. You can watch everything of Volker Pispers no mater wich topic. Every single Show is very good researched.
Greetings from germany 😊
The crazy Thing is that this clip is aktually areound 20 years old
Great job & reaction, greetings from Europe ✌️
Shame He is retired... such a critical mind...
I dunno if someone else already pointed that out but "telekinesis" has nothing to do with knowing things before they happen, telekinesis is the ability to move (or physically impact) things/objects (matter) with your mind.
Not to be confused with "telepathy", the ability to communicate with others via mind without using your voice or signs etc. or just read other's minds, and also not to be confused with "precognition", which finally would be what you intended to mean, that is knowing things before they happen by a higher level of instinct or foreseeing the future...
7:50 The deeper joke in that was that Merkel was never opposed to the Socialist dictatorship, oppression, murder in East Germany. She passed school with rare awards of ideological purity and later worked in key position for the Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda - Yes that was a thing. George Orwell didn't write about a "warning of the future D:" - Instead George Orwell simply wrote what Socialists already did, as well as what they dreamed of doing if technology improved. Merkel wanted to become head of the Green Party after reunification, a Maoist party pretending to be for environmental protection but only making a dime on it while also standing for the legalization of... well the same things Michelle Focault did to children and wanted to be legal. They rejected her, and she turned towards the Conservative Party, the Christian Democratic Union. Where she bit off every possible competition, thus removed all sources of competence out of that party, and then moved the entire thing across the center and into Left field.
She was a mole and a traitor, if there ever was one.
WOW, didn't expect you to dig so deep. Bitter lessons for all sides.
.... you know , ,, Satire " is the best way for explanation and communications in Humans...
👍...he is good and he is 100% right !
Great Video. Many Germans don't know much about the world either (me too :)! Mr. Pisper is one of this rare humans with a sharpest sense to understand what is hapening in the world.
truth remains truth. Whether the Americans want to admit it or not. they are facts.
Hello Joel. He seemed a bit like a German version of Ben Elton, who after stints like this in 1980s was involved with "Blackadder".
Funny, one of my friend's cousins in Germany had a record collection including one by Christie Moore about Santiago Bay.
A lot of this seemed like low hanging fruit.
Everytime when I was in the USA, I learned, the people in the USA are not the problem. The people I met were exactly as beautiful as the country itselfe. The Problem is politics with this two Parties, they play the same role like the two Parties in the TV Shows Denver Clan or Dallas. Two Families of corrupted very rich people they say what to do. Like the bad guys in Schools, they steal the bread from the weaker kids.
I really love the USA. And I really love Russia or any other country. The problems are never the people. The Problems are their politicians.
There is no exaggeration at all. All fact in particular about US Politics.
The CIA armed and trained the Taliban to help them throw Russia out of Afghanistan. I Repeat ....... The CIA armed and trained the Taliban to help them throw Russia out of Afghanistan. Nice Job USA.
they were called Mujahideen back then, and aren't the same thing.
But yes, the CIA are criminals, we all know that.
What was Russia there for?
imperial land grap i guess. It's what the powerful do. @@Timbothruster-fh3cw
@@trevorporter4776 It all started with the Saurrevolution (1978) in Afghanistan, with which Afghan communists took charge of the country. The U.S. not being a fan of communists, aided the Mujahideen, Islamistic terror groups, who were trying to take over. Now the Afghan leadership eventually began trying to solve the issue diplomatically, which the Russians didn't like, they didn't want the Islamists gaining power, so in order to insert their own communist government, which continue fighting no matter what, they invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
The important thing to note here is that the U.S. armed the Mujahideen BEFORE Russia invaded, they just increased the amount of weapons and money they sent after the Russian invasion. Another important thing is, that the Taliban didn't exist then, they were formed in 1994 from former Mujahideen.
Wow, ok, thanks for that info.@@GGysar
Yes, he is one of the few smart comedians in Germany.
Volker is 100% right, even if it's supposed to be satire
No grain of salt, no exaggeration on this one. They are all facts.
exactly this was the comment I was about to write.
Yeah true
No they are not.
Don't get me wrong. I like Pispers and I think this is a good show.
But he is also very biased to the left and he has not all facts right.
Allende
The CIA did several operations in Chile and they supported the junta with money and weapons but there were not involved directly in the coup.
Actually it was the CIA's fault that Allende got elected in first place. The tried to kidnap general Rene Schneider to prevent the election of Allende.
Schneider got shot and died three days later. After this the PDC (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile, the Christian Democratic Party in Chile) backed the election of Allende.
Allende was a socialist and he nationalized industry.
His politics was disputed. The opposition and his partner PDC was not happy with him. Allende hat not a majority anymore and lost the confidence of the congress in a vote.
CIA had not to be so convincing I guess. The CIA was not invboled in the planning of the coupe.
The knew it by forhand, an agent reported it to the headquarter and they also informed the BND about it. But they did not make the planning.
By listening to Volker you might imagine that the role of the CIA was bigger than it actually was.
He says nothing about the Soviet Union.
The Sviet Uniuon occupied Iran withe the British in 2nd World war.
The British took there troops back, the Soviets did not. And they separated parts of Iran.
Head of state was Reza Shah Palavi whoi resigend and his son Moihammed Reza Palavi followed.
About his terror regime. Just a theory by me. But how much was it a fault of the Soviet Union?
There was a real foreign danger getting control / getting back control over the country.
Palave problaby saw in the Soviet Union a real danger because it was for him.
It wasn't like that the USA decided that Iran would be a nice bullwark against communism.
Not everything he said is a fact. He said Bush wasn't democratically elected which there is no proof of that and that would mean Trump wasn't democratically elected either which means Americans aren't as stupid as people think they are and that they were scammed by certain people in power, I don't believe in that, it goes against the nature of American naivety especially when it comes to foreign policy. Nobody would have put Trump in power if they knew that Trump would wipe his ass with top secret documents while they were sleeping.
While that is true that there are a lot of facts in it, if you leave out things it can still sound exaggerated. I don't know much about this part of history, but I could imagine there is more background to the conflicts/wars than just the USA telling people to attack. Like some backstory about Iraq and Iran being enemies already, but Iran was too powerful to fear any attack from Iraq if Iraq had no support, but now Iran was weakened and/or lost its support.
@@LJJ22 In the end it all comes back around to the war on communism. The US backed alot of poeple with the goal to have a shield against Russia/China, and more often than not it backfired and made everything much worse. They learned their lession in Vietnam and decided to wage war by proxy, so they dont have to send their own troops in. So they backed good upstanding people like Saddam Hussein fir example. How that turned out we all know. And after heavily supporting Osama bin Laden to fight their war for them it finally bit them in the ass. That was a long time coming and entirely the result of their own meddling in foreign affairs.
Hope you check out the other parts, the whole set is incredible. Such a pity he stopped.
You mean a pitty, right?
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 guess I did, yea
Hey morejps....i am no mainstream thinking guy...i am one of your subscribers from germany cologne.
Germany is no Free country ..germamy until now Has no peace Contract from the USA , Russia and England.thats no all allyies .
Search for a vid from Mathes Haug....S.H.A.E.F. Gesetzt....translated SHAEF.laws.
Search for the Dr Mathes Haug vid..."SHAEF Gesetze weiter hin gültig"
I am sorry its pure german...you habe to translate It
Best wishes from Cologne Germany.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Pity is the correct way 👍
One of the great . Hagen rether also a good one
I know this hurts. It always hurts when you're confronted with the idiocy of a government that does things in your name, even if you don't agree with them. Especially when you're faced with present day consequences of actions committed by idiots way before your own birth that still echoes down history right until today. You can't do anything about the past, you're not guilty for what happened before. You're only responsible to try to change what's happening right now.
But now you may have a glimpse into how Germans feel about our own history. Anyone born after WW2 has no guilt for actions committed back then. But most Germans feel a sort of second-hand shame and embarrassment for it, as well as a responsibility to make certain something like that never happens again.
Edit: Volker Pispers has a PhD in history, so what he is saying is accurate. Sure, he puts his spin on it for comedic effect. But this is typical for German political cabaret. It is brutally honest satire, sometimes stepping into cynicism. But usually whatever they say is factually true. Because by staying factually true they can't be critically targeted or sued for defamation and slander. In Germany the freedom of expression ends where someone impugns the dignity and honor of someone else which is the highest human right: human dignity. So satirists have to be careful not to make factually wrong claims. How they spin the story to make it both entertaining AND enlightening is limited by the skill and talent of the satirist. Volker Pispers was one of the best in his field.
Very well said!
It isnt "idiocy" ... it is EVIL ... and most people need to remember that "government = 95% UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS!"
Bureaucrats are responsible for the information which politicians have to make their laws and probably assist in writing these laws as well.
Indeed, brilliantly put! This comment should be required reading for all english speaking reaction RUclipsrs before diving into German (or any European, for that matter) political satire.
And yet, I still feel a great responsibility towards what you call *German history*, because my great-grandmother was incarcerated twice into a concentration camp and only got out there by shere luck… in the end, she got liberated by the US troops which liberated Dachau.
She was lucky as hell and could even celebrate her 102 birthday, but she never forgot what she endured before.
All of that happened, because she kept asking about the fate of her Jewish neighbours, which she never ever saw again…
@@willybauer5496 Us Germans have to live with our country's history, we must study it, we must never forget it. We all have the responsibility to never, ever let anything like that happen here again...and if we can, we must also do everything we can to do keep anything like that happen anywhere else. We know what our ancestors did, we know how they failed, we must be better than that.
This stuff is old but still relevant.
Buckle up Joel, especially part 3 and 4 will hurt.
This program was recorded in 2004, almost twenty years ago. Merkel only became German chancellor in 2005 but Pispers was already roasting her back then. 😂
Etwa nicht aus gutem Grund? Die meisten mögen es vergessen haben, aber unter Helmut, dem Dicken, war sie schon 2 mal Bundesministerin. Und damals, hat sie sich auch schon nicht mit Ruhm bekleckert. Als Umweltministerin, hatte sie sogar richtigen Bockmist gebaut, mit einem Schaden von 1 Milliarde Euro (Schacht Konrad). Das ist so, als würde man Andy Scheuer und seinen Zwillingsbruder ins Kanzleramt hieven. Das würde doch auch niemand bei klarem Verstand machen! Die Leute haben alle ein Gedächtnis, wie es meine Oma gesagt hätte, von 12 bis es läutet...
Merkel has been the butt of the joke way before she became chancellor. Look at how she looked before 2005
Nein, sein Programm „bis neulich …“ hat er ab 2002 gespielt und immer wieder aktualisiert.
@@jodelschnepfe4287 this record was from bis neulich 2004
If you think America is acting like that "to keep the international peace" you dont know anything about American interventions in the last 70 years and didnt understand a single thing Pispers is saying here.
Agree 100% with you.
Incredibly simple minded. ITS YOU WHO UNDERSTANDS NOTHING ABOUT WORLD HISTORY!
As a german thanks for getting views on this guy. He is so damn right. ❤️
Volkers shows are NOT comedy but satire. Also this is a history lesson for everyone he guessed in this show. Of course he wrapped it like comedy. Keep in mind that the winner writes history to his advantage (history books). Volkers remarks depend on real history. But so is the point of view from "outside". I wrote it several times before, but if you want more objective news about your own country read news from foreign countries about your country. That works for every country in this beautyful world!
Love your reactions because of your open mind! Keep going on! 4 more parts to go. Many names of german politicians and sometimes you need the geographical and historical background, to completely understand his kind of humor. His show about capitalism is a must.
One can see that you did not feel too well with the fires shot toward the US, but I'm glad you decided to continue with part 2 anyway! He's rather a political cabaret artist than a comedian, so there might be some exaggerations, but actually he's rather acurate regarding the facts but put them in words that sound comical to absurd, making people laugh but think about at the same time. He's enormously intelligent and knowledgeable, and while this show is almost 20 years old (Gerhard Schröder was the chancellor before Angela merkel, who was in power for 16 years), in the past 2 years quite some Americans reacted to this show.
And all the while he fires his shots in all directions, including his own country, "Jeder kriegt sein Fett weg", as we say in Germany.
Its not Comedy young man . We in Deutschland have a long tradition called political cabaret. And dont get it wrong "the Americans" are not you and your fellow countrymen. Its the political industrial military complex that plays the games Pispers is talking about.
There is no grain of salt to search for, that’s all 100% facts. It’s not even very funny, it’s a history lesson
Beware of somebody claiming to know the "facts"😉. Additions like "percentage numbers" are only proof of the "facts" were opinions😉
@@olika9076 it’s in this case 100% he picked it from the pentagon. I studied history, this r all numbers from the US government, so it could only be worse. They wouldn’t make themselves more disgusting. U could also read the pentagon papers about Korea. It was as horrible. And the uS was proud to hire fundamentalists for osama, that’s now isis. It’s all their doing, and they shared it proudly. Iran was West friendly, they especially liked the US for their fight of independence, but US and the UK didn’t want to pay for that oil, and didn’t want the people profit from it. The US stole it
Some mistakes, but mostly correct. The stationing of soldiers at the holy sites of islam for example. US soldiers where never stationed at the holy sites, these cities are off limit for non muslims (Mekka and Medina, Jerusalem is not a holy city in islam, that was made up later. Not once mentioned in the Quran). And US soldiers where invited by the islamic authority in KSA, the royal family. So in some parts he exaggerates or is not 100% correct, but mostly it's fine.
@@terribrad24 Two very important sites of Islam are located in Jerusalem: the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
@@terribrad24uh Jerusalem was one of the most important holy sites in islam since its origins.
Volker Pispers ist der Beste, er fehlt mir. Grüße aus Germany
watch the rest :) it's a good lesson on recent global history and a reckoning what the A-list players in international power-politics of our lifetime have been up to... and it's not comedy as in jokes and making fun of people, it's political satire: spitting ugly truths about the peole in power in such a way so that you tensely want to hear more, then releasing the tension with some word play, irony, sarcasm, pointing out how absurd and ridiculous and contradictory and hypocritical our leaders and their actions can be...
Satire nicht Komödie wichtig
Guck alle Teile👍
great to see that some people in america really are open minded
At least somehow ;-)
Like us germans about WWII. Its not easy to hear, but he is just spitting facts
It's actually a documentary.
I have watched several US reactions and I think yours is one of the best. You don't just laugh about the satire but you get the points that he makes. I thank you for that.
None of the others "just laughed" and this guy is pretty naive " yes I knew we are always into peace keeping". Is your comment serious?
Volker was the Best ever. I am still sad he retired.
He did not retire, he resigned, and by his own words he gave up because he saw no change in his country beside a change for the worse. The results we can see at present...
As you said, he is just as intelligently bitter and sharp-tongued where it comes to his own country Germany!
Movie: Team American - World Police. Also, the USA only acts around the world when THEIR interests are threatened.
Just look at Myanmar... what they could have done with 2 million $... that would have solved the whole issue...
I blame Britain for that one, tbh... just like in Hong Kong they did NOTHING!
Shame on the Commonwealth
I think you are correct. @@lynnm6413
@@lynnm6413britsin Just like america is playing the bigger game.
that was a well made documentary.
Happy to see people outside of Germany to agree to the work of this man, he is a genius which deserves to be honored! Sadly he isnt active that much anymore and the younger Germans dont know him anymore....
Gerade durch solche Männer gelangte der kleine Österreicher einst an die Macht.
It`s because TODAY he couldn`t say that anymore, without getting in serious trouble.
@@leonardchurch7675Schwachsinnige Behauptung!
Suchen Sie nach finanziellen UNTERSTÜTZER des "kleinen Österreicher" damals und werden erst dann verstehen, von was Sie schreiben!
Mittlerweile hat er aufgegeben diesen Idioten im Publikum die Wahrheit ins Gesicht zu sagen und dafür Applaus zu bekommen
@@leonardchurch7675Bro wtf
Yeah, you finally came across volker pispers. one of the best cabaret artists in germany. hope you watch the other parts too 👍
I know it is rough at times for you, i lived many years in the US ahd have been exposed to the narratives there.
I respect you for trying to look beyond the general narrow american view of yhe world. 👍
i am happy to see a young american, start thinking.
..even for a german - sometimes his words cut like a sharp knife... Making another part ? ! plucky, I guess.. ;)
The facts he presents are not exagerated, the connections and conclusions he draws are not exagerated as they are part of history by now. The way he presents those facts and conclusions are "Volker Pispers style". He presents them in a way you have to laugh, the alternative being embarassed beyond measure. Sit back, get comfortable and enjoy the ride through history, which so more or less common knowledge in the educated (rest of the) world but afaik not taught or discussed within US schools or society.
Germany is probably the most brainwashed nation out there. The amount of historical BS I've seen spewed in the comments of this channel is insane. 99% of accepted history is completely false. Up is down, left is right etc etc.
History is written by the victor, a d unfortunately the wrong people have won on numerous occasions.
As an American living in Austria now, I am amazed how American politicians, military (mostly retired), and diplomats are quite willing to speak frankly and honestly in documentaries made in Europe, but they would not dream of it in the states. Therefore, many truths are disclosed to the rest of the world that they choose to keep a secret from Americans. One documentary I am thinking of in particular is about Gorbechev and how he wanted a loan of just a few million to set up a democratic government in Russia after Perestroika. The USA, and thus NATO (at their push) turned him down flat and backed Yeltsin, who USA saw as a drunk and easy puppet. We now see how that backfired. You won't ever see that German documentary played in the USA, but Americans who were deeply involved in all of that were more than willing to sit down and be interviewed for the documentary. That's one reason many Americans think of Reagan as a great man. Boy, are they foolish.
he is not a comedian, a "kabaretist" is something different, political satire based on facts without exaggerations, this is important since they get fact checked, this is why shows like "die anstalt" always have source refferences to every show on their homepage.
The point with German political satire is: there might be some polemics, but there is way too much truth in there to be brushed aside. There have been times when people accepted the heute Show over the regular news because they thought the satire was closer to the truth
a long time ago. now heute show needs its own satire.
it is nearly a history lesson because all what he says is fact ;-)
Please make a reaction video about Billy Wilder's One Two Three.
This sheds light on the historical relationship between post-war Germany and the USA and how people think about each other.
Nobody has made a video like this before. And I would find it very exciting to see and hear a young person like you doing it, maybe as a reaction series. And then a tutorial "How to built a Yankee doodle cuckoo clock. 😁😁
That one goes through to part 5 - and it is absolutely great!
It has been making the rounds among Americans reacting to German videos - and I love the takes of all of you guys! Please continue the series!
I am doing the same, it's beautiful like watching people watch GoT for the first time.
best history teacher ever! honest entertaining and damn smart!
Volker is amazing, i saw last week a video that was nearly 15 years old and everything he said back than is still true today. Its like this man know the feature.
Pispers is kind of like George Carlin used to be. It's not really funny, but it's funny enough to not be sad, because what he says is true.
V you speak in this cas as an F. 😀😀 It's Folker or Pholker, but not Wolker.
He has since retired from the stage.
Overall, he is not without controversy. It's because he criticized everyone and everyone without standing up for anything.
Unlike other political cabaret artists.
The important thing is: he is not a comedian, he is a cabaret artist. A big difference in Germany. Comedians are only interested in laughs, political cabaret artists have a message. Trevor Noah, for example, would be a cabaret artist.
Is he not a South African?
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Ja, deshalb steht da auch der Konjunktiv. Trevor Noah wäre hier zu Lande ein Kabarettist, kein Comedian. Obwohl die BILD und RTL das inzwischen alles durcheinander schmeißt. Aber er macht politisches Kabarett.
Ich weiß schon, wer Trevor Noah ist. Schade, dass er mit der Show aufgehört hat. Ich es immer extrem lustig, wie Klepper die Trumpisten und Impfgegner aufgemischt hat. Ganz besonders geil, war sein Einsatz am 6 . Januar...@@Frohds14
this whole thing is a masterpiece!
A young American watches German political cabaret - and understands it. Maybe the world isn't lost after all.
Greetings from Germany.
PS: Georg Schramm is also brilliant. He stopped at some point because he realized that nothing could be improved in politics with cabaret.
Just found your channel and I am so happy about it.
I’m from Germany and to me it is really cool and refreshing to see somebody from US who is reflecting about humor and history and who is not blind for the US role in the world. Don’t get me wrong - I am happy for all good stuff the US is bringing to the world (especially for the Germans it is so important what US army did to finish the world war 2) , but it is just good to see that you are not blind for the problems as well (hope my English is not that bad - greetings and hugs from Germany) ❤
Good to see Volker's video pop up lately. Be sure to check out the full thing.
This is important stuff to know, especially for Americans, because knowing the truth about how you're being manipulated, empowers you to change the future.
With „keep the international peace“ you mean „secure Americas influence & oil sources in other regions by removing other governments and implementing their own ‚proconsuls‘“
Joel, it's Folker, not Wolker ;D A german V is always pronounced like an F (as well as as an Z like an TS). =)
Finally you yet have also seen the very popular Pispers satires translated into english, like so many other US-american and british channels here in YT did already.
And you liked it as well as all the others. It's all true, no embellishments and no whitewashing. Finally he is historian, he calls the smut by its name.
There's another sharp and hilarious tongue in germany, Georg Schramm, but I don't know if someone has translated him.
Thanks for your apt comments and don't be feeling upset because the critique. It's of course about the unbearable Bully US politics, that only makes the world unpeaceful. The USA government and military is friend to no one, only always egoistic, greedy and dangerous. And not reformable, because you always vote for the same unfortunately outdated 2 parties full of millionaires, that are not interested in representing their own people. So you need a complete new REALLY democratic system like in Switzerland and better, with more INDEPENDENT parties and referendums.
This ruthless Globalists try to prevent it, so you citizens must push it through, to to get rid of this hostile foreign rule.
You surely can imagine which criminals I mean.
Oh ja, das sind die gleichen, die auch Deutschland fest im Würgegriff halten und ausplündern !
V like Fiktor? He'd need to know that Volker is a German non-nordic name... since Vigga isn't Figga either.
@@sebastiant4597 It depends. The character "V" itself is pronounced "fau" in German. Sometimes V is pronounced W like in "vegan", "vegetarisch", "virtuell", "virtuos", "Viskosität" or "Vokabel", but most often V is pronounced F like in "viel(e)", all words with the prefixes "ver-" and "vor-" like in "Vorsilbe" (= prefix), or when I say to my men "vögelt mich", and like in Volk(er). But there seems to be no explicit rule when to pronounce it F and when W. You just have to know it. Maybe we should have another Rechtschreibreform about this topic!
@@najalundgren3565 Thanks for you afford, I am pretty sure you'll figure out what all the words in the first set V=W have in common and why they are the least helpful to evaluate German, Germanic or Nordic pronunciation.
Or do you really want to discuss the pronunciation of V as in VIP in German? (Which actually will lead to one of the nicest treats in the ethical standards of German pronunciation.)
It's not exaggerated for comedy. The comedy lies in the facts. Thats the german humor. The USA didn't do mistakes defending the freedom, they didn't ever care about freedom. It was always about the oil and they didn't care how many millions of innocent people died for that. Don't get that twisted.
I am impressed that a young US man is trying to understand how Germany is working. Great. In case you will watch this video till the end please take an extra look (ear) when he is talking about teacher and schools. Brilliant. In case you will visit in the future: in Bremerhaven you will find "Das Auswandererhaus". A museum about people who emigrate to US etc. And a must to do: walking on the ground of Northsea (like Cuxhaven to island Neuwerk).
When you say ... america is a police ... that's what Volker means when he says - naive is't cutting it, when you descibe the people in america.
America is defending their own economic interests with their military and special units everywhere in the world - that has nothing to do with policing or protecting.
Volker Pispers is not your ordenary comedian. Everything he says is well reseached and aside from some mean comments absolutely true. 😅
You should watch the rest, even though it might hurt. Also, his take in capitalism ist gold ❤
Yeah, you should do all parts
It is a good thing that you expose yourself to such content even though the truth can be painfull. But I do not like that you try to justify these murders of electec leaders and military invasions with "peace keeping missions". Because that is obviously a lie in most cases.
4:59 its not about peace if youre honest, though... its about power, influence spheres and resources... I wish more Americans would admit that
Well, sure you don't like it, but just check the facts and think about the role of USA in this world.
ich schmeiß mich weg beim Schröder Witz 4:10 und er verzieht keine Miene 🤣
hey @morejps you said that it has to be taken with "a grain of salt", and that it "was exceggerated" due to comedy. But in my opinion it is a quite accurate and neutral observation of the topics by Volker Piepers. He is a political analyst who communicated the topics and his opinions "objectively" which turned everything into a tragic comedy rather than just comedy. Not much exceggeration to be found.
side note: some of the translations are not very accurate so the jokes sometimes are difficult to be understood, but content wise it is accurate.
❤ Greetings from Germany! Volker der die Wahrheit sagt. Pleas looking Dr. Daniele Ganser!!!
I would love to see the second part. I'm such a big fan of comedy
He‘s a legend of German „Kabarett“.
American foreign policy is always to America's advantage.
Therefore, as a European, I would never enter into a package with the USA.
thank you dear, for bringing this, I know that man, he is also really critical to Germany and the people, who don t want to look through msm news, but take the biase..God bless you, take care. best wishes from Germany and Switzerland.
Thats not comedy, its satire and not a little bit, all is true...
Volker has right with every word! Greetings from Germany
Something something not ze yellow from ze egg.
Thanks for reacting to this political satire. pispers is brilliant.
Looking forward to the next part(s).
Step one: you learn or know about the things he is talking about. 2. you have an opinion about that... THEN : listen to him, and possibly you get an Idea about it, if you are intelligent and open minded. Otherwise it´s nice to you overwelmed by information... it´s somehow funny, but boring !
Not one little bit of salt, all facts otherwise he could be sued here in Germany, no shitty freedom of Words here mate, here you still have to watch what you say in public as liars are not really liked here, we have no GOP here, we have the AfD but even they watch what they say cause it might blow up in their faces.
And then ther is this Recent CDU development
The US doesn't intervene to keep the "international peace". Never has. Never will.
It's geopolitics. Usually US military interventionism boils down to one of three things:
- Weaken Russia/USSR
- Stabilize Europe
- Protect US access to and control of oil prices.
The last two are about economics, because US jobs depend on a stable Europe that purchases US services and tech.
Weakening Russia is about US security.
US intervention in Syria:
Aimed to oust Assad, who refused to allow pipelines to be built from Quatar to Europe, which would have introduced a competitor to Russian oil and gas deliveries to Europe.
Vietnam:
Weaken Russia/USSR
Yogoslavia:
Stabilize Europe
Ukraine:
Stabilize Europe and weaken Russia.
Etc etc etc
Nice of you to check this out. But lighten up, it is comedy. He also takes the piss outa german politicians as you noticed. And that is exactly the way to do comedy, tell the the ugly truth in a funny way that people reflect on it when they leave the show. Please check out more german comedy, some of it is absolutely up to par with the best of british comedy. I'm not british nor german so think i can say this without backlash 😂
It isn´t comedy, it is satire. The difference is that with satire often the laughing gets stuck in your throat!
@@macdieter23558 Why build a wall where you don't need one. Why build up a border between genres that flow into each other..
Only for looking down on others? Sad.
All parts are pretty informative ;-)
No !!! It’s NOT exaggerated ! Just the truth behind the scenes ! And it’s not comedy ! It’s satire at its best ! Ans satire normally doesn’t lie ; just tells what’s going on in words and contexts that make you smile ( or going: booaaaaahhh )
I’m no Left wing guy ( nor right / GOP ) …. just for information
Peace keeping??? Are you realy so naive, that you believe that anything the US did in this area, brought peace to anybody???
It's all about the oil, my slow friend.
Please don't say, "peace-keeping role". That's a misnomer. Their real purpose is to disrupt and destabilize. Think about it. When has their intervention ever really worked out in a targeted nation's favor?
Yes, please watch the subsequent parts of this.
This is not comedy this is satire. Let's say it's is comedy with serious backgrounds ... real backgrounds. And actually it isn't even funny except the way he is talking about. So I hope he makes us thinking about all these things and gives us a clou about how politicians are doing their job. And they're all the same here and there.
I think the point he is making is that whilst the US always try to frame it as international peace keeping, in the past they acted completely in their own interests, and supported human rights violators getting into power simply for economic benefits for the US.
I was hoping you would watch volker pispers for months. looking foreward for the next parts.
much love 👌
The thing is Pispers is not a comedian at all, in Germany we call this "Kabarett". In my opinion this isn't even funny at all because it is just the plain truth without all the stuff newspapers and news channels add to confuse the population about the main goals of those in charge.
I was heartbroken when Pispers declared to step down. His voice is gravely missed - there is noone in sight following his example in german political Kabarett.
Can we have 1 million US Americans protest against Trump please!??
If Persians can do it, I am sure you can, too!
I did not like the justification at the end. You said “a lot of it was true”. I know it is hard but see it as it is: 95% of what he said is true, especially the big events. How they went was probably not that easy but don’t justify. If you justify you don’t take it as you should.
Even if the US has made many mistakes in the past, a world with the US as leader is still better than a world with China or Russia as leader! Volker Pispers has also often criticized German politics, so you do not have to be ashamed as an American 😉
2 party system is where lobbyist control america. When one of your potus talked about that he must be kill
Lots of politics there, showing how issues are more complex and not just one-sided.
Yea but that dosen't sell as good to the public like "us good guys vs them Bad guys " Better we insult the politicle Opposition as the worse of humanety and ignoring the own wrongs that will deeefenetly not lead to a broken politikle landscape right... Right?
Your reactions strengthen my faith in humanity.
Its very sad that Volker Pispers now gets famous outside of germany cause he retired a few years ago.
His words: "I do cabaret for like 30 years now and many topics remain the same. People laughing about the same things and are understanding what going on through my words, but nothing changes and after all Im sick of it"
Greetings from germany
‚Peacekeeping role‘… that’s the naive view on the world he is talking about
Reacting is one thing… learning of this is a different cup of tea