The Trish Regan Show - 🚨 GERMANY REVOLTS! Political Establishment’s “Firewall” CRACKING As Conservative AfD Party Begins Its TAKE OVER

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

Germany’s political establishment is running out of ways to stop the AfD. After capturing nearly 44 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, the populist party fell just three seats short of an outright majority—putting Germany’s anti-AfD “firewall” under unprecedented pressure. As Alice Weidel clashes with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over immigration, welfare, energy costs and Germany’s struggling economy, millions of voters are rejecting the establishment’s attempt to dismiss their concerns as extremism. The AfD may still be blocked from governing—but if support climbs just a few more points, Germany’s political firewall may finally collapse. Plus, Iran's oil lifeline is collapsing. Tehran PANICS With Only 30 Million Barrels Left... that will last them a couple of weeks. The end is near. Join me for these highlights of the Trish Regan Show! 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw?sub_confirmation=1 The Trish Regan Show — one of YouTube's Top 100 Podcasts, and Top 50 Spotify News Programs. SUBSCRIBE to my financial newsletter at ▶️ https://76research.com - Use Code DOLLAR to get the $1 a month special price for ▶️ https://76report.com Follow me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trish_regan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/trish_regan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealTrishRegan #trish #trishreganshow #trishregan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When Westcham first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when Westjet welcomes you on board. Here's to Westjetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at Westjet.com slash 30 years. Fireworks in Germany. Did you see what's been going on in Germany? Something extraordinary is happening in Germany, not simply because the conservative populist alternative for Germany, known as the AFD, just won the state election there, but because it won so overwhelmingly,

so overwhelmingly that Germany's political establishment is running out of ways to keep it from power. In the eastern state of Saxony, Anhalt, the AFD captured nearly 44% of the vote. You get the governing Christian Democrats, you know, the party of Freddie Merz. Fred Merz, yes, Friedrich Merz, it collapsed to around, what, 17%? Not good, not good. The AFD did not merely beat Merz's party. it actually received a lot of support. It actually received more than two and a half times as much support as Merz's party. And it more than doubled its result from the previous state election.

43.8%. CDU got 17.2%. And I'll tell you, it's happening for a reason. It's happening for some of the same reasons that Donald Trump was so successful right here at home. The similarities are amazing. Germany's establishment has created what it calls a firewall around AFD. The major parties out there, they have pledged not to form any kind of coalitions with it.

So even when the AFT wins, the most votes, the other parties, they all gather together to combine forces and keep the AFT out of government. But how long can that go on? I don't think much longer. I don't think you can keep stitching together these other parties and ignore the elephant in the room, which is how the people really feel. The AFD has now learned that winning is not enough, you see, because in order to break through this firewall, they're going to have to have a full political ground sweep,

an outright majority so large that the other parties no longer have the numbers to stop it, and I'm telling you, they're getting there. They are getting there. And that's why today's confrontation in the Bundestag, their parliament, I like saying it, became so explosive. Elise Vidal, she stood across from Chancellor Merz, and she declared that voters have had it,

and they've delivered their verdict. And she went after him on taxes and energy and Ukraine and welfare spending. I mean, she just let them have it. Watch. We must significantly limit payments to the EU, she says, almost a billion. Euros flows to Brussels every week, but only a fraction of it comes back.

We want our money back, my friends. Yeah. I mean, think about that. The Germans are sending all the money to Brussels instead of keeping it in Germany. She doesn't like that. The people that voted for her, they don't like that. That's not working out so well for them. Not at all.

And not to mention taxes, taxes and more taxes. Listen to Vidal here. Herr Merz. Herr Merz. Oh, I'm going to stop this. Yeah. Herr Merz. Sorry.

I like German a little bit. I actually don't love it. I prefer Italian, but it's kind of interesting to hear it spoken. Mr. Merge, she says Germans are not too lazy to work more. They see that hard work, not pay, becomes an unfair tax system that takes everything away from them. For every euro earned, she says, only 46 cents. is left and that is robbery

above all people notice when they are being thoroughly fleeced and ripped off in Saxony-Aulth voters did not just punish you they pulverized you your party the CDU

in Mecklenburg Western Germany it's already a minor party and nationally you are well on your way to becoming one right a minor party rightly so she says Boy, oh boy, because you just keep taxing and taxing. You keep sending it to Brussels, and the people have had enough. And then she dared to go where you're not supposed to go.

I mean, it actually gets even worse from here. I'm saving the big, big firework for later. But first, hear what she had to say about Ukraine. And while the U.S. is making another attempt to end the murderous Ukraine, train war, you are escalating war, propaganda, confrontation with Russia, and burning even the last bridges to distract from your own catastrophic political track record. Finally, advocate for peace negotiations just as the U.S. is doing. Thank you.

Elise Vidal. Boy, I heard Mertz didn't really appreciate it because the president congratulated her on the win there. Now he's not having the call that they were supposed to have on 9-11, taking things a little bit personally. But I told you things got really heated. And I was saving the best for last because at one point, she started talking about remigration. And Mertz has a big issue with the AFD's policy on remigration.

What is remigration? They want to go around and say, okay, all these foreigners that are here illegally, and maybe if you're here legally, I don't know the specifications on this, but they basically want everybody out. They want them to remigrate back home. So they want to get rid of the foreigners and deport them. And so Mertz is out there accusing her party of proposing what he calls ethnic cleaning,

removing people from Germany based on their origin or their skin color. Listen here. Okay, so the translation here, here is the term remigration is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color. If those who work in Germany are forced to leave the country again because your champion remigration and the skilled trades in Germany will no longer be able to function. Then not a single nursing home will remain open and not a single hospital in Germany would

continue to operate. Then not a single restaurant could stay in business in Germany. Huh, we've heard similar arguments. Have we not right here at home? I mean, but he's going there. He said the words ethnic cleansing. Okay, those are pretty explosive words. It's a pretty explosive accusation, especially in Germany. Okay, elephant in the room. We're talking Germany here. So notice what Merz is doing. He's combining two completely different categories of people, legal immigrants who work. I actually think the AFD is okay with that. Legal immigrants who work, who pay their taxes and fill essential jobs. and he's combining them together with people who enter illegally commit crimes or had asylum applications rejected. And so the AFD is saying its remigration policy is actually aimed at that second category. And Mertz is accusing it of wanting to expel people in the first category based on race. Like this is the argument that they're trying to sell in Germany. You know, I would just say that, you know, that that's quite, you know, They tried that here too, right?

They tried that here, that Trump was a Nazi, that he's Hitler. I mean, how many times have we heard that on the view, for goodness sakes? But, you know, when you start saying that in Germany, it's really loaded. Okay, so I think a lot of Germans are looking at this and they're saying, hey, wait a second. You know, why can't we have legal migration? Why can't we have legal immigrants for what we need? Like, why can't we have a border policy where we say, gosh, this sounds just like us. right, hey, you know, we need nurses.

So let's go get some nurses from the Philippines and make sure that all their paperwork is done, right? And now we got nurses. Let's plug these holes. But let's not say, hey, come one, come all. And the next thing you know, you got 15% of your population being foreign. Not to mention that all the young people

are all from the foreigners. Four out of 10 young people now are from foreigners. So you understand, like the country feels like they're being pushed to the point in no return that nobody looks like them, sounds like them, has a culture like them anymore, including a culture of work. I mean, Germans are very, you know, work-oriented. And now they're welfare-oriented. So March is going for the most inflammatory accusation he can possibly come up with in Germany, in Germany, where, yeah, the people don't appreciate that 12.4 million people out of the, what, 80-some on million there are actually all foreign.

83.5 million, 12.4 million are foreign. And then the number is something even bigger, somewhere around 30% of the population that has foreign ties. I mean, it's really kind of out of control. And then you just keep taxing them and taxing them and taxing them and say, if you dare challenge us. If you dare, then you are part of it. of the darkest period in German history. Part of the period that annihilated 6 million Jews. You see, they try and equate you with Nazism just for saying, hey, I don't want to pay so much in taxes.

I'll tell you, that's going to get old fast in Germany. Just like it got old here. And the reality in Germany is that the public thinks the state has lost all control. And, you know, the public is right. because when you see billions of dollars being spent on asylum benefits while local communities are struggling with housing and crowded classrooms and strained public services, what are you going to think? You know, you have people whose asylum claims have been rejected and yet they get to remain

in the country and collect all the welfare. Does this sound familiar or does it sound familiar? They have a welfare system that is completely out of control. that has allowed for uncontrolled migration, has allowed for massive financial obligations to be undertaken by the German people and has allowed for their society to reach a breaking point where you have mass inflation, roughly 21% between 2020 and today,

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and all you do is care about the migrants. That's not going to fly, okay? You can tell them that they're turning into Nazis as much as you want. And I get it. It has a very special and very specific and very ominous and scary meaning in the country of Germany. But at some point, the people are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, which is where, you know, you get Elise Vidal from. I mean, this is a party, by the way. I just want to point out, it was created in 2013. It did not begin as a Nazi movement, okay? No matter what Merritt

tries to tell you, it was founded by a bunch of wonky economists and academics who basically looked at how stupid that Eurozone bailout was. And Angela Merkel, her management of the European debt crisis was a disaster. and the whole thing got put on Germany. And they're like, we don't think so. We don't want to pay for Greece. It was actually nicknamed the Professors' Party. And Elise Vidal herself, she's an economist.

She worked like a gazillion years for Goldman Sachs in China. She speaks fluent Mandarin and she happens to be gay. I mean, it's neither here nor there. But, you know, painting her as a Nazi, I don't think is really going to work. She has a Sri Lankan girlfriend that is the mother, you know, they have two children together. So, you know, guys, like I get that Mertz wants to do. this because it's the easiest place to go. We see them try and take that tactic here in the U.S. as well. And I get that it's hard in Germany and perhaps very expedient and very tactical in

Germany, given the horror of their history, right? So any nationalist movement that comes along is immediately going to face this level of hysterical scrutiny that wouldn't necessarily happen anywhere else, right? in fairness, right, that you've got to understand that they have that history. And then also in fairness, they have had some people within the AFD who have had some rather extreme views and very bad views and have said some very bad things. But, you know, that happens in any party. So you can't just say that Elise Vidal and everybody that supports her, you know,

is of the opinion that some whack job was because you got one whack job in the party. doesn't mean that the entire party is that way. But that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to attach it to her. They're trying to attach it to the entire party. It's like, it's just like what happened with us, right? After J6, what happened? Oh, okay, if you support Donald Trump, then you are a bad person. You are, you know, you're for all these conspiracies. You're a trumper. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, you know, maybe, you know, maybe you're just, I don't even want to say. okay so that's what they're doing and i would say just like in the u.s german people are speaking up and saxony on halt is a very big deal very big deal and it's it's going to keep happening this

firewall that they've put out for the deplorables you know to keep them away a firewall is only effective when the parties behind it retain enough votes to build an alternative majority at 20% a party can be isolated like a fd i don't get it. They can be isolated there. At 30%, isolation becomes a lot more difficult, but at nearly 44%, the system begins bending itself into very unnatural shapes just to keep the election winner from governing. And if the AFD gains only a few more points, guess what? That firewall, it does not bend. It breaks. And that is the arc that we are watching right now in real time, play across Germany. A party founded by economists only 13 years ago, then transformed by the migrant.

crisis is now approaching outright power. And Germany's political class believes they can stop it by making it morally unacceptable and morally untouchable. But I'll tell you, the voters of Saxony on hold, they delivered a very different message. You may refuse to join them. You may call them extremists. You may construct an alliance of every other party to try and keep them out. But unless Germany's leaders address the forces driving voters towards the AFD, which is, immigration, welfare, insane taxation, economic decline, energy costs, and the feeling that ordinary people just don't matter anymore, ordinary Germans are somehow irrelevant.

You are not going to stop them. You're not going to have a firewall that's big enough to stop the people themselves because this really is about power to the people. And very much in the news today, the U.S. is taking out five Iranian tankers, guys, five Iranian tankers. Let's look at the video from Centcom. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, so you're seeing these five Iranian oil tankers getting taken out. And this means that, you know, they only, what did they have? We talked about this yesterday, 30 million barrels, and it looks like now they're down to 26, okay? 26 mil, that's all they got left. Money's running

thin. And the, the Secretary of State says, hey, you know, you keep going after us. And there's going to be more where that came from. There's going to be a whole lot more where that came from because we're just going to keep retaliating. And every time we retaliate, we take out your tankers and we take out your oil. Remember, I told you yesterday that they had a little bit of oil that they had siphoned off. And so it was sitting out there in the water and they're just trying to sell it to China. And so that's what's happened. Now they're not going to be able to sell all that to China. They just lost about four million barrels. Here's Marco Rubio saying, you guys keep doing this and we'll keep doing it too.

In Iran, can you speak about the U.S. strikes on the Iranian tankers and explain what the back and forth has been in the last 24 hours? Yeah, the back and forth is pretty straightforward, and that is that Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers. And I think you'll see that again today. And you talked a little bit more. I know you've already addressed this in Spanish, but for the English speakers here, about

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Apparently, that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC. Jim. The Wall Street Journal reporting U.S. strikes. Iranian oil tankers after Tehran targets Navy ships. The American attacks came after Iran targeted some U.S. warships as fears grow that Tehran's missiles are becoming more sophisticated. That was the title of that article. I'm going to tell you right here. This is what we took out. Okay. So I was tallying it up. These are the IRGC's shadow tankers. We talked about these shadow tankers before. Basically, they switched the flags on them and

they kind of try and float them under the radar so you don't really know that there are arravenian ships but ha ha guess what we do we know that there are ryan ships and we just took them out so here's the name of all five of them and here's how much oil that they had on board in one case you had liquid natural gas but you're talking about two million barrels there and then 800 million wait so it was that 800,000 okay so it goes on down the list in sums it was a grand total of 3.9 million barrels so 3.9 million barrels. that they no longer have as of today. That's kind of a big deal, right? Kind of a big deal. Sendcom, meanwhile, saying no U.S. Navy warship has been struck. So they tried to attack, but they

didn't succeed. All IRGC attempted attacks failed. Failed. Meanwhile, U.S. forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian tankers in just the last week. So five over night, five earlier in the week. These vessels were part of a billion dollar, multi-billion dollar shadow network that funds the IRGC and Iran cannot defend them. Again, this is a big deal because that's a dwindling oil supply. We heard from Bessent, who's telling us they're down to their last 30 million. This was yesterday. So now they're down 4 million more.

So we're at 26 million barrels and counting Iran. The things we've done and what the president's done is fantastic sequencing. So we are running Operation Economic Outcast right now. and this is the greatest economic isolation operation in the history of the world. We are going to exfixiate this regime. Now we have the blockade. And because of the blockade, oil is not getting out. So there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left that China hasn't bought.

So that will run out soon. And there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. So the blockade is, the blockade's working. It's working like nothing we've ever seen. And the combination, you know, everyone says, oh, sanctions don't work. I can tell you, blockade and sanctions are one of the most powerful one, two punches in the history of economic isolation. Wow. Wow.

I want to show you. Here's the blockade. Okay. So the blockade, if you look at the orange on that, map, you see all the very important ports from Iran. And then you've got the blockade, the U.S. blockade. our Navy is saying, okay, none of this is going to get out. None of it. So some of it was outside the blockade already. Those were the five tankers, the shadow tankers that have been destroyed. So if you think

about it, they were at 30 million that they had managed to get out before the blockade went in again, and all that oil is hanging out there. And we just took out five boats, which means they're now down to 26 million barrels. And they're going to go through that pretty quickly. So the squeeze is on. What happens when all those ports that you see in that red line, they just start overflowing with oil and all of their facilities. Like they can't take it. They have so much oil in there and they can't get any of it out. That's entirely how they make their money. They're not going to have access to anything. They're not going to be able to pay all their rogue groups, right? They won't be able to. They're not going to be able to access dollars. They are going to have themselves a good old

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