The fun of Lemmy’s “all” is that you see posts from all around the world. Today my feed is suddenly full of memes in German about an old white guy with an eyepatch. Who is he, and why is he suddenly a meme?
The guy with the eye patch is Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor. He fell during his morning jog, and got himself a black eye and some scratches. And he was quite pro-active, he just told people to go ahead, he’d like to se the memes made out of it. Best he could do in that situation.
I dunno why he’s wearing the patch, but that’s the German Chancellor, and yesterday he posted that photo with an eyepatch and basically dared the whole internet to make memes of him.
Germany’s Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, had a jogging incident and is wearing an eye patch to cover the bruises. The picture just screams “use me for good memes”.
He himself said that he was interested in the memes that would come out of this picture although I dont know how he feels about a lot of them being about his Cum ex scandal.
The case — which dates back over five years to the time when Scholz was still mayor of the Hamburg city-state — is linked to the broader so-called “Cum Ex” affair, under which the German state was defrauded by over €30 billion as some banks, companies, or individuals claimed tax reimbursements from authorities for alleged costs that never occurred. The scandal already hung over the Social Democratic politician’s election campaign in 2021 but had little impact in the end as Scholz’s potential involvement remained unclear. Now it is heating up again after new details emerged that put his previous defense in question.
‘Cum-Ex’ is Latin - and it means ‘with without’. In essence, it’s a massive stock trading scam by bankers, brokers, hedge funds, international tax firms, investment companies, lawyers and insurance companies. By acting as promoters to help their clients get a refund for a tax they never actually paid for, they have defrauded EU member states by billions of euros. This rapid trading of shares with (cum) and without (ex) dividend rights thus gave rise to the scandal of the same name.
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