This man, whose eyes twinkle with mild mischief, is Tim Lochner. He owns a carpentry firm and yesterday he was elected Head Mayor of Pirna, a beautiful town southeast of Dresden. His election has made headlines across Germany, and even in some major American papers, because, although he himself has no party membership, he campaigned as the candidate of Alternative für Deutschland. He is the first ever AfD candidate to win such a post, and the third to win a top municipal office after Robert Sesselman was elected Landrat of Sonneberg in June, and Hannes Loth won the vote for Mayor of Raguhn-Jeßnitz in Sachsen-Anhalt in August.
Lochner’s election comes just over a week after our constitutional protectors declared the Saxon chapter of AfD to be “proven Right-wing extremists”. In November, the AfD in Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt received the same classifications. The leading political party of East Germany is therefore subject to antidemocratic surveillance in three of the five East German states, for fears that it and its programme of direct democracy may run run afoul of our democratic system.
From establishment-friendly newsweekly Die Zeit:
For the first time, an AfD candidate has won a mayoral election in Germany. Tim Lochner won the second round of voting in Pirna, Saxony, with 38.5% of the vote against two competitors. … AfD Chairwoman Alice Weidel called it a “historic result for the AfD”.
The Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution recently categorised the state association of the AfD as “proven Right-wing extremists.” …
“We are dismayed by the election of a Mayor of a party that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution categorised as Right-wing extremist last week,” wrote the Saxon chapter of the Greens on Twitter.
Perhaps someday, when the Greens win an election, Die Zeit would consider printing critical comments from the AfD about it.
When asked after his election whether he would have a problem running for Mayor as an AfD candidate following this categorisation, Lochner said no. When asked about his earlier comments on the ‘Great Replacement’ – a conspiracy narrative that is widespread in Right-wing circles – Lochner emphasised that he had said this as a private individual.
Also the Berliner Morgenpost and Stern take Lochner to task for his ominous conspiracising, which is very odd when you consider how ecstatically the establishment press are accustomed to report on demographic change in other contexts. In May of this year, for example, Die Zeit wrote a very long and approving article about how mass migration is poised to utterly transform Germany. ‘They will be the powerful ones,’ said the headline, and the article went on to characterise the Federal Republic as a “country for immigrants” to “an extent that many people don’t seem to realise”. Perhaps it is merely their readers who don’t realise this, because their favoured newspapers are so busy railing against population replacement as some unusual Right-wing fantasy. Die Zeit proceeded to tell its naïve readership that 25% of those presently living in Germany, and fully 40% of children, are either immigrants or the direct descendants of them. It certainly sounds like some kind of replacement is happening here. Lochner’s only sin would seem to be that he is not very happy about it.
Lochner’s victory came in a second round of voting against candidates of the CDU and the Freie Wähler (‘Free Voters’), a Right-leaning liberal party. The SPD, Greens and the Left withdrew to consolidate votes behind Kathrin Dollinger-Knuth of the CDU, but even this grand voting coalition could hardly propel the awkwardly named Dollinger-Knuth above 31%. The Freie Wähler are now mad that the CDU did not withdraw Dollinger-Knuth to concentrate support for their candidate:
Following the election of… candidate Tim Lochner… Saxony’s Free Voters have sharply criticised the CDU. The CDU failed to back the Free Voters’ candidate, who came second after the first round of voting, complained Thomas Weidinger, head of the Free Voters in Saxony. “Instead, by running the CDU candidate again, they knowingly accepted the risk of playing the stooge for the AfD.”
The CDU, on the other hand, are mad that the Freie Wähler did not withdraw to concentrate support for their candidate:
The defeated CDU candidate Kathrin Dollinger-Knuth addressed her supporters on Sunday evening… “Although we rallied almost all forces behind our political offer, the voters decided otherwise. Unfortunately, the Freie Wähler decided to go it alone and thus paved the way for an AfD victory,” she said.
As the Süddeutsche Zeitung explains, the only way to defeat the AfD in eastern elections like these is for all other political parties to line up behind a single rival. The CDU and the Freie Wähler therefore share the guilt for not conspiring to subvert the preferences of Pirna voters even further and allowing Lochner to slip through. Apparently, the idea that one might compete for the support of voters by fielding positive political programmes that people actually find appealing has not yet occurred to the SZ. Nor has it yet considered whether the AfD is doing so well because it’s the only party that has chosen to pursue this bold and utterly original strategy.
A lot of people are very angry at the election of this mild-mannered carpenter. The Swiss meteorologist and media critic Jörg Kachelmann has demanded that Germany “be united against the fascist pack”, because fascism is when people you don’t like win mayoral elections in towns you don’t live in.
The Greens are also having a hyperventilation. They believe “we must now do everything we can to strengthen our coexistence and restore trust in our democracy”, presumably via pursuing better strategies of triangulation to more effectively subvert the preferences of voters in the future.
The SPD believes the AfD is bent on destroying democracy with its underhanded and devious strategy of fielding candidates in municipal elections:
“The AfD is challenging our democracy in many ways. At its core, it was always about destroying it,” Katja Mast, First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD Bundestag faction, told t-online. Part of the AfD’s strategy is to “seize town halls and district offices” and appoint mayors. “Unfortunately, it has now achieved this for the first time in Pirna.”
The Left worry that Lochner’s election will introduce an environment of “social coldness” to Pirna, whatever that means. One of their politicians has further declared that “Democracy is on fire”.
These are well-balanced people, they are not crazy at all.
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Socialists don’t like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
Thatcher
A better translation of Kachelmann’s faschistoides Pack would fascism-affine scum. The remainder of his statement is verbatim pretty much untranslatable. What’s it’s calling for is that the establishment parties must stop pretending to enable voters to choose among meaningful alternatives by fielding individual candidates. In future, only the party of democracy and its candidate must exist.
The amusing issue here is that what’s referred to in the text above as Left is the party currently called Die Linke (literally The Left). It’s former name was PDS — party of democractic socialism and the name it used for most of its existence was SED — the former state part of the GDR. Twenty years ago, before the AfD existed, they were the antidemocratic pariahs¹ democratic parties must fight with a united front. And before them, this position was occupied by the Greens. It really means nothing but party not yet feeding from the public trough which all parties which do already feed from it must fight tooth and nail because the whole trough is rightfully theirs.
¹ At this time, state elections in Hessen resulted in a hung parliament where no coalition could be formed. The then party leader of the SPD – Andrea Nahles – could have become first minister of the state by PDS MPs voting for her and she actually proposed doing this. The resulting outcry of The True Democrats™, an accolade not yet awarded to the SED, and a rebellions among members of her own party forced her to resign instead.
People forget, and the left do not remind them, that Die Linke are directly connected to the vile, prison camp dictatorship of East Germany. Same mindset infects the new German left. Dangerous people
That’s literally the same party. After the GDR was abolished, they first renamed themselves to PDS. Some years later, they merged with a hard left faction of the SPD to form The Left — Die Linke. They may have been ruling as communist dictators in central Germany (that’s not eastern Germany, eastern Germany is nowdays a depopulated wilderness nominally occupied by Poland and Russia) for 40 years and created a fortified border to keep the population in on threat of being killed¹ but this just means that they’re the democratiest of the democrats and nobody ever contemplated outlawing the party.
¹ The crime such peope were deemed guilt of which was to be sanctioned by capital punishment without trial used to be called Republikflucht — trying to escape from the democratic republic of the east to reach the fascist republic of the west. Surely something extremely nefarious.
Remark on anti-democratic right-wing extremism by the AfD (as determined by the German inland secret service): I’ve tried my best to decipher the vague accusations reported (in German) in some of the articles but the only thing which really remains after doing away with all the handwaiving is The AfD is an anti-democratic right-wing extremist party because it doesn’t support unlimited immigration.
Has the horse bolted on mass immigration? Is it too late to stop the Islamification of Europe? Try reading “While Europe Slept” Bruce Bawer. ————–I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could. But now I realise after reading this book that it can and certainly is.
WHILE EUROPE SLEPT is his enlightening and disturbing report on anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe and on the egregious failure of European liberals to confront Islamic extremism in their own countries.
Thanks but no thanks. That’s again just the US fault line Republicans/ Democrats forcibly retrofit onto a continent it doesn’t belong to. The AfD is a liberal party. This refers to a certain kind of political program and not just to relaxed sexual morale compared to average inhabitants of the bible belt.
The so-called West is the architect of its own demise. It won’t be missed.
This is a very interesting <9min clip ( the full vid is in the comments section and is 2hrs+ long ) looking at what Ireland will be like in 2040 as a result of mass immigration. I don’t know who this chap is but he certainly looks like he’d be labelled a ‘far-right extremist’ just for stating facts;
https://twitter.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1736800078889988377
Speaking of immigration, I’m sure this is purely a coincidence, cherry-picking, and nothing more….
”TWO migrants living on the Bibby Stockholm barge have been arrested on suspicion of a sex attack on a woman in a nightclub.
The pair, aged 24 and 27, were held after the alleged assault four miles from where the floating accommodation block is moored.
The unidentified migrant pair have since been released from custody and are on police bail while under investigation.
Hundreds of migrants have been moved to the Bibby Stockholm while their asylum claims are processed since it was opened in August.
They are free to roam in the area and many are taken by coach to Weymouth Town Centre – where many spend their £40.85 weekly spending money allowance.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25095986/migrants-bibby-stockholm-arrested-alleged-sex-attack/
Barbed wire and watch towers should surround any facility where these people are kept. No free movement for potentially dangerous criminals.
I am probably getting too sceptical and suspicious for my own good but I do find myself asking if movements like the afd are really the unprompted voice of the dissenting people? Or are they just another piece in the complex Machiavellian plot to manipulate and control the narrative. Maybe the liberal woke approach has played out its hand and it is time for a switch to a more authoritarian style?
Or maybe it is time for me to stop spinning conspiracy theories and go to bed.
Oh these far-left conspiracy theories are so funny. They obviously need us to curate their news intake to protect them from dangerous misinformation.
They’re funny until they are not. People are dead because of leftist immigration policies.
A dump but an important one from Sasha Latypova via the wonderful Dr Mike Yeadon.
Here she is detailing the Pfizer clot shots in the USA:
“the product is not serialized – i.e. unit doses are not barcoded and thus not traceable under normal pharmaceutical distribution rules which exist to flag any safety or quality issue in the supply chain. The product this is wide open to both falsification and adulteration. The product is shipped to DOD and handled through a “black box” DOD distribution system, ostensibly due to the cold chain storage requirements. The product is deemed “US Government property” until it is injected into a person.”
And this:
“Overall characterization of what is going on: the federal and most of the state governments are gone and captured. Whatever is running the federal gov agencies (e.g. HHS) really intends to kill you, or at least substantially injure you, damage your reproductive capacity and repossess your assets in the process. The aim is to reduce the population and terrorize the survivors enough to establish a totalitarian control over much of the world’s territory. Nobody is coming to save you, your survival and that of your children is in your hands only. Do not comply.”
From her excellent Substack ‘Due Diligence and Art.’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-weapon-of-mass-destruction-and-whos-health-tyranny-towards-a-totalitarian-world-government-no-way/5814122
An explanation of the coming collapse of the Western banking system which will of course necessitate the introduction of CBDC and coupled with the revised International Health Regulations will ensure our imprisonment.
The year 2024 is going to be a series of Blitzkriegs on the populations of the Global North.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/families-inject-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-together-have-heart-attacks-blood-clots-develop-turbo-cancer-die-suddenly-together/5843279
Talk about murder!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/psychopaths-world-united-rebuilding-trust-world-economic-forum/5843287?doing_wp_cron=1702651466.8995959758758544921875
“World Economic Forum recently announced the theme for their annual meeting in Davos in January 2024.[1] This time it is about “rebuilding trust”. This also happens to be the theme of the United Nations 78th General Assembly that opened September 5 2023.[2]
I say good luck with those ambitions! Klaus Schwab and his army of “change agents” have never scored high on the popularity charts, and his achievements of the recent years haven’t exactly improved that.”
Mr Hux——–You are on a roll ….wink
Thanks varmint.
I will cheer when these people are cancelled. Because they most certainly will be when the people get very angry. Ireland is a warning to them
The left constantly try to label the right as nazis. Unfortunately for the left, they are in the spectrum that the nazis inhabited. Hitler and his party were socialists; national socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) was their name. Their programme was socialist
The nazis were declared ‘right wing’ by Stalin in 1928 because they were national socialists and Stalin and the soviets had decided that international socialism was the only acceptable kind of socialism.
The left are dangerous, undemocratic and discatorial. We can see this in their response to the rise of the AfD.