Many years ago – in 2018, to be precise – a man named Friedrich Merz was in the running to succeed Merkel as chairman of the CDU.
Merz said many interesting things back then. On November 14th 2018, for example, he gave an interview to BILD, in which he denounced Alternative für Deutschland as a party “that does not distance itself from the Right” and said that “this makes it unsuitable for any coalition”. Merz pledged to win back all the CDU voters who had defected to the AfD over the years. “In the short term,” he said, “it will probably be impossible to get rid of the AfD,” but if he were chosen to succeed Merkel, he pledged that he could “cut their support in half”.
The very next day he tweeted the exact same thing – promising to lead the CDU back to 40% in the polls and to “halve the AfD”.
At a regional CDU conference around this time, Merz yet again promised to “cut the AfD in half”, adding that “this really is possible”. If I looked harder, I could probably find even more examples of Merz repeating this exact same promise. He made it such a core component of his campaign for the party chairmanship that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung observed in retrospect: “The whole idea of Merz as party chairman was based on the notion that he would win back votes that Angela Merkel had lost.”
While Merz was making all of these lofty promises, the AfD was polling around 13%, at least according to Forsa:
Half of 13 is 6.5, and so we can say that in 2018, Merz was promising to make the AfD a 6.5% party. Alas, Merz was not elected chairman of the CDU in 2018, so nobody quite got around to halving the AfD. The office went first to the absurdly named if otherwise forgettable Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The AfD indeed took a hit on Kramp-Karrenbauer’s watch, but that had everything to do with Covid and nothing to do with this particular pinched woman. Next to the chairmanship came the plump and ineffectual Armin Laschet, who likewise failed to make the AfD a 6.5% party, although the man did have a hand in halving support for his own party, which is something I guess.
Anyway, since late 2021 Merz has been the CDU Chairman, and I have noticed a funny thing about his statements in this period. For some reason Merz has altogether ceased pledging to cut AfD support in half. All of those words from 2018 – they are just totally forgotten now. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the more German voters learn about Merz, the further Merz slips from his goal of driving the AfD into that promised irrelevance.
Today, Germany achieved a significant milestone in this regard. After six weeks in which Merz has trashed every last campaign promise he made while also promising to make everything vastly more expensive in hopes of slightly altering the composition of atmospheric gases, the AfD polled not at half of their 2018 numbers, but at double them.
The latest Forsa poll (conducted for RTL and ntv) has Alternative für Deutschland at a cool 26%. That is its best result in history, and it makes it the strongest party in the Federal Republic. This is the second such poll that places AfD in first place, following an Ipsos survey from April 9th that pegged it at 25%.
Merz has indeed done something to AfD support involving the operand of two. It’s just not exactly what he imagined.
Now all of that rhetoric we one once heard from the cartel parties – about the importance of dealing with the AfD on the issues and of making convincing appeals to the “democratically inclined” among AfD voters – has become yesteryear’s pablum. Nobody cares about that anymore. Because they can’t beat AfD on the issues and AfD voters are never coming back, they’re going to try to ban the AfD now instead. A lot of these people truly believe that Germans shouldn’t be allowed to cast their votes beyond the narrow confines of the political cartel that runs the Federal Republic, so they’ll try to try to remove the opposition from the board entirely, via legal trickery.
It’s coming, and I’ll write more about that tomorrow.
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well for those who were awake and saw the Gates etc dry run of the Covid plandemic, this time they are not even bothering to hide. Oct 2-4th this year in the US the International Bird flu summit is being held, folks you all must recall seeing all the drip drip re Bird flu in the MSM, flocks being wiped out in Australia and the USA, Australia as usual in the forefront of any tyranny. I invite you to look at the website birdflu summit. com. among other things the panel will be discussing are
remind you of anything? surveillance and management data. Tony Blair is once again banging on about digital i.d
Delivery of Vaccines, is this what the German company are predicting their profits on?
command, control and management???
School based planning, they going to shut those down again.
They learned from Covid, they are already planning to repeat, probably next year or maybe in November just in time for that election.
Are we all going to bow our heads, wear our masks and turn against each other again at their demand so that the same heads can take power, and the same Pharma parasites can kill more of us for more gain? Or are we going to stand together and deny them their empire of slaves.
It would help people greatly if they could just keep away from the source of the poison. A simple detox of the old Kool-Aid works wonders;
https://x.com/DBantree/status/1812872702811685291/photo/1
I posted all this a couple of weeks ago but Thanks for reposting.
Spot on.
They learned from Covid, they are already planning to repeat, probably next year or maybe in November just in time for that election.
The Sheeple will obey. Rona was in large part an effort to steal the election with a 40 mn vote fraud from Drumpf. If the Deep State can’t kill him, they will need to do it again.
Redacted News actually phoned the event up, the girl in the reception couldn’t answer anything from the curious (not many curious journalists left) journalist and eventually hung up the phone. Just simple questions like, how long as Bird Flu been around and how many people has it killed.
Saw that. Quite good.
And here is the website.
As is usual with the Davos Deviants they have to advertise what is coming next. Just like Event 201.
https://birdflusummit.com/
Just in time for the US Elections …. well well. Is it going to be ANOTHER conspiracy theory that turns out to be true?
Also let’s face it, those vaccines aren’t earning their keep sat on shelves. Mr BG wants (demands) a ROI.
As I posted yesterday, the next attempt to stop Trump’s enrollment will be Scamdemic ll just before the election, a financial crash or a major military escalation somewhere any one of which will require the imposition of martial law etc etc etc.
. As in our conversation yesterday, it’s not just about Trump, it’s about the whole financial system and the commodifying of nature itself.
Precisely.
I do think they’re testing the water. Moneypox didn’t get off to a flying start, even the Sheeple were taking the piss out of that one.
Off-T
This will spoil your afternoon tea.
Soon to be back on the streets and claiming benefits courtesy of Kneel. Of course he should be facing export but…
https://x.com/Tony40335450/status/1812930886561898794
Why the ‘eck isn’t he physically removed from the country? This makes me angry!
They are probably gambling with the Autumn market. After all, into Autumn other “vaccines” go on sale, typically against ‘flu. The local pharmacy inside my usual supermarket pushes those every year.
“But, in any case, with no other product authorised for use”
According to the author, they only sell “covid vaccines”
I wonder WHO could have told them to expect “vaccine” demand in the autumn.
Perhaps a little bird told them