They never tire of telling us that we live in a democracy.
This means that that dreaded mass known as “the people” are permitted – with however much groaning and reluctance – to present themselves every four years to choose their representatives. These representatives then betake themselves to the parliament, where they form some manner of government, which proceeds to rule us in highly democratic ways. This is is literally the best thing ever, except for the fact that ‘the people’, in their profound stupidity, cannot always be relied upon to vote for the right parties. Sometimes they vote for the wrong ones, and in these cases democratic solutions must be found to rein in the rabble’s undemocratic exercise of democracy.
The people of Thüringen have proven themselves particularly inconvenient to democracy, in that they have exercised their democratic rights to vote overwhelmingly for the evil, fascist and antidemocratic party known as Alternative für Deutschland. What makes the AfD so evil and fascist is never quite explained, but we hear all the time that it is very bad so the point must be beyond question. The people of Thüringen transgressed against democracy so powerfully, that they gave the AfD 32 seats of their 88-seat state Parliament – far more than they granted to any of the upstanding, democratic parties. These parties include such paragons of democratic virtue as Die Linke (the Left Party), which somehow manages to be both officially democratic and also the direct successor to the DDR-era Socialist Unity Party (it got a mere 12 seats); the Linke-offshoot party known as the Bündnis Sahra Wageknecht (it got 15 seats); the Christian Democrats (they got 23 seats); and the Social Democrats (they got six seats, lol).
Now, a naïve person might think that the AfD, being the party most favoured by the people of Thüringen, should enjoy certain parliamentary prerogatives. Existing procedures, for example, grant the strongest party the right to propose candidates for the office of Parliamentary President. The President is the person who presides over the meetings of the parliament; he is like a glorified committee chair and his powers are not all that great. The very idea that the AfD might have the right to suggest its own candidates for President, however, strikes enormous fear into the hearts of the ‘democratic’ parties, who are determined to save Thüringian democracy by all the antidemocratic means at their disposal. If necessary, we must destroy democracy itself, to save the Thüringian parliament from the spectre of a democratically elected AfD President.
This brings us to the absolute unprecedented clown show that unfolded yesterday at the Thüringian parliament in Erfurt. It was set to be a day of boring, routine procedure, when the newly elected parliament would constitute itself and elect a President. Thüringen is anomalous, in that this state – alone of all the federal states of Germany – has a specific law mandating adherence to parliamentary procedures. New parliaments cannot just change these procedures on the fly; they have to be officially constituted as a legislative body first. These legally mandated procedures require that an acting “Senior President” preside over the first meeting of the new parliament. This Senior President is simply the oldest member of the dominant party – in this case an affable rotund AfD politician named Jürgen Treutler.
According to custom, the Senior President opens the first meeting with a speech. Then he appoints provisional secretaries, determines that there is a parliamentary quorum and presides over the election of the Parliamentary President who will replace him. When this President is elected, the state parliament has been officially constituted, and it can act in its parliamentary capacity – for example, by changing the procedural rules that have governed it down to this point.
All of this should have happened yesterday, but it did not, because our brave, upstanding democratic parties were determined to take a stand for democracy by anti-democratically denying the AfD its parliamentary prerogatives. Specifically, they wanted to force an early change of parliamentary rules, to specify that all parties – and not just the AfD – may propose candidates for President. Thus Treutler had hardly begun his customary speech when the heckling and shouting from the ranks of the CDU began. They insisted that Treutler recognise a quorum and take up proposals to chance the nomination procedure. Treutler insisted that he had to follow the legally mandated procedure and that this was out of order. The hecklers in the CDU kept shouting; Treutler and the other AfD members kept pointing out that the new parliament had to be constituted before it could change its own legally binding procedures. The democratic parties did not care about this, because they had just discovered a few days ago that the Thüringian law mandating parliamentary procedures is unconstitutional, although it dates from 1994 and nobody had thought to question its constitutionality before. At one particularly embarrassing point, Andreas Bühl, from the CDU, shouted at Treutler that “what you’re doing here amounts to a seizure of power!” The word he used – “Machtergreifung” – alludes directly to the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, because nothing smells quite so powerfully of Nazism as rigorously adhering to stuffy decades-old rules that are, again, legally mandated and that no court has yet overturned.
Ultimately, in the depths of his fascism, Treutler adjourned the parliament so that the CDU might consult the state constitutional court on the procedural legalities in question. The court is expected to decide any moment now. I can imagine few things that are more distinctly fascistic than this, and I shudder to think how our democracy will ever survive it.
Because Germany has spent the past decade transforming itself into an open-air insane asylum, all of this has naturally led to renewed calls for banning the AfD. The CDU politician Marco Wanderwitz, who has become especially deranged on all matters relating to the AfD since he lost an election to an AfD candidate some years ago, said that: “The AfD’s actions in the Thüringian state parliament followed its usual script of contempt for parliamentary democracy and its institutions.” The acting Interior Minister of Thüringen Georg Maier tweeted that yesterday’s “events… have shown that the AfD is aggressively combating parliamentarism [and] I think that this fulfils the conditions for a ban”. Had the Senior President Treutler violated existing law and procedures by granting the out-of-order requests of CDU representatives, he would have doubtless avoided these accusations, because democracy is not at all adherence to democratic laws and procedures, but unquestioning deference to a cadre of self-anointed “democratic” elite who get to do whatever the hell they want, regardless of what votes have been cast and what any laws or procedures say.
The Spiegel journalist Ann-Katrin Müller – a truly horrible woman – explained all of this to her audience of democracy enthusiasts this morning. Yesterday, she writes, “the far-Right AfD… pulled out all the stops”. Its rigorous adherence to rules that others devised years ago and a law that predates the existence of the AfD by 11 years was nothing but a ploy “to sow seeds of doubt about [parliamentary democracy] and ridicule its institutions to further its authoritarian aims”. Adjourning the session to allow the CDU to consult the constitutional court was likewise a devious fascistic strategy:
If the court rules in favour of the AfD, that’s a victory for the AfD. If the court rules against it, it will also be a victory for the AfD in the medium term. The party can once again claim that the courts are not independent, that there is a ‘cartel’ of parties and institutions working against the AfD, and that there is also a ‘political-media establishment’ that supports the whole thing.
Perhaps Ann-Katrin Müller, the courts and the “democratic parties” should not behave in unreasonable and transparently anti-democratic ways and say ridiculous anti-democratic things if they don’t want the AfD to point out that they are unreasonable and transparently anti-democratic. Perhaps they could deny the AfD the opportunity to score points on this front by behaving better and saying smarter things. Just throwing out ideas, here.
There is one final, farcical point to note: if our reigning paragons of all that is proper, upstanding and democratic wanted to strip the AfD of the right to propose presidential candidates, they could’ve just changed the procedures or the law mandating them in the last legislative period. This is precisely what the ridiculous taxpayer-funded legal bloggers of the “Thüringen Project” (I wrote about them here) suggested they do back in April. The Greens in the Thüringian Landtag even proposed such a change all the way back in December 2023. The CDU, however, refused to take up the matter, either because “it was of the opinion that it would be the strongest party” after the 2024 elections (according to Green Party representative Madeleine Henfling), or because it “did not see any urgent need for action at the time” (according to CDU Parliamentary Secretary Andreas “Machtergreifung” Bühl). Let us dispense with much bullshit and say plainly what everybody knows to be true: Henfling is right. The CDU elected to keep the present rules in 2023 because its leaders thought they would come out on top in September and they wanted the exclusive right to nominate a Parliamentary President from their own ranks. They overestimated their popularity and now they have decided that the very rule from which they hoped to benefit is unconstitutional and should be denied to the AfD. It is the same with the preeminent legal minds of the “Thüringen Project”, who have likewise discovered just this week the unconstitutionality of the Thüringian procedural law, after spending all of 2024 pleading that the procedures it mandated should be revised to the disadvantage of the AfD (thereby implicitly accepting its constitutionality).
I fully expect the Constitutional Court to rule against the AfD in the coming hours. This whole thing was a carefully staged drama for the benefit of an anxious, ageing and easily manipulated public. The truth is that DeMocRAcY, the popular will and parliamentary procedures do not matter at all if establishment parties decide to ignore them, the press lies to the public about them and the judiciary goes along with it all.
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Amen. And their conclusions are almost certainly valid for all age groups.
They get a kick out of abusing children, this is how evil these ppl are.
So true. They are truly evil and despicable.
The used car salesman knows more about cars than me. ———Do I always buy one? ———–NO
A certain Major in the US army has done review of mask evidence:- https://www.realmaskscience.com/references
Haven’t looked at it all, but seems to be fairly thorough. It is quite interesting to see the chart of evidence, what the CDC does and does not quote. There is one RCT in favour of masking and a dozen against it. However, wasn’t the argument that if not COVID then not valid? Well that means three RCTs against, and 1 in favour of masking, but then a load of poor quality studies and laboritry experiments rushed through in 2020 & 2021 in favour. Well not quite 100% true, but close.
And even the lone RCT in favor of masking (the infamous Bangladesh study) was fatally flawed, and basically falls apart upon reanalysis.
I dread to think how future generations, looking back, will regard our disgusting behaviour towards our children! ‘Draconian’ ‘Medieval’ will probably be the words used!
Just think of what we know now, and how we look back on the ignorance of our forebears! It will be shameful
Trying to talk them into using drugs originally invented for chemical castration of certain kinds of sex offenders to – well – chemically self-castrate probably won’t earn anyone much praise, either. At least hopefully so.
It was a disgrace all over the world and disgracefully omitted from the sham covid inquiry.
At our school the social emotional communication developmental damage in my view was distressing to see, long term and significant.
One boy lost teeth as the closed schools meant he lost our care and mask wearing for long lengths of time Increases bacteria.
I gave my anecdotal evidence to inquiry but those running it are just on a selfish gravy train, paid large salaries to push an earlier lockdown outcome.
This was a door which should never have been opened. A statistic¹ I recenltly came accross details soldiers of the German army 1914 – 1918 hospitalized because of various diseases, including the number of those who died. For influenza, including the so-called Spanish flu in 1918, the numbers are
303,544 hospitalized
999 died
Other sources (Der Weltkrieg von 1914 – 1918²) claim that more 85% of those who fell sick with influenza didn’t need to be hospitalized. This means about 2,023,626 soldiers became sick and 999 of these died, making for a case fatality rate of 0.05%. Even the most avid Covinistas admit that COVID was much less lethal than the Spanish flu. Hence, masking children including toddlers (force-masking anyone, for that matter) to slow infection and transmission was objectively nothing but pure sadism.
¹ https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC16062494/184/#topDocAnchor
² https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC03617607/545/
In other news, study finds that water is wet and the sun rises in the east. And a bear does its business in the woods.
All of this was extremely predictable from the get-go, and yet our “leaders” and “experts” wilfully ignored it, because reasons.
Will today’s children, and future generations, ever forgive us? Because quite frankly, I don’t think such forgiveness is deserved. What was done was unforgivable, and history will NOT be kind at all!
“But…but…kids are resilient!” That is technically true, to a point, but there is no such thing as infinite resilience for anyone. There are always hard limits at some point, and it appears that we have crossed them. And it was all for naught.
Seriously, NEVER AGAIN. Full stop. With NO asterisk.
Didn’t dare watch the video – BP high enough as it is. I would’ve done violence on any person forcing a toddler into a face mask. Luckily I brought up my own children quite a lot of years ago…