There's no denyin' the German ruling coalition is still in denial. And they are going to hang onto that rotting piece of timber as long as they possibly can, desperately trying to stay afloat and in power.
On Monday, I caught y'all up on the rude shock the elites of the Olaf Scholz government received over the weekend when the projected populist surge in regional elections materialized before their eyes. In a stunning blow to "democracy," Germans exercised their democratic right to vote in record numbers. The states of Saxony and Thuringia elected the majority hard-right party, AfD (Alles fur Deutschland), in solid second place in one whilst handing an outright victory to them in the other.
...They scored handsome advances, coming in second in Saxony and taking the prize in Thuringia.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition was punished in two regional elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, with populist parties on the extreme right and left taking more than 60% of the vote in Thuringia and almost half in Saxony.
The Alternative for Germany is on course for a clear victory in Thuringia on 32.8%, according to projections for public broadcaster ARD. It represents the first triumph for a far-right party in a German state ballot since World War II, even if it’s highly unlikely to be able to form a government as it’s shunned by the other parties represented in parliament.
Cue the wailing, gnashing of teeth, and immediate machinations to keep AfD from forming the regional Thuringian government that would normally be their prerogative as winners and to stifle their influence as the second most powerful party in Saxony's legislature.
...If it were any other party, the AfD would now provide Thuringia with its minister-president and become part of a government coalition in Saxony. But as soon as the results were published, Scholz and many other losers of this election called for the AfD to be excluded from governing. In both states, Scholz said, ‘stable governments must be formed without right-wing extremists’. Bodo Ramelow, incumbent minister-president of Thuringia, similarly called on the CDU to form a new government. The job, he said, was up to the ‘democratic’ party with the most votes. Clearly, he did not mean the AfD. But nor could he mean his own Left Party, which managed to win just 13 per cent.
Every one of the other parties went to work choking AfD off as if the election meant nothing and immigration was merely an issue these haters had overblown to draw attention to themselves.
Lots of handwringing in Germany on the astonishing success of the @AfD in the State Elections. Mass uncontrolled immigration, with its economic & social problems are easy explanations.
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) September 4, 2024
The left want more immigration, which must be the biggest political suicide note in history. pic.twitter.com/iu5oKnOkjU
Giving the tiniest nod of the head to citizen concerns about "migrants" and the problems they're causing which the government refuses to acknowledge nor do they allow those same citizens to speak of without some sort of penalty, Scholz made a show of deporting 28 Afghani rapists and other criminals convicted of violent crimes.
Back you go, said the stern chancellor, showing how tough he could be...sort of.
He slipped each criminal €1,000 before they got on the plane. You know - times are hard back in the 'Stan.
An Afghan "refugee" who raped a 11-year-old girl gets a €1,000 cash "pocket money" as a deportation bonus for flying back home to Afghanistan.
— Russian Market (@runews) August 30, 2024
What’s wrong with Germany? @elonmusk
Scandalous Deportation Bonus: The government paid €1,000 in cash to criminal Mukhtiar N., who… pic.twitter.com/28VJVFG8N5
28 gone, 400K left to boot out, and about 100 a day arriving.
Germans can do #mathz.
They are also not fooled by German authorities' figures on crimes, which repeatedly claim that the incoming hordes aren't the felonious assault waves they're being portrayed as.
Look here, said one official police report from a German state - see? Of all these gang rapes (209 rapes, 155 arrests), slightly more than half were foreigners. The rest were German!
It's no wonder the government hates AfD because the party requested, "Really? We don't even want to know who the "Germans" were. Just give us first names."
OH, HELLO
Ahmet - Bayar - Bilal - Burak Burak - Furkan - Gamil - Hanif - Hasip - Ibrahim - Ismail - Kaan - Melik - Mihraç - Mirhan - Mohamed - Muhammed - Nicolas - Norbert - Nurkan - Seçkin - Seda - Süleyman - Thierno - Wahell - Yasar-Engin -Yasin - Yasmine - Yazan - Yigit - Zakaria - Zayd
Nicht ein Hans und Franz to be found. Warum das?
The German version of Chicago's dropping crime statistics.
...The names above are a non-exhaustive list of the "German" suspects but are an indication of how crime statistics can be skewed by left-leaning administrations to hide the effect that mass immigration is having on public safety.
"Paper Germans," someone called them.
It only infuriates residents when authorities excuse the violence in what used to be their country with trite platitudes as Germans suffer.
In reaction to rising knife violence in Germany, Bonn’s police chief Frank Hoever has said: “People of other cultures have a different relationship to knives.”
...In 2023, stabbings rose by 45 per cent in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia, from 4,292 in 2022 to 6,221 such attacks in 2023.
The number of victims increased from 5,541 to 8,036.
Some 34 per cent of the suspects were non-Germans, despite such individuals only making up 15 per cent of the population.
In Bonn, the situation was similar, the police chief said.
“The perpetrators are young and male, and the proportion of non-German suspects is 40 per cent.”
About 16 per cent of the population of Bonn is non-German.
In addition, among the remaining 60 per cent of perpetrators, there was also a proportion with dual nationality, which was not listed separately in the statistics.
Paper Germans slicing up their...I won't even say "adopted" countrymen because they've adopted no one and adapted to nothing.
But, hey! Suck it up, folks - diversity is your strength.
PEOPLE OF OTHER CULTURES HAVE A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP WITH KNIVES
The European Union, wholly invested in bringing the African continent to Europe, has been running surreptitious programs of deportation avoidance for illegals in order to keep them in Germany. Rather like our NGOs at the US-Mexico border handing out maps, phone numbers in major cities, and sundry other "Welcome to the US welfare state" items.
The European Commission has handed nearly €9 million to an online project that helps migrants evade deportation in Germany, Brussels Signal has discovered.
Online publication Apollo News initially reported late in August that “Handbook Germany”, a platform for migrants funded by the German interior ministry and the European Commission, instructs rejected asylum seekers how to prevent deportations.
WHO'S YER BUDDY, WHO'S YER PAL?
In another Euro-version of American-style political posturing, where the folks who created the problem want to stay in charge. This means they have to act as if they kinda-sorta hear the voice of the people who are slowly but surely digging their thrones out from under them through democracy in action. To act engaged, German officials have called a 'what to do about immigrants and knives' summit.
Everyone's invited...except the party which has recently and repeatedly been elected because of their stance on *checks notes* immigrants and knives.
The invite must have gotten lost in the mail.
German national, state and mainstream opposition leaders are set to discuss a new security package proposed by the federal government last week and other related issues in closed-door talks at the Interior Ministry in Berlin later on Tuesday.
The talks come in the wake of a fatal knife attack on August 23 in the western city of Solingen, among other comparable incidents in recent weeks and months.
It also follows two days after the success of the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) opposition party in elections in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony.
The suspect in the Solingen case is a Syrian national and alleged Islamist extremist who was known to authorities and who had managed to avoid deportation prior to the attack. Three people were killed and eight more wounded. Investigators say he has confessed during interrogations.
I don't see AfD anywhere on the guest list.
...Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not attending the meeting but relevant ministers from his government and all its constituent parties are.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (from Scholz's Social Democrats) will chair the session, with Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (of the FDP) and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Greens) also in attendance.
Two senior members from the center-right Christian Democrats, the leader of the opposition on the national level, Thorsten Frei (of the CDU) and Andrea Lindholz (from the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU) are also participating.
Finally, leading representatives of Germany's 16 state governments — many of which are made up of different combinations of parties than on the national level — are invited.
This is akin to Macron not inviting Meloni to that state dinner a few years ago because she, too, was the leader of a filthy, right-wing populist party, and he couldn't bear to be in the same room, less mind hear a word she had to say.
You'd think they'd learn about last laughs.
Meloni had hers and the AfD may well come out of this even stronger as the scrambling other parties could find out.
There’s only one way to keep the AfD at bay. Address the concerns it exploits.
— Katja Hoyer (@hoyer_kat) September 3, 2024
Telling voters that these concerns aren’t real has not turned to be an election-winning strategy, I argue in @guardian 👇https://t.co/RSq47CCuRK
...Disgruntlement with mainstream politics was long treated as a peculiarity of the former East Germany, which included Saxony and Thuringia. The vice-president of the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt of the Green party, herself a native Thuringian, was not alone in claiming that some east Germans are “stuck in dictatorship glorification”. Now Göring-Eckardt’s Greens have been kicked out of the Thuringian parliament and are polling at 11% nationally. Telling voters that their concerns aren’t real, it turns out, is not an election-winning strategy.
But easterners are far from anti-democratic. There were lively public debates everywhere in the buildup to the elections. People discussed politics at workplaces and at the kitchen table. Turnout was at a record high, with three-quarters of people casting their vote. East Germans are neither fed up with politics nor with democracy. They are fed up with not being taken seriously.
All of this sounds very familiar at the moment.
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