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wmj's avatar

difficult to imagine a stronger incentive to vote AfD than promising “any state that votes AfD will lose nearly all its migrants to the other states”

prisoner’s game: lightspeed defection edition

eugyppius's avatar

If the AfD states get to deport all their refugees to everyone else, pretty soon everyone is going to be an AfD state

Green Duck's avatar

Will you be accepting bets on who will turn AfD last? My money is on Berlin.

eugyppius's avatar

Bremen would hold out longer than Berlin

Abu Iskander's avatar

I would go for Baden-Württemberg with their weird Greens obsession.

SimulationCommander's avatar

Now they will put their thumbs on the scale in every way they can, while continuing to ignore the reason that AfD is winning in the first place.

You have to wonder why so many governments around the world are willing to commit political suicide in order to import millions of illegal immigrants, all without a single actual vote on the issue.

John from Jamestowne's avatar

It's not political suicide. It's a concerted election strategy. Germans don't support their globalist government, so they're importing people who will.

philipat's avatar

Yes correct, it's population replacement with the intention of diluting culture and dividing society so as to ease the way for the globalist reset and NWO. The politicians are not so much elected as selected and they are all in the pockets of the Globalists in one way or another, many through "control dossiers".

You're also correct is saying why on earth would politicians double down on strategies they know do not have the support of the people? Return to para 1. It's really a no-brainer and there is no other possible explanation.

EppingBlogger's avatar

The people they are importing do not really believe in civil government at all. They are used to minimal interference in their lives back home and obey only the words their religious people tell them come from the Koran, etc.

SimulationCommander's avatar

Yeah I liked the Great Replacement's original name -- "Demographics is Destiny".

Richard Bicker's avatar

"The future belongs to those who show up (for it)." — Mark Steyn

philipat's avatar

They destroyed and came very close to killing Mark Steyn. He's one of the best. And also one of the funniest.

Richard Bicker's avatar

Alas, I fear Mark is also on his last legs. With his recent raft of serious health issues (multiple heart attacks, coma, etc.), an entire coterie of female substitutes (there IS no substitute for Mark Steyn) now author any "new" material on Steyn's website. The rest is simply recycled stuff from "20 sodding" years ago.

Fiona Walker's avatar

They certainly gave him a hot dose when they forced the jab on him. Evil.

SCA's avatar

Cults often spread widely and then people call 'em mainstream religions.

SCA's avatar

Might be a little US-centered of me but I think back to those German diplomats laughing at Trump's speech to the UN back in his first term, and I wonder how they're feeling these days.

And yes! Stop sending migrants to Sachsen-Anhalt! Them cunning Turks, they nailed it.

Tardigrade's avatar

'…developed a new interest in banning the AfD, calling for a federal and state “working group” to look into this possibility.'

Amazing. Do they expect to disenfranchise 43% of the citizens?

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

Why not? Call it "democracy" and anything is permissible. Call it "anti-fascist" and anything can be justified. This is why the left spends so much energy on word games. I belong to the George Carlin school - the more syllables they use, the further from the truth they are.

ThePossum  🇬🇧's avatar

Why, yes, yes they do 🤣

It's the most globalist of globalist stances.

Gary Edwards's avatar

Thanks for the inside update. Keep them coming! I am gaining hope that Germany can be saved!

Abu Iskander's avatar

"Hey, if you vote for the anti-migrant party we will have the migrants leave your area and stop them from coming there" is supposed to be some type of threat by the Turkish associations?

Are they that retarded?

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

It's not an entirely empty threat. A real pull-back of non natives will reveal the shocking demographic hole the west has dug for itself. I am from New York, where 65% of Queens is foreign born. If one's dad needs a nursing home, guess who is taking care of him?

Abu Iskander's avatar

Here is the thing - for thousands of years when your elders got old the person who took care of them was their kids.

Bringing in hordes of foreigners so that you, god forbid, will never have to take of your dad for a couple of years is not a good deal for society.

Green Duck's avatar

Especially since Sachsen-Anhalt is one of the German Bundesländer with the highest average age (since everyone young and ambitious packed up and left long ago).

Tardigrade's avatar

"an unmitigated and deeply deserved disaster"

Writing like this makes my day replete, and it's not even 9 AM yet.

BARRY ISAACS's avatar

One might have hoped that the exclusive use of paper ballots would provide a fairly secure election outcome but because of the boom in mail-in ballots, confidence in the vote that occurred has to severely questioned. The AfD took 51% of the in-person vote on Sunday but only 24.27% of the mail-in vote. In some places, the AfD got nearly 63% of the vote but only a little over 24% of the mail-in ballots. I saw that in 1 district, Magdeburg, the AfD only got 5.5% of the mail-in vote versus 41.5% of the in-person voting. One wonders how every party other than the AfD could receive more mail-in votes than in-person votes and by significant margins.

SimulationCommander's avatar

Mail-in ballots are how the establishment cheats.

Green Duck's avatar

I find it much easier to believe (Occam's Razor) that establishment party voters are more likely to vote by mail ballot. ESPECIALLY since the AfD has been sowing doubt about mail-in ballot security: that would have incentivized AfD voters PARTICULARLY to vote in person. Using this fact and the discrepancies it creates to further discredit mail-in balloting is kind of elegant. (I personally would certainly not mind restricting voting by mail. If people can't be bothered to vote once every five years, they don't seem to be all that invested. I just don't see it as evidence for fraud.)

John Lester's avatar

That will teach Merz had just been a subscriber to you he would not have been surprised at the outcome.

bgt's avatar

Is there a sight more beautiful to behold than the shrinkage in CDU votes?

Richard Bicker's avatar

Any chance of AfD/BSW immediately implementing one or more policy decisions supported by the vast majority of the voters, then engineering a "snap election" (in parliamentary fashion) to solidify and expand its electoral majority and policy mandate(s)?

Green Duck's avatar

Not really. EITHER they have new elections if they can't elect a new prime minister (in which case there won't be those policy decisions), OR they can only call for new elections after at least 6 months, and need a 2/3 majority for this (the other parties will only agree if they see a chance to better their own results) OR the prime minister could ask for a vote of confidence and lose by design, which would look like some VERY blatant politicking, for which there is little precedent in Germany (in contrast, say, to the UK, where this is accepted procedure) https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Wann-es-zur-Neuwahl-in-Sachsen-Anhalt-kaeme-id31278410.html

Richard Bicker's avatar

Thanks for the quick primer on German election options. Seems like one avenue could be to propose the "killer policy" in detail (likely some form of aggressive remigration coupled with economic development for native Germans) then pull the "no confidence" trick to force a new election and finish off the CDU and its "wall of ashes." Shit gonna get real as they say around here (USA).

Green Duck's avatar

Heh, lots of fun options on the table. But just as in the US, lots of options would be challenged in court and presumably defeated, so many killer options are prima facie empty threats, and everyone knows that.

But I have stocked up on popcorn.

Thibaud's avatar

Merz wants to communicate better on an emotional level with the German voters. Merz wants to take them on weekend away from the kids, on the Rhine. Just the two of us, like during our honeymoon.

What the hell is he talking about.

Green Duck's avatar

You forgot the part where he also wants to shag the electorate silly, because you want it too, b*tch! (Will this get me banned?)

EppingBlogger's avatar

The list system means "the most loyal party functionaries" retained their seats while the less favoured were thrown out. That will generate additional tensions in the Union. I anticipate the former include a lot of life long politicians whereas the latter were more often younger ones so their departure might be permanent and the succession more difficult for the Union. I hope so.

Although it would not affect the state parliament, what is the chance some discarded CDU politicians might join AfD.

In the unlikely event that 80% of immigrants were to leave it would assure SfD an even bigger vote at the next Lande elections, anywhere.

Gathering Goateggs's avatar

"Merz ultimately concluded that he needs to communicate better, but then upon realising that this is a shopworn cliché he added bizarrely that he must “try to connect with people more deeply on an emotional level,” because that will make everything better."

This directly below a photograph depicting Merz as the financial account manager for the retirement funds of the Society of Embalmers and Undertakers.

andrea's avatar

Of what I have heard out of Alice Weibel's mouth it sounds reasonable, smart, knowledgable and not racist. I think AfD should get its fair chances to bring about a healthy change in the rotten political suicide mission of the current political agenda and representatives.

Nicholas Edward Bednarski, MD's avatar

Merz has learned? that his policies are, to the German people, not reasonable, so he will communicate them as “emotable”. This has been the method of Democrats and now the DSA in the U. S. Germany’s silent majority appears to have had enough of government by suicidal empathy. And it is first rising in part of the former communist block, where socialism is the proven form of cultural suicide.