I had plans to write about something else today, and I even have a half-finished post, but the story of the mysteriously dying AfD candidates is everywhere …
This harkens back to the original topic of this fine substack, the Corona Mess. AfD politicians are among the least likely to have fallen for the toxic corona vaccines, but these gentlemen are relatively old, so I wonder how many of them had fallen for the propaganda? The spike protein lingers and creates significant vascular damage if it enters the bloodstream.
I also remember reading about the Biontech outsourced vaccine production in Germany. The process control was horrible (not the point of the article, which lauded the efforts). Bad batches?
Now there are 7 dead! Do you remember the case of the Russian spy with his daughter a number of years ago? They were both found dead sitting on a park bench after fleeing from bad people in a public market or mall of some kind?
I agree wholeheartedly with you though. I have been immersing myself the last few years in learning about the myriad of ways the jab can negatively impact and affect ALL of the bodily systems and functions.
Yes seniors have more health conditions or concerns than younger people BUT.
The jab is also known to rapidly worsen any pre existing conditions that a person already had as well as bring back dormant previously cured cancer!
Suicide is also now a suspected linked because of scientific evidence of the jab being able to cross the blood brain barrier, bringing on very noticeable personality changes, psychotic episodes, depression, suicide, an inability to debate issues.
The US ranks 48th in the world for life expectancy. US rank for life expectancy is even lower than US rank for IQ, which is pretty damn low compared to people in other countries. Life expectancy and IQ in the US were low even before the shots, but the shots didn't help.
Life Expectancy by Country and in the World (2025) - Worldometer
Exactly. 81% of Americans, officially, and still a significant percentage even if disputed, line-up for mRNA shots. That was an intelligence test for Americans, a type of "Darwin Award."
Life expectancy in the USA was declining for a number of years before the virus hysteria crisis of 2020-22.
I've been poking around for life expectancy data in the years since, but it's hard to find anything that I would deem reliable.
I do know THIS, however:
In Wall Street Journal polls from 1987 until the onset of the virus hysteria crisis, a majority of Americans thought that "hard work" would improve their standard of living.
Then there was an unprecedented gap in data collection circa 2021.
Since then?
The number has been cut more than in half, so that now only 27% of Americans surveyed by the Wall Street Journal think that "hard work" will improve their standard of living.
I don't trust data from "official" sources like the CDC and, barf, the WHO.
It's interesting that the CDC doesn't make it very easy to find data on US life expectancy across the years.
On their website, I could find something called "Fast Stat" or another term like that, but even after attempting to dig I couldn't find a simple chart or graph showing life expectancy in the USA from year to year.
OK, thanks for digging up (sic) the numbers. Nothingburger. Yes, obviously proportionately more AfD candidates than other party candidates, but small differences in small numbers always look proportionally large, a mind trick played so often in my line of work that it's getting boring.
I'm gonna stick my neck out and call Simpson's paradox as well. The AfD candidates are likely older. Just being a local election candidate for that party is going to ruin most peoples' careers, so it's gonna be pensioners. Whereas the greens and SPD and Linke will have a ton of teentwies running for office.
here in Canada I like Maxime Bernier but the people willing to run as candidates for the PPC are... heavy sigh. If you are a normal person with a normal life running as a PPC candidate would destroy your career so no one normal will put their names forward.
AfD is more mainstream in Germany than the PPC in Canada but totally believable there would be a slant toward pensioners with nothing professional to lose as its candidates.
True. PPC candidates that I know or have have met have mostly isolated themselves from reach of the DEI gestapo. The better ones are either self-employed, retired, or professionals that have been ex-communicated for wrongthink by their governing bodies (so have nothing to lose).
We have local council elections coming up in Orkland, NZ. The self-employed, awake services-retired, engineers and prof exiles are precisely the kinda people we look for to vote for. All the rest are professional board members, pollies, critical theory grifters or UNSDG proponents. You see them a mile coming, and know them by their voting history.
Astroturfed story to dupe brainrotted boomers into appearing like backward conspiracy theorists so the powers that be can paint all AfD voters that way
I'm 99% percent positive that the rotted thinking still applies to you, boomer. Sorry. Share one piece of truly radical thinking with me that you can convince me you believe in, and I will apologise and buy you a coffee.
Don’t we all? I have some pretty radical ideas, but really they’re just old fashioned. That’s the way the pendulum is swinging now. Well, it may not look like it, but I’ve noticed the happiest people are heading that direction. I guess the kids are saying,
“ touch grass” now. I love that! Radical, I know.I got problems, sure. That doesn’t offend me. This world is all radical & chaotic. My eyes & heart are focused on the One True King. I’m all good. Crazy good. 😇
In this day and age, and this grotesque world of maya (illusion), I definitely agree that just being a faithful and devoted Christian is practically and alien and radical act. In fact, I don't actually think it's possible to be "in the world" and "of the world". The further away you live from it, the better your chances of being faithful and clean are. I say this with complete and total self-indictment, but I'm certain that it's true for people in general. And of my radical ideas are things that all of my ancestors from my grandparents back would regard as sensible and necessary, also. My radicalism is the willingness to solve problems just as was done in the past, too.
It's ironic that (at least currently) this comment appears right next to one other comment explaining how AfD candidates themselves are disproportionately retirees (those are boomers, folks) because they no longer have any careers to be canceled from.
A story notable more for what it reveals about changing attitudes towards the AfD outside Germany. In my experience previously even many natural supporters of Trump, Farage or Le Pen unthinkingly swallowed the line that the AfD are a bunch of neo-Adolfs. Now they’re suddenly very concerned about persecution of these poor underdogs.
Musk is very often a huge retard, but his clout is undeniable.
Farage and Trump are inauthentic containment. To be a natural supporter of them is to admit you are a dupe, plain and simple. It's the equivalent of being a natural supporter of Tony Blair ("THINGS! CAN ONLY! GET BETTER!") or Obama.
Well put. Alas, many do not understand. I fear they need the corrective experience of real life to truly wake up. Thankfully real life is always there ready to assert itself.
In Britain that will mean five years of a Reform government who have stated they want MORE immigration from the commonwealth. Probably needed for the Farage fans to get the message.
[nods approvingly at her ornate pocketwatch and tucks it away again]
Yes, I agree. And the legitimate grievances that impel very ordinary people into political activism in their senior years are just in themselves engines of great stress and passion which can cut you down like a woodsman's axe swung mightily.
Heck--I'm angry about something almost every day now, have been for five years just on these issues we talk about here, and I guarantee if I wasn't cleaning out my arteries with all that Vitamin C and ginger tea I'd've likely burst all my gaskets by now.
And with all the complete total buffoonery of the ruling political class in Germany these days I'd say they ain't got the stones nor the cunningness to carry out such true nefariousness. It's their stupidity, arrogance and cluelessness that have brought your country to the cliff-edge of disaster.
The truly malicious agents are too busy flooding the country with the Base Metal Hordes to bother with running little days of the jackal operations all over the place.
My first question was "OK, how many candidates of other parties died?" The fact that half of the deaths are AfD versus the same number from all other parties is, as you say, slightly unusual but not inconceivable. Also that the families of the deceased aren't raising a ruckus is pretty reassuring.
From what I've seen of that Peter Sweden guy, he specializes in outrage farming. Anyone looking for attention is going to seize on the subject as clickbait.
Eugyppius, I was looking forward to your take on this story, but now I feel quite deflated. “Statistically almost impossible” seems quite the exaggeration, doesn’t it? Ho hum.
It is to be hoped autopsies were performed to ascertain the presence of spike protein in these poor souls or just cause of death. Let’s see sone transparency.
The death of any friend or relative is a shock, even if we know the odds are heavily stacked for such an outcome.
So, I wish all the friends and families of all the candidates who have died so far can grieve in peace. At some point hopefully they celebrate the life of those who died.
There is no general 'correct' way to do this - how the living deal with death is deeply personal.
It is a complete, utter nothingburger. The number of expected deaths per 3,000 men over the age of 55, in 1 month, is around 10 or more. We got fooled; let's close the book on this lapse (it fooled me too).
If it helps, the meme exploited these factors:
1) most ppl didn't know the group was that big
2) most ppl don't know/appreciate the death rate for men of that age
2a) death is rare in day-to-day experience (practically no one has close contact with 3K old farts wait that sounds weird)
3) desire to believe anything evil of the adversary (mea culpa)
4) genpop's inability to do math
4b) special bonus inability to do statistics
4b1) the Bayesian take also weighs against this being a s3cr3t serial assassination program of low-level aspiring politicians (i.e., extreme news items are usually bogus)
This is the internet. This kind of rational thinking will not be tolerated.
This harkens back to the original topic of this fine substack, the Corona Mess. AfD politicians are among the least likely to have fallen for the toxic corona vaccines, but these gentlemen are relatively old, so I wonder how many of them had fallen for the propaganda? The spike protein lingers and creates significant vascular damage if it enters the bloodstream.
I also remember reading about the Biontech outsourced vaccine production in Germany. The process control was horrible (not the point of the article, which lauded the efforts). Bad batches?
If they took the shot, all the criminals have to do to train some quick-pulse 5G microwave bursts in their specific direction…
the shot clots away without 5G but it probably helps. whazzzzzup!
"Variants" do that, too. Did they eat Ananas regularly?
Now there are 7 dead! Do you remember the case of the Russian spy with his daughter a number of years ago? They were both found dead sitting on a park bench after fleeing from bad people in a public market or mall of some kind?
I agree wholeheartedly with you though. I have been immersing myself the last few years in learning about the myriad of ways the jab can negatively impact and affect ALL of the bodily systems and functions.
Yes seniors have more health conditions or concerns than younger people BUT.
The jab is also known to rapidly worsen any pre existing conditions that a person already had as well as bring back dormant previously cured cancer!
Suicide is also now a suspected linked because of scientific evidence of the jab being able to cross the blood brain barrier, bringing on very noticeable personality changes, psychotic episodes, depression, suicide, an inability to debate issues.
"People in USA have an even shorter life expectancy now."
"Now" as compared to when?
Where are you getting that data?
Thanks!
The US ranks 48th in the world for life expectancy. US rank for life expectancy is even lower than US rank for IQ, which is pretty damn low compared to people in other countries. Life expectancy and IQ in the US were low even before the shots, but the shots didn't help.
Life Expectancy by Country and in the World (2025) - Worldometer
https://share.google/hzebKn9L7CMe2bFZu
Average IQ by Country 2025
https://share.google/2UFs3DcTRZExBArhO
Hard to believe these stats. Seriously low (average) for US over the decades.
Exactly. 81% of Americans, officially, and still a significant percentage even if disputed, line-up for mRNA shots. That was an intelligence test for Americans, a type of "Darwin Award."
IQ that is.
It is yet another hard truth that few want to face.
Life expectancy in the USA was declining for a number of years before the virus hysteria crisis of 2020-22.
I've been poking around for life expectancy data in the years since, but it's hard to find anything that I would deem reliable.
I do know THIS, however:
In Wall Street Journal polls from 1987 until the onset of the virus hysteria crisis, a majority of Americans thought that "hard work" would improve their standard of living.
Then there was an unprecedented gap in data collection circa 2021.
Since then?
The number has been cut more than in half, so that now only 27% of Americans surveyed by the Wall Street Journal think that "hard work" will improve their standard of living.
Good tip on the insurance actuaries.
I don't trust data from "official" sources like the CDC and, barf, the WHO.
It's interesting that the CDC doesn't make it very easy to find data on US life expectancy across the years.
On their website, I could find something called "Fast Stat" or another term like that, but even after attempting to dig I couldn't find a simple chart or graph showing life expectancy in the USA from year to year.
Why am I not surprised that the original story never bothered to mention that there are 90,000 candidates.
I don't know why I even bother with any news source these days.
OK, thanks for digging up (sic) the numbers. Nothingburger. Yes, obviously proportionately more AfD candidates than other party candidates, but small differences in small numbers always look proportionally large, a mind trick played so often in my line of work that it's getting boring.
I'm gonna stick my neck out and call Simpson's paradox as well. The AfD candidates are likely older. Just being a local election candidate for that party is going to ruin most peoples' careers, so it's gonna be pensioners. Whereas the greens and SPD and Linke will have a ton of teentwies running for office.
here in Canada I like Maxime Bernier but the people willing to run as candidates for the PPC are... heavy sigh. If you are a normal person with a normal life running as a PPC candidate would destroy your career so no one normal will put their names forward.
AfD is more mainstream in Germany than the PPC in Canada but totally believable there would be a slant toward pensioners with nothing professional to lose as its candidates.
True. PPC candidates that I know or have have met have mostly isolated themselves from reach of the DEI gestapo. The better ones are either self-employed, retired, or professionals that have been ex-communicated for wrongthink by their governing bodies (so have nothing to lose).
We have local council elections coming up in Orkland, NZ. The self-employed, awake services-retired, engineers and prof exiles are precisely the kinda people we look for to vote for. All the rest are professional board members, pollies, critical theory grifters or UNSDG proponents. You see them a mile coming, and know them by their voting history.
Thanks for putting some good rational perspective on this
Astroturfed story to dupe brainrotted boomers into appearing like backward conspiracy theorists so the powers that be can paint all AfD voters that way
Picking on boomers again. People of all ages can be brainrotted.
Full disclosure: I'm a boomer. Getting a little tired of overgeneralizations of generations, not just boomer, but all of them.
This boomer agrees wholeheartedly.
I'm 99% percent positive that the rotted thinking still applies to you, boomer. Sorry. Share one piece of truly radical thinking with me that you can convince me you believe in, and I will apologise and buy you a coffee.
The prize doesn't seem worth the effort. Besides, now you can express your true nature yet again.
Thou art a liberal by choice, and beyond saving.
Just curious, what counts as “ radical” thinking to you? Asking for a friend. 😉
If you have to ask, then you've got problems.
Don’t we all? I have some pretty radical ideas, but really they’re just old fashioned. That’s the way the pendulum is swinging now. Well, it may not look like it, but I’ve noticed the happiest people are heading that direction. I guess the kids are saying,
“ touch grass” now. I love that! Radical, I know.I got problems, sure. That doesn’t offend me. This world is all radical & chaotic. My eyes & heart are focused on the One True King. I’m all good. Crazy good. 😇
In this day and age, and this grotesque world of maya (illusion), I definitely agree that just being a faithful and devoted Christian is practically and alien and radical act. In fact, I don't actually think it's possible to be "in the world" and "of the world". The further away you live from it, the better your chances of being faithful and clean are. I say this with complete and total self-indictment, but I'm certain that it's true for people in general. And of my radical ideas are things that all of my ancestors from my grandparents back would regard as sensible and necessary, also. My radicalism is the willingness to solve problems just as was done in the past, too.
Thanks, enough said.
It's ironic that (at least currently) this comment appears right next to one other comment explaining how AfD candidates themselves are disproportionately retirees (those are boomers, folks) because they no longer have any careers to be canceled from.
A story notable more for what it reveals about changing attitudes towards the AfD outside Germany. In my experience previously even many natural supporters of Trump, Farage or Le Pen unthinkingly swallowed the line that the AfD are a bunch of neo-Adolfs. Now they’re suddenly very concerned about persecution of these poor underdogs.
Musk is very often a huge retard, but his clout is undeniable.
Farage and Trump are inauthentic containment. To be a natural supporter of them is to admit you are a dupe, plain and simple. It's the equivalent of being a natural supporter of Tony Blair ("THINGS! CAN ONLY! GET BETTER!") or Obama.
Well put. Alas, many do not understand. I fear they need the corrective experience of real life to truly wake up. Thankfully real life is always there ready to assert itself.
In Britain that will mean five years of a Reform government who have stated they want MORE immigration from the commonwealth. Probably needed for the Farage fans to get the message.
[nods approvingly at her ornate pocketwatch and tucks it away again]
Yes, I agree. And the legitimate grievances that impel very ordinary people into political activism in their senior years are just in themselves engines of great stress and passion which can cut you down like a woodsman's axe swung mightily.
Heck--I'm angry about something almost every day now, have been for five years just on these issues we talk about here, and I guarantee if I wasn't cleaning out my arteries with all that Vitamin C and ginger tea I'd've likely burst all my gaskets by now.
And with all the complete total buffoonery of the ruling political class in Germany these days I'd say they ain't got the stones nor the cunningness to carry out such true nefariousness. It's their stupidity, arrogance and cluelessness that have brought your country to the cliff-edge of disaster.
The truly malicious agents are too busy flooding the country with the Base Metal Hordes to bother with running little days of the jackal operations all over the place.
Correct. And if they were going to do it, they wouldn't be targeting these, just as Eugypius says.
I predict Drosten will have sequenced the AfD virus by month's end.
and Fauci will bring us the vaccine! https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/1969756750321504615
Thank you for your very calm take on this.
My first question was "OK, how many candidates of other parties died?" The fact that half of the deaths are AfD versus the same number from all other parties is, as you say, slightly unusual but not inconceivable. Also that the families of the deceased aren't raising a ruckus is pretty reassuring.
From what I've seen of that Peter Sweden guy, he specializes in outrage farming. Anyone looking for attention is going to seize on the subject as clickbait.
But worth watching in the future. The German State seems unable to accept democracy.
Eugyppius, I was looking forward to your take on this story, but now I feel quite deflated. “Statistically almost impossible” seems quite the exaggeration, doesn’t it? Ho hum.
Many people are very dumb about numbers.
Thank you for the level-headed update, Eugyppius!
It is to be hoped autopsies were performed to ascertain the presence of spike protein in these poor souls or just cause of death. Let’s see sone transparency.
The death of any friend or relative is a shock, even if we know the odds are heavily stacked for such an outcome.
So, I wish all the friends and families of all the candidates who have died so far can grieve in peace. At some point hopefully they celebrate the life of those who died.
There is no general 'correct' way to do this - how the living deal with death is deeply personal.
It is a complete, utter nothingburger. The number of expected deaths per 3,000 men over the age of 55, in 1 month, is around 10 or more. We got fooled; let's close the book on this lapse (it fooled me too).
If it helps, the meme exploited these factors:
1) most ppl didn't know the group was that big
2) most ppl don't know/appreciate the death rate for men of that age
2a) death is rare in day-to-day experience (practically no one has close contact with 3K old farts wait that sounds weird)
3) desire to believe anything evil of the adversary (mea culpa)
4) genpop's inability to do math
4b) special bonus inability to do statistics
4b1) the Bayesian take also weighs against this being a s3cr3t serial assassination program of low-level aspiring politicians (i.e., extreme news items are usually bogus)