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The Big Ugly's avatar

This is the internet. This kind of rational thinking will not be tolerated.

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FLR's avatar

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?

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Chixbythesea's avatar

People in USA have an even shorter life expectancy now, no doubt due to Coof jab side effects.

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CS's avatar

"People in USA have an even shorter life expectancy now."

"Now" as compared to when?

Where are you getting that data?

Thanks!

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Chixbythesea's avatar

I appreciate you asking because I like doubters. Answer: stats I saw about a month ago. I’m not trying to put work on your shoulders. It could have been Zero Hedge. Also, Trump is revisiting the subject. I sense there will be refreshed attention.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/momsville-tuesday-september-2-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=172567199&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=xgq76&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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The Cherry On Top's avatar

It is yet another hard truth that few want to face.

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AwakeNotWoke's avatar

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

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

Hard to believe these stats. Seriously low (average) for US over the decades.

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AwakeNotWoke's avatar

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."

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Chixbythesea's avatar

A pop quiz!

How many studied their science text book in high school?

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

IQ that is.

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sonya's avatar

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.

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SaHiB's avatar

"Variants" do that, too. Did they eat Ananas regularly?

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GK's avatar

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.

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Viv's avatar

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.

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

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.

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Martin Liehs's avatar

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).

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Magnum's avatar

Thanks for putting some good rational perspective on this

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anti-modern activist's avatar

Astroturfed story to dupe brainrotted boomers into appearing like backward conspiracy theorists so the powers that be can paint all AfD voters that way

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Tardigrade's avatar

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.

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Susan G's avatar

This boomer agrees wholeheartedly.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

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.

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Tardigrade's avatar

The prize doesn't seem worth the effort. Besides, now you can express your true nature yet again.

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AlmostLastRepublicaninSeattle's avatar

Just curious, what counts as “ radical” thinking to you? Asking for a friend. 😉

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AlmostLastRepublicaninSeattle's avatar

Thanks, enough said.

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Henrybowman's avatar

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.

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Potassium Enjoyer's avatar

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.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

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.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

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.

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[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.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

Correct. And if they were going to do it, they wouldn't be targeting these, just as Eugypius says.

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Abner Knight's avatar

I predict Drosten will have sequenced the AfD virus by month's end.

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EppingBlogger's avatar

But worth watching in the future. The German State seems unable to accept democracy.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

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.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Many people are very dumb about numbers.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Not in USA.

HRC minions are famous for that. Why would it be different across the pond?

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Tardigrade's avatar

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.

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Daan M's avatar

Why kill a bunch of non-important AfD politicians when exculding them from even running is already an option?

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Not yet fully verboten but could crop up at any time for sure.

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Daan M's avatar

Look up Joachim Paul's case, that is what I am referencing.

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CS's avatar

Thank you for the level-headed update, Eugyppius!

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

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.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

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.

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