If you thought Hillary Clinton calling Donald Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” was demeaning, consider that Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, one of the leading representatives of Germany’s ostensibly ‘liberal’ Free Democratic Party (FDP), has now compared supporters of the rival AfD to “flies on a pile of shit”.
For the details, see my new post at the Daily Sceptic here.
Today I had the great fortune to witness in person her FDP colleague Christian Lindner bomb on stage trying to connect to a mob of thousands of angry farmers and truckers. "Hey, I'm a man of the people, just like you. I hate taxes too. Did you know I am a hunter? You guys are nothing like those bad rule-breaking climate activists who desecrated the Brandenburg Gate. And what about that Julia Klöckner? She's so dumb, amirite?" God, it was brutal. Even his biggest fans at Welt couldn't really do any meaningful damage control with their coverage that ignored the crowd and showed a close-up on Lindner. The alarmed looks of the other people on the stage were hilarious, as was the snot hanging out of his nose by the end of the speech. RIP FDP
any politician who can do nothing but throw dirt at the others immediately loses my interest. There are not many left... very seldom does one hear a politician say something without mud for the others. And afterwards you see them shaking hands and go out to lunch together.