Damnit, after Brexiting back to Germany I completely ignored that there's a general election coming up in 2021 without Mutti.
Someone catch me up on the different players, pls.
Someone catch me up on the different players, pls.
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Meet the German Donald Trump - Friedrich Merz makes a bid for the CDU leadership. [Narrator: Merz is bad; but nothing like Trump!]
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AFD are Nazis, FDP are cunts, Leftist and SPD are useless as always, greens will probably form a government with CDU.
CDU new leader is either gonna be a conservative hedge fund manager stuck in the 90s(Merz), Someone completely incompetent but close to Merkel (Laschet) or a foreign policy politician no one knows (Röttgen).
There is still a slight chance of Söder or Spahn becoming chancellor candidate
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If Laschet becomes new CDU leader, Söder will be chancellor candidate.
If Merz wins, it'd a toss-up between him and Söder because he seems hungry enough to want both.
Söder has done a pretty good job of taking charge during Corona and that's reflected in the current polling numbers, he's probably CDU/CSU's best bet.
If Merz wins, it'd a toss-up between him and Söder because he seems hungry enough to want both.
Söder has done a pretty good job of taking charge during Corona and that's reflected in the current polling numbers, he's probably CDU/CSU's best bet.
They're not sending their best.
In my opinion, It's undeniable that he's shooting for chancellor.
Then I guess the question is how willing the CDU is to have a CSU member be chancellor, would make for a complex relationship between whoever ends up leading the CDU and Söder.
Comparing him to Trump is doing us a disservice cause he's a different type of shitheel and it might goad people into describing him in undeservedly nice words.
Don't wanna end up hearing the "he's not that bad for the country, actually" rhetoric that you'll read from Turkish/Brazilian/Philippino/etcetc people online all the time.
Don't wanna end up hearing the "he's not that bad for the country, actually" rhetoric that you'll read from Turkish/Brazilian/Philippino/etcetc people online all the time.
Can't speak for german politics but I can say its not a good thing to compare anyone to Trump. People can be entirely shitty on their own for their own reasons and sticking everyone in a box with Trump just waters down exactly how bad Trump is.
Don't worry people here still agree that Merz is a POS, just a different kind.
God all the CDU candidates make me shudder. Like I don't see much in current SPD or Linke, but I'd rather have Red-Red-Green than a CDU with one of those chuckleheads at the helm.
Not a fan of Spahn in his current job but having a gay chancellor would be cool.
Fucking grim looking future at least from my perspective, none of those parties excite me at all.
Having an immigration background I can do without xenophobic idiots, gay or not. People should also remember his wellfare comments, it's all you need. Funnily enough he declined to live on wellfare level for a while - hypocrite.
Actually that is the only good thing coming out of Merz' resurface, seeing Spahn shrink and squirm bc his plan to spearhead the right wingers in the CDU went kaputt. Seeing him being Laschet's poodle while the first is an embodiment of incompetence is oddly satisfying.
For anyone who didn't know, Austria had this wealthy guy who craves attention a lot trying to run for president twice:
Luckily, that man got the treatment Trump should've gotten.
Luckily, that man got the treatment Trump should've gotten.
Thank Schröder for that who killed the SPD as a Worker Party during his 8 years as Chancellor plus the rest of the imcompetent bunch who jumped into bed with the CDU every single time to be their junior partner.
Every time he opens his mouth publicly, some bullshit pandering to assholes comes out. He is the politician most consistently triggering me.
He combines a personality of entitlement with regressive, nihilistic politics without any positive vision.
Here he is "fine people"ing the Querdenkers from today
well there is precedent. stoiber was a candidate and merkel was the CDU leader
Lets not forget the gem right after the Hanau shootings* where his solution to the far right terrorist massacre was "stricter border controls, more focus on (immigrant) crime clans"Every time he opens his mouth publicly, some bullshit pandering to assholes comes out. He is the politician most consistently triggering me.
He combines a personality of entitlement with regressive, nihilistic politics without any positive vision.
Here he is "fine people"ing the Querdenkers from today
(*where a far right extremist killed 10 and wounded 5 people who were immigrants or had a migration background.)
Yeah Schröder was instrumental to the downfall. No surprise where he landed right after.
Schröder was more a Trump for the SPD (even has the Russia connection) than Merz will ever be for Germany.
It is a travesty what Schröder did to the SPD and worker/social rights.
Yes! Thanks for the summary.
Having a CDU + Greens government... wonder what one of the founding members would make of that?
And SPD isn't coming back from its collapse anytime soon, eh? 21st century hasn't been great for working-class parties globally - maybe we can finally admit the working class has slipped into the underclass.
How's the AFD's chances then? Last I checked there seemed to be a lot of in-fighting? And not too much traction gained from Corona-conspiracy bullshit?
For anyone who didn't know, Austria had this wealthy guy who craves attention a lot trying to run for president twice:
Luckily, that man got the treatment Trump should've gotten.
Black suit with white scarf. White gloves. A cane with a gold top. A gold bow-tie. A top hat. Is he a rich time traveler from the early 1900s?
The man just craves attention. That's his (fifth) ex-wife next to him, btw.
The best thing about his run for presidency is his grasp of the English language.
This is him during something similar to pre-election debates:
