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2026-09-08 Europe

Merz's Humiliation: AfD Smashes CDU and Wants to Restore Relations with Russia

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Posted by badanov 2026-09-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [300 views ] Top

1 Also just in from Germany, Volkswagen will close a car plant in Osnabruck next year, and sell it to Rafael to build missile systems.
( ht Instapundit)

Posted by Knuckles Grundy 2026-09-08 01:17|| 2026-09-08 01:17|| Front Page Top

2 Thank you, my dear. Article in the queue — I’ll post it shortly.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-08 02:29|| 2026-09-08 02:29|| Front Page Top

3 Interesting development indeed. Lets see if it spreads to the UK.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-09-08 04:30|| 2026-09-08 04:30|| Front Page Top

4 Verified AfD comments:

“Deport Antifa to Buchenwald”

In response to the statement, “Anyone who acts on their homosexuality faces a prison sentence,” he said, “We should do that in Germany, too!”

“I wouldn’t condemn anyone who sets fire to an occupied asylum seekers’ shelter.”

“We should form an SA and clean things up!”

“We must attack and abolish the print media and the public broadcasting propaganda machine.”

“Burning refugee shelters is not an act of aggression.”

“We differ from the NPD primarily in our middle-class support base, not so much in our platform.”

“The big problem is that Hitler is portrayed as the absolute embodiment of evil.”

“Shoot that scum or beat them back to Africa.”

“After all, we now have so many foreigners in the country that another Holocaust would be worth it.”

“I want a civil war so badly—and millions of deaths. Women, children. I don’t care. It would be so wonderful. I want to piss on corpses and dance on graves. SIEG HEIL!”

“We have to proceed very peacefully and thoughtfully, adapt if necessary, and butter up our opponents, but when the time finally comes, we’ll line them all up against the wall. (…) Dig a pit, throw them all in, and cover them with slaked lime.”

Posted by European Conservative 2026-09-08 15:20|| 2026-09-08 15:20|| Front Page Top

5 Congrats to the AfD in its massive victory in Sachsen-Anhalt! Nice to see much of the CDU support be swept into the dust bin.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-09-08 15:39|| 2026-09-08 15:39|| Front Page Top

6 Verified AfD comments:

All vile, European Conservative, I agree. But the mainstream political parties appear determined to not enforce fixes of the migrant/Moslem colonist problem, leaving those voters with children in the school systems and those otherwise unable to avoid the more vicious of them with no alternative. Changing the rules on paper is all very nice, but until the voters see mass numbers of the vile and vicious leaving the country, they won’t believe it’s happening. Up til now, informing the colonists that their application has been finally rejected has just led to them joining the criminal side of the economy or grabbing a knife or car and running amok, shouting “Allahu akhbar!”

That kind of thing is what led to Donald Trump (and ever more MAGA politicians among the Republicans) being elected thrice.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-08 16:26|| 2026-09-08 16:26|| Front Page Top

7 ^ Perhaps some introspection as to why current policies and positions make such "extreme" positions viable. I suspect it's because too many objections have been "shaddup, they explained". Want to reverse AfD? Be better at representing REAL Germans than EU/Islamonaut Colonists!

Posted by Frank G 2026-09-08 18:37|| 2026-09-08 18:37|| Front Page Top

8 So I ask you once again, EC, how much traction would AfD have gained if the likes of Merkel and Merz hadn't let millions of Africans and Middle Easterners into your country?

I ask you, What did you think would happen?

And by the way, how much better would your economy be doing if you weren't making war against Russia? That was Hitler's biggest mistake and yet you did not learn from it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-09-08 19:22|| 2026-09-08 19:22|| Front Page Top

9 “I want a civil war so badly—and millions of deaths. Women, children. I don’t care. It would be so wonderful. I want to piss on corpses and dance on graves. SIEG HEIL!”

Your biggest fear should be that it's too late to prevent a civil war and you might lose it.

It isn't just me who is trying to warn you...David Betz: «Civil war is inevitable in the long term»

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-09-08 19:35|| 2026-09-08 19:35|| Front Page Top

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