Covid Futures: Green Local Politician Tells Voters: ‘I make 25K a month, I can buy all the studies I like and we’ll flood you with them.’
Meet Barbara Domke who, earlier this week, told everyone why blindly following 'the Science™' is a supremely bad idea--and voting Green is even worse
There are few other words needed to convey the moral bankruptcy of whatever merit the so-called ‘Green’ parties once had, in particular in German-speaking countries. ‘Greens’ are part of the federal gov’t in Austria since 2019/20 and in Germany since 2021, hence we now have quite enough prima facie evidence of their disingenuousness and dishonesty.
To say nothing about the danger emanating from their desire, once in power, to silence their critics, as happened, e.g., in Austria last year when ‘Green’ MPs proposed to abolish a particular form of parliamentary oversight (in Austria, any MP has the right to enquire about the government’s doings, and the latter is obliged to answer). Needless to say, when MPs for the gov’t call on banning MPs from the opposition from being able to oversee the gov’t is, well, a supremely bad as well as revelatory moment for any constitutional-republican polity:
Today’s posting focuses on yet another angle of this same phenomenon. Geographically relating to Germany, though, a brief piece by Apollo News tells the story of one local ‘Green’ politician, Barbara Domke, who last Sunday held a virtual townhall meeting on Twitter/X Spaces. As the below piece shows, it was quite a gaffe fest, but then again, I’ll let Larissa Fusser of Apollo News tell you herself.
As always, translation and emphases mine, as are the bottom lines.
‘I make 25K a month, I can buy all the studies I like’—Green Politician Insults Those Demanding a Corona Reckoning
By Larissa Fusser, Apollo News, 30 Aug. 2023 [source]
Green Party politician Barbara Domke took to a Twitter Spaces on Sunday |27 Aug. 2023] and spoke about the reckoning [Aufarbeitung] of the Corona pandemic. In the process, she berated critics savagely. The politician obviously has no regrets.
The process of coming to terms with the Corona pandemic is slow. Yes, if it weren’t for the lawsuits on the vaccination adverse events, and if a new report on the crude political machinations of the government’s Corona Expert Council wasn’t published every now and then, one would barely notice it. ‘We will have much to forgive each other’, is repeatedly cited as the motto of the hour. However, there is little to be seen of it. Both Markus Söder [CSU, Bavaria’s ‘conservatives’] and Ricarda Lang [Green Parliamentary Leader] recently made it clear that they do not regret their political dealings with the unvaccinated. How the Greens otherwise think on the subject of coming to terms with the past was now made outrageously clear during a Twitter Spaces event in which, among others, the Green politician Barbara Domke took part.
Domke is a local politician for the Green Party in Cottbus [in the East Germany]; on her Twitter profile she also claims to be a social worker and identifies as an ‘anti-fascist’. She came to the attention of the press at the end of 2021 when she lost in court against an alleged neo-Nazi who had sued her for sharing a photo of a controversial article in Die Zeit, which by then had to be retracted by the newspaper. Domke had to pay the legal fees—and complained publicly that she did not have the money to cover these costs. She therefore opened a donation account, through which she ultimately collected almost 12,000 euros. The claims against the politician amounted to less than 3,000 euros. [what happened to the balance is unclear at this point in time]
Suffering in the Covid Pandemic is a ‘Conspiracy Theory’
Now almost two years later, Barbara Domke participated in a Twitter Spaces event hosted by freelance journalist Christian Trutz. The latter discussed the topic on Sunday: ‘“reckoning [Aufarbeitung]” translates as “I, me, I want to be right”.’ The four-and-a-half-hour conversation was mainly attended by leftists like Domke, who—as she explained among other things—only demanded a reappraisal of the violence of the Querdenker [the catch-all derogatory term used during the so-called ‘pandemic’ to dismiss all and any criticism; note that prior to 2020, it was a kind of honourable thing to do to speak up against group-think], which ‘committed murders’ and ‘made their children sick’, if such a reckoning was to have any meaning at-all. Occasionally, however, critical voices were also heard.
For example, a man who introduced himself as a member of the SPD, distanced himself from the Querdenker movement in the very first sentence and emphasised several times that he was convinced that the politicians had not followed an evil agenda with regard to Corona—only to insist that they just had not known how to deal with this new situation. This man, who pushed all these excuses in advance, remarked at one point that in terms of coming to terms with the situation, one had to acknowledge that there was a not inconsiderable amount of people who had suffered as a result of the measures. ‘Many things are irreparable’, said the SPD member, adding that there should at least be a reckoning in the sense that the mistakes that were made should be looked at so that they are not repeated.
Barbara Domke intervened: ‘What kind of crude conspiracy theories are you talking about? This stupid fucking drivel that so many people had it so bad, what kind of crude perception is that.’ When the man interjects that he was in hospital for almost a year without being allowed to be visited by his family, Domke yells at him, ‘Get real, damn it. You're all acting like three nuclear bombs dropped here, for fuck’s sake.’
[Knowing that there is a sizeable contingent of readers who hail from German-speaking lands or know German, here is the original:
Hier grätscht Barbara Domke ein: ‘Was erzählst du denn für krude Verschwörungstheorien. Dieses blöde scheiß Gelaber, dass es so vielen Menschen so schlecht ging, was ist das denn für eine krude Wahrnehmung.’ Als der Mann einwirft, dass er fast ein Jahr im Krankenhaus war, ohne dass er von seiner Familie besucht werden durfte, schreit Domke ihn an: ‘Komm klar, verdammt nochmal. Ihr tut alle so, als ob hier drei Atombomben heruntergefallen sind, verdammt nochmal.’
The man answers: ‘This is not about me at all, it’s about the fact that many people have lost their livelihood’—only yo be interrupted by Domke again: ‘Stop telling any tall tales [Lügengeschichten]!’ Later in the conversation, the Green politician explains, ‘For three years, this people have only been told bullshit [Gülle] and egomaniacal stuff. Nobody was doing badly. Nobody the fuck had it really bad here [Es ging wirklich keinem fucking nochmal schlecht]!’
Later, Domke is asked by a participant about some specifics of the approval of the Corona vaccination. Somewhat brashly, he asked Domke what her competence was to basically dismiss critical questions about the pharmaceutical products or the measures as nonsense. The Green politician lost her composure again: ‘I make 25,000 euros a month, I can buy all the studies I like and we’ll flood you with them.’ Shortly afterwards, she added: ‘Back in the GDR, we didn’t know what they were injecting us with either.’
The Green politician’s statements are astonishing on several levels. Not only does this woman brag about her monthly salary, making it obvious for all the world that her appeal for donations two years ago was nothing more than hypocrisy. Much more damning, Domke reveals that she has no awareness whatsoever of the suffering that many people experienced during the [so-called, or declared] Corona pandemic. That many people had to give up their existence during the pandemic is a fact that is now mainstream. Even if [fellow Green and Economy Minister] Habeck still tries to explain to us that these people did not go bankrupt—but they only stopped working [this is actually true: on one of the popular nightly talkshows, Mr. Habeck, a children’s book author turned Economy Minister ‘explained’ that businesses going belly up due to the mandates wouldn’t be ‘insolvent’, they’d merely ‘stopped producing’].
The fact that the lockdowns, the social distancing, the enormous pressure to ‘get vaccinated’ have driven a great many people into depression, despair and, in some cases, suicide, can also be understood from numerous medical studies and media reports. The scariest thing, however, is that one can assume that Domke is not the only politician who thinks like this.
Bottom Lines
Not much to add, except for some comments from Apollo News:
‘Peggy’ noted:
Dear Ms Domke,
due to unnecessary, arbitrary and unscientific so-called measures, I have been forced to give up my self-employed activity in the event sector. Literally overnight, no more public events were allowed. You have to imagine that in a supposedly free country. This coercive measure, I call it an unspoken occupational ban, has not only ruined me financially but also put me in a psychological situation from which a ‘new start’ has been impossible so far. You call that egomaniacal? I didn't know you until now, and it’s probably better that way. The few quotes in this article show that you yourself have more than egomaniacal narcissistic traits, and it is a disgrace and danger for our society that people like you are permitted to work in responsible positions.
Unfortunately, I am now fully convinced that a factual discussion with people of your ilk can bear no fruit except unbearable aggression.
You will undoubtedly succeed in bringing about the economic, cultural and intellectual, but also health-related downfall of this country, and in the end you will blame others for it.
One really has to be afraid of such people.
‘Mirko’ added:
Such and similar unworldly comments, which one finds again and again mainly from the Green pen, speak volumes about how our sick system overfunds highly unfit politicians who are dangerous to society.
They believe themselves safe from prosecution within their parliamentary immunity, so that not infrequently their own narcissism is given free rein. During the Corona period, damage to reputation, coercion, blackmail, incitement of the people, negligent bodily harm, negligent homicide, fraud, and who knows what else would certainly have become the subject of legal processing and trials.
Conclusion: If you have no education, are intellectually at a low level, want to live out your weak ego and project your childhood rage onto others, you should apply to the Greens. They obviously take anyone and pay above the pay scale.
And ‘Eckat’ added:
‘I make 25,000 euros a month…’
Wrong!
She is paid €25,000 a month.
Whether she earns it may well be doubted.
Nuff said, eh, with perhaps the well-worn quip, ‘if at night of Germany I think…’
Sigh.
OT, but since you live in Norway, it might be of interest:
[https://petersweden.substack.com/p/norway-locked-man-in-psychiatric]
Full title: "Norway LOCKED man in psychiatric ward for questioning mRNA shots"
Totally disgusting.