Political beer-hall warm-up: Aiwanger attacks “odd figures” on talk shows

Hubert Aiwanger used the Gillamoos political gathering in Abensberg to attack what he described as contradictory federal policy and a media culture drawn to spectacle.

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only bullshit

The Free Voters leader cited debates over military service, including support now coming from Green politicians, and everyday crime that often goes without consequences for offenders. These issues, he said, were pushing citizens away from traditional parties and toward “saviors promising solutions from the left and the right.” Aiwanger argued that sensible people, including ordinary citizens and local politicians, needed greater visibility.

Instead, he said, the media and major talk shows had spent years producing “only bullshit” by inviting climate protesters rather than mayors, tradespeople or mothers. “They invited the odd figures because they were more entertaining than ordinary citizens,” Aiwanger said, despite having appeared regularly on major talk shows himself in recent years.

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They invited the odd figures because they were more entertaining than ordinary citizens.

He also argued that young people had been told there were 72 genders but had not been told how they could eventually afford their own home. Aiwanger again promoted what he called a politics of “common sense,” saying it was needed to control what he called left-wing and right-wing “troublemakers.”

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They told young people there were 72 genders, but they could not explain how they would eventually get their own house.

The Free Voters leader repeated several of his established demands, including abolishing the carbon tax on fuel and making it easier to shoot otters. He criticized what he called impractical decisions from Brussels and accused Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber of representing Chinese and American interests. He also suggested that talk shows should address healthy nutrition, saying many dogs and cats were now fed better than their owners. Gillamoos is one of Lower Bavaria’s largest and oldest folk festivals, and senior politicians traditionally appear in its beer tents on the festival Monday.

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so that we can get the troublemakers from the left and the right under control