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Especially when beliefs, such as the evils of Whites standing up for their interests, are so engrained in people’s minds after a lifetime of propaganda. And you’ll lose your friends and family, and maybe your job. It’s an uphill struggle.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2024
Hello USA and Europe. In case you were wondering what awaits all nations once they are finally overrun by the Third World…here is a short walk through of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the street next to the Carlton Center, previously the most prestigious and wealthy part… pic.twitter.com/NDLTZwKA0A
— Volkstaat (@Volkstaat10) October 6, 2024
Relevant to Tobias Langdon’s recent article on Jewish and leftist physical appearance.
NYTimes op-ed: “‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins.”
When I heard my community of mostly secular Jews use the word shiksa growing up, it wasn’t really used as a slur; it was used as a referent for the conventional American ideal of beauty. It was understood that as Jewish women, we purportedly existed outside this ideal. We were assumed to be emasculating scolds, obligations men were saddled with rather than women to be desired.
Our looks were all wrong and in need of expensive plastic surgery or hair treatments to even attempt to measure up. The feeling was summed up by a line from a throwaway character, apparently post-makeover, in a Season 2 episode of “Sex and the City” that first aired in 1999: “Well, you know, my boyfriend and I were really compatible, except for one thing. He liked thin, blond WASP-y types, so … now I am.”
That’s because the shiksa stereotype looms large in American pop culture as an object of Jewish male desire. It was largely constructed in the mid-20th century by Philip Roth, Woody Allen and Neil Simon. Writing in 2013 for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Menachem Kaiser described the stereotype succinctly:
By the 1980s, what I’ll call the Allenesque Jew/shiksa split was entrenched: Jewish = nonathletic, brainy, neurotic, pasty, dark-haired, profoundly unhealthy parental relationship, usually from the New York area; shiksa = healthy, WASP-y, carefree, blond, supportive (if judgmental) parents, from the Midwest or from a home that might as well be in the Midwest.
But it’s not 1980, 1999 or even 2013 anymore. It’s no longer shocking or novel when a Jew dates or marries outside his or her religion — 61 percent of Jews who have married since 2010 are intermarried, according to a 2021 Pew Research report. Among non-Orthodox Jews, that number is 72 percent.
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Nearly every Jewish woman in the show is like this: manipulative, spoiled and selfish. They own ugly jewelry companies, breastfeed their children until they’re in kindergarten and try to control their families with money. They’re out to get Joanne and her equally blond sister, Morgan (Justine Lupe), because they see them as interlopers and as competition. As Esther Zuckerman wrote for Time magazine: “The series seems to loathe Jewish women, who are portrayed as nags, harpies and the ultimate villains of this story. I wanted to be swept away by a rom-com. Instead, I was faced with the reality that maybe this show actually hates me.”
By contrast, Noah is an actual saint — or if you prefer, a mensch. He’s a man of God who is depicted as the moral center of the show; he’s so perfect that at one point his brother, Sasha (Timothy Simons), who also has shiksa fever, calls him the “Jewish Jesus.” But also, no matter how inappropriate or commitment-shy Joanne is, Noah is a steady and adorable presence. His only flaws seem to be that he’s on a terrible basketball team, because duh, Jews are bad at sports, and he gives Joanne’s mother a bouquet of flowers that is way too big.
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The show’s creator, Erin Foster, converted to Judaism before she married her Jewish husband. Zuckerman and I aren’t the only ones to notice the negative depiction of Jewish women on the show, and The Los Angeles Times asked Foster about it. She elided the question in a way that’s telling, saying:
I think we need positive Jewish stories right now. I think it’s interesting when people focus on “Oh, this is a stereotype of Jewish people” when you have a rabbi as the lead. A hot, cool, young rabbi who smokes weed. That’s the antithesis of how people view a Jewish rabbi, right?
[Reality be damned, this is how to portray Jews in movies:] Maybe Foster missed the very popular 2023 Netflix movie “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” (based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s young adult novel), which featured a hot, cool, young rabbi played by Sarah Sherman of “Saturday Night Live.” It also features a Hebrew school classroom filled with a diverse array of Jewish children, showing that there is no one way to “look Jewish.” My kids loved that movie so much that my younger daughter asked if Sherman could be her rabbi.
In PR college, they will tell you that the press office of a government department or other big organisation is ready to provide truthful information in response to questions. They will carefully present the information to show themselves in the best light, and they will avoid mentioning embarassing details, but they should not tell you lies.
In reality, the opposite is often true. They will tell outrageous and unbelievable lies, or more commonly, competely ignore your questions. One of the remarkable things this writer has discovered is that they will often not even deny direct allegations of criminality! This should be encouraging to those fearful of lawsuits. If your allegations are true, and serious enough, they will not sue. They’ll just try to destroy you in other ways.
The following six stages are proposed:
Phase 1: Ignore or mimic incompetence. They don’t answer the phone, even after repeated calls. Their public phone number is out of service. They will ignore emails, or they are bounced back to you. A pro-life organisation took a month of daily calls and emails before they answered. The Irish Defence Forces and a dozen sundry civil servants did not reply to a lowball question about preparations for a Rwandan-style massacre of us ethnic Irish by ungrateful foreigners. The questions were based ón an interview by ex-Irish Times journalist John Waters with ex-US Army Michael Yon. Apparently a series of super secret shipping containers have turned up on Irish Army bases. Personnel are threatened and warned not to ask questions, or mention them. One Irish Army guy turned up dead, recently. The possibility is that the containers are filled with machetes, or explosives or high tech EMF weaponry.
Even if the rumours are true, it would be easy to issue a few soothing plausible lines, but they don’t bother. The fact that they don’t reply at all could meán that the rumours are not true, but that they are happy to let us think they are true, to make us afraid. Fearful people are easier to manipulate.
This is a very clever tactic, especially for controversial topics. Some questions are so pointed and precise that even to acknowledge they were asked, puts the press officer in a potentially lethal position. If the top boss knows that Junior has been asked about that very touchy subject, then he knows that Junior knows about that touchy topic. To save time and trouble, might it not be simpler and cheaper to send Junior to sleep with the fishes? Knowledge is power, but it can also be fatal.
Phase 2: Fake professional and competent behaviour. The PR man will give the appearance of taking your questions seriously and promise to get back to you within a reasonable time. He will have time for general chit-chat and will attempt to build rapport with you. He probably will never actually get back to you, but if he does, it will probably be a phase three answer.
Phase 3. Word salad. The PR man will give what he says is an answer to your questions. The information may well be true, but it does not answer the question. He will smilingly insist that the information is an answer to your question and will happily spend time talking and attempting to distract you.
These three phases are designed to discourage you. “They have a whole department of PR people, and they won’t even answer a simple question,” you might think. “They are giving me the run around. This is a pointless exercise.”
It is remarkable that they will refuse to deny serious allegations against themselves. Is it some type of weird game for them, to see how blatantly they can do evil things and get away with it? If they are asked, and do not deny them, presumably this is some protection legally if the questioner then repeats the allegations publicly.
It’s true that one contact with the Press Office asking an awkward question will not achieve much. But as the Zionists are well aware, a thousand people asking the same question, by letter, by phone or in person will put pyschological pressure on the PR boys who have to listen to the question. President Truman, in his memoirs, complained bitterly about the incessant stream of Zionists meeting him and making aggressive demands. (He complied with everything they asked him). Humza Yousef, the ethnic Pakistani former Prime Minister of Scotland, was the target of tens of thousands of complaints of racism because he complained that there were too many White people in Scottish civil service. He is now complaining about feeling unwelcome, and is publicly talking about leaving the UK. Not quite a victory, but perhaps the start of a victory?
Phase 4: Intimidation through mockery or direct threats. When asking Garda Press Office about the 200 refugee children who went missing from State care recently (https://www.thejournal.ie/noteworthy-investigation-missing-children-in-case-ogorman-6250375-Dec2023/), a PR man said in a kindly voice: Be careful…The PR man in the Irish Department of Children and Refugees is a Yorkshire man with the very Jewish name of Daniel Poyner. His response to the question about the missing refugee children, was to laugh. Hahaha. Nothing shows a man’s character more clearly than what he finds amusing. The interweb rumours are that the children are being sold into Rochdale-style prostitution, and then sold ón for blood, organs and adrenochrome. What kind of person thinks this is a laughing matter?
When asked his ethnic background, Daniel claimed to be highly offended, said it was irrelevant and refused to say. When asked if he was Jewish, he hung up the phone. Is it a touchy subject?
Phase 5: Fear and panic. The Press Office shows fear. It’s very rare to reach this level, but it is very funny for the persistent questioner to hear the fear in their voices.
The Garda Press Office claimed this writer had harassed them for several days, and they were refusing to deal with him. With a view to the recording of the conversation, they repeatedly asked: Do you understand? This was repeatedly answered with the question: Where are the missing refugee children? They hung up the phone. Gotcha!
The PR boys are aware of how well protected they are, and how well controlled society is. They know how infiltrated the opposition is. They feel they are untouchable, as long as they bend the knee to their masters, and avoid getting beaten to death on the street by enraged members of the general public.
They are only afraid of one thing: that their masters will cut them loose and sacrifice them to the wolves. Part of their job is to stop people asking awkward questions. If you persist in asking the question, then they have failed in their task, and their masters will not be happy.
What happens to PR men who don’t stop the awkward questioner? A former Sinn Fein PR man tried to commit suicide recently: he is facing charges of trying to persuade young teenage girls to have sex with him. A young journalist with Raidió na Gaeltachta was jailed last year. He had an experience common in these modern times to all us handsome, heterosexual men-about-town: After a half hour’s talking with a pretty lady, the lady wants to have sex with him. He obliges, and is horrified when she turns up later, all tears, vengeance and spite, swearing she was raped. The court found him guilty, and he has lost his job, his liberty and his reputation amongst those who believe the court ruled correctly. It’s possible that his only crime was to ask an awkward question, and that the lady was a honey trap.
It must be stressed that both Phase 4 and 5 are potentially dangerous for the questioner. You are making them angry, and they may seek to take revenge on you. This writer has five geese. He found a dead goose in his poultry run, and counted the remaining geese. Still five geese. Either the extra goose made it’s own way into the run and then died, or some poor local alcoholic was slipped a couple of hundred bucks to put the goose there, in a feeble attempt to intimidate.
The phases are not necessarily sequential. Edel McGinley of the NGO Immigrant Council of Ireland, started on Level Four, when asked if she was involved in the missing refugee children scandal. She accused this writer of being mad, claimed not to understand what the question was, and of not knowing about any missing refugee children. She briefly reached Level Five (Fear), and then flipped back down to Level Two: fake professionalism. Of two dozen politicians and officials asked if they were involved in kidnapping refugee children and selling them for body parts, blood and adrenochrome, she was the only one to actually deny being involved in “what you are taking about”. She also admitted that she had heard that some refugee children had gone missing, but didn’t seem either upset or interested. Her salary gets paid no matter how many immigrant kids go missing, of course.
If you want to do a little armchair activism, you could do worse than carry on the questions here outlined. It’s risky, but great fun! Daniel Poyner (+ 353 1 6473000 or 6473153 or 5393801) and the Department of Children PR boys are at Phase 4: Intimidation and mockery. If you are skilled, persistent and can show that you are aware — perfectly legally — of details of their personal lives you can probably nudge them into Phase 5: Fear and panic.
The Garda Press Office, despite their power, technology and access to secrets, are already afraid, when asked the simple question: Where are the cute little African and Asian missing refugee children? (tel: +353 1 662032 or /35/37/71/72. Andrew McLindon is the top press dog).
Fiach and Dylan are two homosexual sounding, but basically decent men who work there, who are clearly having trouble with their nerves, and maybe even their consciences. What will happen to them if they have to field another hundred calls asking what happened to the cute little missing refugee children?
There is only one way for them to go:
Phase 6: Total mental breakdown. This is a small victory, as they will be immediately replaced by new worker drones. But it will create tension amongst the PR team, and possibly some will leak crucial information about the missing refugee children to the resistance…
Beir Bua!
To balance out her being a DEI hire, Kamala Harris needed a regular white guy as her running mate. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party doesn’t have any of those, so Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. At the debate this week, the main function Walz served was to remind us that some white men are mediocre.
The media have been doing their level best to convince us that Walz is a salt-of-the-earth, white male, Trump-voting archetype.
This is a man who was so terrified of a virus that is less dangerous than the flu to 70% of the population, that he ordered his entire state locked-down, masked-up and unschooled for a solid year. Walz’s COVID restrictions continued long after even blockheads had figured out that the lockdowns accomplished nothing beyond destroying businesses, lives and children’s developing brains, dragging on through at least three different styles of useless paper face masks.
Hoping to distract from his party’s hatred of working-class white men, Walz incessantly boasts that he’s a “union man,” as if he’s Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront.” But he wasn’t a coal miner, a truck driver or steelworker. He was a teacher, meaning he spent up to eight hours a day in a comfortable, temperature-controlled classroom, couldn’t be fired and got summers off.
Walz obviously knows what an unimpressive figure he cuts, otherwise, he wouldn’t be constantly telling petty, image-boosting lies about himself.
He has, for example, come up with a million different ways of implying he served in combat in Afghanistan. In 2004, he held a sign for John Kerry that said, “Enduring Freedom Veterans for Kerry.” Similarly, in 2006, his congressional campaign literature described him as an “Operation Enduring Freedom veteran.”
In fact, he deployed to Italy, 3,000 miles away from any fighting. No big deal. I wasn’t in combat either. Neither were most Americans. Why must Walz lie?
Since being caught in this prevarication, he’s been using the Clintonian “technically true” trick, referring to his time in Italy as a deployment “in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.”
Walz has repeatedly claimed that, seized with patriotic fever the week of the 9/11 attack, he promptly reenlisted in the National Guard. “My 20 years,” he says “was actually, ironically enough, up that week of September 11, 2001, because of the time I had off and made up, so I reenlisted like, I think, the vast majority people did with a real uncertainty but wanting to with a real sense of wanting to do something.”
In response to media inquiries, the Minnesota National Guard recently clarified that he couldn’t have reenlisted that week because he wasn’t eligible for retirement for another year.
Walz has long claimed the title of “retired command sergeant major” — the highest rank possible for enlisted soldiers. After he was busted, his title was revised to “retired sergeant major.”
The Harris campaign put out a video about Walz when he joined the ticket showing him railing against gun, saying: “We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.”
Obviously, he never carried weapons in a war because he was never in a war.
The lie aside — what kind of badass, battle-hardened combat veteran supports gun control? Will the Democrats’ next macho man be David Hogg? (The demographic categories most likely to support Second Amendment rights are: Men, whites, non-college educated and gun owners — which Walz allegedly is. Of course, he’s also allegedly a man.) Democrats must really be running low on white men. They should try going to an NRA meeting.
Walz told a slew of lies about his 1995 drunk driving arrest (blood alcohol level 0.128) assuring the press that he wasn’t even drunk — in fact, he was allowed to drive himself to jail! — and he only failed the sobriety test because of a misunderstanding due to his hearing loss from service in the Guard. (Never has so little war experience been deployed in so many lies.)
Every one of those claims about his DUI is false.
This week’s whopper was Walz saying he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre, when, in fact, he was home in Nebraska. (But he still spent Christmas of 1968 in Cambodia with John Kerry.)
Asked about this latest tall tale at the debate, he said — actual quote:
“Look, I grew up in small, rural Nebraska, town of 400. Town that you rode your bike with your buddies till the streetlights come on, and I’m proud of that service. I joined the National Guard at 17, worked on family farms … ” and on and on for several hundred more words.
Moderator: “Governor, just to follow up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy?
“No.”
When it comes to the candidates’ detailed policy positions, I have trouble deciding between Harris’ “I grew up in a middle-class family” and Walz’s “I grew up in a small town.”
Considering that Harris’ entire political career has consisted of being an unqualified token minority, it’s only fitting that her running mate is an unqualified token white guy.
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| This was submitted as a comment, but I thought it was of sufficient interest to make a blog item.
*** Now a “coalition of losers” wants to govern Austria Following the FPÖ’s election triumph in Austria, the big losers ÖVP and SPÖ want to prevent the winner from joining the government and form a coalition. This could work with a surprise in the distribution of seats. According to the provisional final results, the FPÖ won the National Council elections in Austria with a historic result of 29.1 percent (+13.0 points). It came first for the first time. The ÖVP, which previously governed with the Greens, lost 11.0 points, more than ever before, and came second with 26.5 percent. With the worst result in its history, the SPÖ slipped to 21.1% (- 0.1 points) and third place for the first time. The Greens lost 5.9 points and only achieved 8.0%. They thus fell behind the left-liberal Neos, which gained 0.9 points to 9.0%. The other parties rejected cooperation with the FPÖ and its top candidate Herbert Kickl on election night. Instead, a coalition of losers is now emerging. The ÖVP and SPÖ together only achieved 47.6 percent. SPÖ and ÖVP have more seats However, this is enough for an absolute majority of seats in the Vienna National Council. Despite losing exactly 0.13 points and thanks to gains by parties not represented in parliament, the Social Democrats actually won one seat more than four years ago. Together with the Neos (17 seats), the majority against the election winner would be even clearer. Austrian journalists speak of a “sugar coalition” due to the color combination of turquoise, red and pink. An alliance would also be possible with the Greens, who have shrunk to 15 MPs. FPÖ leader Kickl: “Is that democracy?” Kickl expressed his anger at the losers’ will to power on election night: the parties that have ruled out a coalition with the FPÖ – above all the ÖVP and SPÖ – should be asked “what they think about democracy”. He continued: “If historically bad results are achieved, you can’t have done everything right.” The FPÖ leader emphasized: “Our hand is outstretched in all directions.” What is important now is what Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen (Greens) does and whether he respects the “beauty of the constitution”. Austria faces tough coalition negotiations A coalition between the FPÖ and ÖVP, which would have 110 seats, would actually be the easiest option. However, Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) had already ruled this out before the election and confirmed this on the evening of the election. His party would then only be a junior partner. In all other constellations, however, the ÖVP could provide the chancellor. Political observers are expecting tough and protracted coalition negotiations. Despite the biggest losses in the party’s history, the Christian Democrat Nehammer wants to remain head of government and believes he has received a mandate from the voters to do so. It is also likely that the Federal President will break with the tradition of giving the strongest party the mandate to form a government. Van der Bellen had already announced this approach during the election campaign should the FPÖ come first. P.S. From last year: Ukraine wants to stop gas transit from 2025 Ukraine will no longer transit Russian natural gas to the west from 2025. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz, Olexiy Chernyshov, in an interview with the US foreign broadcaster Radio Liberty. OMV obtains the majority of its gas from Russia – and via Ukraine. In the summer, warnings about this scenario were followed by reassurance. The transit contract with the Russian company Gasprom expires at the end of 2024. Chernyshov said that Ukraine would also pull out earlier, especially as Gazprom is not paying for the transit as agreed. Austria obtains around two thirds of its gas from Russia and via Ukraine. OMV has a long-term supply contract with Russia until 2040. Ukraine is already only sticking to transit because several European countries are still dependent on Russian gas, according to Chernyshov. “We also want to be a reliable partner for our European partners, for the countries that need it,” said the CEO. PS 2: China’s car industry is overrunning the competition in Russia. The withdrawal of Western car manufacturers due to sanctions has left a vacuum in Russia that is now being filled by Chinese suppliers. A return to German brands seems out of the question in view of the competition – even in the long term. |
The National Council election on Sunday marked a turning point. For the first time in the Second Republic, the FPÖ (Freedom Party) came in first place nationwide, and clearly so. Still, other parties have said they will not cooperate to form a government.
Analysis from an email listr:
Months of barrage of hate speech by the globalist media against the FPÖ (Freedom Party), intensified in the last four weeks and escalated to the point of total perversity two days before the election, when secretly filmed FPÖ mourners sang the song “When All Become Unfaithful, we remain faithful” (original, English subtitles) at the funeral of one of their comrades and fraternity members, which was written in 1814. “The song was an SS anthem“, so the hate media vomited and ranted: “Nazi song at funeral: These FPÖ politicians were there!”
It was in vain. The trend that had been consolidated by the AfD, from Thuringia to Saxony to Brandenburg, continued unabated in the Austrian National Election on September 29, 2024. The word “Nazi”, which for decades had a magical destructive effect when a liberal-national movement was given it by the globalist fake-news industry, no longer works. On the contrary, the term “Nazi“, which once seemed devastating and deadly, now guarantees election victories. “Nazirites”, those exalted by God, as Amos says, attract young people, because young people in Austria feel first-hand in the streets that they are being killed by migration. And young people notice that it is not the National Socialists who want to kill them, but the globalist democrats.
So it was only logical that one of the most honorable people in German history, the chairman of the FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, was able to defeat the globalists at the ballot box on September 29, 2024, and expose their death program.
From the Jewish Telegraph Agency:
Far-right party founded by former Nazis wins Austrian election
The leader of the Freedom Party has taken the mantle of “Volkskanzler,” formerly claimed by Adolf Hitler.
The showing by the Freedom Party, known by the acronym FPO, is unprecedented there since the end of World War II and adds to a wave of support for far-right parties across Europe.
FPO took 29% of the vote on Sunday, twice its tally from the last election in 2017, according to early results. The center-right party that currently leads the government came in second, with center-left and left-wing parties posting historically poor results.
Whether the FPO is actually able to form a government remains to be seen. Leaders of the other parties have sworn not to enter a coalition with its leader, Herbert Kickl, who has said he wants to be seen as “Volkskanzler,” a term meaning “people’s chancellor” that Hitler used to describe himself. FPO was founded in the 1950s by former members of the Nazi SS paramilitary group.
In the lead-up to the election, the Austrian Jewish Students Union protested against FPO, saying that the group’s rise augured danger for Jews and others in the country.
“As young Jews, we often confront the tragic question of who would have hidden us during the Nazi era,” Alon Ishay, the group’s president, said in a statement shared by the European Jewish Congress. “The FPÖ leader’s response is brief and chilling: Herbert Kickl would have deported us.”
The wave of far-right successes across Europe are driven largely by rising anti-immigrant sentiment and discontent with the governing parties; the parties are typically fiercely nationalist and, in many cases, pro-Russia. A far-right politician, Geert Wilders, won the Netherlands’ national election in December, not long after a politician once photographed wearing a Nazi armband won Italy’s election. The far right in France posted stronger-than-expected results in the country’s surprise elections this summer. And earlier this month, a far-right party won a state election in Germany for the first time since World War II.
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Kickl’s personal life
Kickl was born in 1968 in rural Carinthia in southern Austria. His schoolmates remember him as a contrarian in army surplus clothes.
Little is known about his personal life other than that he loves extreme sports and long hikes. However, Kickl has mastered the world of social media. He has been far more present on TikTok and Instagram than on the campaign trail and has avoided debates and interviews.
As Gernot Bauer and Robert Treichler, who recently penned a biography on Kickl, said in an Irish Times report, “For a politician, especially a party leader, Kickl is surprisingly shy and inhibited. “Kickl doesn’t want any unpleasant surprises, he wants to retain control of the story.”
Rise and rise of Kickl
After joining the FPÖ in 1995 — for the unaware, the party was founded by the Nazis — Kickl was elected to parliament in 2006 and was tasked by the party to run its media operations for 13 years. It was during this time that he penned several of the party’s slogans and rhetoric — some being termed as xenophobic.
As the years rolled on, he rose to the top and is credited with helping the party’s rise in popularity too. In 2017, he was appointed as interior minister after the centre-right Austrian People’s Party formed a coalition with FPÖ under Sebastian Kurz’s chancellorship. In his time as minister, he questioned the European human rights convention and even proposed renaming refugee facilities “departure centres”.
He was later fired owing to the cash-for-favours sting operation against then FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache.
In 2021, he took over the leadership of the FPÖ amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It was amid the pandemic that Kickl used the hatred against lockdowns and vaccinations to garner support.
Kickl’s ambition to be ‘Volkskanzler’
However, many view Kickl as a danger for Austria. He views Hungary’s Viktor Orban as his hero and many of his policies are Orbanesque.
For instance, he is anti-immigration and for this election came up with the vision to build “Fortress Austria”. He wishes to overhaul Austria’s immigration system, registering all new arrivals and detaining them in specialist facilities. The party is also proposing to introduce “remigration” of “unwanted strangers” — deporting migrants to their country of origin.
He has also spoken of becoming Volkskanzler (people’s chancellor), a term that many associate with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. However, he denies that Volkskanzler is a Nazi reference, adding that numerous politicians in the past have claimed the term.
Moreover, some believe that a slogan in this election campaign — Thy will be done — invokes the previous line in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come”—in German, Dein Reich komme, a reference to the Third Reich.
It is because of these reasons, perhaps, that Kickl will find it difficult to find coalition partners. In fact, Austria’s Karl Nehammer, of the rival conservative Austrian People’s Party, has called the 55-year-old a “right-wing extremist.” Moreover, Andreas Babler, leader of the left-wing Social Democratic Party, even told Kickl during a TV debate, “I think you are extremely dangerous.”
A former acquaintance of Kickl also told the Irish Times that the 55-year-old’s mistrust of everyone around him also makes it difficult to be his ally.
But another chimes in, saying to the newspaper, “Herbert reminds me of someone with a substance addiction, but in his case the substance is political moods and majorities. He’s an expert at spotting what people need now, and manipulates language to shift the public mood. He loves recognition for that but, like all addicts, he will never be satisfied.”
Even others agree that if Kickl came to power in Austria, the country’s role in the EU would be “significantly different”. As Kathrin Stainer-Haemmerle, a political science professor at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences told Reuters, “Kickl has often said that [Hungarian Prime Minister] Viktor Orban is a role model for him and he will stand by him.”
