{"id":97586,"date":"2025-08-30T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97586"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:42:41","slug":"german-politicians-in-cologne-come-up-with-a-bold-strategy-lets-see-if-it-pays-off-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/08\/30\/german-politicians-in-cologne-come-up-with-a-bold-strategy-lets-see-if-it-pays-off-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"German politicians in Cologne come up with a bold strategy &#8230; let&#8217;s see if it pays off for them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I think I&#8217;ve got a vague idea of what&#8217;s going on in German politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugyppius.com\/p\/parties-in-cologne-elections-agree\" target=\"_blank\">eugyppius<\/a> can be counted upon to show me I still don&#8217;t have the first clue:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89030\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89030\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0-853x640.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/German-flag-by-fdecomite-CC-BY-2.0.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;German flag&#8221; by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21649179@N00\">fdecomite<\/a> is licensed under <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/?ref=openverse\">CC BY 2.0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/cc.svg\" style=\"height: 1em; margin-right: 0.125em; display: inline;\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg\" style=\"height: 1em; margin-right: 0.125em; display: inline;\"\/><\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/wahlkampf-bizarr-koelner-parteien-sollen-nicht-ueber-fluechtlinge-reden-68b018bad492032667a5d6dd\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BILD<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Bizarre muzzling agreement in Cologne&#8217;s local election campaign!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, <strong>Die Linke<\/strong>, and Volt have signed an agreement initiated by the Cologne Round Table for Integration to refrain from speaking negatively about migration during the election campaign &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In consequence: the only relevant party in the Cologne campaign that will address the negative aspects of migration is the <strong>AfD<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s right:<\/p>\n<p>Everybody from the rebranded ex-communists in <em>Die Linke<\/em> to the centre-right Christian Democratic Union have agreed to give <em>Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/em> a political monopoly over the most important issue of our era ahead of municipal elections in Cologne on 28 September.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rundertischkoeln.de\/fairness-abkommen-zur-kommunalwahl-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">dumbass signatories<\/a> have agreed &#8220;to respect the diversity of our society&#8221;; &#8220;to promote &#8230; tolerance and peaceful coexistence among people of different origins, cultures, and religions&#8221;; &#8220;not to campaign at the expense of people with a migrant background&#8221;; &#8220;not to stir up prejudice&#8221; and &#8220;not to blame migrants and refugees for negative social developments such as unemployment or threats to domestic security&#8221;. They have done this because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside even though it is plainly and objectively retarded.<\/p>\n<p>Should any signatory violate this agreement, the other signatories can cry to teacher by contacting designated &#8220;arbitrators&#8221;, in this case the chairman of the Cologne Catholic Committee or the superintendent of the Cologne Protestant Church Association. These people will then &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, have a sad and the tell the press about it, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, the CDU already stand accused of violating the agreement for circulating flyers in which they critique state plans to establish a 500-spot refugee intake centre in Cologne. Their transgression has given the spokesman of the Cologne Round Table for Integration \u2013 the excessively named Wolfgang Uellenberg-van Dawen \u2013 occasion to publish the following <strike><span style=\"color:red\">fatwa<\/span><\/strike> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rundertischkoeln.de\/mitteilung-an-die-medien\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I think I&#8217;ve got a vague idea of what&#8217;s going on in German politics, eugyppius can be counted upon to show me I still don&#8217;t have the first clue: From BILD: Bizarre muzzling agreement in Cologne&#8217;s local election campaign! The CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, Die Linke, and Volt have signed an agreement initiated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,28,53],"tags":[1577,188,554,1020],"class_list":["post-97586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-media","category-politics","tag-afd","tag-electionwatch","tag-immigration","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pnY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97588,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97586\/revisions\/97588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}