Chancellor duel, coordination with the AfD, MassingMos: there was a lot going on. But at least Lamar demolished the Halftime Show of the Super Bowl.
Guys, I honestly tell you: I didn’t look at the so -called chancellor duel on Sunday, February 9th, between Merz and Scholz. Of course not entirely, because of course not watching the live ticker. But what’s going on here again? In the last issue I wrote about the unholy Collab between Amthor and Fler (when feature on Fler’s album?!), A few days later Amthor and his CDU already made collab with the AfD in the Bundestag in a rather bizarre and dangerous campaign stunt CDU. And on Sunday Rapbattle from hell between Scholz and Merz and it is actually only about who is harder in migration policy, who continues when ignoring legal fundamental rights, who does a more beautiful figure as a deportation world champion. And problems such as care, climate, rent, growing income inequality? Avard me when someone is interested again.
The red line
In which upside-down world did we land there, did not actually want to halve the AfD? Instead, everyone – yes, also Robert Habeck from the Greens, Weirde – also takes over their topics and about the really important and unfortunately really complicated things like school, nobody wants to talk again. Cool, cool, cool, everything is so normal here. For this, hundreds of thousands have been on the streets in Germany, even in bumps conservative regions such as the Münsterland and Bavaria (shoutout at this point), because with the AfD things together are making a red line for many, even if they are Give a fairy tale of migration as the big problem of our time. After all, this is a little ray of hope, which is equally destroyed by the fact that the CDU/CSU, FDP and various media houses rumbling and murmuring that there must be some bad power behind the demonstrator: inside. Because who could just be angry about this campaign theater? The churches, which have also called for protests, then tried to put together Söder, who should keep out of politics. He probably had no longer had the name of his own party for a long time.
No warning, but inspiration?
I have the lousy feeling that various parts of politics have been degenerate too much from the United States in the past few months – and have not seen a warning, but rather inspiration. Carsten Linnemann from the CDU shows: Only last week he admired the Handelsblatt admiringly that Trump was acting while we were only talking. Ah yes, a suspected attempt at coup like Elon Musk and his Minions with their takeover of ministries seem to be striving for, of course, you can also rewrite. Is then plenty of euphemistic and dangerous. But Linnemann sees Trump’s bully behavior of the CDU’s salvation. Or at least his own.
How do you deal with a democracy that has long since buried any normal handling? That is the question that I am constantly asking myself these days. The question is: how do you deal with bullys when they have already grew up and you can no longer call their mothers. Back back?
We would also be at the early highlight of the week (or late highlight of the weekend, depending on the time zone and perspective): Kendrick Lamar’s half-time show at the Super Bowl of the US National Football League. After he was a guest at the performance of Dr. Dre occurred, followed his own coronation ceremony. After two Grammys for “Not Like Us”, this dispatch against Drake, who became a soundtrack for Kamala Harris’ election campaign, children’s birthday, perhaps appropriate. With the whole thing it is not really clear who is whose Bully is here.
Not only could Kendrick not be able to perform the song by drakes threatening gestures and action threats (even if you wonder: isn’t it enough? Boy, you won something like that, we all know it), the show was also a plenty of subtle , but still subversive examination with what it means to be a black entertainer in the USA, in 2025. Samuel L. Jackson gave the “Uncle Sam”, who kept kendrick again and again, please behave well and nicely consumable tracks to deliver. They also existed, at least apparently, but also hundreds of dancers: inside in blue, white and red costumes, which formed a dancing US flag for Kendrick’s performance of “Humble”.
Whether Trump, who looked at the game, the subtle hint, but please appear a little more modestly – this is how it read the black commentator: inside? Quite certainly not. The time for subtle messages seems over. I just wonder what comes next.