Thursday evening you will have a debate with the House. In one go after Madrid, yes. About farmers. No, boo, with a b. tractors.
I have collected suitable texts for you. If you want to say something statesmanly, or if you have any questions. Old texts of yourself. Like this one, for when they ask ‘I want to inquire with the Prime Minister about his emotions:’Anger, I really feel pure anger. My primary feeling is: go to Turkey myself. Have fun, I would like to say in plain The Hague.’
a classic, Summer guests 2016. We make Stroe from Turkey. Or Enschede? Is that close to each other, do you know that? Or Australia? Other than that, great text, nothing more to do. The decisiveness of the statesman and yet close to the people.
Oh, you don’t want to rush it like that? Then this one, also from old tape recordings: ‘As a society, we must ensure that the Netherlands remains the Netherlands. In which you can demonstrate but treat each other in a normal and civilized way.’ If you throw controlled anger into it, like you did then, it comes in like a punch in the stomach with a blunt object.
Also found: ‘You cannot make a choice about those values of ours, that which we have built up together in the Netherlands, you cannot say: I will take the freedom of demonstration out of the box, but I will leave the freedom of the press in the coffin for a while, and I go harass that NOS reporter. That is not possible.‘ Beautifully worded. And then instead of freedom of the press you say democracy and the rule of law, and instead of NOS you say something about the minister and manslaughter, because it is normal for NOS to be harassed these days.
Another classic, from 2015, about terrorists: ‘I’d rather they die in Syria.Have yet to chew on an update, explaining it’s meant to be metaphorical. Another one, about people attacking police and firefighters, 2019: ‘I prefer to beat them all up personally’.
Oh, you don’t want to polarize? I don’t see much polarizing in saying that you’re a proletariat ‘when you intimidate small children, destroy police cars, block highways in deadly fashion, while whining and spreading falsehoods. Those are facts.
Oh, rather not so factual? Then the robe. Another golden oldie, from the campaign, or no, Summer guests†Underneath this lies the fact that we have apparently given the impression for years: oh well, it will all be fine, you are already having such a hard time, you can sort it out yourself† You can vary endlessly. ‘That we have apparently given the impression for years: oh well, it will all be fine with that nitrogen, you are already having such a hard time, you can google your own facts and visit politicians with the tractor, and intimidate the RIVM and ramming the doors at provincial houses. We pretended it was fun, understandable and acceptable. We have given birth to a monster. I’m sorry.’ Then you keep it to yourself.
Oh, you don’t want to redo the content? But Van der Plas and that SGP guy want to ‘bring it wider’ and elevate the farmer to a martyr, like some kind of allowance parent or Groninger. I can prepare something for that along the line that only a crazed political opportunist dares to compare the suffering inflicted on the people of Groningen and the benefit parents entirely through no fault of their own and with a self-induced nitrogen crisis that everyone has been aware of for decades, while the scenarios for intervention have been known for years
Oh, am I going on? Fiercely? You mean you find it ‘intense’? For all parties? ‘Fiercely.’