Last week, rumors echoed that President Donald Trump had died. Some famous people, such as Minnesota Governor (and future presidential hopeful?) Tim Walz, got “in trouble” for saying things that sounded a little too much like wishing Donald Trump dead.
Trump, of course, was alive and making news on Monday.
But for real death rattles in politics we have to go to Germany.
An election is looming and it appears from news reports that more than a handful of politicians standing for election died suddenly. But it’s not a general curse upon politicians. The deaths have happened in one party, the controversial “far right” party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
“Six candidates from Germany’s right-wing AfD Party have died within a 13-day span,” The Daily Wire reports. “As local elections approach, officials say that at least two deaths have been confirmed to be the result of natural causes and that no foul play is currently suspected.”
The two designated natural deaths occurred within the same state, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Two candidate deaths in the same party in the same political region leading up to the same election day has to raise eyebrows. A fluke?
It turns out that the other four suspiciously dead candidates hailed from the same region, and the authorities still suspect nothing.
“Despite the police ruling out suspicious circumstances, retired economist Stefan Homburg claimed in a post on X that the number of candidates’ deaths was ‘statistically almost impossible,’” the U.S. edition of The Independent informs us. “His post was later retweeted by the AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel, while AfD supporter and billionaire Elon Musk responded to the tweet with an exclamation mark.”
Rumors about this won’t die as quickly as the Trump rumors last weekend.
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2 replies on “With an Exclamation Mark!”
There is no such thing as coincidence, especially in politics.
Sometimes a deep state acts in part to say to us “Whatcha gonna do about it?”