Jan Böhmermann relentlessly shows in ZDF Magazin Royale how much their ideals are worth to the Greens when government participation beckons. The TV review.
You can tell that Jan Böhmermann is from Bremen. If he were Hesse, he would have noticed in the run-up to today’s ZDF Magazin Royale that he is once again bringing truths to light that have long since been sunburned. In Hesse, after seven agonizing years of black and green, word got around to the last that the Greens primarily stand for a single political content.
If you now have the word “climate” in mind, you are most likely not from Hesse either. Because the political raison d’etre of the Greens is fed, loosely based on Al-Wazir and Wagner, primarily from one thing: to govern. And all the more so at any price. In Hesse, the Greens hardly make a secret of it. Or how else can it be explained that the once idealistic party is still clinging to the skirt of a CDU that has a Minister of the Interior Beuth in office, whose term of office is inextricably linked with a total failure in the area of right-wing activities in the police?
“The Greens betray ideals for power, but at least they still have ideals that they can betray,” says Jan Böhmermann. Anyone who likes to see a romantic transfiguration in this is spot on. Because if the Greens, especially in Hesse, were in the slightest concerned with their ideals, they would camp with torches and pitchforks in front of Peter Beuth’s Ministry of the Interior instead of supporting him. Or just in the end, forgetting the self-denial for a moment, consistently tearing up the coalition agreement. And let the CDU, which is greasy nationwide, see with whom they can cobble a majority for their policy out of Walter Wallmann’s moth box after the upcoming state elections.
Jan Böhmermann on the Greens: “A fucking normal party that forgets ideals and election promises”
But no, they don’t. Mantra: “Without us it would be even worse.” Where exactly, one wonders. And ends up back at Jan Böhmermann, who calls Boris Palmer, at least on paper a green one to this day, “the banana of German politics”: “It started out green, then became more and more yellow and is now black, with thick brown areas. “And who finally explains to a public gasping with surprise that Ländle’s father Kretschmann is about as green in terms of transport policy as Andreas Scheuer, if Andreas Scheuer could really be Andreas Scheuer.
Because actually that’s no longer an excitement. Jan Böhmermann asks in the main program of ZDF: “Could it be that the Greens are just a fucking normal party, like everyone else, who forget their ideals and election promises as soon as they are in power?” And answers himself: “Greens Politics goes with everything, like a black top or ketchup. “
And so the Greens have their campaigner Annalena Baerbock say about migration policy: “That must be the benchmark for the next federal government to rely on humanity in case of doubt and to say: We have space, we can save human lives” – only to then, so know Jan Böhmermann, thanks to her governmental power in Hesse and Baden-Wuerttemberg, is also voting in the Federal Council for “that refugees get even less money than they already get”.
Jan Böhmermann on Greens in the government: “Lukewarm and willing to compromise”
Because Greens in a government, that is only on paper and in the election campaign of the AfD a nightmare for rights. In reality, as Böhmermann sums it up neatly, “the Greens let their coalition partners push them around like a bobby car in a bumper car”. Or vote in advance obedience in the Federal Council that sows may be cruelly tortured for another eight years. Crate stall and preservation of vested rights for slaughterhouses: This is how green animal welfare can be read today.
“ZDF Magazin Royale” with Jan Böhmermann
“The Greens: betrayal of their own ideals”, from Friday, November 19, 2021, from 11 p.m. On the net: ZDF media library.
And so it is not surprising that the Greens let the coalition agreement of the traffic light degenerate into the “yellow pages”, as the Spiegel appropriately wrote. That the climate protection preventers and car fans of the “Porsche Party” (Böhmermann) FDP are now allowed to use the Ministry of Finance and Transport for more hum and less Greta on German motorways. And subsidize that at the same time, if she wants to. Or, Jan Böhmermann? “If you are lukewarm and radically willing to compromise, then of course that will also work with the traffic light coalition,” you say? I knew it.
Jan Böhmermann “forgets” the Green “successes” of the coalition negotiations
What you forgot to address, dear Jan Böhmermann: With Annalena Baerbock, we are sending a woman out into the wide world for the first time to represent ourselves as Foreign Minister in Moscow, Washington DC and Budapest. To stand up for our ideals of the rule of law, the welfare state and human dignity. Wait what? Before that, we even sent a Chancellor there, something like a senior? Bean counting. Green success.
And hey, finally, finally, finally someone with Cem Özdemir can become a minister whose last name sounds as if we exploited his ancestors as “guest workers” only to treat them like second-class people afterwards. Well, he is only allowed to take care of agriculture now (because the much more important Ministry of the Environment had to go to another for reasons of competence), but at least he is not Anton Hofreiter. Take that, Jan Böhmermann. (Mirko Schmid)
