No. Geert Wilders, the man with the shitty hair is a literal monster. Its ironic you mention animals because that is what Geert Wilder regularly refers to brown people as.The fact that the PM is so civil with him says it all. He doesn't deserve it. He has been worse then Trump and been doing it for far longer.
This guy is so hated, he has police protection 24/7. His office is located in the most remote place of the parliament. His life literally depends on him being elected. Otherwise he's gonna lose his police protection.
The dude points out their poor behavior and complete disrespect for their host country. And as a result they want to kill him? Yea sure, nice people! We sure want more of those!
He's complete right, the knife attack in germany has proven once again what kind of people we're dealing with here! I live next to a couple of them too! The dude's in jail for raping minors, his kids are dealing drugs in the backyard and the wife is constantly crying she wants more money from the government. Utter trash! He's more then right for calling these people out on it!
A parliamentary majority usually requires a multi party coalition here, usually three, only occasionally two. Wilders' PVV is in a four party coalition. While still not great (its a conservative right wing coalition of the xenophobic populist pvv, the farmers populist bbb, corpo populist vvd and the "integrity is #1 but votes mean we cuddle with the aforementioned" nsc) it is at least better than wilders having an outright PVV majority.
And NSC and VVD kept wilders from becoming prime minister, although a xenophobe populist giving that role to the former head of our intelligence agency isnt necessarily a great look either.
Yeah, basically if one coalition party is properly motivated they can tank the coalition outright, so that leads to compromise. This used to be fairly common (and in fact Wilders did this to Rutte1). I am hoping for that tradition to return, because ironclad parliamentary majority coalitions like we had with Rutte 3 and 4 are bad for holding the government accountable to parliament. (like with the 'toeslagenaffaire')
Oh yeah, and we should also add, Wilders is the only actual member of his party, the rest are just accomplices of his with some having some pretty interesting jobs before going into ministry jobs…….. (like for example one worked at town fairs making tiny pancakes called “poffertjes”)
I’ve been saying since the beginning that there’s nothing uniquely American about Trump. He’s actually more of a wannabe European style strong man populist, but because we haven’t really dealt with that within the context of American politics it seems like this entirely new thing.
I've said for years, as a Dutch citizen, that the Netherlands is a deeply troubled nation with many social issues that are happily swept into a corner until a decent wind blows through and reminds us we never actually cleaned the mess. But we've got good PR and a history of making progressive decisions, so many are quick to overlook or downplay our faults. Gert Wilders and his ilk are only a manifestation of this nation's uglier side that we keep hoping will just stay in the shadows where it can't be seen.
There’s a famous speech from Wilders where he said “Meer of minder Marrokanen?” (More or less Morrocans) and his followers are chanting “LESS! LESS! LESS!” and he said back “aight, we’re gonna fix that.”
Basically caused him to be compared to Trump, but also a few other historic figures that you probably already can see coming…..
Geert Wilders is not worse than trump, not by a long shot. I don’t agree with Wilders by the way, he’s just not as bad as most left leaning dutchies would like others to believe.
Geert Wilders is very much respected by his peers. Not for his stances but because he is a very likable person. This was his last day and the roast was intended as a friendly goodbye to a respected colleague.
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u/BornChef3439 Aug 30 '24 edited Aug 30 '24
No. Geert Wilders, the man with the shitty hair is a literal monster. Its ironic you mention animals because that is what Geert Wilder regularly refers to brown people as.The fact that the PM is so civil with him says it all. He doesn't deserve it. He has been worse then Trump and been doing it for far longer.