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Andreas Backhaus
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    May 2, 2025
    As a German, I might have to disagree with the notion that extremist parties can't be extremist because they are popular.
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    Secretary Marco Rubio
    Department of State
    @SecRubio
    May 2, 2025
    Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Jul 31, 2020
    Replying to @AndreasShrugged
    The German -10.1% contraction simply compares Q2 to Q1 in 2020. What's the corresponding % for the US? It's -9.5% (you can find that easily at the NYT)! So when comparing apples-to-apples, the US economy contracted LESS than the German one from Q1 to Q2!
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Oct 11, 2020
    German journalist (public broadcasting) in D.C. says while he isn't eligible to vote in the U.S., he has received 3 mail-in ballots to his Washington address: 1 for previous tenant who moved out 5 years ago, 1 for landlord living in Puerto Rico, 1 for landlord's deceased husband.
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    Stefan Niemann
    @SNiemannARD
    Oct 10, 2020
    Das von #Trump beklagte Chaos bei Zustellung #Briefwahlunterlagen gibt es. - Ich darf hier nicht wählen. An meine #Washingtoner Adresse kamen aber 3 #Wahlzettel: für vor 5 Jahren verzogene VORmieterin, in #PuertoRico lebende VERmieterin und deren verstorbenen Mann. #uswahl2020
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Nov 29, 2024
    Replying to @IanJaeger29
    Joe Rogan is a coward.
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Oct 25, 2024
    Ich verstehe Habeck so, dass er von Musk wissen will, wie die X-Algorithmen funktionieren, damit Musk als Plattform-Eigentümer den öffentlichen Diskurs nicht zugunsten seiner eigenen politischen Interessen verfälscht. Also argumentiert Habeck hier GEGEN Zensur und Manipulation.
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    Beatrice Achterberg
    @BeaBovary
    Oct 25, 2024
    Die Zensurfantasien von Robert Habeck und seinen Grünen sind nicht mehr akzeptabel.
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Feb 28, 2025
    Replying to @RichardHanania
    What about these stupid questions and comments about his dress?
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Oct 16, 2020
    Fact check: Lie. 11 of Trump's 161 district court appointees are Black, according to Federal Judicial Center data.
    Senate approves Trump's first black female judge nominee
    From detroitnews.com
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Dec 7, 2024
    Replying to @realDonaldTrump
    Only Trump can get away with blaming Obama for not having enforced a red line of U.S. foreign policy, which would have meant getting heavily involved in Syria, and simultaneously calling for America to stay out of other countries' conflicts.
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    May 30, 2025
    Wernher von Braun was so American, he basically arrived on the Mayflower.
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    Logan Hall
    @loganclarkhall
    May 30, 2025
    Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
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    Wernher von Braun, the Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket which carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, was a German immigrant and a Nazi. He was granted American citizenship in return for transferring Nazi rocket science to the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_v…
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Apr 18, 2025
    Replying to @JDVance
    Does the "so we might live" extend to the Ukrainian children, women, and old people that are killed by Russia under your watch?
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Jan 27, 2021
    It will remain an unresolved mystery how a populist anti-establishment candidate could ever win the presidency.
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    Daily Caller
    @DailyCaller
    Jan 27, 2021
    John Kerry is asked what his message would be to oil and gas workers who "see an end to their livelihoods": "What President Biden wants to do is make sure that those folks have better choices... That they can be the people to go to work to make the solar panels."
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Sep 1, 2020
    Biden attacks Trump for not providing security. He also attacks Trump for restoring security by force. Similarly, Biden attacks Trump for post-lockdown unemployment. He also attacks Trump for not locking down long enough. I guess consistency is out the window in election season.
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    Joe Biden
    @JoeBiden
    Aug 31, 2020
    Donald Trump keeps telling us if he was president, you'd feel safe. Well, he is president — whether he knows it or not.
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Apr 12, 2025
    Replying to @JustinWolfers
    People aren't receptive to sarcasm these days...
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    Andreas Backhaus
    @AndreasShrugged
    Nov 26, 2021
    Frage in #bpk: "Chef der Vertragsärzte #Gassen hat sich empört, hoch empört gezeigt über Ihre Kritik der ärztlichen Standesvertreter..." #Wieler: "Die Empörung, die ich über viele Äußerungen von Herrn Gassen empfinde, habe ich hier noch nie geäußert..." Ein ❤️ für den RKI-Chef.