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The AfD is hiding behind a mask, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a hollow head and Russian President Vladimir Putin almost suffocates trying to devour Ukraine – the Rose Monday parades are on the road again and criticizing politicians and the media.
In the carnival strongholds of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz, the Rose Monday parades are the highlight of the carnival. Thousands of costumed revelers lined the train routes. Düsseldorf in particular stood out with caustic criticism. It was once again the wagon builder Jacques Tilly who delivered the toughest and most impressive wagons.
About Scholz as a brainless “Hohlaf” Tilly says: “This is our comment on his chancellorship: At the beginning we all thought: a smart man with strategies and overview. But now we know: This is just a small civil servant who is overwhelmed by the job. He just doesn’t do anything.”
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Keystone/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is also not getting off well in Cologne. There he is depicted as a sloth on a cart.
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Keystone/Oliver Berg
Cologne is also taking a hard line against its Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock. She is shown as a bull in a china shop.
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Keystone/Oliver Berg
Back to Düsseldorf: Former President Donald Trump is shown there with a US flag into which he had previously cut a swastika. Wagenbauer Tilly says: “If this man gets back in charge, he will unleash a revenge agenda across the country and will likely damage American democracy beyond recognition. That’s totalitarian, and that’s why this comparison isn’t too wrong, I think. In the end, this is a warning.”
The Ukraine War is also discussed at the Rose Monday parades in Düsseldorf. Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown near a car nearly suffocating as he tries to devour Ukraine.
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Keystone/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
Tilly also ventured into the Middle East conflict: here, a Hamas terrorist pushes a Palestinian family in front of an Israeli tank. “Both sides are not doing well with this car.”
When it comes to the AfD, the car manufacturer decided on a clown who takes off the AfD’s friendly mask – a skull appears behind it. Since the revelations about the Potsdam right-wing meeting, it has been clear who the brainchild of the AfD is, says Tilly.
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Keystone/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
This is now driving people onto the streets – which is what a second car expresses on the subject: a small, poisonous fish with the speech bubble “We are the people!” eaten by a much larger one. Its inscription: “We are more!”
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Keystone/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
The former mayor of the city of Düsseldorf also doesn’t fare well at the Rose Monday parades. He is shown on a wagon as a servant of “Queen” Sahra Wagenknecht. He is supposed to be their new “cartboy”. The background is the report that Geisel wants to enter the European Parliament for the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW).
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Keystone/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
You have “a board in front of your head”. In Cologne, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s head of state Xi Jinping are criticized.
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Keystone/Rolf Vennenbernd
Not only individual people or parties are criticized, but also the media. In Düsseldorf they are accused of only having eyes for wars and forgetting about global warming.
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Keystone/Federico Gambarini