It is unmistakable that the persistent heat is not only causing low water in the Rhine, but also in the brains of some people.

In road traffic, participants with tinted windows, in particular, behave as if in the race for the last available heat pump they have to clear the way of the competitors to the right and left.

Other contemporaries do not become aggressive at these temperatures, but rather depressed, while others again become pleasingly expressive.

Outstanding examples of this were the Federal Chancellor and Erika Steinbach.

Bertolt Kohler

Editor.

  • Follow I follow

Ladies first: The former CDU MP and President of expellees remembered herself on Facebook with a spectacular self-portrait that she shows on her home trainer – dressed only in a bikini.

The 79-year-old wanted to prove that she didn't wear a burka either at home or in the swimming pool, which we didn't necessarily expect from an AfD member.

The case of Erika Steinbach: Isn't the burqa better than the bikini?

Backbiters will say that in this case any burqa would have been a better choice than the bikini.

The photo reprinted by the "Bild" newspaper - although she no longer wanted to publish pin-ups - reminds us of the sentence of another grandmother, namely ours, according to which nothing disfigures a beautiful person, including what he doesn't wears

And Steinbach even looked good in the black SS uniform that a Polish postille had put on her years ago, which of course was far more suggestive.

Scholz could not appear as freely as the chair of the Desiderius Erasmus Foundation at his first summer press conference.

A Federal Chancellor in bathing trunks, it would have been said right away that the man likes to take a lukewarm bath.

On the other hand, he could have made it clearer than with his many words that you can't pick a naked man (once finance minister, always finance minister) in the pocket, which the SPD left are still trying to do.

The compromise then consisted of an open shirt.

Even during the course of the survey, Scholz was not quite as tight-lipped as on other occasions.

According to our count, he answered in monosyllabic only twice.

He even refrained from doing the last question, which one had feared would no longer be asked, although it was at least as important as the one after the threatening popular uprising: whether he, Scholz, missed Merkel?

The Chancellor escaped with a scholzomonic reply

What are you saying?

The outright negation would certainly have been resented by someone who constantly demands more respect.

On the other hand, admitting that he missed Merkel would have exacerbated the coalition crisis.

The chancellor also escaped this ingenious question trap with a scholzomic answer: he likes to call Merkel – but now he also likes to be chancellor.

Both sounded so plausible that one would gladly have believed him without further thought.

But the Chancellor had previously said that he would like to say to the investigative committee in Hamburg for many hours what he had said for many hours about the cum-ex scandal, namely that there was nothing more to say about it .

Maybe Angela makes Olaf Minna on the phone

Scholz would therefore be the first politician known to us who happily talks about his bad memory during such an interrogation. It is more likely that Scholz's use of the adverb "like" is an indication of irony.

That would also mean, however, that he really doesn't like answering journalists' questions (as stated at the beginning), that he doesn't like talking to Merkel on the phone (who knows how she puts him down) and that he doesn't like being chancellor either.

Despite the many crises Scholz has on his cheek, we cannot really believe the latter.

We probably have to get used to the fact that his messages are sometimes more ambiguous than those of his predecessor.

Scholzen's confession "I am human" still makes us think: Shouldn't one just like such a modest chancellor?