Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck is back on X – with Swift codes and Take That
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After a long break, he is back on the Musk platform: Habeck announces an announcement on X. There will probably be something during the day. An album? A style criticism.
Robert Habeck is Back for Good on X (formerly Twitter). The Vice Chancellor wrote this in his tweet on Thursday. His first tweet has almost 2,000 comments, 2,000 reposts and has been viewed a million times. Habeck is back, and his profile is full of pop culture allusions and hidden hints: Back for Good – that was the hit of “Take That” in 1995.
back for good.
— Robert Habeck (@roberthabeck) November 7, 2024
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Habeck’s long Twitter break: The reason was a shitstorm
This post marked the end of an almost six-year break from the social network for the likely Green Party candidate for chancellor. In January 2019, Habeck sparked a shitstorm when he, then still party leader of the Green Party, posted a video during the Thuringian state election campaign. In it he said: “We are trying to do everything so that Thuringia becomes an open, free, liberal, democratic country, an ecological country.” It sounded as if Thuringia had to be freed from evil, an idea that was still considered absurd, at least at the time.
Shortly afterwards, Habeck wrote in a blog post: “Twitter is as aggressive as no other digital medium and in no other medium is there so much hatred, malice and incitement.” It wasn’t good for him or his communication. So he deleted his profile on the short message service.
He doesn’t want to leave “places like this to loudmouths and populists.”
And now, two days after the election of Donald Trump, after the collapse of the traffic light coalition, he is back. For good. “It’s easy to leave places like this to loudmouths and populists.” Making things easy for yourself cannot be the solution, wrote Habeck on the platform on Thursday evening. Their landlord is now called Elon Musk.
Olaf is a fool https://t.co/Yye3DIeA17
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2024
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Trump supporter Musk published his reaction to the collapsed traffic light coalition an hour before Habeck’s post. “Olaf is a fool,” he wrote about a tweet from an alleged former Holocaust denier, who in turn reported that the German “socialist” government had “COLLAPMED.”
Habeck and his Taylor Swift codes
Habeck now wants to get involved again and published his first video straight away. Habeck in a gray sweater, tanned, a chain on his wrist “Kanzler Era” is written on the chain – an allusion to the “Eras Tour” by the American singer Taylor Swift.
Different from here on out. pic.twitter.com/1qRcnW4i5c
— Robert Habeck (@roberthabeck) November 7, 2024
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Their tour was a complete success, a pop culture phenomenon. Prime ministers and presidents courted the artist and asked her to please play in their country. Swift easily filled entire stadiums – including in Germany – and tens of thousands of fans were still waiting in front of the concert arenas. Swift’s fans, the Swifties, often make necklaces like the ones Robert Habeck is wearing here. They have song quotes or album titles on them, and they exchange chains with each other in front of and on the group. A sign of inner connection. Habeck alludes to all of this, to Swift’s incredible popularity, to the loyalty and self-sacrifice of her fan base.
Until recently, the popularity of this woman Swift was even believed to have the miracle of deciding the US election, in the spirit of Kamala Harris, of course. So there is some evidence to suggest that Habeck recorded his hand chain video before US election day.
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His former colleague Lindner also comments on Habeck’s video
The 11-second video in which he makes this allusion is also very reminiscent in style of another politician who shaped the debate in Germany these days. The motif seems familiar, the lonely sitting in front of a desk, the papers that still have to be processed late at night. Hasn’t this happened before? There was. In a photo from the 2021 election campaign, FDP leader and now former Finance Minister Christian Lindner sits just as statesmanlike in front of enormously important papers. This similarity was also noticed by the FDP chairman, who reacted promptly to Habeck’s video, posting his own photo from that time and writing: “Image almost taken – the lamp was on the right.”
“Open to technology,” Habeck could have answered. But that might have caused him to fall back into old patterns, so he left it at that. The post is already attracting enough attention. And ultimately that’s all he cared about.
All Democrats welcome here, Robert! 🤝 Picture almost taken – the lamp was on the right. 😉 CL pic.twitter.com/aSpnw5SvYU
— Christian Lindner (@c_lindner) November 7, 2024
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Habeck’s video is just a teaser, a pure announcement of a longer announcement. In the last frames, Habeck breaks the fourth wall, as theater people call it, grins into the camera, his hand covers the lens, and everything goes black. There’s something else to come. A second video in which he will announce his candidacy for chancellor.
