Georg Danzer would have turned 75 this year. Unfortunately, lung cancer killed the Viennese songwriter, lovingly called “Schurli”, in 2007. Sad. But at least Danzer’s songs for peace and a more relaxed relationship with drugs outlast time. And some permanently stressed contemporaries of the present should listen to them once (they are available on Spotify, by the way). They have a calming effect on the puking I’m-at-180-and-type-my-anger-in-280-characters-on-Twitter-mind. In the song “Was that hashish?” Danzer describes a, well, hashish intoxication: “Honey, tell me what’s going on / Please what dose was that? / I’ve got the sunshine in my blood / I feel incredibly good.”
So to the actual topic of this text: the Twitter feud between Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and the Dachau Bundestag member Michael Schrodi (SPD). Söder tweeted in his role as crisis-managing and concerned country father: “The traffic light has misjudged the situation. It is inappropriate to abolish the epidemic emergency and legalize drugs at the same time. That is a fundamental mistake.” And what a! You just have to think the Söder logic through to the end: Once the traffic lights have legalized cannabis, Germans would rather smoke weed than get vaccinated and fight the pandemic. It’s as clear as day.
Michael Schrodi is someone who doesn’t understand. He wrote under Söder’s tweet: “My advice: Never tweet and consume drugs at the same time. Most of the time, texts like the one above come out.” Very cheeky – and a case of fake news. Because just assume: If Söder had actually pulled a joint, as Schrodi speculated, the Prime Minister would never have tweeted these sentences. It would probably never have occurred to him to create a dubious connection in order to stifle the political competition and thus distract from the fact that he himself reacted far too late to stop the fourth wave. Rather, Söder would have chilled, maybe put on a Georg Danzer record – and felt incredibly good with sunshine in his blood.
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