By Months: Helle-Moonika Helme
Total Months: 9
Fully Profiled: 9
11.2025
28 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly combative, critical, and insistent, employing strong accusations directed at the government, including lying to and misleading the public. It appeals both to emotions (a national disgrace, future victims of crime) and to procedural correctness, demanding accountability and access to the threat assessments. It uses phrases such as "sales pitch" and "living like a worm."
10.2025
27 Speeches
The rhetoric is direct, demanding, and repetitive, focusing on procedural clarity and the demand for accountability. The speaker employs logical appeals, demanding answers that would satisfy "the entire Estonian people," and is critical of ministerial incompetence.
09.2025
45 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, confrontational, and alarmist, employing powerful imagery and personal attacks (e.g., a North Korean news broadcast, labeling ministers as incompetent). The speaker heavily appeals to emotions, emphasizing fear, injustice, and the moral responsibility of the government. They repeatedly use citation ("quoting the classics") and accuse the respondents of "gaslighting" or outright lying (the procedural question regarding the 5 billion).
06.2025
28 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and urgent, stressing the poor state of the country and the immorality of the government's actions. Strong emotional language and sarcasm are used, accusing opponents of presenting "half-truths," "obfuscating," and "trolling" the public. Appeals focus on exposing the government's lies and ethical shortcomings (e.g., farm payments framed as "bribery"). The speaker frequently uses rhetorical questions and ironic phrases ("an education project beneficial to the state").
05.2025
53 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, sarcastic, and emotional, often employing sharp accusations directed at the government (incompetence, stupidity, arrogance). The speaker uses plain language and appeals directly to the public's sense of justice, emphasizing that the government has made life difficult and impossible. Strong metaphors are utilized, such as "Trojan horse" and "selling the air" (CO2), and opponents are criticized for deploying "liberal tactics."
04.2025
26 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely aggressive, cynical, and emotionally charged. Strong labels are used (e.g., "green hysteria," "liberal terror," "monkey business") and opponents are accused of arrogance and incompetence. Rhetorical questions and sarcasm are frequent, especially concerning tax policy and government promises ("you still can't endlessly pave potholes with propaganda").
03.2025
40 Speeches
The style of rhetoric is extremely combative, accusatory, and urgent. Strongly emotional and scandalous expressions are used (e.g., "a swamp of lawlessness and arbitrary justice," "crime against humanity," "hormone-fueled teenager"). Rhetorical questions and anecdotal comparisons (e.g., the story of the pig and the apartment) are often employed to ridicule the government's actions and expose their self-justification.
02.2025
31 Speeches
The rhetoric is extremely confrontational, aggressive, and accusatory, utilizing strong emotional expressions (e.g., "blatant twisting of the law," "bad prime minister," "egregious attempt at state theft"). The style is direct, focusing on exposing government corruption, deceit, and lying. Rhetorical questions are often employed, and opponents' arguments ("childish arguments," "fairy tales") are presented as demagoguery.
01.2025
12 Speeches
The style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotional, often employing strongly negative judgments ("robbery project," "abnormality," "terror"). It appeals to "normally thinking people" and stresses the hardships of people's daily lives, citing the situation of a mother of four children as an example. It uses irony and historical comparisons (Lysenkoism) and directs sharp rhetorical questions at the government.