By Months: Mart Helme
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
11 Speeches
The style is highly combative, emotional, and accusatory, employing hyperbolic phrases such as "catastrophe," "destroying," and "cynical." A narrative element (the taxi driver's story) and cultural references (Jakob Hurt, profanity as the new culture) are utilized to underscore the immorality of the government’s actions. Logical arguments are interwoven with powerful emotional appeals, labeling the opposition's activities as "populism" and "sheer stupidity."
09.2025
46 Speeches
The rhetoric is extremely combative, aggressive, and accusatory, repeatedly demanding the resignation of ministers and the prime minister. Strong emotional terminology is employed (e.g., "scandalous," "shameless political activism," "childish"), alongside historical comparisons (Goebbels, Mengele, Confucian society). The style is demagogic, focusing on the opponents' personal incompetence and falsehoods, accusing them of feeding the public vague nonsense.
06.2025
33 Speeches
The speaker's style is highly aggressive, emotional, and accusatory, frequently employing strong and derogatory metaphors (banana republic, prostitution, sociopathic narcissist). Emphasis is placed on the government's incompetence and deceit, aiming to paint a picture of a corrupt "regime" and "mafia." The appeals are primarily emotional and value-driven, relying on public dissatisfaction and social media reactions.
05.2025
26 Speeches
The style is extremely combative, sharp, and confrontational, frequently employing direct accusations and derogatory phrases ("you are idiots," "propagandists," "demagogic nonsense"). The speaker utilizes emotional appeals, warning of the collapse of the economy and society, and compares the government to Soviet Estonian propagandists. He demands concrete answers, accusing his opponents of arrogance and evading responses, and uses historical parallels (the 1950s power outages, the Soviet Union's perestroika) to illustrate his points.
04.2025
19 Speeches
The speaker's style is extremely combative, aggressive, and provocative, employing highly emotional language and insulting analogies (e.g., "a draft bill reeking of Stalinism," "a flock of sheep," "genocide of future generations"). To support their arguments, they use historical parallels (the Soviet Union, Stalinism) and personal experiences (Chinese intelligence, being punished in school). The level of formality is low, and the objective is to ridicule and demonize the actions of their opponents.
03.2025
61 Speeches
The speaker's rhetorical style is extremely combative, emotional, and urgent, frequently employing strong accusations and negative labeling ("thief governments," "failed state," "agony"). The appeals are grounded in moral outrage (corruption) and fear (demographic collapse, a surveillance society, ethnic conflicts). The delivery is direct, relatively informal, and features repeated attacks on the personal and political credibility of opponents.
02.2025
43 Speeches
The speaker’s style is extremely combative, accusatory, and emotional, frequently employing insults and strong epithets (e.g., "corrupt," "helpless," "thief parties"). He appeals both to public outrage (lies, obfuscation) and to security fears (the danger of losing Ida-Virumaa, the Russian fifth column). The speech also includes references to historical knowledge and personal experience (ambassador in Moscow, farmer), and demands that opponents apologize.
01.2025
15 Speeches
The speaker employs a highly combative, critical, and urgent style, frequently utilizing emotional and colorful language (e.g., "secrecy mania," "rubber stamp," "potential state thieves"). They draw upon both personal anecdotes (such as the expense claims scandal) and broad ideological and historical comparisons (communism, the post-democratic era). The tone is accusatory, charging opponents with incompetence, double standards, and the imposition of ideological censorship.
12.2024
18 Speeches
The speaker's style is extremely combative, aggressive, and emotional, frequently using insults and strong accusations ("corrupt bandit gang," "wretched pedophile," "idiocy"). He uses a moral appeal, especially on the topics of child protection and personal responsibility (referencing his children and grandchildren), and threatens "vigilantism" if the state remains inactive. He refuses a "civilized debate" with the coalition, as he accuses them of constant lying and "stonewalling" (failing to respond).
11.2024
33 Speeches
The speaker's rhetoric is extremely aggressive, emotional, and often hyperbolic, employing strong personal and political accusations (e.g., labeling the coalition "slave owners" and the budget "the budget of stupidity and corruption"). He/She uses colorful and dramatic imagery (Estonia falling into the "mud league," wolves killing dogs) and frequently issues ultimatums and warns opponents of criminal liability. The style is more value-driven and accusatory than detailed policy analysis, although the speaker also references historical and philosophical examples (Albert Schweitzer, Tsarist Russia).
10.2024
50 Speeches
The style is extremely combative, accusatory, and urgent, emphasizing the country's catastrophic situation and the danger of reaching the breaking point. Strong emotional and ideological language is used, labeling the opposing side as "fascist" and a "puppet government." They often resort to personal attacks and quoting previous insults (for example, in the case of Jürgen Ligi), avoiding substantive political engagement when meaningful answers are lacking.
09.2024
37 Speeches
The speaker's style is extremely combative, urgent, and emotional, employing strong accusations such as "the corrupt," "state thieves," "scandalous," and "the road to Stalinism." Numerous historical parallels (the Brezhnev era, Stalinism, North Korea) and sarcasm (wind turbines for chopping up birds) are used to ridicule the government's actions. The emphasis is placed on highlighting the government's incompetence and immorality, demanding that ministers demonstrate competence and "turn on their thinking ability."
07.2024
18 Speeches
The style is extremely combative, dramatic, and urgent, employing strong emotional appeals and apocalyptic language ("criminal politics," "agony," "the doom of the nation"). Personal labeling is used (e.g., "Kihnu Maiden") alongside accusations of corruption, as well as historical and religious references (e.g., Prophet Reits). The speaker emphasizes that rational arguments are invalid because the system is "thoroughly and utterly corrupt."
06.2024
6 Speeches
The speaker’s rhetorical style is extremely combative and emotional, employing sharp and hyperbolic expressions (e.g., "agony," "an axe between the eyes," "brutal ripping apart"). The tone is accusatory and urgent, focusing on shaming the government and highlighting its irresponsibility. Instead of logical arguments, the discourse is dominated by emotional and value-based appeals to conscience and the capacity for rational thought.
05.2024
19 Speeches
The style is predominantly combative, sharp, and accusatory, utilizing strong emotional appeals and personal attacks (e.g., referring to the prime minister's "stupidity" and labeling the Reform Party a "criminal organization"). The speaker employs irony and historical comparisons ("There was such a beautiful saying during the Russian era") and repeatedly stresses the moral dimension and the lack of empathy in the government's actions. The criticism is often hyperbolic, characterizing the government's activities as "chaos" and "shameful."
04.2024
51 Speeches
The style of rhetoric is extremely combative, accusatory, and includes personal attacks, particularly aimed at the Prime Minister and the ministers. Strong emotional appeals and hyperbole are employed (e.g., "you are destroying your own people," "as murder"), underscoring the nation's collapse and the perceived abnormality of the situation. While specific answers to questions are demanded, the speakers simultaneously utilize sharp demagogic tactics and historical parallels (communists, colonizers). Both the delivery (diction) and the substance of the responses are publicly criticized.
03.2024
66 Speeches
The speaker's style is highly combative, aggressive, and frequently personal, particularly when directed at Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, whom they accuse of shamelessness, a contemptuous attitude, and outright lying. Strong emotional appeals are employed (such as "disaster course," "unbelievable cynicism," and "mafia state"), alongside rhetorical questions designed to undermine the credibility of their opponents. Historical parallels are drawn, notably referencing the Soviet party committee and quotes from Francis Bacon, to underscore the government's inefficiency and ideological fixation.
02.2024
52 Speeches
The style is fiercely combative, sharp, and highly emotional. It employs powerful accusations (such as "shamelessness spills over the edge" and "communist mindset"), and directly charges opponents with abuse of power and outright mockery. The argumentation is bolstered by historical and biblical parallels (Solomon, Pastor Kelch, the Vietnam War) and personal anecdotes (for instance, the departure of a Swedish businessman, or an experience with a Russian-speaking man in a shop). The overall tone is overwhelmingly pessimistic and cautionary, stressing the catastrophic consequences that will follow if the government does not abandon its rigid dogmas.
01.2024
74 Speeches
The style is extremely combative, aggressive, and personal, often employing offensive and disparaging expressions (e.g., "bungler," "Kaja Siimovna," "puppet figures"). The tone is alarmist and urgent, warning of war, the "perfect storm," and the destruction of the nation-state, and makes abundant use of emotional appeals. Historical parallels (Stalinism, 19th-century England taxes) and references to media outlets (Bild, Wall Street Journal) and public opinion polls are utilized.