By Months: Martin Helme
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
17 Speeches
The rhetorical style is very combative and accusatory, employing highly emotional language to describe the event's content ("disgusting things," "swore," "ending in rape"). Sarcasm is used ("the experience was truly great"), along with a moral appeal, to emphasize the unacceptability of the content presented under the guise of culture.
09.2025
60 Speeches
The style is extremely combative, aggressive, and often personally insulting, utilizing strong hyperbole and colorful metaphors ("clown show," "drunk sailor in a brothel," "circular firing squad"). The emphasis is placed on emotional appeal and the perception of crisis, demanding accountability and resignations. Frequent repetition is used (e.g., "complete failure," "lie," "bluff"), along with references to pop culture ("Fawlty Towers").
06.2025
11 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, aggressive, and emotional, frequently employing strong accusations and derogatory phrases ("government of liars," "Reform Party mafia," "foul-mouthed screamer Ligi"). The speaker relies on hyperbole and systematic false accusations to underscore the government's failure, maintaining a consistently hostile and insistent tone. He repeatedly uses the charges of "lying" and "corruption" to characterize the government's activities.
05.2025
42 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely aggressive and confrontational, employing strong personal accusations and insults directed at opponents ("you are fools," "you are a liar"). There is heavy use of sarcasm and hyperbole (e.g., referring to Estonia as an "empire"), while simultaneously stressing the vital importance of the issues (the threat of war, the survival of the nation). Appeals are made both to the public's fears (war, impoverishment) and to alleged economic facts, accusing opponents of "talking rubbish."
04.2025
23 Speeches
The tone is predominantly combative, disdainful, and accusatory, particularly aimed at the government and opponents ("absurdity," "lying," "despicable," "green scam"). It employs strong emotional appeals, positioning itself on the side of "ordinary people" against bankers and the corrupt elite, referencing Donald Trump. It utilizes irony and hyperbole (e.g., a Goebbelsian scale) and accuses opponents of reckless behavior.
03.2025
19 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, accusatory, and dramatic, repeatedly employing strong and condemnatory terms such as "bankruptcy," "lying," "corrupt clique," and "medical mafia." Emotional appeals and figurative comparisons are used (e.g., the old aunt under the rose bush, the cudgel of Putinism), and many rhetorical questions are posed regarding the government's lack of a plan. The speech is direct and purposeful, focusing on attacking opponents.
02.2025
18 Speeches
The style is extremely confrontational, accusatory, and combative, repeatedly employing words like "lying," "corruption," "arrogance," and "shameful." It utilizes powerful metaphors (e.g., "rotten egg," "enforcer," "perpetuum mobile") and focuses on the opponents' personal unsuitability and ethical dishonesty, rather than detailed policy analysis.
01.2025
6 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly aggressive, accusatory, and urgent, issuing warnings about Estonia's impending bankruptcy. It employs sharp and emotional expressions, labeling opponents as "unfit," their actions as "fraud," the system as a "mafia protection racket," and climate policy as "climate communism." The style appeals directly to confrontation and uses rhetorical questions to emphasize the unreasonableness of the government's actions.
12.2024
20 Speeches
Highly confrontational, emotional, and accusatory, employing strong and colorful language to describe the government ("pedophile mafia," "vile politics," "tax on incompetent management"). It appeals to moral panic and the national instinct for self-preservation, particularly during the debate on the child protection law. Recurring metaphors are used (e.g., "stepping on the same rake for the third time") alongside personal attacks against opponents (Jürgen Ligi, Kristen Michal).
11.2024
26 Speeches
The style is highly confrontational, sharp, and emotional, employing strong metaphors and labeling (e.g., the budget is "filth" or "swill," and abortion funding is "murder"). It accuses opponents of lying, incompetence, and cynically spreading panic for political gain. It demands accountability and clear communication from the government, especially regarding security issues, and criticizes the prime minister for laughing about a serious matter.
10.2024
37 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely aggressive, sarcastic, and confrontational, employing strong emotional charges and personal insults (e.g., emphasizing the minister's incompetence, dishonesty, and misogyny). It often utilizes hyperbole (e.g., "schizophrenic stances," "you are perverts") and draws comparisons to the Soviet era ("planned economy," "the BAM project"). The speaker's goal is to discredit the opponent; the content is often presented as the antithesis of "defending the honor of the uniform."
09.2024
35 Speeches
The style is extremely confrontational, accusatory, and emotional, characterizing government members as "pathological liars" and "Putin's henchmen." It often employs irony and strong labeling (e.g., "fools and corrupt individuals") to emphasize the government's incompetence and ideological corruption. There are repeated demands directed at the Speaker to stop the ministers' lying and restore respect. It appeals both to facts (economic figures) and national sentiments (Russification, defending freedom).
07.2024
13 Speeches
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, accusatory, and emotional, frequently employing strong language such as "brutal deception," "blatant lying," and "the government destroying Estonia." Irony is utilized (for example, "the tax on cute bunnies jumping in a fallow field") to ridicule the government's attempts to justify its taxes. There is a direct appeal to the public's poverty and sense of injustice, urging them to protest and vote with their feet (by shopping in Latvia or registering vehicles abroad).
06.2024
9 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotional, particularly on issues of corruption and unethical behavior, repeatedly employing the word "outrages" and referring to a "sense of impunity." He presents his views directly and aggressively, accusing opponents of engaging in hocus-pocus and smirking in the face of the public. Although the rhetoric is emotional, he supports it with concrete claims regarding the value of options and budgetary expenditures.
05.2024
38 Speeches
The style is sharply confrontational, accusatory, and forceful, utilizing strong ideological labeling (e.g., "Putinists," "Russifying Prime Minister," "satanic death culture"). The speaker balances detailed factual criticism (numbers, procedures) with emotional and rhetorical appeals, emphasizing the illegitimacy of the government's actions. He/She uses irony and comparisons (e.g., Soviet propaganda, the bank robber Willie Sutton) and repeatedly poses rhetorical questions.
04.2024
48 Speeches
The rhetoric is extremely combative and accusatory, often employing strong epithets ("pathological liar," "new fascists," "red instincts"). The style is alarmist, emphasizing a national crisis and the death of democracy, and appeals to emotions by accusing opponents of systematic lying and violating the law. It frequently draws historical parallels with communism and totalitarianism.
03.2024
65 Speeches
The tone is extremely combative, sharp, and accusatory, often employing strong emotional appeals and resorting to labeling. Government policy is consistently branded as "communism," a "criminal gang," and "ultra-red," while the discussion surrounding the climate crisis is dismissed as a "grandiose Goebbelsian lie." Hyperbole is utilized ("it is painful to listen to such foolish talk") alongside threats regarding political accountability (tarring and feathering, "you will get a rebellion").
02.2024
31 Speeches
The style is predominantly combative, aggressive, and cynical, employing strong metaphors ("jellyfish," "classical platnoids," "mafioso way"). Emotional appeals are utilized, accusing the government of "evil" and "hatred of Estonia," and suggesting that the government has thrown the rules out the window. The criticism is often personal and ideological, particularly when scrutinizing the rule of law and the activities of the prosecutor's office.
01.2024
48 Speeches
The speaker employs an extremely combative, emotional, and often scandalous style, utilizing sharp accusations and outbursts ("complete nonsense," "a terrible hoax," "communism"). He frequently levels accusations of demagoguery and propaganda (comparing the responses to Brezhnev's or 1945 German propaganda) and charges his opponents with systematic lying. Furthermore, the minister (Läänemets) perceived the tone as threatening.