The Ampel parties, by contrast, are set for a drubbing. In Saxony and Thuringia all three could fall below the 5% threshold needed to enter parliament.
Tesla's share price recovered from the drubbing it took after Elon Musk tweeted that it was too high, which wiped $15bn off the company's market value.
No sooner had I recovered from one sound drubbing than I put myself in the way of another. " Unpractical" I was called by those who spoke mildly; " idiot" — I am sure — by many a ruder tongue.