Buba
A total creep
Smear campaign in progress, I see ...
French elections and politics thread.
- Thread starter Agent23
- Start date
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
Has been going on for quite some time now, IIRC.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
According to projections it's looking like Macron has won.
Is Le Pen unelectable or something (likely as a result of her semi-cursed surname and frankly bonkers economics)? Because losing to French Tony Blair is a bit unimpressive. Either way, I don't think she can do it.
Is Le Pen unelectable or something (likely as a result of her semi-cursed surname and frankly bonkers economics)? Because losing to French Tony Blair is a bit unimpressive. Either way, I don't think she can do it.
Everyone is gangster until people start fighting back.
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
TBH it feels like she is a spoiler candidate or something.
She should just back somebody who knows how to win.
As to economics, well, we are talking about 6 hour workday France, after all.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
I don’t suppose you have a link?
Granted, I vaguely recall a similar incident a while back, where some schoolteacher got beheaded for a Mohammed cartoon or something.
Unfortunately, her father left a legacy that cast a long shadow on her.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Yes, so I've heard. For all Marine's oddities, her father sounds completely batshit insane.
Given that her policies are slowly creeping up in popularity (she increased her share of the vote from 33% in 2017 to 43% in 2022), perhaps it might be for the best if she stands aside and lets someone else who has less baggage take the wheel.
Sobek
Disgusting Scalie
False alarm, I mixed up some other incidents. The one that happened today had no Allahu involved apparently. Apparently.
French Catholic priest stabbed multiple times, nun injured in church knife attack
A Catholic priest was stabbed multiple times and a nun was also injured in a knife attack at a church in Nice along the French Riviera Sunday, as France voted in the second round of their presidential election.
www.foxnews.com
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
False alarm, I mixed up some other incidents. The one that happened today had no Allahu involved apparently. Apparently.
French Catholic priest stabbed multiple times, nun injured in church knife attack
A Catholic priest was stabbed multiple times and a nun was also injured in a knife attack at a church in Nice along the French Riviera Sunday, as France voted in the second round of their presidential election.
Okay, thanks.
As the article points out, there's definitely some "curious" timing there, though it's good to hear that no one died and that they'll (presumably) recover from their injuries.
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
Meh.
I wonder how hard it is for France's parliament to overrule and block a president's programs, assuming the anti-Macron forces do take it.
France's Macron defeats far-right, pledges change | Reuters
I wonder how hard it is for France's parliament to overrule and block a president's programs, assuming the anti-Macron forces do take it.
France's Macron defeats far-right, pledges change | Reuters
Batrix2070
RON/PLC was a wonderful country.
Very, the President of France can dissolve the Parliament as he wishes every year until it obeys him because the government is appointed by him anyway.
So if Le Pen won she could give a shit about the fact that the MPs don't like something.
Literally, the President of France is like the King of France only that elected, the very fact that their Prime Minister is not called the President of the Council of Ministers but the First Minister as in royal times perfectly illustrates the impotence of parliament. This is all the work of De Gaulle who did not want France to be paralyzed again like in the interwar period.
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
Yeah, thanks to De Gaulle IIRC they are a presidential republic with the president having a lot of power.
The problem is that that slimy suck up drama queen is the one wielding all the power.
Macron has an increasingly unweildy allience that he has to maintain or he will have to give actual populists power.
He can not possibly keep every one happy and will thus not be able to make lots of change because he has to maintain the establishment coalition. Which will of course piss people off and make Le pen more powerful.
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
The problem is that the current system already favors the integrationist, eurofederalist Libtards.
that system started dying with the great recession and now europe is aging into mass retirement.
which means they run out of other peoples money.
Agent23
Ни шагу назад!
The Eurodollar system needs to collapse and the EU must be impaired in its ability to expand for that to happen.
IMHO most "growth" in the Eurozone for the past 10-20 years has been vertical expansion into new territory, which consequently gives EU banks more debt slaves and consumers as well as more cheap labor, and in the form of growing government and government-linked spending in inflation, like the whole green craze, Mario Draghi's money printing and the like.
This thread is starting to turn into general anti-EU whining, btw.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Macron was always going to win until the system gets fucked even more.