French elections
“Anti-facist” demonstrators in Paris threw bottles, set off firecrackers and burned cars as they discovered that centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen seem to be the two contenders in the May 7th presidential election, according to Fox News;
“We have come here to protest against the pantomime of this election,” a protester told AFP.
After the results came in, protesters who gathered at the square waved red flags and sang “No Marine and No Macron!” among other chants, The Telegraph reported. Nearby, about 300 peaceful demonstrators gathered at Place de la Republique to condemn the election results. Several danced around bonfires.
The current French President socialist Francois Hollande has urged his constituents to vote for Macron, so has a senior French Muslim leader.
Le Pen has taken advantage of recent terrorist attacks in France to build her following.
The media seems to like Macron, though. Even though his personal life is a bit odd, according to Yahoo News;
His wife, Brigitte Trogneux, is a stylish woman, with blond hair and a warm smile. She also happens to be 24 years Macron’s senior. They met when he was a high school student and she was his teacher.
Then known as Brigitte Auziere, she was married with three children and teaching French literature and drama when she encountered Macron, then just 15 years old. They bonded writing a play together, but when Macron told his parents of his interest, they sent him away to school in Paris. The two kept up a correspondence, and by the time Macron was 18, Trogneux had divorced her husband and moved to Paris to be with him. They were married in 2007.
“Nobody will ever know at what moment our story became a love story. That belongs to us. That is our secret,” Trogneux said of the origin of their relationship.
In other words, they boinked while he was underage.
Other than using a cheeky nickname for Macron, “chouchou,” or teacher’s pet, the French press seems to treat Macron and Trogneux as a couple more closely resembling John and Jacqueline Kennedy in Camelot than Vili Fualaau and Mary Kay Letourneau.
Imagine that – the media looking the other way for a liberal (small “l”) candidate.
Yeah, if the roles were reversed, the male would be a giant perv – you know like the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Thomas, recently. But, see the French are more sophisticated than us colonials.
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I have never understood the French.
I do not understand French, either.
“Je ne comprends pas.”
“Ich kann sich nicht verstehen.”
Herr Kommissar won’t be able to resist jumping on this report.
3…2…1…
I’m traveling else I’d chime in a bit more myself. Macron’s odd personal relationship aside, the French tolerate/expect marital shenanigans far more than we do, plus the age of consent there is 15. So it’s odd, but not underage and not nearly the scandal it would be here.
Sounds like they are taking cues from us in our election. If the far right wins I’m betting the socialists will all be out whining and rioting, destroying their own neighborhoods, etc.
But Macron has muslims supporting him, so he must be the best candidate, right?
Yeah, because Comrade Hollande did *such* a great job ensuring that the Religion of Peace stayed peaceful in France…
It seems the “liberal” youth of France is liking Marine Le Pen. Then again, I kinda like her, too. She represents people who want to keep their country and culture, and are sick and tired of having islamism shoved up their asses in the name of “tolerance.”
I hope she kicks Madame Robinson’s boy-toy’s ass.
“Madam Roninson’s boy-toy”.
Well played, well played.
…..Robinson’s…..
Fat thumbs on a cell touch pad. And lack of edit checking by yours truely.
The saddest part is that Marine Le Pen is a socialist too, when it comes to the economy. She is the better candidate, I’ll grant you that, but she ain’t a free marketeer.
To me political life is defined by 3 principles:
1- Free market capitalism
2- Small government
3- Constitutional freedoms
Marine Le Pen fails at the first 2, while Macron fails at all 3.
Well, to hear the French tell it, they invented screwing so if it’s okay by them, it’s okay by me. As for the French election, I’m really, really low on give-a-shits. Still, if someone wants to make a case as to why I should expend one on this, I will reconsider.
I got nuthin. No shits to give here, either.
AZtoVA. How the Froggies go is of no consequence to me but that lady does have a pair, so to speak. If you haven’t seen the video, watch it. It’s a scream. She does not tippy-toe around but puts on the boots and stomps all over. It’s a treat.
Because France is now in perpetual war on its own streets due to EU mass migration mandates and it’s another example of where EU countries are going. Actually seeing something positive occur to fight back against it would be nice. Brexit did it. Trump did it. Maybe the French can procure some balls and do it too to take back their country.
I mean FFS they had to build a wall around the Eiffle Tower.
I gave at the office.
If you’re a watcher of world news this may be one of the most exciting 2 weeks of the year. Le Pen is closer to what we’d call Conservative here in the states (there is both a language barrier and an exchange rate there). She is HIGHLY anti-EU, just google Le Pen yells at Merkel from July ’15. Le Pen has done her best to stir up the false politique by posting images of ISIS thereby getting censured. Her ideas on repatriation of money from French tax jumpers seems…interesting. In short: a female DJT that talks pretty.
If elected I see a referendum on Frexit happening. On top of that, if you look at the datas from the exit polls she may just win, handily at that. Assuming some fuzzy math and channeling signals from space, I give her a win with 60.9% of the vote with a turn out of 80-something percent. Those youth are hard to call…
Roh-Dog. You may not have been responding to me at all, but you did. I’m going to use both of my remaining give-s-shits b/c I watched that video and, brother, that chick is something. A Europe dominated by Germany? Holy Hannah. A strong, independent France whose president is focused on the country’s nat’l sovereignty, not capitulation to group think? I likes her. Merkel looked sick and I saw her jot something down while getting called out. I’m guessing it was “Have Le Pen shot” or something along those lines.
damnit, ya got me, figured I could sterilize enough…
I respect anyone not caring about European politics, after the last year I think most Americans are burnt right out.
I like money. Money is global. Europe is a large market. What is good for my wallet may, for the short term, hurt the EU.
My fear and my greed want Europe to de-global-ify sooner so that later it won’t be as painful. Even with parts the Union being 30-40 years old there’s still a crap load of tension now, imagine a divorce 40 years from now…
Merkel’s biggest problem is that she thinks a lack of warfare in Europe for the past 70 years is due to the existence of the European Union. Either she was half-awake when the Berlin Wall fell and she got to leave East German behind, or she simply hasn’t read her history books.
The biggest factor is that Germany is dominating the entire European political scene, which is what Kaiser Bill wanted, and you know who followed him. It doesn’t have anything to do with the EU, which used to be the EEC.
Europe is beginning to stagnate and Merkel doesn’t understand why.
I hope she wins. The French deserve better than to have their country be given away to Islam, insane EU, and political correctness.
To use a historical analogy, it’s a choice between whether they wish to be the arrogant-but-tough French who went balls-to-bayonets with the Kaiser’s best on the Western Front and held them off for three straight years, or the cheese-eating surrender monkeys who cupped Hitler’s tiny nazi balls in 1940. Or, to put it another way, if they want to follow pussified Pétain or asskicker LeClerc.
Of course it’s not quite that simple, and Le Pen is far from perfect, but she is the best that Frogland is likely to see for a long, long time.
Marine LePen has campaigned on Frexit, which will lead to more crumbling in the euro and the Eurozone. This appeals to the Frogs, who can be rather precious about their status in the world. They are very tired of the invasion of Middle Easterners. She is not a one-note song, however.
Macron has ‘Big Bidness’ backing him, and incudes the support of Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is leading France’s military operations against Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq. He announced his support for Macron in March.
He has supporters who are wavering between him and Lepen. She may be able to persuade them to move to her side.
I think I will hit Binny’s Beverage Depot and see if I can pick up a good Beaujolais Villages for the fall election.
Binny’s – official champagne supplier to the Chicago Cubs!
France has been in a state of emergency since 2015. If they vote in a Muslim cuck over Marine then its game over for France. This is their moment.
Hey, did anyone ever notice that some of the stuff we write here can get us arrested over there, and even in Canadia? God, it’s good to be an American.
Yeah, Bridgette Bardot has been to court five times and fined tens of thousands of dollars for her anti-immigration writings. She calls Le Pen a modern-day “Joan of Arc.”
people just don’t get how important that First Amendment is…
this is funny, if you aren’t easily offended
https://www.rt.com/uk/342513-dog-nazi-salute-arrested/
Marchons, les citoyens!!
Amen!
I’m going to support whichever candidate wants to make Alizee the next Minister of Culture…
https://youtu.be/Vd6fuPQ-294
I LIKE IT!!!! OUI!!! OUI!!!
I’d parlee-voo her frahn-say! If, y’know, I was a single man…
Uh, IDC SARC? Your assessment?
I’ll take a stab at it…
I’d crawl through broken glass just to masturbate in her shadow!
The way I heard it: “I’d crawl a mile over broken glass and gravel just to smell the tracks of the laundry truck that hauled away her dirty underwear.” I guess that laundry truck business dates my version, just a tad.
my oh my, I can put away the old Shakira videos…
I think it’s kind of funny what policies France considers ‘far right.’ Perhaps something significant is lost in translation. In any case, the world media has decided which candidate is going to get all the free press, so there is a real chance of France ‘getting Trump’d.’
Macron is not a centrist unless you consider Stalin as center left. He is a died in the wool hardcore socialist and a globalist. The media is trying as hard as they can to paint him as a centrist because they are scared to death that LePen who represents the bulk of the French outside of a few cities will win and destroy their cushy jobs with the EU and The State.
I also don’t trust someone that would start an affair when he was 15 with a teacher then marry her.
Le Pen also told the prime minister of Lebanon (I believe) to shove the Burhka up he ass when she was told she had to cover her head to talk to him.
I saw the poor little leftists protesting last night and all I could think of was, “I hope the Jihadists cut your empty heads off”.
The French will get the government they deserve.
So, uh, … you’re pro-Jihadi now?
Protesting is something that modern democracies allow. Even when we disagree with the sentiment the protestors are pushing, it’s quite a stretch to hope for their brutal death via murderous, fanatical scum. A step back for a little perspective on our left vs. right divide is sometimes helpful.
You’re at it again. RiR was just asking the cosmos to level the scales of justice for a bunch of riotous little douches, it’s called sarcastic levity. It’s often used by people that take life serious enough to notice but not serious enough to start breaking store windows…which leads me to this:
The ‘protests’ thrown by the far left (read: socialist control freak automatons) are now, have been, and will continue to be riots. The amount and scope of violence that is been dished out by the antifa is abhorrent and needs to stop, here and in Francerland. Proof? Yep, here ya go…easy to find:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/23/anti-fascist-protesters-clash-paris-police-riot-marine-le-pen/
“Protesting is something that modern democracies allow.” Protesting is also something that anti-democratic factions and parties orchestrate and conduct. Roger’s point is that the protesters are willfully blind, and he knows what will ultimately happen to the do-gooders if they prevail: their victimized lambs will turn on them like the predatory wolves that they truly are.
Spot. On.
I’d argue there’s a pretty strong difference in sentiment, even if unintentional, between ‘the bad guys will chop their heads off’ and ‘I hope the bad guys chop their heads off’.
I’m just saying sometimes we need to step back and examine our own rhetoric. The Left has to do it with their incessant ‘racist!’ or ‘sexist!’ chants, and the Right needs to do it when it suggests that maybe the brutal murder of liberals by truly terrible people is a good thing.
(We can certainly argue wolves and sheep some other time, too, but I’m keeping this short due to spotty internet access right now.)
Sometimes it’s “I want to buy you a Coke” and sometimes it’s like this:
Crap. I should have scrolled further…
My question, when is the antifa going to start their bombing campaign… anyone want to start a betting pool?
Well, there won’t be any more elections until autumn, maybe? And they couldn’t disrupt the Boston Marathon and won’t be welcome at 4th of July stuff, so they’ll have to scale back unless they get some cash soon.
May Day is coming up! May the mighty and righteous proletariat rise up and crush the bourgeois swine!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
Stay away from Starbucks and Bank of America next Monday, they hate those places.
Starbucks? Then where will those hipster cocknozzle sacks of shit get their gay little snob-lattes?
My mistake, the next election swirl, Round 2, in France is on May 7.