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    2022 French elections

    The French are done with this neoliberal rent boy Macron. Lepen's polling numbers have never been this strong. This is going to be a dirty election with Russian conspiracies and everything. Good to see that they put the little American Sarkozy into jail so he can't run. He is worse than Macron.

    Go Lepen !
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    Frexit is no longer a part of Lepens platform. Neither is getting rid of the Euro currency. This is a good change for her party and it will give her a chance.

    Frexit would be really stupid.

    Lepen isn't far right. She is the heir to Charles de Gaulle
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    ^ Marine Le Pen is leader of the National Rally Party, which is a far right party.

    Xavier Bertrand is the biggest challenge to Macron.

    Le Pen is a garbage collector, on a par with Farage...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    She is the heir to Charles de Gaulle
    I'm okay with that as long as she doesn't mount some podium in Montreal with the Vive La Quebec Libre line.

    DeGaulle was an interesting guy. Some quotes,

    -How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and fourty kinds of cheese?
    -You may be sure the Americans will commit the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond the imagination.
    -It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
    A true diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a manner that you will be asking for directions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Lepen isn't far right. She is the heir to Charles de Gaulle
    Why, Skidmark . . . why . . .




    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    I'm okay with that as long as she doesn't mount some podium in Montreal with the Vive La Quebec Libre line.
    It'd be interesting to see if she did. I work with a Quebecois company and the majority are non-Anglos . . . most are quite content with the semi-autonomy they have, but some would like to see an independent state.

    Vive la difference, vive Quebec, I say!

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    ^ I say Viva Las Vegas!

    The independence folk seem to be at about 35 percent for the past fourty years.

    If it wasn't for Montreal, Quebec would have been gone.

    I don't speak their language but I hugely appreciate them in the Canadian hut. I would greatly miss their exit. I think the Scots will separate long before La Quebecois do..

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    The wiemer never wtopa

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    To the land of the Poles! Onwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    ^ Marine Le Pen is leader of the National Rally Party, which is a far right party.

    Xavier Bertrand is the biggest challenge to Macron.

    Le Pen is a garbage collector, on a par with Farage...
    Nah that's bullshit man. Evidently you haven't seen the latest polls.

    The Frogs don't compare to the Limeys. Even Macron is far to the right of Boris Johnson on some issues. French politics is unique.

    Farage and his dad's army parties , just wanted Brexit and nothing else. Farage ran away like a coward after Brexit. Lepen is against Frexit. She wants to lead.

    You'd prefer the neoliberal rent boy over Lepen ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    I don't speak their language but I hugely appreciate them in the Canadian hut. I would greatly miss their exit. I think the Scots will separate long before La Quebecois do..
    That's a lovely sentiment - their recognition as a separate identity is important

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    Just watch the mainstream western media now. They are going to start an anti Lepen propaganda drive. Every headline will be slanted negative.

    Even when reporting the poll number, they had to toss in the hijab bullshit. Even though Macron has actually had some pretty tough legislation on Islam.

    Riding high in the polls, France's Le Pen proposes hijab ban

    The poll conducted online by Harris Interactive suggested that if a final-round presidential run-off were held today Le Pen would garner 48 percent while Macron would be re-elected with 52 percent, Le Parisien newspaper reported.


    "It's a poll, it's a snapshot of a moment, but what it shows is that the idea of me winning is credible, plausible even," Le Pen said at the Friday press conference.
    The prospect of a tight race set off alarm bells in the French political mainstream as the dual health and economic crises caused by the coronavirus pandemic sweep across the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Good to see that they put the little American Sarkozy into jail so he can't run.
    Do you truly believe it can happen?

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    Klondyke and Skidmark in discussion . . . amazing, but two equals matching wits

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Klondyke and Skidmark in discussion . . . amazing, but two equals matching wits
    With the combined intelligence of a tree stump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    With the combined intelligence of a tree stump.

    'Arrys usual contribution. A steaming pile of shit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Good to see that they put the little American Sarkozy into jail so he can't run.
    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Do you truly believe it can happen?
    He's so ill-informed that he seemingly believes it already has, rather than the reality that Sarkozy is free and almost certainly won't serve one day of jail time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    He's so ill-informed that he seemingly believes it already has, rather than the reality that Sarkozy is free and almost certainly won't serve one day of jail time.
    It makes no difference you simpleton. He was being splashed all over the headlines. He is done for this election cycle at minimum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    Le Pen is a garbage collector, on a par with Farage...
    You mean the guy that put the first ever anti-Europe PM in 10 Downing Street? If it wasn't for him May would still be there.

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    French billionaire politician and defense contractor exec killed in a helicopter crash https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1368627596955639810?s=19

    Looks like there's a power struggle in the French elite again. Some of them want to pivot away from the US and become more independent.

    Reminds me of the Dominic Strauss Kahn setup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    You'd prefer the neoliberal rent boy over Lepen ?
    I want anything but the cycle back to nationalism, which is always disaster in the making.

    The French media are definitely suggesting a close race between Macron and Le Pen, however, I am hoping for the mainstream to get its act together over the next few months.



    ^ More on Olivier Dassault's death on the BBC: French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash - BBC News
    Last edited by Troy; 09-03-2021 at 12:55 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    I want anything but the cycle back to nationalism, which is always disaster in the making.

    The French media are definitely suggesting a close race between Macron and Le Pen, however, I am hoping for the mainstream to get its act together over the next few months.



    ^ More on Olivier Dassault's death on the BBC: French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash - BBC News
    So you don't think there should be any balance between Globohomo and nation states ? Should we just dissolve all nation states ?

    Globohomo

    (adj) A word used to describe a globalizedand homogenized culture pushed for
    by large companies, politicians, and Neocon/Leftist pawns. This culture
    includes metropolitan ideals such as diversity, homosexuality, sexual
    degeneracy, colorblindness in regard to race, egalitarianism, money worship,
    and the erasure of different individual cultures, among other things.

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    Have I really just clicked on a thread saying "go Le Pen?"

    Jesus Christ, Backspin. I know you love the attention, but you really need to educate yourself a little bit about this person and her father.

    What a stupid person you are.

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    ^ at least you know another word you'll never use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    ^ at least you know another word you'll never use.
    God bless Backspin's googling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Have I really just clicked on a thread saying "go Le Pen?"

    Jesus Christ, Backspin. I know you love the attention, but you really need to educate yourself a little bit about this person and her father.

    What a stupid person you are.
    Cope hallelujah. Cope

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