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Patrick says

I was just talking to a French guy who told me that the whole yellow vest protest thing in Paris is really about Macron's lying to get elected. He apparently promised to both reduce their "social security" taxes (the French version) and to maintain retirement benefits, but after getting elected, he reversed course on both of those promises.

So people are pretty pissed at him.

Dumbfucks should have elected LePen.

And to be honest - they probably did. They had a massive amount of "spoiled ballots"

cmdrda2leak says

Nothing scares the Identity Politics Left quite like an actual working class uprising. Witnessing the furious unwashed masses operating out there on their own, with no decent human restraint whatsoever, Identity Politics Leftists feel a sudden overwhelming urge to analyze, categorize, organize, sanitize, and otherwise correct and control them. They can’t accept the fact that the actual, living, breathing working classes are messy, multiplicitous, inconsistent, and irreducible to any one ideology. Some of them are racists. Some are fascists. Others are communists, socialists, and anarchists.

This is bullshit.

The working class has one thing in common and that is "leave us the fuck alone". They aren't a disparate group, they are a group of people trying to live their lives, most often trying to raise a family and fucking sick and tired of a bunch of outsider assholes trying to tell them how to live their lives and taxing the fuck out of them.

They are, by far, the most united group there is.

I'm an engineer now but I grew up among blue collar workers and I purposely live among the working class because I have more affection and commonality with them then some asshole "intellectual". If you want to hear truth, true thinking, and CLEAR thinking, talk to a truck driver, to a guy bagging groceries, an auto-mechanic, a plumber, a farmer (man they are goddamned workers!) and they will give you a clear idea of what they think of the fucking government.

If you listen, and ask only questions, and don't disagree and offer input and accept rebuttal and be polite - you'll walk away from that in total agreement after they have aired their grievances. It's people like this that really understand the situation. I get paid big bucks to make toys for assholes. They instead make my life possible. I have great respect for the blue collar workers of this world. Without them, I'm dead.

When I do this, I offer insights, I disagree - but I explain my reasoning. It's never an argument but I've learned more from blue collar workers about life than I ever did from a professor. One thing I know I must do is accept I'm wrong, that I have my head in the clouds, and I simply don't understand the reality of the viciousness of the world.

zzyzzx says

German cartoon from the 1930's depicting France in 100 years (2030):

The top title reads: "The negroization of France in 100 years".

The bottom reads: "The last un-colored French are the big attraction of the Paris zoo."

Finally got to use that German degree for something!

Oh and the sign in French reads "Prohibited to give food"

What does it take to get deported from France:

Now Netherlanders are against Elite.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-26/dutch-covid-riots-add-to-political-tension-ahead-of-elections

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/france-bans-some-gender-neutral-language-in-schools-a-danger-to-our-country-and-the-french-language_3816113.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

France at least has a clue about the fatal nature of wokeness for every culture:

The French government recently banned schools from using certain “gender-neutral” or “inclusive” language in schools, saying it would be destructive to the French language and would prevent people from learning it.

Some leftist groups, politicians, and teacher’s unions have attempted to change certain words, adding the midpoints in nouns and adjectives, and sometimes in verbs, in an attempt to make the language more feminine. By doing so, they claim that some traditional French words are too masculine and need feminization.

But a deputy education minister, Nathalie Elimas, on Thursday said that “gender-neutral” and “inclusive” writing in French is “a danger to our country” and will “sound the death knell for the use of French in the world,” reported The Associated Press. ...

The Epoch Times has contacted the French Ministry of Education for comment.

Earlier this year, French President Emanuel Macron warned that left-wing “social science theories entirely imported from the United States,” referring to “cancel culture” and leftist ideas about race and gender, is a threat to French society.

Maybe there is a little hope for France.

A little more hope for France:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/60-french-police-military-say-they-will-support-le-pen-presidential-election

60 per cent of police and military say they will support populist Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential election, with the number even higher among active duty police.

Patrick says

Thing is, when they realize it's actually all about class, that points the arrow at themselves.

They would much rather imagine racism where very little exists. That lets them point the arrow at the stupid workers who they impoverished by forcing them to compete with impoverished people in other countries. And that get funding and enthusiastic cooperation from NPR and other mouthpieces for global capital. Just listen to who is funding NPR.

Huh, this is a pretty good quote by myself if I may say so.

So it makes a lot of sense to stress "racism" when the alternative is blaming yourself.

Patrick says

So it makes a lot of sense to stress "racism" when the alternative is blaming yourself.

Yes,
"I am for open borders because I am not racist against "Hispanics."
"I am for open trade with China because I am not racist against Chinese."

Sounds better than "I like adding to my bottom line by undercutting American workers through exploiting illegals and foreign slave labor."

In France right now:

https://ashmedai.substack.com/p/parliamentary-pizzazz

Fireworks in French Parliament as the government's proposed legislation to extend vaccine passports and other covid restrictions was rejected by the Assembly

Is there hope for France after all?

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1753844402521243870

Patrick says

Is there hope for France after all?

Just happened yesterday .. a Malian national with Italian residency stabbed 3 at a Paris train station ...

most of the mainstream media did not report he was Malian but rather an Italian citizen or resident except for France 24. I have noticed France 24 will be a lot more forthcoming or revealing than mainstream media like Reuters and Associated Press.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240203-three-wounded-in-knife-attack-at-paris-s-gare-de-lyon-train-station

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https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1753757359329919212

https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1753963137118716397

Are these photos real? Wouldn't we see a ton more of them? I even remember seeing the photo/video at 76 some time ago.

The_Deplorable says

Is that for real?

Patrick says

"Is that for real?"

Pat, the site that published that picture says that the picture was taken on February 3, 2024.
My take is that the picture is real because France is revolting against Macron and the Globalists
while the main stream media are completely ignoring the fact that the French had had enough.

In addition you have similar scenes unfolding in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy etc.

Isn't France the country that shut down the yellow vest protest? If I remember correctly, they even shot people in the streets.

GNL says

Isn't France the country that shut down the yellow vest protest? If I remember correctly, they even shot people in the streets.

COVID finally disappeared the Yellow Vest protests I think.

Patrick says

The_Deplorable says

Is that for real?

Only matters for the moment.

In the coming Islamic Republic of France, those farmers will have a lot in common with the farmers in South Africa.

The Globalists are backpedaling and Ursula is not pushing for flies, warms, ants and cockroaches.



https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1755270763056156863

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/05/france-14-year-old-girl-beaten-and-put-in-coma-for-anti-islamic-behavior-n3785997

Let's be frank: the flood of Muslim refugees into Europe has not been an unalloyed success.

It's not that all Muslims are incapable of integrating into Western cultures. Really, it's not.

It's just that a lot of them can't, especially when they emigrate from medieval societies and are dumped into the modern world. Their reaction is not to adjust to the culture around them; it's to demand the culture reflect their own values.

They emigrate from what Donald Trump inelegantly calls "shithole countries" and work to recreate the shithole conditions elsewhere.

The Telegraph (an excellent newspaper, by the way!) has a story today about a disturbing story that took place in France. A young Islamic girl who was inching toward integrating into her adopted country was severely beaten and put into a coma by classmates who considered her an apostate.

A 14-year-old girl was severely wounded and left in a coma after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers over what, her mother suggested, could have been down to un-Islamic behaviour.

The French government has launched an investigation over the attack in the southern city of Montpelier, which has caused political uproar across the country.

It came days after the head teacher of a Parisian school resigned following death threats after she asked a student to remove her Muslim veil, sparking widespread outrage.

The victim, named as Samara, is now out of her coma but was “seriously wounded” in the attack on Tuesday afternoon outside the Arthur Rimbaud College in Montpellier. The school is in the La Mosson-La Paillade district, a low-income suburb with many residents of immigrant origin, prosecutors said.

Patrick says

Is that for real?

No way. There's not that much space to stack anything that high.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/x9fWEsfENDrkwk5e8

The buildings you see in the background of the tower also don't exist. That's a major tourist trap, there's no way that would be allowed.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/right-wing-feminist-arrested-for-denouncing-immigration-and-violence-against-women/

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/le-pen-vows-deport-foreigners-who-push-totalitarian-ideology-france

It's important to recognize what happened here and how it shifted the dynamics. The US is now the problem child as Europe finally overwhelmingly voted to get back to its roots and run the leftoids out of town. At this point, cautiously long Europe. The US has to follow in November.

https://x.com/21WIRE/status/1802206934952772078

RN suddenly 3rd place from 1st. Left coalition projected to win though it will likely mostly be a lame duck govt due to all 3 coalitions having enough seats to block. We know there was a lot of candidate scheming and tactics going into this run off to prevent a win of the right, but these numbers make you go hmm, seen this before?

I thought Le Pen had it in the bag?

SoTex says

I thought Le Pen (Penn?) had it in the bag?

No, same as last time - the Neoliberal Globalists and the Far Left worked hand in hand to deny seats to LePen, in many races withdrawing candidates for the strongest of them in that area. So if the Socialists were strongest say in Lille, the Macron Globalist party withdrew and their supporters told to vote Socialist.

Part of the FarLeft-CorporateSocialist alliance.

HOWEVER, even with the chicanery, Le Pen's party has enough strength to block any measures they don't like, so this is a victory.

In Europe, the boomers of the spirit of 68 there are militant about maintaining their pensions, no matter how much the young people suffer, and the Left/Globalist parties milk this fear to prevent reform.

SoTex says

I thought Le Pen had it in the bag?

Not in the bag, but should have come out 2nd at least

Lame.

Don't let the Media fool you - LePen is picking up a dramatic number of seats.

Macron got clobbered, 2nd place. The Far Left is an unstable coalition of Left, Ultra Left, Greens, etc.

I think the absolute must is to get rid of the RINO/fake Liberal Corporate-Fascist NWO Globalists like Macron first. Then let the Far Left fuck everything up.

The president gambled that French voters would block the far right as they have in the past.

But the National Rally instead won a larger share than ever in the first round of voting on 30 June.

More than 200 candidates from the Macron-backing Ensemble alliance and left-wing New Popular Front stepped down in seats otherwise facing a three-way battle, in a so-called “republican front” against the far right.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-election-2024-results-second-round-latest-b2575453.html

So far it's exit polls, let's see.

AmericanKulak says

SoTex says

I thought Le Pen (Penn?) had it in the bag?

No, same as last time - the Neoliberal Globalists and the Far Left worked hand in hand to deny seats to LePen, in many races withdrawing candidates for the strongest of them in that area. So if the Socialists were strongest say in Lille, the Macron Globalist party withdrew and their supporters told to vote Socialist.

Part of the FarLeft-CorporateSocialist alliance.

HOWEVER, even with the chicanery, Le Pen's party has enough strength to block any measures they don't like, so this is a victory.

In Europe, the boomers of the spirit of 68 there are militant about maintaining their pensions, no matter how much the young people suffer, and the Left/Globalist parties milk this fear to prevent reform.

Agreed but the lamestream media will spin this and try to take the wind out of trends in other countries. I really do think these days the only generations where the leftoids have a majority are boomers and millenials, maybe Gen z slightly but with the boomers (yep the former 68s are now the biggest globalists) dying out it's really only their Millenial childless hag spawn left which is rooting for the marxists

The left wing National Popular Front won today as the largest party in the French parliament.

So how will they govern with the "Macron moderates" coming in second place, and the right wing party coming in third ?

Does the left wing party in France have enough Macron moderates in parliament to pass legislation like more tax increases and an even more increase in immigration numbers ?

or will there be such a sudden and smug change in direction that it will alienate the Macron moderates and they will side with the right wing party ?