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Old 12-09-2018, 11:32 AM   #31
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After eight days of skulking behind his Palace walls Macron to deliver empty headed speech saying " There are too many taxes, too many taxes, too much taxation in this country"
Meanwhile a serious looking reporter on Meet the Press stated there were no serious injuries as a result of the protests.
One protester lost his hand while another was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, rather serious injuries I think.

But then again we will soon hear it is the fault of Trump and Russia.
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Old 12-09-2018, 01:35 PM   #32
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What are the odds?

Macron has surrendered!

https://hotair.com/headlines/archive...eils-tax-cuts/
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Old 12-09-2018, 03:21 PM   #33
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Once, during the French Revolution, when told that the peasants were revolting,
Marie Antoinette replied, "Yes, they are. Don't they ever wash?"

Nothing has changed.
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Old 12-10-2018, 12:20 AM   #34
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So is this really about the fuel tax, or is it a protest against mass immigration?
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Old 12-10-2018, 04:41 PM   #35
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Once, during the French Revolution, when told that the peasants were revolting,
Marie Antoinette replied, "Yes, they are. Don't they ever wash?"

Nothing has changed.
Marie Antoinette Macron has again and nothing has changed again.
" I have had a bad case of "malaise".
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Old 12-10-2018, 04:47 PM   #36
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So is this really about the fuel tax, or is it a protest against mass immigration?
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Old 12-11-2018, 11:03 AM   #37
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So in addition to rolling back the energy tax, he promises to raise the minimum wage but says it won't cost the employers anything extra?? Wants the govt. to foot the 8-10 Billion Euros to cover that. Who does he thinks is paying for that?
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If anyone is interested in a rather long article about Paris and France. This article was written before the yellow jacket movement started, but that makes it both prescient and amazingly insightful about what is happening in France, and soon throughout Europe.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/fr...art-15125.html
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Old 12-11-2018, 12:32 PM   #38
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A very interesting read, too bad this author’s work, Guilluy, has not been translated into English...I agree with much he says...

“...Thus, when 70 percent of Frenchmen tell pollsters, as they have for years now, that “too many foreigners” live in France, they’re not necessarily being racist; but they’re not necessarily not being racist, either. It’s a complicated sentiment, and identifying “good” and “bad” strands of it—the better to draw them apart—is getting harder to do.”....

...”One need not say anything racist or hateful to be denounced as a member of “white, xenophobic France,” or even as a “fascist.” To express mere discontent with the political system is dangerous enough. It is to faire le jeu de (“play the game of”) the National Front.”

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Far too many FRENCH people live in France.
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An interesting sub-section of the above article...

“In France, political correctness is more than a ridiculous set of opinions; it’s also—and primarily—a tool of government coercion. Not only does it tilt any political discussion in favor of one set of arguments; it also gives the ruling class a doubt-expelling myth that provides a constant boost to morale and esprit de corps, much as class systems did in the days before democracy. People tend to snicker when the question of political correctness is raised: its practitioners because no one wants to be thought politically correct; and its targets because no one wants to admit to being coerced. But it determines the current polarity in French politics. Where you stand depends largely on whether you believe that antiracism is a sincere response to a genuine upsurge of public hatred or an opportunistic posture for elites seeking to justify their rule.

Guilluy is ambivalent on the question. He sees deep historical and economic processes at work behind the evolution of France’s residential spaces. “There has been no plan to ‘expel the poor,’ no conspiracy,” he writes. “Just a strict application of market principles.” But he is moving toward a more politically engaged view that the rhetoric of an “open society” is “a smokescreen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes.”
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Old 12-12-2018, 09:37 AM   #41
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But wait, there's more!

Terror attack kills 2, injures 13.
Attacker was known to police and on a watch list.
Still, he was allowed to freely walk the streets.

This is what UpChuck and the Dingbat want to allow to happen here.
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Old 12-12-2018, 09:56 AM   #42
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Terror attack kills 2, injures 13.
Attacker was known to police and on a watch list.
Still, he was allowed to freely walk the streets.

This is what UpChuck and the Dingbat want to allow to happen here.
But but he arrestested hundreds of unarmed protesters to keep the cities safe
and they were watching and well aware of this jihadi and he just managed to slip through their web.

E. Micron up for no confidence vote along with May and Merkel whose terms are sure to soon end.
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How can anyone look at Europe and then think the dems are anything but raving lunatics?
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Terror attack kills 2, injures 13.
Attacker was known to police and on a watch list.
Still, he was allowed to freely walk the streets.

This is what UpChuck and the Dingbat want to allow to happen here.
He was in jail for a couple years in Germany and they 'deported' him. The police raided the guys apartment in the morning looking for him I an investigation of an attempted murder.

I guess France does not care if they take other countries trash.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/strasbourg...113245785.html
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I guess France does not care if they take other countries trash.
Of course the tiny flaw in your statement is that the man was French and born in Strasbourg.
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