"Gilets jaunes" protests in France.

[hellheaven1987]

The Communist leader Stalin, in the name of Socialism, caused the death of more than 8,000,000 Russian socialists and communists soldiers and, with the help of Hitler, caused the death of 6,028,000 Polish citizens and soldiers, not that bad as Social-Communist war spirit!

The Great Patriot War should rename "The Great Socialist Civil War".

[Basil II the B.S]

France is too centralized for Macron to solve anything when the problem is in the periferies. It's also too big. Size and centralization work so long that the problem is at the top. France clearly has a problem at the top, because Macron is an out of touch entitled buffoon. He also comes and is backed from the intellectual elite, and France much like most of the West has a humongous problem with its elite. However due to the size and centralization of the French system, even a guillotine treatment won't solve the problems.

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Moscovici said the EC will approve Macron's new budget, from 2.6% to 3.4% in full contrast with the Maastricht rules, but not the Italian one, 2.4%.

Expect the Gilet Jaunes in Italy at a certain point asking for the resigning of the treacherous Mattarella and protesting against the European Union. There's no room for negotiation with the globalist elite anymore. They must be removed.

[Heathen Hammer]

I think instead of discussing the impossible (Macron "fixing" the situation) we should discuss how he should be removed and who should replace him. Without a doubt, there is no future for EU as it is right now, nor there is any future for financial and political elites. The genie is finally out of the bottle, and this will continue until Europeans get their countries back.

[Basil II the B.S]

Call Bolton and see if he's interested in regime change.

(It's a joke btw, I hate the guy)

[fkizz]

Moscovici said the EC will approve Macron's new budget, from 2.6% to 3.4% in full contrast with the Maastricht rules, but not the Italian one, 2.4%.

Kind of a big deal when the budget compliant with Maastrich ratios is the one getting punished, and one breaching it is the one aproved. Speaks in many ways.

[Dante Von Hespburg]

I think instead of discussing the impossible (Macron "fixing" the situation) we should discuss how he should be removed and who should replace him. Without a doubt, there is no future for EU as it is right now, nor there is any future for financial and political elites. The genie is finally out of the bottle, and this will continue until Europeans get their countries back.

Well here's one way i guess-

https://www.euronews.com/2018/12/12/...nch-government

The protests movements left-leaning MP's have tabled a motion to bring down Macron's government. I do not know enough about French politics to know if this is a real danger or not.

[Basil II the B.S]

France has a bizarre electoral system and Macron's party controls like 60% of the parliament, despite having won only 26% of the vote in the first round. There's no motion of no confidence that can bring him down unless his own party falls apart. If he wants to stay in power, he's untouchable until the end of his mandate.

I think that's part of the reason the protests have been so violent; the parliament is simply not a good representation of the French political preferences, hence if the French want him out, they either wait 5 years or start another revolution.

[Dante Von Hespburg]

France has a bizarre electoral system and Macron's party controls like 60% of the parliament, despite having won only 26% of the vote in the first round. There's no motion of no confidence that can bring him down unless his own party falls apart. If he wants to stay in power, he's untouchable until the end of his mandate.

I think that's part of the reason the protests have been so violent; the parliament is simply not a good representation of the French political preferences, hence if the French want him out, they either wait 5 years or start another revolution.

... you may have just slightly shifted the emphasis on my paper of Britain as a 'Stability state' Though in a good way...after i look at perhaps broadening things out... But in all seriousness though cheers for that, if so that is actually insane the lack of direct checks and balances, it sounds worse than FPTP even for removing direct democracy. A fair point too in how this links to the violence of the protests. I feel i'm going to have to perhaps pay a bit more attention to French politics in the future.

[Heathen Hammer]

I'm also going to turn on Nostradamus mode and say there will be at least one false flag attack in France to justify violent crack down against protesters in the near future.

[Basil II the B.S]

... you may have just slightly shifted the emphasis on my paper of Britain as a 'Stability state' Though in a good way...after i look at perhaps broadening things out... But in all seriousness though cheers for that, if so that is actually insane the lack of direct checks and balances, it sounds worse than FPTP even for removing direct democracy. A fair point too in how this links to the violence of the protests. I feel i'm going to have to perhaps pay a bit more attention to French politics in the future.

It's indeed one of those electoral systems designed to produce two parties for the sake of stability, but the situation in France during Hollande got so bad that the center left went from 50% to 6%, the center right went from 49% to 14% due to multiple scandals, Macron took the occasion and won a supermajority despite the support of 1/4 of the country as well. The ironic thing is that a semi-proportional system like for instance Italy avoided violence because it gave a chance to populist parties to take power democratically. So in Italy you have right wing populist (the League) governing with left wing populists (m5s). In France you have Melenchon at 18%, Le Pen at 24% and a handful of minor parties up to roughly 50% of the vote that have no saying whatsoever in the government. Now that another segment of the population has lost faith in Macron, he's stuck with the support of his core base, upper class, urban, cosmopolitan progressives and noone else. He's toast.

FT's elitist nonsense:
https://www.ft.com/content/e2fabeaa-...f-99e208d3e521

Simon Kuiper makes some of the worst analysis out there. Superficial, wishful thinking, entitled. Despicable human being.
Liberal tears on politico:
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-europe-revolution-rise-and-fall/

[fkizz]

I'm also going to turn on Nostradamus mode and say there will be at least one false flag attack in France to justify violent crack down against protesters in the near future.

There's already Strasburg. But a violent crackdown is unlikely. They have experience with may 68, something else more silent and subversive is probably going to be done.

[Heathen Hammer]

There's already Strasburg. But a violent crackdown is unlikely. They have experience with may 68, something else more silent and subversive is probably going to be done.

Maybe, but I doubt that elites are really that competent. We'll probably see government agents or crisis actors wearing yellow vests doing something evil and media demonizing all protesters, claiming anyone doubting that narrative is a "conspiracy theorist", you know the usual thing we see for false flags here in North America.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

This is basically Mad Max. I love it.

I can't really make heads or tails of this right now. We should wait about 3 months and see where this goes. But long term Macron is done and I don't see him solving the issue... who honestly even wants his job at this point?

[Basil II the B.S]

Nobody. As evidence of the polarization of the French electorate, the biggest party in the polls right now is Le Pen's one at 20%. Then you have Macron's, the center right, the center left, the far left and an enviromentalist one all with roughly 10 to 18%. The French electoral law heavily misrepresents these proportions which makes voters unhappy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...ance-right-now

This is an alright analysis.

I love how it upset so much the editorial board of Bloomberg that they had to write they don't agree with it. Globalist intellectuals, rofl.

[Cookiegod]

I think we all know what needs to happen now.
We all need to denounce the Macron regime; we need Le Pen's party to take over and change the constitution unconstitutionally, then waging war against their own people and ruining the French economy we'll blame it all on the Brits.
If Macron regime doesn't surrender unconditionally we need to supply the revolutionaries with weapons and establish a no-fly-zone with incessant bombing.

And now in all seriousness: I like what the gilets jaunes are doing and wish them all the best. Hope they succeed and the Macron regime get's ousted asap.

[Heathen Hammer]

Apparently that might happen sooner then expected, as French generals accused Macron of treason.
The sooner idiot Macron is ousted, the better.

[Basil II the B.S]

I think we all know what needs to happen now.
We all need to denounce the Macron regime; we need Le Pen's party to take over and change the constitution unconstitutionally, then waging war against their own people and ruining the French economy we'll blame it all on the Brits.
If Macron regime doesn't surrender unconditionally we need to supply the revolutionaries with weapons and establish a no-fly-zone with incessant bombing.

And now in all seriousness: I like what the gilets jaunes are doing and wish them all the best. Hope they succeed and the Macron regime get's ousted asap.

I was thinking something like 1789. Also Marine Le Pen unfortunately is not the right person. France truly lacks inspirational leaders right now.

[Mithradates]

Apparently that might happen sooner then expected, as French generals accused Macron of treason.
The sooner idiot Macron is ousted, the better.

Now this is getting interesting.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

This ing guy is gonna get Louis the Sixteenth.

[Basil II the B.S]

French tv engaging in fake news to protect their poster-boy:



Evil shall perish.