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Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 223 days!

projecthalaxy posted:

So does Macron think hes the new Sun King or what

i'm not sure what it would say about a neoliberal's psyche if they proclaimed l'etat est moi

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im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

get that OUT of my face posted:

ah gently caress i can't believe he's done this

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Hodgepodge posted:

i'm not sure what it would say about a neoliberal's psyche if they proclaimed l'etat est moi

There were a bunch of Libs (both Neo and not) that desperately wanted Obama to do that to keep Trump from being elected

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/Bordenavey/status/887566076581728259

mélenchon already liberating the means of production one fictitious staffer's paycheque at a time

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Fallen Hamprince posted:

https://twitter.com/Bordenavey/status/887566076581728259

mélenchon already liberating the means of production one fictitious staffer's paycheque at a time

yes, those are some terrible accusations. lets hope they turn out to be false

in actual news, the centrists are ok with constructing a soft-despostic regime if they must!

https://twitter.com/VGautron/status/887222295596421120

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://apnews.com/a67a1a707e6b47b087778691ee4b12ac

PARIS (AP) — Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon didn’t last long.

Less than three months after his election, France’s energetic and image-conscious president has seen his popularity drop after announcing budget cuts, launching a divisive labor reform and engaging in a damaging dispute with the military.

A series of opinion polls last week showed the percentage of French citizens who said they were satisfied with Macron’s policies and trusted their young leader to deal with the country’s problems plunging. The reversal might not affect the visible international profile he has cut since taking office, but it could hurt Macron’s ability to secure his ambitious domestic agenda.

France’s Ifop polling agency put it bluntly: “Apart from Jacques Chirac in July 1995, a newly elected president has never seen his popularity rate falling as quickly during the summer after the election.”

Four polls over the past week showed Macron’s support down sharply from earlier surveys, though each one measured popularity differently. The polls by Ifop, Harris Interactive, YouGov and Elabe showed between 36 and 54 percent of respondents with positive views of Macron’s presidency, a decline from previous gauges of public opinion that also had shown his approval ratings down since he won 66 percent of the vote in the May election.

His declining approval is striking given that Macron was being credited two months ago with giving France a boost of much-needed confidence after years of security fears and economic stagnation. Increasingly, he instead is portrayed as power-hungry and inexperienced.

The French media have started calling Macron “Jupiter,” a reference to the mythological king of the Roman gods and what is perceived as the president’s superior attitude after he upended France’s political landscape and shot from relative obscurity to the nation’s top post at age 39.

While struggling at home, Macron has succeeded in raising France’s diplomatic profile, hosting meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump and Libyan peace talks in Paris.

Jean-Daniel Levy, director of the Policy and Opinion Department at the Harris Interactive polling institute, connects the president’s popularity slide to the government’s plans to reduce housing aid for students and to initiate tax reform. The reform aims to help lower-income employees, but could weigh on retirees.

Macron’s image also took a hit during his standoff with the French military chief over budget cuts. Gen. Pierre De Villiers resigned and was quickly replaced, but some saw last month’s public dispute as evidence of the president’s authoritarian tendencies.

Macron has promised to boost defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product by 2025 as part of France’s commitments to NATO, but the government announced a reduction of 870 million euros in military spending for this year.

The government also launched the labor reforms that were central to Macron’s campaign promise to boost France’s lagging economy through pro-free market policies. Changes would include capping the potential financial penalties for companies sued for firing employees and giving businesses greater leeway to set workplace rules instead of relying on collective bargaining agreements.

Labor unions and France’s far-left parties are fighting the reforms, saying they would weaken hard-won worker protections. Critics also resent the way Macron is trying to speed their approval. The government is invoking a special procedure to avoid a lengthy debate in parliament.

Daniel Fasquelle, a lawmaker from the conservative The Republicans party denounced Macron for what he called the “will to weaken all opposition” and for refusing to give interviews. Except for carefully choreographed photo opportunities, the president has distanced himself from the media. He canceled the traditional Bastille Day television interview.

“These are excesses the French judge more harshly and they are right,” Fasquelle said on France’s Info radio. “It simply means the president is not up to the task... He’s paying for his own lack of experience. Maybe he got too quickly, too soon, high responsibilities that are overwhelming him.”

Macron has repeatedly warned that his promised spending cuts and labor reforms would be difficult at first and hinted that critics are just scared of change. Presidential aides refused to comment on last week’s poll numbers as they had done during Macron’s election campaign.

Government spokesman Christophe Castaner acknowledged that Macron has been standoffish with the press, but offered an alternative explanation to inexperience or overwhelm.

“No one can blame him (Macron) for rarely speaking,” Castaner told reporters. “I understand it can irritate a bit. I understand it can be questioned. But I think you and I should get used to it because the president has decided not to be a commentator (of the news), but an actor.”

Macron is expected to return from his August vacation to a tough September, with unions and far-left parties calling for street protests against his proposed labor reforms.



TRUMP

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

and so it begins

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1IaL69Gsc&t=558s

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



who could have predicted this

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

lmao macron wants to give his wife a job as première dame with a paycheck and a staff and everything at the same time as he's trying to enact the loi sur la moralisation de la vie publique

mon dieu

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



R. Mute posted:

lmao macron wants to give his wife a job as première dame with a paycheck and a staff and everything at the same time as he's trying to enact the loi sur la moralisation de la vie publique

mon dieu

let them eat macaroons

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
the JUPITERIAN GOD RISES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFY_RuQQgYU

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

Reality Winner posted:

Macron is expected to return from his August vacation to a tough September, with unions and far-left parties calling for street protests against his proposed labor reforms.

I'm assuming that anyone who thinks the plan to 'boost France’s lagging economy through pro-free market policies' won't work is being called far-left here?

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/JLMelenchon/status/917788808476872704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Wonder how the Algerians and Vietnamese feel about being part of France

also Australia and Antarctica must be bummed out

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

jupiter

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Fallen Hamprince posted:

https://twitter.com/JLMelenchon/status/917788808476872704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Wonder how the Algerians and Vietnamese feel about being part of France

also Australia and Antarctica must be bummed out
Vive la Nouvelle-Calédonie française! I shout at a socialist rally that has gone horribly awry.

(les 5 continents is what we call the 7 continents, they have antarctic territory)

jBrereton has issued a correction as of 10:28 on Oct 16, 2017

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i can't read those tweets what do they say

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

i can't read those tweets what do they say
France is not a minor state. France is sovereign and there is no reason that should change.

France is neither a Western nor European state; it is a universal state, present on the 7 continents of the Earth.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Wasn't melenchon the left wing candidate lol

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

Wasn't melenchon the left wing candidate lol
He carries the red man's burden.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

We're all worse off for France losing the Napoleonic wars.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We're all worse off for France losing the Napoleonic wars.

hey man nobody ever forces these clowns to invade russia

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
genghis khan really was impressive

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

hey man nobody ever forces these clowns to invade russia

English Channel is OP.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Jose posted:

genghis khan really was impressive

genghis khan didnt have territory in the americas and antarctica so there :france:

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

English Channel is OP.

plz nerf

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
franca non e un pequeno pais

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
melenchon has been on a big streak of idiotic statements, its kinda sad

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Kurtofan posted:

melenchon has been on a big streak of idiotic statements, its kinda sad

he’s trying to learn the whole “populist demagogue” thing that gets you elected these days

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Kurtofan posted:

melenchon has been on a big streak of idiotic statements, its kinda sad

He sounds extraordinarily French.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We're all worse off for France losing the Napoleonic wars.

Worse off for the despicable Corsican monarchist usurping the revolution.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We're all worse off for France losing the Napoleonic wars.

:agreed:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Plutonis posted:

Worse off for the despicable Corsican monarchist usurping the revolution.

One century at a time, please.

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

gonna own when the neo-templar party comes to power in france after the putincucks have long been kicked to the curb and macron's stunning failure at everything possible it is to humanly fail at

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/935201052361674753

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

gonna own when the neo-templar party comes to power in france after the putincucks have long been kicked to the curb and macron's stunning failure at everything possible it is to humanly fail at

Don't blame me, I voted for the Assassins

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

yikes

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Remember how you guys avoided the Nazi? :thunk:

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the macrons are going to look themselves in the mirror and go "we gotta get more racist"

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byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

this is why you shouldnt believe in any gods, not even the roman ones!

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