The walking TED talk as president: Macron

[rekil]

Nor do the crew of the Terrible -

It looks like he's growing increasingly frustrated with his search for someone to surrender to.

 

[Idris2002]

You'll like this one (h/t to Nigel Irritable and his twitter feed formidable)

Jupiter Descending: Race Scientist Lara Marlowe on Macron’s Fall from Grace

Dissects Irish Times journo Lara Marlowe's musings on the plumetting popularité de le President en Paris.

 

[stavros]

He's slagged off the Polish about outsource workers, although I can't fully translate the article I've read.


In more important news, he's splashed £24k on make-up since he was elected.

 

[mather]

He's slagged off the Polish about outsource workers, although I can't fully translate the article I've read.


In more important news, he's splashed £24k on make-up since he was elected.

How vain yet so apt in showing him up as the superficial twat that he is.

 

[hot air baboon]

can only see this one & a paywalled Times article - puts the Brexit dust-up in some sort of perpective I suppose

French MP in President Macron’s party is arrested | Daily Mail Online

En Marche! MP M'jid El Guerrab is alleged to have attacked Socialist Boris Faure
French media reporting that Faure is in intensive care after being hit by helmet
But El Guerrab said he was merely defending himself after being racially abused
Faure forced to undergo emergency surgery yesterday, according to his family

An MP in French president Emmanuel Macron's En Marche! party has been detained in custody after allegedly putting a rival politician in intensive care by smacking him with a motorbike helmet.
Two police officials explained today that M'jid El Guerrab was being questioned over a fight he had on Wednesday with Socialist Party lawmaker Boris Faure.
It has been alleged in French media that El Guerrab was riding a motorbike in the centre of Paris when he saw Faure - with whom he is said to have fallen out last year - and went over to him.
They briefly spoke before the encounter became violent and they had to be separated by nearby guards.

 

[stavros]

Some government bodies are going to be privatised soon, although no word on what yet.

Note, that is a Le Monde link, not the Daily Mail, so don't feel as guilty clicking on it.

 

[stavros]

Fuck-off massive protests all over France at Macron's employment reforms.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[stavros]

Dominque Strauss-Kahn reckons that his and Macron's former party, the Socialists, have no future and that the left in France needs to reinvent itself (link in French).

 

[ska invita]

Despite being in the indie this looks to be true
France is bringing back compulsory military service for all young people

 

[rekil]

Despite being in the indie this looks to be true
France is bringing back compulsory military service for all young people

He could have done his but chose not to funny enough. Emmanuel Macron, premier Président qui n’a pas fait son service militaire

 

[ska invita]

Anyone know a good source for English language reporting of antiMacron actions in France at the mo? I'm presuming it's still all kicking off? Last thing I saw was regarding university access but I gather there are a few issues in the air

 

[DotCommunist]

this was interesting.
Emmanuel Macron Goes to Church

 

[stavros]

Anyone know a good source for English language reporting of antiMacron actions in France at the mo? I'm presuming it's still all kicking off? Last thing I saw was regarding university access but I gather there are a few issues in the air

France24 has an English version, which should report them, albeit briefly.

 

[DotCommunist]

on that twitterbox

 

[JimW]

regle du plus fort is more "Might makes Right" shurely?

 

[Beermoth]

Never attempt to get pissed and read Gramsci, kids.

 

[Raheem]

For context, he's referring to American hegemony in world affairs. Not all that new for a French president.

 

[Idris2002]

regle du plus fort is more "Might makes Right" shurely?

"the rule of the strongest" is how I'd put it, but you're right, it's some distance away from "survival of the fittest" (which is a tautology)

 

[redsquirrel]

What a fucking grade A cunt.

Admonishing the junior high school student, he said: “You’re here, at an official ceremony and you should behave. You can play the fool but today it’s the Marseillaise, the Chant des Partisans [French Resistance song], so you call me ‘Mister President’ or ‘sir’. Ok? There you go.”

Macron told the teen, who had begun by singing a few lines from the Socialist anthem The Internationale – a dig at the president’s pro-business reforms – to “do things in the right order”.

“The day you want to start a revolution you study first in order to obtain a degree and feed yourself, ok? And then you can lecture others,” he said.

 

[Idris2002]

What a fucking grade A cunt.

"Le Twat, c'est moi".

Oui, monsieur.

C'est vrai.

 

[seventh bullet]

What a fucking grade A cunt.

Maybe one day when the kid's all grown up, Macron will recognise them and it'll compound his horror when he's being dragged to a bullet-riddled wall.

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[mather]

Maybe one day when the kid's all grown up, Macron will recognise them and it'll compound his horror when he's being dragged to a bullet-riddled wall.

A more depressing and realistic scenario is that the kid will end up getting a fancy job at some French bank and vote for Macron.

 

[stavros]

A thread revival to let anyone who didn't know that Macron's Environment minister resigned spontaneously on the radio earlier this week. Nicolas Hulot said that Macron was "was all charm but did fuck-all" regarding the environment (indirect translation).

 

[NoXion]

Good riddance to that cunt. France has been a world leader in carbon-free energy production thanks to their nuclear policies, and that twat wanted to replace that with reliance on renewable energy. Which needs natural gas to back it up, as Germany have discovered.

 

[Dogsauce]

Bit of a stretch to call Nuclear carbon-free. Rather a lot of carbon needed to produce concrete for those reactors, and mining/processing isn’t exactly carbon-free. As much as anything else really (steel for turbines etc.).

 

[SpookyFrank]

Bit of a stretch to call Nuclear carbon-free. Rather a lot of carbon needed to produce concrete for those reactors, and mining/processing isn’t exactly carbon-free. As much as anything else really (steel for turbines etc.).

Some calculations have nuclear as being worse than natural gas, and that's just in terms of carbon emissions. Long term energy costs and environmental impacts of decommissioning and waste disposal are still unknowns.

 

[butchersapron]

Keeping it real.

 

[rekil]

Vincent Crase, Benalla's comrade, did he write Nazi-inspired poems?

(Yep)